skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Look at places like Somalia or Afghanistan to see what happens when law and order breaks down in a systematic way.

Also see Brazil with Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho which are violent organizations that have/had lofty goals similar to the growing movement (i.e. anti-police brutality, vengeance)[1]. Those groups now partake in degenerate drug and sex fueled parties and slaughter their enemies using advanced weapons. No need to worry though; their code of conduct proclaims that they fight for liberty, justice and peace and that rape is bad -- they're obviously the good guys.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeiro_Comando_da_Capital#Hi...
The amount of misinformation (or the very least, confused statements) in this thread is high for being HN. Soo many people know much about Sweden without ever setting their foot here. Interesting that.

The world's apparent obsession with the Swedish strategy isn't about Sweden at all. It is about their own strategies, trying to prematurely pat themselves on the back for doing the right thing, whatever that was. There's myriads of variables that differ between Any two countries.
There’s stuff in the normal homedir you want to back up.

Better to maintain an exclude list:

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/osxbackup/...

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/hacks/src/branch/master/osxbackup/...
Probably with the same process as currently some regimes are handling satellite phones - the receiver hardware becomes a regulated item where it's a crime to import, operate or possess one without an appropriate permit.
Let's be more accurate. The protests are caused by the police. But the riots, violence and looting is caused by opportunists and criminals, in many cases instigated and enflamed by white revolutionary anarchists and/or white supremacist cells more than willing to sacrifice minorities and their neighbourhoods to their insane political projects, i.e. blood soaked revolution or race war.
It takes at least 2 weeks to know? Incubation is around 2 weeks?
Interesting discussion on this: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843

Excerpts:

> GONZALEZ: Valuing people differently was kind of tried once in 2003. The EPA, under the George W. Bush administration, was considering a new clean air standard. How clean the air should be. And the EPA was like, well, people over age 70 have fewer years to breathe clean air. They should count less. And a lower value on some lives would essentially mean looser clean air standards.

> MALONE: The EPA suggested that, perhaps, older people should be worth 37% less money.

> STEVENSON: It became known as the senior discount.

> GONZALEZ: The senior death discount, actually. People protested. They held up signs that said granny for sale. It did not go over well.

> STEVENSON: The backlash was so intense they, very immediately, walked away from that, and you haven't seen any kind of similar proposal since.
Under display scanner on Samsungs is so horribly bad that I'm not worried about it at all :) . I often can't unlock my S10+ in five tries after which it forces me to enter pin. And S10+ cost 1000$ on release last year. I don't use any screen protectors and I've rescanned fingers after Samsung rolled out "fixes" for the scanner. It's junk.
Fear that postmodernism "infects" the humanities has always read as condescension to me: "this idea is too dangerous and 'normal' people won't be able to see the ways it will be abused, so we'd better reject it."
SQLite is so pervasive that when, not, if someone compiles it with the busted compiler (or others with a similar mistake) they want to be ready.
No hard feelings. The (relative) popularity of my comment tells me I stroke a common pain point here. I guess the solution for this problem worth a fortune.
Thanks, that comic looks fantastic!

Any idea where else these ideas are explored nowadays? I've seen that there are references to related projects mentioned at the end, but so far I had the impression that any research around hypertext (understood broadly) has pretty much fallen out of fashion in academia (and it sure doesn't help that hypertext is usually associated with the specific implementation of the modern web).

Lately there has been a lot of buzz around bidirectional outliners / note taking apps like Roam and Obsidian, so it seems that there is some interest. But somewhat ironically, all the more research oriented attempts that I could find seem to be scattered around the web without any kind of cohesive community.

(Of course there are still a lot of unexplored ideas dating back to Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more modern hypertext research seems comparatively hard to find.)
It was totally enough for a personal computer. Certainly not enough for a server. I only ran trusted software and could do whatever I wanted. As for the Internet - it's a browser's job to sandbox the JavaScript.
Thunderbird is your desktop client that can archive, compress, and store all emails offline. I've even used Thunderbird for migrating all my email history, folders etc. between servers: simply add new account and drag and drop folders between accounts. Simple enough to be used by non technical people who do not want to:

>./imapgrab.py -d -v -f ~/user@email.com -s imap.mail.server -S -p 993 -u user@email.com -p password -m "_ALL_,-INBOX.Trash,-INBOX.Spam,-INBOX.Junk,-Trash,-Junk,-Spam"
I also wish, all those "special URLs" were documented somewhere. There are quite a few of those.
I have a cronjob on my NAS that runs mbsync every night. Really simple and efficient.
While it is correct that they have never explicitly mentioned herd immunity, it is at least somewhat implied. Quite a few claims were made with regards to what percentage of the population in Stockholm have already had the disease, at one point Johan Giesecke even claimed 50% when mass serology testing becomes available.[0] Although we haven't really heard from him much lately. A study by the Swedish health organization was retracted recently as well, they were too optimistic about their immunity claims and it was based on a flawed study.[1] They have since put out a correct version. The most recent numbers say Stockholm is at about 7,3%.[2] This article is actually a pretty good representation of how they have been communicating. Something similar to flock immunity is implied while not actually being flock immunity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2JWifLCY
[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/folkhalsomyndigheten-drar...
[2] https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/3Jyxmq/flockimmunitet-i...
It is unfair to the authors of the software that is actually tested, in this case SQLite.

You are forced to investigate, otherwise people will attribute the bug to your software.

Toolchain bugs take an amazing amount of time and energy and happen more often than people think.
Why compare with Portugal? Why not compare with some other country with similar deathrate as Sweden but completely different choices? Maybe because you assertion about "very bad choices" then wouldn't hold any water.

It might still be true, but the actual support for it seems to just be cherry-picking.
Why don't you use WhatsApp?
Are you really saying that non-ASCII is notation and ASCII is not? When I read your first comment, I understood it to mean that better notation is better than worse notation.
This is simply not true.

Both Johan Giesecke (a consultant for Folkhälsomyndigheten, which is Tegnell's workplace) and Anders Tegnell has repeatedly been saying, that modelling suggests, herd immunity will occur in may.

Along with many others, who are working at the Karolinska Institute, that are closely cooperating with Folkhälsomyndigheten, like the the professors Jan Albert, Anders Björkman and Tom Britton.

Here is Johan Giesecke saying it in english:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOxITQQ8F3w
I’m not associated with Countly ( https://count.ly/ ), but I heard good things from my friends using it. It’s open source and makes money with enterprise edition.
Also, when you're on someone's profile, take a look at his favorites: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=Jaruzel

In your case there are no favorite submissions, but some people have them.
Isn't it amazing how truly bad matplotlib is?

And it gets worse because it gets new APIs with almost identical names to the previous ones, without a proper guide for when to chose which API.

And yes it's just so ugly by default.
Julia as a CLI Calculator
I tried it, but it never did anything for me, unfortunately. Perhaps it should be stacked, and I'm open to suggestions :)
People are starting to commit suicide at higher death rates than coronavirus deaths. This was posted to HN not too long ago.
Free cancelation has been a pipedream since day one of computer science.

We don't want it so badly that we want to pass around poison channels or cancelation tokens. People don't even bother threading cancelation contexts in Go because it's annoying and you still have to write disposal logic for anything worth canceling (which usually isn't possible anyways -- e.g. can't undo that database query that's in flight).

There are cute things you can do with generators in the UI where cancelation cascades make a lot of sense, but notice how nobody actually cares enough to use redux-saga nor this guy's library.
It may shock you, but some people don't see putting food on the table or providing for a family, to be their life's calling.

You can make a child care about the things you care about, about as much as you can make a homosexual become a heterosexual.

It's absurd.

You know who dreams of growing up to be a provider for a family? Fucking no one.

'Doing it for the mortgage' is what every asshole who sells his/her soul to the devil tells him/herself - it's why I can hardly stand talking to anyone working in big corps, their souls have left their bodies. 'Providing for my family' is another tell-tale sign your soul is in the ether, the corporate zombie has inhabited your very being.

Here's a parents' role - to get to experience childhood for the second time and experience life anew, through the eyes of his/her children, helping them discover themselves and enabling them to realize their dreams and their talents, not yours.

Most parents are such trash - they try and force their kids into what they think is best and most of those ideas are fear-based garbage. The number of children who hate their parents because they pushed them into careers that were safe instead of the shit the child was actually excited about. The number of shit doctors, lawyers and other professions who could've been something great instead. The shit these people do because their soul is dead. It's all so senseless and tragic.

Anyhow - it's never too late to realize you're old, miserable and full of shit opinions. Your son is only 16, you've screwed up your relationship with a teenager, maybe you can have a better relationship with a young adult, but it'll have to come from first starting to have a better relationship with yourself, and undoing the nonsense opinions and fears you have inside your head.

ps. I'm still editing and already seeing the downvotes pouring in :) Folks, I'm sorry for suggesting children are not your clay to be sculpted into a shape you prefer, but living beings who you love and care for and hope they can flourish into whatever shape they feel compelled to take.
You can’t learn about deep truths about the world from mindfulness meditation
Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
OK, with additional information, I can now see it. But the comment itself is so indirect in its sarcasm that it can just as easily be interpreted straight, and your ban does not give the additional information to make it clear; if somebody does not know anything about George Floyd, your comment about “trolling” makes no sense to the casual reader. You could easily have given some rationale in your post, but you didn’t.
1. Settings → Chats → Disable "Save to Camera Roll", done.

2. WhatsApp has rock-solid message delivery, otherwise it wouldn't have 2 billion users (https://blog.whatsapp.com/two-billion-users-connecting-the-w...). It's the default messaging app in most of the world. You don't become that popular with unreliable message delivery.
We have seen lots of projects doing this, you should make more clear in what way yours is better/different.
Perhaps just take away their guns?
In New Orleans we spend 30% of the budget on the police and corrections while the convention and visitors bureau sit on millions and black owned businesses have negligible receipts. Meanwhile, the city is subsiding. You’d be mad too.
I'm writing some legal documents in Word alongside some documentation at the moment.

The legal documents are long documents made entirely of texts. That would work fine in Markdown. The only challenge might be the first page where the formatting is wild with logos and texts thrown around.
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So this is basically a bot that opens PRs to add contributors to your readme under different headlines. Nothing specifically about recognizing code or non-code contributors.

Are we really too lazy to open vim and add a line?
> It's simply that right now, web is the best. Far from perfect, but the best.

Could you go into more detail? With Qt, you can use Qt Designer/Creator and get a working UI pretty fast and easily.
I have no idea how unequal I am to the people who I see every day

When someone drives past me in a car that I know costs the equivalent of 30 years of my salary I do have some idea of how unequal we are. It's a pretty big clue.
That would be arguing the goal of the protesters endangered public health. They were actually arguing that the physical act of protesting itself was a public health danger, which is a different thing entirely.

It's clear by now that many of the so-called "experts" are ideologically driven. For instance the highly influential Professor Ferguson told governments around the world they needed drastic lockdowns, which he then repeatedly violated himself to sleep with his left-wing activist girlfriend.

One of the other 50 "experts" in the UK government's advisory group (SAGE) is not only a left-wing political activist who made huge donations to Labour but is actually a life long member of the Communist Party. That's totally absurd given the tiny membership it has, but somehow the government managed to recruit a literal communist to make policy.

Lockdowns have been designed by these people and are a nearly pure implementation of hard-left policies, of the sort normally only found in communist states. Censorship is rife, a pass is required to go outside, protest is banned, the private sector is being destroyed. Maybe it shouldn't be a big surprise when you look at who's been coming up with them.
FEC Partners with Pcex.io for Trading Membership Agreement
Have you not seen the pink umbrella video?
I might believe you are right, and that saddens me.

I am not an expert in post-modernism, but it all sounds a lot like it found the really fundamental timeless question that was emerging in the collective unconscious of their time but then decided to give a severely incomplete and exaggerated answer.

I would have preferred if history had moved toward a focus toward inward inspection and recentering rather than outward criticism and deconstruction.
Light-switchable propulsion of active particles with reversible interactions
Ask HN: Have you ever gone without a computer or phone for an extended period?
I've been considering going "cold-turkey" and packing my laptop away for a while in order to unlearn some bad habits related to focus/distractions/procrastination, but obviously there are downsides to this for someone based in tech.

I'm wondering if anybody in the community has ever attempted this and would like to share their experience.

A handful of questions to seed the conversation (but please don't feel obliged to answer them all):
- What did you give up? How long was this for? Was this intentional or due to external circumstances?
- What were your motivations for giving the technology up?
- Was your overall experience positive or negative? In what ways?
- Did you notice any changes in your happiness, focus or stress levels?
- Is an "all-or-nothing" approach as such unrealistic? Would a strategy of using tech "in moderation" be more suitable?
- Do you have any advice for how someone could regain focus, avoid distractions and generally use technology in a more
mindful manner?

If you happen to know of any interesting blog posts/articles/previous discussions on the topic, please share.

Thanks in advance for your insights!
They could bind a windows iMessage install to your iPhone the same way Signal/whatsapp do.

Or make it part of an iCloud subscription.
The compiler is unreleased and months away. There are many, many broken revisions of compilers in development.

A project cannot burden its code trying to work on every single commit of every compiler out there.
(Edit: I agree with some of these, just not all - I come across as dismissive below just because I responded to only those I disagree with...)

> Claimed that there won't be any risk for widespread spread in Sweden.

This is incorrect. That was a momentary assessment "right now we don't see that risk". That obviously never meant "We can't see that this will ever happen".

> Over and over again made claims that "the peak of transmission has been reached" once it started in Sweden during March/April - every time incorrect.

When was the first time this happened? I think what people found weird was that cases and deaths kept going up afterwards. But that doesn't mean the peak of transmission hasn't happened. The peak of hospitalizations/deaths etc was Apr 24 or thereabout, that means peak of transmission was a couple of weeks before that. When did he first say it?

> (Ironically) denied the existence/significance of asymptomatic/presymptomatic transmission (he's still not admitting that it plays a significant role).

He's arguing that there is still no clear evidence it is. I'm going to give him a pass on that. You might argue that one should act as though it might be because we don't know so better safe than sorry - and I'd agree with that too.

> Made multiple, way too optimistic claims about when Stockholm might have reached herd immunity (May, June) - in reality, it's far far away.

I also found these confusing. But perhaps he looks at different numbers such as the bend in various curves rather than serological numbers (in that case he's very bad att communicating clearly what he means). I'm still optimistic that actual immunity can be much higher than serological tests show, because people turn out to have innate immunity /immunity that isn't IgG/IgA. But yes - he shouldn't be so optimistic in public I think.

> - Claimed that children don't spread the virus in significant ways (as far as I know, there is no consensus about that).

Again, if you look at it as "Don't take any action based on anything that isn't scientifically clear" rather than "Assume worst case and act accordingly".
What's becoming clear is that the FHM is extremely afraid of the consequences of mitigations (lockdowns, school closing) on public health. Example: if you count a semester lost at school as 6 months life lost - then you can start to make the numbers add up. I don't know exactly how they value things - but I trust they know what they are doing. Essentially I think that the FHM assign a high value to parameters such as personal freedom, domestic abuse, mental health, future healthcare budget... and a rather low value, to the value of a year of life for people 75 and over. This sounds ethically cynical (especially in e.g. a Catholic worldview). To me it's absolutely natural to set up these equations and balance deaths vs. other things (Not just "the economy" but "public health" in general, including the wellbeing of school children etc).
So your solution is to, what, kill people until a less efficient economy works again?
The link is broken by the ">" at the end.

While you are right, the thread was explicitly named "Who regrets choosing Elixir", so I think there's a bias in the responses.
A Look into Creating a Modular WASM Application Outside the Web
I would also like to know if this can improve productivity.
Watching me coding is the most boring thing I can think of so I doubt I would actually ever go back to those videos - I guess it’s more of a physiological trick
> There's a legitimate concern about async-awaits — they don't have an inbuilt cancellation mechanism. May not be a big thing for the server;

They are definitively a big thing for the server.

The lack of cancellation mechanism and pre-emption + single threaded nature are the main reasons why the P95 latency of Nodejs App tend to get horrible under load.
Etching the road to a hydrogen economy using plasma jets
Skype for business (when it works, doesn't degrade to low quality or disconnect)
No grades are on there and all the repos are private by default, yes MS get the info of the code (I've been using it since before the take over of GitHub). I think the students having public GitHub repos are good for CV / Job prospects anyway.
There's a way down the middle.

Unions.

Say a group of people unionized and formed a collective coop org.

Workers would get paid fairly who were employed by the co-op and would be members of the union.

The union would create it's own credit union and financial instruments and be a mesh of a CU and old style savings/loan.

The CU/Bank aspect would also invest in real estate (section 8 housing mostly and other but try to keep rents down wherever it has rentals and keep rent competition in check).

$$ brought in would be pooled, and as we grew to a certain size we'd launch our own health insurance company. All $$ from investments/real estate/etc would go towards the health care, premiums would basically be collective medical costs - income from investments / members of union, and members could choose to pay more for members w/ more financial burden.

Eventually we could start other businesses and encourage our union to ONLY use those businesses that we own as a co-op. ISPs, Amazon-clone, Google alternative, etc...

Eventually we gain $$ and power to start building or buying hospitals of our own. We also invest in our own generics drug company and maybe even a research company to design new drugs. Everything we do we deliver at cost or close medical wise. When we have surplus at the end of the year members vote whether we should diversify it into more investments, pay out dividends to all union members, or apply it to the medical fund, etc....

Eventually we could expand beyond our co-op and offer to be the 'benefit plan' for states' medicaid/medicare, as well as employer plans. The goal being have better quality and lower costs for employers, states, and members.

Eventually we get state $$ on top of union dues to cover the $$ needed for our m4a plan. If we're constantly in the green, we could start looking at a UBI plan.

The concept is a marriage of capitalism, unions, socialism, libertarianism. It's based on the concept of dual power. Eventually you get enough power that you weaken the healthcare lobbies (by taking their business) so that the $$ and political will to thwart you isn't there because they can no longer enrich politicians because they're cash on hand keeps dwindling, eventually we'd have more $ to lobby with than they would.
The blurs shown on the page can most certainly not be reversed because the information has been lost.

Things like swirls can, though: https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/interpol-untwir...
> It's OK to be a little funny sometimes.

But people usually not trying to be funny is the only thing that makes this site usable over something like Reddit.

If we can keep away jokes and puns for as long as possible, that'd be great.
Yeah, the over-reach of executive power has been gathering pace since Bush 2, and neither Obama nor Trump have done anything about it.

Interestingly, the set of people complaining about each's actions are almost completely disjoint.