skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cannot upvote this enough. I'm sure a frequent Java user will come along to tell me how easy it is - but at this point I'm not interested in delving into their world. If a new application I'm looking at is a single binary I can drop on my system (a la Go/Rust) then great - otherwise it has to be something I really need for me to not just resort to "whatever is in the package manager, or find a different solution".
"much better" may be a matter of opinion but it's definitely getting worse.

There are 2500 patients in intensive care in France. Far from the 7000 at the peak but they were just 1000 one month ago and 1500 two weeks ago.
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Even if the government weren't incentivized to surveil everywhere, it's a no brainer for people to install cameras around their businesses/homes/cars for liability purposes since they are so cheap now.

A couple hundred dollars can reduce a lot of headache, and I don't see that incentive going away anytime. I assume every car will have a dash cam, a house will have a doorbell cam or similar, and every business is monitored everywhere. And cities/states will have license plate readers on police cars/roads.
I bet it's unlocked after the election
Wouldn't that be an argument that we should do something about Amazon's monopoly, then? If they provide the only service that allows some chunk of the economy to function, that should be taken into account when we regulate them more heavily.
A comparison of the security of these several approaches would be helpful.

Am I correct that Wireguard and SSH are the more secure options?
X11 used shared libraries since its beginning in the 1980s.
Yes. And yet ever five seconds I'm bombarded by someone telling me to vote. I guess they don't care if people without critical thinking skills vote.
I question the accuracy. When I was in Korla, Xinjiang, there were exponentially more cameras than I noticed in the rest of China.

Cameras that wouldn't let a gate up unless they got your picture going into public places like malls or airports, cameras every few miles or so on highways, A few cameras for each road at an intersection, to name the interesting ones.
I'm not sure that's an unpopular opinion? Tcl has declined in use over the years, and while there's a vocal community of people who like it, I never got the impression that Tcl was popular nor that its popularity was increasing.
There's always RISC-V :) Nothing wrong with it, or anything preventing it to be just as fast. The only thing it doesn't have yet is a standardized vector-extension, but it's probably pretty close.

We just need JIT support for an embeddable RISC-V emulator, and we're golden. Does it matter what the host language is these days server-side? I suppose there's a higher chance that the WebAssembly standard will adopt some instructions that favor cloud computation now, with these news.
It is, but oddly enough Javascript numbers and JSON numbers are different and mutually incompatible. JS allows ±INF and the NANs, since it uses IEEE754 double-precision floating point. JSON doesn't, and technically allows arbitrary precision floating point (though implementations are allowed to define truncation behavior to a format at least as large as an IEEE754 double).
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The author, Chris Offutt, is a rather enjoyable novelist in his own right. I recommend his short story collections "Kentucky Straight" and "Out of the Woods" for a start. What I find unusual is his perspective: His fiction is set in a very rural and poor environment, and clearly he had a foot in that himself once, but no longer quite fits in (A dilemma spelled out in his memoir No Heroes — and there was a battle on comment sides whether he did or did not misrepresent his native area).
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ok, that was a bit of my original question (not well asked).

i understand any civilisation needs funding to grow (do we need growth is another core question), and possibly market to do so.

yet any meaningful decision won't be made at the millisecond scale, sure you can train a model to learn short term rules and generate long term profit. but does that profit society as a whole, i doubt it.
Oh...wow I thinking maybe a tech CEO. I totally missed the political angle then.
Exactly this. Medium that uses censorship for any reason, they think you are too stupid to understand the content in front of you so they take that decision from you to delete something. That should be illegal with few exceptions.
> To facilitate this, the master logs each transaction in a file and each transaction is associated with an 64 bit ID in which the 32 LSB represents a sequence number and MSB represents the generation number The sequence number gets incremented on every transaction and the generation is incremented when a new master is elected

So, what happens after 32bit transactions without re-election?
Typo on the front page:

"be we can't" -> "but we can't"
How many people are in the trial, is the fact that two of the responses on this thread are from trial participants indicative of a bias towards nerds in the selection?
> Most of the corporate media are (sometimes ludicrously) optimistic, the other polarity. I read both.

Unfortunately being wrong on the internet is now becoming long-term grounds to be censored and excluded from mainstream society's systems.

Its quite sad really and I don't know what the solution is.

One thing that I DO know is that the solution isn't coming from the government. They are terrible at things. Their job should largely be relegated to protecting freedoms and security.

This 230 stuff is mostly probably going to backfire and create a less free internet. We don't need more lawyers and more government intervention to internet communication.

I do know we have many thousands of people working on solutions to things like Reddit (and Cloudflares) hyper-sensitive long-ago-crosed-the-line censorship, even if censorship is probably a poor world for it given the historical baggage.

Although this is the internet and even sights like T_D were almost entirely replaced on a site without Reddit's regulation and controls (a far worse situation in many's eyes) welll before it was banned on Reddit. It's thriving on a domain name I won't mention here.

Same with infowars and 8chan, they both quickly found new homes on new places.

But there censoring on any major platform and being related to fringe online communities being fringe DDOS protection services and aononimizers (who yes do still get heavily advertised and recruited on Reddit and redirected to these new unmoderated sites, so their censorship policies were always destined to fail).

I'm more concern about operating in the real world (VISA/Mastercard, Patreon, acess to advertising monopoly networks like adwords/adsense, etc), less so the online communities where discourse it happening. Reddit's censorship problem will eventually be solved on a wider/easier scale once the engineering work has been put into it.

It's probably one of the biggest problem of our current era for those of us who understand the importance of "outlaw thinking", free expression, and those who know the history of how these tools of control are almost always abused and riddled with false positives. The history of those who went against the grain (even if that grain is terribly wrong, wrong things have plenty of other ways to kill off than censorship).
I never thought about that. If the police could quickly connect to any parked/moving car and see what its cameras saw that would be like eyes just about everywhere.
Looks like its implied from the documentation

Implies --single-branch

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.t...
Ask HN: What's something you find annoying to build over and over again?
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The author doesn't know but this is really a review about compression algorithms.
true brietbart and fox are influential over their readers, bu t they cannot be compared to responsible publishers in respect to their commitment to the truth, and therefore do not deserve respect of those of us who are committed to the truth.
Doesn't matter. They can't write the ticket if they don't observe the car parked between 11 and 6AM.
This is a critical point, that CCTV and surveillance are two different, interrelated things.

Imagine you appear on 50 different CCTV cameras on an average day. Now imagine two different scenarios:

Scenario A: Each one of these cameras is operated by a local business or property management company. The cameras record video that gets overwritten within a few days if there are no incidents or requests from law enforcement.

Scenario B: All of these cameras are on a network operated by a company with contracts for the city, law enforcement, and digital advertising networks. Facial recognition technology tracks you across all 50 locations, with an "anonymized" identifier attached to your biometrics. This identifier can be cross-referenced with other "anonymized" identifiers to build an advertising profile, while another contractor's machine learning system builds a threat profile based on movements of these identifiers, flagging outliers for human review.

Both scenarios have the same number of cameras, but I don't think many would consider the two comparable.
I didn't describe Github as overcompliance, I described GitLAB as overcompliance. There are plenty of U.S. based internet services that work in Iran. There are instances where Iran has banned Gmail, and Iran currently has bans on Facebook and some other social media sites, but that's because the government of Iran has imposed such bans to prevent its people from using the Internet to engage in the free flow of information, not because of the U.S.

The links you mention don't state that Github did any work to comply with U.S. sanctions. The links you state are consistent with the links I posted which is that Github is welcome to provide online services to Iran that are free of charge.

Feel free to counter this by pointing out any particular feature or work that Github has to implement unless your suggestion is that denying access to people in Iran paid services like Github Enterprises is somehow a form of "additional feature work put in place" to support Iranian users.
There's a basic economic characteristic I think fringe media gets right: the cost for them being wrong is almost zero, and the benefit of being right first puts them on par with news orgs with hundreds of millions in budget. If you are a reader playing the fast-story slot machine game, it's just noise until you jackpot. The big question is what is the effect of all that noise over time, and what does it make you deaf to?

If the social platforms were just imposing costs on being wrong that would almost be a service, but I get the impression from all the ban stories that they're staffed mostly by people who aren't equipped to be that judicious. The platforms have thrown down their cards and are all in on this election cycle, and by showing what appears to be partisan recklessness, it's going to cost them moral high ground they might have had before all this.

The good news is the people reading this forum can build a platform killer in 6-8months, and there's going to be a bunch of balance sheet cash on the sidelines looking for startups to fund. These social platform companies are all just another Friendster waiting to happen.
Tabloid essentially make up stores, so I would say they fall into the "fiction" category.

This story is essentially Russian propaganda designed to destabilize the US election. It's a whole different category of content.
No it isn't. Personally, I'm very up to date on what is going on in the world and I've never had a Twitter account and maybe go to the site once a month. Pretty much the only time I even see Twitter is when it's linked in news articles.

It's completely possible to get almost the exact same information you get from Twitter elsewhere. Even in the link you provided, it says that they used Twitter as well as Facebook to broadcast their message.

Twitter is not a utility. It's one of many news aggregators and it's completely possible to live without it.
It's not an emotional reaction they were expressing at all - they even explicitly stated it's because of the need to bring in someone savvy with Java and the JVM to be able to support it. Sometimes there aren't the resources.
How do I mount this? Or is it like s3, inaccessible as a normal FS?
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I was just able to re-share a link on HN. As far as I remember this wasn't possible before but my memory isn't reliable. Was this the case since forever or is this a new thing?
I kinda expect my power company to not connect my house to some dodgy power plant that's putting out 155VAC at 47.2 HZ.
First of all, we're not even talking about the censoring of terrorists, dictators, and extremist groups, which Twitter actually has allowed to persist on the platform in the past (e.g. Nicolas Maduro and ISIL). The current censorship at hand is a mainstream news outlet being blocked from releasing a damaging political story less than 2 weeks before the election. This is banana republic-type corruption.

Secondly, Twitter primarily serves content to those people who want it. It's what their algorithms are trained to do. The argument that the New York Post's article is disturbing and thus should be removed is easily used to justify any amount of authoritarian social manipulation. After all, everyone's actions eventually affect me, so I should be able to control all aspects of how they think, right?
strings and dualities

https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4280
I tend to agree. I am just finishing up a tool I'm using to automate a bunch of interactions I have with the 4 USB UARTs on my desk and I ended up going with expect. If I knew about pexpect I would have probably used that.

However, since I did use expect and spent some time learning Tcl, I actually did appreciate one useful thing about it. It's very easy for me to in-line Tcl code into, say, a configuration, parse it with the help of `[info complete]`, attach it to a list and then expand that list `{*}$some_list` as an argument to `expect` or `interact`. I can now have UART specific macros that are bound to keystrokes like Ctrl-t x. Sure I could do something like that in python, but it probably wouldn't be as clear-cut as:

# Fix terminal row/col height for less, vi, etc
# type Ctrl-t r
bind[r] = {
# depends on xterm size info, may not be universal
send "\{ "
send {old=$(stty -g);}
send {stty raw -echo min 0 time 5;}
send {printf '\033[18t' > /dev/tty;}
send {IFS=';t' read -r _ rows cols _ < /dev/tty;}
send {stty "$old";}
send {stty cols "$cols" rows "$rows";}
send {unset old cols rows;}
send {shopt -s checkwinsize;}
send {clear;}
send " \}\r"
}
I encourage you to dig deeper into the background of the Walter Duranty and Judith Miller cases, in both cases the individuals were lying and their colleagues and coworkers knew they were lying or had good reason to suspect it. In the case of Walter Duranty, it took the organization several decades to admit Duranty was full of shit, long after the facts were widely know.
That exactly what I like from Apache projects, one step at a time to make C less relevant.
> and technically allows arbitrary precision floating point

technically, "arbitrary precision decimal"; floating point is a storage representation, to which JSON is formally agnostic, though RFC 8259 recommends that limiting to the range and precision representable with IEEE 754 doubles is a good idea for interoperability.
IBIS and a f/0.95 lens would get you there (or a flash, which phones mostly can't synch to).
Please don't use this as your only backup. Consider it an experimental cross-machine RAID.

You'll adopt the oft-repeated "RAID isn't a backup" mantra as soon as any of these issues hit you (like several have hit me): https://photostructure.com/faq/raid-is-not-a-backup/#why-isn...
What?

I have never used Twitter in any serious capacity.

There are plenty of ways to get all this information and thinking that Twitter is the de-facto place to get emergency life or death situation notifications is downright laughable.

As far as I can tell, I haven't gotten swept up by a tornado yet because I don't have Twitter to see severe storm alerts.

If your only source of news or alerts is a single service run by a corporation that isn't beholden to anyone but themselves, that's your problem.
Yeah, I get it's niche, but still pretty expensive.
>> Karl Marx WAS a great economist.

> He really was not. He was great at politics.

Not in the governance sense (he wasn't a statesmen), so you must mean in the other sense ("activities within an organization that are aimed at improving someone's status or position").

But this is sort of a difference without a difference, right? For most of human history, people who were "great at X" were in truth at least as good at politics as the thing they're actually known for.

Even e.g. Euclid was arguably a great geometer but an even greater politician.

Hell, Pythagoras was literally a cult leader.

With rare exceptions, your name isn't remembered by history unless you're good at politics.

> Basically no serious academic takes the labor theory of value seriously.

The labor theory of value is much older than Marx, and components of it are certainly taken seriously in management schools when talking about pricing services for example. Similarly, economists use components of other theories of value where it makes sense. I think it's more accurate to say that economics as a profession has moved on from these sorts of "generalizable theories of value" to give more nuanced analyses, which is quite different from saying that those theories proposed historically by Marx or Frisch or whoever have no influence.

Anyways, can you define "serious academic" in a way that doesn't make this sentence tautological? There's no one who claims Das Kapital is the Bible of Economics, but the same is true for Wealth of Nations and basically any other historical text. That doesn't mean that Smith and Marx are irrelevant, though.
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A lot of people are missing your point, which is a good one - that big name news outlets rarely ever post raw, unedited videos. This is a shame in my opinion.
Does ZeroTier let you expose a specific machine publicly? ie if I have a raspberry pi behind a NAT, will ZeroTier provide me with a public IP anyone can use to connect to it?
"The false conclusion I jumped to is someone else's fault for giving me too little information"

That's a terrible excuse. Lack of information isn't the same as misinformation.
Disagreeing with your assessment is not gaslighting.

I do agree America is more politicized now, but that doesn't mean the answer is to retreat into a shell and pretend the issues don't exist.
That's actually a very clever idea. I like that.

It would be an excellent grad CSS project. Identifying the Giant Wasps with 99.9% or whatever accuracy and deploying some defensive mechanism.

The problem like you said would be(e) infinitely expensive to deploy to all of the many thousands of randomly placed hives. But maybe useful for the industrial pollinator companies, which is a big thriving industry.

Anyway, I just like these sort of clever tech solutions.

There has to be plenty of solutions to this (major) problem we haven't thought of yet.
>Personal Gmail accounts are the exception to Google services available in Iran, and some functionality is also blocked by IP - if you live in Iran currently you might know that almost all other Google services and enterprise accounts are outright blocked by IP too:

Google services in Iran are not blocked by Google or the U.S., they are blocked by Iran. It's the Iranian regime that seeks to block the use of things like Google's search engine, not the U.S.
But as soon as you make use of almost any library from the ecosystem, you get allocations. Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Why not isolate the Java-using part in a separate process from the non-allocating fast part?
>If the social platforms were just imposing costs on being wrong that would almost be a service, but I get the impression from all the ban stories that they're staffed mostly by people who aren't equipped to be that judicious

The latter sounds like an "intent" argument, that imposing the costs has a quality factor that I'd say just doesn't (or doesn't have to) exist.
It only works for VSCode? This is so frustrating because this is exactly the kind of system I've been looking for.
Still complaining even after they are gone...
> Base64 is just like base10 but they needed 55 more characters beyond the 0-9

How did you work that out?
There are Java implementations written in Java and that beloved C compiler nowadays is written in C++.
Belgian here, the covid situation is being handled very poorly. The rules change frequently and are badly communicated, the three main regions (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia) all have different set of rules and information is contradicting.

E.g Flanders: Schools are not a problem vs Wallonia: Schools are a problem.

It's frustrating to see.
Urwid [1] is probably the most mature in the Python ecosystem.

[1] http://urwid.org/
Sure I see a difference, but I don't think it's nearly as significant as you seem to. These corporations wield an immense amount of power, and although they don't (individually) have the ability to completely silence anyone, neither do ISPs.
what do you use as a texteditor/IDE?
The content itself is not encrypted in any way as far as I know. They encrypt some kind of URL, to the actual content I think.

If this is truly the case, then every web browser that can access YouTube and supports JavaScript is guilty as well.

It's like distributing an encrypted video along with a python script that decrypts it and then saying that anyone who executes that script on linux is circumventing the copy protection. It's ridiculous.
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Apparently you haven't read the compiler man pages for optimization flags.
No, that's not how power companies are other utilities work and that's not what a natural monopoly is.

A natural monopoly is one that arises due to the high costs of entering the market and other barriers to entry that make it difficult for competitors to establish a footing.

Utilities are natural monopolies because it is very expensive to place pipes, transmission lines, etc., over large geographic areas. Consequently, a company must either have large starting capital or the ability to grab a large enough portion of the market to pay for the costs of the initial infrastructure outlay.

The barrier to entry for the short form messaging market? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Any programmer can recreate the functional parts of Twitter in under a day, scaling aside. And there are already several Twitter competitors. They're simply not very popular because they're difficult to use.
You are just arguing that Paypal did what was necessary given the current law/SEC regulations, which I didn't disagree with.

I was trying to lift the scope of the discussion to a larger arena in which the role of the SEC certainly could be discussed, for example. Basically asking the question "Is there a better way to manage compliance?"
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Can't imagine a single use case for when I'd prefer a tabless browser.

I also can't remember seeing literally anyone complain when browsers start adopting tabs, even though people complain about anything.
>AMA?

Have you experienced any side effects, even mild like injection pain or fatigue? I'm in the Moderna study and feel pretty disappointed that I may have gotten the placebo.
I have mixed feelings on synthetic data. We don't honestly know what synthetic data is missing when we use it to flush out or replace more privileged or classified datasets.