skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a complementarity I sometimes see between being in society, which allows to share, collaborate, etc., and being in solitude, which allows to think, contemplate, etc., and of a south american indigenous tribe I forgot the name of, where the elders somehow transcend this opposition: for important deliberations, they gather in a dark hut and whisper their views, for those who speak not to be
identified, as if they formed a single mind.

I would appreciate if anyone could remind me the name of this tribe.
Rust Moving Towards an IDE-Friendly Compiler with Rust Analyzer
The words "power fantasy" never came up in any of the Marvel movies. Show, don't tell.
Services that are possible because that "company" chose to put the WWW in the public domain: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399#

Can you imagine, if CERN had patented HTML, HTTP, the Web server and the Web browser?
And the reason this isn’t the default is?....
Web and Market Research Services
Private property in land is pretty much the definition of a government-created privilege, so the government does plenty of "obstructing" when it comes to people's right to shelter. The governments which originally granted those monopoly rights on land many centuries ago had no inherent authority to do so-- although they may have had authority to lease the use of that land for some limited time, under fair and non-discriminatory rules. (This is how land is managed e.g. in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the system works quite well.)
Riot is open source. Matrix is an open protocol that is designed to federate so that users on different servers can talk to each other. Is the keybase server open source?
I think it’s artificially presented as an exclusive option between sql and csv/nosql/whatever in data science.

I know plenty of people who are comfortable in both. But I don’t know any “data science” people as good at sql as a good dba. But that’s ok.

I think a good analysis requires both sql and some flat file, if only for reproducibility. I’ve encountered many point in time analyses that can’t be recreated because they were just sql against db and there’s no way to reproduce the result months later. Are their methods accurate? Or auditable? It’s much harder because the source data is changed.

So I like talking about only-sqlers about the importantance of incorporating the data management of extracts and archives into the overall solution. And doing so in a way that doesn’t try to redesign the database trying to avoid the need for users to file away point in time snapshots of data.
It probably isn't, but I don't think we can know whether it was on purpose or not.

If I had to put a backdoor in something, it'd definitely be a buffer overflow. It gives full remote code execution, it may be hard enough to find to be NOBUS, and it has perfect plausible deniability.
Bill of Rights comes to mind. Religion, speech, association, mobility, self defense, defense from tyranny, fair trial, etc.
Price shaming? Are we really going there?
This is an important point to understand. Scandinavian countries are 1. Small, 2. Homogenous, 3. Culturally and demographically stable, 4. Economically stable.

There are genuine differences that come with national scale that make comparisons of a small country's economy to a large country's economy impossible. It is similar to how you cannot simply scale up a mouse to the size of an elephant, since the mouse's skeletal system would collapse under its own weight. There must be qualitative adjustments to the bones to allow for such a drastic increase in size.

It is unrealistic for large countries to hold themselves to the standards of small countries, yet political and social activists do so in spite of the fundamental impossibility of comparison.
Of the Nordic countries, only Norway has oil wealth.

Sweden in particular has had higher than European average levels of immigration over the past 20 years.

These countries are not a uniform block in the sense you’re suggesting.
> And grandfathered or not your use of Google's services for 'free' for your business is coming to an end.

When are they coming to an end? I'm also grandfathered in, and haven't heard about this.
slow is smooth and smooth is fast
I wish there were more articles like this about communications, organizational psychology, effective coordination, etc.

But mostly, I wish there were ways to recognize, navigate, negotiate people's different styles.

TMI from recent my turn at the woodshed:

Noob manager (Jane) is unhappy with my communication. Wants more detail. Her prerogative, so I try. So in addition to adjacent desks, always on Skype, standups, status reports, very verbose commit messages, novels added to JIRA tickets, I start writing daily status reports.

Months of "improvement", no change in satisfaction.

So us chickens are sitting around trying to troubleshoot something. Me (Bob) and another coworker (Stan) casually noticed that a third (Steve) seems to have a great working relationship with manager (Jane).

Stan and I are astonished (gobsmacked) to learn that Steve is privately texting (via Skype) Jane 15-20 times per day. The smallest updates. "Just committed changes for JIRA 123". "PR 303 approved and merged." "Build successful!" All sorts of emoji.

I would have NEVER thought to spam my manager all day every day. But that's apparently what Jane wants.

The weird part in all this, like most miscommunication, is Jane couldn't say what she wants. Nor did it occur to her to tell Stan and me to be more like Steve.
Mark Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Pay to Fully Launch in India Soon
Sweden is no longer homogeneous. We have a larger percentage foreign born than the US for example.
Myths of the Free School Management App
> Ignoring not only the money needed for such an initiative

The Finnish welfare state began in earnest at a time when the country was not particularly wealthy and it had little of the internationally renowned industry it has today. Furthermore, Finland managed to ramp up a welfare state at about the same time that it was forced to pay huge reparations to the USSR after World War II. Similarly, Sweden (the country which Finland used as a model for its welfare state) was not originally among the most prosperous nations.

The historical experience of the Nordic countries underscores that a welfare state is not a matter of having unusually large amounts of money compared to other Western European states, but rather it is a matter of taxation and spending priorities. Certainly Norway’s oil wealth lets it have some nicer public infrastructure than the neighbours, but such substantial natural resources are not a prerequisite.
I have searched an answer for this question for a very long time. Who's supposed to roll the crypto if rolling your own crypto is looked down upon?
> historic impact on a cohort of people who got less because of this remains unacknowledged and uncorrected.

On whom? It's a paper about the sociology of spiders, it's not a Reinhart-Rogoff scale disaster.
Am I the only person that finds the "after" image in that article too visually busy and the labels harder to read?
Sweden is in no way homogeneous.
I’m sure there will be an xkcd about this soon.

I’ve also tried to do things in sql only to realize that I could have done it easier in pandas.

I think it’s usually a mix of both for me, but I try to at least get a decent “tidy” dataset out of sql and then do all the manipulation in pandas because a python pipeline is more portable than a sql pipeline, I think.
Traditional architecture gives a better sense of well-being than glass and steel
In the last couple of years I started thinking about this and since then I'm trying to live in the moment because now I'm aware of how much time I spend in my head. It is very hard for me to train this though.
Apple doesn’t dig into third party apps to police their forums, chat channels and content. That is very clearly the responsibility of the app developers. More bullcrap excuses from Telegram. Come on. E2e disabled by default, phone numbers exposed by default. Channels stalked by moderators. It’s a joke.
For something that claims comprehensiveness, I am somewhat surprised by the list of sources. It’s almost entirely restricted to the web domain, i. e. domain/ip/email data.

That’s understandable, considering how any data you gleam can immediately be fed into another run of all these tools. But I was under the impression that "OSINT" has a few more data sources connecting it to the "real world“? Company data, published books, or the court system come to mind.

(Sorry if I just missed some)
Similarly, in Canada we have CBC Radio 3 which plays pretty good indie music: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists/56-cbc-radio-3

There are other CBC Music playlists that are surprisingly good too: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-music-playlists
It served its purpose when the colony was being consolidated, but now that society has matured, this ownership has indeed to be reviewed if it is hindering society development. It will put some privileges in jeopardy, and some will not be all too happy about it.
It's hard to think about these potential calamities. Any given pandemic is unlikely to be on the scale of 1918. But the next big one will come, eventually. Any given asteroid strike is unlikely to be on the scale of a Yucatan. But the next big one will come, eventually. And the fact that there were so many small pandemics, impacts and so on will be used as evidence by Naysayers that there's nothing to worry about. And Doomsayers will continue to classify each potential calamity as uniquely dangerous in order to gain leverage.
Why the CIA and NSA Are Interested in Bitcoin
If you're considering adopting AGPL and the reason is to prevent commercial abuse of your work:

Please consider adding a non-commercial use exemption, for charities and academic research. These organisations can't afford the cost of open-sourcing their entire project.
It would be unrealistic for anyone in The Godfather to mention the mafia. People involved in a criminal conspiracy typically do not refer to it as such, for fairly obvious reasons. You'll never see a memo with the words "Witness Tampering Plan" or "Quid Pro Quo" left out on a desk at such organizations either, for the same reasons. Such things are discussed via euphemism or outright code, even that as little and as privately as possible.
Anti-Pharma Expert Was Paid 100s of Thousands by Lawyers Suing Drug Companies
>I doubt that the 50 years old Hospital doctor who died had any serious per-existing health condition.

If you are referring to the doctor in Wuhan - Liang Wudong - he was 62-years old.
God I wish. Sometimes I just want to shutoff the voice in my head. Alcohol did wonders for me in this area, unfortunately I can't drink anymore so I have to try suppress it differently, but I have it admit, nothing worked better than alcohol :(
Post-cyberpunk: the latest trends in speculative fiction
Amendment 6, 7 and 8 sound like stuff the government has to do for people. e.g

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."
Financially it makes sense though; shelters cost taxpayer and/or charity money, and there's a whole industry dedicated to discouraging people from sleeping in corners, public benches, and using public toilets. How expensive is it to just give people housing, a basic income, and the care they need?

I mean it's an opportunity to get someone back on their feet, and with time, reintegrate them with society - that is, turn them back into taxpayers. It makes sense both from a capitalist and a socialist point of view.

The problem is convincing those who think the homeless are subhuman undesirables who should be made Someone Else's Problem.
Slower is better: Is low economic growth a sign of success?
For anyone who hasn't seen the movies-- run, don't walk, to go get "Godfather I" and "Godfather II".

Don't bother with "Godfather III".

The book is great, too.
At least you have options. Some countries only have the first.
The US has oil too. And far more than Norway.
The Java EE Guardians Rebrand as the Jakarta EE Ambassadors
> had no inherent authority to do

Who decides what inherent authority governments do and don't have?
Does this apply to all residents or just Finnish citizens?

It would only work if all residents are covered, right?

In New Zealand citizens and residents can get govt support for accomodation, yet there are crazy numbers of homeless people everywhere!
Interestingly, there's been many news articles in the Finnish newspapers recently about Finnish homeless people living in the forest.
Newly discovered neon-green spider named after 'Lady Gaga of mathematics'
That's not entirely true. GPLv3 and AGPLv3 have explicit clauses that allow the linking of GPLv3 and AGPLv3 code into a single work without violating either license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License#...

You're right about GPLv2 though.
Does anyone have an interview with a person who has used a 3D Printed Prosthetic for a month or more?

Proof someone has successfully added a 3D Printed Prosthetic to their life.

[edit] And not internal, external Prosthetic's

[edit 2] Here's one. 10.1097/MD.0000000000009426

3 months in a success but "Some fingers, knuckles, and cables were replaced twice due to the daily wear and tear."

That only in 3 months. Interested in other stories.
Even if they did, it would just mean that Facebook (WhatsApp's parent company) could now see your messages, but that is still no worse than the default Telegram setting, which guarantees that the company will be able to decrypt your messages. And what prevents Telegram from tampering with their own end-to-end encryption for the binary they upload to app stores? Hardly anyone compiles their own apps if they can download it from a convenient app store instead.
> Private property in land is pretty much the definition of a government-created privilege

Though I welcome citations to prove the matter one way or the other, I suspect that the 18th-century Lockean concept of natural rights which informed the founders of the USA, saw ownership of private property as a right and not a government-created privilege. That is, if one claimed land on what was seen as terra nullius, or if a person’s family had owned the lank back to time immemorial, then the land was rightfully theirs regardless of government recognition or not. State recognition in the form of deeds would only have represented something useful for dispute resolution, and did not imply that the state was granting any rights.
In my understanding, they are using only mp4 files, and control the mp4 writers, so they should be fine with most devices' Android MediaPlayer.

Though yeah, I'd personally rather go to ExoPlayer to have a managed, maintained solution that already contains most fucked up hardware workarounds you might need.
Sure it's not cross-platform, but just define a high-level player api, use iOS' native player, ExoPlayer on Android, vlc on other platforms, and you're good to go.

As for "sticking untrusted data into platform media api's", well the power consumption of reading a video with CPU is absurdly high. You'd be going from 6 hours view time on a standard smartphone to 2 I'd say? You could decide that you value security /that much/. But then if you do, the very first thing to do is to run the player in a dedicated isolated process.

I doubt WhatsApp is doing software video decoding, but if they are, it is all the more ridiculous.
This seems to be an excellent introduction to geometric algebra, a topic I have had difficulty picking up so far.
Perhaps thoughts is the wrong word, since they as a concept often are associated with words, but the things that go through my mind are concepts, and I often have a word label for them, sometimes it's right there, sometimes it's not. Sometimes I have concepts in my head that have no label, and that I can express, but the concept which I can imagine in a few seconds often requires a couple paragraphs to describe directly.

Another argument for OPs view (with the caveat above) is that these concepts must predate speech. We have an imagination before we have speech, and that obviously doesn't require words.
Open alternatives :

- https://mailtrain.org/

And more like mailgun :

- https://postal.atech.media/

Both hosted and easy to use.
Visualization of 2000 yellow press covers about the Brexit
> upvoted if they confirm existing biases

Yes, though I also appreciate when people recognize and call out these biases. That has helped me understand the phenomena of physiological biases. And HN is the only place I can think of where people actually recognize this sort of thing.
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47978/
Well one big reason is the biggest feature people are complaining about: A lack of generics. According to [1], there's a fundamental trade-off with respect to generics:

"The generic dilemma is this: do you want slow programmers, slow compilers and bloated binaries, or slow execution times?"

At the moment, Go has no generics, which translates to "slow programmers", but not "slow compilers". It's likely that the simplicity of the Go language as a whole -- which leads to many complaints -- is a major factor in the fast compile times.

EDIT: Lest it seem like I'm bashing Go here, the quote above is from one of the core Golang developers (in 2009 no less), and is mirrored in this from the proposal [2] from another core Golang developer. It's meant to be a shorthand for, "Generics do actually save programmer time and effort, and Go programmers are working harder than necessary because the language doesn't have generics yet." The point of this post is to point out that generics have a cost (slow compilation time) and that fast compilation time has a cost (no generics -- at least, not without inventing a new way of doing generics).

It's possible to love something while still seeing its deficiencies and wishing its improvement. In fact, I'd argue that's the only way to truly love anyone or anything.

[1] https://research.swtch.com/generic

[2] https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/15292-g...
> Why hasn't someone built an email system that only accepts signed payloads?

Because it requires both parties to play along. Lets say I had such a service and I signed up for an account on Github. Github would have to implement this and give me a key. OK, maybe they do; but Stack Overflow don't. Then I end up reverting to Gmail or Fastmail.
> Bonus points to anyone who understands what these three lines are doing within it:

#define LOBYTE 0377
#define STRIP 0177
#define QUOTE 0200

That's just 0xff, 0x7f and 0x80 in octal, and the high bit used to be a flag for all kinds of "magic" behaviour back when 7-bit ASCII was the norm...
Not for sale: Luxury groups ponder ways to get rid of their unsold inventory
> But unlike C++, dependency management isn't hell

There is nothing hell into C++ if you are using the right tools: meaning proper package manager, meaning Nix/Guix, Conan or Spack.

It is currently much more hell to integrate Rust+Cargo behind other build system ( behind pip/gem/npm for instance ) than it is with C++.
> Furthermore, they frequently "ban" channels that they deem contain "inappropriate" or "adult" content. Clearly they're reviewed by either humans or AI of some sort. So... that makes me uncomfortable.

If you are uncomfortable about content being read by humans -- (they claim) that only happens for public channels (open for anyone to read/search)
Considering their mentioning of immigration, I fear (Edit: I was right, see replies) they see the the nordics‘ advantage as being almost entirely white.

That would not just be boorish, but also wrong: both Sweden and Morway (the two I just checked) have around 17% foreign-born residents, with more than half of those from outside the EU.
> They're apparently "encrypted", but the keys are controlled by Telegram.

Yes, but they take steps to ensure they cannot easily be forced to decrypt chats via a court order in a single country. From the Telegram FAQ:

To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption, Telegram uses a distributed infrastructure. Cloud chat data is stored in multiple data centers around the globe that are controlled by different legal entities spread across different jurisdictions. The relevant decryption keys are split into parts and are never kept in the same place as the data they protect. As a result, several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up any data.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-do-you-process-data-requests

> Furthermore, they frequently "ban" channels that they deem contain "inappropriate" or "adult" content. Clearly they're reviewed by either humans or AI of some sort. So... that makes me uncomfortable.

AFAIK messages are only forwarded to Telegram support if they are reported by users. Chats spreading pornographic content are often banned on iOS due to the App Store guidelines (and in certain countries due to local laws), but illegal channels (e.g. CP) may be blocked globally.

> Also, this means that anyone who has your phone number is told you're on the app and given your username, which you may not want for privacy reasons.

This is not true anymore, a while ago they added new privacy settings that allow you to prevent others from finding you unless they are in your Telegram contact list. (Of course, this means if you don't want anyone in your phone's contacts to be able to find you on Telegram, you should deny the app contacts permission.)
Like a lot of other political relationships today, the whole EU/UK Brexit situation reminds me of co-dependent, toxic, manipulative, and abusive relationships.

So now after berating and abusing and insulting and sabotaging the UK, and various stints of unhinged begging interspersed with threats; the depraved, abusive ego of the technocratic authoritarians of EU Brussels has to rationalize itself with "well, leave, you whore, you were dead to me a long time ago."

It's really rather sad, how toxic and evil the EU has become under that shiny veneer of fake gallantry and suave confidence. It is a shame that the EU was form the start imbued with an existential and systematic flaw that turned it into the authoritarian, anti-democratic, anti-self-governance body that loathes actual diversity that inherently requires separation.

The EU could have been such a great thing if it had just followed and adopted the original US Constitution, roughly pre-Civil War; a social compact reliant on mutual understanding and willing and voluntary participation, rather than on coercive authoritarianism.
Too much isn’t useful. For bosses or those we produce for there is as opportunity for a short regular summary (like once a week). Can take like 5 minutes to create

Over communication is shallow work. We should limit that. There is a useful amount.
sometimes people want to let things die and for good reason. i can only image what a burden it has been to police something like a newsgroup server over the years. i can also imagine that they haven't caught everything, so they just want it to go away.

remember that not everything is precious and needs to be reserved.
So you know exactly how everything in your computer works, because otherwise it'd be too hard to use? I wager the exact opposite is the case: it's much easier to use a computer through heuristics of operation rather than any sense of "deep" understanding.

Besides, your GPU shader code implements fast quaternions, and you aren't going to get NVidia to replace them with rotors. So the game is lost.

Oh, unless you don't mean "understand everything" and are going to draw your arbitrary line at the GPU.
Projective Geometric Algebra (SIGGRAPH2019)
I don't have concrete numbers but I keep hearing OCaml's compiler is extremely fast.