skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For picky versions, there is nice `addversionno = true` option, which will let you have multiple unison versions installed simultaneously. It will always pick the right one.

I agree with slowness -- I feel the recent versions are pretty fast on Linux, but it can be faster. Also it's "scan, then transfer" approach means it can take lots of memory if there is a lot of files.

Still, if you can your rsync in your application, use it. For automated backups, you cannot beat it. But unison has two unique advantages:

- Proper two way sync -- doing it safely with rsync is almost impossible.

- GUI/TUI which shows what changed and allows conflict resolution.

- GUI which shows
Elderly drivers focus too much on the background of moving objects
> It doesn't make sense that small companies should be allowed to circumvent the requirement when what they're doing is just as sensitive as apps from large companies.

If they really are small companies then (in most cases) what they're doing isn't as sensitive, because the value of the assets under protection is lower. It would be completely reasonable to say that companies with less than 5,000 users only need to be assessed for vulnerability to automated attacks and not targeted attacks.

If you're a company the size of Facebook and you're accidentally sending password reset tokens to your analytics partners then that's a disaster. But I don't know that it's worth shutting down hundreds of startups with a couple dozen users each over the sort of potential security weaknesses that, while not ideal, realistically aren't going to result in anyone having their private data exposed.
"California Restaurants Are Dying Due to Restaurant Owner Greed and High California Taxes, Fees, and Regulations"
No matter how much or what kind of drugs are being used, it's not logical to ever wage a drug war. This is probably the sickest, most disgusting American cultural export in a sea of sick, disgusting cultural exports. It's one thing to succumb to this type of sick, vile thinking when a country is under occupation but a whole other thing to keep at it once you are no longer occupied. In no way am I singling out Japan here. Most countries succumbed to US pressure on this issue and even made it their own issue, persecuting and killing their own people. The people who perpetrated these acts, acts akin to war crimes themselves should be ashamed and hunted down but that won't happen because justice doesn't exist. It is not too late to reverse such policies and to shirk off this horrific cultural export as even the US is starting to do. Unfortunately, many of these people ardently believe the lies they learned and want to continue killing, jailing, torturing, and persecuting others who are sick and would be better off served with compassion and medical care. Hopefully, the world will wise up and get rid of this drug war, this American mind poison, and reclaim their cultures and dignity for their countries.
Definitely release the snake outside, don't let it bite you. Do you know if the snake is venomous? If so, exercise caution.
Oakland is pretty different from San Francisco though, it's on the list of highest number of crimes in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Their TOS explicitly forbids doing that.
Facebook ops team: "We're waist-deep in dead canaries."
The name was chosen very carefully for a specific purpose, nothing to do with proclaiming moral high-ground. Eric explains the various meanings in a video he uploaded to his channel [1].

I would argue Molyneux is not remotely part of the IDW. I haven't heard anyone within it say anything remotely positive about him or willing to associate with him. Eric's brother, Bret an evolutionary biologist, regularly mocks Molyneux and explains why his interpretation of evolutionary theory is wrong [2][3][4][5].

Also part of the IDW name originates from Eric's observation that mainstream academics unwilling to either publicly debate his findings or defend theirs. When those findings could potentially decrease the impact of their work or demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor [6]. He's noticed this in other fields too, like biology with Bret's theory on cultural evolution. Only just this year did he get a chance to debate Dawkins.

[1] 'Why the "Intellectual Dark Web" has such a crazy name': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr0OX6ai4Qw

[2] https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1070217128211443712

[3] https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1070127960009564160

[4] https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1103765054191656963

[5] https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1070150469895413760

[6] Eric's talk at Stanford from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_brHQRMu9k
Sigh. jedberg makes a pretty good argument questioning the framing and underlying assumptions of the thesis, pmoriarty swings in with a respectful and reasoned rebuttal, and I'm ready for what looks to be an actual conversation.

Then the Internet clowns pull up.
Http://Albert.com is best for tracking your finances (also gives advice and saves money etc)

http://track.tax for managing freelancer taxes
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The feature in question is a warning light if two sensors disagree. You could implement that with a microcontroller, an LED and two wires. In practice, it might not even require additional hardware at all. We do know in advance that its worth the cost because the cost is absolutely neglible.
True, but we tried prohibiting alcohol and that didn't work out. And when the War On Drugs rolled around, Marijuana being grown by hippies was its poster-child, not the cocaine being peddled by gangsters. That was illegal too, but that's not where the emotional heart of the crusade was. Cocaine was used by businessmen on the weekends; marijuana would corrupt little Jimmy and ruin his future as a productive member of society.
ledger: https://www.ledger-cli.org/

and its haskell clone hledger: https://hledger.org/index.html

I use hledger - but I bellieve both would work.
Those who connect to their website through VPN will not show up with an IP inside China mainland.
IP Geolocation Demystified
The market has spoken, and it wants unrepairable throwaway devices and dongles for everything.
Complete nonsense. First of all, homeowners aren't wealthy. Landlords are wealthy. The law says that wealthy landlords have to keep their hands off of brand new houses for a certain period of time so that homeowners can have a crack at it (therefore lowering prices, since rental profit isn't a consideration)

This does nothing to prevent anyone from renting apartments, condos, or houses built over five years ago.

Poor people aren't the ones renting brand-new construction. The renters of new houses are going to be people who could have and would have bought the house, if super rich landlords weren't jacking up prices.
Except... It wasn't $35k anywhere but on paper. You had to buy the upgrades.
Reading a biography of Oppenheimer explores much of this. One thing is clear, the bomb was used on an essentially defeated enemy. From another angle though, it was necessary to push back Stalin and could be considered not as the last blow of WWII but the first blow in the cold war.

It is difficult to question the possible outcomes if different choices were made but you can be sure that the last 80 years could have been much different and much worse. The bomb did make certain kinds of war impossible, and it is not clear if that would be true if they had not been used when they were.
I don't expect that will do very well. ML is already crowded, and Python is already solidly at the top. Having worked in ML myself, no one would switch if it meant dealing with a real statically typed language they could hack away at easily in a repl or jupyter notebooks, or access mypy, numpy, scikit, etc. ML is an ecosystem of tools that are all in Python currently.
I found a critique of MMT, by another (seemingly) heterodox economist, which outlines the difference between MMT and some superficially similar heterodox perspectives. It worths a read, in my opinion.

https://sovereignmoney.eu/modern-money-theory-revisited
If I ever wrote a language, handling strings wrt unicode would be the first thing I would fix so so that it's clear, concise and especially consistent.

It bothers me that in 2019 it can still be difficult to manage even basic things with strings, and yet, whenever we talk/argue/bike-shed about 'languages' we get caught up in intellectual meandering. Please, give us strings that make sense. Then argue about monads.
I would be more surprised to find any longstanding human culture that didn't have any glaring inconsistencies in the things it encourages vs the things it discourages.

We are all hypocrites.
Sharp Regrets: Top Worst C# Features(2015)
Something like Cushion might help - https://cushionapp.com
The link is blog spam, original article is at https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/in-banne...
Recent interviews with Japanese activists on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrDAXjcUXY
I don't really consider a language to be functional without a concise application and composition operator (also automatic currying and partial application). How can you be functional if you don't have the basic operators for combining and applying functions?
There is a good case for the exact opposite of what you suggest. Congress pretends like they have power over the economy, but at best they have minimal or random effects. They promised economic growth with tax cuts, but what are the real effects? hard to even tell.
It looks like Swift has automatic currying though, so that's pretty close.
Moderators change titles when they break the site guidelines. The relevant guideline is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

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

The submitted title was "Wall-climber robot spraypaints big murals, any idea how its hardware works?", which is actually more baity than the original (wrong direction!). It's also the sort of thing that will strike HN readers as transparently promotional, prompting them to flag a submission.
What do you see as the advantage of Rust or ref counting?
I didn't say making money making music is wrong. I do think artists should get paid.
To play devil's advocate, consider how many people you know that work in so-called "bullshit jobs".

TBH, I know plenty of people whose jobs are not that meaningful - yes, some of them create "value" in one way or another, but sometimes even if they create value (indirectly?), maybe it's a bullshit sales job where they are primarily tasked with convincing people to buy their product when an open-source or less-expensive option exists elsewhere. Think "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". You might choose Expensive Enterprise DB over Free And Open Source DB if you are a purchasing manager and don't want the blowback of choosing something with less history. And the people who sell Expensive Enterprise DB might have a salesforce of thousands of twenty-something's who, for the most part, are not technical experts, but spend most of their days propping up the product and convincing people to buy.

I don't think the theoretical perfect supply/demand curve always matches up with real life. Maybe - in the long-term, it does, but sometimes things fly under the radar, maybe for decades, before the business cycle or something else forces a correction.

I don't disagree with your statement, though. If someone wants to earn a living in music, or at least make money, they need many of the same qualifications any startup needs. 1) They need to understand what they are selling and who is buying (product and demographic). Image/Brand is everything (especially since Instagram). ; 2) They have to be able to market - find a launchpad. Whether this is done in-house or the musician is lucky enough to find someone early in their career that signs them to PR / etc., it has to be done. 3) They've gotta be good at what they are doing. Not everyone has to be a Julliard-trained pianist, but they need to be good enough that people want to listen.

Economically, there are certain genre's that (at least to me) seem to immediately be a problem for actually making a competitive living off it. On the other hand, genre's like pop may be incompatible with someone's age - you won't see many 40 year olds releasing their first album to compete with Bruno Mars, for example.

I don't know, though. Music is less important to some than others. I know people who have literally no preferences and just turn a radio on to hear something, and I know others who spend their days in studios writing and recording and living and breathing music.
Excel? LibreOffice Calc?
If it's not indigenous to your area, don't release it into the wild. Contact Animal Control or a major university reptile lab for appropriate rehoming instructions.
Glad this is satirical, I was afraid this was a seriously misguided attempt to _enhance_ user experience...
True, but some cultures take it to a greater extreme than others. Usually it's the ones most focused on self-purification that have the most hidden vices. America and (apparently) Japan seem to be towards the top as far as first-world countries go.
Sadly, it’s basically impossible for me to play. Still awesome.
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I think you’re being a bit too paranoid.

I can’t even begin to imagine how would you approach someone in order to badmouth a random stranger and not have it reflect badly on you (aka you’d be badmouthing yourself more than anyone else).

Given a sample size of 1, that particular person was probably too busy or is not answering your messages for another reason (the situation would be different if your entire network suddenly turned away, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here).
Can please someone help to understand the meaning of snake in this context?

The Chinese zodiac sign doesn’t appear to be extraordinarily difficult to deal with.

Harry Potter‘s Snape would be a more interesting problem.
It was definitely surprising to me to see grown men in suits throwing up on the streets nearly every one of the seven nights I spent in Tokyo. I don’t recall seeing any of that in the three nights I spent in Kyoto but having said that I didn’t have many late nights there.

I’ll add that the attitude towards things like stimulants that help people with ADD/ADHD is also a bit bizarre to me.
In many countries sending something over a satellite requires registration (which can be used for control subsequently), or even a license. Unless it will be a type of technology which is very hard to block, and locate, I wouldn't expect it to beat censorship.
Back when I was sysadmin, I catched everyone watching porn by suddenly walking into their offices, but I'm sure your method is better.
Well, the thing is that most of Japan’s Japanese experts on drugs and crime don’t spend a significant amount of their time interacting with the English speaking world, and there aren’t many people interested in merely translating their work without adding their own take on it.

Jake Adelstein however has become very good at being a point of contact for English speaking non Japanese speaking people who wish to report on Japanese crime, independently of how qualified you might think he is or isn’t.
At its heart inflation is just a wealth transfer from creditor > to debtor

That is one way to put it, but you could also say inflation punishes responsible people who work and save money, and rewards less responsible people who spend beyond their means.
Eagle was a great start, but once Autodesk started up with the licensing crap, I moved to KiCad, which although took a bit of time, was well worth the effort!
I've never seen Cisco, Intel and Microsoft competing with each other;
> This is our only option to unify the earth

Why do we think that a unified earth will be a good thing? It seems too utopian to me...
I agree, this is half of NYC midtown/ws, curious to know how it’s traced to a single firm.
> Living in Korea, it's just baffling to see these ridiculous, archaic attitudes toward marijuana in Korea and Japan.

It's an East Asian cultural aversion to drug culture that has roots in how opium was used to dominate China.

OTOH Japanese love medicines; doctors give out pills that are strongly regulated overseas like rohypnol like candies. CBD oil is completely legal OTC
Find another job and move on, without wasting your energy and emotions on that snake.
But you still have --delete there, and -u won't affect it. So if you create a local file, it will be deleted (it might stay if by chance it was created during second rsync, but this is not guaranteed).

And the same deletion applies to network errors -- if ssh fails, then newly created files would get deleted.

That said, I agree that -u options does makes it less likely that files get overwritten. This option approach a some caveats, however -- archive extraction will mess the modification time, symlinks and directories are not handled properly. Still, regular IDE editing will work.

Still not sure how is it better than unison though :)
Ask HN: Any Inbox UI Alternative App or Gmail Addon?
The time has come. What will you do that just love the inbox ui when it is gone? I know gmail has most of the inbox features now but the main focus of UI is very different and I can't stand it. What will (or have done already) you do after April 2nd.
Still not eye safe enough, but also getting a 36 million times laser isn't cheap :)

Ouster probably has the best potential path to full solid state with multipointflash lidar.
Criminal negligence that can invite class action suit
I tried calling 911 in the peninsula because I saw a drunk driver on 101. I tried calling 6 times but it never got through and finally I gave up.

In SF, a group of youths stuffed their backpacks with things from Walgreens and ran off, but started walking about a block away because they knew the store owners wouldn't do anything about it, and because even if they got caught nothing would happen. I believe it's called Prop 47 that decriminalized theft under $1000 and these are now the unintended consequences.

It's seriously a joke here right now. The only reason protecting you against crime is just dumb luck. If you are a victim of crime, you will get no help from the cops or the government unless it's a "high profile" crime but you're probably already dead then.
It's crazy that ads have reached through point where impressions-without-impressions are lucrative. If I was the type of scumbag to pay large amounts of money for data hungry ads, I'd be furious. But, they don't care? Are ads now just a sunk cost with no ROI analysis? Is it like a gym membership?
I agree. He interviews a lot of fascinating people with highly-specialized backgrounds. To research their work and understand it enough to have great conversational flow and remain highly insightful would take a lot of time.

But since this isn't his full-time job, I think trading-off asking very good questions for the flow of the dialogue is worth it.
Yikes, that's false and not nice. We delete comments for people nearly every day. It's true that we don't allow wholesale deletion of account histories, because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. But we also don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN.

The idea is to balance the need to preserve history (community interest) and the need to protect users (individual interest). We don't get there perfectly, but I can tell you for sure that the vast majority of people who ask us about this end up happy with how we help them.
Is there any enterprise software that looks for this behavior inside corp systems and alerts the admins/management? If someone just goes ahead and downloads 300k files, that must not be a very normal way of operations, regardless of your role. Even if there are jobs where one would need to download so many files, the systems could be alerted with appropriate flags. What do the big Cos use for this?
With how much I hear about Rust on here, a little surprising to see it behind the likes of Haskell and and Perl!

Kotlin is doing really well for its age especially, I'm guessing mostly used by Android devs (so far).
What a fascinating story. Thank you for sharing. I cried towards the end as I was learning about Casteel's death. I was hoping for a plot twist, because all along Casteel was described in the past tense, so I knew from the beginning that he might not be still alive but deep inside I was hoping that he is still alive. I was hoping for paragraph that says "and now Casteel is..."

It sucks to lose someone with such integrity, values and good character. I feel like I have known him personally. May he rest in peace.
incredible piece. If you are thinking of reading this, and have a spare 20 minutes, commit.
Sibling comments mention Chris Lattner. For readers that might not know him, he's the main inventor of Swift. Him pushing Swift should not necessarily be taken as a sign of general community enthusiasm.

I would love to see more Swift on the backend. It's surprisingly hard to find a language that's concise, expressive, statically typed, and easily accessible to beginners. Swift checks all these boxes.

That being said, it's much easier to succeed on the front-end when the only competitor is Objective-C (see: JavaScript), than on the backend when the competitors are Go, Rust, Elixir, Python, Node, C++, Java and more, all with large ecosystems already in place.

Swift may succeed in a niche, and "Swift for TensorFlow" appears to be an attempt at that, but I don't think it will become ubiquitous (call it traditional HN negativity).
> give us strings that make sense

This is really, really hard.
It depends, there are accounts of high drug (cocaine, meth) use in Nazi Germany. In the US people abuse prescription drugs. In highly competitive societies you will see drug use specifically to enhance productivity at least on the short term, with unfortunate consequences.
Nice app mate, I particularly like the elements that show the colors used with a practical example.
Quantum computer program developed to identify leakage of concealed information
Try: https://www.gotruffle.com

Edit: although the app is marketed as finding deductions, we show spending breakdown by category and are in the process of adding automatic revenue tracking.
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I’m was just in Tokyo, Shinjuku area. Around 5-6am while walking back from Golden Gai I saw guys in suits stumbling back; one guy face planted pretty hard and there was some blood.

Overall it was fun as a foreigner but it’s weird to see this as acceptable but marijuana (even medically) as not acceptable.
What is this for? My first thought was some kind of insurance or expense report scam, but maybe I'm too cynical?
This is amazing!
A boon for people who cannot visualise colors in the head (people like me =))
Thanks for this and congrats.
Losses from investments may be used as tax deductions if the conditions in the tax law are met.
> (from wiki) In 1993, Adelstein became the first non-Japanese staff writer at the Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper, where he worked for 12 years.

I'm fine with that. Also "one of the leading experts", not "above all".
Good vs. bad does not usually fit the narrative in war. WWI and earlier major wars are hard to figure who was the "bad guy". Many of them lack any clear moral authority and fit more as teams competing for resources.
Brazil also has a pretty big reputation for police corruption, and much more concentrated/blatant issues with organized crime which can skew those numbers, which is less of a problem in the US. Abuse of a bad law is one thing, but in the cases where some drug use was confirmed (even if arguably without intent to redistribute), I think the US has the heavier hand.

Even if I'm 100% wrong about Brazil, compare their 28% to the US's 45%[0].

[0]: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
Unified as in: Nobody trying to harm each other, or other species, or prevent them from doing their thing.

Why would anybody think that's not a good thing?