skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the post, I hate the font.

But I am glad they have made it. They also raise an important point: half-arsed revivals of older fonts. I've been trying to make posters in the style of 1930s adverts. There are a few challenges, but one of the biggest is finding the correct font that hasn't been modernised.
It also supports two kinds of group chats and contact introductions.

Forums allow any member to invite anyone in their contact list.

Group chats have an admin who can invite anyone in their contact list, and also forcibly kick members out of the group.

Forums show a HN-like threaded view, and afaik group chats show a linear history.

Group/Forum message sharing is done between peered contacts whenever they get connected (either locally by being in the same WLAN/in blutooth range, or remove via a tor hidden service).

It currently lacks the requested open joining, though this can be emulated by using a "Forum" and the spam issue there could be handled by adding UI to see who gossip'd you a certain message (which you deem to be spam), so that you can have a word with this contact. Temporarily stopping incoming gossiping from a peer for specific forums might also be needed to scale to "huge" forums without having a massive spam problem, as you don't (necessarily) want to remove them from your contact list without giving them a chance to block the source of spam they had, as they'd perceive your removal of them from your list as you never going online again.

Joining is very simple, so you could probably just approach a few people at the protest about whether they have Briar, and if so, whether they'd pair with you to share the current protests forum.

It also has a "blog" functionality where there's a history of your "current status", and you could, if you wanted to, tell your peers about going to a new protest or so and that they should both ask you for a forum invite for the protest, and send you an invite if they get into a forum for this protest.

It shouldn't require many links to get reasonable message relaying across a relatively dense protest, especially considering that sneakernet aspects are essentially automatic.

I think with some more manpower they could quite soon have a system that's highly resilient to spam (provenance visualization/blocking), blackout-capable, and privacy-preserving/secure for non-public groups/forums.
The page doesn’t list the year the startups were founded. I wonder if you’d see a good correlation to the founding year.

More startups on the list use Ruby than any other language, and it accounts for over fifty percent of the valuation. It was very popular with startups ten, twelve years ago, but may since have slipped?

On the other hand among younger companions es one might expect to see more Go, Node and maybe Rust?

Still, an interesting analysis.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t generally enjoy fucking someone over. Let alone an entire society...

You are nerding out, I get it. But sometimes you gotta take off the “nerding out” hat before sharing an idea :)
The thing is they need more support for enforcement. The complaints you get from police are that a big chunk of the job is just racing from one call to the next, and flat out ignoring calls that don’t seem important enough because they’re forced to triage.
Really? In Russia I haven’t seen a single store without 3D Secure for a loooong time. And they are doing quite fine. Maybe it’s just that US customers are lazy?
Google is censoring your health information
I, for one, miss uselessaccount.com and feel that this product fills an important niche.
WeChat Verification
How can i pass wechat friend verification if i dont have any chinese friends?
Previous commenter is correct. I'm just saying I had first hand experience being targeted.
You can't skim the chip but you can trivially intercept the PIN.
The daydream that never stops (2017)
Your first study takes rt-pcr testing as the reference and cannot make statements on its accuracy.

Your second study is flawed as indicated by the comments on it, it’s a meta study based on poor data.

If you choose a point and go looking for studies to support it, regardless of quality and ignoring studies that do not, that’s not science.

And by the way, your studies are about something that is not important here. What is important here is if the patient carries virus particles in his airways so they can infect others, not if they are infected themselves.
Thanks, I will update the readme to include more info.

To answer some: It pushes a zipped directory to the server, which includes a Dockerfile. There, the server builds the image and deploys it.

Deploying pre-build images is probably best done by using a Dockerfile that uses FROM to point to the pre-build image.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200826060913/https://charliere...

Looks like HN brought it down.
> A small but vocal number of users complained

Citation needed

> but most users are probably pretty satisfied with the update

Citation needed

There's no way for you to know those statements are true, besides wishful thinking (in the same way that I dunno if the opposite it true).
http://vanilla-js.com/ Probably not the one you are referring to; but made in same spirit.
Hygiene is important for me on its own, unrelated to other people.
I agree we are all humans. But as humans, we are strongly influenced by our environment, and I think the current system of policing has a number of fundamental issues that makes the flaws we share as humans worse.

1.) Positions of power can attract people who have a longing for power, who may not be well-adjusted, emotionally-healthy individuals.

2.) Policing is a dangerous job, and constant personal danger can lead to regression away from the ideals we hold as a society. Something like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. When one of the basic needs (personal safety) is compromised, everything above it on the pyramid becomes less stable.

3.) Policing is an adversarial job. This leads to a us vs them mentality and also contributes to the next problem

4.) Racism. Racism has been part of our culture for a long time. This means...
a.) some officers certainly will be coming into the force with racial biases to varying degrees, and
b.) the fact that the jobs pits them as adversaries against certain races of people more than others will makes these biases worse.
Lead by example would be even more simple and effective. First step would be to describe what the writer proposes to be changed. It might not be constructive in the first place.

> I'm not sure they managed to do it with pats on the back.

You will always loose most intellectuals with that amount of paternalism and you are doomed to fail at some point. Not a good strategy at all. Singapore is a benevolent dictatorship and works to some degree, but it still requires participation. And force doesn't work, maybe for a short while, but it actually inhibits values getting entrenched. And it wouldn't work for any demographic, people would just laugh at you and in most cases it is actually deserved.

> having turned symbols of excess into symbols of shame

We did that since Abraham and probably long before.
No, at the moment it does not support Docker-compose.
His fight against disease certainly does a lot to redeem him in my eyes. I was never a fan of him in his Microsoft days, and I'm still not a fan of Microsoft or their products, though they stand out less today because the other Big Tech companies are just as bad in various ways. Remember when we all loved Google and Apple? Windows is still terrible, though, and not fulfilling the promise of what should be possible with computers.

I also remember how we laughed when his Encarta encyclopedia tried to sell Bill Gates as widely known as a philanthropist. It wasn't true then, but it is true now. He certainly deserves that credit.
SPD routinely started firing into crowds prior to making any such announcements, including the first time I was hit. The second time, they announced it and then immediately started firing at the crowd.

Announcing an unlawful assembly is not carte blanche to dole out collective punishment or violence, either.

There's already lawsuits ongoing. They won't go anywhere in terms of reforms because individual cops are virtually always indemnified, difficult to identify in these situations (many covered their badge numbers and nametags with tape), and the city will absorb the cost without the department taking any real hits.
Wow.
Tech writers for MDN?
Servo team?
Or PR stunt?
The man was doing stuff that would have "broken the Internet", years before the Internet even existed.
Care to elaborate on why regretting customer service in the EU?
You shouldn't skimp on your design phase?
New York Times: “Yes, we mean literally abolish the police”. That’s the title. Implying there is an associated slogan, and that part of people saying it are serious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
Not completely, see this paper on a new neurobiological theory on consciousness https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136... and this Twitter thread discussing it https://twitter.com/jaaanaru/status/1298164256777658370
Mozilla just replaced an open app ecosystem (incl. side loading) with a centralized opt-in nine entry app gallery.

Maybe there's a time to call them interested in an open web but this specific release is a big step away from their former principles. A browser should be an user agent.

Their principles are probably, just like in any other company, primarily marketing and we should evaluate them just the same as we do other companies.

Every time Google centralizes an ecosystem we do call that out. It's usually a power grab. We should do the same in cases in which Mozilla does it.

I think that the open extension ecosystem on desktop Firefox is save as long as Chrome on desktop still has somewhat open extension support.

On Android there is no chrome extensions, hence there's no competitive advantage for Mozilla to keep them - which probably made it all costs and no gains.

... which is probably the moment they're out of the window, if principles are no concern.

I think it's a dilemma. If Mozilla can't do it Firefox deserves a better organizational structure that enables the product to continue to work as a gateway to user autonomy and software freedom on increasingly closed platforms like Android.
Reddit was Lisp for a rather short time before being rewritten in Python. Isn't the story that HN was written in Arc as a response to Reddit's Python rewrite?
Patriot act and other laws / budgets put into place to keep taps on how money flows and dealings like that.
Until 911 we simply lived by the fact that you could obscure monetary flow using shell companies.

With 911 it became crystal clear that this also obscures monetary flow of deadly criminal actors, deadly at scale and deadly at random targets, 911, Madrid, ...

Wouldn't you think that this would change policies and create a push to more transparency of monetary flow?

Currently the policy values the option of tax evasion at scale higher than the option of controlling in the sense of understanding money flow.
> Where the hell are unarmed police the norm other than the UK and NZ?

Here's a sampling. I think not every country is considered in these lists though. Or at least, given there can be multiple police forces in a jurisdiction with only some of them armed, it's not always a clear-cut answer.

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/10601.jpeg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country

> In some countries including Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland excepted), Maldives, the police do not carry firearms unless the situation is expected to merit it.
just register your own domain with varying amount of Ys. At this point there is no meaningful difference between 12 Ys and 13 Ys.
> - val old = args[0].let(::File).readText()
> - val new = args[1].let(::File).readText()
> + val old = args[0].let(Paths::get).let(Paths::readString)
> + val new = args[0].let(Paths::get).let(Paths::readString)

Missed index. 0!=1.
The fact that a ship full of AN could be in Hudson River and nobody would have a clue.
Hey, thanks! I used a CSS library [0] I wrote myself last year that I use for a bunch of other projects of mine, most famously lyrics.rip [1] and free.linus.zone (my free-busy calendar I wrote myself) [2]. It gives the site the "faux-3D" aesthetic.

[0] https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/

[1] https://www.lyrics.rip

[2] https://thesephist.com/posts/frieden/
Perhaps the journalists could have avoided a lot of the loaded terminology such as "actors", "opaque", "mysterious, "shadows", and many related adjectives.

I want just the facts please.
It seems so. According to their blog post about it, they're writing cards specific to the life event - birthday, get well, etc.

https://www.zappos.com/about/stories/pec-cards
I think it still definitely counts. Reddit 1.0 was Lisp, and deployed as a Lisp service. It wasn’t as if it was some hokey prototype then finally converted for showtime.
It's far too late in the game to let the Sierra Clubs and the NIMBYs block nuclear power. It will take immense work to overcome the stigmas associated with nuclear power plants, however. With today's hyper-conspiracy minded discourse, it's going to be an uphill battle to convince people of safety, without getting drowned out by kooks.
That is a good step. One thing that i have found weird is that large parts of USA is remote and sparsely populated unlike say Japan, India or even mainland of China. To alleviate some of the psychological concerns would it not be possible to increase the transmission costs but site the nuclear plants in a location far from other urban centres ?

A bunch of reactors with 200 to 400 GW capacity sited remotely without urban area within 400 km might work i guess ? Off course they can be the latest generation reactors with all the advancements for safety factored in. Not sure if economies of scale can apply to nuclear like solar, but it may make sense.
HN was written in Arc because Paul liked Lisp and made Arc and wanted a real project to try it. It really had nothing to do with reddit's switch to Python (which as you correctly point out was in it's second year).

HN was more a response to PG wanting more moderation control over the content.
Unarmed police is not really the norm:

> In some countries including Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland excepted), Maldives, the police do not carry firearms unless the situation is expected to merit it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#...
So are we supposed to ignore the fact that Mozilla is now openly racist?

Does no one realize that stuff like this is as racist as it gets? They literally base the competition on a skin color.
I used an extension that adds a close tab button to the nav bar. I doubt it will ever make the greenlist.
Leaked email: Debian knew Appelbaum first-hand accounts exaggerated, falsified
Yes, Nextcloud is not required - I'm saying that having that gives me self-hosted synchronisation. You can indeed use Dropbox; there are other options too.
It's the same "perfectly accurate, almost totally unnecessary, precision at microscopy scale" involved in doing anything with numbers.

Ancient Babylonians were surely enthusiastic about astronomical computations, you are enthusiastic about clever fonts (and rest assured that there are much more extreme ones around), and some entirely different mathematical technology will be mind-blowing tomorrow.
Disagree. A lot of the value of Kotlin is stuff that doesn't even make it into the binary, like scope functions.
Restoring Travelers’ Confidence: Trueface to Participate in ‘Trade and Travel’
> You can easily die in an top EU or US or Singapore hospital [from malaria]
It used to help a lot (30-40%) to sort the class files of a librarly on canonical name before you add them to its jar. Class files contain that name, and are (typically) small. Your compression factor will grow. (maybe that trick is standard now)
Is anything interesting?
> Without trying to pick sides, the argument would be that these redistributive programs will not enhance public safety but instead will make things worse.

The police spend relatively little of their time doing what anyone would consider essential police work: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/upshot/unrest-police-time...

I see no reason that redistributing their duties related to things like traffic infractions, non-criminal calls, property crime, medical emergencies, etc. would do anything but help public safety, as cops are not particularly good at most of those things. They lack the training and professional culture to handle them appropriately. Rather than give them yet more money to train in such a wide variety of situations, we should have actual professionals that know how to handle, say, mental health crises respond to them, and only involve police as a backup to them at most.

Also, the vast majority of crime is related to poverty. Even gang violence is a product of poverty and the drug war, both of which can be addressed through policy and reallocation of funds.

> For those who can afford it, the safety "gap" will be addressed by private security forces, gated communities, or simply re-locating (and taking their tax dollars with them).

I wouldn't mind this much, as anyone interested in using their capital to do such things are also meddling unhelpfully in local politics.
In my annecdotal experience (could be completely wrong) Python and Django are much more common for the same vintage of startups in Europe as when Ruby and Rails were popular in the USA, I don't exactly know what drove it's adoption here.
How to Build a RESTful API in PHP (With Laravel)
I bet there's at least one company on this list who says they use a flash programming language because they're too embarrassed to tell the world they're running autohotkey scripts over an excel spreadsheet.
IIRC the stanford prison experiment has been thoroughly criticized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment.

The result of that experiment seems to imply even random people being "promoted" to have power over others with little demonstrable accountability is a recipe for disaster.

From the dim recesses of my memory what I took away from Plato's Republic is that you never want those who seek power to receive it and only those who don't care about it "deserve" it. (Clearly a bit of an oxymoron)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosopher-king

> On this view, philosophers are the last people who should or would want to rule. The Republic turns this claim upside down, arguing that it is precisely the fact that philosophers are the last people who would want to rule that qualifies them to do so. Only those who do not wish for political power can be trusted with it.

> Thus, the key to the notion of the “philosopher king” is that the philosopher is the only person who can be trusted to rule well. Philosophers are both morally and intellectually suited to rule: morally because it is in their nature to love truth and learning so much that they are free from the greed and lust that tempts others to abuse power and intellectually because they alone can gain full knowledge of reality, which in Books V through VII of the Republic is argued to culminate in knowledge of the forms of Virtue, Beauty, and, above all, the Good. The city can foster such knowledge by putting aspiring philosophers through a demanding education, and the philosophers will use their knowledge of goodness and virtue to help other citizens achieve these so far as possible.

I am a fairly optimistic person and believe people are mostly good. I agree some and perhaps many people that become police officers do it because they wish to do good. However, at a minimum I think the job attracts a lot of bullies and people that enjoy having power over others. And I think there is such a code of support of the "thin blue line" that ostensibly "good cops" can't be good cops because they allow "bad cop" behavior by their inaction.

This is a powerful article on that topic: https://www.theroot.com/maybe-there-are-no-good-cops-1790856...

I'd fix it all tomorrow by making a law that all wrongful violence/death/etc. judgements come out of the police pension and fraternal order of police funds instead of a city's budget. I bet that code of "omerta" would end in a heartbeat.
http://www.coboloncogs.org/

(cf. early versions of the Rails site: https://web.archive.org/web/20060101025821/http://rubyonrail...)
Nope. Sample size too small to draw correlation.
Are you familiar with the Rodney King riots, or the national wave in the late 60s? You seem to be presuming that large groups of angry protesters will never start trying to kill people, that this isn't even a problem the police need to plan for. And I'm just not sure that's true.
Reading the article would clarify that.
Great we've traded the polio that doesn't make us money for polio that makes us tons of money. Time to celebrate.
I think these are complicated issues, and I am not sure what the best path forward is. Changes to oversight and immunity policies would likely improve outcomes. I think solving the issues that lead to inequity and crime would indirectly have a positive impact on police behavior.

Diverting some police responsibilities to social workers seems like a good idea in general. I don't know if it would be effective in preventing the tragedies we see constantly across our country. These all generally happen in the process of an arrest, which seems like a responsibility that would need to be retained by officers in a system where the responsibilies are split.
From the title I thought he generated melodies with math. Instead, he wrote songs about math.
Karp, in other words: You can’t HANDLE the truth!

I agree with him. Most people who criticize defense/police have no clue what it takes to keep everyone safe.
In the words of Dr. Ian Malcolm of Jurassic park

"Life finds a way"
It kinda is, with the added issue that a few more years of seat belts might eradicate car crashes forever.
Solid setup's for accurate BIM model building, the current scanners need a bunch of time to use because it is cost prohibitive to have more than one, this makes the scanning somewhat costly as you're paying for a techs time to setup/wait for scanning.

Build a mesh network of a dozen sensors and join up the results to scan entire buildings in a few hours and you'll have some very happy engineers.
I'm quite happy with the new release. It's faster, and I've not had any problems with crashes.

Also the three plugins I regularly use worked when I got the release pushed to me (more than a week ago).
"Reform the police" is a perfectly fine slogan that captures what they claim to want. Its only flaw is that it isn't controversial, and so won't get the same level of attention. This slogan, like all too many things of late, is a perfect example of Scott Alexander's "toxoplasma" theory:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
Sorry, but I don't think this is good advice. Malaria medication does generally work well, I only pointed out that unlike something like Aids and antiretrovirals, it's just not something you can use safely and at scale, for the rest of your life.

If those plants are effective against malaria, it is inevitable that it should be applied in a practical way, which often turns out to be in the form of pills.
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