skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I listened to the Econtalk episode with Zuboff and Roberts a while ago and I wasn't really sold on her arguments despite actually being personally quite to the left on economic issues usually.

The problem I had with the critique is that the answer to surveillance capitalism always seems to be a return to privacy. Big Business is to big, we need to claim data autonomy,be democratic, and so on.

I think the reason why surveillance capitalism is so successful is because people actually like the automation and transparency. There's always this "wake up sheeple" element to the critique that in my opinion just doesn't address the fact that people simply value the utility they gain out of these tools higher than privacy. I think the better way forward is to align the interests of end consumers and business rather than attempting to retreat back into private spaces.
Ask HN: How is your industry stuck in the past (no digital, all on paper etc.)?
Suppose you want to build a product for your industry, to automate some task (or part of a task) or digitize some task etc. What industry you are in and how is it stuck in the past, and why?

Think of it as an idea generation exercise for software products
Was going to update today, I guess I am going to be on my current 10.15.2 for a long time. 10.15.2 is quite stable and runs smooth enough with occasional freezes happening maybe once a month.
> BTW when it comes to China, National Review is a pretty biased source.

What I find disgusting is this is a global emergency and those guys are busy pushing their usual propaganda.
I've effectively given up tbh. I would honestly really like to get my bachelors at least, but it seems like I have two choices: Good or Cheap. Now certain circumstances make my situation rather unique, but all the research I've done seems to point to non traditional students in general being tossed aside. I've wanted to write about it, but i imagine it wouldn't be very well appreciated because it is, in part a rant.
Yes I can imagine it to be annoying for some use cases. My Carbon has, among others, 2 USB-A ports, 2 USB-C ports plus a trackpoint and a pretty good trackpad. My older Thinkpads have more USB-A ports than I'll ever need. So the unifying receivers are only used when sitting at a desk, where they're permanently plugged to USB-C hubs.
If that had happened to me my entire startup would have to shut down. Not cool.
San Francisco, a Trip Down Market Street, April 14, 1906
When did “flatten the curve” become “eliminate transmission”? We have abundant hospital capacity remaining nearly everywhere up in the US. It seems likely we can begin moving toward herd immunity significantly more quickly by relaxing social distancing standards and quarantining sensitive populations, all while remaining below the horizontal line. It’s not worth surrendering civil liberties, something we’ve sacrificed many lives to preserve.
Here is a video of a bus rider being dragged off a Philadelphia bus.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/philadel...

Realize that no one is wearing a mask; not the driver, the rider, nor the 10 cops who dragged him out. And they could have done like Detroit and just hand out masks to riders.
Businesses were never expected to be able to totally shut down for months at a time. It’s not reasonable to suggest that businesses who can’t handle that have been irresponsible or are less deserving of help.
I often think about that. It is why I wrote many thoughts about "Maturity Models": the best ideas for any subject (the system being far from ... uh, mature, at this point). But the idea is to take best practices and collate and order them with dependencies, instead of reading thousands of books to know what is "next" for one's own growth in an given subject. The idea is that multiple optionally-integrated-if-and-when-they-want communities of practice could develop. More info buried at at http://lukecall.net under Lessons Learned etc etc.

Edit: url & minor fixes. Also I hope to eventually progress with this, using my http://onemodel.org project.

Edit: ideally anything (or any source of info) could be assigned transitive trust levels. Dietary science would get a low one in my system at this time. ;) Physics, math, and epidemiology would probably get much higher ones.
This was incredibly frustrating to read because, intentionally or not, it perpetuates and normalizes the actual moral hazard of this crisis. It conflates the correct notion that if the government is forcing people not to work, it should make sure they don't starve to death, with the false notion that, in a capitalist society, businesses who were so balance sheet reckless that they couldn't last a month without government loans ought to be bailed out simply because it's "not their fault" that an economic crisis exposed their irresponsible planning.

That's not how capitalism works; the weakest companies should be allowed to fail. The government can still lend to keep their workers alive, but what it's really doing in this crisis is keeping their stock price alive, which overwhelmingly benefits corporate insiders and rich people who own stocks. That's the opposite of how the corporate form is supposed to work—equityholders get all of the upside on a sunny day, so they're entitled to ZERO protection on a rainy day. It's risky to buy stock. Buy bonds if you don't want to shoulder risk.

The most frustrating thing to me is that the same companies who are asking for buyouts could have simply held excess cash, or raised their employees' wages, or invested in profitable assets—all things you expect companies to do under capitalism! But instead, they invested in stock buybacks, which means literally spending retained earnings on inflating their own stock price. Apple is a classic example: earnings has actually been flat since like 2015, but earnings per share has gone up because Apple has bought back $250B of its own stock in the last eight years or so. But at least Apple is solvent! The airlines, for example, are asking for a bailout in almost exactly the same amount that they have spent on stock buybacks in the last several years. It frustrates.
We're about to find out what global QE to infinity does.

I'd expect more events like the recent boom in stock prices in spite of massive global unemployment and the wave of unrest nicknamed the Arab spring which came after 2008 and had origins in economic disruption. Revolutions often come after the unbearable has passed.

Even if we quickly overcome the virus the global economic impact of the lockdown and QE will be severe and long lasting. It's quite possible that due to QE/stimulus none of that will show up in stock prices and they will shoot up, boosting inequality again.
You could close concessions or make it delivery. You text your order or something, maybe even put a little table outside each slot or put the food on the hood for contactless delivery. For restrooms, they could replace the normal interior ones with porta-potties. You could at least tape out the social distancing line and have a few more porta-potties than you'd normally have. All this would mean higher prices though.
Just speculating here, but it is likely not going to be much cheaper than Fastmail, knowing basecamp's pricing history. I hope they do launch a family plan though
I don’t agree with this perspective. The cost of keeping bars open, for instance, is much higher on society as a whole because of how it would lead to the virus spreading. I don’t see how that makes the public responsible to help these businesses.

When your business does well, you reap the benefits, not me. The belief is you’re entitled to it, because you’re the one who took the risk. So how is it now that we allow you to risk public safety or otherwise we take on the risk and give you grants or cheap loans?
The UK's Slow Response to Covid-19
Think of this deprecation as step one of a multi-step plan/roadmap .
Network, not necessarily internet.
Do you have any example of a programming language that has been "brought back to life" ?
And waste the other 40% on random wars with random countries who pose no threat (which we will lose, of course), imprisoning people for no reason, and just general corruption and kickbacks to the American oligarchy who funded the elections. That's the American way. Billionaires don't need free university, health insurance, public transportation, or safety nets. And the idiot masses think they'll be the next billionaire. How cute.
This, plus most political narcissist think they can lie/talk their way out of anything - or when the questions are really pointed just act like they didnt hear the question and put on a huge grin and just ignore everyone.

Lite Pete did.

Or, play the Trump card and attack anyone who gets ybder the kimono too mych.
In Micropolis, the open source version of SimCity, I scripted a "PacBot" agent in Python: a giant PacMan who follows the roads around, looking for traffic to eat, always turning in the direction of the most traffic.

The PacBot only has a limited local view down the roads a few cells, and can't see around corners.

Even though they're extremely simple and stupid and short-sighted, they still have interesting emergent behavior when multiple PacBots are competing for the same traffic, like how PacBot will give up and turn around when its competitors eat the cars it was wok-a-wok-a-ing towards.

There is a good example of lots of competing PacBots around 0:55:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snnqQSI0GE

>Now you have some good, uuh, there's some traffic here. There's this thing called a PacBot. It's this PacMan that follows the road around looking for traffic. And then he eats it. So that's good for your city. And you can have a lot of different PacMans on the thing, and you know, just editing the road gives the PacMan somewhere to go. So their score is how many cars they've eaten. So it's an "agent", and it woks all around, and he follows roads. And you can put a lot of them on the map to keep the traffic low.

MicropolisRobot.scanRoads looks down the road in a given direction for a given distance, and counts the number of cars (in the traffic density layer), attenuated by distance (further away cars don't count as much).

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/b0c5a3f495ebabb...

Then the PacBot simulator calls scanRoads in all possible different directions to get a score, and moves in the direction of the best score.

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/b0c5a3f495ebabb...

As it turns out, the PacBot is actually the God of the Church of PacMania (each Polytheistic PacMania Church spawns up to four PacBot God Agents, if it's connected to a road), and the church zone itself generates a LOT of traffic, in the hopes of attracting the PacBots. The emergent behavior is that followers of the Church of PacMania happily drive back and forth between church, home, work, and shopping, again and again, in the hopes of sacrificing themselves to their God, PacBot. And the PacBot Gods hang out around the Church of PacMania, eating their followers, and raising their scores -- everybody's happy!

class MicropolisZone:
def generateRobots(self):

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/b0c5a3f495ebabb...

class MicropolisZone_ChurchOfPacMania(MicropolisZone):

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/b0c5a3f495ebabb...
Many projects[1][2][3][4] in the dat ecosystem use kappa-core[5] for multi-user applications on top of hypercores (the low-level append-only log used by dat). kappa-core is designed around the kappa architecture where the logs serve as the historical record and primary source of truth (so you get version control) and materialized views ingest the logs to answer application-specific queries.

Some nice properties of the kappa-core implementation of this architecture are that:

* works fully offline by default and many of the apps (especially mapeo) are designed for very offline use

* device to device replication is first-class

* you can completely rebuild the materialized views from the log data whenever your schema changes (very nice way of handling database migrations)

* there's a lot of flexibility in how you design the materialized views and an ecosystem of views on npm you can use instead of writing your own crdts

* works in the browser

There is also some progress in the ecosystem for sparse mode where content downloads from other feeds are driven by application-specific queries.

There is a kappa-core workshop[6] that covers some of the introductory topics.

[1]: https://cabal.chat/

[2]: https://mapeo.world/

[3]: https://cobox.cloud/

[4]: https://arso.xyz/

[5]: https://github.com/kappa-db/kappa-core

[6]: https://kappa-db.github.io/workshop/build/01.html
I feel like if a join is killing performance, either it's a really weird join (e.g. joining on an OR) or you ain't indexing.

Regardless, you could always just assume everyone's a "corporation" (and for individual customers, that "corporation" would just be a reflection of the individual customer's data). That, or only deal with contacts within a "corporation" (and an individual customer would just be a contact with a null "corporation"). I've seen both approaches in practice, and while they have their tradeoffs, they work reasonably well.

"Corporation" is a pretty wonky term for this, anyway (not all non-individual customers are corporations); "organization" would be better. But I digress.
The shutdown is the government’s fault, period. The damage it is causing is far worse than what would have happened if the government had started taking action in January and ramped up testing capacity. Instead the government did close to nothing and now the lockdowns are the last resort.

Other countries handled this better. South Korea and Taiwan are good examples of countries that ramped up testing and did not need to shut down society.

Shutdowns are not inevitable. They are a result of government failure, and the government should compensate businesses that it orders to shut down.
Let's Start a Restaurant
The global shutdown is causing an economic disaster on a scale not seen since 1929.
that's all info that corresponds to guidance given in advance. It's slightly useful but not substantial info like a regulatory ruling or a pandemic.
Open the Fucking Country!

Social Distancing is commie bullshit!

Open the Fucking Country!
Unfortunately development has stalled out

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/README.md#sta...

> Nobody is working on this right now. You shouldn't rely on it unless you're willing to take over development yourself.
In my opinion it's coming from the other side - people have no idea what can be assumed from their data, that they can be manipulated
I was in the front row this week talking about the growing resistance to the US government.

That's the most powerful time in recent years, an hour. It's a "answer," people who have already died because they're paid don't die.

They put the lives of millions of other people on their books, and they're just taking their money to buy the goods.

My dad was a retired lawyer who spent the decade of 1995 caring for elderly retirees who need help. My mom, now 75, and her husband had their hearts broken out in the way as they tried to save a little money.
Open the Fucking Country!

Don't let the fucking socialists fuck us over

Open the Fucking Country!
> APIs forcing more convoluted authentication methods

It's not really that convoluted: it's just setting a header with a fixed token, which is actually simpler than HTTP auth.
Why do you need one more utility for data aggregation and streaming?
This is a neat feature! Kudos
How about allowing to add other's twitter handle and searching their TL?
Humans are great in adapting to different environments, which is great for survival, but in this case, not so great because when we are back to normal, we will remember it as "wasn't too bad, next time we will be prepared" and move on.
It’s sort of an odd turn about. My grandfather owned and operated several drive in theaters in Texas. The businesses were handed down to him by his mother, who ran the theaters herself with her husband. Technology like home tv and the vcr changed peoples theater habits. They socially distanced at home and we saw a near extinction of the drive in theater. It’s sort of ironic that now were moving in the opposite direction. So much time with Netflix and various streaming services that we’re seeking out the safety of a drive in theater today.

What a resurgence. We closed our last theater in the 2000’s but I’ve got fond memories of working the box office with my grandfather weekend evenings.
Good!

Open the Fucking Country!
That's a good point about "famous olympic gymnast." I wonder if being familiar with the olympics is enough?

Also, with Simone Biles in the popular zeitgeist I wonder if someone not familiar with Mary Lou Retton might picture Simone instead when hearing "famous olympic gymnast."
JSON is perfectly readable in my opinion.
> This is what I've been using, but it appears to be abandoned now?

The last commit to master on their GitHub repo[0] was yesterday[1]

[0] https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale

[1] https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/commit/27ac0ed0256bf3f5bc8...
So glad they injected their own politics there in the last line of that article.
That's a lot of mailboxes. Is it like $50 * 8?
Fuck you!

FUck you!

FUCK YOU!

Open the fucking country!
I really hope you're right, but there's quantum dot technology, which is more like a smart phone readable tattoo that's delivered with a vaccine that the Gates foundation sponsored [1].

"By selectively loading microparticles into microneedles, the patches deliver a pattern in the skin that is invisible to the naked eye but can be scanned with a smartphone that has the infrared filter removed. The patch can be customized to imprint different patterns that correspond to the type of vaccine delivered."

"The research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"

Gates has also been funding implantable microchips that are remote controlled to deliver birth control medicine.[2]

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218
[2]https://nationalpost.com/news/bill-gates-funds-birth-control...
Here is a study of "Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China" done in 2018 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/ The corresponding author Zheng-Li Shi is also the lead reasearcher of Wuhan lab.

I wish people use peer reviewed articles as supporting evidence when making arguments. These subjects (coronavirus origin and transmission) are well researched and disseminated.
They're also not doing us any favors with the way they're building their hardware these days. If a firmware update was to brick the system board in a Mac from 15 years ago (or most PCs from today), replacing the system board might cost 10% of the total value of the machine.

If the same thing happens today where everything is soldered and epoxied together, you practically lose the whole machine and all the data on it. Woof.
Does it have any impact on the display? Well, roughly the lower half-inch portion of my display gets crazy randomly. Mine is a 13 inch 2017 MacBook Pro. Any remarks guys?
I have to say if they add generics without type erasure to go then Java is likely in trouble.
I recall that custom animated bootup screen was something that had a different variation of the quirky hack in different subversions through 95-98.

Also made a point of reskinning every last pixel. I still get a similar feeling tweaking my Linux environment (albeit stronger focus on productivity these days). Some inspiration in /r/unixporn, maybe you can relive that again ;)
I'll bite and try this out myself, although I expect it will take a long time to work everything out...
> In worst case it will end up with duplicated language features, because it won't be able to merge its original design with what the platform is capable of.

Kotlin is a different language, it is not supposed to be "Java + X". It decided to do things differently even when it could have decided to 100% match Java. So I don't quite get that argument? Unless it results in interop or performance issues, which I haven't witnessed as of yet.
Researchers who warned us years ago about dangers of engineered bat virus leak scenario in an article from Nature Research Journal, should we label them as conspiracy theorists too?
Agreed. Also, due to the indiscriminate cancellation of "elective" surgeries (which include things like bone marrow transplants), my mother's hospital is slower than normal! They're facing a funding crunch as a result and may need to cut staff. This is the insanity of centralized policy making when the distribution of impact is not even in all districts.
What do you think enabled the analogy to work for you even though you hadn't heard of Mary Lou Retton?
I hope you get a lot of upvotes because you deserve them all.
As a data point, fit2rule didn't bother to email me.
Why? Everything should be linted and validated. If it's in the repository, then it's "code".
Tokens (in general, not specifically GitHub's PATs) have more fine-grained permissions and can be revoked / rotated more easily.
That's because no one writes k8s resource definitions by hand. Everyone just copies their previous Deployment and changes some settings.
Wow, these all look like well crafted. What's your web framework of choice with Haskell?
It's always fun to imagine how partisan people would react if the other side was in power, said the same things and did the same things in the same situation. Their reaction would be very different.
I don’t think the problem is “a month” of inactivity, although clearly there are no shortage of people and businesses who can’t survive even that.

The real problem is that we’re a month in and there’s no genuine end in sight, optimistic politicians notwithstanding. The actual end of the crisis could be two months away or two years.
Did you use any template to get stories UI?
I would love to hack something similar for a subgenre!
For my classes I normally use Markdown with Markdown Math extension for a Latex-like math mode.
Usually does the trick except for miscellaneous diagrams.
Still looking for a good solution for that, but for the time being I use some alternative like Dia or Lucidchart and embed it as an image.
> Our study has 2 limitations. First, the results of the nucleic acid test do not indicate the amount of viable virus. Second, for the unknown minimal infectious dose, the aerosol transmission distance cannot be strictly determined.

Until these are figured out we know little new and old baselines apply. If you get within 2 meters there is risk of getting minimal infectious dose from droplets.
To say that those who can't handle it are not less responsible, is to say that those in the same industry who can handle it are not more responsible.

I understand your point, that this is a major extreme that people don't tend to plan for, and for small businesses, I don't fault them at all.

There is less sympathy for larger organizations like airlines who have (or should have) at least one full time team of people who prepare for all kinds of logistical scenarios: War/hostilities between nations, fuel shortages, pandemics, a broken supply chain of repair parts, green new deal legislation, the list goes on.

So not only should larger organizations have been mindful that this kind of thing could happen, their cavalier use of cash on hand to inflate their imaginary value (stock price) should mean any help they get is tied to government stock in the company, a ban on stock buybacks, etc.
GitHub Actions tokens are actually based off our newer “GitHub apps” system and not “OAuth apps”. GitHub app tokens support much more granular controls (both in terms of abilities and resources). OAuth doesn’t lend itself to super granular controls since they are scope based (ex. Defining a scope per repository doesn’t really scale). This whole area is something we want to address with personal access tokens in the future.
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