skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Namespace prefixes in XML can be a) shortened and b) removed by setting the default namespace. I.e. the following are equivalent:

<foo:bar xmlns:foo="urn:foo-corp">
<foo:baz />
</foo:bar>
<f:bar xmlns:f="urn:foo-corp">
<f:baz />
</f:bar>
<bar xmlns="urn:foo-corp">
<baz />
</bar>

These forms can happily co-exist in the same document, e.g. you can start at the top with one default namespace and then switch it in some branch into another.
Glad someone wrote a story to summarize the attack!

Here's the thread about the actual attack on Notepad++'s GitHub issues yesterday by pro-China users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21395251
Synocdoche New York,is a beautiful film, one that I would gladly recommend to anyone
It is true that prisons are not exactly healthy environments, prison guards are not exactly loving companions, obsessed with inmate's wellbeing, and that many of them are careless and/or incompetent. And sometimes deliberately cruel and criminal. However, the case of Epstein is one of the major scandals of the century. He's not a random stoner police picked up. He's somebody whose name has been on the front pages of every newspaper for months. In this condition, either everybody in the prison system are blithering idiots, or somebody took care that Epstein would be surrounded by specific idiots at specific time. And then plausibly denied all involvement - we have idiots, what can you do. If you start counting how many times government officials used this excuse - we're just idiots, you know, can't blame us - to successfully escape responsibility for corruption, fraud and blatant criminal behavior. True, murder requires special hutzpah - but that also doesn't happen every day. Now it happened.
Old internet? I miss pre-internet.
> Paris is facing quite sensible issues right now ( higher debt, untidy streets, insecurity,etc...)

Most of these problems stem from national-level irresponsible policies such as uncontrolled immigration. They won't be fixed by the mayor alone, and they plague most big and even medium cities in the country.
What is the currently accepted answer to the question, "what is gravity"?
This is almost exactly what i built at my company. It felt like a dirty hack at the time, and i assumed we'd transition to something "real" over time, but it's been working flawlessly for quite a few years now and i've yet to see any reason to use something different.
Missing from this post is The Sickness Unto Death, which I think is the most important of anything he wrote. The book is about what a Christian ought to think of what it means to live and what it means to die.

> What if grace doesn’t come as a gift bestowed from beyond, but in moments of self-forgetfulness, moments in which, by whatever means and processes, the Ego simply disappears? Questions about the afterlife are not answered in this kind of thinking, but so what? If one isn’t afraid to live, why should one be afraid to die? And even if one is afraid, again, so what? Our courage and our fear will not change the fact of our dying.

https://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Kierkegaard,Soren/T...

> Oh, but even if Christ had not awakened Lazarus from the dead, is it not true that this sickness, that death itself, was not a sickness unto death? When Christ comes to the grave and cries with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth" (11:43), it is evident enough that "this" sickness is not unto death. But even if Christ had not said these words -- merely the fact that He, who is "the resurrection and the life" (11:25), comes to the grave, is not this a sufficient sign that this sickness is not unto death, does not the fact that Christ exists mean that this sickness is not unto death? And what help would it have been to Lazarus to be awakened from the dead, if the thing must end after all with his dying -- how would that have helped Lazarus, if He did not live who is the resurrection and the life for everyone who believes in Him? No, it is not because Lazarus was awakened from the dead, not for this can one say that this sickness is not unto death; but because He lives, therefore this sickness is not unto death. For, humanly speaking, death is the last thing of all; and, humanly speaking, there is hope only so long as there is life. But Christianly understood death is by no means the last thing of all, hence it is only a little event within that which is all, an eternal life; and Christianly understood there is in death infinitely much more hope than merely humanly speaking there is when there not only is life but this life exhibits the fullest health and vigor.

edit: Not removing the original wording, but it's an overstatement to say that Sickness Unto Death could be regarded as Kierkegaard's most important work. It's definitely not. It's just his writing that is most relevant to what the author of this post is talking about.
I think it will be the death of society and culture if rank areas of study by ROI. Businesses need engineers and accountants, but society needs philosophers, artists, musicians and social scientists. It's about the balance between those two.

Actually, I am not sure what its like in the United States. Are only the rich allowed to study art or theater?
WireGuard: A Breakthrough in Online Security
Django's migration handling is excellent as well [0].

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/migrations/
More than before? Where are the stats for that?
For anyone contemplating reading Kierkegaard for the first time I would highly recommend starting with his journals.

Reading his daily thoughts, his love of walks, his relationship with Regine and his multitude of feuds with the newspapers and the state church gives a great perspective on his published work. It's also where you will find most of his quotable statements.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
I didn't see anything in the announcement about existing subscriptions and how they'd change. I'm interested in knowing what may happen to lifetime digital subscribers. I can understand it being removed and something else put in place, but the question would be "at what price?"
All of these things sound horrible, as do the people doing them.

Why do you insist on keeping people who feel that way in the country, against their will?

It's something that often puzzles me against political stances that oppose separatism. Often, they both express contempt for the people who want to leave, while at the same time, not allowing them to.
Curvature in spacetime.
It's still up for me.
That which maketh the apple bonk the skull most uninvitedly.
Shooter Study
Gravity is one of the essential forces in nature. If you want to explain it in simpler terms it is not possible because gravity is the simpler thing. You can use gravity to explain other things, but you cannot use other things to explain gravity.
The nuclear controls appear to be air gapped : https://twitter.com/suryaceg/status/1189080266066649088
1. No you don't.
2. Regulations can lend credibility so a small ineffective "start" has a cost to it.
“Just don’t think about it” is actually a rational approach to the earthquake in WA issue, because if the subduction zone goes, the tsunami will wash everything away.
Einstein believed gravity isn't really a force in the same sense as the other three fundamental forces, but a property of space-time. That seems to be a problem because it causes some kind of "incompatibilty" with the others. Trying to reconcile those, efforts has been made to create quantum gravity theories, that view space itself as quantized and in this direction you find strings and quantum loop gravity.

Disclaimer: I'm no expert, just parroting what I found in Wikipedia.
Assuming we find dark matter, do you think it will represent some departure from our current understanding of gravity and how it relates to mass? Or do you think it will just be some boring dust clouds?
I was going to ask after rename support, but lack of it is documented over here along with a couple other things. https://github.com/skeema/skeema/blob/master/doc/requirement...

Interesting ideas though. Microsoft does something similar with a DACPAC where they record the schema and diff, but they also record a list of rename actions etc. and keep a table to track those “migrations” in addition to the diff process. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/da... and/or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/extract-publish-an... — for rename and other SSDT details, see https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DvC2gzCucjHFbGiBLa0R... (it’s a “RefactorLog” if searching)

Having seen all that, the Rails ActiveRecord approach strikes a decent balance between specify migrations as imperative actions and keeping a declarative schema checked in. A comparison between the two approaches is at https://blog.raph.ws/2019/01/migrations-vs-dacpacs/ but I find DACPAC to be useful but over-complicated for developers and not well-enough supported on non-windows hosts yet. (It basically requires VS for Windows or SSDT right now...)

Also, it’s likely a migration system needs some kind of code review checks and automation around which actions you’d allow in your migrations if you don’t have that already...

The next question after “how do you migrate?” is probably “how do you backup and how long would it take to restore after a bad migration and/or bad rollback?” These days your answer is probably either “no time at all” for smaller apps with SSDs or “it’s all outsourced to the cloud,” for the new cloud distributed data stores or for the smart DIY ones, “we only deploy one server at a time and can either afford the downtime or have copies in multiple AZs, perhaps eventual consistency...”
Not all of us use your personal dictionary.
Also they contribute to open source too. 'Cause ops wheel. Game changer, 2020. Don't laugh.

Seriously though it's hard to not read between the lines on this. There seems to be more between the lines than lines somehow. I need a shower to rinse the bias off me now.
Very well said. He is part of the clique that made a hold-up on the last presidential election. Most of these people are opportunists who smelt the wind but don't care about addressing the real issues of the country that make master-level people emigrate instead of staying at home. They maintain the statu here and there, liberalise companies and deregulate
few sectors as gift to friends, speak empty words all the time ("values of our Republic", "democracy", etc.) while not giving a shit about any professionals (nurses, police, firemen) that rightfully manifest their fedupness. They are perfectly grooming the "populism" they despite.
Have I missed some feature of the Apple Card that exclusively ties with Apple Pay (nfc)?

I love Apple Pay, have all my cards in Wallet, don’t have an Apple Card. So I don t see how it’s a lock-in feature.
Sequoias still see a lot of rainfall where they live
I hope they don't stop here without doing a world champion challenge. It looks like they're still significantly below professional player strength.
I believe Jack's statement, while obviously well intended, is misleading.

Twitter will stop accepting money for political advertising. This is not the same as "stop(ping) all political advertising on Twitter".

Other people will continue promote things there and get paid for it regardless of what twitter's policy is.

I worry that a widespread misunderstanding of this will increase the public's vulnerability to paid manipulation on Twitter, particularly in a way that maximizes the impact of the least honest parties.
It's a clunky front-end with a fragile back-end. While it superficially resembles Access if you squint your eyes, it can't provide more than a small fraction of its utility currently. Too many missing/broken bits.

I spent a couple decades as a power user of the MS Office suite and find that I can generally make Calc do what I need as a spreadsheet and even Writer as a word processor. However, pretty much every time I've tried to develop a solution in Base it turns into a fight and I end up throwing up my hands and going with a different database solution. Calc doesn't even work all that well with it... and it's one of the few applications that works with it at all.
Amazon Fresh is easier to automate. I was surprised the pushed Whole Foods delivery in the first place, they were basically using the instacart model where a personal shopper grabs everything, very labor intensive.

The deliver straight from warehouse model has strong potential to be more efficient than a grocery store, even with free delivery.
I think in some languages the word for "government" is used to refer to the executive branch or its head more directly, whereas in English it's often used to refer to its multiple branches.
Is that why the LTTE killed the Indian Prime Minister?
I think most people would interpret free will to mean something that is perfectly compatible with any definition of determinism.

If I decide to raise my right hand, I raise it. Don't get pedantic in regards to disabled people. It doesn't matter if the universe is completely deterministic, that doesn't mean that I'm not the entity that decided to raise my right hand. The deterministic universe may have produced me, but the software I'm running is me. The reason I raised my hand is because of me. Sure there are an infinite number of factors that have fed into the circumstances of my birth, and everything that's happened to me, but everything that I do is specifically as a consequence of my free will. I am the software, deterministic or not.
Neither did the comment that I responded to present any facts. So, in the end it is just whose opinion is most popular.
If nobody watched them, how do we know they slept through their shift, and if they did, how do we know they did it because they were tired and not because somebody asked them to sleep for a while and not worry about a thing, and that part of overtime would be paid at much, much different rate?

> I doubt they've even been fired.

Especially in this situation. We have huge motive, excellent opportunity and unless one of the guards is so stupid as to talk, almost no possibility of detection. A perfect crime, if there's one. Of course, there's no proof of that - maybe Epstein indeed was suicidal. Maybe the guards were just paid to give him an opportunity, not avoid witnessing murder. Who knows. But I don't see how guards sleeping excludes any of that.
Show HN: Dappkit, Firebase for Web3.0
Students in HK used fax machines to fight Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square
In Denmark we have laws in place that hold news paper editors responsible for printing truth. They don’t always succeed, but they try to, and when they do fail they admit it and apologise.

This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred years. It’s also allowed for different sides of things, because you can interpret things like socioeconomic statistics and facts differently and write about them as such, but you can’t make up things.

This died with Facebook, YouTube and the non-editorial entertainment “news” and as a result we have anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and what not.

I have no idea how to regulate it though, but I think we need to do something.
Two of those features can be done using Google Sheets as you suggested

>* Ability to have multiple team members in my company share and update my list of contacts

>* Ability to group contacts by company or conference etc. so I can contact them at once.

And you can possibly create API integrations between Sheets and your inbox etc using Zapier.
He definitely could have - he worked at SpaceX as well. But saying things about what other companies are doing is a big no-no in the launch industry, and I doubt they would give permission. It's the kind of thing that can get you put in jail due to ITAR.
But the laws associated political advertising on TV aren’t really up for debate in the US.

They worked, and then came attempts to avoid campaign finance laws.

Choosing not to take money for potential political advertisements is good business for the owners of a public forum.

If it’s easy to verify, it’ll be good for anyone that cares about knowing what true public opinion looks like.
Does USA have something like an election commision?

If a candidate or their representatives publish false information in the election season and any citizen complains about it, the election commision can try the candidate and perhaps even ban the candidate from participating in the elections.

The onus is directly on the liar to not lie
Some websites insist on using 2FA, even if you don't want it.
> Both parties are pro-globalism and pro-free trade.

Well a recent president tried to stop US workers competing with an underclass of illegal residents with a border wall and tried to help the competitiveness of US workers with increased tariffs on a large nation with much cheaper labor. For some reason those actions are unpopular with people that consider themselves left wing.
Thank you. What’s your monetization strategy then? (Were you acquired by Segment or something? honest question)
I think you may have it backwards: Schools in France for example don't tolerate a lot of fuss. They are old school in most ways - students listen, make notes, teachers are in charge. I'm a North American who did Grad School in Europe and was amazed at how quiet and deferential the students were there. I was considerably more gregarious.
Don’t forget that Nokia was originally a paper company.
An auto-responder for daft vague questions on the internet?
Further down in the same article:

>but you don't really want to have your password manager also store OTPs
Extreme haunted house McKamey Manor is a torture chamber, petition says
Most of Deadspin staff resigns in protest
Maybe you can use Access as the front end to SQLite?

During my internship 25 years ago I build a system to register aircraft accidents and near accidents. This system used access 1.0 (Windows 3.1) as the front end, storing the data in Oracle 6, I think connected through Odbc.
While I can imagine what you mean by "shittiest Republicans", could you give me examples of the "shittiest Democrats"?
If you are using Ruby but don’t like ActiveRecord, you can use Sequel, which is really great
I'd like to point out that most of the demonstrations where there's been problems (I think calling them violent is an exageration, and also its origin is largely disputed as many blame the police) have nothing to do with Tsunami Democràtic.

Tsunami Democràtic's goal is to encourage and coordinate massive civil disobedience and protests, and that's what they've done so far. Their app even has a check box about non-violence you are forced to to log in. It's hard to imagine how they came to the conclusion that this is a terrorist organization except if you take into account the political views of the Spanish government and all its branches and Tsunami Democràtic.
It also took me a while to realize that things don't run on a merit system.

My theory is this: If you're smart enough to think that merit should matter, it's easy to fall into the trap of meritocracy. If you look around and realize, obviously, that this is not a meritocracy, then value must be derived from something that isn't merit.

Spoiler: It's relationships that matter, not merit.
"The whole point of the school system is to turn you into a predictable automaton of economic utility."

No, they are there partly to educate you, partly to babysit you, with the hopes that you can 'get along' in life afterwards, or maybe go to University.

Highschool doesn't prepare you for anything specific, certainly not the workforce.

In Germany, the education is considerably more focused on moving people into the trades or higher education, which frankly, works very well though it's arguably even more elitist than the US, as fewer kids go to Uni (tend to have richer parents).
Well, Google recently announced they were using BERT, an AI model, to improve search results. The developers of BERT are from Google but apparently not part of DeepMind; however, DeepMind has also published some things on language modeling, so... there's that, at least.
I want to address that reuse/repetition thing. It's totally possible to do this in XML+XSLT. E.g. you have some repeating structure that totally calls for what would be a helper function in a conventional language, say, "createMyButton(this, that)". In XML that could be done like this:

<android:whatever xmlns:ext="urn:my-corp/ui-ext">
<ext:my-button this="..." that="..." />
</android:whatever>

This gets fed into an XSLT file that copies everything intact and expands your custom elements:

<xsl:template match="ext:my-button">
<!-- expand into what you need -->
</xsl:template>
> Or would cryptographers have just worked out the number theory when they needed it?

Not a chance.
Yes there is an election commission. The recent actions by certain Republican congress members have reduced the efficiency of said commission to zero. We also have to deal with some important Supreme Court rulings: 1) Politicians can lie during campaigns, 2) Unlimited Super PAC funding of candidates, and 3) Coporations have the same rights as individuals
Father of Indian nuclear industry and arguably Indian Science Homi Bhabha was killed by the CIA long time back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Assassination_t...

Although US is not a modern adversary this is an interesting piece of history. India had the world's most advanced thorium research once upon a time.
> If a candidate or their representatives publish false information in the election season /.../ perhaps even ban the candidate from participating in the elections.

So we'd have elections with no candidates at all. Or, more realistically, we'd have ones that have opinions matching opinions of those people who sit on the commission. Nice system, though it's not clear why bother with elections then at all - we just let the commission - after all, people who know all the truth must know how to select good people who tell the truth? - to choose suitable candidates. Elections where candidates that the commission doesn't like are excluded are no elections anyway - you can look at Russia how it works, they have "elections" exactly like that - people not approved by Kremlin largely just are excluded from participation, so nobody can vote for them.
Sadly because hiring people before they wise up to the employee/employer relation is extremely beneficial to the latter.
How much money does society need to spend supporting the work you do before we can safely conclude that Einstein was actually correct and we don't need to test it any more?
"Kierkegaard’s most famous book, Fear and Trembling (1843)"

Makes we wonder did that inspire Hunter S Thompson to name his book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"?
I think what they mean by truths becoming false is rather that all certainties become uncertainties. Delving too deep in postmodernism is like taking all of your legos and melting them.

If I want to have a conversation about free speech, and a postmodernist begins questioning if we even actually have free will, or if it's even valid to discuss morality if it's entirely possible we exist in a simulation...you haven't actually advanced anything. You've just made soup. Postmodernism is a tool for turning building blocks into soup, and that is more often than not extremely counterproductive. Though it is, to some degree, necessary.

I think the fundamental problem is that aggressive postmodernism will often disregard presuppositions with absolutely no interest in understanding the utility/value of the presupposition.
The double catch is that neither Zeus's nor Sisyphus's state of mind matter, skipping a day or two is detrimental to both the good and the bad interpretation. If Sisyphus is unhappy pushing a rock every day (the first level interpretation) taking it away gives false hope and fosters doubt. If Sisyphus becomes happy or fulfilled pushing the rock, taking it away temporarily removes that satisfaction and again leads to doubt.

In other words, arbitrary and random work, putting someone in an uncertain and unpredictable situation is worse than constant and well-defined work.
What Makes Explainable AI So Difficult