skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah ok get you.

The fruits of your labour argument is a good one which is why I would advocate a 100% inheritance tax.

I'm less convinced by your freedom argument, taken to its logical conclusion, murder should be legal because you're removing the rights of the murderer to do what they want. So I guess it comes down to where you draw the line?

Consumption v investment. There are good arguments each way, I don't know if higher inheritance tax would lead to higher of either. I think they tend to form a balance though.
Cheese and eggs can be produced far more ethically than meat. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Unidecode maintainer here. I really need to add some commentary to that "Bei Jing" example in the README.

Unidecode doesn't do language-specific transliteration and really works best for user-invisible things, like database identifiers or normalization.

CJK characters in particular are very problematic, since they must be transliterated differently depending on the locale. Over the years I have received many angry mails from people that were deeply offended by an error in transliteration they saw in an URL or something.

Unihandecode is a fork of Unidecode that tries to address this:

https://github.com/miurahr/unihandecode
Also the fact is that the user interfaces are the "huge" part for devices compared to the processing. It brings to mind the cyberpunk trope of full keyboard sized "decks" with a tiny screen if that as opposed to modern laptops which have long used squarer and abbreviated keyboard layouts.
> Doesn't consuming wealth, rather than investing long term, end up as a net positive for society though?

Most of the time it's very opposite. Unless with "consuming" you mean donating.
Exactly. It's not that I don't see value in online alternatives, but in this case, if the main point is to access it offline, I don't see how different it is from a physical journal.
If only they knew they could have used a single droid-controlled hyperdrive ship instead
Indeed. I've been searching for stuff that I could easily find even as little as 10-15 years ago, and it's gone. Nothing on archive.org (even though it started in 1996), mirrors are gone, it's just not there. Heck, even some more recent stuff can't be found anymore, by any search engine.

As for digital storage in general.. magnetic storage is quite good. Leave your harddrive on the shelf for a few decades and it'll probably still be ok. At least the magnetically stored data. Spin up the disk every two years and the rest is taken care of too. But Flash storage gradually lose data, it's not permanent. Come back in twenty and it's gone.

To keep digital data you'll have to implement a scheme of regularly refresh + copy/convert to newer media. That's a Herculean task if you want to keep all that we currently have of digital records.

Whereas a stone tablet will keep nicely.
"Privacy is both about "keeping things to yourself" and not wanting others to know everything there is to know about you for no good reason, as well as to protect yourself against potential abuses (from governments, but also criminals, unscrupulous companies, etc) that can't be predicted ahead of time."

Yes. To put it succinctly: I may trust the current government to use this data for (mostly) good, but I don't trust all future governments.
I'm a backyard beekeeper and I just love bees. They're very intelligent. But you should see how commercial beekeepers treat them in the production of all this "vegan" food.
I don't see how changing country makes any difference? He'll have to put up the price for his existing UK customers to cover the costs of his overseas staff
exactly. it just shifts the trust from your ISP to the VPN (who ironically even has your credit card info in many cases ...).

even Verizon now peddles VPN services to take their slice of the privacy snake-oil market https://www.verizonwireless.com/biz/security/wireless-privat...
Just want to disagree here. Atlas has been great for us, and we had some of the same issues ... moving accounts, closing SVB and moving over to Azlo, all of it went smoothly.
What is the proper way to set goals for your side project
Fredrik Lundh describes a DIY patch on top of unicodedata here: http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-convert.htm
It solves the ä->ae problem and its ilk for Western European languages.

Time has devoured my comment on that post, which extended the transliteration table to Eastern European languages and proposed to use mnemonic names like int(u'\N{Latin capital letter AE}') instead of 0xc6.
Very cool. Have any plans to enhance mosh support?
Content Moderation in 2019: Humans vs. AI
Lithuania is promoting itself as a go-to hub for fintech
Like you, I think the "I have nothing to hide" problem needs to be addressed so badly. But it takes a level of nuance to explain and sensitivity to understand. You have to talk about hypothetical situations to make the case.

Unfortunately, IMHO, it will take a large-scale "privacy disaster" unlike anything we've ever seen and where people are profoundly impacted, before the public gets wise to what it means to give up privacy.
Have the dispenser display a code for a $2 future credit. Or to be redeemed for cash at a later time somewhere cash transactions with humans exist. Or just use a standard vending machine module and give change with a restocking employee.

The market will decide if it's more expensive. Customers exist who will commute to another charger so they can pay cash. If the money left on the table is more than the cost of the cash module and attendant, it will be adopted.
And I’ve seen a few Java and Javascript libraries that purport to “implement LINQ” and they don’t get the power of LINQ is not the syntax, it’s that LINQ translates your code to expressions that can be parsed and translated to any back end query - it’s not just an ORM.

I’ve seen a LINQ to REST API provider.
Why would I want to use a worse substitute?
NYC Battles Worst Measles Outbreak in Generations
Complete small tasks, every day. Write them on the train or bus as part of the commute and work them and tick them off in the evening. This approach also ensures you leave the office on time, which is a good discipline to develop.
I do. I love hunting down bugs and leaving the code better than it was. I've done some memorable refactorings of terrible code. It feels weird to say I like it, but I kinda do.
Anybody living in the UK knows full well the mindless tribalism present in some (not all!) Corbyn supporters, and in some Brexit supporters.

And we see the rise of the far right, and the increase in violence that always brings, and it's easy to see that as a rise in mindless tribalism.

It doesn't need qualifying because it's fucking obvious.
This is probably the single most commonly-known Buddhist phrase.
That is one way to look at it, through I will say there is more context. Treatment increases the short time risk of death, but reduces mortality in the long run. Prostate cancer screening is not done for men below the age of 50 because the risk of over treatment is deemed to be too costly, which in comparison to breast cancer means that prostate cancer is allowed to grow unchecked for longer compared to breast cancer. When I see researchers mentioning the decision to not do prostate cancer screening they often acknowledge that this pushes up the age group where the disease kills the patient.

But to go back a bit, the issue that was brought up was the disparity in male vs female cancer incidence and mortality. Prostate cancer has higher incident rate in Sweden compared to breast cancer, and higher mortality rate. Because of the higher incidence rate and years that patients will suffering from it we can also see it has having higher debilitating effect. While there is some validity in counting "lost life years" I do not think it validates the claim that it dictate which disease is more dangerous.

Breast cancer has higher "lost life years".

Prostate cancer has higher rate of incidents, mortality, and "life debilitating years".
Is Extinction Bad?
Why can companies still silence us with mandatory arbitration?
Neat looking service. From a security standpoint, it is a bit terrifying that it could be logging everything, no?
+1 for syncing support between mobile/laptop. This is a must to have ability to write quick notes on mobile and prose on laptop.
I hope AWS realises that harming OSS authors, even indirectly, is counterproductive to AWS' interests.

If Mongo dies, so does its userbase, and so does DocumentDB.

How to fix it classily? Contribute back with code maintenance or whatever customizations were developed in-house.

Also you get to save face - you are not perceived as a leech anymore.
How much do you think Oracle's cleaners are paid?

The guy on the door at the HQ building?

I'm sure that you can argue oh, those people are actually working for a contractor, but let's agree for a moment that this is purely a matter of paperwork, those are Oracle cleaners, that guy is on the door of Oracle's HQ building.
> Amazon stopped using it, and started using its own in-house implementation instead (presumably because it was cheaper to develop it than to pay MongoDB).

I suspect the drive for DocumentDB was more because customers were asking them for it
If you can create schemas, that could be one solution.

I do this with Azure SQL Server instances, so a single instance can host all the 'non-critical' environments (dev, test, QA, demo) - works great!
5 cryptocurrencies that have won the most new followers in 2018
Looking back at the Berkeley Postgres project
The Chrome Web Store Primer Part 3: Pave the Way to Retention Using Analytics
I find it hard to imagine going 30 days without tripping bad, at which point any normal person would say stop. I bet against.

To me it's like giving away 100k and taking bath salts. Reminds me of the movie "Altered States".
Any organization has a lifecycle, governments included. There are thermodynamic constraints ensuring this. See Geoffrey West's "Scale" for elaboration.
I had a pet pig, Habeas Corpus we called him. Smart as could be. Loved to hang around us, play tug with a knotted t-shirt, run around the yard chasing/being chased. Gentle as could be.

We had a wire fence ring with a tree in it, that's where he stayed on summer nights. Hated going back into his pen at night when he was a piglet, became really hard to get close to around dusk, would just keep his distance casually without being offensive about it. One evening I sat on the grass by the fence, just chilling, and he came over to root around, just being companionable. When he was busy with something in the grass I picked up the wire, gently moved it over him and set it down again - now he was inside the ring.

A moment later he looks up, does a double-take, figures out he's in the pen again, and starts to scream bloody murder. Pigs can really scream! Took him a while to forgive me.
Clubs do suck, but seeking satisfaction through gaming is going to leave you dead inside in the long run. Can I suggest picking up some hobbies that you can do socially, where you can meet women with mutual interests?

As for your rant on the behavior of hot women... You have to understand, hot women grow up having to constantly push people away because they get too much attention. They develop hoops because otherwise they'd probably never get to be alone. In a lot of cases their demanding behavior is a veneer that you can get past fairly quickly once they realize they enjoy having you around. As long as you're really confident, when that type of woman is unreasonably demanding, it works pretty well to respond to her as if she just told a bad/corny joke.
Using privacy-related software makes it more likely that you'll get specifically targeted for surveillance. [1]

Simply visiting this site makes it more likely. [2]

For anyone who fears state-level surveillance: Using a VPN or Tor and some privacy plugins isn't enough. Don't assume that you're safe just because of it. In fact, you make yourself identifiable if you rely on such plugins.

I won't go into details on how to be able to have privacy that can compete with state-level surveillance, because you'll have to commit crimes to get it. If you think that your government is watching you - don't trust these simple instructions. It's way harder. Some people had to die because of this.

Many (authoritarian) governments don't let you use a VPN without putting you on a watch list. If you try to keep a low profile, you need other measures. False sense of security can be dangerous in some countries. I hope that those who need this (a fraction of those who read it) keep themselves safe.

edit: I think they should clearly state that this tutorial isn't suited for individuals who are in great danger w.r.t surveillance. It's for people who are interested in privacy, not for people in life-or-death situations.

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-likely-targets-anybody-whos-to...

[2]: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/interest-privacy-will-ensure-y...
This just means that the average spousal wealth doesn't change with marriage (assuming sharing of all assets). It doesn't explain why wealth stays the same over longer periods of time / over generations.
I'm sad that nobody added a picture of how it actually looks.

I believe this is the relevant font: https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/

edit: I'm very stupid and apparently missed the link to this same blog post in TFA. Leaving this here in case someone else makes the same mistake.
Tech founders face deportation in Sweden
Here is my privacy centric, offline first, personal journal bash script

EDITOR=vim
journal() {
mkdir -p ~/journal/`date +%Y`
$EDITOR ~/journal/`date +%Y`/`date +%m-%d`
}
alias j=journal
Does anybody remember Second Life?

They used a similar technique of creating an object out of an image.

The maps where called sculpts and consisted of an 64 by 64 image. Each pixels rgb value was mapped as xyz coodinate onto a grid. The grid base mesh was either a sphere or flat which allowed for a "closed" or "open" object surface so one could simulate holes (it also influenced the physics).

The users figured out a lot of funky tricks.

Like having multiple connected objects described by only one such map by having the connection be an ultra thin line which got not rendered. This lowered the "costs" Second Life calculated since it consisted of only one primitive.

Or using a bug to create giant ones of these things to create houses and other big objects.

On top having an automatic LOD was quite easy just half the number of grid vertices and there is your lower poly object.
Font source with screenshots: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
I am not sure if this looks terrible or brilliant.
Git Merging vs. Git Rebasing: The Beginner's Guide
Sure, what kind of enhancements do you have in mind? Mosh and regular SSH are both supported right now (you can choose which one to use on a per-server basis), but we haven't implemented any advanced toggles yet aside from setting the connection port.
Horrific. That wouldn't pass any ethics review board today.

I worked for a short time in an animal facility nearly two decades back as part of an immunology undergraduate research project. I did all the ethical and vetinary training and exams. Some scientists do take Descartes' line, that animals don't feel like human beings do. I don't. I think it's a convenient philosophical position to take to avoid agonising over inflicting pain and suffering upon other organisms. It's a line of work I got out of at the earliest opportunity; I found it stressful and nauseating, even while working under strict ethical guidelines and practices which minimised pain and suffering to the highest possible extent, and had strict regulation of animal welfare.

While it's possible to debate the relative intelligence and sentience of different species, I strongly suspect that all higher mammals experience emotions similarly to ourselves, and I suspect that this may well extend to lower mammals and possibly other species such as amphibians and fish. Though this is obviously difficult to investigate and prove. It's dangerous to anthropomorphise human behaviour, feelings and emotions in other animals. However, I think it's equally, if not more, dangerous to assume that animals are incapable of none of the feelings and emotions that we do.

Dogs can clearly experience pain. The anguished yelp if I accidentally tread on my dogs paws wearing heavy boots is sufficient to tell me that! And arthritic pain in old age was less obvious, but they took clear steps to avoid actions which would hurt. They clearly experience fear. I've seen my dog's legs turn to jelly when faced with a herd of cattle, and I couldn't drag him past them because he dug all his paws into the ground and refused to take a step further. Another cried when they were too scared to walk across wobbly and loose rocks on a mountain, and I had to carry them over. The same applies to other animals as well, though the means they use to communicate pain or fear may differ.

I liked the direction taken by Emory university e.g. this recent research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037663571... which gets past interpreting behaviour and instead uses fMRI to see how dogs respond directly. Hopefully this will show the similarities in our reactions as well as some of the differences.

Research like that summarised in https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/24/smart-d... is also important. This shows that dogs can have sophisticated linguistic and reasoning capabilities. How many other species have such untapped potential, which we simply haven't noticed?
> > Matz is clever so we can all feel a little smarter, too.

> (OK, I just made that up)

I liked it :).
All aboard the Flat Earth cruise –just don’t tell them about nautical navigation
Well how isn't it a holy space? What is religion but an avenue to impart morals and support to a community? Does TV not reach this goal, especially given shows like CSI/Law and Order which basically give the impression that the police/authority have god-like powers to solve crime, which is our societies codified morals? Shows like "Good Morning America" in which the hosts are our pastors giving us our daily dose of what to buy and which celebrities to pay attention to?
This makes me wonder which "stable" country currently has the least amount of generational wealth.

I would assume China, due to the Cultural Revolution. From what I recall, all of their billionaires are currently first generation. But we will see as time goes on.

Or maybe South Korea since they were were colonized for a long time and suffered through a recentish, direct war.
...As long as I'm the one running it.
Basing proof-of-work blockchains on trust metrics
Depends what you mean by 'treated with respect'.

Every job I've had, people have been polite and friendly to me. No bullying or harassment or anything like that.

But the low-paid jobs would carefully police our working hours and sick leave, while taking a toll on our bodies and demanding measurable daily performance. Whereas the highly-paid jobs would trust me to work my contract hours, take my word if I said I was sick, didn't expect me to lift anything heavier than a laptop, and barely audited how hard I was working at all.

If you think it's prima facie disrespectful to require a doctor's note for sick leave, my poorly paid jobs have been less respectful than my highly paid jobs.
It would be interesting to relate this to how stimulating the environment is. I walk fast in cities because doing so lets my brain "compress" the information from the never ending shop windows, people yelling, people walking, cars honking, people asking for money, ambient music, street names, landmarks, camera flashes etc. I also walk very fast in malls for this reason. (A correlate is --yes-- I actually walk slower at night, because there is more to pay attention to at night.) It's possible that fast walking is an adaptation to decrease the neurological load from the stimuli economic activity generates (or even a consequence of the fact that exciting things prime the brain towards moving and make physical action more desirable), and not a consequence of "how much your time is worth".
OEMs have always made better phones than Google themselves by improving and enhancing Android. Many improvements to Android came from Samsung, HTC and Motorola - the OEMs. Post 5.0, Google has only ever made improvements to Android to benefit its own hardware and ecosystem. For example, the Galaxy Nexus had no MicroSD slot even though the Galaxy phone it was based on did. Even now, Samsung is offering a phone with a headphone jack whereas Google has made their last two phones without, in a completely anti-consumer move.

Today's "Samsung crap" is tomorrow's "Brand-new Android feature that you need to enable Google tracking to use"
Clean Code by Robert Martin. You'll see it mentioned frequently on HN and online in general. Changed the way I wrote code almost immediately. I kind of wish it had been a part of my university curriculum. I'm sure we HNers can pick on the book for this and for that (can't any book?) but overall I think it's excellent.

For other books, this page is also a good start: https://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news
Admittedly, the link text in TFA is 'website'. Not 'spleen font' or something descriptive.
> Ruby isn't the most beautiful language out there

Huh, I sure think it is. I wonder what the author thinks the competition might be? Ruby has its issues for sure, but aesthetics ain't one of them - far and away my favourite out of any major language.
Thanks for commenting without reading the article
Leading universities like Stanford teach k-means clustering in their "machine learning" courses. Why do you think they're wrong and it's not actually machine learning?
Specifically Gates and Allen were given timesharing access to a DEC-10 at school - which was an incredibly rare privilege in the early 1970s.

Allen had already written an 8008 emulator on the same model of mainframe as the one at Harvard. And that made it possible to update the emulator while at Harvard and then use it as the basis of their version of BASIC.
AMD Ryzen 3000 with 12 and 16 cores will make an appearance as well
If you absolutely must run unsafe JS interop inline then maybe Elm is not for you, but it doesn't make its approach "silly".

You can run absolutely any JS code, just through the ports API. Trivial things like Math.PI are in the core[1] or some package.

[1] https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/5.1.1/Ba...