skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why no one talking about OCaml?
This is really sad :( I hope there is more communication soon about the timeline.
I'm not in favor of the bill, but a warrant is still required (at least for domestic stuff).
We, as technologists, probably largely agree with this argument, but those in charge are all laymen: officers, Dept. leaders, politicians, even lawyers, can all be ignorant of that nuance, and will probably remain so unless walked through in detail, and then continuously badgered about it.
Yeah, like the Americans with Madoff? Who "did not run a hedge fund but provided services to hedge funds"?

The SEC had also data provided from professionals that Madoff is either fraud or a ponzi and always ignored it. The sentence above was enough that they did not further investigate him.
Yeah, I've watched that video. That's the source of my "I've also been pointed to https://github.com/ccurtsinger/stabilizer but it sounds tied to LLVM 3.1 and hasn't had any substantial updates since 2013."
Banks will love that.

As would EU, South American and Asian businesses, they would VPN to another continent VPN to finally have nested encryption for key stakeholders communication.
I wonder if the problem here is just the way traditional policing works, not even the technology.
yeah, MS had a hard time with security around then. Lots of stuff that was open had to be locked down.
Have you seen anyone personally take offense, or just high-profile cases? I've definitely seen a few of the latter (e.g. Jordan Peterson) but the common denominator there seems to be antagonistically refusing to use pronouns or doing so to make the point that you reject them, which is different from an honest mistake.
Initially it took some getting used to Gimp, but that was years ago, when I had not used any GNU/Linux distribution and was still a Windows XP user.
Now I find Gimp's UI actually pretty logical and everything has its place. Not sure what people talk about when they complain about Gimp UI. Perhaps you can shed some light on the details you do not like?
The Contributor program lets people decide what "news" to support. Now Google is going to pick which favored news outlets it is going to financially support.
It is possible - in text, probable - to present a hostile front in a civil manner. What is objectionable about hostility is the bald-faced rejection of a premise. To accuse someone of not "caring about the standards of intellectual argument" based on the utterance of a single phrase is hostile.

This is not a matter of reasoned skepticism, it's knee-jerk ego defense; the above poster recognizes white fragility as a probable truth that traps him in a state of cognitive dissonance, and it makes him so uncomfortable that he has no choice but to respond. However, the response that truly rejects my initial premise would have been no response at all; the fact that he responded lends credence to that premise because its core holding was that it would elicit a response.
Irrelevant title but the UX analysis is on spot. It is a shame that many companies will spend millions on infrastructure and programming but don't pay for a decent UX team - or just do not bother implementing good UX. (Microsoft is the most striking example.)
> Umm, I think you mean the world.

Not most of Europe and East Asia, and a smattering of countries that have had effective responses. They have suppressed the epidemic to the point where they can reopen most things. They have to be vigilant and monitor the R value, but as long as it hovers around 1, they're okay. The levels of their epidemics are also low enough that they can do effective contact tracing (see, for example, what happened in Beijing recently).

In the US, by contrast, there are tens of thousands of new cases every day. Contact tracing is impossible at that point, and parts of the US will probably have to go into lockdown again, unless the US is willing to accept hundreds of thousands of additional deaths. A sharp lockdown lasting about 6 weeks would have put the US in a much better position.

> the nordics can't decide what do do with Sweden.

Because Sweden refused to lock down. This is the fault of Swedish politics, not the other Nordic countries that took effective action to suppress the virus.

> I think Sweden had fewer cases per capita at the peak than the UK, despite avoiding a formal lockdown

The UK has had a particularly bad epidemic because early on, the government pursued a "herd immunity" strategy. They waited far too long before locking down.
It works 100% of the time when I have both WiFi and Bluetooth on, when do you face problems?
I haven't written a comment in the source yet, as I haven't further investigated and implemented a work-around yet to hang the comment on. It's low on the priority list.
I've read the bill of rights.

i have a right to be secure in my papers and affects.

okay, this bill emphasizes that police need a warrant, but glosses over the bit about actual security.

administrative controls aren't security. That's why we haven't outlawed locks on the front door...
Mahk would have something to say on this.
This would be in breach of various privacy laws in the EU.

Companies have been sued for using weak encryption (cough plaintext passwords).
Isn't that the idea of Flattr?
Because moderators are trying to stop flamewars - not jump into the middle and fight both sides.
You've not linked any of the stories. Do they actually use the term 'racist'?

People loathe being called racist, to the point that if you point out someone is accidentally doing something unhelpful or discriminatory - not calling them racist - then you have to worry about them becoming emotional about it.
The art and science of mind wandering
> the wellknown Japanese crazy comedies

Teach me about those, please.
Alternately:

Select circle brush, set outer size, paint circle, set inner size, erase circle.

Not that the UI isn't terrible.
Why not give user the option to chose another app store? There could be many stores like in Ubuntu.
I'd definitely support this, but prefer Liberapay or other libre alternatives. It would suit free software projects better.
That's Skype for Business, which is completely different from Skype, and has now been deprecated in favour of Teams. Teams is again completely different from the Skypes, and is more of a Slack clone.
More recently, Germany's insistence to go all in the hydrogen economy has the same flair.
What if I need more than 100k rows per table? Where is the unlimited (enterprise) plan?
That might be a hard sell to their shareholders, spending a lot while gaining nothing, maybe even harming existing products.

Besides, if they foot the bill for finding out how such a micropayment system that actually works would look like, I guess it might still be a net win for everyone, because that would drastically lower the bar of entrance for competitors. Figuring that out would probably require very expensive iterations.
Theranos. Certainly a hell of a typo.
What if you put a text in your project:

All lawsuits are in the jurisdiction of X Tribunal, situated in Switzerland or another privacy-friendly country?
You might want to check other countries too.
Absolutely. The other big innovation is you can see who's making a noise in the call in the list of participants and mute them.

The UX is terrible, and totally not their strong point. When you install it should have a test my audio and video thing, and set use computer audio as the default meaning you never have to see the "join with computer audio" thing ever again.

Joining with a phone is useful for people without a computer, but the main UI doesn't need to mention it, the details are in the invitations.
>actually preparing a terrorist attack right?

For that we already have a law, planing for a crime.

But that law really just means you have sympathy or contact to potentially dangerous persons, or you speak out stuff that could be connected to "terrorism".

They even invented a new Word for that (in Germany):
Gefährder (a potential dangerous person who did not broke any law...)

EDIT: Actually it look's like 12yo don't have to go to prison but have to stay at home.
I love how this says something about the biases that exist in making legible maps. Toronto isn’t even shown.

Any time to read a map, remember that at different scales, there’s an editorial opinion, whether direct or algorithmic, on what you see.
Another reason to do this is support for keyboards with meme gifs and other pictures like kimoji. The way they work is by copying images to clipboard and expecting the user to paste manually. This can be streamlined in apps by checking clipboard contents every once in a while and if it changed to image when the input was in focus assuming the user intended to "type" an image or gif.
"There are several theories on what the initials "GW" stand for. Greg Whitten, an early Microsoft employee who developed the standards in the company's BASIC compiler line, says Bill Gates picked the name GW-BASIC. Whitten refers to it as Gee-Whiz BASIC and is unsure if Gates named the program after him. The Microsoft User Manual from Microsoft Press also refers to it by this name. It may have also been nicknamed Gee-Whiz because of its numerous graphics commands. Other common theories as to the initials' origins include "Graphics and Windows", "Gates, William" (Microsoft's president at the time), or "Gates-Whitten" (the two main designers of the program)."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC
The keynote stated first silicon shipping in 2020.
The blog post seems like a more applied, personalized and re-imagined version of "How to read a book". And shorter. I quote like it too.
I guess it's time for github.eu
I’m not sure. I hear what you’re saying, and I need to think about it.

It doesn’t feel arbitrary, but I might be fooling myself.
Why are some empty ocean squares colored dark blue and some light blue? Does light blue mean there is some land mass there but it's uninhabited?
It's been many years since I've used it the last time but I can remember that even the simplest tasks required googling and actively remembering how they were done because nothing was intuitive or logical. And the layer system was virtually unusable, I couldn't figure it out. In Krita or inkscape, the UI just makes much more sense so they are not as infuriating to work with.
Austin, TX area:

We used to live in 1800sqft house built in 1992 in the affordable neighborhood (so fiberglass bats in 4x2 walls). Gas heater, electric cooling. Gas water heater. Gas stove (we don't cook much, so this one probably doesn't have significant effect). We regularly got a bill over $250 in the summer for electricity + gas. Sometimes over $300. In the winter combined bill would be around $150. In summer second floor was never comfortable (part of it was poor circulation I am sure, but part of it was HVAC not cooling well enough)

We also just finished new 3100sqft house. The new place doesn't have natural gas, so we decided to go all-electric - water heater, HVAC, cooktop/ovens, and new addition - pool-heater. Our electric bill now fluctuates between $200 - $280 year around. All appliances, including water heater, are heat pumps. Extra bonus - garage, where the water heater is located, is cool during summer. Both water heater and HVAC has resistive heating elements for very cold days (we get enough of these to matter).

I am sure I can get average bill lower a bit if I tweak pool water and heat pumps schedule.

The house has open cell foam installed around the envelope (so the attic is alright to be in even during the hottest days) and we have forced ventilation (since the house is sealed essentially).

The water heater (80 gal) I bought myself and it was $900 on ebay. Similar product bought at Home Depot would cost probably $1,200 - $1,400. A bit more than natural gas heater, but not prohibitively so. HVAC installation (2.0 and 2.5 tons units) was under $20k for the whole house. Not sure how much traditional gas+electric non-heat-pump install would be, but I don't think it would be significantly cheaper.

So yeah, at least for southern places, heat-pumps appears to make a big difference.
This could serve as a good example of how politicians manipulate voting areas to ensure majorities. The results are probably correct, but the result is misleading.
DOM Access and Passing Errors from Go to JavaScript Using WebAssembly
I have the .boe files somewhere. They're a proprietary version of MIDI that Boesendorfer developed. If you want them, I can find them and send them. robert@opengoldbergvariations.org
Originally, it was to make the text really legible. I've been thinking about a redesign for quite some time now, though.
It's single-threaded.
Thanks!

I've asked in the twitter thread if early adopters of iOS 14 could also check if any apps access the microphone while in background (even though they shouldn't have to by use case).

I have the suspicion that some apps listen into conversations to apply speech recognition and NLP for targeted ads and maybe even more malicious practices - though I'm guessing networks close to FB for example would have been smart enough to have turned off those "features" for their apps by now but maybe not.

Still, it would be interesting:
https://twitter.com/musha68k/status/1276112945496428544?s=21
> I agree so much with this. I hate the AWS console UI so much

Oh, I love, hate, detest, adore, or any number of other negative and positive adjectives the AWS console UI, all depending on what page I visit.
Condemnation of Research - Greece Abuse on Migrants proven by Scientists
Given how controversial gun ownership is, I wouldn't use that as an example, it might undermine the case.
Staying Safe in the Streets
lockpickinglawyer on youtube should quickly dispel any sense of security you have with the lock on your house. It is literally ZERO
Oh totally, I'm pondering going desktop at home and if I did I would 100% go Ryzen 7/9
Processing 10M items / second with gRPC and natural batching
Relax for the Same Result (2015)
I wonder why they named the blog "coherence community edition" and not "open sourcing coherence". The license, although a bit unusual, seems to be a commercial friendly thing. What features are missing in this "community edition"?
Fixing Dates and Times in JavaScript (The Power of Temporal)
I would also like to hear more about this decision. Could probably be a financial decision?
Love it, I'll start using it from now on.
Gopherspace in the Year 2020
UX Research Cheatcheet
Why Your Startup Needs to Be High-Growth
You are describing a structured echo chamber. Or worse an internet of endless safe spaces to get just the view of the world that pleases you.

I mean facebook is already doing this, on purpose or not (right now the blame is on the algorithms). Either way this is not the right way forward.
Why do you think they are? I ask because I haven't researched beyond the initial news stories.
> I asked her what happens after we get him fired? Can he earn back the worthiness to again feed his family? Will he need to denounce his views or just stop spewing them publicly? Will he just need to collect unemployment for the rest of his life now that we've deemed him a heretic unworthy of work?

As someone who's a devout Christian, it's quite interesting to me to see how the same anti-patterns which plague zealous religious movements -- intolerance, judgementalism, lack of an avenue for repentance / rehabilitation, unquestionable dogmas, inquisitions to root out heresies, factionalism, etc -- plague the progressive movement as well.

"So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me." - The Apostle Paul
Like with the Paradox of Tolerance, the absolutist free speech position paradoxically leads to loss of free speech. Speech that is "truth to power" has to be defended. But defending the opposite kind—lies spread by the powerful—is helping them silence dissent.

There are people/orgs/governments that are experts in twisting the idea of free speech to their advantage. They know very well what to say to change clear opposing voices into a "controversy", represent indisputable facts as "opinions", and play free speech card when called out on it. They can keep doing it until people who genuinely want to evaluate all sides can't keep up with all the distractions.

And there are lots of cases when people are just being assholes. They enjoy that they can troll as much as they want and "freeze peach! slippery slope!" magically elevates any stupid shit they say into an important political message to be defended at all costs.
Ordinary Telegram chats are not secure, secret chats are secure - nobody has ever explained how the latter possibly can be eavesdropped. The problem with Telegram is many people don't know they are to create a secret chat explicitly every time they want a secure conversation.

However, the fact Russia has unbanned Telegram after Durov's claims they have implemented an illegal content busting mechanism seem alarming: we all know some harmless things many good people like (e.g. discussing government's faults, smoking weed or sharing voluntarily-taken nude pictures) are illegal in many countries.
Interesting idea, but I think the comments count; "x comments" should probably be clickable as anyone from HN will instinctively click that, not the "discuss" text.
Sorry that was a brain fart nonseq
If you don't like the idiots in Congress... then run for office. Engage in the civic process. Why aren't there more nerds and programmers in Congress? We should be there
The 4 horsemen of the infocalypse:

- terrorists,

- drug dealers,

- pedophiles,

- organized crime.

Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

Have a target "thing" you wish to stop, yet lack any moral, or practical reasons for doing so?

1. Pick a fear common to lots of people, something that will evoke a gut reaction: terrorists, pedophiles, serial killers.

2. Scream loudly to the media that "thing" is being used by perpetrators. (Don't worry if this is true, or common to all other things, or less common with "thing" than with other long established systems—payphones, paper mail, private hotel rooms, lack of bugs in all houses etc.)

3. Say that the only way to stop perpetrators is to close down "thing", or to regulate it to death, or to have laws forcing en masse tapability of all private communications on "thing". Don't worry if communicating on "thing" is a constitutionally protected right, if you have done a good job in choosing and publicising the horsemen in 2, no one will notice, they will be too busy clamouring for you to save them from the supposed evils.
Quite a lot of non metals can conduct electricity. Even Oxygen has a solid phase (ζ-phase <- hope that renders), where oxygen is pretty much a conducting metal.
Edit: ps, if you compress it more and cool it, even oxygen becomes a super conductor.
This might confuse those guys.
Great summary of Facebook newsfeed, loved it! I've also deleted facebook and instagram over a year ago and don't miss them at all. I do keep use WhatsApp though as there aren't that many people using Signal yet. I'm wondering, how many people contacted you on Telegram once you messaged them you're deleting WhatsApp. Did anyone make the switch? Or did they find any other means of communication with you - text messaged, emails, etc. I'm wondering how many people I'll stop interacting with if I delete whatsapp.
This doesn't really address the parent comment, which pretty much discusses the differing definitions of "good".
Challenge accepted.

Pederasty is so far from our cultural norms it’s current form is meaningless compared to a socially accepted version. In a society with active mentoring of youth by people across the gender and sexual orientation spectrum pederasty would reduce the stigma’s associated with homosexuals thus increasing social cohesion.

War is a stress test for societies. By destroying less efficient social structures it promotes long term progress and reduces inefficient practices like slavery.

Heroin is an opioid and can be used as such. It’s current stigma is associated with recreational uses, but it can easily be used for chronic pain in a hospice instead of similar opioids.

PS: IMO the real reason to segregate ideas across forms is to avoid having the same conversations everywhere. Bringing up politics means people talk about politics rather than whatever the original subject was.
I've been working on a fast typo tolerant search engine (https://github.com/typesense/typesense) for 4 years.

It initially started off with a question of "Why is ES so difficult to grok and manage?". Then I started researching around various data structures for efficiently storing text and numerical values and various algorithms for sorting the data in real time to surface relevant documents.

After 4 years of development, the project is pretty stable but I'm still adding features and has been getting some traction finally. I recently added a raft based replication aka clustering. I used a production ready Raft library for that, but it was still very nice to understand the nitty gritties of the Raft implementation.

I doubt I would build something more complicated ever, but who knows right :)
Lol. Some of the Australian towns are rather small, showing how sparse our population is:

Leonara: 2,476

Geraldton: 37,000

Mackay: 80,000
a lot these are pretty bad representations of real population, even in the US.

ex: Jacksonville is listed as the largest city in the southeast, and strictly speaking, this is true because it's a fairly dense population area. But it's a pretty misleading statement to say that it's the largest city.

Jacksonville's metro population is only about 1.5 million.

Atlanta is in the same box and Atlanta's metro population is nearly 4 times larger (5.9 million), Nashville also beats Jacksonville (1.9 million)
Unless you are trying to search, and have to wait for 5000 items to load 50 items at a time :/

Oh, and then you find that search only supports either exact matches, or (for some reason) suffix matches.
Google is corporation, of course it's for their benefit.

Google is paying news organizations to stop chastising them for hurting their revenues. While they're at it, also coup some good PR.

Does a reader want free* paywalled news? You have to use google.
Does a news org want a pie of the Google free* news budget? You have to partner with Google.

Solidifies even more Google position as an immovable object. One less reason not to use Google Search/News. One less reason for not relying on Google for revenues.

One less reason for everyone to question Google market position and do anything about it.
Oops, that's a bummer. Thanks for the heads up.
The problem is not with the technology, but with how it's used. A medical test is also not 100% error-proof which is why a professional needs to interpret the results, sometimes conducting other tests or disregarding it completely.

A cop stopping someone that has a resemblance to a criminal for questioning seems like a good thing to me, as long as the cop knows that there's a reasonable chance it's the wrong guy.
Apple, Google, Twitter React to Trump H-1B Visa Ban
Your projects look amazing, contragulation !
You could fade the led to depict the train distance to the station ? Like that, you would have a nice transition between stations, and if there are multiples train incoming/going from it you sums the intensities ?

I think it would add another level of smoothness to it.
We know that "Damore wrote an essay basically arguing women and minorities should be incapable of joining the software profession based on their genetics." is factually false, considering that what should it be called if not libel?

> Google, a private corporation

Which by the way told its employees that they were free to publish their opinions and Damore acted on that premise.
Great! Just make PIX an alternative to the market, not something mandatory.
I happen to be standing in front of my coffee maker waiting for it to finish. It has a lit green LED (indicating it’s brewing) and a button under it labeled “Off”. Same conflict, but perfectly clear IMO.