skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was three months ago...

Do you expect people to start participating in that submission with zero comments now that it's three months from the top of the stack?
They are sort of.

Microsoft's problem with O365 is that they don't want to re-invent anything. Google has the opposite problem in that they re-invent chat a few times a year.

If you look at Teams or Outlook groups, they're just recycling features that exist already. The Office apps are getting better in the sense that they are getting closer to feature parity between the various versions of office -- but they are doing so in a way that will break enterprise IT.
opentopography.org has free data throughout the US (point clouds and rasters), but the resolution varies.

I personally [1] have imported it into Unity for a terrain heightmap.

[1] https://github.com/fenwick67/unityterrainfromtiff
Star Trek, to me, is more realistic to the inner workings of ourselves as social members and as individual minds/hearts than any other program that has before or since existed. It shows what the unknown feels like, it shows how each person is not only a member of the whole but also a complete whole in and of themselves, it shows not only compassion when things go wrong but also justice (angry justice or not). Everything is there on the final frontier! Literally the limits of human attainment and a drama within that exact scenario.
China has benefited from external IP/technology "inspiration" which is about to result in new trade barriers with the US. If their future growth depends on homegrown (instead of foreign) innovation, they could experiment with freedom within economic development zones.
The healthy snacks are important. Took me a few pounds to figure that out...
Odd. The majority of the things I consider crucial to keeping my current standard of living comes from private entities.

That said, pretending the IRS doesn't already know what taxes to collect from you is definitely naive.
Because I acknowledged that they've responded to it with:

"Proton mails seems to like to brush this off ..."

And I don't find they're explanation particularly cogent. And for a company that makes such a big deal about their Swiss affiliation this seems to big a particularly glaring detail.

From your link:

>"Recently, malicious rumors have surfaced that our partnership with Radware means Israel has compromised ProtonMail email privacy (since Radware’s international headquarters is in Israel). These rumors have mostly been spread by conspiracy theorists who don’t at all understand ProtonMail’s technology."

Do you think that Protonamil is privy to what goes on in the hardware of either Binat-Rad Group Ltd's Radware DPI asics or the network topology in Binat-Rad Group's data centers?

And Binat-Rad does have a relationship with the Israeli government:

"In our opinion, the Company’s working capital is sufficient for the Company’s present requirements. Since our inception, we have financed our operations through a combination of issuing debt and/or equity securities, including two public offerings, research and development and/or marketing grants from the Government of Israel and cash generated by operations."[1]

And if you think that Binat-Rad is not involved in politics, see:

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5204589

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/filing/458350
> I am unable to count the number of times I've gone to some random project community for assistance dealing with whatever problem I was having at the time to be met with someone telling me that what I'm doing is insane and shouldn't be done in the first place.

There should be an explicit three-way breakdown for this:

1. You're having trouble because of a bug, either yours or ours. If it's yours, the helpful thing is to help you fix it. If it's ours, obviously all projects should accept bug reports gracefully and work on them in some kind of reasonable fashion.

2. You've hit a deliberate design limitation, which isn't a bug as far as we're concerned, but we're willing to acknowledge it's annoying. This might turn into a feature request.

3. This is out-of-scope for our project. You picked the wrong tool. Getting us to change scope probably isn't going to be done using a bug report. That should be stated politely and without denigrating you or your problem.

What should not happen is what you describe: Developers fitting problems into a Procrustean bed and cutting off the bits which don't fit the pre-designed mold, and then claiming that this cut-down problem is all anyone would ever need to solve. It's sometimes inevitable that you have to simplify the solution by simplifying the problem, but never pretend that a solution thus simplified is complete.
>or something more suspiciously intentional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
"NO"
> The only people differently affected are users, who are left more vulnerable for longer than they would have been.

The assumption being that nobody else knows about the flaws? We can argue about how likely it is some other people knew about the flaw on a case by case basis, but a blanket statement that assumes that there was no risk while it was unreported is not accurately portraying the situation.

> Even if one could argue that vendors deserve shaming for what might have been a simple mistake, users surely deserve better.

I'm arguing that the risk that the companies exposed people to prior to the announcement (to a small degree), and the risk people may be exposed to after the announcement (to a large degree) are the incentive for someone doing this to take advantage of a short. Would I personally prefer less public risk through a coordinated exposure? Sure. Am I willing to state that it should be required? I don't think so, since that may greatly reduce the incentive of someone looking to do the investigative legwork. I think that's a net loss for the public, since the risk is still there, it's just reduced (since it's not widely known), but it will exist in that reduced state for a long period (possibly indefinitely).

When the choice is between an unknown risk (which can by high) for an indeterminate period or a semi-high risk for a short period (with the ability to mitigate risk as needed, since you know about it), I'll take the latter over the former.
I can kinda understand why he wasn't happy. Your initial phrasing was very hostile. I am not sure what he would have said if you had phrased your question more neutrally, but your tone definitely gave him the opportunity to partially ignore your (totally valid!) concerns.
One thing I've noticed is that when I'm listening to Audiobook and doing multitasking (working on computer, driving, etc.), the retention rate is usually very low. But if I am solely relaxing and listening to an Audiobook while not doing anything else then the retention rate tends to be much higher. The good thing with Audiobook is that the narrator can make the experience alive by his/her style of narrating which we would not get with merely reading the book.
This is the first thing I thought of as well.

Once thing I kind of liked about that episode is that it was backwards from a normal Black Mirror episode. Normally they try to make the technology look fun and useful at first before they do the flip and make it horrible and dehumanizing. This episode started out like the end of a normal episode and ended with the main character doing a white girl rap battle with some random dude.
Or "spread falsehoods about terrorism". You are totally right about the episode though.
Muhammad also said "Our property will not be inherited, whatever we leave is charity" - the CCP and the Saudis have engaged in a little selective reading.
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> Overwriting tags should honestly not be possible, ever. Node / NPM did that (I think) with one of their versions too. Or was it a npm package?

npm did away with `publish -f` (which would allow that) 4 years ago [1].

[1] http://blog.npmjs.org/post/77758351673/no-more-npm-publish-f
Pretty cool. Is there a way a non coder like me could stick in a postcode and get out a 3d file to take for printing?
Obviously yes it matters. You got rights, and self-defense is infinitely easier if it's not the government coming after you.
Perhaps, but I never played Civ II with less than the largest map and fewer than the most opponents available (even on my LC 575.) Whereas I usually set up games with just one or two opponents most of the time (starting from IV) to keep from getting bogged down in the endgame. (Maybe I just didn't care as much?)
The bizarre looking thing that he is riding-- https://gearjunkie.com/small-urban-bike-design-alex-bell
Having your nosy neighborly aunties edumacating you is one thing. Having some bureaucrat or AI far away instilling virtues with no reciprocal responsibilities is something only a pompous madman can dream of, and not Confucian at all.
I remember there being some demos burned onto a CD in the early 90's. They were really impressive. I didn't grasp at the time how much work went into them.

I think of the things that makes this stuff work is that they have constraints and hold themselves to be creative within those constraints. Contrast that to the processing power an average developer has today and it seems nearly unbounded. That's one of the things I am nostalgic about games and demos from yesteryear.
The interesting thing and probably the point of the episode is that that's already what's happening in social media right now if you want to keep your followers.
Words that are pluralized in the middle
This isn't a permanent thing, it's 'up to one year'. Not much different than what we have in Ohio...any drug charge and your driver's license is suspended for a minimum of 6 months. It's ridiculous, yes, but it's hardly the level of totalitarianism you're describing.
> “We expect it to take up to 18 months to reach every one of our 130,000 employees but our teams are already starting to work on a plan which will involve you and of course our social partners,” said Enders.
Or piss off some random party official, or have non-mainstream political opinions, etc...

Once a system like this is in place it will be abused. It's practically designed to be abused. Where is the accountability?
Is this a Black Mirror episode?
Actually for CCP, a major source of legitimacy comes from making economical progress all the time.
How comes a 7 hour old, now closed, bug report on some dead simple bridging tech that abuses tags in their SCM is news?
Given that they submitted their Launch HN, seems like they are a cofounder of it.
Naming a natural phenomenon "Steve" reminds me of the alt-text on this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/944/
> host that version in a location you control

I don’t see how this is implied or required by what the GP said. Lockfiles exist; docker-image and OS package hash-refs exist. Heck, nix exists. Getting what you expected to get is a solved problem, and does not require “host[ing] it yourself.”

Now, availability of your deployment might require hosting it yourself. (Though more often your availability figures will be far worse than those of Docker Hub or launchpad.net.)
At a user's suggestion, we changed the URL from https://www.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10156204... to avoid the painful contrast between an internet forum controversy and a father's grief over the death of his son.

I've turned off flags on this story because if we don't, the story will be reposted until we do. In return, here's a request: if you comment here, try to bring your heart with you a bit more than you usually would.

If we don't do that, a sort of tragedy of the commons kicks in where we each add a piece that's defensible in itself, but the picture of us that the pieces add up to is ugly.
Right. To me, the idea is bad in general, however, if they are going to be doing it, at least be fair and allow for someone to rebuild their social credit just like financial credit.
How so? Isn’t unprecedented growth and prosperity the bedrock which supports the Communist Party? Wouldn’t continued growth then be an affirmation of Xi’s policies? What’s in it for him if the economy stagnates or recesses?
He does want growth.

Otherwise he wont have power...
I mean, the dictator is not stupid.
Yeah but losing your driver's license for a DUI or drug charge is a specific defined consequence for a specific behavior. It's not something that happens because you have crossed a line on some nebulous "social credit" scale.
Supply chains are something that are always taken for granted until there's an emergency.

Regardless of the motivations, if this gets more people prepared for an emergency, I think it's a good thing.
Sourcing a fictional tale? Lol. Why not use a study of real hard evidence instead of some fantasy, even if the "plot" seems plausible.
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Yes he does. Growth makes people wealthier, which makes them happy with the government. If China's growth stops, you better believe there will be serious civil unrest.
Charitably: Journalists don't know what questions to ask.

I was called a "paranoid sweaty kook" by a local paper for having the audacity to explain how our central count works. (TL;DR: It's very hard to protect voter privacy when using postal ballots.)

Election administration is hard, with many subtle, counter intuitive corner cases.

--

I scanned Agora's website, papers, etc.

Two things bothered me.

First, they spend too much time saying what they're not, comparing themselves to other known bad electronic voting systems. Yayaya. We all know those systems suck. Tell us how Agora is awesome.

Second, none of these proposals start with first principles, starting assumptions. Tell us what forms of election administration, voting system, and ballots your system supports. For example, paper ballots cast at poll sites in the USA is predicated on the Australian Ballot, aka private voting and public counting. Scanning thru Agora's materials, I have no idea what type of elections it's appropriate for.
The guiding principle however appears to be "Once untrustworthy, always forbidden". That is an issue.
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"China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit ... and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year."

Here in the US, you can get banned from air travel permanently, and you don't even need to do anything wrong!
Honest question: (besides compile times) what are the advantages of directly generating machine code, instead of generating C++ code?

Doesn't it actually reduce the set of target platforms, while making the compiler harder to debug (by making its output mostly non-human readable)?
How much crap do you actually buy per day that buying stuff needs time management?

I mean, don't people normally just buy what they need once a month or so?

And, do you actually need a review for basic groceries that you buy once a week?

Also actual high-end products, like fashion, aren't available on Amazon anyways, while the real cheap stuff you'd get from Ali Express.

I will never understand Amazon. I use it maybe a couple times a year.. don't understand what people that buy hundreds of items a year are going through..
Bus lanes and stops are actually empty a lot of the time, they just need to be clear at the particular moment when the bus needs them.

With real-time tracking of bus and delivery vehicle locations, I wonder if it would be feasible to work out a software solution that allows delivery vehicles official, coordinated access to the unused time slices. Much like an automated version of what air traffic controllers do for runways and taxiways.

So for example, when a UPS truck enters a neighborhood where it needs needs to deliver 3 packages, the UPS routing software could query the transit agency software telling it the 3 locations, and it could respond with time ranges that they're available. Bus #123 will be at stop #456 at 2:33pm, and that stop won't be needed by another bus until 2:44pm, so we can reserve the time slot 2:35pm-2:42pm for you to make your delivery.
I don't find this to be true. For the last 2 years I have been using G-Suite and recently went back to O365. I find the collaboration features in the new version to be on par with googles. Also the UI is better, the online feature set is better, especially for PowerPoint and Word. As for Excel the desktop version is still the undisputed champion but it syncs up very quickly with others who are editing the same document on their desktop with excel.
Because github can’t make that decision. It’s your responsibility to convert it to public. There could be sensitive information in the private repos.
What was the hostile part? The "Dont tell me its a state problem?" I mean the man punts everything to the state, I had to preempt
This is probably the biggest open question, with no good answer.

For Bitcoin Cash, if you declare that, what value do you use? Futures price before the fork? Price immediately after? Which exchange? And the price fluctuated wildly, so they all seem arbitrary.

The alternative is to claim a cost-basis of $0 when you actually realize those gains, which makes a hell of a lot more sense to me, but the IRS might disagree. Who knows?

And what about Bitcoin Gold or the dozens of super-shady forks? Technically they have value, but it's value I don't think I'll realize because they're so shady. You have to go through the trouble of clearing your wallet of 'real' Bitcoin, and then import it to whatever 'totally not going to hack you' wallet software you need to use to claim it. Even if you don't lose your 'real' Bitcoin, all the other shady forks could be stolen. It's clearly not 'real' in the way that traditional securities are.
The problem in both cases is a capricious and whimsical ultrapowerful organization with the ability to destroy a person's life for any reason with no repercussions. In China, it's the state, in the US it's in the private sector, in the form of your employer.

On the one hand, I would certainly like to know, for example, if the person I trust to teach my children in a public school is explicitly posting on the Internet about how she uses her position to indoctrinate children into extremist white nationalist ideology, Nazism and hate groups, and the "Internet lynch mob" did a great service by exposing this woman [1] -- there is no universe in which she should be allowed to be a teacher.

On the other hand, I think such firings should always be "for cause" with some kind of due process. We need to take away the ultimate power employers have to fire their employees, and make them go through some negotiation, process, discussion before they do so -- like through a union, who is obligated to stand up for wronged employees for example. If someone is failing to perform, provide evidence. If someone's publicly stated values are incompatible with the values of the business, prove it and let them respond. Either that, or we need a strong enough social safety net so that employment is optional for all people.

[1] https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/03/05/flor...
It's a much bigger risk that the developing world will look to the Chinese model as an inspiration IMO
The systems/databases that will process/store the relevant social credit information will be prime targets for exploitation as this becomes more intertwined with practical daily life and automated systems.

Imagine being able to shut out a billion people variably by tampering with such and affecting the economy to a great degree.

And people complain about the evolving landscape of DDOS attacks now…
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There's a gigantic difference between losing your driver's license and not being allowed to take any kind of long-distance transportation.
Office has a robust commenting and review feature set as well.
That is absolutely true - even if you are lucky enough to have a charge removed from your criminal record, everything on your arrest record will outlive you. Thats a problem since today every little thing gets you arrested - your average school yard brawl will get kids arrested for assault. However, on the bright side so many people have been arrested or jailed in this country that employers have had to start taking people with minor offenses just because there are so few people who make it to adulthood without at least one encounter with the law.
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I responded because I was asked, pointedly, in the preceding comment.
Great idea. I agree, they only have to be open when the bus is there. And in fact, maybe there is a $ amount that the city would be ok with if the bus lane was parked.I.e. if a ambulance was there. So if there was dynamic parking for city streets then potentially solved.
There's an easy solution to this: create a two-tier society in which the wealthy, highly educated, and highly productive / inventive are permitted to exist under relative freedom in "economic development zones" or similar while the rest of the population is kept under totalitarian rule.

In other words create comparatively free theme parks for the professional class.
Hfahahahah
I suspect the death toll from aviation might be a bit higher if that's how we responded to plane crashes...
Respectfully, the first mistake is the expectation of trust. I only have confidence in a system based on mutual distrust.
Audible has this feature, works exactly as you describe it.
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As someone who has tried and failed at entrepreneurship using unfamiliar tech, I'd advise you to treat your startup's work and "learning new tech" work as completely separate.

Use the tech that you're most familiar with so that you can concentrate on solving your customers' problems. Only introduce tech that you're unfamiliar with if that solves a problem you can't solve with your existing knowledge. A new company is hard work and any opportunity to make something easier should be grabbed with both hands.

At the same time, it's easy to burn out on the problems of your business. If hacking on new tech is something you enjoy as a hobby, you should schedule downtime for yourself and do some experimenting (preferably nothing related to your business). At the very least you'll come back mentally refreshed, and if you're lucky you might find a new perspective to solve an existing problem in your business. I wouldn't advise doing this if you don't consider learning new tech as recreation though.
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My point isn't that Xi Jinping doesn't want growth. It's that he doesn't want growth as badly, nor on the same time horizons, as the CCP. If he has to cause permanent harm to China's productive potential to hold on to power for a few more years, history suggests he will. This is the reason dictatorships trash countries and why Deng Xiaoping wisely implemented term limits.
It's the "Majority Rule" episode of The Orville:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orville#Episodes
How are VPSs not on someone else's server too?
i would disagree that a startup is more management than engineering, i reckon you need a product first, and most of that phase is engineering. Especially in a startup, i don't think you need to think in terms of roles, i think you need to think in terms of solving problems, which might sometimes involve other people. Essentially, everything is a problem which you can try to solve with or without the help of other people, whether it be engineering or dealing with people.
That seems like what happens once you have a felony in U.S.

I mean that a felony removes your right to vote, makes employment much more difficult.
How is it not a an "example of self-hosting git" when it's built on top of git?

I understand from your comment that it's not your preference but that doesn't mean its not a self hosted git solution.
dude was renowned for being a snitch, let him die with the dishonour he deserved.
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Most of Ohio doesn't really have a good transportation alternative to driving, so it's actually pretty similar.