skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a comment from someone on the go team (bradfitz maybe) saying that the initial plan for Kubernetes was to be implemented in java, but go was chosen because it already had a lot of momentum in the container world.
Interesting! Maybe it's a Washington State thing then.
I read Google was doing something similar with the phrase “Wuhan Virus,” ostensibly to prevent “racism.” But I think that’s a very naive interpretation, especially considering that similar banned phrases from the article are used by Taiwanese commenters. It’s not racist to criticize a totalitarian regime that performs biological experiments on ethnic minorities. What other reason could there be to censor these phrases? Google is just carrying water for the Chinese Communist Party because they know where their bread is buttered.
This pairs well with the high amount of income tax return fraud.

Basically, someone files your taxes for you and steals your refund check.
That's allowed. And 'at'ing people here does nothing as far as I know.
> This forced publishers to put useless blurbs, redirecting to the HTTP version, which was a bad user experience and just sucked.

Is this that bad? I personally don't mind this at all, I subscribe to RSS feeds so I can easily tell at a glance who has an update in one place. If they then want to redirect me for the full content, then so be it, especially if the alternative is me loading every single one of those sites every day to check anyway.
> The functionality was never polished, and there were some fairly serious technical problems with the implementation due to lack of maintenance, seen often in apparently minor things like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337897.

Then that is a great justification for improving it then. Or at least bundling an RSS add-on. Mozilla felt that bundling Pocket was ok, but not one of the many great RSS add-ons?

> I can readily understand why they removed it—it was implemented in what had become the wrong way for such a feature, and fixing it would have taken more effort than they wanted to expend on such a niche feature, and it was starting to hold back other improvements.

The truth is, they did not see it as an essential part of the web, worth implementing. If you look at the other stuff that Mozilla is allocating resources for, it becomes clear that maintaining RSS support would be a drop in the bucket.

RSS could have been fixed for a fraction of the cost of one of their many dead-end research projects, or they could have swapped out the canapés for a cheaper finger food at one of their events.

The fact that anyone would call RSS "niche" is part of the problem; something can still be important even if not a lot of people use it at the moment. But that kind of nuance is something lost with this toxic market-driven mentality. Accessibility features are also "niche", should they be removed? Many people consider RSS to be a type accessibility feature. Should all accessibility features be relegated to add-ons that must be manually sought out and installed?

I don't know the details of the high level decisions at Mozilla, but I also can't help but notice that all of the decisions made by Mozilla seem to align perfectly with the interests of companies Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon.

Sending alerts to users and getting them to navigate to your platform is what big content wants. Mozilla agrees that that is the future and that RSS is obsolete and apparently holding them back. Mozilla has no problem implementing whatever Google wants and always being behind Chrome. Mozilla also decided to legitimize web DRM with its embrace of EME.

> (Similar deal to why they broke old extensions: they were holding the browser back technically, and a couple of years later I think it was fairly clearly the right decision, painful though it was.)

Honestly this is a whole other discussion, but I would dispute that they made the right decision. If browser extensions are just toys to you, then I'm sure you appreciate how streamlined and simple they are now.
Here's the GitHub issue:

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/116

The discussion isn't terribly clear to me. Is this non-determinism in which random number gets used where, like if you seed an RNG once and then use it from multiple threads that get scheduled in varying order? That wouldn't be good, but the model would still be performing as intended, just with no way to make it deterministic for testing. Or is it some other kind of non-determinism?

I'm not sure anyone knows, which indeed isn't totally comforting. I'm not sure the "bug uncertainty" is any bigger than all the existing known uncertainty about the assumptions that go in to his (or any such) model, though.
That reminds me of an episode of the Jim Henson show "Dinosaurs". Earl's house got hit by a rock that fell from space. Well, the insurance didn't pay -- he had "meteor" insurance, but what hit is house was a "meteorite". They said if his house was floating in space, then he would be covered. (Technically, he still wouldn't be covered, because in space it would be a meteoroid).
> That it comes with a SQL builder is just a necessity in order for the mapping to be done by the ORM.

That's only true if you need the "relational" part of an ORM - mapping a flat list of values onto a structure of related objects. If you only need to map a flat list of values onto a single object's fields, you don't need a query builder.

I wrote a C# SQLite library along those lines: raw SQL and simple object mapping. https://github.com/zmj/sqlite-fast
Not being facetious, but how do you define progress?
An independent application security assessment would need to be performed prior to handoff of the code base (with follow ups each time you cut a new release), but if you can meet the requirements of all 50 states (not trivial, but also likely not overly onerous), that’s a huge reduction in duplicated effort.

Glad I could provide something to ponder!
My personal favorite is Piet, where all programs are images: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
In context of how much "personal identifiable information" (e.g. SSN) that is stolen through data breaches in the USA - it's hardly a surprise.

The list of breaches just goes on-and-on: https://krebsonsecurity.com/category/data-breaches/
I don't think this kind of characterization is helpful. There are plenty of reasons to oppose state-mandated identifiers without resorting to this kind of anti-Christian scapegoating.

Can you not imagine a single abusive use of identifiers by the government upon the people?
You have to look at the most rural and poor communities in the nation to understand why it can be both expensive and difficult. Birth certificates for instance, are often not present or available, nor are the agencies that provide the necessary documents accessible. Many times they are hundreds of miles from the person in need and the costs, and necessary steps can be extreme to a person with very little funds or resources.
you should see the bunkers congress built themselves with taxpayer money, like we really want them to be the only ones to survive

somewhere by now, some general has decided he wants to monitor icbms via internet and the lowest bidder has used something wildly unpatched and never updated

btw after seeing how half the population refuses to isolate or even wear a mask can you just imagine them actually staying in bunkers during nuclear fallout, deadly radiation just like a virus they can't see so how can it possibly hurt them?
This is exactly what my doctor in Oregon does. I've never had to deal with a handwritten prescription.
Not browsing per se but I've been reading https://datadass.dev/ and reading source code of various storage engines and their documentation. SQLite and Postgres have a very good documentation with implementation details. The plan is to write my own storage engine. I'm creating a spec for my own implementation for now. This has been keeping me busy while I'm not doing my regular work.
To add more on the fire: you can fly without identification in the US.

Source: have personally done it twice
I think Spotify joined forces with Genius. And that trivia is from Genius. Sometimes the trivia is good, but I would have loved a simple lyrics widget.
The problem is that easy queries are easy, who cares about orm, and hard ones are too hard for orm. I haven't been able to see the benefits in either easy or hard projects.
South Korea and a number of other countries have had real world success with it, and have been able to open up fairly safely.

Of course, they had politicians who reacted quickly, firmly, universally, and most importantly early. In the USA, Corona was allowed to grow much much more and far fewer resources were brought to bear in an effective way against it. So its going to be much more difficult to get back under control, but not impossible, if we can turn it around.

Whats really happening besides that though is that the world is watching the self proclaimed world leader be the least competent and most impotent in their response, and throw its hands up and give up on good strategies like contact tracing. Its embarrasing.
Coincidentally I've also just released a command line client for Alpaca [0] written in Rust along with a library backing it [1].

Interesting timing :-)

[0] https://github.com/d-e-s-o/apcacli

[1] https://github.com/d-e-s-o/apca
I know many Republicans (the “states rights” people) who have no problem with a National ID. Granted, some of them have their beliefs based on an unfounded belief of “illegals can vote and the Democrats want that.”
To anyone interested in a deeper treatment of quicksort and variants thereof, I can recommend Sebastian Wild's PhD thesis on that topic: https://kluedo.ub.uni-kl.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/44...
I guess we can't escape the cost to implement that, even if that cost is subsided by the government. However, once it is in place there should be enough saving from increased efficiency to compensate that cost.
Tomatoes are fruits but are considered vegetables by Dept of Agriculture, and most people who cook, serve, or eat them.
Nix v Hedden [1] cracks me up every time it gets referenced.

"Gray acknowledged that botanically, tomatoes are classified as a "fruit of the vine"; nevertheless, they are seen as vegetables because they were usually eaten as a main course instead of being eaten as a dessert."

"Both the plaintiffs' counsel and the defendant's counsel made use of the dictionaries. The plaintiffs' counsel read in evidence from the same dictionaries the definitions of the word tomato, while the defendant's counsel then read in evidence from Webster's Dictionary the definitions of the words pea, eggplant, cucumber, squash, and pepper.[5] Countering this, the plaintiff then read in evidence from Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries the definitions of potato, turnip, parsnip, cauliflower, cabbage, carrot and bean."

Toy Biz v United States [2] is another great one, especially if you're a nerd (like me) who loves reading the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (e.g. https://twitter.com/asciimike/status/1258780502837932035).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States
Indeed, some of our main concerns are about user speed. We also know some concrete use cases where 3 decades old systems are still in place because none of the previous attempts at modernizing the application were able to allow for even half of the speed -- and, in one of those use cases, user speed was really, really mandatory.

When I talk about those cases, people usually argue that those systems are being used by "old farts" who will always resist to the change. However, it's really interesting to notice that even the younger users prefer those old systems because of their reliability and speed.

Overall, I think there's a huge misunderstanding about UX. I mean, things like Material Design animations and icons are nice but, in business applications, users want simply to query/input their stuff from/into the system and leave and go to do the rest of their jobs. They don't want to feel "pleased", they don't want to "experience" the software.

The software should operate as an extension of their minds and they don't even want to realize they are using it.
Would lobsters in the kitchen of the Titanic have survived when it sank?
Would I be correct in guessing that you are more likely to write an abstract class in the next month than to write a higher order function?

Part of the problem in these discussions is that there are at least 2 populations with vastly different work flows. Which would be less of an issue if I were part of the majority enjoying “mob rule”
That explains why I see so many "volunteer" tax preparers on various sites.
Sandboxing front-end apps from GitHub with Docker
I think we might be taking past each other. A bank and money transmitters are required to meet AML and KYC requirements (in this case, making sure the illicitly obtained funds aren’t laundered with mules or other means), but I propose that it’s the state unemployment insurance department’s responsibility to put benefits into the right deposit accounts in the first place.
Colemak
Textbook history is black people, women, and other minorities in this country faced persecution, oppression, or straight out didn’t have the right to vote. White men have been running the show, and they’re still more or less running the show in red states.
Which is really awful. Always showing tabloid nonsense that you can't get rid of.
I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on.

For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths:

https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/

It turns you can make quite a bit driving for GH/UE (well in some geographies), so much so that a $15/hr job with benefits is unattractive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/comments/gkmuc4/wo...

I want to work towards a just world, but I believe the first step is to really understand the system of incentives and what is actually happening on the ground, as opposed to simply taking in oversimplified media narratives.

Subreddits are watering holes for folks in the field. I think their unvarnished perspectives are interesting data points (albeit skewed towards a Reddit-centric demographic).
> that is stolen

Or just straight up sold by the government: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438289.
In my opinion, the most common mistake is not in the article : using kubernetes when you don't need to.

Kubernetes has a lot of pros or the papers but in practice it's not worth it for most small and medium companies.
My psychiatric nurse practitioner certainly wanted to reduce her own possible COVID-19 exposure here in the Seattle area but stressed that she could not call or send in the prescriptions for Adderall because of government regulations. Unclear who that regulating body is however.
What Does Jay-Z’s Fight over Audio Deepfakes Mean for the Future of AI Music?
The same reason we don't go around saying we have oral herpes.

You may be atypical. Many people are uncomfortable with disease/death of others (for I suspect selfish reasons and fears).
> The fear for many likely doesn't even come from the book of Revelation but rather from a popular Christian series of novels based on one person's interpretation of Revelation.

If you are referring to the Left Behind series by LaHaye & Jenkins, they are two people, and the fear was widespread in the community before that series became popular; the relevant interpretation in the book is based on what were already widespread concepts.

> I'd bet most people afraid of the mark of the beast haven't even read Revelation.

I dunno, the segment in which the fear is concentrated is pretty much the same segment that fetishizes personal reading of the Bible, so I suspect you'd be surprised.

OTOH, I don't think for most of them there is a relationship between independent reflection on the source material and it's context and the fear being discussed, it's definitely something that is usually taken on the same type of top down interpretive authority that the Protestantism was in significant part a reaction against existing in Catholicism.
you nailed it: In simple cases the abstraction doesn't help enough to justify including it and in complex ones it actually makes things much more complicated because it just doesn't work right.

Ultimately it's useless for both.
For the squeamish: brown recluse venom is necrotic, it causes flesh around the bite to decay. This doesn't always happen, but it happens enough to be alarming.
It will be easier to treat the machine as hostile (like any piece of untrusted Internet infrastructure) and not give it access to any sensitive data, so put it on a separate network (or be mindful of the risk and only use encrypted protocols on your LAN) and only have your kid use it for school resources and no personal stuff at all than to try and fight the school to uninstall it - don't log into any personal accounts, etc. The camera can be taken care of with a piece of electrical tape. For the microphone you can find the mic hole and destroy it with something sharp like a needle. If your son needs to use the mic you can give him a wired one (I recommend USB ones) or a Bluetooth one (AirPods are great in this case).
Damage in the legal sense, for property, is something that causes a reduction in the value, or the ability to enjoy the property. Even if the spiders went inherently valuable of being harmful, the face that many people are fearful of spiders makes an infestation effective damage.
In the state of Oregon, you can't get the 'real' stuff without a prescription. So you get to pay for a Dr visit, to get decent cough medicine. Or you stock up when you are near Washington. :-)
Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer of Tink.

We've added tons of new features since 2018, including support for two new languages Golang and Python.

The team has grown from 4 20% contributors to 5 full-time and countless contributors.

Please checkout the following release notes for a list of changes:

https://github.com/google/tink/releases/tag/v1.3.0

https://github.com/google/tink/releases/tag/v1.4.0-rc1
Isn’t “percentage of occupied beds w/ covid” a terrible metric? As states open up and elective surgeries, car accidents etc increase the denominator will inevitably increase and this will appear to go down regardless of any positive change. What is wrong with the much simpler metric of “number of beds used by covid patients”?
UK Covid-19 briefing hit by Zoom technical issues
I can't really blame them, there was an article posted here a few days ago about a woman in New Zealand who was stalked based on the contact tracing info she was required to give up at Subway.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23179175
Usually not if coupled with a mandate that the government provide everyone such an ID at no cost (yes, yes, "nothing's free", but everyone knows what that means). The breakdown is that one side wants to require ID to vote, and the other side is OK with that if there's a program such that every citizen is issued ID for basically no effort, cost, or hassle, and is registered for voting and residency with similar ease (so there must not be renewal crap, problems sorting out issues at the polling place if there's a discrepency, that kind of thing—cannot make voting harder, and if done right should make it easier)—but that's a non-starter because of the things already mentioned (plus some others reasons, but stating the public and explicit, not inferred, positions of certain political factions in my first post apparently rubbed some people the wrong way, so I'll refrain from mentioning those).

If 100% of citizens for-sure had an ID there wouldn't be disagreement on the issue. Using such an ID and whatever residency registration program was associated with it would save money and hassle over maintaining voting rolls, overzealous purging of which is another thing the left doesn't like, would allow automatic voter registration, and so on. This would broaden franchise, in practice.
So potentially even worse. Somebody decides they don't like variable-width encodings and uses UTF-32 and now 72 bytes doesn't even get you 20 code points, only 18.

But it's the same principle no matter where you cut. User thinks they can use an arbitrarily long password, puts a long but low entropy or easily guessable string at the front and makes up for it by having some good entropy at the end, and then you chop off the end.
Slight correction where I was unclear: I don’t call RSS niche, but RSS reading within the browser itself.
Switching to My Own Cloud
But Netflix is different from a gigging band, venue and cinema, whose financial models are based on actual ticket sales not whatever the hell Netflix's is. It takes so much labour and money for them to get eyeballs filtered through social media and paper ads and to attract customers to their sites. So for them this would simply be almost a free extra way to drive traffic.

I think you're making a valid point about Netflix, but not seeing how it applies to more traditional financial models?
I don't think this aircraft, former callsign "NIGHTWATCH-01" is used much any more.

In its place, is a group of US Navy TACAMO E-6B Aircraft, which are basically converted Boeing 707's outfitted with sophisticated communications equipment. There are usually 3 to 4 of these E-6 Mercury's in the air at any given point during the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury

The reason why the US Navy operates them is they host a huge long-wire antenna that unspools out of the tail of the aircraft and is used to communicate VLF (very low frequency) transmissions to submarines. It is super slow speed data - usually along the lines of "surface for more info" type messages. But since they provide that critical communications link to submarines, from an airborne capacity, they've been pressed into service to function as an overall airborne command post.

Their primary communications capabilities are:

1) VLF as mentioned above, using a long wire spool out the tail to send short messages to submarines.

2) Satellite - to maintain general worldwide coverage

3) UHF Orderwire - which is a nationwide air to ground digital/analog orderwire network - basically a huge digital data and voice conference line. The ground based GEP (Ground Entry Points) are interconnected via AT&T hardened communications links and hosted on AT&T microwave towers all across the country.

4) UHF Air to Ground capabilities to send command and control messages to US missile silos

5) HF Radio communications capabilities as a backup to satellite and orderwire.
After UK exits, none.

Apple News is available in a whopping 4 countries, 4 years after its introduction.
Haha in a sense this is also a "whale fall". In fact, this is more of "whale fall" than the original article. The whale literally fell from the sky!
> https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/texa...

Am I missing something? It doesn't look like this has any data on hospitalizations. The graphs are all based on "projected" data.
iOS: Different ways to check for String suffix in Swift
Guy who stands behind this has insane CV

2015- Jagiellonian University, Institute of Computer Science, assistant professor,

2013-2014 Purdue University, NSF Center for Science of Information, Postdoctoral researcher (webpage),

2006-2012 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, PhD in Theoretical Physics (thesis)

2004-2010 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, PhD in Theoretical Computer Science (thesis)

2001-2006 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, MSc in Theoretical Physics (thesis)

2000-2005 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, MSc in Theoretical Mathematics (thesis)

1999-2004 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, MSc in Computer Science (thesis)