skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody needs to charge money

Your initial argument was against SmartScreen, not against paying. Now it's that things should be free. A cert costs because it gives you access to an already established infrastructure, integrated with everything, where you can easily verify the identify being certified.

Business opportunity for you: set up a similar infra for PGP but free. Something that can be integrated with an OS and can instantly allow me to see what a certificate would. Then make sure your infra don't become the point of failure. You can also implement a reputation system where a new developer gets a warning but one that's not intrusive, almost easy to miss... I will gladly use it (and I'm sure OS makers will too once you prove your solution is at least as solid as PKI) because I want the functionality, not the particular implementation.

> because "WE don't know the guy"

I don't know the guy either because there's not kind of identification attached to the package. A clear identification and reputation systems definitely help. Both of these are widely used on the internet today because it's pretty much the only way anyone ever came up with to discourage offenders. I will say it again and again: it raises the bar for a successful attack.

> It isn't "Don't run"/"Run anyway thanks." It's "DON'T RUN"

Which is almost identical to a browser security warning. It stands to reason that protecting your own machine should have an even more prominent message.

If you jump from one line of argumentation to another you'll never make a point. And your "solution" was to suggest that any security measure which can be bypassed by someone with millions of dollars to spend on this should not be implemented at all. Which is not even worthy of discussion.
Too lazy to find references but I have seen talk where people melt materials, (the heat them far above glass transition state), then cool them and they get the exact same configuration down to the molecular level, as if the were never liquid.
I just have Options -> Home -> New tabs set to "Blank Page" and that works just fine without any icons.
Why don’t the police have visible numbers on their uniforms?
Anonymous on Social Media: The False Narrative of the Hacker
As much as I support not supporting the police, I feel like there are better ways to further that cause than shouting cryptic slogans.
I hate to break it to you, but most startups take 7 - 10 years to reach their stride.

Your choice is to either slog this one, or use the experience and pivot.

BaseCamp - used Ruby on Rails consulting to promote and finance it

Digital Ocean - rode pre-AWS hosting craze

MailChimp - founders worked full-time until enough revenue, rode moderately-early email marketing craze

Are you riding a craze, and/or funded from side gigs?
> The entire Bitcoin network could technically be run off a single Rasberry Pi.

But can that be done practically? At some point you lose the ability to tell which of the forks is 'Bitcoin' and which are 'pretender' altcoins.

I can imagine a future where you run a chain for 6 months on a Pi then someone turns up with an ASIC and writes a new 6 month history and calls it Bitcoin instead. The risks of shenanigans would be huge.
To anyone writing an article like this: Please mention what language you are using before your first code listing, not four paragraphs after.
> Protesters set homeless man’s belongings on fire

This was staged by infowars. I cannot be arsed to look at all of your videos.

The right wing lockdown protests had a strong smell of AstroTurf about them:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/coronavirus-p...
I think there's a seam between discovery and ordering. If I am traveling on business, and I don't know what's in the area, then a unified interface is valuable.

But if I know which restaurant I want, then the unified ordering apps are charging restaurants for a service (discovery) that the restaurant doesn't need any more. Seems crummy.
You people are credulous and mad. Goodbye Western civilisation.
Is there a way to have a shared blocklist so it can be made a community effort? I believe this is a thing with Twitter as well.

Of course, ideally you could block people in Reddit's own software, and said users would be flagged / banned if they appear on enough people's blocklists.
Reports we did in high school were supposed to be submitted in Times, but I hated it for the same reason of it just being the default. I always used Garamond instead. I don't expect many of the teachers knew or cared about the difference, but it made me feel a whole lot better. I was such a rebel...
In the book "How to take smart notes" by Sönke Ahrens, there's a lot of thought given on the real value of tags. I'd say the problem you describe happens because you are trying to create a taxonomy using tags. Classifying the notes using tags can feel rewarding in the short term, but it's not useful in the context of a linked notes system.

When creating tasks, the main question that is answered is "in which contexts would I like this note to show up?". The answer to this question is completely subjective. If, for instance, you were doing research for game level design, it makes sense for the systems architecture notes to be tagged with "game engine", "achievements", "quick save", or anything else that you will want to look up later on. The Napoleonic architecture notes could be tagged as "level design", "gameplay cues", or "side quests".

As you can see, these tags would be different for every person, and that's kind of the point. Two people can read the same content, and take the same note from it, but the intended purpose could still be completely different, and that would show up in the tags.
Can you expand upon that? I'm unfamiliar with the context behind 'Brzezinski Experiment State'.
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That definition of fact is incomplete since it still depends on being able to agree on the fact of who you consider an expert.
DD here.

apt-get install maint-guide ...and then read:

file:///usr/share/developers-reference/index.html
file:///usr/share/doc/maint-guide/html/index.en.html

Also look at existing packages and talk to DDs. Avoid random wikis.

I worked on many deployment systems and reading these guides made me a better engineer overall.
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Having a type system enables zero risk automated refactorings, even complex ones and make them a no brainer. Not having that builds a reluctance to do even simple refactorings.

A good example is the simplest possible refactoring: renaming things. I was doing this in pycharm on a simple python project the other day and it proposed modifying just about all dependencies on the classpath because it couldn't tell apart things that were in scope and out of scope of the refactoring. I've seen similar things happen on javascript and ruby codebases. Renaming things is a PITA in those languages. Not safe at all.

On any Kotlin or Java code base I do this all the time without thinking twice. I rename stuff, I move stuff, extract variables, auto fix things, etc. It just happens. A rename is a complete non issue for that. Doesn't matter if it's a local variable or the package name of your entire code base. You can trivially modify thousands of lines of code with a keystroke without breaking stuff.
Virtual Haxe conference 2020 announced It'll take place October 14th-17th 2020
Actually, torrents are still kinda a go-to for p2p transfers.
Whether the island o stability exists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
Good grief this one is complicated.

That Bloomberg article is boring except for the sentence at the end. The submitter made the title be about the last sentence, but we changed it back to the original, which didn't satisfy anybody because the only interesting thing about the article is the last sentence.

The current post seems at first glance to be a garden-variety tweet picking up on that sentence, but someone pointed out to me that it's actually by the author of the Bloomberg article, suggesting that he might be at odds with the Bloomberg editors about what aspects of the story are significant. Suddenly that's interesting.

Given that Alex has been tweeting in response to this in detail (https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268061790954385408), it seems like there's enough information here to support a substantive thread.

Given that sneak's post was the first on this and that it links to the statement by the reporter about the only thing that anyone here cares about, it seems clear that this is the post we should leave up. So I merged the comments from the other thread hither.
What's even more depressing is that most people on this forum will probably not get this reference :(
>These mass gatherings of selfish, self regarding, moral guardians risks extending this thing further and deeper for an extremely nebulous benefit.

Are you in an at-risk group for police brutality? The benefit if the protests achieved their aims would be a lot less nebulous for those people who are.
This one is lively. Civil War vets chatting in 1929 https://youtu.be/4qGX0XM84Ck
It was surprisingly difficult to find links to these supposedly-infringing libraries run by the Internet Archive. Here they are:

https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary

https://openlibrary.org/
>It's so much easier to build things incrementally.

I would say its much easier if you know what you are building in advance. Building incrementally is usually more about exploring ambiguous ideas and not having a clear vision in my experience.
abnormality or no, unfortunately that's status quo that we're dealing with here. situation changes, we can rethink going back to status quo ante.
/u/StruggleBus67 -7 points 18 hours ago

>Tinted windows, have to verify not occupied, 200$ insurance claim vs. potential gun in the back of your neck, stop being ignorant
> If we compare Copenhagen and the city on the Swedish side of the bridge called Malmö, we find that Malmö has less cases and deaths while not having any of those specific restrictions. Why? We don't know for sure

We might not "know for sure", but population density is clearly the biggest factor in any of this. Comparing Malmö to similar sized Danish cities again show clear effects from the differences in measures taken
Are the borders open? That's the litmus test - can the cases be controlled with no travel restrictions?
This is a pretty short-sighted argument, isn't it? Surely the long-term harm from systemic issues people protest against (namely, police brutality) will claim many more lives than a few weeks of blocked street intersections downtown.
I think Google even has a policy that almost all parts of code in their mono-repo needs to be rewritten (not just refactored) every 2 years or sth like that.
For those of you smalltalk fans, what are you working in today / what would you prefer to be working in today given your history with smalltalk?
No, this guy was left to die in the street. His killers weren't caught.

He was a cop for 38 years before becoming chief of Moline Acres, Mo: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/500839-retired-st-l...

This is what anti police hatred brewing in this country leads to. Gang violence. You embolden true criminals.
I’ve been outspokenly critical of Sweden’s approach on more than one occasion. I live in Malmö in the southern region of Sweden- where COVID-19 deaths were 3 weeks behind Stockholm.

The situation here was, for lack of a better term, inconsistent.

There are people locking down, and some restaurants are closing early. There Are people wearing masks- but in far greater numbers there are huge congregations of people. Masses of people, herding together in bars at night shoulder-to-shoulder[0].

People aren’t taking it seriously, because “the rest of the world is overreacting and as long as we follow the rules we’ll be safe” but people fall right back to not following the rules.

It seems like it only takes a few people to not follow the rules and then everyone around them forgets. Forgets about distancing. Forgets about not touching the face. Forget that there’s even a pandemic at all.

Anders arrogantly believed that swedes follow the rules and that it would save us. And frankly we’re fairing better than the UK- though the population density is far lower, and there’s more single-person households than anywhere else in Europe.

I just don’t think there’s a workable argument for why it was a good idea. Except for that we were unable and wanted to make it look like it was part of the plan.

[0]: Sorry for the quality. https://i.imgur.com/LVspmHs.jpg
Yes it does.

We are still flattening the curve and we (at least i do) wait for a vaccine.

Trying also means, for me, that all people able to do home office, do home office as long as possible to reduce the amount of people in public transport. It also means being more hygienic (we are pigs...), it also means staying away from elder people.
This provided some much needed perspective. Thank you.
Well, you could use a private tracker/one that doesn't dump it's torrent-list publicly, and mark the torrent file itself as private, so your client won't share it on the DHT. Also, encrypting is orthogonal.
> Also... look at that guide. Why is it so difficult and obtuse? Why do I have to run so many odd tools

I agree that Debian packaging is difficult/odd/arguably obtuse; I guess it's a legacy matter. Your phrasing can be interpreted as if the guide itself is obtuse, it's not clear :)

> including apparently modifying some file in /etc and running other stuff as root?

It's important to read and understand it fully. Anything you do it as root is required only to run a preview build locally. This is an optional step, so no, one doesn't need to perform admin configurations/operations if they don't want to, although performing a local build is a desirable step.

> In contrast, this was my first contribution to Nixpkgs

This is not a proper comparison, as you're comparing an entirely manual procedure versus using a packaging tool.

A proper (closer) comparison is probably against the tool that the guide references: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/ppa_packaging, where you just declare all the metadata, and invoke a script that takes care of everything.

All in all, I'm personally puzzled about why there aren't tools around to simplify/automate Debian packaging. I've started the small tool mentioned above (`ppa_packaging`), but I'll likely not continue working on it, as my experience with niche projects is that, while useful in their (narrow) domain, they're very resource-intensive to maintain.
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Michael Levitt has already shown the world a long time ago that COVID-19 is sub-exponential. Any competent mathematician can do that, just look at f'/f in a logchart (death per day / death total) look at the data of Germany - use 7 day averages to be surprised)

So going for herd immunity is most likely mistake. For something that destroys itself in the long term anyway (R0~0,7) something like "duck and cover" would have been the right strategy.
Good to see they have open sourced the full backend/server code (including analytics code) as well as the client.

The UK has open sourced only the clients source code from what I can tell. This comes on top of the initial refusal to use the Google/Apple API and some downright awful data retention and privacy control policies. What a contrast.
The weirdest thing in all this is the comparison to neighboring nordic countries and the conclusion that if Sweden had acted like Norway, the outcome would be similar.The south part of Sweden had a similar outcome to neighboring Denmark.

What should have happened was that Sweden's major outbreak (Stockholm) should probably have been given a stricter and earlier containment. But that's easy to say in hindsight.
The corresponding initial outbreaks in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen most likely simply weren't as large as the one in Stockholm. Stockholm had school holidays that coincided with the worst outbreak in the Italian alps. Other parts of Sweden didn't, and didn't get the same size initial oubreak. A good comparison is Belgium where the whole country had school holidays and traveled a lot the same week as Stockholm (The week of feb 24th). They had a similar development.
That was one of many things wrong with Reddit at the time, others were the racist subreddits like coontown, and the bullying subreddits like fatpeoplehate - see also https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/10/reddit-ba....

If you tolerate stuff like that, you are complicit. She took a hard fall for making those decisions and I think could've handled it better, but it needed to be done.
Mostly because all of these systems came AFTER Debian.

I mean Debian packaging is a terrible pain - but I have to have empathy with the fact that it's a technical system and more importantly an online community that's been doing it's thing since 1993.

The fact is that with such a long-running system there's more than one way to do everything.

The way we discuss/learn technology has also partly changed. Most of the documentation for Debian is extensive manuals - there's "not enough" intro text, and then "too much" detailed documentation

And then there's the "cost of change". Lots of Debian developers have been packaging using their particular versions of tools for a long time and are happy with them.

In many ways Debian works because the people working on it care about quality and the tooling is second order to the efforts they make.
The article spins it as an absolute failure:

> At 43 deaths per 100,000, Sweden’s death rate is among the highest globally and far exceeds that of neighboring Denmark and Norway, which imposed much tougher lockdowns at the outset of the pandemic.

However:

1) that is much less than many other european countries (Belgium, Spain, UK, Italy, France) which all implemented a full lockdown. You would logically expect more death if you spare a lockdown to your population. Having less deaths than many countries who implemented a lockdown is not, I think, a disastrous outcome. It is rather a success.

2) the justification for the lockdown was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system (flattening the curve to under the hospital capacity, which everyone seems to have forgotten now). As far as I know the Swedish healthcare system wasn't overwhelmed.
I think the "security concerns" are just a smokescreen .

That is, free trade was good as long we were on top of it, but now that we get a big competitor, it is not so good.
Swedish and biased here, but as far as I understand a large share of the deaths come from nursing homes. The tactics to limit the spread in those homes failed. However, that is largely a separate question of policies for the broader population, which is what most news outlets have been reporting as controversial.
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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
-George S. Patton
Do you believe the Civil War was fought over state's rights?
ClassicShell is my go to. No perfect but much better
Silent Corporations During the Riots
In my experience, refactor vs rewrite is the wrong approach.
Knowledge of the business must be maintained.

If knowledge is on the team because the company is stable, rewrite. 37 signals is a clear example of this.

If the knowledge is in the code, because multiple people or teams worked on the code base over the past few years, refactor. A rewrite will be the recipe for disaster.

I never found an exception to this rule.
You might consider taking this question over to IndieHackers as well. That is a good community of people like yourself who are bootstrapped and working on their primary/side/exploratory hustles.

[1] - https://indiehackers.com
Bots “collaborate” on security vulnerability fix (2019)
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I'm not sure where the urge comes from to have your own business. I dream of that sometimes as well.

But to be honest, i still focus more on my carrier and it looks good. I don't think i would make more money as a business owner.

It still sounds great to have your own business.

But what is your motivation? Did you create that specific SaaS because you wanted to have a SaaS Product or because you like your SaaS Product/Idea and you use it yourself?

Do you dream of becoming another Zuckerberg? If yes, forget it.
> Getting angry could cause more innocent people to get killed. Some are working towards a better future in these protests. Others are just getting inflamed and doing things they might regret.

Well, isn't this the entire point. The police are killing innocent people. Protesters aren't killing anyone. Seems like even more of a reason to be angry.
I was self-taught in Java, C and Foxpro, and then joined a company of Smalltalkers who had to transition to Java. They used Visual Age for Smalltalk and Visual Age for Java.

For various reasons, for a few months at work, I had a really low end computer that couldn't run Visual Age for Java. (I couldn't afford a computer that could run Visual Age for Java/Smalltalk).

However, I got to learn from some of the best Smalltalkers in the world. Thanks to the wonderful foundation they gave me in OOPs, I have since then been able grasp domains very well.

In a different set of circumstances, I got to learn how agile and Test Driven Development work very well even in larger teams. I've worked on teams with 250 odd people from three different companies and two different timezones and cultures. Due to my current work, I get to see how horrible a person's experience can be with agile and with Test Driven Development.

Today, I had an illuminating 90 minutes session on Complex Numbers. This was my second class online. After 30-odd years of being furious at Mathematics, I have now come to embrace it.

I have concluded that the right mentorship and learning materials and experience can go a long way in helping make a topic exciting and interesting.

Your hurt is evident. From what you have shared, it seems to be the absence of good tutorials that were a roadblock, and not Smalltalk or Visual Age for Smalltalk itself.
I hadn't seen this re the Isle of Wight but it doesn't surprise me. I would guess it's probably in part because most people were expecting the result of an "exposure notification" to be advice to (and information on how to) get a test.

Instead the policy seems to be a blanket "isolate for 14 days even if you subsequently get a negative test result" which I suspect will go down very poorly, especially when it won't tell you who you were potentially exposed to.
His position in the public health authority means his goal is maximizing the long term public health, e.g. minimizing all cause death (and of course other bad outcomes).

That means he has to consider deaths 10 years from now due to lower healthcare spending from a recession created by the pandemic. He has to consider mental health effects of mitigations, and so on. So while he isn't an economist, he can never ignore the economy.

This holistic view I think has been missing from the discussion in other countries to some degree.
> If the Leviathan shows its teeth and the problem doesn't go away, it has to bite. If it doesn't, everybody will see that the teeth aren't that sharp any more, and that will encourage more challengers.

But that's effectively what doing nothing does. The state has teeth (the police) and it doesn't bite.

That's a completely unambiguous signal to both criminals and law-abiding citizens. And the results of this policy anywhere in the world is the problems have just grown in size and gotten worse.

> because while it's damaging to have "extended families" with hundreds of members where basically everyone of them has a criminal record

Remember when these "extended families" were an order of magnitude smaller and we applied the same policy of non-intervention? And look what that got us!

When are we finally going to apply the only acceptable course of action?