skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes that ubiquitous Visual Basic.
United States novel coronavirus trend lines, since February
Well, the Euro Commission is nominated by the state governments and only approved by the EP. Every decision of the EP could be blocked from the euro council which is again formed by the state leaders. Do you see a pattern here or something?

I know that Daily Mail and the like love to hate Brussels but Brussels is only what it is let to be.
otherwise you risk condemning in words while the regime begins to control and censor your words as well, while you continue to condemn without doing anything, perhaps with a hint of disdain or is it perhaps too much? there are those who take the south china sea, and then declare the republic of taiwan separationist and threaten to invade it weekly, not afraid to show strength, for the simple "desire for reunification" when they have been more separated than united in the last 200 years, invades hong-kong, tramples rights where it controls and then appeals to rights to trample them where before it had no power, we must be careful not to confuse the right of all with the duty to defend the rights of all and the right to express yourself and act is not the same as the right to silence or block,

blocking those who block is freeing those who are blocked is not becoming like them.
Quantum Computing May Be Closer Than You Think
The "razor and blades model" is maybe not the best example here, as it's entirely voluntary for the consumer.

The ads convinced me to buy overpriced Mach 3 blades for 20 years, but at no time was I prevented from buying a safety razor and having cheap blades and a better shave. I could even buy one from Gillette if I really wanted to.

I'm not sure I'd want regulation protecting me from being a wasteful consumer, but I do think that something as important as a hospital shouldn't be allowed to run on whatever Ponzi scheme is momentarily profitable.

Perhaps we could regulate them more like we do banks? Something about maintaining certain critical capacity, or you lose your license to facelift?
The fact that anaconda actually has to hack your path variables and your bashrc doesn't strike you as a recipe for disaster?
Unfortunately they didn't turn out very good and I didn't try again (maybe I should). Here's a build log from the first attempt (click "build log"):

https://www.makerfol.io/project/m8xrLUp-light-painting-with-...

I subsequently made a harness for the Mavic air too, that's the one the script was written for.
That is simple math assuming no change of the taxed wealth value (which could go up, down, or stay the same).

IMO, "small" wealth taxes "get big" because they take repeated bites at the same apple.

Government take [via wealth tax] in the example above is the result of 1 - (1 - taxrate) ^ years.

1 - (1 - 0.02) ^ 20 = 0.3323 ; (20 years => 33%)
1 - (1 - 0.02) ^ 35 = 0.5069 ; (35 years => 51%)
you have to have the courage to think, to be indifferent/careless you risk depriving the earth under your feet one pebble at a time
This also reads like marketing for them, lol
Interpreting GPT: The Logit Lens
The data is pretty clear in a lot of cases on contentious issues. It's the interpretation that is being driven/manipulated and weaponized for some agenda.

E.g. people have had all the data for car accidents for decades, and yet we don't have a large, concerted movement to ban or "reinvent" cars/roads/driving/driver's licenses even though it could save tens of thousands of lives. Likewise, we've had police and crime statistics for decades as well but only recently had a "big movement" mobilize around addressing some of it. Additionally, we have all the data to "call in to question" some of the hard narratives of said movement, yet people are doubling-down on it. At some point we have to agree that it's not about data anymore. It's about mind-share, and feelings/emotions and other intangible things that are causing shifts that we should all be worried about.

With that in mind, it's absolutely clear to me that we should be taking a close look and scrutinize the platforms that can cause such societal shifts. TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google Search, etc. They can all explicitly or at the very-least subtly manipulate and drive societal movements/impressions on issues. At least let's agree that they promote certain types of viral topics/movements that have criteria that make them more "virable".
Note that these apps won't have gone through the App Store review process which verifies they're not malicious or are accessing things they shouldn't be accessing.
Indeed, Irmin is a library to implement data stores which can be freely cloned, updated and merged along a model similar to git.

It separates the content from the actual store. So it can run as well on a file-system, on a git repository, in memory or in the browser (See for instance https://github.com/talex5/irmin-js).

As git, Irmin uses 3-way merge but applied to arbitrary values and not only files. As described here http://gazagnaire.org/pub/FGM15.pdf and generalized here
https://kcsrk.info/papers/oopsla19-mrdt.pdf
It's the paradox of tolerance. How do you tolerate a platform that doesn't conform to your idea of tolerance? How do you distinguish that censorship from, say, Marvel rewriting Doctor Strange to remove Tibet?
Or maybe one day people will realize that there is a life beyond the friggin' social networks. They have their uses but the degree to which people depend on them is not very healthy.
I agree, I think the move to a more mature state management on the client in general sort of obviated the needs for these databases. Eg if you’re using redux, or mobx, or Apollo, you can cache offline data directly in your state tree, and can define validation functions locally on state transitions to keep your data valid with your business rules while it’s offline. I still feel there’s a space for this tech, but that it needs to integrate into state management as a first class citizen.

Object definitions, graphs, and validation functions need to be definable in one place and replicated to clients. I’ve never seen this implemented, but if you don’t, you end up either having a schemaless DB or building your schema twice, and same with validation functions.

I shouldn’t have to create functions to observe changes and copy them to and from my redux state, or build my ui around PouchDB’s lifecycle methods. There are middleware providers out there but it’s not first class.
> The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly. [0]

Apple seem to be saying that it is more than a registration process. Not passing a human review would be bigger, but it is a review of a kind.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...
I think every country should ban foreign companies so we can have only national internet ? there is no need for global US companies taking over the world. Nobody trust China and nobody should trust US companies anyway. I live in the supposed "free world" there is no such thing. All over the world there is two classes :
dominants and dominated

So please don't be so small minded bringing this "free world" propaganda terms here...

Peace
Now that Cloudflare has become such a giant in this space and has had stability issues in the past few months it is good timing that this comes along. I've favorited this item and will be researching carefully as I've been wanting to move all of my websites off of Cloudflare as soon as I have time (or clients make it a paid priority).
Some sites only display the QR code. For those I found ZBar
Barcode Tools helpful for converting an image/screenshot to alphanumeric seed:

https://github.com/mchehab/zbar
I know it is completely off-topic AND I know I will be down-voted to death, but it is indeed absolutely shameful what happened in Spain. And we cannot tolerate this in the European Union.

Also the European Court of Justice (ECJ) agrees that separatist politicians should not be jailed for their opinions as elected officials: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50808766

More info: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/spain-...
New Firefox faces backlash due to missing features and few supported extensions
Myself? Against that particular type of banning, granted I can understand general economic reasoning even though I disagree. Now, banning one single brand of cigars even if they are following the law? Completely against that type of targeted banning, and I would immediately question the motives.

Same goes for Huawei or any company/product. You are allowed if you don't break the law. I don't care the origin, I care about the rule of [contestable] law over unilateral action. I may disagree with many laws, but I respect the process much more.
Not if the smalltalkers get there first
These are great reads. Thank you for sharing those links.
The only thing you're missing is the F1-F12 keys, is this really so awful for you?
Netflix has a documentary series called Unwell which dissects these modern "health therapies". They have an episode on Bee Sting therapy, which the documentary does a pretty good job of explaining fairly. I recommend this if you're curious about the state of this practice.

Bee venom is a mixture of more than 40 different compounds and its mixture varies a lot from bee to bee. Whatever effect you can get from these compounds would be better served by studying the compounds rather than nature's uncontrolled homogenisation of them.
Additionally, it would be nice to see more details around security and operations.

What ports are opened? What roles are created? Is all traffic encrypted in transit? Is all data encrypted at rest? Etc. I could dig through the configs, but just a high level overview would be nice. Bonus points for a detailed threat model.

Operationally, how do I monitor this thing? How do I scale it? How is patching handles?

Just some constructive thoughts on areas that could be improved.
Valorant's 128-Tick Servers
The critical seventh fact is that the law is a bad law and should be changed. Apparently it's so bad that even the liberal justices couldn't see their way to interpreting it in favor of the workers, in spite of their demonstrated pattern of favoring the worker in most cases.
From discussion the scientific /r/Covid19 subreddit:

> Flawed article (not testing in cells expressing TMPRSS2 and / or Furin), gets upvoted 800 times... the usual Reddit COVID19 story... Two months ago an article said pretty much the same. Both articles only test antiviral properties in Vero E6 cells, which is not useful, since HCQ is also very effective in Vero E6 cells, but overall underperforms.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/ihvkku/feline_coro...
The doctors wouldn't be put in that position, though. While lawyers will often gladly take a case that they have a low chance of winning without fully disclosing that.
Non-AMP link: https://www.adamsluka.com/can-the-police-lie-to-me.html
Best case scenario Tiktok is just wasting people’s time.
I wrote a TOTP library and a client program that uses this library (in C - as an attempt of learning C) to make the desktop tool compatible with andOTP encrypted files. Things went well. I was able to get OTPs from andOTP encrypted JSON files. But I am unable to get time to work on it further. The code is open-source. It was fun :)

https://gitlab.com/grijul/libzotp

https://gitlab.com/grijul/zotp
Hate to say it, but the terrific first amendment in the US only applies to the government. Companies and individuals can kick you out for saying things they dont like.

There are laws against certain kinds of discrimination by companies, but those are not the first amendment.

Just wanted to clarify that so we dont pretend companies are upholding constitutional rights on a regional basis. They are not accountable to it anywhere.
so does dynamite.
Well I don't think they could sell an expensive masterclass for arguably the most simple dish or earth if it was not prepared by Gordon Ramsay using fancy condiments.
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FsmPro is built with the sole purpose of designing state diagrams and generating code from the designs. Real-world state diagrams can get super complex and its code difficult to maintain; FsmPro supports codification of state diagrams so that users can spend more time making their designs robust.
That’s great to hear! Are you pubkey? If so you should put that in your profile!

I hope you know that I think RxDB is a great lib and going in a good direction! I recommended it to the Supabase team a couple weeks ago. I am less long PouchDB, it feels like an old generation of this tech and not the best way to solve these problems in 2020.
Wasn't this already "attempted" through the natural mechanics of the free market? Social media seems to tend toward monopoly (or at least oligopoly) due to the extreme realization of the network effect in this industry.

Here is a sampling attempts (though I'm sure the graveyard has hundreds if not thousands of members): Friendster, DailyBooth, FriendFeed, Google Buzz, Meerkat, Yik Yak, Vine, Google Plus, MySpace, Path, Orkut, ConnectU, ...
I don't think this question deserves the downvotes, because it's not easily answered in a clear fashion. It's a question that leads to many others.

We know there is geopolitical maneuvering by different countries to improve their standing on the world stage, politically and/or economically, and that includes how they engage on business and technology. The great firewall was not for nothing. Same with fights over 5G or who can operate where, data privacy laws, etc.

OTOH, it's not clear exactly what's at stake when there's a dispute over control of tiktok. Are the worlds governments competing over data sources they could tap to make weaponizable models of societal function? Are they just competing for ownership of emerging markets to help their economies? Does all this amount to a pissing match between the worlds elites? Or are ideological differences sufficient to cause wildly different outcomes for humanity, especially the little folks, depending on who gets the upper hand?
Well, they might need one or two of the small countries, but if you are realistic, this is never an issue.
What makes you thing that open source developers are fine with that? What are their other choices? Apple doesn’t care.
Zuck probably did not have any to do with Tiktok getting banned in India. The current border conflict between India and China provided the impetus to getting it banned in India.
If I'm not mistaken you can create as many code signing certificates as you want, so it makes sense to sign each application with its own certificate. Of course this wouldn't help when Apple "kills" the entire developer account I guess.
I used to pick seven meals I wanted to make for the week and buy the ingredients for just those meals.
Each state delegates much of the legal oversight of lawyers to the $State Bar Association, from initial licensing to disbarrment.
I was in Houston for Rita and it really demonstrated the gross inadequacy of modern US disaster planning. That the evacuation panic was more deadly than the storm may be a bit of black irony, but there is simply no way to get millions of people out of a major city in a small number of days. (a friend was stuck in traffic for 18 hours after his wife decided they needed to flee -- then they gave up, turned around and drove ~8 minutes back home to weather the storm in a neighborhood that hadn't flooded during the tropical storm a few years prior that famously drowned IH-10 for miles)

Of course then Hurricane Harvey came through and illustrated the questionable unbounded development in a swamp, but not for very long.

I like Houston. It's a more cultured and vibrant city than its usually given credit, but it's already living on borrowed time. It's not going to take a whole lot of sea level rise to start inundating the east side and down towards Galveston, and it feels like it won't be long before flood insurance abandons the eastern half of Harris county back to its swampy past.
Why even block any TLD entirely and not just malware domains?
Congress and state legislatures can and should fix this.
Eh.... it used to be true that Microsoft cared deeply about backwards compatibility, but it seems to me that's becoming less and less the case. I wouldn't be very surprised if Microsoft just ripped it out one day and damn the consequences. I guess it's just another thing that has fallen out of fashion there, like testing, a working control panel, and updates that aren't a trainwreck.
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Currently, there are 230,500 lines of code in the SQLite source code, for reference.
Moreover, they've had the ability to "revoke binaries" before notarization was a thing. There's a small antivirus scanner that runs on every app you download and on every dmg you mount, and shows a very scary warning if it detects known malware.
There are eight furlongs to a mile because a horse has four feet. I thought this was obvious.
"real action" on China would require the hard work of making the case to the 100m American TT users, building a bipartisan consensus, and passing a bill.

The current administration has no intention of doing any of that. Attemping to rule by decree is easier and makes for immediate headlines. By the time the executive order gets thrown out in court, plenty of political hay has been made among the party faithful.

And when the order does get thrown out in court, the administration blames 'activist judges' instead of the merits of their own case.
Yes! Also, satisfaction scores are pretty low for people who've been indicated for aggrevated murder, same as if you're diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. If your goal is to walk away free and unharmed then just about everyone is gonna suck, most of the time. Also, you can't bribe cancer.
https://archive.vn/wcLlw
Obligatory XKCD 1217: https://xkcd.com/1217/
I can't imagine why anyone would want a case insensitive file system, the logic makes sense from some abstract humanitarian viewpoint, but it makes no sense whatsoever that different identities should be mapped/translated to mean the same..

a.txt != A.txt != a.TXT and so on. They're different names of different files.

Next generation *insensitive behavior should then be that cat.txt and neko.txt are the same (therefore only one of them allowed).
277KB is still a bit large for something that just embeds the IE webview... it reminds me of this one (original site is now gone, had to look in the archive) which is only 2.7KB(!):

http://web.archive.org/web/20081226192818/http://www.kakeewa...
TIL Gordan Ramsay doesn't know what uni is.
Empirical evidence that nice people don’t always finish last
Those are all great points. Thank you!
Once again thanks to everyone who's tried it out, really appreciate it!!

Rather than answering every single comment I'm going to reply to the points raised in one place.

The main feedback seems to be that it's not polished enough. Completely true and I will work on that for the rest of this week - please have another look next week and let me know what you think.

There are also a few people who encountered server errors. Yes, I'm afraid I underestimated the interest. Not a good time right now to upgrade the server but I will do that before the next bit of promotion.

Regarding the business model, @nogabebop23 points out about working with estate agents. It really isn't a binary decision to sell your home yourself or use an agent. This tool complements either approach and crucially you can start using it before you make a decision on that - I will add more functionality to make that even more so.

I have quickly written a post to explain a bit more about the project:

https://medium.com/@weebrix/when-a-hacker-tried-selling-his-...

Ah, and regarding how long trial pages will be kept. For those who create an account I will not delete them. For those who don't, they will be deleted after 30 days. Sorry, I will update the terms and conditions to reflect that.
They were recommended FLOSS because they were histrionic about data ownership in a situation where the data was already out the door. It’s a way of presenting them with the fact that nothing reasonable can make them happy.
Indeed. I didn't stop reading when I hit "Trident layout engine". I stopped reading at "Requirements: Windows 7 or later."

Though I should have assumed as much given "trident layout engine", but here I was hoping this had been open sourced or something along those lines.

I absolutely do not want to speak ill of anyone's project. But let's judge it for what it is... it's a windows only, MSHTML based, proprietary software.

At that point, it honestly doesn't matter what it can do, or how it does it. It's already off to the worst possible start for any hope of adoption. And it will likely never see the light of day on either Linux or MacOS. Porting it would tantamount to writing it again from scratch.

That said, if it works for windows users. It's not like it is a bad contribution. So kudos for that.

On a less polite opinion: I honestly think a core component such as a web rendering engine that is locked to a OS (pretty much exclusively Trident/EdgeHTML) does the world way more harm than good. Any project with some kind of future prospects of not being windows-only, does themselves disservice for picking Edge. Valve did this with steam. I don't know how painless the transition was when moving to WebKit and then to Chromium, but I'm sure it wasn't free.
This is a way to do concurrency without explicit locks. It doesn’t help directly with a decentralised database.
It doesn't say to make the -webkit-appearance value 'button', that's the default. Change it to 'none'. Look at the first embedded Codepen, note it also has a -moz-appearance: none, it's not just Safari.

I don't understand why someone would want to add multiple attributes plus a JavaScript keypress listener to the wrong element when you can instead add basically reusable "reset" CSS to the right element (<button>).

You're making choices for the people using a site. If you use a <button> and don't get the CSS right, it doesn't always look the way you'd like for some people; if you don't use a <button> and an attribute or the JavaScript is wrong, it doesn't work at all for some people.

You don't have total control over the appearance of everything in the browser anyway. Some people want or need to make changes (higher contrast, more readable font, etc.) to use the web and not using appropriate elements just makes it harder for them to do that.

https://codepen.io/andybelldesign/pen/Vxpjvo
What does this have to do with the article, other than the word 'hurricane' ?
An Israeli dealer pioneered the smartphone drug marketplace
Colorado here in Denver is nice. No earthquakes or hurricanes. Tornadoes are possible but exceedingly rare in the front range. The last one that touched down was in 1988. We do get snow storms, but they tend to melt quickly. :)
Per your second point, if you can prove that a lawyer knowingly put lies in a civil complaint that's a slam dunk for the Bar to sanction them. Another way to say "truths twisted to paint a mostly false story [with] plenty of...omissions" is "making a legal argument."

Per your third point, I was once wrongly accused in a criminal case. I was a nobody, random person making like $30k a year at the time but was able to retain someone from K&L Gates. I think he felt bad for me because he basically lobbied the partners for permission to take me on at a reduced rate (like $1.5k total). A couple letters and a court appearance later and the misunderstanding was rectified. But the important part is I was obviously a nobody, the partners at this firm bill tens of thousands of dollars a day. $1500 is probably less than a single office location spends on coffee in a week. But this guy sat with me for hours going over the case and where the problems were.