skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Okie and a tribal member, the situation is far more complex than what the news/wikipedia can describe. But I think that's mentioned here a lot- the news never does anything justice. The Indians do get billions handed out all the time -ihs.gov.

One of the fundamental issues I see in Oklahoma is the lack of rule of law. I'm not thrilled we're releasing child molesters (that's who filed the suit), but I suppose starting somewhere is good.

As for VC funding, I'd love to see more of that. I do computer vision/nlp for a living, and I've had to leave the state due to lack of work. It's cheap, there are smart people, but they all leave after school.
No you don't. Like you said, it's using standards you can implement without the SDK.
Perhaps if things get way out of control, but even then not entirely. People need money to pay taxes. Individuals wishing to avoid jail is a great way to ensure a large majority of the population uses your currency.
Apache Pulsar should not be confused with another quite popular Pulsar:

Event driven concurrent framework for Python https://github.com/quantmind/pulsar
What currently stops landlords from raising rents such that no renter has any disposable income? Surely my landlord isn’t simply convinced that I am paying them every cent that I could possibly afford to pay them.
Still used by around 30% of websites: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/operating_system
I use kind of like my own personal Stack Overflow. I tag stuff with several (hopefully memorable) tags, and when I can't remember how to (whatever), I search and usually find an article which I thought was helpful enough at the time. Yup, I could google it too, but as you know, sometimes info is out of date, wrong, etc. I keep the good ones.

I also bookmark stuff I want to get back to; for instance, I do eventually want to start an SaaS, so I've got a lot of 'business', 'marketing', etc. links.

At work once, someone mentioned some particular technology and I said, "I think I have some links for that!" His office-mate promptly said, "You have a link for everything!" :-)
Do those companies publish their numbers since they're public?
Some people like to keep their job...
Mostly I save ideas for projects or personal development things that I need to do a more "deep read" of (this also allows me to tag it for that purpose, and when I want to go back to something I've worked on I can find references I've used for specific projects that I may not have saved elsewhere), things I've read that I might want to reference later/thought was a good read or interesting and tag it with the relevant stuff. Mostly I just use it as an instapaper backup, where I have it automatically save my Archived stories and it tags it with a "tagme" tag that I go through once a week or so.
Developers that use Vim aren't the only "pro users" to exist.
10 Years of “Continuous Delivery”
Why is the Facebook integration not lazy-loaded only for users who log in through an FB account?
The unencrypted backup system is almost certainly implemented mainly to give government authorities easy access to chat history when presented with a warrant whenever possible. Since this is offered as a helpful feature, very few think twice about the part in asterisk. This way they can comply with warrants without backdooring their app while continuing to sticker label "end to end encryption" and giving people comfort that their data is in "their" drive. There's no other reason really for such a weird arrangement.
I really wanted to like Signal and switch, but it seems to require a phone #. Are you OK with tying private conversations to an identifiable ID or did you find a work around?
No. But they might have been involved in other, less profitable criminal enterprises (stolen cars, maybe) and had less power and influence than they do now.
Five sprint retrospective ideas you can run even remotely
(1) My employer has switched to (nearly) 100% remote work at least through the end of 2020.

(2) I've set up regular weekly zoom calls with my extended family.

(3) I'm spending a LOT of time just staying at home with my wife and children. Fortunately, our family gets along well.
Certificate transparency would not work against targeted MITM attack
I find this delightfully ironic.

Tulsa residents actually _chose_ to live in a land that happens to be a native American reservation. They may not have known prior to this day, but the Supreme Court was there to clarify it.

In fact, and given that the Supreme Court dismissed the state arguments about laws passed around the early 20th century, it is not that these territories are _now_ part of the reservation, they _always_ were.

Now, if you were to argue that there may be uncertainty and prejudice against current Tulsa residents, because of the change of the status quo, I would say that, again, this is the reality 40 million immigrants face in the US to this day.
MMT measures inflation by standard inflation measures such as consumer price index. Real Estate and land prices are not included. Look this way if you want to see where the newly printed money end up.

Btw inflation is intentionally underreported because the only way to repay government debts (under democracy) is by debasing currency and thus value od debts through inflation. It's just a hidden tax.
Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History
You can run kafka on a single node no problem.

Give this a try: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
This works great in my setup:
MBP 15-Inch, 2018,
macOS Catalina 10.15.5,
Installed via Homebrew Cask,
LG 34" 5k2k 34WK95U-W via Thunderbolt 3,
Sonnet Echo 11 Thunderbolt 3 Dock,
Dell U3417W 34" via HDMI via Echo 11 Dock.
Volume and brightness work on both displays. Contrast only works on the Dell (after enabling in the preferences) - no big deal. I can adjust brightness on both displays at the same time via the keyboard... that is spectacular. Volume controls work as expected - finally!! Fantastic!!
I don't think there is a lot of data from what I've seen. This book claims to pull together some 620 data sets for analysis. I have only glanced over a few sections that interest me and I don't see citations to some papers that I've found interesting.

It'll be interesting to see if the author can pull it together in an engaging way.

There is some effort in IEEE and ACM circles to pull together research like this as well. Worth trialing a membership to find out.
That is a super interesting model. Any idea who makes up the first three "classes" of investors?
Olympus Mons
I completely agree that some calls to terminate people are good, and others are bad.

I think you're interpreting my comments, and the letter, as saying "there should be a blanket norm against calling for anyone's ouster for their opinions, no matter how vile." I'm not, and I don't think the letter is either.

I'm saying, and I believe the letter is saying, that we have become overly quick to reach for the tools of suppression in response to opposing views. That the spectrum of views which we interpret charitably is shrinking, and the spectrum of views that we view as fireable offenses is growing. It's not simply that the overton window has shifted and previously acceptable views are no longer okay (though I think that's clearly part of it). It's that the overton window has shrunk dramatically, even as we've moved towards much more brutal enforcement of it.

Anyway: thanks for the interesting discussion - I'm glad we've carved out this space for it! ;)
If an app provides 'login with <something>' the app now has to support 'login with apple' as well. They are not activly blocking apps that violate this rule, but soon they will.
Why not?

Manufacturing Execution Systems run on Windows; when virtually all your servers are Windows because of the apps you need to run, setting up a few Linux servers for minor apps for internal use only is not worth, so PHP in fast-CGI more under IIS is a very simple and effective solution.

Having support people with good expertise on both Windows and Linux is expensive, having 2 separate teams in expensive (if you need high uptime), especially when the ratio Windows to Linux is just 10:1 or 20:1. Keep it simple, run PHP on Windows.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the pseudo-SSO called Windows Integrated Authentication that works with just a few clicks on Windows, probably a lot more key presses (typing) in Linux.
While I definitely disagree with the way drive doesn't give access to users for their own data, I think giving access has it's own problems, as you might land in another Cambridge analytica type situation.

1. Shady addictive game requires full access to drive.

2. Shady game downloads all your chats with all contacts

3. FB is on fire since they allowed access to people's chats with others, even those who didn't download the game.

4. People get mad on FB/Google for not protecting their data.
I think the idea is that you want to be able to look back not just at the places you've been but also at yourself. I think it makes sense. Seeing pictures of myself as a teenager certainly has a different impact than seeing pictures of where I went as a teenager.
> Imagine if 50 years from now the thing Trump is most remembered for is ending the US' blind eye towards China.

> Imagine if he's celebrated as the politician who finally acted on principal in a time when the rest of Washington was looking the other way because of cheap manufacturing.

Trump won't be celebrated, since there's no strategy behind what he does: it's all short term self-interest. Bolton says he begged Xi in person to buy US farm products to help with his re-election (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53086042) and approved of the concentration camps that are being sanctioned here (https://www.axios.com/trump-uighur-muslim-bolton-73ebf1e2-9d...).

If anything, Trump's bumbling, impulsive actions caused aspects of an already solidifying consensus on China to firm up a little quicker.
Funny how daring americans were flying planes for almost 20 years, no EULA needed, and planes didn't drop out of the skies at all.

If anything, the problem is that when there are no rules, some people (pilots) themselves were reckless and can endanger others. That is something to be solved by criminal courts, though.
Agreed, so far it's sounding more and more silly the more context I get.
The Federal Government just makes decisions slower, that is by design. Sort of a brake effect. Look at Prohibition for example, some states enacted laws. Eventually the movement gained national ground and the amendment was passed. It took 13 years for it to be repealed.

I would posit that America has less of a pot culture then it did a drinking culture. The history reads similar. First states took up the banner of morality.
>In the West, the first state to include cannabis as a poison was California. The Poison Act was passed in 1907 and amended in 1909 and 1911, and in 1913 an amendatory act was made to make possession of "extracts, tinctures, or other narcotic preparations of hemp, or loco-weed, their preparations and compounds" a misdemeanor.[6] There is no evidence that the law was ever used or intended to restrict pharmaceutical cannabis; instead it was a legislative mistake, and in 1915 another revision placed cannabis under the same restriction as other poisons.[6] In 1914, one of the first cannabis drug raids in the nation occurred in the Mexican-American neighborhood of Sonoratown in Los Angeles, where police raided two "dream gardens" and confiscated a wagonload of cannabis.[19]

Other states followed with marijuana laws including: Wyoming (1915); Texas (1919); Iowa (1923); Nevada (1923); Oregon (1923); Washington (1923); Arkansas (1923); Nebraska (1927);[20] Louisiana (1927); and Colorado (1929).[21] -Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_marijuana_in_...

Now states are removing their laws and with an eventual push the Federal government will change their laws as well.
Next thing you know they'll start insist on adding lowercase characters to the character set and forcing us to use color displays and Arabic numerals instead of good old fashioned Roman ones!
Not to sound as old or anachronistic but I kind of watch this stuff happening and wonder when all those useless bubbly conveniences are going to burst. Never had any account on facebook, twitter, instagram, viber, whatsapp etc. Last similar stuff i used was IRC and ICQ. Some Messenger and skype but i abandoned those long ago.
Now I only use discord when I am gaming or wanna talk to a friend and I am sitting in my desk.

Mobile phones were a big step forward from plain old landline ones. But in terms of ease of communication this change was the last one with non-deminishing returns. Maybe smart phones also just for browsing HN when I wait in a queue or in the bus etc.

All those social networking and communication apps? Fcuk them.

I can perfectly communicate by calling or texting or video calling someone. What exactly is the added value of those apps?
And active support for other human rights abusing countries.
People tend to be nostalgic for the years soon after their birth because to them it seems like a time when everything seemed simple because they were too young to be aware of the world.

Guess which age group has an outsize influence on Reddit?
WFH: 12-Month Barbados Welcome Stamp
> As I understand it, the basic income idea is based on that realistically almost everyone at some point uses government aid or finances (directly or indirectly). basic income is just making sure that when you need to make use of that aid, you don't have to jump through hoops, requirements and paperwork.

That points at an alternative way to conceptualize a basic income: at the end of the day, it's the net transfer that matters. Ie all the money and welfare services you get from the government minus all the taxes you pay.

On average over all of society that net transfer has to be zero. (Modulo complications to do with souvereign wealth funds and government debt.)

Now, most people around the world want rich people to pay and poorer people to receive on net.

The usual way to achieve that is via means testing in both the welfare and the tax system.

Basic income can be seen as a way to simplify government bureaucracies by shifting all the means testing out of the welfare system and into the tax system.

> By giving everyone enough to live and not starve, you can do that. Without needing bureaucracy. It goes together with other great ideas like a minimum livable wage[0], pensions, public education and public healthcare.

These other things don't sound like good ideas to me. Especially outlawing poor people's jobs seems cruel and a bad case of 'Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics' to me. See https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
Anyone reading this, please make some noise that request for postmortem. https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1385

I want a central document with clear steps on how to mitigate. Currently the best option for documentation seems to be wading through comment threads, which is very frustrating.
Yep, and don't get me wrong. Stray out of the monorepo and into the wilds of various git hosted code bases at Google and you'll find code rotting in the fields, maintained to a far lower standard (IMHO).
Postgres can be used as an effective event centric database and pub/sub queue with NOTIFY and LISTEN
Tim O'Reilly's Argument Against Reid Hoffman's “Blitzscaling”
Care for cats? So did people along the Silk Road more than 1k years ago
tell me again how little you owe that kid

That's actually not that hard to do, both from a legal and a moral standpoint. Legally, the "you" in your analogy has never committed an unlawful act and is therefore not personally beholden to any restitution to the victim's side. It is the purveyance of a well-functioning justice system to provide adequate restitution for victims of crimes, but that does not extend to a personal obligation on people that had no part in said crime.

Morally, the story is a bit more convoluted but your premise falls back to the theory of original sin: that people can be personally held responsible for their heritage. In the past two-thousand years it has been proven a very powerful argument because it "feels" right, but at its core it is still a rejection of the individualist premise that all people are born equal. And I'm still on the side that believes all people should be born equal, even though that stance seems less and less prevalent nowadays. Once you start arguing for collective punishment of past crimes, it's very hard to argue your case without at the same time defending the same practice throughout many wars in history, and now explicitly outlawed in the Geneva Conventions.
Austrian economists barely discuss hyperinflation. They instead endlessly talk about the distortive effects of inflation on the economy as a whole, such as decimating savings, and that the idea that a good economy is based on consumer spending is political gobbledygook believed by politicians who only listen to bad economists that tell them what they want to hear.
As mentioned in my previous post:

They already support encrypted backups. In fact, they don't support unencrypted locally.

> The design is pretty clearly to support the bog standard backup use case of "something happened to my device, I got a new one, I want my old data".

They had, in fact, perfected the local encrypted seamless "something went wrong" workflow - they keys are delivered from the server (stored or generated, I don't know) once you've proved you can receive texts on that phone number. Without that, the local backup is useless.

And IIRC, they ALSO did the same with Google Drive. But then, one day, it stopped counting against your quota and the encryption disappeared.

> I think their design philosophy here is likely "let's err on the side of smooth UX

The UI was as smooth as it can be. It still is, for local backup.

I try not to attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, deadlines or missing budgets, but in this case, there was a decision to remove encryption, that required negotiating with a rival. That decision had costs, and the process had costs. There is a benefit associated or this decision would not have been taken. I don't know exactly what it is.
Americans Increase LSD Use–and a Bleak Outlook for the World May Be to Blame
Get to YT scale, then solve that problem.

You're going to run into transmission problems waaaay before that.
Physicists already understand quantum mechanics. There are open questions, but it's no longer the case that the physicists themselves just stand slack-jawed at it. Every field has open questions, and nobody says "Nobody understands DNA" or "Nobody understands polymer chemistry".

Quantum mechanics attracted a lot of mystical woo early in its development, because it was so deeply unfamiliar from classical physics, but we've been at it for over a century now. We've moved way, way past the weirdness of quantum erasers and other examples that get promoted in pop science books. As I said, that doesn't mean all of the questions are answered, but a lot of questions are answered. You just can't understand the answers by expressing them in purely conventional terms, as pop science books try to do.

So physicists don't come out of school wearing pointy hats and feeling like the keepers of arcane knowledge. They can do quantum mechanics and apply it. That's not forbidden knowledge. It just takes work. Nobody ever promised you an understanding of physics from comfortably reading about it at a middle-school level, any more than you'd expect to learn dishwasher repair or glassblowing just from breezy introductions to it.

The information is accessible, and lots of "Quantum mechanics for dummies" books can actually give you a good handle on it. Yes, it takes math, but not very advanced math. Yes, you have to learn a new language, but that's to be expected. Novel ways of viewing the universe require new ways of talking about it. It's right there, publicly accessible.
Deepfakes are becoming a hot new corporate training tool
Slash CO2, Then Wait–and Wait–For Temperatures to Drop
Funny, after 10 years of Java and other high level languages I was very happy to go work on C++ at a lower level and have been pushing myself lower down the stack as I go.

C++ these days is a far more pleasant beast than the VS6 days, the tooling is pretty good and the language can be tamed into a pretty elegant beast with the right coding standards and discipline.
Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way
Yes. Not just most proposals, but all:

Unless you get foreigners to pay for your UBI programme, it's always going to be funded by raising taxes, shifting existence welfare around, or something equivalent.

But a big part of some people's understanding of UBI is that you want to move all means testing into the tax system, and out of the welfare system.

The tax people already keep track of how much money everyone makes. So we don't need to duplicate that bureaucracy.
Cell 'membrane on a chip' may speed up screening of drug candidates for COVID19
On Linux, i use rednotebook for that.

It started as a simple Todo/done log, but then I started using for notes and general scratchpad.
> I would prefer to give people rent checks than to provide public housing in food-desserts and bad school districts.

It maybe doesn't always work out great in practice, but at least in theory, municipal governments do have tools for addressing these problems in a deeper, longer-view way than the market and private developers can. Left to its own devices, "the market" will just abandon those food desserts and bad school districts and you end up with the same hollowed-out inner city that was such an issue in the late 20th century.

Anyway, whether you bring poor people to a rich neighbourhood (with subsidies, density bonusing), or you bring rich people to a poor neighbourhood (revitalization, gentrification), there are going to be issues, but housing policy is something that requires long term, active stewardship, I think.
You can get away without using Spring and do quite fine, but there's definitely a risk that if you invest in the JVM ecosystem you'll get hired to work on Spring.

(alternatives like Vert.x, the less-annotation-heavy quarkus, etc).

For Java web dev I actually like Kotlin better - ktor is pretty nice.
To have a safe society, you need to either have lots of surveillance, so people know they are being watched and will think twice about committing crimes (countries with very string gun laws like England and Australia have very strong surveillance systems in place) or the ability for anyone to defend themselves legally against said criminal.

When you try yo get rid of both guns and surveillance, it only increases the crime rate and hurts innocent people.

Very large cities like New York and Chicago are seeing this in action right now. Police are either quitting, not working, and are being defunded as we speak. New york and Chicago had record crime rate increases, including murder.
Now that we have electric vehicles with torque from 0 rpm, and regenerative braking, we can go back to straight roads ...

(Just the other day I was observing that zigzag roads up/down mountains were probably a consequence of engines unable to apply power at very low speeds and friction brakes.)
Why bother testing it? We all know where this is going. UBI is going to happen, whether the tests are successful or not, and it's not going to look anything like the UBI we were promised; instead of repealing social safety net programs in favor of one payment, it's going to be just another program on top of the pile.
Your ad blocker is going to filter a private web socket link funneling ads and content together? It's going to patch the WASM?
What do you mean “press delete”? China is not in a position to blackmail the US via financial means, not even in the slightest. If they sold their treasuries, they would be bought in a heartbeat by others with a penchant for stable valuation.
> Convert all active whatsapp contacts to signal? 80%? 50%?

They can start by removing the atrocious phone number verification first.