skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes you just need to make [the out group] feel
heard before you explain to them what they’re not getting.

When you listen to groups of affected issues, what you often hear is that they have been explaining forever, it hasn't worked, and frankly they're exhausted.

Often, the folks who ask them for "explanations" are doing so in bad faith. Perhaps you're doing so in good faith, but they have a right to be wary and/or weary.

Understand that a group being oppressed or affected by some injustice is already bearing an undue burden.

Why should anyone listen to someone if they don’t get the
same respect back?

In some cases, you may be the one being incredibly disrespectful by expecting some sort of explanation, because tons of explaining has already been done.

To name one example, there is an incredibly rich history of African-American writing, art, and other forms of expression regarding the African-American experience. To use the mildest possible word I can bring myself to type, it would be rude to expect any individual to owe me some sort of explanation. Why should they do the work of explaining (yet again, most likely) when I haven't?
> Also, the local business register seems to be above data protection laws and sells your information.

Jesus that sounds terrible...
> Hi. My name’s Jeff, I maintain several OSS projects you may be familiar with, and I’m burned out.

> I lie awake at night, unable to sleep, crippled by guilt. During the day, it’s anxiety and fear that cripple instead, making the thought of facing the issue tracker unbearable.
So Zim-Wiki with the Backlinks plugin, then. Notes (wikipages) are stored as ordinary text files in a directory structure that is whatever hierarchy you've used in the notes. (I tend not to use hierarchy much for my every-day notes.)

Zim doesn't use Markdown as it's native or input syntax, but can copy text as md if you so wish.

Honestly one of the most underrated, understated tools I've ever come across, and one I would hate to have to live without.
This is a permit and building code issue, not a zoning one.
There was an advertising gimmick I saw once that consisted of a plastic ribbon that you attached to a balloon. The ribbon had ridges on it that encoded an audio blurb. You pinched it at the top and pulled down, running your thumbnail over the ridges, and the balloon acted like the diaphragm of a speaker to play the audio.
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Of course, there are use cases where user wants to be recognized as he travels across web domains.

For example single sign on, or a chat with a company representive when the company has several domains.

This "tracking" just needs to be clearly visible and controllable by the user.

It would be good if web browsers had a mode, where every time a site is trying to access cross domain cookies, a confirmation dialog was shown with details of the data requested, how the site is going to use it, their privacy policy. With options Allow once, always, 3 days, etc.
Ask HN: What are the best sites in 2020 to post articles about programming?
What are the best sites in 2020 to post articles about programming, math, etc.
I want to grow a community but I don't know where to start.
I really appreciate any help you can give.
That seems to fit into the theory that quarantine lockdown measures are most effective after 1.5 months.
Edit: I’m a dummy.
A nice UX? Personally I've found Roam to be flaky as hell. (Perhaps it just doesn't like Firefox very much.)
Malaria has killed millions upon millions, half of which under 5 years of age. The typical "with covid" death is over 80 and has 4 comorbidities. There is absolutely no comparison.
> What was awful was the lack of infrastructure

On lower speed roads with frequent intersections, that infrastructure causes more problems than it's worth because it makes intersection navigation far more hazardous than just using the roadway like any other vehicle.
I use a combination of foam, GitJournal, VSCode. Works well for me.
These definitions are too vague by half. In a word, useless. “An aspect of the algorithm, a dial” so the same as a parameter then, according to your definition... the only distinction is it changes model production, but in my experience data does that too, so... no clarity here. You make them sound the same to the naive reader.

And you misunderstood my suggestion for the article as a request for your help. But thanks. I don’t doubt what you wrote is accurate and helpful in the same way that saying “a transom is a part of a building” is accurate and helpful.
> This is how old air-to-air missiles worked. They would steer until the image of the target stopped moving.

That seems to be a weird way of describing "steer so the target is always in center of the image".
Ask HN: What features would your ideal k8s ARO tool have?
Hi all.
I'm currently working on a GUI-based tool for creating/generating/managing kubernetes manifests. It will have a similar approach to gitlab "autodevops" where you can add a k8s connection and manage your releases except you won't have to create the manifests by hand but rather through the GUI. I'd love to here from anyone who has interest in such a tool or even anyone who thinks this won't work. Any features you'd like to see in a tool like this?
I guess I agree in the most extreme (singular case) which i assume would never happen. But I do think that there is an efficient set that is much smaller than 1000s of teachers 2x per year x 40 yrs. Maybe modify my comment ^^ to "dozens" or something like that, and that would naturally be multiplied by languages/countries as I see it unlikely there'd be massive reuse across those boundaries.
Private property is not the only thing that matters, but Congress cannot taking away a company’s free speech rights, per the constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court.

You might not like it, but that is the current reality. Personally I like it. I would much rather have corporations decide which speech is allowable on their platforms than have the government decide which speech is allowable.
This might be the historical meaning of the word but it's certainly not the meaning of the word today and I'm doubting it was the meaning of the world at the time of the author.

Take this as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotnik_(1894%E2%80%931939) This newspaper was first published around the time of the authors life. It has no connection to the slavery just to the labour and labourers.
If it is, then the user should still consent to it. Just because something is “useful” in Google’s or FB’s eyes doesn’t mean I want to be a part of that.
There are deterministic qm interpretations though so this can't be absolutely true.
Facebook tracking people who never sign up for an account with them. Don't be dense, big tech does make an effort to track people who don't want to be tracked.

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profi...
Source? (Preferably non western source)
Sounds like a lovely feature. Who are these groups going to complain to and how on earth how are they going to frame it lol.
Not necessarily on center. Constant bearing but decreasing range will result in a collision.
Even just from the blurb, a more charitable interpretation is simply cataloguing locations and understanding cultures.
> To be fair, George Floyd was brutally murdered by the Minneapolis police department on May 25th, and the predictive blog entry I'm referring back to was posted more than a month earlier.

That's not the only such murder, and it's not the only one caught on video.

If a "predictive blog" isn't based largely on the body of publicly available past evidence (i.e., history), what's the point of the endeavor?
I would certainly hope so, in a sense that this being free and available to everyone can really help, especially poor and underprivileged, but also lifelong learners that can't attend a university.

On the other hand, making a good mooc is a massive undertaking and it's unclear where does the money should come from. IIRC the initial idea behind moocs was that the certificate is going to be prestigious and people would want to pay for it. But what happened was that far more people would drop off early, and those who complete rarely bought the pdf.

Also I don't think online remote learning can substitute offline on-campus. Even very immaterial things like CS or math can benefit from in-person interaction with professors, which also further depend on the personality of the student. Immersion in the studying atmosphere is much deeper (you being among other students) which, for me anyway, is a huge motivation boost. Then there is also networking and the baggage of useful acquaintances that you come with when you graduate.
This ends when the origin site starts proxying requests to the ad aggregators via the site-native domain.
No, but if you need to flow so many hours per month to maintain currency, flying a mission still counts towards that. So every hour spent flying a mission is an hour that doesn’t need to be spent flying to maintain currency.
And if it were truly unmitigated, the fatality rate would increase because the hospitals would be full. The fatality rate would basically rise until it matched the hospitalization rate.
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"Those advocating for low case counts at all costs are basically advocating to close parts of public life for good."

This is not true. Once cases are low enough a competent government can prevent outbreaks from spinning out of control, as has been seen in South Korea, China, and even Australia where new outbreaks have happened but haven't lead to exponential growth.

The problem in the US is that the governments in many states, and certainly at the federal level, aren't even trying to a competent response and instead threw up their hands. That's why they're seeing exponential increase.

A several month lockdown is necessary to get cases low enough that a competent government response and protective measures can keep them low even with increased economic activity.
100%. And I love the fact that with Apple that agency slowly moves back to me - the ad industry can disappear overnight, and I don’t think life would get worse without it.
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Could we put "Rota" in the title? It's currently not even clear from the title that this is about mathematics, let alone that it's written by an expert and highly opinionated mathematician.
> do the ok sign below their waist and if you looked, you got a punch in the shoulder

This was going around my college friends in the early 90s, predating Malcom in the Middle (2000-2006). I have no idea where it originated.
3 years isn't a long time to obtain a master's degree while working. This program, and many others, actually give you 5 years so you can take roughly one class per semester, 2 per year, and not destroy yourself. GT is also a top-tier school. Not a knock on Udacity.
Ask HN: What is your favorite paid learning resources?
Recently someone mentioned here we can get safari online if we get a ACM account (thank you, whoever you are). I am glad I came across that comment!

What are you favorite learning resources? I have tried curiosity stream, safari online (their collection is insanely good), laracasts (Jeffrey is awesome).

What are your favorites?
SourceScape – Query source code like it's a database
But you still allow them to work.
>Because the US lockdown didn't really begin to lift until June, the USA is hitting this secondary surge right now, and some states are trying to lock down again. Red states with Republican governors who are in complete denial are getting hit badly, though—notably Texas and Florida.

They really had to get partisan, didn't they? Unfortunately, the data doesn't support this claim. The fatality rate in both Texas and Florida has been flat since peaking in April, and their overall number of cases has been just a fraction of what they are in California and New York. But hey, they're run by Republicans, therefore we have to call them evil, meanwhile ignore the thousands of people literally massing in the streets spreading Covid in Democrat-run states...

[Texas fatality rate](https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=gUn_XoLnLJmxytMPu...).

[Florida fatality rate](https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=tEn_XoKrOpesytMPj...).

Overall cases are either flat or slightly increasing, as was predicted. The lockdown was never expected to make Covid go away. Only to ["flatten the curve"](https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/wellness-prevention/flatte...), e.g. slow down the spread so that hospitals wouldn't get overwhelmed.
I think that you will be proven correct eventually, but in many circles this argument still prompts a nasty, negative, and thoroughly irrational response.

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -Unknown
> Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps.

Drag-net thinking? ;)
You're not wrong, but the connection's already explored well; we call it "chemistry". Cook a piece of chalk and it'll crumble into powdery lime; mix it with water and air and it'll heat up and set back into hard stone.

The bigger idea here is that, while it's highly improbable that heat is applied to chalk, we can choose to apply heat to chalk. We have the choice of where to direct our energy. This is, by the Free Will Theorem, the same choice that subatomic particles make about how their energy will be measured. The loophole is precisely that if enough particles choose to synchronize their choices, then they can make highly structured choices with rich data for a long period of time; they can integrate information.

When we crumble the chalk, we lose the specific information about the shape of the chalk, and it would be very hard to recreate; this is entropy. But we also gain the specific information about the shape of the cement, and this would be very hard to determine from the prior context of the universe; this is choice and integrated information.
Read Darwin Awards. You find even with the gates in place people get out of the cars to raise the gates and still try beating the trains.
Yes. Google search is infinitely more useful when mildly personalised rather than based on sheer popularity. If I search for drainage companies, I don't care who the most popular drainage company in the world is, ad it's highly likely to be weighted towards somewhere more populous. When I look at reviews for services, tracking can be used by Google and co to attempt to verify that the person who left a 5* review actually used the service and wasn't an employee, or that the 1* review isn't from a competitor.

Ease of use is another, albeit less clear cut. If Ticketmaster knows I like heavy metal, they don't need to send me newsletters (that I opt in to manually of course) telling me about the upcoming country music gigs.

To be clear, I don't think that the current players are being useful to me as a consumer, they are abusing my data, but that's not to say that there is no use for tracking or personalisation,
I was only trying to respond to the political claims you brought up. I'm not sure how you can read what you wrote and not see that you're making claims about political extremists on one side. I'm not the one who brought that up, and in my post I mentioned both the burning business and the harassment that the left is doing that I disagree with. Lastly, it's not a game. People are oppressed. People are dying. The specific problem of wording in git repos may seem unimportant, but the conflation of that with the reality of what "extremist" means is what I take issue with.

I don't really care about what political side you're on (I'm an independent), I don't even really care about the git repo thing (people can choose whatever they want, it doesn't really affect me) but your claim of what is "extreme" is quite frankly not reasonable.
Surprised that no one is talking about ways to leverage the server so you’re not doing all the work on the client. You can shift layers by precomputing either raster or vector so you don’t push your poor, maybe mobile client to the max.

Classically you would do this with Tilemill for rasters which was amazing software, if crashy. And since we’re on a mapbox thread what I think put them on the map. I wish it was still actively developed and adapted for vectors.
> I’m surprised that free market enthusiasts don’t see zoning laws as a limitation of freedom...

They do, not just in academia as other comments have observed, but in practice (consider Houston)
Lobste.rs usually has good content to read. I haven’t gotten an invite though for an account
True enough. I should have said it's not an unreasonable thing for a manager to look at. It's not that it would be impossible to get by without management looking at git commits, and as you indicate, it's not a substitute for communication.
A sure sign someone's brain has been addled by partisanship is if they embrace the idea that certain drugs being researched have a red or blue hue to them.

One output of all this is that those who, for example, reveal their expectation of HCQ to have been one of 'snake oil' simply due to a Trump tweet have taken themselves off the field when it comes to rational discourse.

edit: For those down-voting me, my guess is you were not reading papers back in early February from China and South Korea as I was about early drugs worth trialing. If your expectations of a given drug's efficacy was informed by political tweets you weren't paying attention to the trial pipeline.
I love the metaphor of digestion to describe the brain's process. I once tried explaining to a friend how my brain works on problems in the background and they looked at me like I was spouting some new-age nonsense.
> If you have a 1gig file generated from a 128bit seed, then the apparent uncertainty (1gig) is much higher than the actual uncertainty (128bit).

More than that, since you also need to specify the algorithm used for the prng. Your true entropy is the 128-bit key plus the Kolmogorov complexity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity) of the generating algorithm.

This is also a good example of how information-theoretic entropy can change based on our prior knowledge. If we already know the generating algorithm, then the entropy is just the 128-bit key.

> But since it's so very hard to undo the prng, it will behave very closely to something with 1gig of actual uncertainty.

No, not really. A one-time pad with 1Gb of actual uncertainty is not made weaker by disclosing 128 bits of entropy. However, 1Gb of PRNG data is made weaker (broken) by disclosing the 128-bit key if the algorithm is known.

We can practically equate the two because inverting the 128-bit system is just as impossible (absent a quantum computer large/fast enough to take 2^64 operations) within the age of the universe as inverting the 1Gb system.
Is anyone aware of BiDi and-or Asian script support in AsciiDoc (or reStructuredText or Markdown ...)? I will likely need it in a coming project, and so far the only markup language that I've verified can properly do non-european-language layout is (ta dum!) HTML
I think the main unsolved problem is that we need our notes organized both based on subject matter, as well as based on importance, with a high level of granularity on both dimensions (i.e. sentence level granularity)

It's very hard to come up with a good, simple mechanism that lets you look at notes from both of those perspectives and to mix those two levels (i.e. "show me the high importance notes organized by subject")

One associated challenge is that we don't really have a good way of knowing importance of information ahead of time, so an additional problem is to come up with good heuristics for estimating importance based on other factors.
I don't agree with that. By giving the unique location you have indicated there is a big problem that is perhaps more solvable than it would have been otherwise, since there is a limited group of people, many who are presumably organized, in a specific location. That is something much easier for LinkedIn to deal with than a generalized trend to scam the site from around the world, presumably with a much greater variety of tactics and targets.
Ask HN: Android developers, where did you learn?
I think about starting learning programming for android. Looking for decent guides, books, youtube channels.

Can you recommend some books/courses/blogs as learning resources in 2020?
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No I don't think there is a good reason to believe they would have heeded a direction to go around. That doesn't mean that the direction should not have been given.

If ATC is to blame in this, it is primarily in excessive deference to the PIC.

My point, exactly, though it sounds like there may have been other irregularities in the procedures followed.
This article had lots of echos from The Design of Everyday Things. I highly recommend it if you haven't read it. Before I did "design" was a word meant mostly aesthetics with a little UX sprinkled on to me. This is 100% a design problem, and we have to design systems for people that are stressed, in a hurry, confused, think they are smarter than they are, you name it. The part about differentiating markings for active and passive crossings is especially poignant for me. I ride bikes a lot and cross numerous passive crossings on smaller country roads. It's not that I don't understand how those crossing works, but I'll admit that I often subconsciously think to myself, "they designed this not to kill me if I don't disobey the bells and gates" as I tear past it after a quick glance.
Louis Sauzedde isn't exactly an amateur, but his videos are wonderful. Folks should also check out Acorn to Arabella, actual amateurs, or Tally Ho. A couple of other fascinating wooden boat building projects.
I feel like you assume people have way more financial independence than they actually do. Yes there are very wealthy burbs but they’re the outlier and most people are fleeing outside the city, and hence becoming dependent on personal vehicles, because it’s where they can afford to live.

Like if you can afford to live downtown in my city you’re either really well off because $/sq ft. is astronomical or are some combination of young, single, and childless so you can put up with living in a studio/small 1 bedroom.
No offense, but are you joking? This is an extremely cynical take.

You don't see any benefit to having one mega amazing course?

You think there's no way to overcome the limitation you mentioned (bad information) at all? How about a peer review process?
I’m on hacker news and I care about the environment. I don’t want perfectly good hardware going in to landfill.

Apple supporting their phones for 5+ years is good, and they should be commended for doing this, but we should be introducing laws to make sure all manufacturers are doing this to a reasonable level.
Reminds me of VoodooPad
OK, fair enough: that's why they actually talk about CBDR - constant bearing, decreasing range.
"You surfing that site" not adding a single surveillance point for every user of a particular browser, it's not compromising your other privacy measures (e.g, VPN that prevents your ISP from knowing) by sending your site surfing data out to that surveillance point, etc.

Getting the icon from each site means surveillance would have to be at origin or every site, while telemetry going to DDG gives a single surveillance point.
It's amazing to see the bulk of HN users turn into self-aware wolves within a month.
No. He dismantled the CDC apparatus for discovering and reporting such outbreaks. If WHO is unreliable and politically influenced, the USA has enough money to fund a few people doing pandemic forensics, or whatever it's called.

Magical thinking doesn't make you "right".