skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I thought that Rust was a Mozilla project because the Wikipedia page listed it as its developer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)
You're right, my mistake. In some cases it is not transparent.

However, this is not a systematic censorship problem, unlike centralized services with opaque policy language and a complete boot out the door. People are free to run their own instances or have multiple accounts across different instances.

Whether you think they're correct is irrelevant to the question at hand. Freedom of speech and association means you're free to not federate/talk to those problematic instances, and maybe you'd be much happier for it. On the other hand, not being OK with it and trying to fight for transparency means you're trying to externally force these communities to be run in the way you want, which may be received well, but not always b/c forcing unwanted change is exactly the opposite point of Federation: communities will be built the way their members want to build it. Like the real world, some value transparency and some don't.

It's one thing to argue specific bans about specific instances and disagree on the other party's interpretation; it's a totally different claim to say that the entire system is corrupt with opaque censorship.

Mastodon != Fediverse
busybox and OpenSSL? So much bloat. My blog is browsable with netcat :p

nc txt.anderspitman.net 3838 <<< /txt/19
isn't this a pretty common pattern in RPGs? seems like lots of minor NPCs have conversation paths where you can ask them about your current story quest and they give a vague answer that doesn't advance the game. then you finally talk to the important person who has that key bit of information and your objective gets updated.
> They wanted to avoid the situation that happened with IPv4,

This is directly contrary to what I've heard. Maybe my information is bad, or out of date, but I had thought that IPv6 addresses were meant to be static. I thought one of the selling points was that we couldn't run out of IPv6 addresses, as they were so numerous. If we're going to keep them dynamic, why even force this monstrous 128-bit number on us?
Insitro Nabs $143M Series B
I was trying to play on the word "bare". Yeah, I realised this a bit too late
I have fallen in love with `z`

e.g. `z p` might take you to ~/projects if you've been there recently.

https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua
Money & Scale
I think it's a misunderstanding that countries lose control. With the introduction of the digital dollar (Libra seems to be only a stable coin == a digital dollar), cash payments will become less popular and at one point governments will abandon cash. With all dollars being digital, governments will be in full control of consumer spending by influencing interest rates that are charged by the Libra system. Without being able to leave the Libra system, you'll be forced to buy goods when interest rates decrease.
NB: confirmed that any comment I make with 五毛 is immediately deleted. Crazy.
Regulation around FIAT currency?
Hi All,

I have been working with large JSON objects quite a lot in recent past. One of the main problems I see with every online JSON formatter out there is that if I need to work with multiple JSON then I have to open multiple tabs and there was no way to keep track of where what is.
I created jsontoolbox to scratch my own itch and may be help others who might have similar problems.

Here are some features ->
1. Format/Minify multiple JSON on the same page.
2. Copy a sub object/value in a single click.
3. Copy minified string in a single click on formatter.
4. Name every JSON and quickly download with same file name.

Hope this is useful for some one else as well. Looking for feedback.

-Sourabh
I'm exaggerating, here's the article I'm drawing on: https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme...

He collects and analyzes historical data going back to 1948.

Punchline: "Today's outrageous prices are exactly in line with the 6.6% trend that began 60 years ago."

Rent in the Bay Area has gone up 6.6% per year for sixty years.

> In conclusion

> San Francisco is an expensive city because it is an affluent city with a growing population and no easily available land for development. Sonja Trauss is right that building more housing would reduce rents of both high- and low-end apartments. Tim Redmond is right that building enough housing to make much of a dent in prices would change the visual character of most streets, although the result could be more like Barcelona than like the Hong Kong that he fears. The unsettled question is which of these is the higher priority.

> Building enough housing to roll back prices to the "good old days" is probably not realistic, because the necessary construction rates were never achieved even when planning and zoning were considerably less restrictive than they are now. Building enough to compensate for the growing economy is a somewhat more realistic goal and would keep things from getting worse.

> In the long run, San Francisco's CPI-adjusted average income is growing by 1.72% per year, and the number of employed people is growing by 0.326% per year, which together (if you believe the first model) will raise CPI-adjusted housing costs by 3.8% per year. Therefore, if price stability is the goal, the city and its citizens should try to increase the housing supply by an average of 1.5% per year (which is about 3.75 times the general rate since 1975, and with the current inventory would mean 5700 units per year). If visual stability is the goal instead, prices will probably continue to rise uncontrollably.

> If you want to do your own analysis, the data is all available to download on Github. Please let me know what other explanations you find for the patterns!
That's not how it works. You've put up an argumentative strawman.
There is no political will.
As a bit of very purely My Opinon on the matter, I have always felt that there is great significance to the connection between the Bell system and Manifest Destiny. In the classic book Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner argues that the American drive towards irrigation agriculture in the West must be viewed not as a practical matter but as a religious one, both on the obvious level that a large part of the movement (e.g. the Bureau of Reclamation) descended from the Mormons (cough LDS) for which it quite literally was a religious value, and on the deeper level that the government pursued irrigation projects with great gusto when they made absolutely no economic sense, and the government knew that---so there must be something deeper driving the efforts.

I would view the telephone system through a similar lens. The famous painting "American Progress," frequently used to illustrate school lessons on manifest destiny, depicts not only the tide of pioneers headed west but, even more prominently, an angel stringing telegraph wire. This connection between the telegraph (and later telephone) and manifest destiny, and between the telegraph and deity, does not seem incidental.

It was a widely held opinion through the late 19th and early 20th century that instantaneous communication through the telegraph and telephone was a fundamental component of civilizing the nation, key to American progress. It was closely coupled with the railroads in that regard, both in the spiritual sense that both opened the West to reclamation (which at the time had a meaning more like exploitation, in the sense of natural resources), and in the practical sense that the early telegraph system was often operated by railroads.

So, perhaps at some basic level, there is a fundamental difference between the telephone system and the cable television system: the telephone system is an artifact of an era of unbounded American expansion and optimism, and so was founded with a strong sense of the "American values" of exceptional quality and dedication to purpose. The cable television system, on the other hand, only came to fruition in the 1950s, by which point it was coming of age in a post-war America in which capitalism was held as a greater value than expansionism and exceptionalism, manifest destiny having in good part died with the tremendous shock of the great depression.

Just something to think about when you consider how history drives technology today.
Many students at beginner university level math courses do the same kind of mistakes, albeit with larger numbers: 10/13 + 7/21 = 17/34. Decimals are much easier to deal with imo, but mathematicians does not like them because they are inexact.
OReilly had DRM free books to buy. I bought a bunch.

But Piracy killed it, so now its subscription service, or available on kindle (I don't use). Some authors seem to have deals to give away their books and sell them at the same time: e.g.: https://www.tidyverse.org/learn/

I buy some DRM free books from Manning. They put a footer on each page, saying, licensed to: xxxxxxx@yyyyy.com to discourage me from sharing. It doesn't bother me.

Manning also seems to be going a sort of subscription route too. They have "live book" where you buy access to parts of books you want with tokens. Its kinda interesting how they're trying to do micropayments.

https://www.manning.com/livebook-program
ironically, the people in the US against universal health care because of a fear of death panels are the same ones demanding a death panel now.
This submission is a newsletter briefing. The feature article ("The Prophecies of Q") is here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-n...

The comparison to religion is better explained in sections VI and VII.
> Mozilla chose Matrix but they advertise Slack on the linked page.

Gotcha, I missed this. Very odd.

> Is Rust not a project of mozilla?

Mozilla was the first sponsor of the project, and still sponsors a bunch of stuff to this day. But they don't own the project, and cannot make decisions on its behalf.
I don’t understand the desire to have no stylesheets. The default styling on the web is not a great example of design or usability.
Sure, but I'm on Hetzner anyways for different reasons. I didn't say it's ideal, just that it's simpler to write HTML+CSS sometimes. How you serve the files doesn't matter.
Or just buy ebooks without DRM. Last time when i bought ebooks, the eshop just offered epub/mobi/pdf for download, directly from browser, with only 'social DRM' (info about buyer on separate page in ebook).
I missed that! That is very strange, given their very public move to Matrix.
I'm thinking of adding a few small ways the user can adjust it. Maybe a dropdown of classless css frameworks to choose from would be good
I'm still having a hard time figuring out how this whole Facebook as a gatekeeper thing fits into the anonymous privacy-first blockchain project that is Libra. As I see it, it's either centralized with a KYC check when you sign up, OR it's decentralized with anyone being able to generate a key pair and be a part of the system. So which one of those is Libra, after all?
Perhaps, but it's easily overlooked because every project that needs runtime reflection badly enough has already rolled their own. (Some game engines have multiple reflection systems, eg. shader parameters vs. serialization.) This framework takes a particular approach and makes it an (almost) standalone component.
Fixing Another Nintendo M82 Store Demo Unit
Thanks for making and sharing, fun!
That's kinda useful I guess? But I still don't know whether I need EC2 or Elastic Beanstalk. And do I need still need Batch if I have one of the other two? Still, it's much clearer than Amazon's own pages about this.
that link is the indian analogy of "Ivy league or gtfo"
To this day I still think Principles of Marketing by Philip Kotler it's the best book to give you as close to foundational knowledge you can get, and you can go from there to get depth further into the disciplines that compose it - like advertising, distribution, etc.

Some people criticize Kotler because he "only studied marketing", didn't practice it. I don't see anything wrong with that, specially after being adopted as a standard for decades.
> in the best case scenario it damages your power adapter

The best case scenario is that your charger is not a garbage fire hazard, and so it slowly drops the voltage when the laptop tries to draw too much.
Genuinely, if they want to help fix the internet, they should sack everyone not doing core browser work and spend every penny they have spare on marketing to increase their market share. Busses, billboards, TV, radio, Google ads, whatever. Spend it all. Millions a month, internationally. With balance in the browser market comes accountability for Google, which is sorely lacking. Everything else is just mucking about, imo.
VPN demand in Hong Kong reveals a new fear: China weaponizing the Internet
Backyards 1.3
I was trying to redo my project and consulting site. I did one side in hugo. The other I tried react and type script. I just said the heck with it.

I did a basic html page, using an open source css lib, cirrus[1]. Changes are very simple, and I use gitlab pages. My blog is still backed by ghost. But I think raw html is still very powerful.

[1] https://spiderpig86.github.io/Cirrus/
My interest is in a more complete export: the world-destroying nonsense of industrial society as it is currently practiced needs reining in, and the mental / philosophical toolkit of asia does seem to have a lot to offer (AT ITS BEST) in terms of producing people who don't fall into that kind of limited thinking. If Steve Jobs had been 20% more Ashoka, or Bill Gates meditated and people imitated him, we might be starting to build some of the Right Action toolkit necessary to build the spiritual backbone necessary to make environmental action work properly in western society (which is where all the power and money are right now.)

The half-baked hippie efforts aren't cutting it. We need something fully baked, and I think we could get it: a comprehensive overhaul of Buddhist and Hindu concepts of Right Action / Dharma for the modern situation of ecological and existential risks.

That's what I want. I don't give a crap about appropriation in most cases, but I despartely want better governance of the West, and that means ingesting all of the Asian trip, not just the convenient 5%.

As do we all!
EasyJet Cyber Security Incident Mail
"Dear Customer,

I wanted to write to you personally in regards to a recent cyber security incident at easyJet.

As you may have heard, we announced on 19th May 2020 that we were the target of an attack from a highly sophisticated source. As soon as we became aware of the attack, we took immediate steps to manage and respond to the incident, closing off the unauthorised access. We engaged leading forensic experts to investigate the issue and we also notified the National Cyber Security Centre and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Our investigation found that your name, email address, and travel details were accessed for the easyJet flights or easyJet holidays you booked between 17th October 2019 and 4th March 2020. Your passport and credit card details were not accessed, however information including where you were travelling from and to, your departure date, booking reference number, the booking date and the value of the booking were accessed.

We are very sorry this has happened.

Please be extra careful about phishing attacks

There is no evidence that personal information of any nature has been misused but please do be extra careful if you receive any unsolicited communications, particularly if they claim to be from either easyJet or easyJet holidays. Please note that we will never contact you unprompted to ask for your account details or security information, and we will never ask you to disclose your passwords, or to change your passwords on your easyJet account."
Sure, lots of history. Which is why new solutions are such a hard sell - everybody quote an authority and concludes 'it has to be this way'.

Traffic appears at core routers because it already gets send there by peripheral routers as a gateway. Sharing routing information between peer routers is not unsolvable nor likely onerous.

Strawman solutions (flood constantly) are being deliberately dense. I suspect because, folks are so very comfortable with what they know, and so very unwilling to extend themselves. How we got IPV6 in the first place. Which isn't working either.
Ok, yes, but you know what I mean.
Wasn't Novi the name of a chocolate brand?
A closer look at how colleges can reopen amid coronavirus uncertainty
A lot of what I do is the cloud as well, but I'm resisting installing all the supporting software (Visual Studio, SSMS, all the various repos I manage) I'd need onto my home computer.

Maybe I should, as, yeah, my home setup is much much faster than my work laptop.
Is Guido choosing to tip the scales really a malicious use of inclusivity? It's not like young men interested in Python have nowhere else to go.

I think how Guido wants to spend his time is up to Guido.
Awesome, we hope you give it a try.
It seems after installing the app

1. It logs into email via SMTP / OAuth

2. It creates a folder called delta chat

3. The first message sent to the another user is not PGP encrypted but when both users use delta chat the messages are encrypted

If only gmail/yahoo/... supported autocrypt you can communicate with every email user safely, but why would they ? It's a conflict of interest.

Decrypted messages are stored on the client and you can export the keys. Creating a random email address would be an easier way to ensure more privacy I suppose.

Over all the App supports everything WhatsApp does sans VOIP. I wonder how difficult that is ?
One could view each layer of the neural net as doing "steps". They are rather opaque steps, though.
>claims that certain instances shared illegal content when said instances do not allow any form of illegal content

That can be a simple issue of jurisdiction. Mastodon.social is hosted in Germany (IIRC), so they have to adhere to German law. That means, for example, while hatespeech isn't strictly illegal in the US, it certainly is in Germany, it even has a fairly good legal definition. Or take the Japanese instances, which aren't well federated or have media-bans because of differences in media legality. And lastly it can also be simply the case that the instance is not moderating (ie, they write 'no illegal content' but do not care).

Both the statement that an instance shared illegal content and that the same instance was banned for illegal content can be true at the same time.
Robotgo v0.90.0 is released, Go desktop automation. Big updated
The irony is that the virus originated in a Kinshasa slum and was spread through prostitution and migrant labour. If you say that HIV is a product of colonialism (i.e. state capitalism) you are completely correct.
If that were true, Netflix would not have been the success we know. When the user experience of buying anything is easier than the illegal counterpart, that's how you win over piracy.
is there a waitlist or anything to join the alpha/beta of ST4? the sublime website doesn't seem to acknowledge that ST4 is even in the works yet, so i'm guessing it's still only available to an inner circle.

i'm a big fan and would love to see an early peek at what's coming, and would be happy to do bughunting or feedback if that's what the team is looking for.
In public comment I can just say it has had many owners. The version you describe was before my time but it sounds likely. You might be mixing the names up, though. I believe something like the London Synthesizer Club or a vaguely similar name did events like you’re describing. Look for info about Herb Deustch that might help. The current version is amazing and my favorite.
It may have changed, but last time I looked, only some Kobo books are actually DRM free. For the others, if you have a Kobo device, you can download them onto your device and then use a Calibre plugin to extract them as a regular epub. I presume there's a way to do the same with the desktop client, but haven't used it myself.

On the whole I've been far more satisfied with Kobo than Amazon, though if the DRM situation ever becomes more onerous I'll stop buying from them. The devices themselves are excellent and pretty easy to tinker with.
Try Elixir, it supports macros. Also Rust has Macros too. Although Lisp macros is different and may be more old fashion in some aspects, but it won't be hard to get the idea of code generating language, just pick one and try it.
> If there were more Norweigan editors then I'd expect to see more content about things that are "notable" within Norweigan history and culture.

Like what though? Here's [1] the Portal on Norway, there are hundreds of articles on Norway and Norwegian culture. From what I can see, the Norwegian Wikipedia does not cover Norway that much more, even though you can reasonably expect that it's primarily authored by Norwegians.

There are fewer but still hundreds of pages about e.g. Zimbabwe, its history, culture, politics, demographics etc.

I fail to see what's being not presented there. I understand the concern that it may be too USA-centered, and to a small degree it probably is, but I don't believe it's anywhere near the proportions it's made out to be, and I don't believe that it would significantly shift, because it's absolutely not a special interest community that covers only their ideas. And given that the US is the lone super power right now, militarily, culturally and economically, it is to be expected that it is very well covered, even in other language versions. It's somewhat important to everyone on earth how the US works. It's less important how Liechtenstein or Lesotho are organized, and either has their own history, but their history isn't strongly intertwined with recent world history.

The super vast majority are articles that are global (in any and all meanings) in nature, explaining scientific concepts and history. You may argue that, since Wikipedia's goal is to represent the common consensus of scientists that these topics would be different if e.g. Zimbabwe had been the world's super power for the last 70 years, and I partially agree, but far from completely. We'd see a lot more information about Zimbabwean wild life, nature and environment, but we'd still see articles on lasers, genetics, space travel, the history of Arabic numerals, because there's really no reason to believe that Zimbabwean scientists wouldn't have looked into these things etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Norway
You're right, there are several notable improvements in Idris2. I was mainly referring to the amount of code from the book that must be adapted. The QTT features, as you say, are opt-in; by default no new constraints are imposed.
buy bitcoin and pay by libra?
But what about if a person sees a cat but accidentally presses the dog button because they were distracted?

(To your point, though, I agree that machines can make strange errors, raising trust issues. My experience is that ML is useful in cases like recommendations or search results where a person can interact with predictions rather than being a complete replacement)
The word "framework" by itself provides no indication of how specialized the tool is, or what problem(s) it aims to solve.

The above description indicates that it is a very general-purpose framework (handling things as disparate as game engines and web servers) and that it aims to enable code reuse, not just eliminate boilerplate code.
Sounds like they'll take care of the fees like Argent wallet does
Cadence's point is very valid. Mozilla gets funding by charging search engines to be the default in Firefox and that isn't changing anytime soon.

I wish people didn't instinctively downvote when someone is wrong on a technicality, but this is a site filled with nerds after all lol

EDIT: i guess he isnt even technically wrong.
Crazy stuff! And really like the blow-by-blow account.