skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a local currency in use here in my city [0] and it seems to have a lot more support than the approx. 10 local businesses accepting the Time Credits mentioned in the article. I see the stickers in the windows of shops that accept the local currency (it’s pegged 1:1 to the euro) but I’ve never actually bought any myself. Seems to have a following if the list of stores accepting it is anything to go by [1]

0: http://www.lagonette.org
1: http://www.lagonette.org/la-liste-des-partenaires/
Though I program in languages that most follow the obj.method(args) pattern, I really prefer the args |> function |> function pattern and I wish it was the norm in every programming language.
“It’s okay team we’ll just push hard and discuss how to avoid this in the retrospective”
I didn't say anything about the name. But you made some pretty strong claims about the provenance of SQL that have - as far as I know it - no bearing on reality. The groups behind NATURAL and COBOL had nothing to do with SQL afaik.
Posting here as I thought it was interesting and I saw another thread talking about there being 'no decent raspberry pi laptops', of course this is a bit more 'advanced' than a standard laptop and it uses bluetooth for the keyboard... but, still looks like more than just a toy.

I found it because Andreas Spiess did a review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKYnyJ2uiok
New Firefox for Android won't show full URLs in address bar (just like Chrome)
The document can be tampersealed to help prevent or at least notify of that.

In a way a locked tampersealed document is a pretty decent template for parsing data as well. It is messy as PDFs always are but a decent lib and a consistent source with sealed docs can be used for decently verifiable scraping.

For instance some sort of license, certification or official document like tax forms, it can be generated with a common output, tampersealed and then reliably parsed after verification.
As long as I'm not releasing something that is a direct competitor for my job, it's all fine. Main thing I learned is that being open about it at work takes away the fear and worries.
Emergent Properties
One of the hidden consequences of the insane censorship that's being pushed by social media companies.
If you care so much about the kids you were tutoring, why didn't you continue tutoring them yourself, without the rent-seeking middleman?
The reason you should leave your political views at the door because you're trying to pass them off as facts.

>vote-by-mail is more prone to fraud.

That is simply not supported by any evidence.
I had this problem when I had it as a second OS. You know, Windows for gaming, Xubuntu for everything else. Apparently, if you only run it like once every other week, the updates and telemetry eat up all of your resources on startup.

I haven't found a software solution for it. Instead, I bought a separate PC and just keep it running.
You’re not thinking in sets if you’re constantly inclined to move to js/php/swift. Spend some time trying to break this mental bearier and you’ll find that SQL becomes easier and more sensible.
Gas-planets would be a challenge with no habitable surface, especially those with high winds. Would a floating sky habitat be any easier than just living in space?

But anything at or near Neptune receives very little light. There's a big gap between Mars and Jupiter (5.2au vs 1.5au), 10au to Saturn, and then a massive gap to Neptune (30au); anything habitable probably needs to be in the Mars-Venus band, fairly close to the sun.
Ha, thank you! That explains it... I've had several signups via Tor to my service, none of them confirmed, every few days... I guess they were checking if they can somehow abuse the mails.
icanhazaxfr.com is a service that transfers the zone file of 'icanhazaxfr.com' to anyone.

The goal of the service is to provide a freely available axfr service with a concise enough zonefile that
it is practical to use it for unit tests.
Is this substantially different than governments allowing you to sell something called "Cola" but not something called "Coca-Cola"?
`ts-audio`: New version makes it easy to create audio playlist
Did anyone manage to make a good Emacs config for effective React webdev?

I'm really missing graphql and styled components syntax highlighting and generally a bugless properly working webdev mode. Currently it keeps messing up indentation and losing syntax highlighting.

I tried moving to VS code, and I saw how amazing an editor designed for webdev can be. But despite all the issues, I'm still much more productive in emacs, so I went back.

I really wish it was possible to setup emacs for modern webdev, but I haven't found a way yet.

Any tips/advice?
Utah Goldbacks seem like an interesting alternative https://goldback.com/
Usability of extracting ZIP archives on Windows
You are absolutely delusional if you think dictatorships work under strict Rule of Law like democracies. This is basic middle school stuff - ideas that have been developed during centuries by the liberal tradition and even hark back to the Classical world - so I'm not going to bother debating it here.

I will however leave some data, from the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2020 [1]. These indices measure how strong the Rule of Law is in each country:

Germany - 0.84

United Kingdom - 0.79

Japan - 0.78

US - 0.73

France - 0.73

South Korea - 0.73

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China - 0.48

Russia - 0.47

Turkey - 0.43

There's no data for North Korea or Saudi Arabia, because they're so closed that there's not even a point in trying to judge the quality of their legal system. Go figure.

[1] https://worldjusticeproject.org/our-work/publications/rule-l...
This is pretty much what we're doing at https://cambiatus.io. We have a handful of successful communities that use the platform to a very useful degree, and we're expanding the platform to be able to accommodate other community shapes and needs as well.
>It's the bloody taxi companies trying to get back at Uber because taxi drivers ARE real jobs that require real benefits, and they can't compete with a better business model.

Ah, yes, Big Taxi conspiracy.

I can't imagine thinking a company losing billions while subsidizing chauffeurs for rich people while skirting laws is a "better business model".

>Fuck California.

Have you considered living in a place that doesn't require you to do "gig work" on top of your regular job in order eat? Isn't that the world we want?
According to this story, the welding was specifically as a result of the ammonium nitrate:

> In January 2020, a judge launched an official investigation after it was discovered that Hangar 12 was unguarded, had a hole in its southern wall and one of its doors dislodged, meaning the hazardous material was at risk of being stolen.

> In his final report following the investigation, Prosecutor General Oweidat “gave orders immediately” to ensure hangar doors and holes were repaired and security provided, a second high-ranking security official who also requested anonymity said.

> ...During the work, sparks from welding took hold and fire started to spread, the official said.

It's really mind-boggling.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-lebanon-security-blast-doc...
- anything that allows file upload -> porn / warez / movies / any form of copyright violation you care to come up with.

- anything that allows anonymous file upload -> childporn + all of the above.

- anything that allows communications -> spam, harassment, bots

- anything that measures something -> destruction of that something (for instance, google, the links between pages)

- any platform where the creator did not think long and hard about how it might be abused -> all of the abuse that wasn't dealt with beforehand.

- anything that isn't secured -> all of the above.

Going through a risk analysis exercise and detecting the abuse potential of whatever you are trying to build prior to launching it can go a long way towards ensuring that doesn't happen. Reacting very swiftly to any 'off label' uses for what you've built and shutting down categorically any form of abuse and you might even keep it alive. React too slow and before you know it your real users are drowned out by the trash.

It's sad, but that's the state of affairs on the web as we have it today.
HN is very much not a sample of the American populace. It's a sample of the farther left-leaning portion of Silicon Valley. The moderators here regularly ban right-wing users when they gain too much traction.
Who’s Your Ally? How Tech Startups Navigate Venture Capital and Federal Funding
How quickly after refusing work will the engineer be fired?
Then again what else can FB or other such platform do?

Porn and spam always take over eventually, because they're consumed by, ahem, highly motivated individuals.
No, it's a consequence of not being on top of abuse on your platform. And because those big social media platforms are working really hard to avoid going down through no particular fault of their own they shut stuff like this down at the first sight of trouble.

HN does the same with spam, which is the only reason we can have this conversation in the first place. I take it that you do not consider that censorship?
I am not an expert and do not understand it fully, but I know that fuel/air mix does make a phase transition of sorts and becomes a high explosive when the compression ratio is high enough. At low ratios it burns, at high enough ones it really does detonate with a shock wave running through it and causing the whole charge to blow up almost at once. Ammonium nitrate does the same if there is a big enough kick to get a strong detonation wave going through it, though I think there is much greater chance of this if there is some sort of solvent (gas, diesel, etc) mixed in with it.
Can you? Not trying to argue, I am a limey brit so I don't know the exact details. /r/legaladvice seems to be filled with people being fired for no reason or just de-scheduled or having their wages cut and it's all perfectly legal...
Mapping 24 Emotions Conveyed by Brief Human Vocalization: An Interactive Map
I'm building a platform that could be abused in similar ways. Does anyone have any suggested resources I could read/use to avoid this problem, preferably without employing captchas? Akismet might be helpful?
I would argue essentially print is dead or should die. I read things one my phone, my tablet, and various monitor sizes with various sized windows. I think, though could be wrong, that's true for most people on the planet in 2020. Even poor people on the other side of the world probably read stuff on feature phones if nothing else.

The world has also gotten more international and a PDF designed for US Letter Size doesn't fit A4 paper used in many other countries.

PDFs is left over from the early 90s when print was still the main way we communicated. We didn't yet email each other, at least not the masses. We didn't have lots of different devices. Our screens were low-res so it was much easier to read paper than screens (some people might still find that true). Heck, when PDF came out in 93 most PCs still ran DOS.

Now-a-days though does nothing bet get in the way. Sure, some rare PDFs can be reflowed but basically PDF wasn't designed for that and it's certainly not used that way. We need a format that re-flows for all the various devices we might be reading something on. For the most part HTML seems to fit that bill. Maybe a version with better image/diagram embedding would be good but we arguably do not need something brand new from scratch.

TL:DR; the world changed. PDF is designed for the the world from 30yrs ago. May it rest in peace.
>Airbus and Boeing pretty much go toe-to-toe, no?

Except for the part where the NSA is doing political and industrial espionage on Airbus on behalf of Boeing and the US gov so they can throw a wrench in Airbus's negotiations with other governments.
People actually do this on eBay sometimes
There's no reason a diagram can't be in source control. You just need a tool that can convert the diagram to code and the code to a diagram. You probably also want to store the diagram's layout in textual form too so it can be converted back to the original human-created layout.

Then you can use git and optionally build custom tools like a visual diff of diagram v1 vs v2.
Amazon SNS enables you to send messages or notifications directly to users with SMS text messages to over 200 countries, mobile push on Apple, Android, and other platforms or email (SMTP).

https://aws.amazon.com/sns/
i think it's somewhat of a start for a business if you have the stomach for it. you just need to figure out how to make money off the freeriders and get around the social media censorship for the paid users.
You should tell that to the folks at Japan and North America who have been using complementary currencies since the 1990s.
There’s no right to free speech in Europe, since for example many countries have laws against blasphemy.
I haven't been paying close attention and I'm wondering if you know: Are they buying newly issued munis or buying them on the open market?
Moroccan Meteorite Hunters
Yeah, I am not sure if octane is the right word here, you are probably right in what you say. I just know that diesel fuel is much more resistant to detonation at high compression ratios, given how a diesel works. In a gas motor, octane gives a measure of this, so I used the word there, but as you say it is probably not the right word.
We had somebody signing up to a website with Russian email addresses. What they did though was set the the Personal name to something like the following in Russian:

"Click here to see a translation http://whatever.r/?username"

So when we sent out the email to verify the signup the receiver saw some English text they couldn't read and the above instructions in Russian telling them to click on the link.

This was a Magento site so I assume it was a standard bot.
Yes, Simons basic really rocked my world! So many commands and cool things to play with! Inspired me to write my own "basic" extensions and burn them to a prom to make my own cartridge. Though things were much more primitive, it was fun getting such a low level look at everything.
Manual review (depends on the scale you intend to go for), build a 'trust' profile of your users, analyze the crap out of sign up page activity to detect abusers even before they've made their first move.

None of those require extra user interaction and can be quite effective.
"Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value" https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
If it’s out of necessity, it’s often because it’s their second job to some other job that _actually has a schedule_ but doesn’t schedule them full time to avoid giving them the typical benefits of full time workers. Or at least that’s what I’m hearing from business owners and part time workers... right?

I tend to think a work-as-you-want service like Uber or Lyft that pay above minimum wage couldn’t be more fitting to a self-employed / contractor description.
But what are the features you don’t need? That is not the same set for all users.
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The idea that our rights come from god, not the government, is enshrined in the founding documents of the US, and the idea has been discussed in philosophy for centuries before that. It's part of why US conservatives get so bent out of shape when progressives say things like "everyone has a right to healthcare".

I agree it doesn't make much sense. It's also worth noting that 75% of the men who signed that document owned slaves.
In this specific example say we do care, then what? What will it change? (Not theoretical change, actual change)
Time credits are not a new form of currency, they were used extensively in early co-operative communities such a the one started by Robert Owen in the 1820s. Sorry to cite a book, but this has some details:

https://www.routledge.com/A-Global-History-of-Co-operative-B...

There are lots of examples of co-operatives that use a currency of their own, the more idealistic ones did time based currencies because it was a proxy for equal pay for equal work. Communities tended to adopt their own to keep money circulating locally.
Local councils can create some value by allowing people to pay council taxes, fees and fines with the issued currency. Enough to peg it 1:1 with the USD? I'll be honest, I don't know how countries like panama manage that, so hell if I know how a council would do it.

Fundamentally, this is what underwrites the US dollar as well. If you don't pay your taxes you (eventually, provided you aren't connected enough to avoid it) get arrested. You can generate your wealth in corn or software or boat building, but you have to pay your taxes in US dollars. You can't barter your boats for corn and pay your taxes in corn. Thus, (almost) everyone in the US needs some US dollars to avoid being jailed. This is the foundation upon which the value of the US dollar is built.

Of course, making sure it doesn't blow up in the councils face in a few months/years time due to lax issuing controls is a different matter.
Absolutely. Nicer if you disclose it in your terms of service but data inspection should be considered the norm unless you explicitly agree otherwise. And even then, if it isn't encrypted with a key that only you control then you should still assume your comms are being read.
Thanks, I'm not so sure that superoptimizers have been used to design ISA, it seems more like "what could I do with this tool?".
As far as I understand complementary currencies are not supposed to disrupt anything (as their purpose isn't to replace fiat), not a new idea and in no way linked to crypto currencies. Crypto comes into play to support a more modern and secure transactional system to an idea that's already existed for decades.
List of tips to securely manage a global remote workforce
I have my own hobby side-project that allows user-generated content. Do you have some tips for minimizing the ways it could be used by spammers/porn?

For example, my project is a PWA which (I assume) makes it harder for spammers to use because there are fewer direct links that could be used for spam.

What about using verified emails? Google's captcha (or similar)?
> My pet theory about why the object.method(args) call syntax won is that it really is the most natural to read, as evidenced by the fact that most human languages follow subject-verb-object word order.

Most western languages maybe, but according to wikipedia[1] the most common is actually SOV rather than SVO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order#Distribution_of_wor...
At PostHog we explicitly allow (paid) side gigs [0], with the basic warning that the day job comes first.

[0] https://posthog.com/handbook/people/side-gigs
Hello, the data angle is just a diversion for kicking out tiktok and we chat getting too big and kicking American tech giants ass. Too dominant. It’s protectionism
When asked if I have any dietary requirements, I’ll always respond, I don’t eat octopus. Tales of Diogenes aside, this is why. I don’t eat my peers.
There is a GNU currency that is like that but I dont understand how it will ever work with the "honor system" lol I dont see whats stopping me from poisoning the well.
There is labor that is generally understood to be unhealthy to participate in. It’s generally considered unethical to hire children outside of ones own to labor. It’s generally considered unethical to labor in the business of knowingly selling highly addictive drugs, or killing people, or robbing people, or stalking people, or scamming people.

Should we also respect and have no guardrails for people who destroy their lives via cults, MLMs, scam artists, addiction, etc?
Eliminating the costs of currency conversion was the most obvious change for the average European, and very welcome. But economically it was insignificant compared to the effects of establishing a common monetary policy.
A small fraction of users of a big service is often enough to run a small, non-VC funded business.
Why wouldn’t taxi drivers be forced to become employees as well as truck drivers and other gig economy workers?
Thanks, that's a really good comment, I appreciate the details :)
I would argue not the only reason Ethereum is still relevant but definitely one of the solid reasons why.
Based on Mineral Evolution [1] as popularized in the books and lectures of Robert M. Hazen [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_evolution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hazen
Good to see https://signedbywoz.com/ is still up and running. I've had the signed Apple II schematic hanging in my office for over five years and I unexpectedly find it to be a constant source of inspiration.
The measure law is also known as Goodhart's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
That domain doesn't resolve for me, https://www.cambiatus.com/ works.
I know what you mean, and I feel for you.

That said, what forces you to follow fads? I've basically stopped doing it when I got started with Clojure about 6 years ago and it's been fine. It does take some convincing to use that for a project sometimes, but the feeling of empowerment has not faded, and compared to JavaScript churn the still waters of the Clojure ecosystem are quite enjoyable. My point being, fads are not necessarily a fatality.
Lebanon is a tiny country, the size of Connecticut. There are a lot of things that were irresponsible in this story in Beirut, but I don't think the grain silo is one of them
The "let's consider both sides" approach is part of the problem. I don't want to consider the partisan or ideologically motivated narratives of both sides — at least not in isolation — because they are equally likely to be false. Instead I want to understand what actually happened, its causes and consequences, and how it relates to other historical events.

It is an unfortunate reality that the victims of colonialism have no more of a monopoly on the truth than the perpetrators.
I just use the moderate power saving mode which disables network traffic of the background apps. Now my 2017 Samsung A3's battery lasts about 3.5 - 4.5 days / charge. If I need to be "urgently" contacted people can still call or SMS me but I don't want any realtime notifications from apps.
What a lot of people in this thread dont seem to understand is that the article is not making the case for Uber/Lyft drivers to be classified as employees (traditionally cab drivers have almost always been self-employed contractors), its simply reporting that under the current arrangements, Uber/Lyft drivers clearly _are_ employees. Legal scholars frequently cite the ability to set a price as a key criterion for being classed as a contractor. Maybe all Uber needs to do is to introduce some kind of "bidding" system in order to maintain the status quo. (They probabably wont though because Ubers entire value proposition to its shareholders rests on its ability to drive down the pay and conditions of its drivers)
>The starting assumption is that free and rational adults are choosing to work for the wage

And there are plenty that argue that under capitalism one isn't fully free. There is always the threat of losing the roof over your head.
That's the trivial part, but without the conditions I laid out above they're neither useful nor interesting, at least to me. FWIW Circles is implemented on Ethereum, if you didn't click the link.