skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you think generally the news of vast human rights abuse we see coming out of China

I think that generally western news have a tendency to misrepresent countries that are culturally different.

E.g. as a Russian, reading western news about Russia makes me think that journalist play a broken telephone game, misrepresenting marginal stuff as some kind of insane norm, in a completely unnuanced way, without any context.

I wouldn't be surprised if the same was for China. Probably even worse, as verification is even less accessible.

Dramatic news get clicks and there is no accountability for spicing them up.
I guess, in the age of AI-delivered clickbait media, the old saying "Don't believe everything you read in the papers" was never as true.
To be fair, you can't index everything on the web, due to dynamic page generation and wildcard subdomains, web is effectively boundless. You can have an URL http://integer.example.com/N only that contains a link to http://integer.example.com/N+1

All search engines need to make concessions. The tricky part is identifying the sorts of content that humans want to find.
Her experience is consistent with other North Koreans. I also grew up in the USSR, NK is on a completely different level of misery
How do you tell that?
Don't trust heating systems based on heat cost allocators
I almost always land on the "more is better by definition' side of the privacy fence. For example I'm staunchly against Apple's CSAM scanning on-device, but in their cloud they can scan whatever they want.

So in this case, if it's anonymized and aggregated, how is it different from monitoring wastewater?

It's a flow of public info about something very private, but which is anonymized and aggregated such that what's personal/private is never revealed.

I will fight for my privacy rights every which way. But this particular one doesn't concern me because:

1. That data was already available and being sold (i.e. this isn't a new door opening)

2. It's not tied to me individually

I expect future generations will wonder why we'd ever push back against such a basic and necessary public health tool in a government's tool kit. To me it feels like pushing back against wastewater testing.
Fundamental Valuation Models of Ethereum
Take a look on AzPainter[0] and other X11 apps & tools by Azel ('azelpg').[1,2]

[0] https://git.io/azpainter

[1] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/

[2] https://gitlab.com/users/azelpg/projects
Going by your username, are you German as well?

I'm also going through a breakup right now, albeit from a shorter relationship. I was happy to spend Christmas with my sister to have some illusion of a functional family, it was nice. It feels unbearable at times but I try to find solace in the fact the world is so vast and full of opportunity and so much more than what you're (I am) able to see in the current moment. Your plan to study to become a programmer sounds great and you'll be in a much different place in a year than you are now. Hope you can pull through until then.
> Citation needed.

_Experience needed_ is what you're actually saying. For those living exclusively in the material dimension and who are thus having a hard time with the subtle dimensions, psychedelics may give you that break-through experience that you need as a starting point.
There is no such thing as unbiased news. But here in the west I can (legally) read Chinese state news and get the other side of the story. The other way around is not possible.
But it's good enough for compliance work. :)
Pay more related to the average cost. The point is to lower the average cost by providing more units.
How many single points of failure left after getting Webb on its way to L2? :)
Wood tends to get a lot of criticism on the internet as a building material, but it has advantages as well.

Cars can absolutely be made safer. They certainly haven’t stopped getting safer yet.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a person with a knife blocking the exit, or fallen debris. An exit can be blocked by anything, that’s why it’s important to have multiple escape routes.
Think trollop is now https://github.com/ManageIQ/optimist
Thanks! Lindy Learn looks awesome. Happy holidays!
Usually it happens when new people move in, so a few times a year.

It's more common for us to meet in the street e.g. say hi whilst someone is at their front door.

To be fair I don't live in a megablock, they're not that common in London, most people I know live in converted townhouses which only have a few flats in them.

e.g. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/01/9e/b9/019eb97dd77c0dc3191e...

usually they're smaller than this.
That is one big false équivalence. The mistreatment of minorities by the CCP is not the same thing as the mistreatment of minorities by the USA. Or did I miss the news about the black lives matter forced sterilisations?
Funnily enough, Google Fi worked just fine in late 2019.

I’m wondering if foreign SIM cards are not subjected to filtering.
> It is indeed a country full of contradictions.

Over the years, I came to understand that contradictions are almost always just false assumptions.
Naive Q: what makes Ariane 5 better than Falcon 9/Heavy here?
Hosting a small dinner at my house. :)
A lot less than there was 40 minutes ago ;)
I use xsel for the same purpose. And clip.exe on Windows/WSL.
That seems unethical. Writing or not writing the word 'bingo' in this context has nothing to do with skills or knowledge related to biology, so it should not affect test scores.
What does criticism of authoritarian censorship today have to do with imperialism? Sounds just like an attempt to muddy the waters tbh
Shrooms: What You Need to Know
Same here... I've spent so many xmas/nye alone that I'm totally indifferent to it. It's really like any other day. Also I can use the holiday to rest or travel to warm countries instead of over-eating and drinking.
Also a lot less explosive fuels, shaking and G stress as well :)
I am inviting you to come to my family! From "UK" in your username I see you are just one Ryan Air flight away from us...
29 days until it reaches L2.

180 days (6 months) until it starts working
for/else is actually super useful for searching through a sequence or for iterating with a possible failure. Something like,

for i in range(n):
if search(i) == val:
break
else:
raise KeyError("not found")
found_index = i

It reduces the need for an additional flag. More importantly it makes it easier to ensure that the break condition is satisfied such that the loop variable can be used properly later on. Personally, I think an else condition should almost always be there for loops that gets broken early, similarly to always finishing if else chain with a final else.

ETA: Another pattern where it's really useful is to replace

while True:

with a safer guaranteed terminating loop,

for i in range(MAX_ITER):
...
else:
raise RuntimeError("exceeded max iterations")
Awesome. Anyone finding this entertaining, may I recommend Drachinifel’s The Russian 2nd Pacific squadron - voyage of the Damned.

“The Kamchatka announced it was sinking, which lead to much rejoicing amongst the fleet.”

https://youtu.be/9Mdi_Fh9_Ag
I'd love to know what website or service you're referring to. I've been using Firefox since shortly after they released Quantum, and the only issues I've had have been related to things blocked via addons. If I disable all those addons, everything just works. So I'm using two profiles, one that has only got uBlock Origin, and my main one that has many different privacy addons and privacy configurations changed. On the rare occasion a website doesn't work on my main profile, I try it with my secondary profile and it works perfect.
Its track record is almost perfect
When they made the choice of rocket, Ariane 5 was the most reliable rocket in the world that was capable of lifting it. Given the sticker price, they decided that cutting risk was more important than purchasing domestic.
Not german, just love the Kraftwerk song.
You are probably smart and aware of the dangers on the internet.
There are people that need help keeping their work computers safe from malware and to prevent stuff to happen to them.

I think there is false dichotomy that all monitoring is bad.

Yes if they come to you and nag about browsing hacker news because they found out you are slacking here and there it is totally overstepping.

If company decrypts traffic and has automated scanners to find out/block malware/bad sites I don't see an issue with that.
The human desire to tinker bears tempering with much communication and moral thought.

We're on the cusp of some genetic triumphs...and horror stories.
It's a whois query to arin.net for the ip address associated with 12ft.io
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
It existed and was already a reliable launch vehicle when the project was being designed and constructed.
There are some nuances to Certificate Transparency (CT) that are worth highlighting:

- Technically, certificates are not required to be recorded in CT logs. If not submitted, they're still perfectly valid, but they won't be accepted by clients who insist on CT (e.g., most browsers). They will work perfectly well in all other situations.

- At the point of use, certificates must be accompanied by proofs of submission to several CT logs. These proofs are better known as Signed Certificate Timestamps, or SCTs. SCTs are _promises_ by CT logs to publish, but there is no way to know if the certificates actually had been published. You have to trust the CT logs. This is largely where we're currently with CT.

The main improvement is that a certificate must now be endorsed by min. 3 parties for it to work in a browser (CA + 2 CT log operators at present; 2 parties if a CA also operates one of the logs). At this time, Google must operate one of the CT logs [for the certificate to work in Chrome].

The missing piece (currently in progress) is SCT auditing, where a portion of observed SCTs are continuously checked for presence in CT logs. I wrote a little about it here: https://www.hardenize.com/blog/certificate-transparency-sct-...
“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
>Those same rights have never been extended to the citizens of the countries whose democratic governments were toppled or subverted by what we call the West.

Well yeah, isn't that precisely what's being criticised?

Also not all the evil in the world was created by the West.
I’d worry a lot more first about a system whose leaders decide to eliminate the people, or keep them as pets, while installing many of the more efficient, compliant AIs and robots, while the AI is still comfortably inside one or more boxes. At that point does it really matter whether the tyrant who controls you is human or AI?
Ruby 3.1
Much of the Christmas tradition is pagan/roman:

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-christmas-in-decembe...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia
> All are possible

All happened already:

1) Hacked Mongolia CA

2) Dual_EC_DRBG

3) Eternal Blue

4) "NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer's Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia"

Ok technically not backdoors and most of them conspiracy myths.

Yeah there is a lot out there to go deep down the rabbit hole
This Christmas is significantly different for me. Normally it would be filled with friends and family, but not this year.

I succeeded in hiking >10 miles yesterday and today, legs willing, I'll be at least spending part of the day in the PacNW forests to keep the depression at bay.

<3

JWST was my Christmas present. I'm happy to see we've got final separation and the last view of the telescope. If anything, it's the best thing I could ask for today.
Additional comments on the ESA livestream (posted a few minutes before this one): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29681636
Many years ago I had to take mandatory privacy training for some contracting I was doing for a non-profit (open source case management for homeless shelters in Toronto).

It was actually quite informative. And what I got out of it is that I "trust" the public / government institutions in Canada a lot more than I do private ones. Yes, they're often incompetent. Yes, I'm sure there are rules broken. But years of working in the private sector and seeing how cavalier user's PII was treated vs the legal protections actually expected of government agencies... There are very stringent regulations in place on the who/what/where of data that comes into public agencies.

There is a tone in this thread, from some, of an intrinsic expectation of malice by the state. But I actually have more expectation of responsibility by layers of governance here than I do of private entities, which are generally further outside of my control or visibility, often keeping my data in American data centres, etc.
NVidia uses it a lot on their Jetson platform.
Most of USA citizens live pretty close to either Canada or Mexico.
Fair, you're not gonna give a speech with 200 words, but if it's the right 200 words (the most used ones) you can find a way to communicate almost anything. My point is that with memorizing just 200 words, there are creative ways to express everything and you can use that as a good base to start using the language and your progress will grow exponentially from there with minimal memorization. With 200 words of English, you might not know what "a pinch" is, but you know enough to have the conversation and figure it out even if the person you're talking to only speaks English.
what do i need to block the video ads properly?
I've been on a boat on Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile. It's pretty cool how you can see, clear as day, a line across the water where it starts to flow. From there it's downhill all the way to the sea.

Besides that, Lake Tana's a beautiful place. I spent an afternoon visiting peaceful island monasteries, where the monks cheerfully handed me 500-year-old goatskin Bibles to leaf through. Spectacularly beautiful things with Ge'ez calligraphy on one page, and elaborate illustrations opposite for people like me who had no hope of being able to read it.

Ethiopia's the most wonderful, misunderstood country.
Each Christmas Eve, I watch The Muppet Christmas Carol as a personal tradition. This year, this exchange with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come stood out to me:

>Scrooge: Oh, Spirit. Must there be a Christmas that brings this awful scene? How can they endure it?

>Bob Crachit: It's all right, children. Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it. I am sure we shall never forget Tiny Tim or this first parting that there was among us.

I don't know how you can endure it, and I don't know how you can fill that hole. I'm sorry you have to go through this.
For what it’s worth, I used to think the same as you regarding cars, but since many of those features are required now you can’t find a new car without them. So I had to get them, and turns out, they’re pretty useful.
Thanks, one warm hug for your too
I make frequent use of xcip as well, with an alias to `xclip -selection clipboard`, which puts its stdin into the clipboard for convenient pasting into GUI programs such as browsers.
Yeah, that's annoying. But there's another app, YouTube Vanced, that works.
Import Terraform code and turn it into an actionable diagram
The same story with a comedy take from The Dollop podcast - https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/23---the-willie-dee
Falcon didn’t exist when the choice was made, which makes Ariane automatically better.
They needed something on the equator, right?
I’d imagine that’s for the benefit of the viewing audience more than anything.
None of this is sacred, and if the team wants to change or eliminate things, we’re open to it and re-evaluate regularly.

This is a tradition that has stayed with the company since the very earliest days when we were in YC. I’ve never heard anyone complain about it, and it’s something I know many on the team (including myself) look forward to each week.

That said, it’s not one size fits all. The culture probably isn’t for everyone; hopefully, being open about how we operate helps people decide whether it’s the ideal environment for them.
Thank you, this is the best explanation I've gotten in years!

> That one should be accessible as `aac_at_quality` and maps 0 to 96, so there's no way to go up to the max of 127.

Is this a bug I should report to ffmpeg?
> I don't think much of appealing to definitions, which it sounds like you are doing - this is what bail is, so this is what bail is.

Well, I mean, it’s the legal system, so definitions are literally a foundational piece. Bail is defined in state law as money provided by the defendant to secure appearance at trial. If we wanted to define it as “requiring more money than a defendant is able to provide to keep them in jail”, we could change the law.

But it became both, along with an abusive money-making tool for bail bondsmen. Also, prohibitive bail was much more likely to be requested for minority defendants compared to white.

And from my perspective, I agree that the DA having less control over the decision is a good thing. I was just trying to articulate the background and the position of the people who are anti-reform. I’d be in favor of some objective way of assessing risk of short-term reoffending, and then holding people for some limited time period awaiting dispensation of their case, but only if we can figure out a way to mitigate bias.
Yes I am. I am alone.

I am disabled, and homeless living in my van. I have a family history of mental illness and even they abandoned me. My friends, I get it, they just did not understand what happened to me. I make $1600 on disability but I still cannot find housing. Even when people

I love your sentiment but virtual hugs do not do it for me, nor for most people in my position.

What do we need? An understanding of Mental Illness stigma, housing for the 60% of us homeless who have a serious mood disorder, lower cost housing for the disabled. All of these would give me stability and a community again where I can feel like I am part of something instead of being an outsider.

There have been great people that helped me, and I hold no regrets because it reduces the stress and that helps me deal with my mental illness, but all the suffering comes right back, because here I am, alone again, in my van, in a vacant public park, on Christmas morning.

You want to really hug me? Start a revolution.
Show HN: A Virtual Xmas Party Experiment
aren't there snow storms out here in PacNW? do you have a blog where you document your journey through the forests?
The surveillance and mandates are the direct result of the failure of government officials to prepare for any kind of pandemic, even a relatively mild one such as this. They should have been using the past 22 months to improve services and improve general health (obesity? mental health?) instead of dividing the public and destroying small businesses.

Suicide and fentanyl overdoses far exceeded covid deaths in those under 45 this year[1].

1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fentanyl-overdose-death/
I have the weird feeling of mix of sadness and loneliness

I think everyone has that to a different extent during the holidays.

I am very much not alone but for many of us this time of year made quite a positive impression on us when we were a kid. It’s hard not to yearn for those days especially if we’ve lost a parent or other family member in the interim.
I live in inner London.

I don't really want to reveal much more hence the throwaway. But honestly I think, you get what you put in. If you want something, assume other people want that thing too, and go from there.
But the point is, if you were to find yourself in the countryside of a Spanish speaking country with only Spanish speakers around, you could find a way communicate what you need to survive. And 2-3 months in that environment, with no English, and you'd be fluent enough to keep up socially.
"Webb will soon begin an approximately two-week process to deploy its antennas, mirrors, and sunshield."

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1474724928360525827
80 something flawless launches in a row
Here's another "computational law" project to add to the other replies: https://law.stanford.edu/codex-the-stanford-center-for-legal...
"The [Ariane 5] launch vehicle had a streak of 82 consecutive successful launches between 9 April 2003 and 12 December 2017."

Then one partial failure on 25 January 2018, and another consecutive stretch of successful launches, including today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5
Yeah, telling someone to believe in themselves instead of higher dimensional beings is such a terrible thing.
I guess it was a joke about the 10x developer(s)
Falcon 9 does not have enough capacity; the JWST is too heavy for it to launch all the way to L2. So F9 is out.

Falcon Heavy does have enough capacity, but:

1. It was not really available for bookings when the JWST mission was planned and

2. even if NASA could choose again today, Ariane 5 has a track record of 106 successes out of 111 launches (107 out of 112 now I guess) and Falcon Heavy is still relatively untested with only 3 launches (all of which were successful, but still only 3). For something super critical you might want to go with old but dependable technology over the newest hotness.
At some point I realized that the thing that bothered me about being alone was not the fact that I was alone, but that other people were not.

Actually, I am quite content by myself. It was sort of an ego/"am I not good enough for someone else" feeling that made me feel negative. But, that is not a good reason to enter a relationship with someone.

On balance, would I enjoy being in a relationship with someone? Questionable. I quite like the contentment, quietude, and freedom that comes with living by myself.

In either case, not worth agonizing over.
Yeah, that's true, that day will come. Just like there will come a day you will go outside for the last time, have your favorite meal a last time, listen to a song for the last time or breathe for the last time. It's a sobering thought. But until that day you have plenty of opportunities to do all those things, and that includes loving new people!
Interestingly, your wife isn't Feynman's wife.
I agree, this rhetoric is true for western news about India as well. The BBC for example known to be awful at times, actively misrepresenting and hiding facts to suit their narrative. I guess they have to cater to their population with colonial mentality which can't bear the fact that some ex-colonies are on track to surpass them in the Asian century.
At least in this case, there aren’t any “false assumptions”.

For a country governed by a so called “communist” party, there are glaring inequalities. If we limit ourselves to free Internet usage, it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people would only be able to consume government approved content, whereas elites could have access to anything.
Yeah, that's about it. It's just plain unencrypted otherwise. :)
Simple and efficient. I can maybe setup a build step for the markdown. Thanks for the suggestion. Can't believe it never crossed my mind
Here's a starting point: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/20/technology/ch...
>Another thing, if they weren’t communists, where is the incentive to keep up the charade with all the symbolism? Surely a rational non-communist polity would realize there is a lot to gain from dropping the whole red, socialist realism and adopt a more (post-)modern aesthetic.

Much to the contrary. All governments strive for continuity to legitimise their regime. It's why for example even revolutions often co-opt the institutions they're trying to replace. In this case the communist "branding" is what gives them their legitimacy.
They've had their analyzers years before the concept of a LSP even existed.