skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know but somehow the ockam.io page being blank except the menu somehow does not inspire confidence...
Hire talent impacted by recent layoffs
You can set messages to expire in keybase:

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-exploding-messages
> Could they operate, so long as they implemented a mechanism to scan for and report child pornography?

Signal's model is that their servers are never able to understand any user content. You can't effectively scan for prohibited content on the client side for several reasons:

A) someone who wants to send or receive prohibited content could alter the client to skip the checks.

B) shipping the check to the clients makes it possible for distributors to run the checks and alter their content until it passes the checks.

If client side filtering was effective, the ask should be for Google, Microsoft, and Apple to scan and report prohibited content on their operating systems, which together cover the vast majority of user terminals.
The evidence isn't strong. That said 5G does expose you to more base station radiation than ever before, with cells of up to 120W and a cell every neighborhood block. Compare to 4G with cells of 20W and a cell every city block or two.

So to me it's always seemed rational to at least revisit the question and reaffirm it's still fine.

We've reversed course on plenty of things that were once believed to be fine, or once believed to be harmful! Trans fats, asbestos, lead, sun, saturated fats, sugar, exercise, etc etc.

Though, the antenna in your phone exposes you to more radiation than the base station, so that's probably the more important question. Perhaps with higher base station density, the mobile devices actually reduce output.
Even without changing behavior, R0 can change as a virus enters different conditions. The flu in the winter (aka: Flu season) has higher R0 than the flu in the summer. Even if all humans acted the same in both cases.

R0 is assumed to be a constant so that the math / models work. But it really changes dramatically in practice. Maybe someone else will eventually make a model where the constant is more... constant. But until then, we will continue to use this model.
I'm not much into web development professionally, but it's something I learn and use a bit as both a hobby and for personal projects. I looked at Elm a while back (maybe two years ago, but I'm not sure exactly). I decided against it after I ran into some issues related to language instability and old documentation. I dug a little further and it appeared to be how the Elm project was run, so I stayed away.

On your second point

> I haven't used the language, but I believe open source projects must be maintained by their maintainers as they see fit.

I totally agree. But I also think it's good when others point out the weaknesses in the project publicly, to prevent people from wasting time or having to deal with certain personalities. As long as it's true and done in a professional manner, an important part of open source is harsh public criticism.
I am thinking of various functions. For example, when a concept is introduced and later, when the concept appears again, one can immediately see what it was when it is first introduced. That's why I said it's like an IDE.
Why some states have problems with their COBOL based systems
Spectacular! Well done on shipping a product/service which I've wanted for a long time. In particular the financing option will enable me to take the leap into the world of fine art for the first time.
At one point ICQ had real time chat — you saw the keys the other person pressed as they typed.
Flex Ethernet is that attempt to standardize the lane stripping at whatever speed. Unfortunately that effort has grown to incorporate a kitchen sink worth of other features like groups and shaping... Which raises the hardware implementation cost and lowers the adoption rate.

https://www.oiforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OIF-FLEXE...

At the 100G/200G/400G/800G specs are highly repetitive and the only points of debate are the type of FEC required given the high speed signals, signal loss for cost effective board/cable/optics and how parallel the FEC will be (tradeoff of hardware implementation cost and added latency). FEC has been 2 engines in parallel since 400G.
> The terrorists and pedophiles that are the most dangerous are using far more sophisticated means of communication

Terrorism is mostly opportunistic radicals communicating via YouTube and Twitter and Fox News, or national / quasinational governments that are brazen and flagrant and don't need to worry about being noticed.
Agree with this, he is no wall flower. Its harder to meet someone more passionate about Red Hat than Paul.
Yeah, I get that. I was planning on exploring around drug discovery if at all for COVID. Not that I understand the drugs part of it, but data exploration around past virus + vaccines might help get some insights.
My analogy was to compare wood and vinyl as building materials for flooring (I guess I omitted that) and asking if the existence of something newer invalidates something older.

I am skeptical that all language features make code better. It shifts the complexity from the code to the programmer. In order to read a piece of code, I need to potentially keep up with all of the new language features, which is a huge burden in C++.

Those new features also have a tendency for complicating otherwise simple things. Like all of the edge cases that arise from objects with moving and exceptions. Sure the code might look simpler, but there is a lot more going on in the background you have to keep track of.

When I write C++ now, it is typically as C with a few constexprs and templates thrown in. I try to avoid most of the new features because they just distract me from writing code that works.
Yep, we know the CIA makes kill decisions based on metadata.
Code looks really clean. What's the naming reasoning behind `mdxComponents`. Does mdx mean something?

`Blockqute` is that a typo?

I like how you handle MenuItems on mobile.
I am not sure if this is accurate but intuitively, in strong psychedelic experiences it feels that both the DMN and DAT are active at the same time, which leads to, among many other things, a clearheaded view of mental processes that are hard to observe otherwise. One example would be observing emotions and how they affect your state of mind, while at the same time being totally detached from them. Some studies [1] propose that this happens because of an increase in connectivity between various parts of the brain, which could also be the thing that leads to ego dissolution.

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)...
All Your Memories Are Stored by One Weird, Ancient Molecule
Thanks for the heads up...Maybe the build we did this morning has a bug for firefox. Let me take a look.
Sandboxie Open Source Code is available for download
If you like car racing sims Project Cars 2 with a good wheel/pedal (G92/G920 etc) is sublime, like really good fun.

PavlovVR is CS:GO in VR and done really well, hilariously good fun.
I worked in the semiconductor industry in the 90's, when it was going through many waves of layoffs and plant closings as the manufacturing went overseas. It is actually the right way to do things, to say to your employees "we're going to have a layoff soon, it will be about this many people, those laid off will get this severance package". Then, you announce it publicly, the same day you've announced it internally. People get a few days to let it sink in, which does suck, but if you have any kind of severance then you know that it's not like dying, and you get treated a little more like an adult.

Compare to the way things were done in the early 80's when the same industry was new at this, they did it as a "surprise" all at once, hustling people out the door and people don't have any time to exchange email addresses with coworkers, etc.

Of course, if you're not offering any severance package, then you have more of an incentive to do things the wrong way...
"BTW, one of Signal's weaknesses is that you MUST use a phone number with it. If you're savvy you realize this can be a Twilio number you control making your account immune from SIM hijacking."

Does Signal not ever send messages from, or otherwise use, SMS shortcodes ?

I ask because no twilio number can receive an SMS shortcode (because no twilio number is classified as a "mobile" number).

Genuinely curious.
The "other extensions" are part of Postgres core, and are just "extensions" in the sense that they're loadable modules that are not loaded by default.

PostGIS is a whole big external thing that Postgres doesn't ship with.

Any running Postgres cluster can load and use the extensions in the article, with no ops work. Even environments like RDS have these extensions available.

If you want PostGIS, you need to explicitly run PostGIS; if you want PostGIS-as-a-Service, you need to find someone who is explicitly offering PostGIS-as-a-Service.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/fxmx3s/sandboxie_op...
Land, Dugin, Moldbug, and Rorty is not French.
> The data on this are so clear

No, they're not. The data are a mess. Temperature records have been "adjusted" and the original raw data thrown away all over the place. I understand you don't believe this; I'm simply stating what I believe for the record. As I said, we're clearly not going to agree.

> I feel your opposition on this issue is ideological, and there's no data that will change your mind.

I have spent two decades now closely following the global warming/climate change alarmism issue. What I'm basing my statements on here is not ideological opposition to anything: it's the result of two decades of watching a long con in operation. And note carefully that this does not mean that I don't think the climate is changing or that I don't think we will need to do things to deal with climate change. It simply means that I do not trust the people or the institutions that are clamoring about catastrophe if we don't spend trillions of dollars to stop CO2 emissions now. Those people and institutions have no credibility with me after what I've seen them do for the past two decades, and what I've gone back and found out about what they did further back than that.

> Switching from fossil fuels brings huge benefits.

Agreed. But we don't have to spend trillions of dollars on CO2 mitigation to do that. We just have to, you know, switch. Spending money on CO2 mitigation (unless by "CO2 mitigation" you just mean "build more non-CO2 emitting power plants") hinders that, it doesn't help it.

I mostly agree with your points on energy security, decentralization, removing government distortions of the market (I think this is a good idea in every sphere, not just energy), and air pollution. Kudos to you for including small nuclear plants, btw; most people don't. The only caveats I would make are:

Decentralized power from solar or wind won't provide reliable base load power in many places, at least not without a solution to the energy storage problem that currently doesn't exist except for very small loads. You need small nuclear plants. Hydro by itself can't really be decentralized, since there are only a limited number of good locations for it and basically all of them are already developed. (Hydro in the form of pumped storage powered by solar or wind is a different matter; for many small scale needs that might be a viable solution to the energy storage problem.)

Electric transport is great, except for one mode: airplanes. I just don't see a viable alternative to liquid chemical fuels for airplanes any time soon. But that can be dealt with by using other energy sources to make liquid fuels, either by directly powering chemical reactions or by using living organisms like algae.
Or you could just ask here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/findareddit/
Zoom goes from conferencing app to the Pandemic's Social Network
Used to work in an art gallery. Lots of people finance art.
Seems awesome from the outset. I especially like "Datomic stores all history, and lets you query against any point in time."
> Since you're American, I believe that your root problem is

Please keep nationalistic flamebait out of HN comments. I'm sure you didn't mean it in a bad way, but intent doesn't communicate itself on the internet, and the track record of little pokes like that is that they lead to flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment would be fine without that first bit. It would be more accurate, too. Many Americans are well aware of the problems with productivity worship. Many have "tried sitting alone in a room". Some have even read Pascal's maxim about it.
Oh if only it were that simple :) I don't think Airbnb's CTA will work for anyone but Airbnb.
There is certainly different flavors of "passion", and I'd personally prefer a different one. Oh well.
Not algorithms — but you can detect linguistic structures that writers use like crutches. Some examples:

-Shakespeare and hendiadys (e.g. "sound and fury", "quick and dead"). Hendiadys are obliquely related words joined by "and" to reinforce one another. They often sound better than the adjective-ized versions, like "furious sound" or "quickly dead".

-Shakespeare and the personification of abstract nouns (e.g. "The better part of valour is discretion" or "the very heart of loss") With this technique, you attribute properties to the word itself — giving valour "parts" or loss a "heart". Another example: "Give me that man / That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him." — that abstract noun "passion" becomes a slaveowner. A lot of Shakespeare's quotable quotes are set up like this. Which makes sense — "John's passion" doesn't lend to universal soundbites, while capital-P "passion" doing the action, is something everyone can identify with.

-At a simpler level, you can look at someone like Mary Karr, who heavily relies on similes ("she had a butt like two bulldogs in a bag"). The "algorithm" here is basically powering-up any description, with a comparison joined by like/as/than
Palantir expects revenue to top $1B this year
If you think about it bats like a very specific set of parameters in their environment. If this is off balance due to pollution or electric pollution then the bats can get stressed and in essence be taking cues from the earth that things are off balance. The earth is using the bat as an incubator of the antibodies to resolve this issue.
Confirmed fixed. Thanks!
By compiler magic I really mean syntax reserved to the language itself; for example, Java's String having extra operator superpowers or Go's generics that are only available to a chosen set of standard collections.
(Legacy) ICQ has widespread adoption in the criminal underground. If you were a security service it probably had the highest signal to noise ratio of any network.
Its the co-CEO strategy, or two in box. Its becoming quite popular as of late.
Yikes, thanks for the title edit moderator - I understand what you are looking for in a title like this, now.

Unfortunately translating the pluses to and breaks the semantics. If you see this, should I just re-submit it with a better title?
Not to say there isn't nutritional benefits to wild wheat and carrots and whatever (I've no idea to be honest), but I don't think the nutritional value was at the front of their mind when our ancestors began understanding agriculture. If it stopped them being hungry I think that's all that mattered, because it was the wilderness and that's basically all wild animals think about. I can definitely see it being a supplement to hunting initially, in order to reduce the number of hunts required, and only afterwards as we made improvements to our techniques and crops would the nutritional requirements from the crops become a focus point.

I don't know shit about this topic though, I'm just trying to put myself in their shoes (or feet as the case would be).
Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
My university just provided us with free Coursera accounts until the end of summer. However, there's so many courses to choose from that I don't know where to start! Please recommend me a course that you liked, preferably from the following areas:

- UX design

- bioinformatics

- statistics for data science

- mathematical analysis

- algebra or category theory

But of course, you don't need to stick to those categories, I'd love to learn about anything new!
After you load TestFlight and Signal build onto your phone, make a full encrypted local backup via iTunes.[0] Upload that backup image somewhere. Turn off Find My (iPhone) to disable activation lock. Restore iPhone to factory setttings. Return iPhone to factory sealed box. Optional: mail phone to self at destination or other location of your choosing in destination. Cross border. When at desired use location, unbox phone. Fetch backup you made earlier. Restore backup to iPhone. Use Signal.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/back-up-your-ios-devi...
IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1: Java 14, dataflow analysis assistance in the debugger, Lig
If, like say Facebook, they expected their revenues to come back once the lockdown-forced recession is over, that's probably what they would have done. Yelp had problems before this, so this is just what's forcing them to do it now as opposed to later.
I might be wrong but as I've understood it Builder Pattern is mostly used as a solution to mitigate mutable state from being accidentally shared. Which is duct taping around the complexity instead of removing it.

In Swift the copy on write happens as an implementation detail:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43486408/does-swift-copy...

I don't really know why but the coding patterns (what I call culture) that are popular for each language are very, very different even when they can support the same feature-set.
Vector Maths for Game Development
Very insightful article! I like how you retrospectively analyze advice you were given. Maybe I will do a meta retrospective analysis in a few years :)
There are also legal aspects to doing layoffs (WARN Act, providing return transportation to home country for employees on certain visas[1], plus state-specific legislation like in California). Unethical companies have gone without doing these things in the past, so accountability is in everyone's interest here.

[1] 8 USC §1184 (c)(5)(A): In the case of an alien who is provided nonimmigrant status under section 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) or 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of this title and who is dismissed from employment by the employer before the end of the period of authorized admission, the employer shall be liable for the reasonable costs of return transportation of the alien abroad.
Looks like a nightmare to me, but I also prefer a single monitor with workspaces where most of my coworkers seem to feel the more monitors the better.
We see a lot of great artists from the EU, and other parts of the world (I'm from Europe!) As soon as we figure out international shipping and taxes we're excited to start onboarding artists in those regions.
Huh. It looks fine on my Firefox browser...tell me more.
Oh, he's not going to like the phrase "Oracle-style" at all. Another thing people should know about Paul Cormier is that his hatred for Oracle knows no bounds. There's certainly no love lost between the two companies at any level, but even in that context the depth of his loathing for them seemed notable. Some might say excessive. I was there for eight years BTW.
The article cites an opinion piece by Peter Doshi. I'm seeing some claims opposing his credibility on other pieces: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/flu-vaccine-dangers/ Who is this guy?
I can imagine a web editor with some "3d space" flair. You have your HTML/JS/CSS editor in front of you, but imagine strands connecting CSS rules to the HTML elements in the preview window, which is floating slightly to your right. Or the page being previewed can even be the size of a 5-storey building which seems to be standing across the street.

For another interesting use case, how about a 3d debugger that lets you follow a program flow over multiple classes and stacks...
> why is she always on the worst side when it comes to privacy

Because she is a terrible Senator. Please, please, please stop voting for her already.
Like most large companies, it depends on your team and assignment.
I hope I'm not to late to the party but I'm building a project doing just this. It's called Anyfig and allows you to create your configs during runtime in Python for pure-Python projects. Check it out :) https://github.com/OlofHarrysson/anyfig
I'm responding to this statement and showing how it is rather ignorant:

1. The police are either lazy or incompetent if they say they cannot trace criminals because of E2E secure chat.

As for the rest of your comments: The feds are watching criminals online because lots of crime is committed online. I do not think weakening encryption will help them in this pursuit.
Thanks for reading, y'all!

I am quite new to anything lisp-y, but I did my best to honor the lisp wizards that came before me with this one.
Windows 10 will support Linux file systems inside File Explorer
its very possible and widely touted that it could go the other way, in that Red Hat takes over IBM (culturally. Red Hat certainly has a strong enough culture to do that.
> To me it seems like they are thinking a generation or two ahead with their tooling while the outside observers can't imagine anything beyond 80s era language design.

Given the ML and Modula-3 influences in Swift, and the Xerox PARC work on Mesa/Cedar, it looks quite 80s era language design to me.
I'm planning on migrating all our Postman documentation away to https://github.com/slatedocs/slate if that's what you mean.

PS. The reason why we're moving away from Postman is due to some tiny issue[1] that has caused lots of "you need to click here to see everthing" conversations.

[1] : https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/57...
There seems to be an awful lot of convergence (critical phenomena, maybe) happening in information processes (e.g. NNs). That must be what the author means by transcending perspectives.
Europe heroically defends itself against veggie burgers
> I doubt they boiled water just to drink it.

With daytime highs in the -40s, you have to heat snow and ice to make it liquid. You can't drink it if you don't.
Sou you agree that more people are looking at Android than at clearpath, and so the number of zero days found isn't necessary representative of the implicit security, but instead is also a function of interest, which is what I said like 8 posts upthread, and which point you disagreed with it.

I can't tell if you have a point you're making, or if you're just trying to disagree with me :/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude

Although if jocularity in your message whooshed over my head I apologise for that.
Might be related to https://mdxjs.com
Eo-YAML: YAML for Java. A user-friendly OOP library
Lex Fridman's AI podcast: https://lexfridman.com/ai/