skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand perfectly well that if it goes wrong I will, most likely, be able to unpick the damage. But I also understand that this can take years and lots of money. Especially if the signature service is in a different country. So-called identity theft is a real problem.

My particular concern is that I believe I'm entering into a tenancy but then discover, due to some bug in the software, that the landlord never actually entered the agreement. At this point the landlord can legally evict me if, say, he gets a better offer. What can I do about this?

Edit to explain a detail of English law: this is a lease renewal. It isn't necessary for my continued occupation, but without it I have no security of tenure.
What Happens When an Election Intersects with a Mental Health Crisis
How do they find you?
I expect that, as with any other type system extension, the more granular your effects are, the more likely you are to run into a “what color is my function” problem. If you have a public API that declares certain effects, you’re stuck with those unless you break backward compatibility.

In a practical system, when writing a library and especially an abstract interface, you’d want to be careful what you promise and declare effects that you might need (but currently don’t use), just in case you will need them later.

It’s not that easy even to distinguish functions that can fail from those that can’t, if you’re trying to anticipate how a system will evolve. Something that’s in-memory now might change to being done over the network later.
Yeah, this is one I would definitely subscribe to if only I had a convenient way to get access to some issues without subscribing first. Alas, the only reseller in my area is no longer keeping them in stock.
what market are you talking about? hobby projects market? that's for sure, but that's not where the big money is.
2017 and a complete cliché by now.
It's free of ads from youtube. You'll still see in-video ads embedded by video creators.

(It's not like some podcast feeds, where you get a second rss link that has episodes without ads)
It's a bit weird from the outside, as a non-american. When I was growing up there was a very narrow window of acceptable ideas in the US, anything else was "unamerican". "The two parties are basically the same" was a cliche when I was a kid.

The reaction to a relatively tiny number of new acceptable ideas in the discourse has been pretty surprising, even to someone who thought they already had a low opinion of American culture.

And yeah, sure, the ad-generated enragement feeds don't help. But it is clearly mostly the small town kid getting exposed to more ideas thing, no question.
What's completely senseless to me is how absolutely proponents of the scientific world-view reject it's similarity to religious culture. To me it looks exactly the same, and this article while excellent and amusing fits perfectly in that dominant theme of science as a above and apart from mythology.

Here's an amusing quote:

“Mr. Peale’s animals reminded me of Noah’s Ark, into which was received every kind of beast and creeping thing in which there was life. But I can hardly conceive that even Noah could have boasted of a better collection.”

The idea that a there is a golden age of pure truth and reason against which the forces of chaos rallied is as old as time. That itself is the myth of excoriation by which we organize classes of the cognoscenti: there are those who know the original truth and those who do not.

I think rather than pit reason and truth against the circus of spectacle we have to embrace the latter as the former and include everyone in the know, with a laugh.
it's still a pretty good show, maybe the best by some measures. we have fascinating scientific discoveries and novel technological progress made every day.

but that show has so much more competition nowadays, with the scope of information exploding from local communities to the whole world (and beyond), because of technology, that exploits our natural social tendencies to peer at each other to see where we stand. now we're trying to hopelessly keep track of so many more people than we can keep in our heads, which creates the winner-take-all mechanics we see around us everywhere and that traps our collective attentions. whether we like it or not, we're building a global social hierarchy to replace millions of local ones.

how this is good or bad in the long run is a fascinating show in itself (even if each atomic unit of attention-seeking is trite).
You can always buy a large bag of onions, watch some youtube videos, and spend the afternoon improving your knife skills.

I've learned to keep my mouth shut while watching others prep food. Compared to someone who has worked in a kitchen the average person is shockingly slow and inefficient. It's like when you watch someone using a computer that doesn't know about ctrl+c ctrl+v, or two finger types in https://www.google.com to start their search.
I generally like ORMs and use them often, but I still usually use a separate migration framework for writing and executing database migrations.

Two examples in .NET world: Roundhouse [0] and FluentMigrator [1].

[0] - https://github.com/chucknorris/roundhouse
[1] - https://github.com/fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator
There's 3 routes

1) Minimal lockdowns. This causes hospitals to be overwhelmed and leads into 2 or 3 eventually.

2) Basic Lockdowns. Large economic damage but hospitals are ok.

3) Extreme lockdowns. You cannot leave your house. Armed police and military enforce this. Every case has a government contact tracer interview the person and all possible contacts are identified. The best net outcomes.

Australia went the third route. I do understand "But it's an island" but really by far the largest source of spread is community transmission for all countries and Coronavirus has still had 27000 cases in Australia too. It's not like the virus didn't have a chance to get out of control. But the third option meant it was brought back under control and to extent that there's no more community transmission. You can read various articles about the lockdown. If you were in an at risk area you could not leave your home: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-09/flemington-north-melb... . There were also fines for going outside without a mask in non-lockdown areas.

I know Americans may look at that third style of lockdown as crazy but it's the path of minimal harm to society. Today the positive results are very isolated and seem to be almost all from quarantined travelers returning.

Note that by going the third option you have waves of harsh lockdowns and almost complete normality. South Australia went into a harsh lockdown earlier in the week due to a false alarm. But the waves of total lockdown and normality are proving to lead to better outcomes. Fewer deaths, better economic outcomes, etc. The harsh lockdowns don't last long at all. They are so effective they don't need to be implemented for long.
Yes but at that point you are getting all the disadvantages of Rails, without the strong points (fast prototyping and everything related to rendering HTML pages, file uploading etc.).

Presuming you wanted to stay in Ruby for the API and wanted to stay in a project similar to Rails (so, preserving ActiveRecord), Roda + ActiveRecord gets you there with already much higher performance.

If you think about it, a JSON API needs very little. Rails has a lot of added complexity for just rendering JSON. Even the sheer amount of files a Rails project has by default is enormous for something that simple.
> Oleg can write unhygienic syntax-rules macros.

Not only can he do it, he even wrote a paper about it: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.36...
Human spaceflight programs have struggled to justify their existence pretty much their entire lives. Non-human spaceflight has had clearer rationales: the development of rocket technology is intertwined with long-range missile technology, and satellite technology has long clear military ramifications from the launch of Sputnik. The Space Race grew past its missile origins largely because it was a competition between the US and the USSR for prestige points. Once Apollo 11 successfully landed a man on the moon, both of them quickly lost interest in manned space travel to the moon.

Post-moon, human spaceflight programs seem to be have been largely directionless. The early space stations were probably originally meant as a stepping stone to developing orbital habitation, but the fact that we haven't really expanded much further makes it look more like faffing about. The US developed the space shuttle with the intention of building a low-cost, human-driven satellite launch and servicing service, but the only real success it had there was the Hubble. Instead, a lot of the real purpose probably lies more in geopolitical goals: the US-USSR cooperation helped drive some amount of detente. The ISS in particularly was driven in large part by a desire to keep ex-Soviet rocket engineers gainfully employed and not seek employment with rogue states looking to rapidly develop a missile program.
:( I thought the modern take was that salt was over vilified. That said, I do not recommend ignoring a doctor. Best of luck keeping your health under control!
There are a lot of quality resources, be free or paid. Falling for this utter scam is beyond my mind
Honest question: Do you expect these topics to go away when the "elections are over" (let's say at latest on January 21th)?
It'd be nice to have both. But with Big Sur crippling Little Snitch, like rdn, I too am looking to bail from Apple. One can be selective in the apps one chooses to install, but one can no longer block Apple's telemetry and cloud stuff. Pity. I've been Apple-only since the Apple IIgs.
Wait, Sauron or Suman supported meritocracy? Or opposed racism? How, why, what, wat?

Maybe in the movie, but as far as I know LOTR movies did no changes related to that.
Rocky 4 is 100% propaganda. But it's not really the Russians have better science. But rocky movies are about the underdog. You can't have 3 time world champ rocky be an underdog unless it's one dude vs a country. AKA rocky 4. That at the constant american beef at the time w the olympics that the Russians were using unholy science like doping and roids in their state run sports programs, while the Americans were all 'real scrapy amateurs'. Then of course the dream team.

I do find it funny you reference movies almost entirely from the 90s in you conclusion, movies over 20 years old.
Pretty much. I already use my own domain for my main personal and business email addresses and I've also set up email addresses for several family members on that domain. So, if I moved to a paid plan, I'd not just be paying for one email address but about 8 or 9 --either that or face the unpleasant task of explaining to family members that they now needed to pay to continue using the email addresses they've had for years.

I also have a few other domains that only I have email addresses on and I run the email for those through Gmail and Yandex Mail's servers.

I've also got a few other email addresses @gmail.com and @yandex.com which I use for less important stuff like signing up for forums / websites and the like. So, I wouldn't want to be replacing them with a paid plan either --given they're not used for anything important.

So in essence, "free" [and reliable] is more important than "secure". I'm not majorly unhappy with my current setup, but I'm always open for giving rival services a try out, just to chip away at the stranglehold the big boys have on the market.
Compared with inflation, new lego sets are less expensive than they were in the past.

Used lego, I agree it's going to be hard to find all the individual pieces for a specific set. However, if all you're looking for is a bunch of bricks, you can buy them by the pound/count/whatever in various places (including amazon/ebay) and get them for a great price.
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that is interesting

claiming YouTube and Instagram are the two best acquisitions in modern tech history is one heck of a claim

Android instantly beats them both COMBINED

That being said they would definitely be in theTop 10
And butter!

The average person would be appalled at the amount of butter and salt their favorite restaurant uses.
https://i.imgur.com/NIFvQeE.png
Here is a screenshot of the company's job posting
How do you see the amount of tether printed vs actual amount of tether bought?
That's not true. Any cookie that is not strictly necessary needs explicit consent. There is simply no distinction whatsoever made between first-party or third-party cookies in the "cookie directive" (ePrivacy directive), or in the GDPR.

The directive itself speaks of cookies "intended for a legitimate purpose" "on condition that users are provided with clear and precise information". Read the rest of paragraph 25 to see how users "should have the opportunity to refuse".

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...

"Legitimate purposes" are then more narrowly defined in the GDPR.

https://gdpr.eu/article-6-how-to-process-personal-data-legal...

I strongly suggest anyone serving European users to just read the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive, directly, rather than rely on third parties to give you an interpretation. These directories can be read "as is", and are really straightforward. Lots of companies of course try to work their way around the really obvious requirements and definitions laid out here.

In summary:

Unless you really need the cookie for the service to function, you cannot have it unless the user opted in. You cannot simply invent a reason why you would "need" the cookie. Anything that you can make work without cookies has to be provided without them, and you cannot "require consent" and somehow tie to it your service offers for anything that could be made optional.
Having an attitude like Coinbase is the way to go, in my opinion. That is to say, disinterest in politics while allowing employees to do whatever they want in their own time.

As for politics entering aspects of the company, such as right vs left wing healthcare plans, wearing or not wearing masks, etc, the decision should be towards the most scientific approach that helps the most number of employees.

For less scientific things, such as BLM or allowing/disallowing guns, where it's not related to any clear scientific purpose but to people's opinions, there should be no stance that the company should take, but it can encourage employees to support causes in their own time.
Or maybe ANY other company that ever wants to use snippets online.

This is a classic tactic - pick a fight with the baddest dude in the room and take him down, then nobody else will challenge you.

Google was the baddest dude in town, and now nobody will challenge this law.

Which, rather ironically, means that Google will have FEWER challengers in the future.

So, yeah, “terrifying” is a perfect word for the OP to use here.
"When A Fail-Safe System Fails, It Fails By Failing To Fail Safe"
The comment parent to yours had a closing parentheses and stuff after the link that broke it.

The link for the Chinese pdf is https://mega.nz/file/nk41mSAL#R_d0njlKRb-aIoGuX6JXUB5eeflAdy...
Good luck extraditing.
One place to look is other countries, e.g. Germany. They have alternatives to the college/university track that enable people who don't fit that mold to still prosper.

The way the U.S. is structured it's as if the only route to success is becoming a professional basketball player in the NBA. Oh, you don't happen to be extra-tall or able to shoot a basket? You must not be working hard enough.
This is a somewhat tough problem for companies at this point in time. To executives focused on customers, sales, product - this is an even more interesting issue because it has really nothing to do directly with the company itself.

Most customer segmentation problems can be solved with an optional feature or a new product line - make both chunky marinara sauce and a smooth variety.

Most employee problems can be solved similarly - optional programs, different roles for different folks, etc.

But this problem is unique because a certain segment of the employee+customer base is asking the complete company to take their side in certain matters. Of course the company taking that stand alienates the other segment of the population.

However, rationally, it becomes much easier to deal with this than what Coinbase did.

It seems though that the vocal side (liberal) is vocal because they care about companies stances on these matters, while the silent (conservatives) are silent because they don't seem to care as much.

Therefore, rationally, companies generally take the liberal position or no position at all.

When conservatives listen to politically-left company seminars, see liberal company statements, etc - they mostly just ignore and move on with their day. I don't think many conservatives would be motivated to quit or boycott a company due to a liberal company seminar that they disagree with. I get the feeling (due to the walkouts, etc) that liberals are much more likely to sever relationships due to differences in political beliefs.
Definitely! And now a lot of the children of the people it was done too are getting all "political".
And when short of bread, both rich and poor alike are free to eat cake.
It’s one factor, definitely.

But one could also say that science wouldn’t be allowed to flourish if we didn’t have peace for example (what we experience now is rare in the history of humanity), and that the institutions that support peace are involved in being able to type and communicate this.
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Yes, but now I want to know:

1. Is there a C version? I don't see it in the same directory.

2. If there is a C version, does anyone who submits a PR (like the one in 2019 adding 'key'[0]) have to submit a C version along with it?

[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue4356
Also in addition to other sibling comments--note that OT mentioned having been using GIMP for 20 years and still being unable to figure out anything new aside from the tutorials he studied. So being "used to" GIMP is evidently (although currently sample size 1) not enough for it to be "easy to use".

Edit. I'm not saying Photoshop is easier to use--it might be just as difficult but with better resources available people might be able to learn it better.
It gets even more hilarious when you try to tip the teachers of your children, or perhaps police officers and a judge. Strange how bribing workers for better service can be expected, unexpected, or just plain illegal, depending on their profession.
Lol, old thinkers who are towing the party line and are also grumpy they missed out. Most "trustworthy" financial news outlets are all pushing messaging that Bitcoin is too risky and to avoid it like the plague. However in a "Great Reset" environment coming upon us fast having ways to move wealth with fewer restrictions suddenly become very attractive. Compare the price charts of gold and bitcoin for this year. They rise together pretty well until the election. Then suddenly gold flatlined and Bitcoin started trending upwards again. Regardless of your theory of what a Biden administration means for the country, the market says people want freedom and independence from whatever is coming.
That's good news. I think I've read some time ago that guitar sales have plummeted all over the world because people don't play guitars anymore these days. I hope it was just a phase.
> If google was selling youtube today, would anyone even buy it?

Of course. It's the premier video platform not just of the US but the world. And it's only going to grow.

> How many companies can afford to keep it running? How many would want to?

Every major company in the US. And every major international company around the world and maybe even governments around the world would want to buy youtube. But I highly doubt we'd let a foreign company get control over youtube. Youtube is important enough to be a national security matter.

Google is known for shutting down products left and right. It's kept youtube around for 15 years. That, in and of itself, should tell you something. Youtube is one of the world's most valuable/important products right now. You think no one would be interested in buying it?
It is very common to use #if 0 ... #endif for this.
Depends on the subjective opinion of the viewer.
Well as long as the mp3 loads just fine for the first time I dont see how bitrot could happen.
Well in theory those numbers are equal, any discrepancy would be fraudulent.
How is it that Tether, with all its reports of unviability, seems to manage to go on?

It seems like if they were the fraud people frequently report, the would have bust long ago.
Then stuff has changed recently. The last time I looked this up it was custom stuff and I couldn't just download Ubuntu or some other distro and press install.
Seems to be a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
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I started with sets when I was 2, over 40 years ago. I think it’s more a question of instilling the motivation to build and be curious.

For me, it was inability to afford any other toys, so LEGO became my dream medium.

For others, that might be an exciting challenge posed. For example, during COVID we have been doing weekly “LEGO Masters” challenges with my niece and nephews over Zoom, where we pick a theme and then present to each other a week later. They are 5, 5, and 8, and then my partner’s brother, cousin, and I routinely join in. It’s not as much a competition as it is a creativity prompt, an encouragement of presentation and sharing (and thinking about your share of the presentation time), and a way to get to know each other better while distant.

Incidentally, I got into Rebrickable a few months ago after starting to (finally) organize my collection during lockdown and these challenges. I spent a couple hours checking off nearly all of the sets that I know that I own, and when I was done, the site told me the value was about $25,000. I’m kind of shocked.
Really good point. Hmmm.

Maybe I should have wrote "5G will displace wifi".

If I had to guess, Apple's notion for personal networking will be multi protocol. Bluetooth, wifi, 5G, UWB, NFC, etc. In combination. And Dediu's point is the 5G will finally be able a viable wifi replacement for a large fraction of Apple users.

Like all tech, wifi will peak, plateau, then long slow decline.

Question related to your point:

Will self-hosted 5G be an option? eg Will Microsoft be able to (feasibly) run their own campus 5G network?

Zero trust networking and software defined networks, for both consumer and enterprises, will definitely become the preferred solution. So me running my own LAN becomes less important. In that world, maybe self-hosting becomes "virtual".
Mark Stephens, author of "Accidental Empires" under that pseudonym - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires

A settlement allowed him to use that name for purposes including this book and the linked-to web site. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
Where is a good place to learn about the Taubman/Golandsky technique?
Both of your "scientific" issues are fantastic examples of science having been politicized. Or at least trust in or acceptance of science.
My point is that banks are already abusing existing trust projection and verification mechanisms in consumer-hostile ways.

How would giving them even more expressive mechanisms for delegation of trust to third parties improve this situation?

Edit: I say that it is “consumer hostile” because they’ve used PKI and contract law to construct a complicated system of subcontractors that allows them to process mortgages without ever providing a single cryptographic proof that anyone involved in the transaction is a representative of the bank. (And the result is that many people have recently lost their homes to fraud.)
Systemd’s Lennart Poettering Wants to Bring Linux Home Dirs to the 21st Century