skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the upside, it's blatantly obvious there's a massive opportunity for new platforms with liberal APIs that stick to keeping them open. From my observation in the years since Twitter turned against their ecosystem, I think developers have grown increasingly desperate for this.
This sounds great except consider me very skeptical about the yellow status.

If the server decides that I don't look right, they can choose not to serve me and I have to wait for a manager to serve me?

You know that Denny's lost a $54 million lawsuit over this practice, right? Racial profiling in the hospitality biz is very real.
E is dead, long live JS
Broadly speaking, that's been the holding of the courts since 1939.

U.S. v. Miller loosely established the test (later solidified in 2008's Heller v DC) that weapons commonly used in militia service are inherently deserving of second amendment protections.

Miller, a known mobster who was caught with a sawed off shotgun lost his case because

a) the military testified that they had never used sawed off shotguns, so they were not useful to a military, ergo a militia (which was a lie -- they had used them, and found them useful for trench-clearing)

b) Miller's attorney was not very good, and didn't even challenge that testimony, much less so by totally disproving it -- I offer a little sympathy here as they didn't have Google at the time

Also noteworthy, Miller was actually dead when the decision came down, as he'd been murdered, and because /shrug, the trial kept going, but the defense (for obvious reasons) quit trying. He was sentenced in absentia.
Racists waiters/waitresses do exist. I have seen this in person, even in NYC (baristas actually, treating folks from other races like crap).
Beautiful solution. No debate about interpretation or intent, and over the top stuff gets immediate action. And, from the other side, no serious consequences for questionable yellow items if it de-escalates. Many of the women in my life have been wait staff, and it can be harrowing.
It is probably hard to convince people of the benefits of democracy while killing those people, inadvertently or otherwise.
> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

There are a number of ways to get around paywalls, I for example use a firefox extension called "bypass paywalls".
Well, that's the interesting thing, isn't it? We only resist ideas that appear to be forced on us and there are plenty of sneaky ways around that.
So you're saying a 10nm structure is about ~20 atoms long? So basically proving parents point...
That data appears to be relative to the number of native apps in the app store, so that doesn't necessarily mean that moving towards non-native development is a misconception. In addition, many apps are not moving to non-native entirely... but instead module by module. I wonder how they account for that and how it impacts their statistics.
So it is ethical to track hundreds of millions of people to manipulate them for profit. But unethical to defend power plants in the United States?
> Like Gayetty’s sheets, Scott tissue was originally marketed as a medicinal product

Interesting. The TOTO washlet style toilet was marketed originally in the US as a medical device (meant for people who had difficulty wiping). It never caught on in the US but caught on in Japan instead. I'm wondering if the washlet is the next technological advancement like the toilet paper was compared to the Roman butt-brush. In theory a butt brush can still work today, although considered unsanitary, but a wipe with paper is just as unsanitary when compared to flushing with water. Even a non-electronic bidet is vastly superior to toilet paper.
They do, the newest e-ink Kindles have 300ppi screens which puts them close to iPhone/iPad Retina display density.

Most e-readers were only 167ppi in 2012, with 212ppi just starting to hit the market in premium models.
This post seems like it was probably sarcasm but I can't tell. Just in case, though: we already have that.
Is there anything sadder or creepier than an hourglass with a swastika on it? What a horrible time for humanity.
That is some menacing language. What exactly is the right way to kill a person.
Thanks for the expanded examples. Maybe I'll like it once I see it in the wild solving real problems.
There are non-electronic bidets that I found worked just as well (you rotated a nob to spray water using just water pressure).
Democracies are in retreat because of corruption and failings of its leaders, people are losing faith in the democratic process. Not because their militaries aren't powerful enough.
That is a great work. And it highlights the importance of information flow to leadership - in any business there's a fog of war between leadership and the front line and as leader, one of your main jobs is creating systems that will ensure the information you need reaches you.

Because remember, the woman in the story had two problems:

First, customers were harassing her employees.

Second, she didn't know about it until there were numerous incidents.
On a side note: What's up with wapo having "democracy dies in darkness"? Wasn't trump elected democratically in full compliance with the constitution? And if they do believe in their own conspiracy theories of "Russia collusion" whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Its ludicrous that somebody flagged this. Mods can you ban the false flaggers?
No I'm not joking at all.

That the guy kisses up and craps down is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with by termination.
I believe you are correct but they eventually relented after they had sold part of the business.

Lemonis, for his part, voluntarily gave up part of his equity to the manager of the location who volunteered to shut down his own location.
Why would implementation in your own library raise confidence?
Sodium is interesting because thousands of people use it.
Deprecated with extreme prejudice, perhaps?
I think it's fair to compare the language+environment which is the only thing that practically matters. Smalltalk has a really nice IDE and fast VM. Ruby doesn't have a native IDE, but does well with things like Vim & Notepad++. Ruby has a lot more modules and Rails. I wouldn't consider Ruby to be very fast being one of the slowest popular languages out there.
I got a little stuck in the weeds trying to figure out how it all works (I'm not well versed in Ruby). At first I thought this was acting as a thin client for data stored on IPFS/Ethereum, but it seems this is actually a full blown ruby+postgresss activitypub server that also happens to backup some data onto an IPFS node.

I also saw that there are two version of the numa.sol contract posted, both to the ethereum network, and also in the github https://github.com/numaverse/numaverse-gateway/tree/master/c...

When I send messages to your server from a different ActvityPub instance (like my account on mastodon), is it also being added to the IPFS node, or just to the gateway's postgres?

I'm thinking about the case of moving an account but not being able to keep the threading of replies since the activitypub 'actor' isn't tied to the hash/wallet transactions, but to the server. Makes me think there is a bit of an impedance mismatch in what you're trying to do.

That suggests taking my account someplace else will be tricky since my follower's accounts will still be following the old one.

As it stands, it looks like i'd just be paying to have a hash stored on ethereum, but I'd still need to run my own/pay for an IPFS node to mirror those hashes if I wanted to secure my data.

Those two things combined makes me question the "Because all the data is stored in a distributed fashion, that means you’re not reliant on any central server." bit. Seems that this could all be done with an export/import functionality and a bit of pgp. Maybe I missing something fancy going on with how you're handling the wallet stuff internally?

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But maybe im focusing too much on the activity pub thing and that's actually more of a bonus feature - expecting that to work across servers might be asking too much.

Lets say I signed up on numaverse.com and created a profile. Then at some later time I manually publish a transaction to my own IPFS node linked up to the main IPFS network, then published my own hash on ethereum using the same wallet address and contract - And did so outside of the ruby app running on your server. Would numaverse.com be aware of that publication and be able accept replies/federate it out?

Lets say someone spins up a separate copy of numaverse on a different URL with their own IPFS node linked to the larger IPFS network, and then followed me. would that instance be using activity pub to get the content, or would it be looking directly at the hash/wallet/ipfs and the ruby servers would never actually have to talk to each other?

Maybe the feature i'm looking for here with regards to user identity being nomadic and tied to the wallet is just not implemented fully yet?

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"Token Curated Registries" reminds me of what Colony is trying to do - having a bunch of tokens that track reputation within the group that is somewhat separate from the global token. I saw you just added in a tipping system - presumably you'll be creating a set of smart contracts that facilitate the registries under a similar mechanism. Would be neat to have different kinds of reputation mechanisms and not just the raw token counts we see today.
You're over-thinking the situation... it's simply cheaper. This is America we're talking about after all, if we can do it cheaper, we will.
It's not clear to me that America is not on the path that Germany was headed down in the early 30s.
What kind of spreadsheets have you seen companies using?
I got a request from some friends ask me if I can help them fixing or creating new features for their spreadsheets. I thought if I could create a company offering services for spreadsheets. Another idea is to create a product to integrate/replace spreadsheets.

With this in mind, what are common uses for spreadsheets?
As Carl Jung might say, just because a thing has base origins, it doesn't mean that it has to be a base thing. Google should not shrug and say "from violence we came to violence we will return." I'm moved by the people speaking out, as much as I am disappointed to hear of Mr. Schmidt's involvement with the Pentagon.
> You know that Denny's lost a $54 million lawsuit over this practice, right?

Over having the manager serve people? Do you have some reference that explains what you're referring to?

In practice, if the manager sees that server X often/always calls yellow on group Y, it becomes the manager's job to educate, train, or fire server X.
Was inspired by this post on IH: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/what-kinds-of-spreadsheet...
'a democratically elected government or private company' is the same thing? Workers of a private company should have a say in the doings of the company.
It's weird to read "The haul provides more evidence of the presence of high-ranking Nazis in South America." I thought this was well-known?
We (Appfigures) looked at the SDKs that apps use to determine what's native vs. non-native. This method will catch "partially" non-native apps as well as fully non-native apps as the former will need to have the non-native SDK even for a single module.
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Denny's lost a $54 million lawsuit for serving people slower for being black.

The problems with the described practice are pretty apparent if you've ever a) worked in tipped food service or b) been black.
I've heard (but not confirmed) that it is expense related. If you wholly enclose the toilet in a room, now that little room needs its own fire extinguisher nozzle (and maybe other regs?) but if it's mostly open, you only have to make the overall room safe.
My ranking of Dragons Den series:

Canada (Kevin/Robert from Shark Tank are in some seasons)
UK
Ireland

You can also watch the UK version of The Apprentice and Young Apprentice (teens). The US versions of the traditional The Apprentice are a bit old and the Celebrity Apprentice is not worth watching.
Correction to the above:

Engineering Handbook from the 60's era. Just glanced at it, and realized I had the title wrong.

Man, there are so many great references in this thread. I've made a short list, and will enjoy my next trip to Powell's books.

Thanks all.
Neither of those libraries uses any extensions. TweetNaCl is a famously minimal implementation of NaCl in portable C by the NaCl authors. Monocypher is a library 'loup-vaillant wrote as a sort of side project. TweetNaCl does see some use, but libsodium is the most popular NaCl implementation, and libsodium's author provides his own low-footprint misuse-resistant crypto API separately.

Neither TweetNaCl nor 'loup-vaillant's library really addresses the low-footprint concern.
Wait, you keep private SSH keys on bastion hosts?

It's much better practice to use the bastion as a proxy to the other hosts. This is easily achieved using the ProxyCommand option of OpenSSH.

No agent forwarding, no secrets kept in random hosts.
Yes. The sadder thing is people not knowing swastika's history and that it is auspicious for almost 2 billion people including me a, a Buddhist.

The sadder thing is people falling over each other to acknowledge it as a hate symbol rather than trying to reclaim it.

How about those of is who actually want to end hate end our comments with this 卐?
To be absolutely fair, the pattern at the top is buggy in that you're supposed to also set

Foo.prototype.constructor = Foo;

...after replacing the prototype object that way. MDN (for example) covers this in a few pages, including:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Ob...

That said, it's a pretty common bug, particularly with stuff like:

Foo.prototype = Object.create(FooParent.prototype) // Crockford-style inheritance
console.log(Foo.prototype.constructor.name) // "FooParent"
The extension itself could just strip the characters during the copy action only perhaps
I love when forms mix racial terms and have the options “Asian” and “Caucasian.” Mixing races based on recent geographic origin with races based on morphology can lead to broad interpretation. South-Asians are actually Caucasian if you believe in the racial theory that has three races- caucasoid, mongoloid, negroid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race) because they were big on bone structure over skin tone.

But for the most part these racial distinctions are all pretty hokey and you can check whatever you want. I’m not sure why it’s more valid to classify by skin tone vs hair color vs hand width or whatever. I can understand the unjust classification within certain cultures in isolation because it probably closely associated with certain classes or religions.

But classifying a black-skinned Indian South Asian and a brown-skinned Ethiopian (both also Caucasian) makes no real sense. Even from a social justice persective as which background has it worse off?

Is a light-skinned African-American have more or less systematic oppression than a dark-skinned South Asian? Or a dark-skinned AA vs a light-skinned SA?

There’s all sorts of interesting and confusing scenarios. I’m not sure what to do nor what is right, so I largely just muffle up and/or wait for the loudest shouting groups to figure it out.

Things did not go well for an immigrant friend of mine who was white South African who signed up for an African American law program. But when the all white engineering team won the state championship challenge for minority schools, that was fine. It was a weird quirk in my country where the program was for schools with majority minority students. But most schools had almost entirely Asian and white teams because the schools had small non-minority populations.
It's a much better UI for the servers at the restaurant. If you want people to take a specific action - requesting that a manager take over a specific problematic table - you need to make that action easy. If you don't make it easy, people won't do it as often. Describing an offense in detail and trying to negotiate a manager takeover is far from easy. Saying that table 5 is a code orange is easy.
You can slightly dampen toilet paper for a similar, and more safely flushable, effect. You can buy little bottles of spray for the purpose, loaded with the same anus-friendly substances as wet wipes.
Those have also all been removed
I assume by not looking right you mean the act of looking and not looking like your appearance? I believe that's the article was referring to the former and not the latter.

Assuming you did mean the former, I find it fascinating that your comment went from not looking right to racial profiling which seem completely unrelated.

What made you think of that?
It was "pre-production" before it became "beta".
To be fair, militias of the day weren't generally standing militias, and needed to be mustered.

We do have definitions as to what militias are informed to us by writings of the founders, the federalist papers, previous drafts of the second amendment and, failing that, codified by law in 10 US Code § 311. The definition of militia there ("consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard") will likely have been expanded by our recent advances in military equality.
I disagree. If I can query some API and it gives me some output, the data has changed hands. I can't really imagine a system where one has 'access' to data and does not receive it, unless it's in some kind of "Data Library" and nothing is allowed to leave the premises.
That is correct. One exception perhaps is embedded devices with displays, including EInk tablets.

For instance one thing I have been working on is a library that allows writing to and partially refreshing an EInk display with low latency enabling this[0].

I am curious what would happen if I got xorg working on this and used an additional application to call the `refresh` ioctl so that the changes get displayed on the screen.

[0] https://gfycat.com/CornyHugeIndianRhinoceros
What would mindful meditation be like then? Setting aside a moment to remind yourself to notice?
What would be effective is a real-life way for families or friends of a mentally ill and possibly violent adult to have some useful recourse.

Banning her videos wouldn't have made her less violent, and a tech company wouldn't have any resources beyond what her family had. The problem wasn't the effect her videos had on other people.

In the U.S., it's already illegal to threaten violence against others. "Conspiracy to commit" charges and "terroristic threats," for example.

Select illustrative incidents:

Florida night club shooter - mentally ill and violent in word and deed - his dad warned the FBI and police and asked for help.

Florida school shooter - mentally ill, violent in word and deed, multiple instances of minor run ins with the law - family and friends warned the FBI and police.

This woman - mentally ill and voicing intent for violence - family warned Law Enforcement and tried to get help.
My post wasn't sarcasm.

Nobody thinks the current system is perfect or not vulnerable to corruption or special interests etc, but at least it attempts to be representative of the people and accountable, and to be well informed through intelligence networks and professional analysis.

A dictatorship of a union of Google employees forcing the hand of the government based on what they're angry about from Twitter doesn't even bother to make a pretense of being fair.
A lifetime of being treated poorly by strangers because of my physical attributes.

The point is, if you interpret the policy properly, it's plainly obvious that a server can label someone a yellow (for any reason) and choose not to serve them.

Lots of servers have preconceived notions about who is going to tip well.
Once again, do you have a reference to this?

And that wouldn't have to be a consequence of this policy. It would, however, require the manager to be as prompt as the server. This should be possible to do if they're paying attention to the issue, because the manager should be handling far fewer tables than a server.
It is heartening to know you do gather information of this granularity.

Why not make it available?
A dictionary written in the language I'm trying to learn
They match, but only at a curvature slightly smaller than the Earth's curvature, spawning many theories about an expanding Earth in the early days of geology. Those theories have all now been debunked but they make for a fascinating read if you're into scientific rabbit holes.
> This is a positive for personal privacy and will reduce the potential for abuse, however many types of legitimate and responsible businesses will be affected as well.

I mean, sure. But every day these are open is another day that something dangerous could happen. Letting people use these APIs would only be responsible if there was a guarantee that everyone using the APIs was acting in good faith and could adequately defend against data breaches at Facebook's level, on their own. The latter was never really true and the former has been blown apart by the CA scandal, so good riddance.
Well, if you have an iOS device, maybe Workflow (the app) can help you with that ?
We can buy "adult baby wipes" in u.s. stores now. It's a good compromise.
Even better, put up a platform. That's how Youtube started.
Any reason why restaurants don't file a formal complaint with police? As in, even in the red case there which is for touching, they just tell the customer to leave. AFAIK, this type of case won't require much effort especially with CCTV and it will send a strong message to harassers if significant number of business starts doing that.
I dislike the term "privileged" and it's PC cult.

But this guy's essay is dripping in the privilege of the upper class.
Well, the thing about both yellow and orange, is that there is no actual retaliation against the customer. The manager takes over table service and that's the end. That can happen to a customer if their server's shift is ending or for any number reasons. Having a "dealing with this" level below retaliation seems like the key to this process.

And it's notable that approach runs counter to all of the retaliation-based approaches that this society currently seems to enjoy.
Similarly, my school only had one Ivy League acceptance. The student was from an extremely wealthy family and had tutors and camps and essay consultants. They had mediocre extra curricular, 70% sat/act and 3.5gpa and were accepted. The valedictorian has amazing everything but was Vietnamese and was turned down from every Ivy League. Sad because his family was really poor and he was a real bootstrap puller, etc.

From a cosmic justice standpoint, the valedictorian is now pretty wealthy 35 years later and the ivy leaguer never worked and lived off family and spouse money.
> What use does a flamethrower have though besides burning buildings, that a normal gun wouldn't?

It can be more effective at clearing bunkers and closed rooms? The military were using these in WWII for trenches, bunkers, clearing brush. My friend's grandpa in US was operating one in the Pacific during WWII.

I just brought it was an example how something potentially more deadly than guns or RPGs is not much regulated and how laws are not very rational sometimes.
> Thanks for the ad hominem.

That wasn’t an ad hominem. The parent was making an observation—unnecessary as it may be and regardless of its accuracy—on your character based on your comments. The parent was not dismissing your argument based on or by switching to refuting it with a personal attack of your character.
23 years ago —

https://mobile.nytimes.com/1994/05/25/us/denny-s-restaurants...