skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some phone directories were said to include made up names and numbers that could be used to copyright phone directories. i.e. Company A provides a phone directory with a smattering of nonsense data contained within, Company B copies that wholesale which gives Company A ammunition in a copyright case as they point to the nonsense data and ask Company B to explain why they are included (which they obviously can't without saying, "We copied your directory"). This may just be urban lore.
> Germany strongly respects individual privacy

Citation needed. Germany is a mess on that topic. On the one hand, we have ridiculous things like "police stations can't have cameras monitoring the sidewalk next to them because of privacy concerns", on the other hand we're obligated by law to inform the government when we move (with heavy fines if you do not comply immediately), and the data will be shared with our state media so they can collect their its-not-a-tax-media-tax, and political parties so they can send you ads (at least you can reject this, but it's opt-out, not opt-in).

As with many things in Germany, many things about privacy are missing the forest for the trees. We'll enforce with furious diligence things that are irrelevant, while you can't buy SIM cards anonymously and they're pushing for laws that might outlaw VPN services, there are regular pushes for removing "anonymity" from the internet etc.
> I'm starting to feel globalization is a race to the bottom for everyone but the owners

And the people in Canada who can get paid twice as much - or the people in Ukraine who can get paid ten times as much as before.
It flattens the competitive landscape globally, so it is a loss for those who were the highest earners previously without much competition (US, Switzerland, London) but a gain for people everywhere else.
...in the alternative history timeline where Churchill was the communist and Stalin the tory.
Gore said it would all be melted by 2012.
> Reilly uses EarlyBrd to find folks who need help with Ubiquiti Wi-Fi gear and tell them about Hostifi.

This should be on your home page. It made me want to buy your product.
You're trying to put words in my mouth. You're the one who was making claims.
Trump is not going to kick out Twitter.

Trump is a smart man. He has trouble handling the coronavirus so the best thing he can do is shift focus.

I think this article adds nothing. In fact, if you take a closer look it just says: 'Trump threatened to close Twitter and Thomas Jarzombek invites Twitter to Berlin.'.
Package managers are not red flags, the packages, its vendors and procedures behind those are.

When you download a software update for your kernel you are trusting the Linux Foundation and your upstream vendor. They are supposed to have proper processes in place, they sign the binaries and may even have a support contract with you.

When you put a random URL as a dependency, you are just trusting some random person over the Internet not to screw it up.

Re: Python libraries. The topic of this thread was about "small scripts and tasks". The point of Python and its "batteries included" is that you don’t need external libraries to accomplish common tasks. It is a mistake to use external helper libraries in your scripts (not apps).
And even if that doesn't work out, you'll have a lot more domain knowledge than you did before, so if you do hire someone else you'll be able to work with them easier, understand the work they're doing, and have a better chance of noticing if you're being taken for a ride.
The key and broader issue here is that Twitter has become a global channel for official governmental communication.

As such Twitter should come up with a clear and transparent policy on this (have they?). It's not specific to Trump.

IMHO, tweets by heads of states should not be subjected to any moderation, and perhaps replies should not be allowed.

Now, what someone tweets in one country may be an offence in another country so it is possible that Twitter might still have to make certain tweets by heads of states unavailable in some other countries.

This is not a simple issue but it will only grow.
I have a big pile of them in JBOD for use as storage only and they are fine. Most of mine are SMR and I wouldn't have known so until I looked them up.
Slick landing page, gets immediately to the point. Congrats on launching

You might want to consider adding an on-premise plan? I think most DBs are not publicly exposed on the internet?
They were going to make it a democracy in the 60s until China said they’d invade if they did.

> China's leaders explicitly wanted to "preserve the colonial status of Hong Kong".[21] Liao Chengzhi, a senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, said in 1960 that China "shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories liberated" should the status quo (i.e. colonial administration) be changed. The warning killed any democratic development for the next three decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_development_in_Ho...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pus...
Is not reincarnation the only way to move from one caste to another?
I once read somewhere that while designing Hypercard, Bill Atkinson used to consume LSD in order to get some mental boost.
I fully concede that you know more about Puerto Rico and its politics than I do, however the point I’m making is not really diminished by that.

What I’m saying is, there should be no option of quasi-citizenship. Either you enjoy all the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship, or you don’t.

We’ve already settled this argument long ago so it’s just a question of whether we’ll fairly enforce the conclusion we came to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-class_citizen
The original 2TB - 3TB - 4TB - 6TB Reds with the 'EFRX' suffix were CMR, the later ones with the 'EFAX' suffix are SMR drives.
> My best guess is that Jack plans to move the company headquarters out of the US which would explain why he chose to allow remote work indefinitely.

So he can have HQ in a cheap country, but pay SV salaries to the now remote workers in SV? Does not make much sense to me.
Importantly, the news crew was released about an hour later (per CNN).
The mood is going entirely in the other direction in Europe though, i.e. they want platforms to police speech even more. That's certainly true in Germany, also in France, and I'm sure other European countries.

There is no equivalent to the US when it comes to freedom of speech.
What words should I have used?
> userspace ARM translation

What does that mean? The x86 system image can run arm code? I will try that (might get confusing if there is an arm and x86 lib in the apk).

I have been using the image without google apis to save space, because my sdd is almost full

Does it reject invalid arm? I wrote my app in Pascal, and the FreePascal compiler often generates invalid assembly. Especially because I need to use the nightly build, because the last stable release does not support aarch64
Haha, finally something caught a (down)vote, I knew you guys were reading ;)
Circular Doubly Linked List
I think Linux is getting worse, but Windows and Mac OS are getting worse faster, so it feels like progress.
Slick UI!
Could you use such a system to replicate a closed source program?.
Why do black people keep killing black people (way more than police who are not all white FYI)?
I found I just break down without human contact. Thoughts. No thoughts. Staring, not moving. It's not good. I'm thankful that the lockdown restrictions are easing up a bit where I live and I can meet with friends again. Otherwise I'd have been arguing to take it slower with opening up, if it wasn't taking such a toll on me.
Pity that the bits required for QUIC didn't make the cut: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8797
Advertising doesn't become viable until you're getting 50K+ visitors a month, and in a niche where people will actually click ads. And even then, if it's an unprofitable niche (like say, home cooking), you'd have to multiply that by 10X to reach a good six figure income.

By viable, I mean making more money than you would working as a software engineer in a big city.
Disinformation Strategies and Tactics
Yes, "for your own safety as well as mine", according to the officers.
Another upvote for modular synth. Andrew (https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/) has some amazingly cool devices.

Chaotic orbits for "waves", running audio through cmos gates to produce pitch changes, running ADSRs through a filter to produce more random envelopes,... and he seems to come up with new module ideas monthly if not more often.

My most favorite recent module of his is based on cellular automata.

https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/modules/cellular-automata
More to the point - when the only options for a platform hosting any user provided content are to shut down to avoid liability or not moderate anything, platforms choosing the latter will become overwhelmed with extremist and right-wing speech, pushing the Overton window towards the cultural normalization of alt-right and white supremacist ideology.

Which is the actual goal.
You are looking for "program synthesis". It's an active research area.
You run out of money, wars happen, corruption happen, things get finished later.
User andinus provided the official explanation given by the openbsd project.

On a more philosophical level, the more radical end of the BSD licensing champions such as openbsd are extremists, just like the FSF/GNU people on the other end of the spectrum. Both want a world where ultimately software copyright, not to mention software patents, doesn't exist, source is available for everything and you can use that source for any purpose you like etc. They just have different ways of working towards that goal. The GNU end came up with a legal trick to use copyright law to try to force people to open up their software (copyleft licensing), whereas the BSD radicals just wish the whole copyright crap would go away and thus use the simplest possible license they can come up with.

So the Apache-2.0 license, although in many ways a BSD-like license, is written by and for corporate lawyers, which grates the openbsd people to no end.
Originally all the domains had 'svirt' in the name:

https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2016/03/dwalsh_selinux_con...

These days containers have their own domains:

https://www.mankier.com/8/container_selinux

As you say, the principle is the same.

[edit] container_t is (or was?) an alias for svirt_lxc_net_t:

https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/79191.html
this page doesn't use web fonts.

> On this site, in which performance is the only name of the game, I forgo web fonts entirely, opting instead to make use of the visitor’s system font.
No mobile app*

But the web version is usable on mobile.
More importantly remote work tremendously helps overcome bias against age. Everything else trumps in comparison of not having a job due to age bias.
Bootstrap Date Pickers Examples
This looks like a big deal to me:

1. First of all, the authors successfully trained a model with 173 BILLION PARAMETERS. The previous largest model in the literature, Google’s T5, had "only" 11 billion. With Float32 representations, GPT-3-173B's weights alone occupy ~700GB of memory (173 billion params × 4 bytes/param). A figure in the 100's of billions is still 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the 100’s of trillions of synapses in the human brain [a], but consider this: Models with trillions of weights are suddenly looking... achievable.

2. The model achieves competitive results on many NLP tasks and benchmarks WITHOUT FINETUNING. Let me repeat that: there is no finetuning. There is only unsupervised (i.e., autoregressive) pretraining. For each downstream NLP task or benchmark, the pretrained model is given text instructions, and possibly sample text with questions and answers. The NLP tasks on which the model was tested include translation, question-answering, cloze tasks, unscrambling words, using novel words in sentences, and performing 3-digit arithmetic.

3. The model is tested only in a ZERO-SHOT or FEW-SHOT setting. In other words, for each NLP task, the pretrained model is given text instructions with zero examples, or text instructions with a small number of examples (typically 10 to 100). As with human beings, GPT-3-173B doesn't need lots of examples to perform competitively in novel NLP tasks.

4. The results reported by this paper on all NLP tasks and benchmarks should be seen as a BASELINE. These results likely could be meaningfully improved with conventional finetuning.

5. The model’s text generation FOOLS HUMAN BEINGS, without having to cherry-pick examples.

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[a] https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+synapses+in+human+...
Leaving aside all the free speech and German laws, does anyone really believe that Germany or any European nation aside from Russia will harbor anyone in the cross-hairs of the current US establishment? Angering the US will potentially leave the door wide open for Uncle Putin for the Rush B(erlin).

No European country lifted a single finger in the defense of Snowden or Assange when they were in the cross-hairs of the US. No one will do it for twitter, especially when they could just let twitter die and move in to fill the void themselves.
Ahh, I see. Okay thank you.
From the 2020 BSI report:

>From a security-technical perspective, however, there is, according to present knowledge,no reason speaking against using it in constructions which do not require collision resistance...
Anybody have an example where a "growth hack" brought a net positive to the world?
Solar Orbiter to pass through the tails of Comet ATLAS
The Linux version will be available soon.
The various Austronesian tribes in the Urheimat, yes.

Still, the distinction between Japan occupation-experiencing Han population and the evacuated Mainlander Han is an important one.
I saw the same thing in Asturias and Galicia when we visited there last year. Very late dinners indeed - even families with young children out eating dinner that late.
>Never should have given up the island in the first place.

They should never have colonized it in the first place.
Study: UK still staying home and even coming to terms with lockdown
the founders kept slaves and built a system of government where slaveholders increased their political power by a amount proportional to the number of slaves they kept. fuck the founders.
Yeah, I thought Spotify played music? Whatever the most-popular NA track is right now, it's definitely not music.
American Samoa is the US equivalent of HK. Can hold US Passports but not entitled to live on the mainland.
Fair bit of warning: TiddlyWiki is the opposite of heavy, which means it's a bit shallow on the surface by allow custom data types/pages. I love this, makes you basically be able to build your own content systems on top of TiddlyWiki, but people expecting it's just "notes you can link together" might have to readjust their expectations.

Another great thing about TiddlyWiki is that the content can be stored in barebones files that you can read/parse outside of TiddlyWiki, and you can also run the frontend client offline with just a single index.html, if you want to. So fits what M5x7wI3CmbEem10 pretty nicely.

So thumbs up for TiddlyWiki but it can be a bit... Tiddly to fickle with sometimes.
Show HN: Human Face Anonymizer iOS App
Same, that makes two of us kids then! I typically have a smoothie or sandwiches or something easy and lazy between 11-12, and then when the girlfriend's home and it makes sense to cook, one of us cooks up a storm, or we eat last night's leftovers (there's rarely any!) and have dinner at 7 ish.

She does like her breakfast though, and apparently I'm the odd one out for this eating schedule.
I agree with you. The only point in favour of using a closure that I want to point out (you already pointed out a big point in favour of objects: the dedicated and streamlined syntax) is that its a more a la carte way of doing objects: you choose how deep you want to go.

Of course in reality its not that bad because you can also use classes as much or little as you want and can use them simply for single dispatch, or namespacing, if you wish.

I do find that in practice syntax and features matter because they push you to think in a certain way and it can be hard to break away from that. For example, I write a lot of Clojure and really like functional languages, but when I use Java, Python or even C++, its all too easy to slip into the OOP mindset even when I set out to just "do functional" in those languages. Maybe that's my failing and its certainly not OOP's fault, but I think in practice (at least from observation) it seems most people are like this.

But yeah, I don't actually disagree with you on what you said.
Apologies, but this sounds like it came straight from underneath a tin-foil hat.

And to be honest, racism and <insert-color> supermacy are the most primitive & superficial form of collectivism and thus disgusting, but...

If the idiots on left are going for affirmative action, which is basically discrimination based on superficial qualities such as gender, race & religion, why the idiots on the right should not be allowed to do the same?
Most actively managed funds do not beat the index. For the average investor who doesn't have more than a couple of hours every week to figure out their investment strategy, just invest in indices. If you're in the US - the Nasdaq Composite or S&P 500. If you're in India, the Nifty 50 or Nifty 100. You can do this through ETFs.

However, it is not recommended you invest only in equity. Market crashes can result in your wealth eroding by 30-50% as seen recently and back in 2008. While it does recover in the long run, it is impossible to say how long a bear market will last which means your money will be locked in for quite some time. Further, your returns may not outperform inflation in a shorter time-frame. Also, if you have an emergency, the money is no longer liquid.

It is highly advisable to diversify your investment across asset classes. Having gold & fixed income (debt) in your portfolio will help protect during adverse market conditions and grow at a modest rate during bull markets. An example is this product which is available to investors in India: https://www.smallcase.com/smallcase/SCAW_0001. It is only an example to show you how asset allocation helps protect against market volatility/crashes.

I would highly recommend you read about portfolio construction using the core-satellite methodology.
https://www.vanguard.co.uk/documents/adv/literature/client_m...

It would be wise to create an emergency fund for anywhere between 6-12 months as a separate thing.

Once you're more confident, start exploring niche indices; there are many ETFs. For example, the Bessemer Emerging Cloud Index has performed extremely well since March. An astute investor would have realized that people locked-in and working remotely would result in an increase in productivity apps, video content consumption etc. These rely on cloud platforms for hosting and delivery. One would have invested in it and made some pretty good returns. An investment on March 1st would be up 21% compared with 4% in Nasdaq Composite.

But this requires you to keep an eye on what's happening in the world and being able to interpret it. There aren't shortcuts to this.

But to get started with, you can start learning about the basics of business & economics. This might help: https://learn.tickertape.in/

A very comprehensive resource for learning about investing can be found here: https://zerodha.com/varsity/ (there's a lot of modules on trading, ignore if you don't want to trade. Do modules 1, 3 & 11).

Happy learning :).
Java Language Extensions for SQLServer-“Because the DBMS can't do it all”
Do illuminate all of us, or do you just dislike the article I linked?
China is extending their tyrannical reign, and UK is trying to lend a helping hand. But let's take this opportunity to call out pass sins.

Jfc..
Not All Subscriptions Are Equal: Offer Yearly Plans from the Start
> Has there been a thread on HN that discusses the actual EO?

900+ comments and counting[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342161
If you are the copyright holder, you can put a OpenSSL exception clause in your license which allows this to work. Debian requires such a clause for GPL software to link with OpenSSL prior to this change.
This title is click bait for me as Firebase is not only a database and function...
Freedom of Speech does not protect you from the consequences of said free speech.

> Private entities can do what they want.

Private entities can also get sued into oblivion by other private entities that believe they were wronged. Section 230 prevents that in exchange of some conditions and concessions as long as they are followed.

If twitter wants the freedom to do what they want, they will also have to accept the freedom to get sued into oblivion.
The No-Code Prototype
Hope The President doesn’t find out that Dorsey is also CEO @ Square.
You can set your own shortcuts for actions in the options.
Raganwald here.

SNOBOL4 was my first real programming language, thanks to a particular set of circumstances back in 1971 or thereabouts:

The University of Toronto had a High-Speed Job Stream intended mostly for undergraduates to run programs. It was in a fairly big space mostly occupied by students, keypunch machines, a few verifiers, and tables.

To run a program, you wrote your program on punch cards with a keypunch machine, then slapped a coloured header card at the front. There were cards for ALGOL, LISP, WATFIV, PL/1, and SNOBOL (amongst others).

Then you’d get in line for the punch card reader. When you got to the front of the line, you’d add your job to the back of the hopper, with other people’s jobs in front of yours.

Every so often, the machine would engorge itself on a bunch of jobs, queueing them up internally. As it ran the jobs, it would print the results on a massive and noisy line printer.

So after queueing your job up, you’d go hang around the line printer waiting for your output. If there was an error... It would be back to the keypunch and go stand in line again.

The room was unlocked and mostly unsupervised, so as a kid I would ride my bike over and play with FORTRAN. I had no books on the subject, so I'd either ask for help or go to the library to learn.

It was fun, but mostly it was just something to do for a bored kid. Then, one day, I found a copy of the "green book" somebody else had left behind.

I picked it up, started reading, and was hooked. I am embarrassed to say that I tucked it into my bag and took it home, when I really should have left it there or taken it to "lost and found."

Somewhere out there is a UofT grad who had to buy another very expensive textbook. I'm sorry, it was me.

Anyhow, the book captivated me. It was more than just a textbook or instruction manual: It sold the reader on a new way of thinking about programming, pattern-matching.

I felt the hugest "Aha" moment when I felt my brain literally unload the old program for writing programs, and start constructing a new program for writing programs.

I've been chasing that high ever since.
Sorry you're right I mixed up the version numbers. It was 1.1.x that I wanted to upgrade to from 1.0.x
That's a nice story! In my opinion, customer service/etc was irrelevant early on.
Toyota has said "don't worry we've fixed the frames on the new ones" for ~40yr now and the Tacoma still sells. If anyone can get away with it they can. Still probably not smart to risk it though.
I recently discussed MongoDB Compass and love it. I'm not technical and I find it very straightforward to find what I need. I'm looking forward to checking out their other products. Congrats on launching.
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging