skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it doesn't matter what the government origin of the software is, regardless of how involved. I take a hard stance against unilateral banning of otherwise legal software. It's unfortunate that the appeal to emotion is so commonly trotted out to equate fear of government overreach with support for the bad emotion. The list of detestable government actions done under similar pretenses is quite long.
Do you want a story telling device game where no matter what you do, you repeat history exactly as it’s recorded by historians? Or do you want for example slavery to be an option so you can immediately avoid it? In the latter example, of course the game wouldn’t be historic and the authors of the game would need to build in these non-canonical alternatives and fictions.

I don’t disagree with you wholly because I think a video game that didn’t have slavery as a subject but did educate about it in this kind of way would be very effective at for example teaching kids and adults about things like Juneteenth or the only coup to ever happen on US soil. But unless the game is on rails, the historical facts will always be just one of the possible choices.
Filenames only exist for humans. I'm sure the machine would be plenty happy with just a number to identify each file. So if people prefer case insensitive names they should get them.
There's a good chance that your employer switched to git because they want to enable feature branches and code review on pull requests.
What you need is a "database construction kit".
Sure, but my point is that Tweet Photo's EULA is by definition restricted to what Twitter and Facebook terms allow.
Indeed great and very simple interop with C libs. I have looked and played with CL, Scheme, pico lisp, Clojure and Janet but keep coming back to Newlisp, because 'it just works' (for me), documentation is very good and has a lot of inbuild functions. Regarding the C interop I made some bindings for duckdb, termbox and libui at https://github.com/luxint.
I agree, I sold a small Saas and it was a lot of work getting everything in place. It heavily affected my future work and the way I set up the business. Even small things like using a password manager is super helpful when trying to hand over a business.
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The content they're printing isn't really from the Master Class. It's someone's best guess as to the content with some satirical touches.
Maximum validity of TLS certificates is now 398 days
New England too. We get nor'easters (big storms from the Atlantic that create a lot of rain, snow, and wind) but these aren't close to disastrous like a hurricane or an earthquake. Even Hurricane Sandy, that rocked New York and New Jersey, ran out of steam before reaching New England.
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For anyone confused, this a parody from MSCHF.

> MSCHF isn’t a sneaker company. It rarely even produces commercial goods, and its employees are reluctant to call it a company at all. They refer to MSCHF, which was founded in 2016, as a “brand,” “group” or “collective,” and their creations, which appear online every two weeks, as “drops.”

> Many of those drops are viral pranks: an app that recommends stocks to buy based on one’s astrological sign (which some observers took seriously), a service that sends pictures of A.I.-generated feet over text, a browser extension that helps users get away with watching Netflix at work.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/style/millennial-entrepre...
I'd like to add bread to the list of things that can be bad every day, without us questioning it.

I spent years eating bread rolls from the local bakery every morning and never questioning it. But there's like a whole world of bread variants that are not suitable for bakeries for various reasons (too much work, expensive ingredients, short shelf life). And now my new favorite is this:

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/23662/sourdough-hokkaido-mi...

It has such a pleasant nut-like taste and the fluffiness really highlights some flavors like smoked salmon. Now that I know what is possible, I feel disappointed by the blandness of store-bought bread.
ncurses gives you all of that in a much easier-to-use fashion.
I've always found it odd that Python has no built-in version awareness. All it knows is a single installation and a PYTHONPATH, and you fake per-project dependencies by copying everything into a virtualenv. It seems very much bolted-on. (Granted, most other languages don't do it much better.)

I wish you could just install all packages (in multiple versions!) into one place like /usr/lib/pythoncache, and the module loader would then decide which package version to load at import time. You could define your dependencies as usual in reqirements.txt or pyproject.yaml. And you could use either pip or the system package manager to manage the global package cache.
"Back in the day" there was an image board where people uploaded JPGs that actually were zip archives when you renamed the extension. People would post music albums like that where the image was the cover art.
freedom can only start with free speech and can only start dying with censorship, you tell me now ..

puns are fun but lead nowhere if you want to talk seriously
I had started (and then dropped rather quickly) the anime Bungo Stray Dogs, whose characters are named after classic Japanese authors. The main character of the show is named after Atsushi Nakajima.
There have been several attempts at creating a personal health record system like Microsoft Health Vault. All have failed because providers have no incentive to cooperate. However it appears the Apple Health app is getting some traction and they have built interfaces to quite a few providers.
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The solution is simple, we adopt labor laws in line with other developed economies. We ENFORCE the ones we have now (I count several violations in this story), and we get workers on the board of companies, like Germany.

I have to say, you stereotyping all warehouse workers as drug addicts and thieves is not a good look. It says more about you than them.
They jailed Catalan politicians and activists after winning a referendum for the independence of Catalonia: https://catalansalmon.com/campanyes/llibertat/?cvid=2
Does Ruby ship with a compiler? How will this work on Windows?
I'm an enthusiastic home cook. A friend of mine has a subscription and let me watch one of the cooking masterclasses from Massimo Bottura. The quality is pretty garbage. You're getting a very surface level look into a smattering of a chef's dishes, with really very little added in terms of commentary, technique or otherwise interesting content. If all of their other masterclasses are as shallow as that, it seems like a waste of money.
If you wanna learn more about how Chinese company are forced to do censorship, this will be a good read https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http...

An former employee of Weibo (China's Twitter clone) who recently moved to the US did a great interview with VOA
I used to work at a web agency, and my biggest impactful was without a doubt setting up something similar. Instead of starting from scratch at each new project, or copying config from another project, I wrote a "project generator" that asked you a few questions (Django or symfony? React or vue? NextJS? Terraform?) then generated a fully-configured project for you, including a staging and a production environment.

It's incredible how much time is lost on config: AWS is a big one, but having to configure Django, Black, Flake8, Webpack, ESLint, prettier, Typescript, Sentry, react-router... It easily takes days, and copying from other projects meant we were propagating some less-than-ideal setup.

Automating setting up a React-native app was clearly the most challenging, I don't work there anymore but I don't think it's a smooth process even now
Yeah. I keep my Authy backup password in a tiny safe along with other important documents (note: NOT in my password manager, since that would reduce 2FA to 1FA). Last time my phone died a couple years back I just got a new one, registered it to my phone number, downloaded Authy, verified the phone number, entered my paper backup password, and I was good to go. The way Authy is set up this makes me immune to SIM cloning attacks, because they offer no recovery method if you lose your backup password.

As an additional 2FA backup I keep one of those cheap Yubico security keys in the safe, registered to as many sites as will accept them.
This is no different than the human profiling that Police engage in. Except now we have logs and we can track the decisions that are being made. We can adjust the algorithms rather than re-train humans. We can replace an algorithm quickly if it doesn't give us the results we want, whereas removing bad cops takes years, if it's even possible.

Secondly, Canadian police operate differently than American ones. They aren't perfect, but don't read this article with the lens that American media has shaped for you about their own police forces.
Me too! Actually been without Amazon for about half a year or so, and I was a customer for 20 years!
> 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

That's not at all what they said. According to the ECJ, they should have had temporary immunity just for the purpose of taking up their seats as MEPs even though they were on trial for a generic crime. That ruling doesn't have any judgement regarding the legality of separatism, and also wouldn't free them of prison time if found guilty by the Spanish court.
The ship sailed long ago on the EU being anything but corrupt at this point for me when they continuously flirted the idea of Turkey being invited in, extend protected statuses in trade arrangements, and do nothing to help their actual members, like Greece, against the war games and provocations that occur on an almost weekly basis in the Aegean. Once again, it's all in the name of the oil.
So then have another layer that shows insensitive things that point to files on the file system but leave the actual file system to simply map each unique identifier to a file.
> Support for suburbanization was not coming just (or even primarily) from FEMA, all kinds of federal agencies had a hand.

There were also non-government actors pushing this - banks redlining the suburbs in order to achieve soft segregation in areas without formal Jim Crow laws on the books, for example.

The legacy of this is the most segregated city in the US, Milwaukee, is in the north, and a major cause was redlining.
I feel a lot of negativity on the comments. Of course these types of news need to be taken with a grain of salt, but I doesn't take the merit of the research away. Also, it clearly states that it's in a lab environment and with mice.

These types of news help inspire people to join research/academy and it's the type of things that is always welcome. These findings were probably published somewhere in the academia, but general population doesn't see it.

When you say that dynamite also kills cancer cells, I doubt you're ever going to choose dynamite as a cancer treatment in place of other treatments that obviously underwent the same lengthy process of scientific research as this study is beginning it's journey.

We need to keep being realistic, as we might never discover a silver bullet for cancer, but it doesn't take any merit away from this research.
You can do something similar with video too --- the width and height are padded to macroblock boundaries (usually 16 pixels) so there's plenty of space for extra data at the right and bottom.

In the analog realm, something similar was used to add closed captioning to the video signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA-608
Tony Stark ?
"Apparently, the model does not “keep the inputs around” for a while and gradually process them into some intermediate representation, then into a prediction.
Instead, the inputs are immediately converted to a very different representation, which is smoothly refined into the final prediction."

I wonder what would be the efficacy of having a baseline to compare against. Perhaps it could curtail some of the more surrealistic sounding outputs if there was an exploration of different branches on the result tree toward the final few layers. Whether this would be an efficient use of compute and memory is another question.
I think it's clear what parent commenter is suggesting. And that no medium if privately owned has the right to moderate itself and must carry any and all speech and productions. Just because it's unreasonable and makes no sense doesn't mean people don't want it or widely support it on HN.
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> The big question in the room is should you be re-enacting historical slavery for fun?

The same is true (if not worse) for murder. Should war be allowed?
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By now, you have probably conditioned yourself to associate the sound with the pleasant experience of eating the food, not unlike Pavlov's dogs.
> you can create a series which to the best of our knowledge cannot be predicted from those rules

You can absolutely reversibly compute conways game of life state, and you can compute it forward as well (after all, it is a game). That's prediction.

> It's well established that simple low-level rules can generate [...] irreducible complexity.

Simple rules can create a very complex emergent system, but that doesn't mean it cannot still be reduced to it's component rules. That's what makes them rules and not just guidelines.
Basically the outcome of the "I prefer to take the bait than to learn the simplicity of Linux" mentality.

Nowadays everything is 10-20x more complicated and expensive than it should be compared to 10 years ago.
Column padding can be done with .ico files, too. For 16 and 256 color images each line of data must be a multiple of 4 bytes. And since 16 and 256 color images are required to be included in ico images, the low color resolution does not even raise suspicion.
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No it does not work with appsync, but it could be hacked into doing that by modifiing the GraphQL plugin. There would be a huge value in replacing the aws datastore mainly because of its missing basic features like complex queries or queries with sort params.
This. The writers of the constitution understood that if you didn't like doing business with a company you could just take your business to their competitor. If you don't like your bridge club or church, pick a different one. But if your government is infringing your rights, it's very difficult for most people to pick a different government.
Freedom of speech is not the same in the rest of the world outside of America. Lots of European countries have hate speech laws in place where you can be convicted of crimes for speaking your mind if it's hateful. The EU has been pressuring large tech companies into self complying https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/28/16380526/eu-hate-speech-l...

But just the other day, there was a huge post with lots of uproar about how Google was flagging apps like mastodon for having no content standards regarding hate speech.
Sounds like a new Cold War that is becoming truer every day, where the proxy countries are instead companies.
Have you used linq?

Datasets there work like [(column_name, value)] heterogenous lists would work on Haskell. It does really not get that problematic. (All the problems go away in Haskell if you decide to use maps too.)

But yes, it throws runtime errors. The nature of retrieving data from a foreign service is that it will throw runtime errors. There is some verification you can do, but a strong typed database layer just makes promises it can not fullfill.
Yeah; sorry - I didn't mean to imply it was from Shopify themselves, merely that Shopify is their platform. It's kind of like a pop up e-commerce thing for edgy stuff.
Given the arrests in Portland, does that mean every country should ban American products?
This is the PhD dissertation of one of the authors of that article.
In my experience (in France) because restaurants could only do delivery, a lot of restaurants rushed to Uber Eat or Delivery to get some revenue. I was already using those services pre-quarantine.

So we got much more diversity (yay!) but a lot of them were not up-to-speed, or selling food that wasn't really meant for delivery (and arrived in pieces).
Radio Free Asia (unsure of legitimacy of this site) has stated China used TikTok data out of the Houston consulate (remember it was shut down by the State Department out of the blue and neighbors were filming the consulate burning documents in the courtyard) to manipulate the BLM protest narrative: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3876672/posts

“The purpose was to “weaponize” big data technology. It delivered relevant materials precisely to those people who were most likely to participate in the protests, while other people could not even find those videos.”

From the article there’s mention of fake IDs. That made me think of this news item: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/shipments-of-nearly-20000-f...

Something is afoot and TikTok needs to not be here anymore.
a translation typo ,
you can judge who is the censor in your conscience and who is censoring and if he is censoring the censor or is he more censor than who is censored.
FWIW, our police also shoot unarmed white people at higher rates (than crime rates would predict, anyway) than unarmed black people. We have a police accountability problem, and we can improve it dramatically with a few relatively small tweaks (remove qualified immunity, weaken police unions, improve police training) whereas China's police violence is top-down policy.

Note that I'm only contextualizing/clarifying; I'll leave it to readers to determine which is preferable.
It's mostly been fine -- ublock origin is available, pages load/view fine (except I couldn't log in to ebay; could be ublock). what's really been bugging me is that viewing PDFs seems to have gotten much worse. I don't _THINK_ there used to be a built in PDF viewer, but the flow from browser to Android's built in PDF viewer used to be smooth. I think the difference is, I have to explicitly download and then open the PDF.

What I wish I understood is why it was necessary to permit only the handful of authorized extensions. Do most of them just not work? why not?
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I wondered if beekeepers are less likely to get cancer and I found this study:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/536856/

> Carcinogenic effects of bee venom were evaluated in a mortality study of 580 occupationally exposed beekeepers. The subjects were identified through obituary notices published between 1949 and 1978 in three journals of the U.S. beekeeping industry. Death certificates of beekeepers were examined for causes of mortality, and proportionate mortality ratios were compared with those for the general U.S. population. Beekeepers had a slightly lower than expected fraction of deaths from cancer. The deficit of lung cancers in male beekeepers was significant (p less than 0.05) and may indicate that fewer beekeepers were cigarette smokers. The frequencies of other cancers did not differ significantly from expectation. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma developed in four persons, and was expected in two. Mortality from diseases other than cancer showed no unusual patterns. At least two persons died from accidents directly related to the care of beehives. Analysis of a subgroup of 377 males with major roles in the beekeeping industry showed no substantial differences in distribution of causes of death. This study of beekeepers reveals neither adverse nor beneficial effects of intense exposure to bee stings.

Beekeeping suggests living in the countryside and that correlates with better air quality so lower lung cancer rates aren't that surprising.
I'll note Canada has a similar treaty with the US and this applied to me while working / living there for a number of years.

They wanted to tax me on my "worldwide" income and requested that I pay the difference between what I was making in the US vs. what I would be paying in Canada had I been living there.

It wasn't something I had considered in my planning so good to look into before you go!
I've heard that, but where do these viral particles come from? The mask wearer? If so, that's the goal isn't it? And if it's from outside and gets trapped in the fabric... isn't that also a win?

The arguments against wearing a mask have always been weak, the arguments for wearing a mask didn't start so strong but were well established in March/April. Anyone arguing against them after that point was either parroting stuff they heard without understanding, or was making disingenuous arguments that have contributed to a lot of misery and death for no benefit.

I don't think I heard anyone with actual medical training suggest that wearing a mask might be worse than nothing -- except for one scenario, that it might cause a false sense of security. Never once have I heard another reason from someone with actual medical training for why masks might make things worse, at least when it comes to COVID.
NTFS is case sensitive. The default is to turn it off. That is a historical accident from its DOS roots. It works decently until you somehow manage to get two files with different cases in there. Had to chase that a few times 'what do you mean Abc.txt has not been edited there I clearly see a abc.txt' Then findout you are editing one and looking at the other. So case insensitive makes natural sense for my brain. But it can be infuriating if the system has edge cases where it will do both. Chased one a few months ago in an npm repo. The thing had 2 files. On the dev box works fine (windows). Off the build machine (linux) not so much. One happened to pick the right file the other did not.
Here it is. You'll see that phrase a bit lower in the page. https://leanpub.com/readevalprintlove001/read

it was issue number 1 of the newsletter.

http://readevalprintlove.fogus.me/

Read-Eval-Print-λove is an N-monthly newsletter of original content and curation about the Lisp family of programming languages and little-languages in general.
It resides where the person resides.

Otherwise the Gold on the face of the Reserve Bank of Australia balance sheet would belong to England.

I very much doubt anybody would suggest that England can tax the Gold of Australia any more. We'd never hear the last of it from the Aussies for starters.
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My Twitter bio has a list of many of my projects: https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge

Most notable:

https://betalist.com (2010): $xxx,xxx/year

https://startup.jobs (2016): $xx,xxx/year (could hit $xxx,xxx this year)

https://wip.chat (2017): $xx,xxx/year
Also, obligatory SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-08-30