skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recent move to make Edge something you can't uninstall is a likely first step in changing that. You can't remove the old "can't remove" browser engine without first designating a replacement.
Interesting! I wasn’t aware of that feature. I actually built out my idea first as its own toy database with journals and later added SQLite as the storage mechanism.

Patchset could work for this, but I’d have to play with it a bit. Off the top of my head, I’d need to redesign things to consider time in terms of sessions as opposed to granular changes. i.e. today I can just append deltas and use a time stamp to know how it fits chronologically with other changes in peers. A new peer created could sort all deltas to play back the database from scratch. I suppose with patchsets it could sort them all by start time and apply them one after the other to recreate the database.

It’s an interesting problem because you can’t assume to have synced recently, so you don’t know the baseline you are starting with, but for the application I’m building, that may not matter.
Yes. Everyone and their cheetah's and probably the whole animal kingdom are racing for a IPO exit scam before the big flood happens; i.e. market crashes.

Just avoid buying stock at the IPO prices of companies that continuously are racing into the red rather than into profitability and sustainability.
I think this is a really really great idea.

But the execution shown is a cheesy slideshow with horrible quality images. To be honest I think it makes the home look worse than it would otherwise.

I think your MVP is too rough to even validate the idea. If people don't start using it, you won't know if its because it's not something they want, or if it's because the design is so bad.

I'd look into getting some freelance design help or steal some visual cues from the more established real estate startups out there that have a lot of funding (and subsequently, good design teams).

Somebody who would eventually pay for a website for their house is likely to be in a higher price market segment. So you're going to need to make this feel "luxury" to get those customers.
The actual claim Alex Jones was making was that some feminist-homosexual-government conspiracy was deliberately dumping chemicals into the water supply in order to increase the homosexual population as an act of chemical warfare and genocide against straight males.

He wasn't simply voicing a concern about the environmental impact of endocrine disruptors, or corporate pollution.
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What's the advantage of this over triggers in a relational database? Or even notify/listen in PostgreSQL? (assuming these triggers are connected to the API, of course).

I guess it's probably a matter of scale, but I really don't know.
There are more than 1500 NT hapax, and epiousios (and others) aren't exactly hapax (they appear twice ['dis legomena'], or more, though often in bits arguably copied from one source). A minority are names (e.g. Epicurean only in Acts 17:18), most are words that appear in non-NT texts (technically hapax, but often meh, obviously), most others (like 'epiousios') are compound word that are easy to understand (e.g. if you read an English writer saying 'she metathought about the problem' it wouldn't mystify you), but that still leaves plenty of oddities.

But the juicy ones have theological significance. If more significant, even simply compound words can generate debate, even words known outside the NT ('What did they mean in this context?'). Off the top of my head: Theopneustos (a hapax) from 2 Tim 3:16 is the forceful example (forceful for evangelicals at least). Authenteo in 1 Tim 2:12 is important in feminist theology. Arsenokoitai in 1 Cor 6:9 is a crucial question in LGBT theology (a dis legomenon, strictly, [oh hai 1 Tim, again], though I guess this post is allowing those ;)

Tanakh hapax are more difficult because we don't have masses of other/earlier Hebrew and Hebrew is less often based on compound morphemes. So 'OT' hapax are more widely known, imho.
I agree, but it seems most practical to reply using the same framework that parent is using.
China made massive concessions in order to join the WTO. It reduced tariffs from ~40% to ~3%, removed joint-venture restrictions from most sectors of the economy, broke up many state-owned enterprises, created a new intellectual property enforcement system out of nothing, and changed all sorts of laws that benefited domestic companies.

That's not to say that there are no legitimate complaints that foreign companies have, but the investment environment for foreign companies improved massively in China, and foreign companies have made huge returns on their investments. There's supposed to be a WTO mechanism for dealing with discrimination against foreign companies, though the Trump administration has put that mechanism out of action by blocking the appointment of judges to the WTO's appellate body.
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Fantastic, thank you so much for this!!
Arguably what VB did to C/C++ developers ;)
I agree.

Moreover, I think the whole thing kind of represents an adoption of the Chinese position. Since Deng ("let in fresh air, but keep out the flies"), China's attitude has been to liberalize economically but reject political rights.

Political rights like speech, affiliation, and such were seen as dangerous. Media, especially, was seen as something highly dangerous. Anything with potential to cause another tianmen is a "national security interest." They did not want what happened to the USSR to happen in the PRC.

The US is moving closer to this position. Espionage concerns may be a catalyst, but if you listen to legislators (eg congressional grillings) it's clear that content is their concern. Are you giving my opponent more eyeballs than me? Are you promoting left/right wing content? Why is this protest more prominent than that one?

The reality of modern politics is that online media is as important as CNN. Murdoch matters less than Zuck now. Politicians are highly sensitive to this.

There still hasn't been a politically (in the US) important media company that wasn't western. Tiktok has the potential to become one. US legislators seem as likely to allow a chinese CNN to succeed in the US and China is to allow CNN to succeed in China.
Ye well if the moderation doesn't work properly any manual review wont work including whitelisting users first post.

The amount of legally blind users should be low enough that there can be a ad hoc queue of some sort. I guess any spammer can spam down that queue too though?

Maybe there could be a simple sound captcha for blind people with links to some audio files with letter in them to listen to in order. If the script kiddie figures out how to match byte streams add white noise to make it an DSP problem.
Numbers stations are real and are very simple. Back in the day all major spy agencies would operate them.

Simple but effective. You can send coded messages via radio waves, to receive them you only need a radio. You can send them from your country so enemy state(s) cannot stop you from doing it short of invasion/sabotage.

If spies are using none reused one time codebook its impossible to decode message without the codebook.

Because of its nature you cannot really catch anyone receiving signal.

The only downside is that its one way communication and if somehow spy gets caught than their codebook can be used for decoding of the messages (but each spy would have unique book). So even that could have small fallout.
China - Not Five Eyes

Italy - Not Five Eyes

Germany - Not Five Eyes

Israel - Not Five Eyes

Notice a pattern?

Anyone new US foreign policy should also lookup the Munro Doctrine. Would have saved Maduro and the Venezuelans a great deal of suffering.
being free does not mean that one must be completely helpless, freedom must be defended by those who want to suppress it otherwise it dies
Come to the US Midwest, we don’t have earthquakes or hurricanes.
I worked with a lawyer who thought his job was to negotiate a contract with the least amount of liability for us. In theory that sounds good. But these contracts ended up sounding ridiculous to customers with statements like:

"Under no circumstances will vendor be liable for any damages in excess of 10% of the purchase price of the vendor services"

Customers assume you are trying to scam them with language like that. But he didn't care, he just wanted to be able to be proud of how little liability we took on. I finally had to point out that the best way to reduce our liability is to shut the company down and end our need for legal services all together.
What do you think about the banning of Cuban cigars? Genuine question, not being an ass.
Yeah, I haven’t done any research but this feels like Masterclass themselves made or are responsible for this. The ‘how’s’ are only a small subset of their courses, less than an episode. The illustrations are high quality.

The production value is just too high for piracy.
Why not make a post and harvest some karma? Would love to see the pics.
It runs fully on the client and is offline first. A listener to PostgreSQL will not work when the device goes offline.
The concept or RxDB, being able to iterate observables of your change stream, is great. Centering on schemas and typescript is as well. The broadcast channel based leader election also solved the common issue with Pouch where you can’t respond to real-time changes and update your UI if a separate tab was watching too.

It’s wise of them to also support pulling data from GraphQL. I built the first version of NoteBrook on top of couch/pouch, and the biggest pain points were:

1. Pouchdb was before async/await and typescript. The typings can be inconsistent, and it’s very difficult to properly manage the lifetimes of local databases because of the promise chaining.

2. A database technology for Real time replication Needs ACLs on a per-document basis. I built provisioning scripts to manage separate databases per user, as suggested, and it’s very cumbersome. It prevents me from lots of data sharing models like promoting one record to public view, or sharing a record with another user in a different tenant.

3. Personally I feel that the naming / marketing of the product is poor. It does not feel professional ( couch, futon, fauxton, pouch, couchbase) do not feel like professional grade products I can depend on to run a business.

I think it would be good for RxDB to support its own backend technology and move away from PouchDB, and in the meantime, de-emphasize the relationship with PouchDB. The RxDB product doesn’t require you to use PouchDB and at this point it’s got a lot of buzz around it and doesn’t need that tie to PouchDB to continue.

I feel an ideal library would offer a real-time and offline client db, user auth, and billing, tied to a backend database of my choosing (eg. Postgres, MariaDB). The data layer should allow me to specify the durability requirements of each write (down to the specific entity type) and enforce an atomic commit on all related records in one transaction at the level of the most strict entity in the commit. It should be trivial to shard because the syncing protocol the clients use itself should be available to the server. Multitenancy should be built in. It should support real-time ephemeral in memory data for collaboration/chat scenarios, with optional durability that’s eventually consistent. Schema definitions and migrations should be built in to the product.

If you have similar ideas and are interested in working with me on this project, or hearing more, drop me a line.
Well, I'd be happy to have someone to chat with and exchange ideas about it. I am currently digging that rabbit hole that seems to be basically uncharted waters.

I would like to find a way to make true open source deep learning models.

Debian legal newsletter [1] and lwn[2] have interesting takes on the relevance of GPL. To them, putting a trained model under the GPL implicates that you have to open your dataset too, which are the "sources". That seems somehow consensual but I still think it is debatable and could need clarification.

I also dug around the question whether a trained model can actually be copyrightable if the training code and the dataset are free. This is akin to a "compilation" operation that adds no creative input (anyway applying copyright to source code is already a bit of a hack). There is a pretty strong ground to argue that they are similar to "compilation of facts" which come with very little protection.

I am now wondering if open source can actually work for deep learning: if trained models are not copyrightable, open source licenses require strong copyright protection to be implemented. Maybe a DL model is not protected enough for that.

Finally, I am reassured by recent fair use rulings that a model will probably not be considered a derived work of its dataset and that proprietary data can legally be used to produce an unencumbered model but the legal uncertainty still exists.

If you are interested in helping me trying to figure out how to protect crucial models so that the first AGI will be beneficial to all and open sourced, I'd be very happy to have someone poke holes into my ideas.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/05/msg00028.html
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/760142/
Swiggy in India has worked out nicely for me.
It doesn't sound like the lawyer was testifying? They can certainly lie in their presentation of the case, during summing up, etc.
Danish military intelligence service FE conducted warrantless searches
Here we go again. If someone searches for a good example of journalist reporting scientific results in a very wrong why, here it is.

Not understanding difference between in vivo and in vitro study, not understanding that there are multiple and easy ways to kill cancer like hammer, fire, road roller, etc.

Sad to see another click-bait article since people get convinced that doctors and scientists are promising cure for cancer but are not able to deliver anything, big pharma secretly tries to stop progress and so on.
Twitter has been unable to protect/own the word tweet effectively in its use case. They tried to acquire the trademark in a round about way back in 2011 from Twittad [1], relating to a phrase ("let your ad meet tweets"), with a filing date all the way back to July 2008 [2]. If you dig for "tweet" in the TESS trademark database, there's nothing related to Twitter owning it however. My opinion, and from everything I've read on the subject, is that Twitter has zero trademark control over the word "tweet" unto itself.

They did acquire this trademark however ("subtweet"):

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:kmz...

And there is a new trademark published for opposition from August 25, 2020, related to bird food:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:kmz...

[1] https://mashable.com/2011/10/10/twitter-tweet-trademark/

[1a] https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/update-twitter-finally-lan...

[2] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:kmz...
Can we add "for Windows" to the title?
Context:

"Bee venom in cancer therapy" (2011 )

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10555-011-9339-3
Apple actually does claim to scan every submitted binary for "malicious content", among other things.[1]

1: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...
Thank you for your informative reply I am currently walking but will take heed of your advice when I’m at home. All the best .
This looks like an out of context marketing stunt.

Could someone link or describe the context?
I am 100% with you. Love python the language, but the ecosystem around it was never thought out properly. It grew organically over the years and it is a complete and utter mess.

My last attempt at using pip this very morning to install a bunch of deps crashed and burn with an obscure python stack dump.

Oh, and, in your taxonomy of partial and inadequate solutions, you forgot to mention anaconda, possibly the most invasive package management solution I have ever seen, which exhibits the same problems pip does, i.e. where each install is a total crapshoot.
A Taxonomy of Window Manager User Interfaces (1988) [pdf]
Why does the CPC ban Google, Facebook, Twitter & a ton of other non-Chinese online companies?

They want control over media, especially political content. They want to make sure speech, affiliation and such is under their control. Are you saying the US should adopt this approach?

Trade fairness is a red herring.
The next 50 years predicting the future
Wouldn’t you also want the ability to revoke just certain binaries? Let’s say a large company like Microsoft accidentally somehow got malware on their Excel app, you wouldn’t want to terminate the dev cert because that would also cancel Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, etc
> freedom must be defended by those who want to suppress it

A Freudian typo to be sure, and sadly too representative of those pushing government software/content restrictions.
A lawyer would agree that the longer both lawyers talk the richer both of them get.
and none of which work reliably
The US trade deficit has basically nothing to do with China's economic policies. It's driven by structural issues inside the United States, as well as the use of the US dollar as the international reserve currency. If the US were to end all trade with China, the trade deficit would just shift to other countries. Americans buy more than they produce, and China has little influence over that.

> valuable US tech companies aren't allowed to compete in China.

Facebook and Google can't operate in China because of censorship laws. Many US high-tech companies do a massive amount of business in China, including Apple, Qualcomm, Micron, AMD and Texas Instruments, to name just a few.
conda is an absolute mess, and has been in my experience, highly unreliable.
Prenda Law operated for 1 year before they were caught, and then. Disbarred and imprisoned.

The reason they continued their crimes for 3 years was that it's impossible to prevent someone from doing paperwork crimes if they aren't in prison.
At least someone in the EU is thinking about a digital firewall [0] to keep European citizens data within the EU.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...
indeed :O

here are the VT100 ansi escape codes: https://espterm.github.io/docs/VT100%20escape%20codes.html

Bold, Underline, Double height, double width, etc... are all there. VT100, from 1978.
What about IndexedDB?

A basic implementation would use one document per page. An advanced integration might replace the whole sqlite storage engine with one based on IndexedDB.
Also, another back and forth in DebConf 2012 that introduces the problem and presents some real world implications: http://penta.debconf.org/dc12_schedule/events/888.en.html
Also without the slowness!

[Alt]+ [<-] or [->] works for going Back / Fwd

Interestingly Alt + N for new window and then Ctrl+Tab cycles the windows.

I like this old school workflow for some browsing tasks rather than tabs (but not all the time obviously)
I'm not convinced about the choice for the behaviour of `cons` in NewLisp.
Actually, the long term plan is to move away from pouchdb. Before the last major release [1] I decided to make RxDB useable with other frontend/backend databases but then found out that I first should refactor some pain points.

[1] https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb/issues/1636
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Blizzards and tornadoes, yes, but no hurricanes. There is always the New Madrid fault--about 25 or 30 years ago some seismologist was scaring people about how it was ready to let go again.
Yes, but you do have Ohio.
I told a doctor I'd received a few vaccinations but forgotten to bring the card, and they just added them with no other questions. I'm pretty sure that was true, but it's definitely not a very bulletproof set of credentials.
At lest this part is better than most reports:

> Dr Duffy did not want to use words like breakthrough or cure, stressing this was just the beginning and much more research needed to be done.
I was in Houston during Hurricane Rita in 2005, and we tried to evacuate. We got on the freeway, sat in the traffic for a while, made it about one exit down the road before we concluded the storm would hit before we actually made it out of town, got off at the next exit and went home to ride it out at home. I don't think Houston is a city that was designed to be evacuated. It's just not feasible.

I'm sure an exacerbating factor was 250k extra Katrina-evacuees[1] from New Orleans who had just arrived in Houston a few weeks before (I was one of those people), who had all just seen the TV coverage of people stuck on roofs after Katrina and heard all the victim-blaming that said it was their fault for staying. Previously I wouldn't have evacuated for a storm like Rita, but after living through Katrina a few weeks prior, I thought I'd better at least try to get out of town.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/25/new-orleans-...
But tornadoes...
Hurricanes are more profitable. When a hurricane is coming all manner of business opportunities open up. You can install shutters on homes for a few hundred bucks each. Scalp essential supplies. Cover your roof in blue tarp and claim "damages" on insurance. Can't do that with earthquakes probably.
Almost everything is in a pre-compiled header. Its actually similar overhead to an LLVM based JIT.

You wouldn’t want to do it for a browser JIT but for a server side app it’s OK.
This gridlock is a godsend.

Congress passed the PATRIOT ACT, multiple resolutions to invade foreign countries , almost passed SOPA until some people woke up, passed disaster debt ceiling increases routinely which will bankrupt this nation, passed increased regulation of healthcare markets with forces people to buy lamborgini coverage when a simple kia may do.

And in return the only positive i can say is we get some tax deductions which do not apply to heavily taxed, large urbanized states like CA, NY, IL.

No. Gridlock is good. Its the only thing putting a check on Congress from completely ruining this country.

See counter case: Switzerland. Complete gridlock. Massive check on congress via direct democracy. People argue about the zaniest litttle things. Yet people are freer here than in most other countries in the world
> Just like nobody blames normal traffic for killing people via doctor delays.

That's because normal traffic jams aren't intentional.
What's new is testing this works on COVID-19. When you say it hasn't already been tested, this is testing? Research and peer review takes a while.
For the uninitiated...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement
What else is the scanning of an uploaded executable than an (automated) review process though? The notarization process wouldn't be needed to implement a "kill-switch" for executables by revoking the certificate (code signing with an Apple certificate was required long before notarization). If anything, the notarization creates an illusion of security for the user which might be worse than an unsigned executable (because at least an unsigned exe looks shady right from the start, but a notarized exe had been scanned by Apple so it's ok to run, right?)
The documentation is a work in progress. It will be in a much better state until Friday
The Russians knew about this >20 years ago.
Correct, but what I am describing is a wealth tax system that goes after unrealized capital gains from stocks that does not depend on the stock being sold. It can tax the expected value increase rather than the actually value derived when a stock is sold, demonstrating a working method to tax the value of stock ownership rather than at the point of sales. It also demonstrate that people will volunteer to such system if it gives a statistically economic benefit to do so.