skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are you doing next?

> I'm going to motorcycle around Washington. I'm going to camp in the Hoh Rainforest once the weather warms up. I'm going to swim 100 miles (over the span of several weeks). After all that, we'll see.

I feel like I can relate to this about as much I can relate to an Oscar winners speech.
Paid membership programs, technical details
> I guarantee the average Chinese citizen does.

How do you make this guarantee? The average Chinese citizen I know expects critical comments to be deleted, but getting a visit by the police is rare. I know one person to whom that happened, in the early 2010s. He didn't suffer any major repercussions beyond being told to stop posting like he did.
[marquee] only allowing blink would supress my creativity [/marquee]!
I think the article answers your concerns. They develop the whole process in github and many features are driven and implemented out of microsoft's reach.
I'm guessing they're referring to having virtual cards you can use for one transaction or merchant, and which you can kill at any time without having to change your primary card number.
It’s quite easy on iOS Safari. Top left “aA” icon, then pick your zoom.
been using i3 since 2 years now after dwm, blackbox and others. i3 commands have quickly become muscle memory and I don't look back.

> Is it now easy to set up a launcher/start bar with a nice battery/volume/wifi etc. indicator?

I've been using bumblebee-status for that and it works like a charm. It's very modular too:
https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status

here are a couple of dotfiles:

.config/i3/config: https://pastebin.com/n9rAWNhf

.config/i3/scripts/i3exit https://pastebin.com/CxETEW9H

I highly recommend to use i3-save-tree to dump the json into a file (e.g. workspace_[number].json) to get your terminals (or any other applications) set up when logging in exactly the way you want.

sometimes the json needs editing (here is what it would look like in my setup):

.config/i3/workspace-1.json https://pastebin.com/7VGbQShy
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Including lyrics in the definition of 'song' probably muddies the waters here, given the loose colloquial usage of the word 'song' appears to include instrumental compositions
In this region of the world we have a guaranteed minimum income, plus the pension that I built up during life. It should be a comfortable retirement even without savings.

But I get your point. In the case of an older failing body I'd probably just go for the euthanasia route. Why suffer when I've already seen and done it all?
2 years from the date you met on Upwork is indeed when the non-circumvent clause expires.

As for before that, I'll just quote a lawyer from their community forum¹:

> “You might want to read up on so-called 'survival clauses', meaning clauses that specify which terms or provisions of a contract will remain in effect after the contract has been fully executed and the terms of said contract have been met.”

I'm not aware of actual lawsuits, I'd suspect they only skim the top 5-10% (whenever it's enough to recoup lawyer fees), and send a ton of scary stuff to the rest (it's basically free, automatable, and probably works more than we'd think).

But read that post, it'll make it emphatically clear what kind of mindset prevails on Upwork — in particular, notice the "Community Guru" title (lol) and what they have to say, and how they phrase it. IMHO, it's a lot of circle-jerking and virtual notoriety destined to favor group think (conversely muffle subversive ideas). We know it works, e.g some subreddits prove it, and we actually developed that model in online communities since the late 90s (you basically remove all barriers to cult-like non-critical thinking, praising of the platform, and let people go wild with gamified notoriety scores. Works wonders on big apes, before you know it you have an army willing to die defending the platform (half-Stockholm syndrome, half escalation of commitment).

To compound this, there are enough very balanced yet damning pieces online about Freelancer, Upwork, etc. by people who have nothing to gain from slandering these platforms that I, for one, would play by the rules there, and keep a healthy distance. You want your own clients? Find them yourself or better yet, hire a freelancer to do it! Which you are free to find yourself as well within your geography ;-)

Hope this helps. I was very enthusiastic about these platforms and this is one among many, many disingenuous values that drove me pretty negative about them (so, fair disclaimer, I think they're no better no worse than Uber et al; like the idea is good but the execution is too corporate-imbued with all the bad that entails).

[1]: https://community.upwork.com/t5/Freelancers/non-circumventio...
We attempted to be cloud agnostic (using terraform instead of CloudFormation for example) and then later multi-cloud. The amount of complexity and cost around it was just too much.

If AWS goes down, more or less a good portion of the internet goes dark. It's an acceptable risk at this point unless you are truly massive and entirely self contained- if you are using any 3rd party services, IE for auth, payment, whatever- they may be using AWS as well and you are still exposed.
Well good news you can use a mouse on the ipad now, along with remaping capslock to esc in ios 13.4, all in a 1.5lbs computer.
That's a good read.

Blame is such a complicated thing and the results of any mess are always way complicated even without the human factor.

I'm not convinced in any complex system outside of a guy running through a datacenter with a hammer... that anyone can actually "properly" assign blame or fault.

Humans are going to dork up, but no point in coming down on someone(s) for all the complexity that leads to a problem..... helping everyone avoid it on the other hand has a lot of benefit.
Monzo also use Transunion for their credit checking which are lot more relaxed compared to the other big 2 (Equifax and Experian), which usually require 3 years of address proof to run through their KYC/credit checks.
I'm glad you did! Additionally, is there any reason that I should learn React using Node.js rather than python? I'm not particularly anti-Node.js but I'd rather learn Django simultaneously if it was all the same difference.
Ah, Randall. Because of course all us nerds already know about leap seconds, and that Google has for a decade implemented leap seconds by "smearing" them over the day rather than as a discontinuity[1].

It makes me want to read it as a Jerry Seinfeld joke. "What's the deal with Google's leap second? It's not a leap, and it's not a second."

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
My contacts agree with you. (To be fair, I'm going off what I hear from ~4 people.)

Nobody believes everything's fine. Views of the government are at rock bottom. Trust in the government is zero or negative.

Here are some things that have been said to me (though this is private messages, not public feed posts):

> the government is shit! [2020-01-24, followed by much unsolicited venting about the state of things in Wuhan as reported through unofficial channels]

> 我觉得这次的疫情好像已经时空了 [I think it looks like we've already lost control of this epidemic] [2020-02-05]

> 封闭了小区，外面的人不允许进来。每天还消毒（Me: 内面的人可以出来吗?）可以的，但是要有“出入证” [Our apartment complex has sealed itself, outsiders cannot enter. We disinfect every day. (Me: Can insiders leave?) Yes, but you need an exit/entry document] [2020-02-10]

> 如果说，现在社会忽然流传某种说法，然后政府辟谣，然后大家就知道，这个说法是真的 [If a rumor suddenly spread through society, and then the government denied it, everyone would know it was the truth.] [2020-02-10]

Social trust is down too; I also hear rumors of escapees from Wuhan concealing their sickness (this one's easy to believe) and of sick people striking back at the society that failed them by spreading their saliva on elevator buttons and doorknobs.
I'm not using ReSharper, and never have. The editor simply gets slower every version, and now it's come to the point where I seriously consider downgrading.
Fair point. I shouldn’t discount it to zero. (Though in the above example I was arguing it has $0 value to you if you can’t sell it, unlike a company)
I was discussing lack of space in our office with my boss and how difficult it'd be to add extra people should we suddenly have such a need.He replied: these are nice problems to have. Same with scalability of your software: if you get to the point where it's an issue, you just hire much smater people with some of that momey you've been making so far and they'll solve it all.
If you don’t build a reputation your emails won’t get delivered. New IPs have no reputation, so your users will suffer.
Also, the UK is one of the Five Eyes nations, explicitly sharing intelligence data with the US and vice-versa. I'm sure they're not 100%open, but if there is any nation on Earth that would not overly fear US spying and prefer it to Chinese spying, it would be the UK.
I was trying to suggest that human are fallible - doctors, patients, police and policy makers all; however I used the word hoax way too much as both responses focus on that. I've reworded. Hopefully that addresses the issue?

> the government decides to stamp out info

There are other ways, as you've described, but I believe this is the way the Chinese government has demonstrated that they prefer to handle it. You can argue it is a wrong choice but I can't accept the OP's characterization of it as a corrupt choice.
I expected this to be a tool to easily animate SVGs I already had.
Slightly related: I'm working on an article called "Stop installing mobile apps".

Would you please have a quick look and comment with your feedback, so I can incorporate it?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cmm_8DIJgOs5QsYC0CGuMebB...

Any suggestions on where to publish it? (avoiding Medium)

Thanks so much!
I think February was the either the end or beginning of the year in the Georgian calendar's earliest predecessor when leap days were implemented
Is it a tautology or just an unfortunate nash equilibrium?
Yeah because that's going to go well: taking a major page fault whenever you throw. Let me know how that works at scale.
Open Distro for Elasticsearch Security Features on Amazon Elasticsearch
That would make the holiday season one day longer, with all the pain and suffering indicated by the suicide statistics of that period..
Homestly, nothing changed. It's just (imo) hard to figure out yourself if nobody tells you that it's possible.

The other way around is also possible btw (starting gnome/mate/xfce and starting i3 right at login. I personally preferred the parents way as well though (using xfce though)

You won't be using Wayland with i3 however, and weren't they going to prefer that with Ubuntu 20 and onwards?
> Converting an exception into a return. Which loses the "have to deal with it; cannot ignore it" property that made the exception valuable.

[[nodiscard]] -Werror
We use in house project tracking software to manage development, bugs, documentation, Etc. that it's built into. These checklists are verified by another developer as part of code review before the branch is allowed to merge to the release/main branch. There's only a couple of "generic" checks (one for security things, another that's automated that enforces coding standards), at least for our team. A small bug fix may only have 2-4 checklist options, but a larger enhancement may touch enough things that there may be 20-30 checklist options.
As Upwork is both the single largest spend and actually larger than all the others combined, I'd be curious about an additional breakdown of costs for what types of services are being purchased through the platform.
not a blog
Three animation tools (not strictly SVG-related) that spring to mind:

Pencil 2D

Synfig Studio

OpenToonz (used by Studio Ghibli, no less!)

If you want 3D, then Blender is a fantastic open source tool.
A few people might have heard of the parent company too, like from their mobile OS, or from the search engine where they type their addresses in when browsing.
Just because you don’t personally value something doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. Anyway, it’s clear that the issue here is that you simply want apps to go away. Not that they are.
Is it? Superstore chain (let's say Walmart's) cost/benefit margins of coloring the walls is orders of magnitude larger day to day, than ad revenue budgets of most companies year over year. People like to be outraged about the most fringe issues, because they feel like it's championing the good fight. Advertising is the least of life's problems (local or at large). It's fucking 2020, can we get Pepsi and Coke in the same restaurant yet? That's an advertising issue that I wish someone would address.
US orders Google, Facebook and others to reveal details of years of acquisitions
CNCF now administers one of the larger collection of SVG logos at https://l.cncf.io. We've also rolled out other landscapes like for motion picture animation https://l.aswf.io and AI https://l.lfai.foundation.

In the process, we've built a tool to autocrop and optimize SVGs so that they are as small as possible and work correctly in Illustrator and all other readers. The tool is open source and available at https://autocrop.cncf.io.
Many game engine studios are claiming the graphic image outputs of their game engines are copyrighted. Most definitely, they are computer generated.

What about CGI in movie scenes? Also algorithmically generated.
As a rule, I only read lisp books
How do they convince people not to use failures as political capital against other teams? It's all well and good to say "We promise we won't do it!", it's quite another to actually not call out the other team's failures when they're competing with you for budget/headcount, or against other individuals when stack-ranking.
I feel skeptical about this assertion, probably there is a much simpler non magical explanation.

I didn't find the article but... first of all, I have a problem with an object being soaked in fertilizer, watered, and then dated after an external porous shell clinging from the new roots.

Just does not feel like rigth science.

Would be like measuring how old are the matherials in an flemish painting after covering it with a new a layer of modern acrilic. Too much new error factors and contaminants influencing the results over the table.

Why they didn't just removed a small posterior chunk of the seed and then put it apart before to germinate the rest?

Second: What about doing a standard genetical analysis?. Are this larger seeds genetically close to the modern larger varieties that Israel has being introduced into the market in the last five years?
For what its worth, I used to hold a clearance in the US nuclear navy and the story on wikipedia is what I was always told. Im not sure there is anything of value in the documents to be released, but im sure curious to find out.
And "low resolution" SVGs will look bad in the future too. It won't be as graphically apparent, but they will look barren and odd, because there's no detail as they were designed with a lower resolution in mind.
I can probably clarify my ignorance on wikipedia, but I am interested in the hackernews personality, and hope that I'll learn more about it here.

Does all of this apply to HTML5 animations, too? Are there tools that are HTML5-animations/SVG agnostic? They seem like they could be closely related, or easily confused.
When I follow the link to the article I get an "Error establishing a database connection" message.

Delicious irony.
This is a common misconception. Intergalactic space is filled with about half of the matter in the universe. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm–hot_intergalactic_mediu...

As to your original point though, there doesn’t appear to be too many elements here apart from ionized hydrogen and hydrogen.
Interesting. Chapter 5, on "Knowledge, Information, and Evidence" is probably the most useful.

There are two things I looked for there and did not see. These are standard issues in intelligence analysis.

1. Duplicate confirmations. If you have two reports which agree, are they from different sources, or from the same source via different paths? If the latter, it's not a confirmation.

2. The difference between noise and deception. Some information is noisy, and statistical methods for filtering may help extract signal from noise. Some information is deliberately deceptive, and noise filtering will not help. The average will still be biased.

We've reached the point in politics where you need to know this just to read news.

The paper does mention the strong human tendency (all the higher mammals, really) to see patterns in noise. This is a useful survival instinct, in that fleeing before you're certain there's a threat is a benefit. It's a big problem in complex situations. It's also the basis of religion. There are so many classic examples of that in intelligence history. The paper mentions over-analysis of V-1 bomb targets, although I'm not sure that was a real thing at the level of people who had access to maps of the hit points. The inaccuracy of the thing was clear; "Greater London" was about as good as it could do. Air bases were never attacked; too small a target. If the V-1 had been accurate enough to hit air bases, it would have been used against them in the Battle of Britain.

There is, however, a classic example of that mistake. During the 1960 Cuban Missile Crisis, US analysis of aerial photos of the missile sites showed a layout more suitable to the Russian tundra than a tropical island. So there was a theory that the USSR now wanted the US to recognize them as missile sites, following a long period of deception as the equipment was moved into place. That was considered an open threat.

In 1987, there was a sort of Cuban Missile Crisis reunion, with people from both sides present. That subject came up. The officer who'd been in charge on the Soviet side said, "No, we just did it that way because that was what the field manual said to do". Everyone on both sides who'd ever worn a uniform nodded in understanding.
But unfair competition is often legislated against.

Without copyright, competition would not be for the ability to create -it would be for the ability to distribute. The end result would be much the same as we have now - an oligopoly of distribution channels, only they'd pay the artists less, if anything.
Or, a territory too large to actually defend, rampant corrution and barbarian hordes?
Same, except I used Chrome's classic colours:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/familiar-blue...

The only thing I'm really missing is how easily you can set up and switch between different profiles in Chrome.
Pardon me if I'm missing something, but doesn't just about any AST implementation allow recovering the source text up to whitespace – or indeed including whitespace, given that most real-world parsers have to retain lexical information in order to support reasonable diagnostic messages anyway.
You already take a page fault with DWARF exceptions, since the unwind / LSDA info is probably on a different page from any of your code, as well as the personality routine itself.
> The Chinese government is probably keenly aware of the growing discontent and is unlikely to overplay their hand and crack down hard on communications, at least at the moment. For example, they could've decided to block all mentions of Li Wenliang from the Chinese internet (as has happened with many other things in the past), but they haven't, at least not obviously. If they did, I suspect discontent would explode.

Censorship on the topic is apparently being felt. https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/still-90-chance-coronavirus-...

> Dr Li died on Wednesday or Thursday from exposure to the coronavirus. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and a young child. He is being dramatically mourned on social media sites, faster than the censors can scrub them. [Widespread Outcry in China Over Death of Coronavirus Doctor, by Li Yuan, NYT, February 7, 2020]( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/china-coronaviru... ) There have even been demands he be given a state funeral.

> That bagpipe band playing “Amazing Grace” that I heard while crossing my living-room was a popular nonverbal way to mourn. The censors rely on keywords in text; it takes them longer to figure out nonverbal protests.
The world is far more Mr. Bean than James Bond.
Yeah I want to double down on this,

This reads like a personal goodbye that somehow got published here.... probably not for the world
If you live in or visit the SF Bay Area, Alameda has a very nice offering: https://www.pacificpinball.org/
The Mac app "syncs" with the iPad app. That's useful!

I'm writing a Swift Cookbook on Github for anyone who's trying to come up to speed on Swift:

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook

Trying to be more functional with my Swift:

https://github.com/melling/SwiftCookBook/blob/master/functio...

I'm also working through Joel Grus' Data Science from Scratch book, but trying to rewrite the examples in Swift. I'm only a few chapters in:

https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift

Things I'm doing sitting on my couch with my iPad on the arm and the book in my lap.
Picking out of millions/billions is way too little input to be a creative act. That would let you get a meaningful copyright on a sequence of two words.
I am curious what kind of work privacy engineers do?
Decades of red-baiting propaganda warps people's ideas of what these countries are actually like.
With Preview or with stable?
Preview has a couple of minor bugs, like radio button popups that don't go away when I switch tabs, or the "undo close tab" toast not disappearing, or downloads resulting in empty files sometimes. Annoying, but not dealbreakers and I'm confident they'll be fixed soon.

My issue with stable is that it's slow. Everything about it is slow. Pages that load immediately in Chrome take double digit seconds in Firefox. When they do load, scrolling lags my finger and jerks around, and zooming is noticeable unresponsive. The acceleration curves feel off too. On my mid-range tablet performance is so bad it gives me a headache.
Add to the list, the Pinball Hall of Fame.
Ok, what so you think the purpose is?
Doesn't that "plan" depend on unrealistic economic growth?
True, although startup navel gazing is not as common as one would expect. Current top 10:

Swift Playgrounds for macOS (apps.apple.com)
Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents (usni.org)
Where are all the animated SVGs? (getmotion.io)
Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine (piqnt.com)
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (washingtonpost.com)
N26 will be leaving the UK (n26.com)
The coming IP war over facts derived from books (abe-winter.github.io)
Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis (distill.pub)
A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians (roboflow.ai)
Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions (pspdfkit.com)
> things that I would discharge in Australia on simple analgesia (paracetamol and ibuprofen).

Good on you. I'm sure that's not the only thing amiss you saw in our system :).

> The public health stance on vaccines is not in any way analogous to the opiate crisis, and whilst I understand the layman’s distrust of medical experts arises in part from this, the two are separate issues stemming from different causes

To me the issue is part of the same problem: giving advice (or prescriptions) without giving access to good data.

If it's so important to vaccinate, why not build a much better live data system that concerned individuals/parents can query in real time to see the true numbers behind the gamble they are taking? That would be the scientific thing to do. Not to remove what one deems "false" information from the internet. Of course, what I'm dreaming of is a lot harder to build than a censorship system but I think it would be worth it.
$1529...you're welcome.