skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a good idea. Here is why:

- It only solves the problem of communicating categories to another person/party with its brevity. 12.03, easy to tell others. But all this at the expense of the following things.

- There is no way to immediately know what 12.03 means. One has to carry a look up table. You can replace it with 2 char code. For example, Finance.Taxes to FN.TX. Why use numbers? Is the ordering important? Why not use char?

- What if categories do overlap? GMail solved this problem in 2005 with labels instead of folders. You can apply multiple tags. Tagging should be enum-like, while tagging it should show what tags already exist so that you dont create two seperate but similar tags, for e.g. Finance and Finances.

- The author dismisses search without giving any reason. Search is amazing for digital documents that is not possible in physical analog documents. The focus should be on tags + keywords or description of the document. Then use something like Algolia search to find stuff - it is extremely forgiving and powerful. Ofcourse, I am just speaking in general about data organization, not specifically about OS-level folders. For that, I think we're stuck with what the OS provides as a search engine. On MacOS, I think Alfred does a better job of searching, haven't used it personally though.

- You can still assign a unique ID to the document, after all thats all the 12.03 scheme does. You can communicate precisely to Jane, "Hey Jane, the document is B75AE2". Jane types that in the search engine and there is no need to weed through folders.

- Additional metadata such as year, author, owner, etc. would help with search.

Instead of making search powerful and contextualizing it, the author expends his arguments on frivolous pursuit of Johnny.Decimal.
You wouldn't hire a Nazi would you? I'd like to screen my candidates against this list.
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"In the beginning was the word". Language shapes reality. As software engineers, the second we accept that 'product owner' is a legitimate title, that second we lost agency to push back on poorly conceived features. Say it loud and clear: you also have a stake in the product.
Google claims 2 billion users across all their cloud services, not paid seats.

For example, if you have a hangout and invite 20 people, that's 20 users. You don't have to be logged in to use a hangout link, so if you join another hangout later, and still aren't logged in, you're a new user.
I've started cutting back. Two things I did: Removed my credit cards after ordering, so I'd be forced to re-enter them to order. Added a Firefox/Chrome page blocker. Easy enough to get around, but these two things together gave me enough times to pause and remember that I put the difficulties in there for a reason.

Next step might be to block them at the network level.
Why would cross checking a list of CCP members against employees be racism?

I’m sure the CCP members take an oath of allegiance to either China or CCP or both.
One kills people the other doesn't.
So, the purpose of this list is a witch-hunt?
Glad you plugged indieshuffle. I checked it out and love it so far. I'm going to make a point to listen to music through it for a bit and see what I find. So far all the songs I've heard are Soundcloud and it's hard to find any information on how/where you source the material. Is it soundcloud-only? Any interest or plans for integrating a site like Bandcamp that's more oriented around me eventually supporting the artist by buying something?
You don't need "else".

if (x) then: doSomething();
if (!x) then: doOtherThing();

"Else" is a redundant construct, but it's nice to have for sure. I would prefer not writing the above code.
I don't really understand this comment. He can decide to pose with anyone he wants, and he can make his sexual preference as obvious as he wants, that still doesn't give Gawker the right to do what they did.
My hunch would be that early on in the process of innovation, you're quite a distance from profiting from that research. Unless you have pockets deep enough to go all the way, there's potentially value in encouraging many people to try and get slightly further on solving challenging problems in the open, so that all can learn.
Hmmm, somehow this course is not included in my corporate learning account, what a pity...
This is like measuring column inches for a writer, and number of drafts for an editor to review.

This is not how I measure the performance of anyone on any of my teams.
Also Amazon does The Expanse these days after Sci-Fi Channel dropped it (like all good things).
Fun thought (for some defn. of 'fun' anyway) - what's the 'optimum' number? Selfishly, hyper-rationally, how many children would you have?

It's not zero, because of their later life. But it's certainly not infinite, because of their early dependence.

I suspect on average we're pretty good at arriving at the (ever-changeable) optimum, or close to it, naturally. Maybe it's just as simple as 'as many as you can afford the childhood of'. But then, what's 'afford'.
I'd imagine that a large number of those 91 million are people who hold membership for the purpose of group identification and virtue signalling, not because they have a specific role in a hierarchy.
What do you study at FU Hagen?

Also, your nickname makes me nostalgic. ;)
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Why do you think people said 'nation-state' if you thought it meant the same as the shorter and simpler word 'country'?
>Google retired unlimited data in GSuite

They actually did not. The $12/user/month plan with an unenforced data limit was rebranded as the $20/month Enterprise Standard plan with unlimited storage explicitly allowed. Existing users are currently grandfathered in at the $12 price but may be forced to "upgrade" at some point in the future.
I think they often use them when they aren't willing to do anything useful, as a "we haven't entirely forgotten that bikes exist, we just don't want to actually make things safer" measure (or, more cynically, as a "here we did something now go away" measure). Here in Portland (at least inner Portland) I think they have mostly repurposed them as a bike route marker, where bike route means more or less "a side street that isn't interrupted more frequently than nearby streets" (this being Portland, that is most side streets so there are lots of them all over the place). More heavily trafficed streets are more likely to have bike lanes and green stripes. I think sharrows are resonable as a "this street isn't likely to end abruptly in two blocks" marker, although that is quite a bit different than the initial usage. The city also somtimes installs barriers that allow bike traffic to pass but not car traffic in a few strategic places if a side street is too appealing to cars as an alternative route.
Interesting speculation. Makes me wonder at some other improbable, but not impossible speculations, maybe retribution or warning shot over the arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong...news corps might sit on whole treasure troves of leaks.
It's really hard to fire imaginary people, though.
Native American Indians ate the bark of the pine tree for tens of thousands of years. Their skin changed colour as a consequence of so much carotenium.
I shouldn't speculate I guess. :) Als sounds like a cognate to else, but maybe it's not related.

Looking up etymology for "else", I see it comes from old High German's "elles". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/else#Etymology

> „falls“ for „if“

This one is interesting in the same way that it might lead me to the wrong conclusion. Is 'falls' related to 'falsch' at all? The English 'falls' is used quite differently, though you can start to see the relationship. For example something like "this falls somewhere between the two".

Language is fascinating! I love learning about how the colloquial meanings of certain cognates between languages sometimes have rather different meanings, especially between German and English since English is a Germanic language. It illuminates the interesting path some of my everyday words evolved from, and it's often rather different than one might guess.
Sounds reasonable but I don't remind reading it from the released pdf of the investigation. I actually read the whole thing, it's long but rather interesting from the hacker and espionage spirit.
Gang members robbing and assaulting people using Discord to buy drugs
First off, as someone who has spent many hours trying to use dat, I agree 100% with your assessment.

I have been using dat command line tool to p2p synchronize files on a LAN (and also over the internet) for a year or two now. The latest version is more stable for me than than the previous version and I really love it. It synchronizes files across multiple computers nearly instantly.
TCP/IP is actually a simpler model, with the layers mashed-up differently.

Seems to have worked pretty good, so far.

I'm very much a practicum-oriented guy. Theory and academic purity are great, but it's important to ship, which is what I have been doing for thirty-plus years.

I have just found that it is important to do things like establish domains for things like layers, modules, objects, protocols, whatever, and then stick to it.

If my domain is erroneous, then I need to look at that. If not, then I need to stick with it. I tend to plan for the long game. I've written APIs and frameworks that last decades, and that requires planning for the unknown; always a challenge.
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I consider the maths degree at FU Hagen to be quite good. They maybe don't have the same breadth that larger departments might have, and they do have 1 or 2 bad courses (probability theory for example), but especially the introductory courses are didactically excellent.

I'm somewhat less convinced about the CS credit I did (as a minor), some of it seems hopelessly outdated.
Why? Have you tried it yourself?
Standard practice is to encrypt media stored on cloud storage to avoid DMCA fuckery.
It's one of the things Copenhagen can learn from the Netherlands, where it's a solved problem at most intersections:

https://youtu.be/XpQMgbDJPok

https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA

Also see https://youtu.be/HjzzV2Akyds from 6 minutes on for right turns in Copenhagen.
> the cost to the nation of traffic arriving 5 minutes later?

Traffic delays are dominated by congestion and road capacity does not increase with higher speeds. Once you hit the peak for that road section, trafic grinds. If, for example, you have a 30 minute comute that spends 15 minutes in congestion-limited trafic and 15 minutes on a speed limited empty highway, you would need to drive 50% faster on those sections to recoup a full 5 minutes, so something like 105 mph on a 70 mph section for a full 10 minutes. That doesn't sound realistic.

There is a cost to low speed limits, clearly, but it is usually marginal - and when it's not, you should address that specific problem of a too low speed limit instead of making speed limits unenforceable throughout. If a section generates lots of speed tickets and no even minor incidents, it's clearly a sign to increase speed.

> drivers de-rating the risks.

True, but the risk rating they assigned to higher speeds was probably not proportional to the actual exponential increase to begin with.

> We don't have more accidents on the fastest roads in the UK.

That's moving the goal posts. The increase in risk is exponential on any given single road. Some roads are exceptionally safe at low speeds so you can increase the speed quite a bit and keep the risks low, hence the higher limits.
"Thus, a VAT impairs the value proposition of utilizing middleman."

The UK has VAT. It does not impair the value proposition of utilizing middlemen. When a consumer buys something for £120, £20 of this is VAT, and will be remitted by the retailer to HMRC.

Now, relevant to your point is this: the retailer claims a credit for any VAT she paid when she bought the goods from a middleman. And that middleman will claim a credit for any VAT he paid when he bought from the other middleman. The VAT charged on each transaction in the chain is eventually claimed back. So whether is 1 middleman or 100, VAT does not cause any tax drag. In other words, the existence or number of middlemen in the chain does not change the total amount of VAT collected by HMRC on a consumer's purchase of £120 (£100+VAT).

My reading of the Australian GST is that the mechanics are similar to the above: i.e. GST is charged on all sales, but that GST-business can claim back any GST they paid on things they used in their business.

So this leaves me to wonder: what are the main differences between the operation of UK VAT (as described above) and Australian GST?
> Also reasonable people check out when people are running around livid because of false information.

The comment you are responding to both recognizes that and is telling you that that is a fact that is deliberately being manipulated by and to the advantage of the people promoting false information.

A major part of the goal of extreme political propaganda, nearly as important as mobilizing unreasonable people, is getting reasonable people exhausted with the political system so that they check out.
> My friend was a very good student, but got a no-so-subtle message from the school official running the process that they wouldn't be considered without a bribe.

Based on my experience in China, this sounds 100% correct.
That you think that would suggest you have a similar lack of appreciation of what users that aren't you need that the developers that went into it had.

At this point Wine is still at the point of not considering a Wayland port until some severe changes happen at all — it cannot even begin to map the WinAPI to Wayland as it could to X11 at this point because too many features they need are missing that the developers didn't consider would be necessary for many things that Windows simply exposes.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42284#c1

It's from 2017 but it details some of the features that they would need which Wayland does not consider to support.
Do you literally still mail paper statements? Why?
https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/4266 tracking this issue here
> make your own degree ... credentialing

Sure, but it’s still a BA from a real and accredited university, and there are plenty of situations in life where that’s needed, regardless of the subject. Many immigration programs will take it into account, if you want to become a teacher, access to further education or professional qualifications.

In short, I don’t think a BA in Open Studies or whatever they call it is any less useful than a BA in International Relations or any number of other non-vocational BAs.
The two allergic reactions were from health workers who were allergic to vaccines. They knew it might happen and were ready.

People who are allergic to vaccines are not in trials for obvious reasons...
The axios article says:

>Soltero declined to offer a breakdown of how many of those 2 billion users are for products beyond Gmail or how many are paid versus free.
> Another example is the recent FB lawsuit threat against researchers. [1] Facebook will squawk about user privacy to justify this, but I have a hard time thinking Mark "privacy is dead" Zuckerberg is particularly worried about that.

I think you're flattening a lot of complexity here. Yes, I agree that Mark Zuckerberg is probably not terribly interested in our privacy. But one of the biggest outrages in FB privacy history, the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, was driven entirely by a researcher inappropriately accessing and sharing user data. While you might not trust Zuckerberg, and maybe you shouldn't, there is definitely some "there there" when it comes to how researchers handle our data too.
MBS is the ruler of Saudi, I don't believe he was democratically elected. Have a little look at the crimes of many of the people Saudi of have decapitated, with swords, to see the point of the comment above.

It's an easy one to miss as most media seem to play it down rather a lot, I don't know why. Because Saudi are our allies? Why are they our allies? I genuinely don't know.

There is a conflict between caring about LGBT issues and supporting a dictator who literally chops the heads of homosexuals for being homosexuals. It's unpleasant to consider which is why comments dance around it, like I started to, then didn't.
They divide the money in 3 piles and agree that they can spend their pile as they want.

Not sure why that would be hilarious?
Cyclist as well - the group I ride with jokes (in a very dark way) about how if we ever wanted someone dead without getting in any real trouble we’d invite them on a bike ride and have someone we know run them over with a car. Easy!
The Australian Government has gone all in with O365 as well
It looks like simdjson doesn't support AVX-512, so there couldn't be a direct comparison with this article. I recently got a Tiger Lake laptop, though, so if anyone has a good means for comparison I'd be interested.
I've seen a U-2 up-close in-person (it was actually one of NASA's versions). It looked pretty decent. It's pretty basic and bare-bones though: every pound saved off of it equals one foot higher that it can climb.
Looks interesting. I'll add it to my list for the followup post.
Wait - so never hire Americans?
I'm in Australia and just ordered one off of Amazon AU (fulfilled by Amazon US) - AU$157 delivered.
Shitty article by a shitty BuzzFeeder without a sense or understanding of history. The networks and movie studios have been killing shows and films that their execs don’t like forever. Also, check what the Hollywood black list and HUAC were all about. Nothing new here. Let’s move on.
What is the use case for Zig?
Right. There are situations where we can see that the only apparent way to do something needed very considerable resources, which suggests a state actor.

Equation Group is presumed to be (a front for) the NSA. It forged a (code signing) certificate that otherwise shouldn't exist, using an MD5 collision. But not the MD5 collision painfully created by researchers a little earlier to demonstrate that MD5 was vulnerable, it used a brand new collision purpose made for this attack. That's a considerable investment.

Then also, we can look at who benefits from what was done. Equation Group's "Flame" malware damaged the Iranian nuclear programme. That's something the US government, Israel, some other countries wanted, but it isn't something a bored teenager wants, or a drug cartel, or most for-profit corporations.

As described so far I don't see either the resource needs or the outcome satisfying this conclusion.
I am a huge open source fanboy, but there's nothing magical about open source that makes it secure against nation states.
See is pretty awesome. Dickinson is fun. The Elephant Queen is beautiful. The Morning Show, For All Mankind and The Servant are alright.

Looking forward to Foundation.
> the quality of studies is a bit hit and miss

I studied at a university that regularly ranks top three in the world, and felt exactly the same way...
Of course the wall is going to reduce cartel income. It's your fantasy world, and you can make it happen!
Does anyone know if SCMP's coverage has become more pro-China after the recent 'National Security Laws' that were enacted in Hong Kong?

Pieces like this are especially interesting when viewed through a Chinese lens.
SEE is a show I expected to hate but really loved. It looks hetter than any l movie on my iphone (I think they are using really wide dynamic range and color gamut, which is ironic given the premise.)

Ted Lasso was great too.

I just wish Apple would bring back 20-25 episode seasons from the golden age of TV.

That’s when shows became part of your life, rather than a friend that shows up for a couple months every couple years.
> as a community we desperately need a fully open source FPGA-based ultra simple firewall appliance

Firewalls are sort of an anti-pattern. The idea of firewalls to most people is "let's make sure they can't get past this one network control and then we can stop thinking about security." But we've known for a long time that defense-in-depth is the only real black-box security strategy. Yes, it would be nice if we could get high-performance packet inspection and analytics for cheap, but by itself it's next to useless.

More than a "firewall" we need 1) federated authentication+authorization protocols to stick in between the network and application-layer protocols (these basically exist but nobody uses them, so it's time to make something trendy), 2) a standard for ephemeral credentials tied to identities (tied to #1), 3) a standard for supply chain verification in modern technology stacks along with a simple way to certify they've been followed. This ensures better integrity of network boundaries (authn+z rather than network security) and that the software along the way is secure against supply-chain attacks.

I don't know if #3 is even possible, but theoretically it is. Just maybe not with any network we have today.
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It's interesting how politely this act is described. For example:

> He wanted to give that wealth away. But he wanted to do it in as roguish a way as possible.

As opposed to what it actually was. A rich scumbag brutally preying on and abusing poor people, performing a sadistic social experiment for his own amusement. This man was a monster and then some. They probably should have checked his properties for murder subjects.
"it undermines the legitimacy of the election in peoples' minds"
In other words, the EC is sacrosanct and uncriticizable? This statement alone suggests to me that I should stop typing.

Impeachment was on the grounds of national security, not partisan poltics. At least one Republican Senator agreed. You can beg to differ.

Originalism is exclusively a fantasy based in the observer's desires and perceptions of what they think the Framer's would have wanted. It would be better if we prioritized the actual values of liberty, justice, etc, and the real outcomes of government policy we can all observe, instead of what we would like to believe people who have been dead for centuries may have believed. Wouldn't they likewise have worried more about solving the problems they faced in the present?

The Constitution is a living document whether we'd like to accept that or not. It is fundamentally not the same as it was in the beginning, and it is a changeable document. Originalism from, my perspective, is almost always leveraged to maintain institutional control in the hands of a small, wealthy, and white group. We'd only have white landowners voting, after all, if the Constitution never changed.

I'm curious if you think that letting the Senate stand as an unchanged institution, for example, without ever adding more states as we have in the past to resolve political impasses, will lead to less of a partisan divide or more. What will happen in 20 years, when government has continued to be paralyzed by an Upper House that will fundamentally not accept the legitimacy of its opposition, as I have seen personally under Mitch McConnell (let's be clear, they cannot be seen to negotiate with a black man, otherwise they will be primaried)?

You keep suggesting that Democrats are somehow going to turn into a different party than they are, while not producing evidence, all the while the GOP continues its slide into rank despotism. The House Minority leader himself signed onto the absurd Texas lawsuit. I have seen no evidence that voters who participate in the Democratic primary will tolerate any degree of the election disruption that GOP leadership repeatedly rams down our throats (again, to save their skins in their gerrymandered districts).
The Boys are / were pretty popular. I liked the first season but the second it kind of petered out for me.
Heartbreakingly, the family learned that lesson as well:

> Luis obsessed over who they were. But even he had learned the lesson his mother’s murder had been meant to impart: only push so far for justice.
“I won’t make the same mistakes as my mom,” he said.