skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a contrarian view and I will sound phobic but for this very reason- false sense of security + possibility of malicious check ins- I now place less emphasis on open/closed source and more on repute. I am happier to download exe's from good companies these days than a package from arch-aur
A city cannot be rich or poor. Local governments can only steal more or less money. A "rich" city can't afford giving tax breaks any more than a "poor" city government can. A dollar less collected from U.S. Steel means a dollar more collected from taxes (or a dollar more in local government debt, or some mix of the two.)

It is outrageous to imply that a rich government ought to afford giving selective handouts more than a poor government.

Is it OK for the socialists in NYC to give tax breaks to Amazon (and let's not forget the joke that is Tesla in NJ) when the government is insolvent? But hey, NYC is rich, so that's okay!
You’re deeply confused about the situation if you think Westlaw and Lexis have anything to do with PACER. You use those services to access legal opinions. The underlying opinions are free on PACER and also usually posted on courts websites. Westlaw and LEXIS don’t index most of what’s in PACER. Conversely, PACER doesn’t contain most of what’s in Westlaw and LEXIS. PACER for the most part only has electronic files going back to the early 2000s. You can’t use it for serious legal research. Westlaw and Lexis have comprehensive data based of opinions going back to the 18th century because they went and scanned in all those paper records. (And West has been around since 1870 and has been building its collection ever since then.) The government (in fact, governments—there are hundreds of mostly autonomous court systems in the country) isn’t limiting access—it simply doesn’t have the data that makes West and Lexis so valuable.
Are you seriously suggesting that PACER fees have any impact on competition? That’s like saying toll roads protect the business model of taxi companies. It’s completely nonsensical.
Rectangle after Rectangle (2018)
Some time ago I calculated moon phase for date of birth for 90k users and I found no correlation.
similarly, you can use gmails + operator: for example, whenever you sign-up for a newsletter, you can use username+news@gmail.com, and then filter anything to that address to its own folder.
None of those things are law enforcement agencies. And a casino is just a type of bank here.

Though the others may have their own reasons to want to know who their customers are, since a lot of property isn't as fungible as money and possession of stolen property is a crime in most places.

Notice how nobody even suggests for things to work that way in other cases where the business is accepting money rather than goods, e.g. businesses that sell sandwiches or jeans or flatware should hardly be under these types of KYC requirements.

If you can buy $1000 worth of apparel without identifying yourself, why can't you have a bank account with $1000 in it?
Reflections on the State of AI: 2018
I rendered it in logarithmic scale, it looks terrible and should never be drawn that way. It visually obfuscates the point: the dramatic extent to which Ireland is now pulling away.

It's extremely easy to draw conclusions specifically because it's a linear chart about per capita economic output over a relatively short duration of time.

The conclusion is that Ireland has drastically outperformed all the other nations in the chart since 1990. I think it would be hard to read that chart any other way, it's extremely obvious. For example it's not difficult to see approximately where each nation starts out and where they end up. Nor is it difficult to see just how large the output gap has become between Ireland and the rest. Logarithmic would mess up the clear visual that Ireland is pulling away from everyone else.

The point of the chart, is to show how Ireland has gone from an underdog economy in the EU, to an affluent powerhouse, leaving the other major economies behind per capita.
It's absolutely amazing for reading and learning. But if you have a question - then it has to have an objective answer.
That data is already out there. Almost the entire corpus of federal cases is available in data dumps online. I’ve never seen anything interesting done with it.

Don’t confuse my opposition to techno-optimism with opposition to accountability. The issue is not that we shouldn’t have accountability. It’s that there is already a ton of data out there, and civic hackers have had approximately zero impact with it. Because for the most part what you actually need is carefully controlled studies from real institutions, not “civic hacking.” Civic hacking is the techie version of “raising awareness.”
I mean, even ytmnd predates 4chan. Maybe things like that were tame in terms of content, but the memes were still there. Memes been around since the web busted out of cern.

A person of a certain age might think 4chan is the beginning sure, but SA was basically where 4chan came from. At least how I remember. Again, less extreme maybe.

Not that my memories of those days is that great, I guess.
Unrelated to your main point, but what is a bohemian effort?
Always rereading Effective Java.
So change them so that they're paid by the employer instead, if you think that would make a big difference.
In my experience Roda/Sequel beats almost any other combination of application language / DB (ORM)

Speed stats -
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r14&hw=...
> don't know Smalltalk very well

It's just "Objective-C without the C". Except for real.

Mostly just leave out the square brackets and enjoy the unified syntax.

> perspective of an Objective-C developer

That's my perspective :-) Have been programming in Objective-C for well over 30 years now.

I actually started pre-NeXT with my own pre-processor and runtime, had a C compiler and read a lot about OO and really wanted to program that way. Objective-C seemed achievable, and it was.
Retirement at 45? – My way to “financial freedom”
This is a great title. License should matter more- not the assumed 'open source'ness.
GP stated they avoid investing in them. i.e. the risk profile doesn't align with their I vestment strategy.

What you're bringing up is kind of obvious but also irrelevant.

I'd ask what businesses do they invest in and figure out if those businesses are really less risky. I would posit they are probably not. The risk of having amazon Google or apple being a single point of failure is abysmally small compared to all the other risks out there.
There are a lot of instances of the Chinese government intentionally directing food away from famine stricken areas. There was clear intent to starve out populations and political opponents.
I still type sync (just once) before I reboot. Just a habit.
none. i rather spend my time outside of work on something else. currently reading the brothers karamazov and moby dick.
I think they're saying they have a mailing list set up for communication between friends, and it's "decentralised" in the same way email is (rather, it's federated).
Also USB bus resets are not unheard of. Or moving devices from one port to another. If the device comes back within a minute or two you probably shouldn't throw out those writes.
"but Google and Apple don't really have any more information to go off of than you do regarding that "

Apple requires people to provide a business number among other things, and they have substantial ability to 'dig in' to a developers background.

Users have zero interest in this, and nobody has time to do some big investigation into some company for the sake of some app.

The whole point of the app stores are to filter through the crap for us and give us some idea of what's good and what's not.
The browser security model is actually granular, as opposed to the desktop model of granting complete access upon running an app. Sensitive information like location or hardware access sits behind contextual permission prompts.
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I haven't seen anyone talking much lately about the alleged "nude selfie" that Mueller filed under wraps as part of the indictment again the Russian hackers.
That was interesting in itself in that disclosing it would have been detrimental to the inquiry/national security, etc.

Who did Mueller get it from? Both Manafort and Cohen's electronic devices were seized, and AMI may have handed stuff over to the investigation as well as part of their immunity deal.

Was this the one and same nude selfie of Jeff Bezo, who seems to be claiming that it was leaked by a Government entity?
I think it's a little bit of a generational thing.

I was aging out of SA before 4chan even really got going (not maturing out, since I'm not that mature; just being done with college, moving on to professional school; not spending as much time on forums/etc). I never spent any real time looking at 4chan.

I of course know what image memes are, but if you just said meme to me with no context then I still think of it as the Dawkins 'Selfish Gene' idea.
:-)

The problem with something like KVC is that you then have to lift everything into this new "KVC language", which is embedded as strings in the main programming language.

Which then gets you to dictionary-oriented programming (Xcode, I'm looking at you) and that's really quite painful. While doing performance work at Apple, I though about forming an association called DUKE, Developers United against Keyed Everything :-)

On the other hand, there obviously is a lot of benefit to KVC and KVC-like mechanisms, because we keep re-inventing them everywhere and all the time. I myself had done so with the BBC project that led me to in-process REST. And at one point it just clicked: language support for URIs, and URIs really are universal, so we don't need any other identifiers.
Updated link:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1448225704
> The situation sucks but Google's action seems reasonable? Like they can't just let people create new accounts to evade bans.

It seems like the opposite of reasonable to me. You hit the nail on the head for _why_ this happened but this person now has _zero_ recourse for correcting their mistake.

Yes, they screwed up. They shouldn't have let them do it through their account. But now, because they screwed up, you're fine with the action that they can literally never be on the Google Play store ever again? The largest mobile store with the largest share of phones and you can't be on the store because of this?

Absolutely unacceptable.
A free market doesn’t prevent genocide. A state where free speech and dissent is violently oppressed is always ripe for genocidal events.

There is no real legal system to contest illegal detention and state sanctioned murder in China. It is not a country ruled by law.

I’m not saying democracy is some cure all, but the worst and largest genocides by far take place under totalitarian regimes.

Just because China kind of sort of has a free market that doesn’t absolve it of the human rights abuses that are rampant in the country.

Read about what Mao did. Xi could do the same and no one would be able to stop him.
The site claims it works on mobile

> On mobile, a user starts touching their display before releasing it, leaving on average 90 ms to preload the page.
This is similar to the advice about building houses: they first house you ever build you should build for an enemy, the second for a friend and the third for yourself.
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You are too generous concerning the Great Leap Forward. It really wasn’t some unfortunate accident. There was clear intent to eliminate large swaths of the population of China.
Man of Miracles is actually another tangent, where Todd McFarlane, the guy who make the Spawn comics, incorrectly believed he'd purchased the Miracleman rights and featured the character in his comic, then had to pivot and retcon the character into something else entirely when sued by a new company formed by Gaiman to arrange republishing of the Moore/Gaiman/Morrison stories.
QtNotepad: Super lightweight and super simple notepad application
Been meaning to do a blog post on this forever now :/ I will do it at some point for sure at http://linkdot.link

This is a great starting point in case you are interested in knowing more -- http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~kreve101/asci/smi2001.pdf More recently, I've been exploring some ideas of Tversky.
Sure, but still it would be more sane to set up another DB, say Postgres, write some migration code to always keep the two DBs in sync, then start migrating the SQLs one by one.
In the first place it is sad that "emojis", "emoticons", etc. are so broadly used. It only shows how writing skills are deteriorating. Mark Twain or Hemingway didn't need emojis to express sadness or humor.
The amount of location-agnostic industry (e.g. software) in Texas or the number of companies officially headquartered in Nevada are some obvious examples of the intuitive statement: the attractiveness of business policy affects where businesses organize on a macro scale. A recent example is Washington state -- already a finance averse state -- which added complex cryptocurrency broker dealer requirements in 2017 and overnight, most of the reputable exchanges serving US customers except Coinbase closed down operations in the state[0].

The world isn't black and white -- there are more factors in the world of business than just city tax policy. Weather, labor supply, image, capital supply, access to global trade, desirability for company decision makers, and other network effects explain NYC and SV. I hope that isn't controversial. For cities that have similar 'intangibles' going for them, I'd imagine city policy makes a big difference.

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/new-bitcoin-regulations-shake-...
The Thunderbird add-on that lets you compose directly in HTML is fun for this kind of thing. You can also abuse those signature-maker site HTML signatures into full emails, tightly composed.

I also think PDF newsletters are cool if you're doing anything people might like to store. I have been trialing Textmaker 2018 for this in Linux and it will do most desktop publishing stuff like linked text frames really easily, plus export to HTML, pdf, and epub.
@revx wrote: responses come back straight to me, so there's no fighting in the comments

This makes it sound like revx is the single point of failure.

The whole thing reads to me like the locus of centralisation lies entirely with revx.

I get that email is decentralised / federated.
Please add implementation details. I've once made a search engine that could support a similar feature set. It's possible that we did the same core tricks but I have no way to evaluate this.
I played the shit out of that demo for months.
This whole channel is brilliant. Reminds me of the quote. If you cant explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it well enough
Many of us do negotiate our property taxes with the government by protesting their valuation of our home/property whenever it increases from one year to the next.
The cost/price distinction is a disfunctional element to any, but especially to frequent travellers. Airlines should have objective comparison flight prices and they don't. They use all and any mechanism to offer the price they want to sell to you irrespective of any other price somebody else sees. Buy it in London? Price different to bought in Australia. Same path, same direction. Wipe cookie? Price different. Buy same carrier different partner airline? Price different. And on and on and on. There is no price there are only prices.

Imagine if everything we bought had this price behaviour...
There is an old paper http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/736/Papers/iron.pdf that analyzes how various filesystems do error handling and not too long ago it was fairly bad. My own experience was some of the older Windows would not even check if a write command failed. I used to laugh when developers would state how robust their databases were when the underlying filesystem does not even check for many errors. Hopefully things are better now.
super cool man... great use of telugu and other iconography.. you are a cultural icon in the digital space...
Are you really comparing regular people to Twain and Hemingway?
String resources spell testing library
Parsec (or similar) will be my go-to gaming rig once my current rig isn't good enough anymore.

How is the experience with online gaming? Is it possible or is the increase in latency to much for e.g. FPS?
Welp, that was an infuriating scrolling experience on mobile.

Why the fuck do people do this stuff?
No, that's not what happened with the GDPR. Most small companies rightfully came to the conclusion that they can't afford to not comply, so at least they tried to.

Google though they can afford not to, so they didn't. Now Google is starting to get hit with fines (e.g. France), so they'll probably change their minds.
You can make a comment on this thread and they'll PM you one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tildes/comments/aojrd0/official_inv...
If you are referring to entering those words in the searchbox, yes I should've put in some warnings/checks there to enter a valid image URL. Will fix it soon. And yes I should make the site secure too. Thanks for letting me know.

PS: You can explore company logos here http://compute.vision/brands/index.html . It's implemented using an older iteration of the algorithm and performance isn't that great compared to the one used with the icons database.
this sounds much better than what the article suggests which i almost stopped reading at "making money from commercial licenses".

that model just doesn't work for me because while it may work financially (and i have seen companies being successful with it), it prevents the product from being fully immersed into the Free Software ecosystem.

to sell commercial licenses i need to own 100% of the code, which means i can't easily accept outside contributions, nor can i use GPLd libraries which would conflict a commercial license. i do not want to be limited in my choice of tools to suit a commercial license. that's not what i think a good Free Software project should be like.

your comment therefore feels like a relief. my question is though, how to get the companies interested when the product is not yet proven? how to start, find the first customers? those who will pay enough for support to allow me to finish building the product?
> One tiny mistake leads you to a lifetime of suspension to a service vital to almost any business.

This really is where Google might be too big...

Since Google is such a force, and they don't have time to support or help people/companies lost in the algorithms, maybe competition is the only thing that can solve this because most companies are too small/medium for them to care.

Lots of these systems are probably well intentioned and risk averse by default, but in the end have too much influence on the market as a single point of failure.

Highly concentrated systems with single points of failure that fail on a large scale are bad, but even worse is highly concentrated systems that randomly get in an error loop but too small to correct, only here it is small/medium companies stuck in that algorithm purgatory vortex.
GDPR is so far a success. In fact several countries have fined or are looking at fining the big players.

But one wouldn't know that from the whining and moaning of oh so many advertising fans around here.
I'd love to see Sucrase (https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase) included in the performance comparison.
By "short writes" you mean partial writes?
Careful, though. I added this rule to my inbox (automatically marking them read, though) years ago and just a month or two ago figured out why I was _never_ aware I had pull requests or issues on GitHub, among quite a few other things I was constantly missing.
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My point is that reddit is set up to be run as an authoritarian system, by people who obviously believe in authoritarianism. Users who like reddit but are afraid of a company from an authoritarian state investing sounds silly to me. Similarly silly: when Google fans get scared about video cameras because it feels like surveillance.

My gut feeling is that it's a reaction to propaganda (for lack of a better word; I'm not suggesting that there's a concerted effort). China has been associated with a surveillance state, and mentioning China or large chinese companies will send people into a frenzy because they don't want a police state. That their favorite website runs on the same ideology, that they are constantly under surveillance by corporations and their own government: ignored.

As for "laws can be changed": that's why I'm a fan of only implementing things that you feel comfortable giving control over to your worst political enemy.
OpenBSD has brought forth a patch earlier this month to try and make fsync(2) less of a mess to use on OpenBSD[1], though it hasn't been committed yet.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=154897756917794&w=2
I've been using the big grid+ offering from Vela Sciences for my daily work. Only use pencil though, Graph Gear 1000. Recently switched from 0.5mm to 0.9mm. Have only been keeping "good" notes for a few years now and so far pencil hasn't been a problem. Was just rereading Jan 2017 this morning and even in 0.5mm, looks as good as new. I'm not in a real lab setting though so I just go with what feels good. If I was forced to use ink, I probably wouldn't take as many notes.
If you're not actually interested in debate and discussion, then why would you comment on here?
This is handy right now: I've been looking for a good newsletter service for a non-profit I volunteer for. Any recommendations?
Are you kidding? Pictures and "emojis" are far more informationally dense than words are. If anything this shows how quickly language is evolving when facilitated by instantaneous information transfer of near unlimited amounts of data.
> there is a vast difference between

Both are illegal.

You're trying to equate a major crime with civil disobedience. Big financial interests are far from the public interest, so I can't follow your argument of civil disobedience.

> taxman is exerting unchecked power

There are so many who argue about money corrupting politics, inequality rising, but I'm not trying to have this argument with you. I just want to tell you that you're exposing yourself as defending big financial interests, against the public interests.

I've already had some back and forth with people like you who try to defend the act of evading taxes, and I can warn you: you will never convince me. Let's agree to disagree.
I suspect that GP is referring to layout and formatting, not content.
Probably downvoted for making hyperbolic generalizations?

Also, your anecdote about kids feeling more comfortable on calculators has nothing to do with what is or isn’t math, and comes off as another kids-these-days story.
Are you saying that this doesn't already exist? There are tons of people selling passwords, profiles, credit cards info, social security numbers et cetera. Or are you trying to say that legit companies will begin doing that? Aren't they already doing that too? Facebook and Cambridge Analytica being just one example that we know about.
It depends greatly on how your server-side works. For example, if you are on AWS, you can use KMS. If you run Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, they have their own secret storage systems.

In the very small teams, you can do something as simple as Google Doc or Last Pass shared notes, and install the keys manually as needed. In this case, your code would be looking for secrets at a pre-defined location, like ~/.your-company-name/secrets, and secrets would me manually copied there.
Here's a page from one of Twain's manuscripts. I think he'd have made good use of Emoji.

https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/twain_ma881-...
Seems like an invasion of privacy. I'd be surprised if someone hadn't used this sort of script for this already. Perhaps browsers or ad blockers will block this feature in the future.