skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> like the sharing of CP

A victimless crime.

> or other illegal content

Such as for a chinese citizen to post criticism of the party.

> The reduction of friction to host material online in a completely anonymous way only enables adverse actions like the sharing of CP or other illegal content

More like "only enables the less tech-savy and saves time from the more tech literate", I do not see how it correlates with the sharing of illegal material.

> It does not have the support or attention required to enable it to be secure enough like the TOR project does

It is a front-end for tor basically, it inherits its security properties. Moreover just because a project is made by one person it does not mean that it is any less secure. Consider libsodium/nacl/monocypher vs most other crypto libraries for example. Also, by the same logic it would not be of use to these that share CP because "It does not have the support or attention required to enable it to be secure enough like the TOR project does", it's not like people that share CP need any less security than a dissident in china.

> legitimate users

This implies that these who share illegal content are not legitimate users. Please be more clear with your terminology, usually illegitimate users are people such as spammers and attackers.
Could you please elaborate, because I’m sure am not alone in my complete failure to understand what you mean.
Flux monoids? You have to invent the new subclass of traversing monoids to achieve somewhat comparable performance to imperative code?
"Fighting the compiler" is a common annoying stereotype, quite often quoted by people who don't even know Rust. After a while of using Rust, you no longer fight the compiler, you know how things work, you design and structure your programs with borrowck in mind from the start.
Or in Germany to get an emergency court order ("Einstweilige Verfügung"), dunno if the US has a similar legal venue. At least with an EV you get the immediate attention of their legal department.
That doesn't mean you can't question (and even criticize!) the rules or their application.
As I am typing the UK electricity production is: 31% renewables, 17% nuclear, 41% gas [1]

Basically the UK could have been 0 emissions today if it had decided to stick with nuclear.

[1] https://gridwatch.co.uk/
BTDT and I'd say no, it's a psychological effect of being overwhelmed mentally, even if you could handle it in better circumstances. Even the most trivial problems become crushing. Even imagined problems.
Yes, those of the infinite variety
Doesn't seem to work. ;)
We'll look back on Twitter in years to come as one of the worst things to happen to public discourse since the Internet came to exist.

I just wish it would go away.
Yes, it does. You can try it yourself with this code example: https://repl.it/repls/PutridUselessComputer
Could you give an example? What's depressing about the current world of software?
They try to make the dice balanced, but they don't promise they are balanced. It would be nice to see some test of how (un)balanced they are.
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I crossed the parky boulevard on top the other day. I had to double take because I've never driven in Maastricht, but I recognized the flats and didn't know why I would recognize them in the middle of the city I'd never been in. Until I realized I recognized them from the times the A2 went straight through!

Google streetview has images taken last year and 2009, so you can see the diff yourself.
Not created for 3rd grades though - they where really for the 6th form (last two years of school) to actually get some experience of computers at a lower level before going to UNI.
> Democracy was about educated voters, I thought.

So trying to convince voters is undemocratic because voters are supposed to be educated before they become potential voters (and therefore don't require convincing)? Or is it just that you shouldn't try to convince them with simplified messages that don't reflect the actual complexity of the universe? Or that you shouldn't do it via Facebook?
It’s a valid concern. If you don’t have transparency into ongoing work, then you aren’t ready for remote workers.

If the only method for your manager to know what people are working on is to tap people on shoulders, then doing that isn’t a “bad behavior” for the manager, it’s necessary behavior.

Of cause a better solution is to have trust and plans. (Agile, scrum, waterfall, napkin sketches or whatever it doesn’t matter as long as people align during planning and have transparency into the plan). But in the absence you still need to have management in sync with what is going on.

Naturally the best pathway forwards is to look into changing your system to include all these value adding elements. But enabling remote work while management is critically dependent on physical presence to continue operation is not a good idea. And the solution is not just for managers to “give up the mindset” of knowing what’s going on below them. Trust is great when it works, and toxic when it doesn’t. The agile mantra of increasing trust is not just supposed to advocate blind trust. It’s about building a framework and working routine where we are validated in trusting each other.
Justice is a legal concept and by that measure both Assange and Pirate Bay had to be prosecuted. Or am I misunderstanding something?
This is probably the ideal split. The one period when I was working from home four days a week and going to the office once was without a doubt the most productive of my life.

Get all the staff meetings and brainstorming and shit-shooting done in one day, then actually work the rest of the time. As it is, I have at least a half dozen different ways that you can get in touch with me if you really need to, over text, voice, video, screensharing, etc.

The other thing about working remote is that you need to actually commit to it, and get prooerly setup. It's difficult to do that if it's an irregular or one-day-a-week thing; the work-from-home day just becomes an unofficial vacation day.
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> and Bittorrent

What? No, far from it. Bittorrent is pretty clean regarding illegal material (excluding piracy ofc) - which makes sense, after all you leak you ip address and the torrent that you are downloading to the whole network (if you have DHT enabled) and/or to your tracker, plus your ISP can see what you are sending and receiving (while there is a standard for encrypted transmission in bittorrent I do not think that it is widely used). What do you consider as "CSE" anyway? Would a picture of a girl at the beach be considered a "CSE"? If so you might find such torrents (I wouldn't know), but I think that calling it "CSE" is dishonest.
I’m SUPER interested how protectionist capitalism has helped the working class. Could you elaborate?
> I imagine you can grow pretty much anything in the US at a decent quality

I believe this is true, subject to the original source material (seeds?) being imported.

> but with its size, population and diversity of climates

This makes it tricky, as producing enough of the high quality ingredients in appropriate locations, that can survive the transportation distances, creates a whole new range of problems.

Solving this at Italy scale is a different matter to solving this at USA scale.
That's right, because when you are depressed,you will be aware to make new friends, you will judge them by reality, and any situation you will face, you will judge it by reality. Emotion doesn't work that much for depressed people.
From my own experience I'd agree with this - I can feel down, certainly, but I'm nowhere near the non-functioning, clinically depressed state I was in for 4 years a few years back.

I don't think the "realistic" vision I had of "the world" has really changed, just the attitude: I'm still "stupid as f*ck" and observing "person X I knew in high school totally has such a better life than I do" - but now, it's about interpreting it as a reason that things should probably change, whether it's the perspective ("So what?") or the action ("Are you not even going to try doing something about it?").

OTOH, it really doesn't help that there are so many more things to be depressed about pretty much all the time - abuses of social media, pornography, addiction, fracturing social structures. I ask, incredulously, how can anyone read this [1] and NOT want to die, or at least profoundly sympathize? People haven't evolved "rosy enough glasses" to mask these symptoms of modernity - of course there are problems, both with "the world" and our abilities to get by.

"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"

1 https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill
Maybe I've been not enough clear in my message but the cash is the same what I'm proposing is a small device which will cost like a POS ( which is mandatory ) or even 0 ( ZERO) if used by a phone which allow business to accept CASH-payments which at the moment is a very restricted way of paying here in italy ( try to pay with a 200€ bill in italy and tell me ) and which still cause a huge hole in state income and that they are trying to arginate with very creative solution ( now they are proposing a cashbacks on credit card payments, or even a tax on cash withdrawals )

this way would be 100% more effective on cash-tax-evasion and easier to implement ( will be applied only on 10+€ transactions on cash-transaction which anyway the state is already trying to dissuade as much as possible)

the qr code on banknotes is optional.. and maybe will come anyway in future.. banknotes are updated every X years anyway...
Wow great point. Now why the hell can't they have a donation link?
>It's basically a way to be both non-passive-aggressive and compassionate

But the examples given as "observation" read as passive-aggressive to me. Whether you say "Eleanor procrastinates" or "Eleanor wait to do all her studying the night before the exam" it's still the same thing. If you hear this type of comment regularly (eg you have ADHD) then it'll still affect you negatively.
The strangest fact is, those donation pages only have some links, there is no in-app payment. I don't understand what Google is thinking about when they banned donations...

Wait. I suddenly understand something I've seen previously...

There is a workaround! You simply upload two versions of the app, the free edition and the supporter edition. The support's edition is a paid app. You can ask the users who want to support you to install the paid app in your free app. The program itself is still 100% free and open source, there is no functionality restrictions in the free app, the donation notice can be turned off - just as a way to encourage donations. And it's nothing against the rules of the store.
it fixes about 2:30-3:00 in.
So surprising, because, let's face it, Google is the paragon of reliability and trustworthiness and has never done anything like this before. I really do wonder why not more people base their entire well-being, health, life, wealth, not to mention their very existence, on the whimsical good-will of Google.
> No one needs them for discovering new software.

There's also people that don't know that they need "Firefox", they just want a browser. Or a tool to print envelopes or crop an image. So they search in the app store and they know it'll probably be okay.

If you search for this online you'd get a bunch of SEO spam sites, shady tools among other things. At least due to the developer fee and reviews there's at least some barrier of entry (Also if it's not perfect).

> App stores leave me with all sorts of unwanted properties, namely Google / Apple throwing their unwanted opinion around. Search for Instagram in the iOS App Store: the top UI element is “InstaMap”, thanks Apple!

Apple's search is notoriously bad and the perfect case to apply Hanlon's razor.
That very much depends on how and when children are eligible for it. If you have to pay for it out of your own UBI, not so much.

Not to mention that UBI does nothing for the pain of childbirth.
I always thought that this was because taxi drivers wanted to appear, to their passenger, that they were trying to get them there as fast as possible.
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It is easy to make a case for either synchronous or asynchronous communication just as easily as making cases for on collocation or remote work or office landscapes or individual rooms. But what is most often missing us the context. And it is quite naive to believe one way is always better than the other.

I can recommend the work on Dynamic work design by Nelson P. Repenning to make a case for both in what context either is best but even more importantly, when and how to move back and forth between different work modes. Here is a good introduction: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-new-approach-to-design...
Does burying a whole road like this make it possible to capture and prevent vehicle smog in the streets above?
> I don't understand what Google is thinking about when they banned donations.

They're thinking that they're a monopoly and can do whatever the hell they want without needing to justify themselves?
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Judgment: your way of communication is harmful and leads to conflicts.

Observation: you tend to state facts along with an opinion about them.

Exaggeration: your way of communication is violent.

Observation: you're sometimes too eager to generalize and jump to conclusions, which can make people feel uncomfortable and defensive.
now i got it, so he sent the money to the owner, and the owner had the switf & co in the wallet, but not his data. that's strange :)
Amazon has an app store but it's just an inferior play store really. Nothing exclusive, I don't think, and just Amazon takes 30% instead.
That is not at all or in any way what I said......
As an Amazon Associate you have access to what items were bought in a transaction but not who bought them.
For architecture, this exploration is fine but they mostly shouldn't have been allowed to use existing city centres as the playground for their explorations and in doing so ruin the social and architectural fabric that had been breathing life into these cities for generations and centuries.

Take your modernist glass-steel-concrete geometry art piece, build it in the perimeter of the city in a park, woods, or plains where nobody can see it unless they choose to travel and explicitly enjoy the sight, and leave the old streets and traditional houses in the city because they are there for a reason. The modernist architecture would have had a much better reputation had they just succumbed to their rightful position, and acknowledged that in their exploration they were still prototyping and far from having deliverables.
As far as I can tell, probably!
That way google gets a cut of the donation.
An important point about asynchronous vs. synchronous is that it's not just about the communication but about the work processeses. What enables people to work more effectively is removing synchronization bottlenecks in processes. Any kind of synchronization point causes people to do silly things like wait for that to happen, delay activities until after they've happened, or try to organize meetings around these points. The more synchronization points you have, the slower things get. Usually we call this bureaucracy.

Any kind of meeting is a synchronization bottleneck. People synchronize their workday around these. Workdays and office hours are synchronization points as well. They create bottlenecks in our traffic system even where literally everybody is trying to get to work at the same time just so they can be at a standup meeting.

Treat it as a technical problem and get rid of unnecessary blocking activities and things run smoother. It's true for software, it's true for logistics, and it is true for work processes. The same principles apply and you can use similar design patterns (queues, events, etc.). A side effect of non blocking processes is that people can work more effectively without waiting for people to talk to them or meetings to happen. It enables remote work but is just as effective when used on site.

Git was invented to support asynchronous development where independent groups of developers work on their own branches and exchange patches or pull requests when they want to synchronize. Works great for OSS but it is now also common in non remote software teams. Create a ticket, assign it, create a branch for it, do some work, create a pr, pr gets reviewed, ci builds trigger and if you figured out deployment automation, ultimately the change goes to production as well. It's all orchestrated via events that trigger somebody or something to pick up the work for the next thing. It's great. It replaced a work process where people were bottle-necked on central version repositories that required a lot of ceremony around branching and merging because it was so tedious; which in turn made commits a big deal and necessitated commit freezes and lots of communication overhead, meetings, and delays. Git got rid of most of that.
If you read the sentence before the one you very selectively quoted, or even just completed the very sentence you quoted, it becomes clear the sentence is talking about the US presidential election, not the German one: "That’s a paltry sum for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who finds himself in the greatest crisis of his career over the company’s role in Russia’s meddling with the U.S. election. While the Russian episode involved ads bought under false identities by people with Kremlin ties, the AfD campaign was completely different—the party literally walked through Facebook’s front door and introduced itself, a strategy Harris Media intends to repeat."
So Google can make the donation go through them, cripple the normal version, and take a 20% processing fee?
I've never used an OS that actually _didn't work_.

Unless we're talking about 15+ years ago before Linux had driver support for most stuff, or trying to like, just install Mac OS on an unsupported platform without hackintosh workarounds.
Of course. No company will admit fault unless forced. The best PR move is wait for it to pass.
In the original code, an index = 0 would not be a problem.

Here, trying to access out[index-1] would error.

Yes, you could then guard against that of course, but then that's even more code to maintain.

If this code is a critical hot-path then sure, micro-optimizations can make sense but doing so without over-commenting and a rigorous test suite to catch introduced bugs is a recipe for disaster.
I disagree with the “tapping on the shoulder isn’t a bad behavior”. It is counterproductive as illustrated by the linked cartoon.

https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...
> I rely heavily on those I follow to retweet interesting tweets.

That's interesting. I do the exact opposite. I turn off retweets for the vast majority of people I follow because I'm interested in their original ideas and not of random retweets of random stuff. I allow retweets for a very small fraction because they have demonstrated that the stuff they retweet I find actually interesting.
Oops, it's not a good idea! I now see the motivation behind it!
That's why we switched years ago. Going from single CPU to multiple ballooned the costs so much that it was economically viable to do the work to port everything to Postgres.
That requires jailbreaking the device, which may or may not be possible depending on the device and the version of iOS it's running. Recently there was a bootrom exploit called checkm8 that made possible "tethered" jailbreaks to be created for a large range of devices. But even that works only till iPhone X (and not on newer devices), and the jailbreak (if/when available) would have to be done every time the device is restarted.
You do realize that Ionic is mainly used for App Store and Google Play right? You're free to not use it. It's a correct decision for Ionic to go with iOS and Android standards, from my point of view, and the implementation is superb as always with Ionic components.
I visited a sketchy part of Parramatta for work and it really wasn’t that bad. I walked around in the streets every night for a month to get dinner. But I can understand how it could easily be assumed (in my opinion) the most likely place in Australia to get robbed.

Australia is a really safe place by comparison to nearly anywhere else.
If you jailbreak you also usually have to run on an older iteration of the OS and have to wait before updating. It's not really a very attractive option.

Signing up as developer, paying the fee and building the app yourself is probably the better option. Even if you have to rebuild it every xx days.
Guilty pleasures only developers know
> that considers end-users as pretty much dumb content consumers who should not be expected to ever know even the minimum about the underlying tech and therefore every decision needs to be made for them by a small minority of corporations, govts, and the tech elite acting as gatekeepers and overseers.

That's what we do in every other domains, what's the difference here ?
Judas Priest was ready in 1982. Go listen to "Electric Eye". Is that really the future you want?
They might not want it, but I do not see how it is harmful, it does not affect them at all after all. They could as well live their whole lives without knowing that their images are online. It is pretty similar to piracy if you think about it. Some people thinking they are entitled to dictate if and how certain numbers are used and distributed.
Connections between SVMs, Wasserstein distance and gradient-penalty GANs
I know, I'm just saying a bunch of other tech meetups that I've been to have been the total opposite experience of what those 2600 meetups were like back then.

So much has changed in ~20 years around tech in general. I wonder what a current day 2600 meetup is like. I may go check one out.
>Unfortunately, the school systems still rely on one parent at home. It is not just drop off and pick up times: school activities, parent-teacher conferences, etc.

"or a job structure that allows parents to have time off and not be penalized for it."

For this there's an easy fix: mandatory, with company-closing-fines-if-not-accepted, days off for employees for a number of school activities per year (with school provided documentation).
Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06922.
Feel free to ask me questions!
I mean, China's influence was enough for companies like Activision Blizzard to clamp down on people expressing support for Hong Kong, so it's entirely credible.

Turkey's president literally just ran an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal defending his invasion of Syria and telling tall tales of Turkey's humanitarian mission and unique effort to fix migration, violence and instability.

Twitter is swamped with "bots" (be they actual automated accounts, throwaways, state actors or regime-friendly humans) posting and re-posting fraudulent news stories, lies and plain old propaganda in favor of all kinds of national interests and political leanings.

I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter in an attempt at "corporate impartiality" would be more inclined to go after the Kurds or Hong Kong protesters than Turkish and Chinese slurs, dehumanisation and calls for violence. After all, there are probably more "people" reporting these accounts than reporting the various propaganda outlets.
There's an established way to deal with monopolies: https://www.thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warrens-big-figh...
This was done not for the taste, but so that the pizza could be prepared in advance of being served. The idea was that the tomato paste would not go bad or seep juices into the dough base. Its is actually a regression from a culinary standpoint.
There are human hermaphrodites.