skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not quite grasp the telecom technology/infrastructure yet, but in terms of OpenBTS (which provides software-based base station) and Osmocomm (open source baseband), where does https://www.opennetworking.org and https://telecominfraproject.com stand in terms of open source infrastructure for 5G?
Good point; I originally wanted to talk about the Poincaré conjecture as well, but then I realized that this would make the post even longer. Do you have some ideas about other interesting topics?
But how was that very small gap created? Maybe such kind of policies played a role?
This is only true for the super rich. See Norway or Finland where the taxes are public. They have lower crime rates than the US. It seems that the publication has the opposite effects by reducing inequality.
This is such an exciting project. And the phrase "the Middle Ages and the Humanism Period" is a bit misleading, because what we may find are transcriptions of ancient texts long considered lost.

One of the most flatly incredible manuscript discoveries of the nineteenth century is a short treatise called the "Didache." We knew that such a thing existed, because writers as early as the 3rd century mention it, but it was presumed lost. An 11th century manuscript of it was found in a library in 1875, and most scholars now believe that the text dates to the first century, making it the oldest known Christian "catechism" (one which, intriguingly, seems to stand outside the Pauline tradition).

Obviously, this was and is an absolutely amazing thing for students of late antiquity in general and early Christianity in particular, and it had been sitting there in plain sight (so to speak) for centuries. It would surprise me not at all if we find similar things in the Vatican collection.
I can tell all these things just by casually visiting a mall car park. I get to vote on the CEO's wages for the stocks I hold. Every public company executive in the country is a google search away.

Hell, I could probably locate a large list of rich people to go kidnap/rob/extort within 15 km of you just from online sources from the other side of the planet.

These problems you posit already exist for people with wealth and they (hopefully) take appropriate steps to protect themselves.
Damn that's annoying, my apologies. Will fix as soon as I can get to my laptop.
> […] what does [Chomsky] expect would happen?

Probably exactly what he observes. I don't think he's in any way surprised that powerful people do what they can to preserve and extend their power. He's just speaking up, so that maybe, one day, we relieve those people of some of their power.

> Would he really give da Silva immunity just because he's from a labour party?

From what I have heard that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that while being jailed, he's not even allowed to make a public statement, or even read a newspaper. There's a whole spectrum between that and full immunity.

Besides, I'm not sure how much that would weaken his arguments: whether he deserved jail and why he actually ended up in jail are probably pretty separate things. He might be corrupt, but the reason he was punished may very well because his opponents wanted him down, instead of some independent judge. (I'm speculating here, I know nothing about the facts.)
This would make it a much shorter step to collective bargaining, which would increase the power the employees have in negotiations.
I think the best thing we could do to solve a whole lot of problems at once is assertiveness training for pupils, for example. Teach young people how to communicate what they perceive as their boundaries and that violations of these boundaries will have consequences. I would expect that a lot of things will get better. It would be a win for both active and passive parties in every interaction. If someone finds their boundaries violated, (s)he could defend themselves (in a social way, if things need physical defense, then things went awry already long before) and on the other hand the active partner in an interaction could act more freely, knowing that the passive party would object if he or she did something that the other one does not like.

I like the idea.
I think this would be good. The upside is that society becomes more transparent - you could see how your peers or neighbors are "keeping up with the joneses." You could know exactly how much the people at firms you interview with make. Situations where there is even transparency tend to be more fair.

The downside, of course, is that this makes it even more difficult to participate in the informal (unreported) economy. To some people that would be an advantage, but I think it's a downside. Surveillance pushes people towards appearing normal and normal, in this case, would be keeping all your money on the books. However, this seems like the lesser of two evils compared to the rampant inequality we face.
That is a cop-out.

People from halfway around the world call it 'moderate'.
> If my college does the same job that me (or worse) and I get paid less I can leave for another company. If another company pays more than mine, I can leave.

You're quite rational. Based on my experience, money is one of those things where emotions take over for many people. I agree it should work the way you want it to work, but I'm not sure it could in practice across the general population.
Ask HN: Do you know of good Python training resources other than online courses?
Hi, this year I decided to learn to code and I've chosen Python3 as my starting point.

I already have several online courses that I purchased, but I'm looking for some additional resources that I can build habits upon, like coding games, coding challenges, etc.

There's an app called sololearn.com that has the option to exchange challenges with other users, however, sometimes I receive challenges that are seriously out of my league (as an apprentice).

I already found checkio.org and codingame.com which are the kind of thing I'm looking for, however I'm pretty sure there is good stuff out there that I'm missing, and this seems to be the proper community to ask for help.

So, what tools/resources can I use to build a habit of solving problems using python on a systematic & progressive way?
A fun, interactive and visually beautiful word game built in Java using JavaFX
Many things make some people uncomfortable: touching, making eye contact, being spoken to by strangers, being spoken to in a raised voice, being in the presence of a person dressed in a way that might be considered sexually provacative, or of a member of the opposite sex, or of someone who signals particular religious or political affiliations, and so on.

Which of these are we to gain consent for in advance? No one is hurt by a casual touch to the hand or arm, any more than they are hurt by direct eye contact. But it can make some people just as uncomfortable.
...not if you don't report misc income at all!
Good luck with that working.

Its incredibly obvious who can produce stuff.
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Sweden's tax disclosure laws keep a record of who requested this information, which is a good solution for your concerns

Not to mention that there are many other already public & private records that already can provide information on wealth (company ownership records, house ownership records, etc...)
People like to think they’re equal in ability even when they’re not. In theory explaining to someone that their performance is lower may open the door to help them improve so they too can make more money in the ‘same’ job. This presupposes that they’re are rational, intelligent, and can handle bad news. If this were the case then they probably wouldn’t have been a poor performer to begin with.
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Gboard has an agreement similar to that.
> thing like women and minorities getting paid less don’t happen

Not really, you just make sure all the women and minorities get the poor paying jobs.
I know you’re being downvoted but I know EXACTLY what you mean. Hang in there.
So because of a single opinion writer the entire corpus of the New York Times should now be seen as a ruse for getting Trump's tax return.

Wow. I really will never understand how some people can make such bizarre leaps of logic like this.
When was the last time someone sniffed your hair or you saw someone’s hair sniffed in a professional situation?

My own professional career spans military, academia and multi-national corporations and therefore dozens of hours of dumb videos showing cringy behavior like Biden. These articles completely miss the point that he’s at least 20 years out of date of what’s considered acceptable (and some of his weird actions were never welcome, despite being acceptable norms).
The problem with setting social rules, is they always seem to line up exactly with what the currently dominant group defines "normal", in my experience.

The worst advice I was given as a child was "treat others as you wish to be treated", because it is awful advice when moving in to a significantly different set of people.
Codes of conduct.
Yeah, but that just makes one careful. On the other hand, not being able to climb a ladder, be too close to a window on the 3rd floor, or other such things would suck. You can then keep the knowledge that some heights are dangerous without actually having the fear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/world/europe/norway-kidna...
This made me wonder if he was related to Tony Hoare, but I see HN already addressed this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12613295
Down in Canada (Quebec).
I think that's a huge stretch. Norway and Finland have tons of other things going on that reduce inequality beyond just publication of taxes.
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"Marlene Weise was banned from Facebook for 30 days for posing the two pictures of the Iranian national women's volleyball team in the 1970s in T-shirts and shorts and the current Iranian team covered up in hijabs and clothes covering their arms and legs"

Not the picture but rather the person posting the picture has been banned.

By the way, happy I quit facebook over a year ago. Not missing any of it.
> erasing a specific kind of memory under very specific conditions

Why do you think it erases the memory?
Gini Coefficient for Norway and the US:

US: 18.5
Norway: 6.5

The ratio of the average income of the richest 10% to the poorest 10%
I like how you go on and on as if I hadn't written two paragraphs to begin with. I point out the costs of not touching being minimal exactly because I anticipated a tiresome argument whinging about all the other things we won't be able to do anymore.
> Riot has supported automatic key backups for the past few months, and if you'd used that you wouldn't have had a problem (yes it should've existed earlier but there are a lot of things for the underfunded Matrix team to deal with). And the reason it's not default is because making such a system opt-out would also make people start screaming about how Matrix is insecure because "it stores your keys on the server".

Encrypt the bloody backup keys with a key derived from a passphrase selected by a user.

> I think in many respects, the people working on Matrix are going to get criticised like this no matter what they do. I note you haven't actually suggested a specific proposal for how to fix this -- you're just going on about design cinstraints and how Matrix is therefore a joke system. To me that seems to be more snark than useful advice.

The snark would be to say "Use Matrix. Who cares about the system not being built to deal with the design constraints"

No one should defend Matrix after this. It was not a mess up. It was an Equifax level fuckup that was totally preventable.
I needed a templated language recently (couldn’t do with Mustache methods). Looked at jsonnet but it looked quite abandoned. Ended up finding Json-E [0]. Pretty powerful, and give you the option to pass in methods to the context as to expose them. No support for Async methods, but I wrapped around it with some Promises and did the trick.

[0] https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e
Ehh... this feels ugly and dirty (not that js code for generating similar json files is typically any better)
While it might appear click baitish, the opening paragraph certainly clarifies exactly what is meant:

> The groundbreaking picture of a black hole that graced most newspaper front pages on 11th April must be one of the most deceptive scientific images ever. That’s not to impute any intentional deceit to the international team of 200 or so astronomers who created it—it’s just that nature conspires here to produce something that looks archetypally, almost simplistically black-holeish, but which in reality is a mind-bendingly complex sight.

And the article then goes on to describe how such an image is deceptive (in its apparent simplicity), by describing the science behind it.
NYT: Government should protect the privacy of its citizens

Also NYT: Everyone's income taxes should be public

What a bizarre half-baked (obviously political) response to something in the news. It's really sad that the bar for what gets published in a major newspaper is so low.
He could have left at any time. A defining characteristic of prison is that they lock the door.
There are regular news articles in Swedish tabloids like "Who makes most money where you live?". So this isn't correct.
Not to be confused with Neuro Linguistic Programming...
> Propranolol achieves selective erasure: It targets the emotional component, but knowledge is intact. They know what happened, but they aren’t scared anymore. The fear association is affected, but not the innate fear response to a threat stimulus [...] This single-session therapy addressing what psychologists call fear memory reconsolidation

emotional/fear association sounds like a type of memory to me.
> Note that neither teaching nor parenting are remotely lucrative. The opposite, in fact - my understanding is that much of the income gap is not from managerial discrimination (though that is a factor too, of course) but because of time women spend away from employment to have and support children. I agree that it’s arguably the most important social role but our economic system is upside-down in its valuation of it.

There's more to life than money. In fact the quest to make everyone an office drone has lowered salaries for all workers. It's also lowered women's happiness, eventhough their earning potential has greatly increased:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969

> Yes! Patriarchy harms us all.

Please don't do this here. No need to bring in gendered insults. Labeling something that harms men the "patriarchy" is nonsensical.
I always wanted a personal CRM that reminded me when it was a good time to reach out to someone, and where I could read about past conversations.

At that time there weren’t a lot of these apps/services, so I created a simple app that did just that. Keep notes of conversations per day per contact, set a (recurring) reminder, organize with tags and have birthdays reminders and suggestions.

Since I use iOS it’s currently for iOS only. And most focus went to iPhone. The iPad version is a bit rough.

I’ll be monitoring this thread for most requested features, and learn more about what people look for in such an app/service. And of course reach out to me of you’d like to talk more!

Feel free to give it a try if you’re on iOS.
Social Contact Journal:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/social-contact-journal/id118...
I’m sorry, but I disagree that Income Taxes should be a thing already. The idea that how much I make should be public sounds ludicrous.

What possible value will that add to me? What possible value will knowing how much your neighbor make help you?

The only thing I see it helps with is attempting to bring down people above yourself. Which IMO is not the point of a society. It should provide safety, to everyone, and be as unobtrusive as possible, in doing so.

You can already FOIA request and get all the anonymized data you want on this. So I don’t understand.
While I disagree, that's at least a valid argument. You should start with that instead of asserting that the capital requirements of buying up a bunch of cars will be the limiting factor.
Many countries in the world have this e.g. UK = VAT, Australia = GST.

It's a pretty awful tax on its own because it disproportionally punishes the poor more than the rich. Why ? Because the poor spend a lot more of their discretionary income on consumable items like food whereas a lot of rich people just accumulate wealth without ever spending it.

Also it's very easy to work around since you just use cash and so you can end up with massive amounts of tax avoidance.

The only reason it's used is because you can tax services with it and many countries are heavily services driven.
They intentionally seek to publish a range of opinions in the opinion section.

That some of them are contradictory is consistent with that goal.
Hair sniffing is quite different from hugging or touching. We’re talking about “codifying” how people interact normally, hugging, touching, tapping.

Smelling, I think is outside the norm and most people would agree it’s unwelcome behavior.

It’s like asking, is touching someone’s axillas appropriate? Of course outside medical examinations probably not.
Why is it a huge stretch? I didn't say that it is the only one.
Still seems to work from Germany. See also previous discussion from an hour ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19658641
Maybe it's this, but there is also a fair amount of oil in Norway.

From wikipedia [1]:

The petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).On a per-capita basis, Norway is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway
It's McCarthyism (not to mention fantastical) to declare that Russia buying a couple of Facebook ads and operating some online trolls was the reason why the election was swung.

As for the leaks: the evidence for the attribution of pretty much every hack in the last 5 years is farcically weak (e.g. IP addresses in logs).

As for the supposed hack of US power plants - that was classic McCarthyism. The evidence was made up and the target was Russia.
Not if it implies violating customer privacy. As a company you either have a customer or an employee - you can't have it both ways. There is one way it is ethical: when you have the informed consent of volunteers. That works for charities because there is no money being exchanged to corrupt the interaction.

IMO the only appropriate context for gaining training data is when you're explicitly paying people for that.

Informed consent does not mix with volunteering to make money for a private company. That people are ignorant does not justify abusing them.
One perspective to promote - everyone should have the option of making their tax records and ranking as a taxpayer made public officially (ie, how many people paid more actual dollars in tax in a given tax year).

Most of the tax take is from a very small percentage of people. They deserve more persistent and public recognition of the disproportionate contribution they make.

There are great arguments for keeping tax records private, but it would be a nice respectful idea to have a bit more public recognition and thanks directed towards major taxpayers.
Do you immediately walk out of bars that say "no shirt no service", even if you're wearing a shirt?
Hi Miguel. It wasn’t behind a paywall for me. Thanks for clarifying - and I apologise for being snarky.
> The government provides no bodyguards.

Fairly common to hear that some person has been placed under police protection.
This is why I am so grateful for living now. Now content extraction is done by algorithms and automation. Speeds up the process.
Disclosure of tax payments would make it easier to hold politicians accountable. It also would help to reduce fraud and economic inequality.

I can see a case being made for full-disclosure for politicians, but the case for private individuals is harder. If the goal is to hold politicians accountable, why should i other who who are not politicians disclose?
I'm curious if it affects emotional reconsolidation of other emotions and not just fear. If someone takes a dose before reminiscing about, say, their wedding day, will it remove or flatten those emotional associations as well?
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Working in America too (at least the east coast)
That is one incident. Do you have numbers for the US and Norway per capita?
To install that “emacs-mac” branch of Emacs with the Homebrew package manager, see the instructions on https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport. Homebrew’s built-in formula directory doesn’t include that version of Emacs, so that linked repo is a “tap” that defines a formula for it. From the README of that repo, these were the only commands I needed to run:

brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport
brew cask install emacs-mac
The costs of avoiding direct eye contact are minimal. The cost of not wearing a crucifix are minimal. There are social benefits to touching, and most people are fine with casual touching. You have failed to demonstrate why touch is a special case.

You can refer to my argument as whinging or tiresome if you like, but it that doesn't change its validity.
Because it is not really possible to "compile" an eval expression in the general case.

By definition, in a compiler, translation from symbols to code happens on the beforehand. But eval needs to do this at runtime. This means that to compile a program a la "eval(input_string)" the output program whould need to contain the entire compiler, which gets used to convert the eval_input before running.

So in practice you strapped a kind of interpreter to the output program. This is often inefficient and hackish, and thus it is more desirable to just not have a eval feature.
I don't really mind being touched, but it's definitely rather strange and I don't know why would I touch others like that. Why do some people feel such a need? It's not polite, it's... awkward.
Despite Amazon propaganda about their new HQ being “national landing” and collocated in DC/VA/MD, there is no such place.

The new HQ is in Arlington, Virginia and considering DC traffic is not an easy transit to or from anything not on same the metro-line.

Bezos already lives in VA and owns the Washington Post. I don’t see how moving his HQ makes a difference at this point in terms of access to government lobbying by him.
I'm saying that publicly releasing all tax returns would do nothing to release inequality unless many of those other factors (mainly high redistributive taxes) were in place, and at least the US has shown 0 appetite for those types of measures.
To be honest it's not even my field
so I know a lot less than I wish I did but yeah agreed it has no shortage of interesting things to talk about :)

Poincaré Conjecture is yeah interesting to explain though to be honest I vaguely recall an article in similar style to your post that explained it.

Possibly something like describing gradient descent on a manifold is interesting to this audience? Or maybe a post on Flatland? Many possibilities really on good follow ups.
It would probably work among just Norwegian Americans too.

Many things will work in a tiny, ethnically homogenous, oil-rich, high IQ, high conscientiousness country that will crash and burn when applied to the broader world.

Don't commit the fallacy of thinking outcomes rise directly from policy like a math equation, as though people are interchangeable widgets. People have characteristics.

Ref: seeing like a state
So the world will have the privilege of getting their privacy back for a short while?
It didn't help me either. Never trust anyone saying something is a miracle drug. They are storytellers, not scientists.
Also an indication of whether they are a net contributor or not. I’ve heard so many complaints about welfare scroungers from people who are almost certainly not contributors.