skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one of the most wanted feature in Dropbox (at least among developers) is a .dropboxignore file[0].

When Dropbox stops syncing symlinks to outside files and directories, the situations becomes a lot better. Placing node_modules/ or venv/ directories outside the the dropbox and just placing a symlink here, makes Dropbox a good option for code backups, again.

[0]: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...
What do you think of abatpay.com?
>Isn't that sort of what you would expect from a doorbell maker?

Call me a dinosaur, but no.

I expect doorbells to make a sound when someone pushes a button, and that's all. I don't expect a doorbell to recognize the person ringing the bell and share that data with third parties, and then potentially decide whether or not to unlock the door for them.

>It's almost too obvious an idea.

I can't argue that Ring itself isn't a billion dollar idea... and in the context of the concept itself, facial recognition makes sense.

But please let's not pretend this is just what anyone would expect from a "doorbell maker," and potentially push the Overton window even further in the direction of ceding personal autonomy and liberty to third parties for the sake of convenience. Ring doesn't make doorbells, they run a social network and video content distribution platform that monetizes people's front porches and faces, for which a doorbell is just a gimmick.

It's an obvious idea for Ring but I still find the entire premise of smart doorbells and smart locks to be a dark pattern in the IoT.
> decentralization never seems to work

Not true, and there is many technologies, both new and established, which are fundamentally decentralized. Bittorrent is the first example that springs to mind. Cryptocurrencies are another example, etc.
Ad blockers don't work well on the YouTube app. I still can't get adaway to block YouTube app adds, not to mention people on iOS or without root.
Now I need a video of Luke Wilson saying "What are neural networks? Do you even know?"
> get the AST (a data structure AFAIK), manipulate it in a sane fashion in Python, compile it, return the result. No string munching eval require

I use both Lisps and Python, and especially after learning to use Lisps I've wanted to do this in Python, so I looked for the ability to do what you describe here.

While it is technically possible to do this (like most things) in Python, it is quite the effort and nowhere near ergonomic. Among all the cases where I could really use this, I found it worth the effort to instead:

1. Manipulate & generate code statically (from ASTs), as a build-time / dev-time step, using redbaron etc.; or

2. Just use a Lisp (specifically, Hy).

Both methods involved writing quite a lot of code. In the former: to load, parse, match, and transform ASTs; in the latter: to port existing code (the code I originally wanted to manipulate) from Python to Hy.

----

The reason for all this is plainly the fact that Lisps are designed for this, while Python is not. Before learning Lisp, I used to wonder what could be so different in the language itself that could possibly make it that much easier. Now I use a Lisp-in-Python in production precisely because of this.
These are good news. But, why don't they use Signal to start with?
That’s a fun one I deal with regularly.

Some number of European bands I listen to are big enough to have a record deal and distribution in Europe, but for whatever reason their deals do not include US distribution.

Used to be Amazon didn’t enforce this, but now they do. Lucky for me, I found a book seller’s website that doesn’t do credit card checks. Just order the music and put down my address as the Embassy. Pay through the nose for an album because of Swiss prices, but at least I can get the music.

Gotta love when I want to give you money but can’t.
My wife had fingernail inspections at school. Mandatory clear nail varnish.
You can build enough homes for a civilisation without felling any big trees at all. Stone, clay bricks, earth, small trees and branches, straw, etc. would be sufficient.

Even felling big trees doesn't need iron tools - controlled fire will do most of the work: http://www.cherokeeheritage.org/attractions/dugout-canoe/
Why do you think Word is an abomination? Among all the word processors, I find it to be the best.
Isn’t this (2013)?
human factor but also incentives.

if someone comes to you with a bazillion issues that you cannot possibly fix in the X hours you have during the day what are you going to do? you're going to prioritize and you're going to fix the most important bugs, right?

if you're developing a new feature and things are pointed out during the code review (bots or no bots) what are you going to do? fix it, right? you want to ship whatever you're doing with high quality.

so the problem outlined below is a false one. you can never fix all the possible bugs if the codebase if nothing but trivial.
It is said that SAT is very useful for automatically solving complex problem where you don't know the solution.

But deep learning neural network are also said to be used when there's no good solution known.

It's the first time I see the symmetry.
When should I use a SAT vs an ANN?

Other than SAT and ANN, are there other kind or technology that automatically solve/approximate solutions?
I guess it was more of an ELI5 for kids with exceptional vocabulary. :P

One thing I neglected to mention is that the effect of gravity gets weaker with distance, so conversely it must get stronger the closer matter is pressed together. And as it gets stronger, the object gets denser because (in the absence of counteracting forces) its matter is further pulled together, and it becomes a loop until you get a black hole. Beyond that things get weird and we don't know what exactly is going on, but we do know that it happens.
The platform does, in theory, although until recently it was limited to 45 minute videos OR a livestream.

Culturally, it doesn't. There aren't famous "facebookers". It doesn't even support playlists.
> The EU doesn't prevent the "bad" startups from existing. They just prevent them from starting in the EU, which means the EU misses out on a lot of the potential upside.

To me that sentence just isn't logical. Yes, they'd prevent some them from starting in the European market with their exact original business model if they were starting out now (and not like half of them in the last millenium). None of them started out here back in their time so that sounds more like a question of market penetration than benefit for the startup culture anyhow. With the GDPR they will hopefully also prevent said market penetration for bad actors when the time comes for the next generation of startups.

If GDPR is the sole reason and, subsequently, the US chooses to foster such businesses to win in a market, more power to them. Your examples might be huge successes, but many of them are at this time considered to be either unethical (Facebook, for the most part; Google had their share of negative attention) or plain illegal (Uber for example still hasn't managed to really start out in Germany, let's throw in AirBNB for good measure - I think they were founded in about the same year - huge financial hit that leads users to break laws and contracts left and right).

The calculation of long term cost and benefit is honestly the point where this discussion switches from economical concerns to political, at least for me since I'm not versed enough in macroeconomics to begin to judge that and would always place society over monetary concerns. I'm sure neither of us can win over the other so I'd suggest we leave it at that.
We have to rely on them handling hazardous substances properly anyway since semiconductor manufacturing already involves many of them. They use ClF₃ and sulfuric acid as cleaning agents, phosphine for doping, silane for CVD, etc.
Does that 7cm figure include the effects of atmospheric dispersion?
Jack Ma and Elon Musk Debate at World AI Conference in Shanghai
Maybe just to get data broadcasted is the goal, and having that reaching a centralised server is not the primary goal; imagine an operational theatre.
RISC-V changes the economics of processor development. It doesn't improve security for end users.
"Usually, microcontroller code is simple and reactive, with no concept of a shutdown routine."

Really? Nobody uses brownout interrupts to lock down on power loss? I almost always do a few things as the power is fading, flagging the situation at the very least in order to clean up when power is restored.
> I could finance part of it over a decade

Your present situation is not a guarantee of future income levels.
It sounds like, from the description of the previous image and non-classified information about KH-11 such as that released when two surplus satellites were released to NASA for possible conversion to telescopes, this pretty much just matches up with what we already knew about its capabilities. If amateur satellite-watchers hadn't already figured out this was a Keyhole satellite and tracked its orbit closely this might have given that away and helped Iran stage their launches to avoid its watchful eyes, but as it is I don't think any great secrets are being revealed here.
The swedish personal number it has about the same use as that, except even more pervasively and you can't get may societal services without one, including picking up parcels from the post, a bank account, a job etc etc.

It also plainly contains your birthday and sex.

So.. Sweden.., it's very convenient when you're in the system and impractical when you are not.
How to get up and running on Lightning with zero money and 5 minutes
maybe, though would appear it may well be a bigger issue in Sweden - where this took place.
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That was interesting. Thanks.
The 17,000 number does seem incomprehensibly high unless it's across the whole district. I'm not a teacher but I'm guessing the attendance gets compiled together and stored? Maybe this starts from hardcopy and includes all the work until its in the final digitalized format?
>Also, I think many women are rightly cautious about a potential mate who seems to be trying too hard.

Actually I never tried too hard because I see trying to hard as not respecting yourself enough.

Funny enough, I also found my current wife after turning stoic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820196
I'm not sure if the complexity of the codes is significantly higher in the pro teams, but I found this video on baseball code decoding pretty fun.

https://youtu.be/PmlRbfSavbI

Combined with this, it certainly seems like there's potential for a fully automated pipeline
> Also, you might want to avoid using suckless software: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177

Are you really suggesting that one should audit their use of open source tools regarding the political correctness of the free time activities of its developers?
Hmmm. Good point if Stripe use 2FA even if it would still be harder for the attacker as they would have to correlate payment - sms - account created - account joined group which is significantly harder to do than what is happening currently.

I guess what they'll do instead is to just outlaw Telegram :-|
You can try tonido as well. It provides webui and right click to share features. You can run it in a docker if you want.
Syncthing doesn't do symlink following at all which is really god damn annoying and stupid.
I mentioned "in some bases". In base 3, it's 0.1 and 0.0222...
Will this create a new virtual 18+ wall before you can view/access content/services. Not that it is illegal by any law to offer such services to those younger, just that the lawyers and the accountants sat down and concluded that the risks can outgrow the rewards.

Be interesting how the industry and various platforms navigate this whole area, but I'm mindful that they may well just cut them off period as just less hassle for them.
60s generation insecure?

I was born in 1955 and all through my childhood and education I felt that the world was open to me. I still feel that way. So do most of my childhood friends as far as I know. What worries us is not the EU but the UK.
Perhaps a better solution is to use cron to rsync the system files to somewhere in your Dropbox tree. That at least gives you a one-way backup of these files. And you probably don't want to write these files in the other direction.
It's not that skulls and cross bones are so bad inherently as much as it is that it's just so unnecessary. It's just a really questionable design decision.

There's no clear benefit to visually alluding to a near universal symbol of danger and poison. Especially considering that we really try to reinforce that association in young children. I certainly don't think it's going to cause kids emotional trauma or cause them to later drink whatever bottle of "Sugar game juice" they find under the kitchen sink, but with an nearly endless amount of alternatives why use that one?
For a large company, but it does make any new startup/competition go thru a whole extra hoop, which does favour established players.
> My friend can use my RFID card too.

Yes, just like you and your friend can do a lot of other cheating in school. And the mechanism used to prevent that is severe punishments once caught by a teacher.

I don't see much difficulty in spotting an empty desk that should be occupied according to today's automatically generated seating chart.

On another note, I feel like I'd be more okay with facial recognition and other biometrics in the form of you going to a scanner and initiating a scan. But certainly not surveillance with recognition built on top. Article doesn't seem to specify what they used, though the image chosen implies surveillance.
First and foremost "genes" do not exist. Genes are a fuzzy concept that people pass around and when talking about DNA. Because of the fuzziness, everyone can claim that genes do what they think they do since they are not constrained by a definition.

DNA is a physical thing, whereas genes are underdefined concepts on top of DNA. Every single thing people call a gene has a different name as well. What someone calls gene might be a protein, might be a transcript, might be the superset of all coding exons of a family of transcripts and so on ... so what is a gene then? I have come to believe that "gene" is a word everyone likes to us yet very few if any understand.

Find any definition of gene and it is either quite circuitous or wrong. For example take the Wikipedia page for gene. The definition devolves into that of a primary transcript. In reality transcripts code for molecules, and multiple transcripts may be labeled as the same gene. Note how genes do not actually exist in the same way as transcript do... the wikipedia page never makes it clear that a gene is a mere label and grouping of the existing transcripts.

Fundamentally, of course, the hardware/software are a metaphor - it does not really work as a hardware nor software.

The point I was making is that the information processing that takes place on DNA is what differentiates the different life forms, not the actual base identity.
What do their own folks who have children think? There must be some internal pressure on that issue but probably one of those things that get ignored.

Why don’t we hear about their internal protests to management and sit outs, etc? If they’re getting fined, it’s more than just public opinion and advocacy it’s preventing illegal activity.
Exarcheia: the self-governing community Athens police want rid of
How did it work with shared folders prior to this? Has there been an attack vector utilizing symlinks in shared folders, making other users' clients sync files from their drives?
Why is client-go sending http requests to kube-apiserver? I wonder if a message queue would have been a more reliable and scalable transport option.
> This used to be considered common sense but not anymore.

Good! Some progress at least.
Staging Environment for React Native 0.60.x in Android
Web 2.0 has been in use by a majority of people for maybe ten years now and the internet shows no signs of going away.

To say that decentralization will never happen is nuts.
I was mostly replying to this: "JS developers don't have the option to send along some of this information themselves; type information, JS bytecode", that in JS you can send some type information with asm.js hints (or TypedArrays), but yes you don't send it directly to the C++ interpreter, but to the JS interpreter, which presumably will pass it further.
A Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History
I’m not personally aware of any facial recognition projects for attendance. Never seen it debated either. We have thousands of schools though, so who knows.

As far as the GDPR goes it actually didn’t have a huge technical impact on the public sector. We’ve had stricter local laws for decades, and have build our systems accordingly. We also don’t track you for advertising. So for us the GDPR has mostly been a bureaucratic change, and you’ll notice that’s also the majority of violations. It’s not that data aren’t protected, it’s that no one knows where the contract is, or that we haven’t documented elaborate procedures for whatever. 95% of the GDPR impact on the public sector had been law and legalisation. So the GDPR actually doesn’t impact O365 94 public cloud at all as long as you go to iso27000 certified vendors who provide privacy shield or whatever it’s called these days.

That’s not to say that we aren’t debating public cloud. Because we are. This has more to do with national laws though, we have war-time contingency plans from the cold-war era. Like I said, we had much stricter policies before the GDPR was even a thing.

The issue is that it makes public cloud illegal, but we can’t operate the most digitalised public sector in the world without public cloud. So far everyone is moving to AWS and Azure, pretending the flawed bureaucracy will eventually go away, but our politicians and national digitalisation agency has been refusing to give any meaningful heading, so who knows?

At some point though, someone is going to ask if the privacy bureaucracy is really worth the money it’s costing. At our place you could hire 10 extra teachers a year, just to cover the bureaucratic processes that don’t actually increase security, because a contract or a nice incident plan isn’t actually going to stop anyone from hacking you.
>and was told by two long-term psychiatrists I've had that psychoanalysis is not-even-wrong-bullshit

That's just one intellectual fraction pissing on another. The psychiatrists can't understand that there are other ways to looking at a person's mind that are not quantifiable, but can nonetheless be systematically studied and be used to help.
This seems dangerous and gives me the heebie jeebies, but I can't put my finger on exactly why. It just feels like bad practice to move my important files somewhere else and link to them, but I've never trusted the cloud anyway.
It is in the nature of clouds that they change and sometimes go away. I don't want my .bashrc going away.
It looks great!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20783006
I'm confused though, as it says the act of reflection destroys the entanglement? Is entanglement not a binary property though?
>Lacan is practically the king of bullshit-- a textbook example. No one can muster a non-bullshit explanation of what exactly the fuck Lacan is talking about

Nobody, except any European with a working knowledge of 19th and 20th century thought currents...

It's not like Lacan is for readers or Marvel Comics or anglosaxon philosophy...
> you're going to prioritize and you're going to fix the most important bugs, right?

That doesn't make sense. Presented one way, the bugs were fixed to a 70% rate. Presented another way, 0%.

Presumably the bugs in each case were about equivalent in their severity (else the conclusion is meaningless) so severity was not the driving factor in what got fixed.

> you can never fix all the possible bugs if the codebase if nothing but trivial.

That's a non-sequitur. No-one suggested they could fix all, or should try. It was about known bugs presented to them.
That’s not their free time activities, that’s an official suckless conference doing a torch hike, official suckless.org mails originating from a host using a nazi reference (wolfsschanze, hitler’s summer residence) as hostname.

On the social media site screenshotted, users can choose whether to post personally, or enable for a certain post an official title. The user posting the "cultural marxism" post manually, explicitly, and intentionally enabled the "suckless.org developer" title for that post, making it an official statement of the project.

That’s not free time activities, and naming systems after hitler’s residences and making torchhikes in historic locations isn’t about "political correctness" anymore.

I’m also not suggesting one should audit all their software, but it’s good to know about what kind of software one is running.
Why not use a hardlink?
Python is not as flexible as Lisp in a manner of AST manipulation
I am not sure what to reply to this. Do not use the YouTube app, then?

Are you saying there are no ad blockers on iOS? I can think of two ways and I am not an iOS user: 1) you can use RSS and open in Safari which has full adblocking support, or 2) you can auto download the videos. No ads in downloaded videos.

What do you mean by "without root"? Could you give me a specific example?

Out of curiosity, what is the reason for you or your children not willing to give up the YouTube app so that you can use a browser with an ad blocker installed to avoid ads? What is that feature that you (for yourself and your children) or your children prefer over not having ads?
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LinkedIn like Indie Hackers is another example of a self-moderated social network. People on LI are not always nice to each other but they are civil most of the time. I guess that's a magical combo: a network that is business oriented and people using their real identities. You're right about skin in the game which has a second-order effect of turning a community into an echo chamber. It's what happened with Behance and Dribbble, nobody gives any meaningful feedback any more, it's just praise left and right. Being constructive and friendly in giving feedback requires a lot of effort and with a new thread/article/design popping up every few seconds nobody has the time for that.

I read the other day a New Yorker's article [0] about the 2 Hacker News moderators and how lonely and emotionally draining their work is. Here rapid growth and anonymity lead to people being more ready to give fast feedback or opinion which sometimes causes bickering, misinterpretation and insults.

So a thriving network has to have:

- The right mix of a moderate velocity and growth - just enough new content so it doesn't turn into a ghost town or echo chamber, but not too much so the quality is not diluted.

- Self-moderation or non-stop moderation if necessary.

- The right incentive built around a common interest for the users to create meaningful and constructive new content - seems like the hardest part.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
You really think they're going to design things opt in and not opt out?
I find the steps I have to go through to install stuff that I expect thousands of other people must be installing at the same time on a cloud service ridiculously complicated. The same with most tasks.

I do however find them doable and maybe also a kind of job security for that reason. But I don't prefer them. I want to build stuff, not do a bunch of prep work every time I want to build stuff.
I forget where I read it now but if memory serves that was part of the reason why Google Talk xmpp federation was turned off because Facebook was importing Google Talk users but then not also sharing the xmpp federation so in order to stop bleeding users, Google Talk turned off their xmpp federation.

This is an anecdote until I can find a source.