skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The claim sold by the media was that Russia "hacked" the elections

I didn't see that. Most of the claims were about Russian social media campaigns. We'll never know if those campaigns made a significant difference, but they certainly did happen. The other big thing was the DNC hack, also probably orchestrated by Russia.

> What was found out was contact with Russia to dig dirt on Trump's opponents.

I'd call that highly illegal, highly interesting, and even more worrisome than the prospect of a few hacked Diebold machines. A President who conspired with a foreign power to win election? Can you imagine the leverage that foreign power would have over such a President? With machine hacking, the President can claim ignorance. No such chance here.

The last guy who did that was named Richard Nixon.[1][2]

1. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vie...

2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/notes-indicate-nix...
this list has some good items on it but it's very poorly organized. don't mention 3 different things as one item (looking at you number 11)
> acquiring and not ruining NPM and Github

a little early to come to this conclusion, one way or another, I think
When I got my first job reporting to a non-technical executive and had authority to pick the PM tool, I thought this was my chance to find the Tool That Didn't Suck. Going down that rabbit hole led me to the sad truth that it'll be impossible to make a project management tool that the engineer likes until the engineer stops perceiving project management data entry as busy work. Finding a new tool ameliorates this until the novelty of working in a new UI has worn off.

Engineers are an autonomous bunch, and the best coders among us despise doing anything that isn't actually writing code. Unfortunately, like doc writing, there is more to being a good engineer than writing code.
”He also helped to edit the papers of Kurt Gödel, known for his famous (and famously difficult) Incompleteness Theorems, which establish that there can be no consistent axiomatic theory of logic from which the whole of mathematics can be derived, a man who has been called the most important logician since Aristotle.”

Gödel’s work is characterized like this all the time, like if he proved that there is something magical about mathematics, as if it’s above and beyond logic. But that’s not what Gödel proved, right?

My understanding is: All of mathematics can in principle be derived from ZFC. Gödel proved that there are mathematical statements (conjectures) that are true but cannot be proven (in ZFC). They are however, by definition, not theorems (in ZFC) and not part of mathematics in any reasonable sense.
My father, colombian as me, has pretty much spent all his life farming land, still now that he's 84 - though now at a way smaller scale than he used to do, which was still modest, and just because he wants to keep going - as he never had owned a land to farm, he always worked on that modality where you farm someone else's land and at the end you give them some percentage of what you got at the end, that has a name but I forgot.

The finantial gains of his work, when he's been lucky, always have been pretty short. He's never received any help from anyone, no social security, no government insurance, no pension, nothing - but still managed to save for build a little house that we still are finishing 30+ years later, and despite all the difficulties we had, give my sister and me a somewhat decent education and life.

If that seems though, just imagine all the people who had to fled their lands and left the only thing they knew to do in life because of the internal conflict and people killing them to steal their lands, there where the local media won't put their gaze and the goverment ignores to keep their rampant corruption and inequity.

It's great there's people thinking about them and working to make their products reachable for others.
Highly recommend a visit at least once in the near future. It's like Hacker News but you can't logout.
These are some good ideas, thanks! Eventually (read: once we have other monetization channels) we are planning on swapping the core functionality to be completely free, but in the meantime I'll give some thought to how our pricing model could be improved.
Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to Covid-19
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Flash Changed How We Communicate
I’d say COINTELPRO is more consequential by far, and it’s not even close. You might ask questions like, “What happened to the Black Panthers?”

Or the question, “Why are these groups powerless?”
Trump will start his 2024 campaign, protecting his Twitter as a political candidate account.
I think engineered outrage has been openly discussed for quite some time. America does it to its own people. Other nations do it to and about American citizens. And this isn't even remotely unique to America. Every major country plays the same game, just to different degrees (if anyone is aware of a major country that doesn't play this I'm honestly interested). Why would "trying to manipulate perception" be surprising for a country to do? Is that not what propaganda is at the root of it? Why wouldn't this idea also advance and get better? We've got native advertising, why not native propagandizing? (foreign and/or domestic) And why would America or China (insert enemy) be unique in using this tactic?
Standardized, no opposition to the government, docile population etc. that’s why “good” is in quotations. It’s definitely not objectively good.
I wonder how much the government paid consultants to write this.
Many parts of Turkey and N Cyprus still speak Greek in secret
Interesting thought, though a very large number of things in astronomy are almost always circular or spheroid mostly due to gravity.
This is a great movie. Odd but great.
You can use it but the cheap dongles (like this one) have about a 2/3 second delay. Even the best capture dongles have a 1/4 second delay.

They're useful for capturing gameplay to stream but not to use as a monitor.
Gott nytt år! Looking forward to a better 2021.
> the company behind the shell company behind the lead generator behind another shell company behind another company behind another shell company

In the end, there’s a US business somewhere in that chain that exists to take the money of US customers, and to pay taxes on that revenue; and that company is the one you’re put in contact with when you phone the number specified in the robocall.

It doesn’t matter who owns a controlling interest in that company. The only thing that matters is the point at which it’s interfacing with the US phone network and banking system.

Just send the company some money (like they want you to do!), find out where it goes (in the US; it doesn’t matter what happens after that) and find out who owns that bank account. Then arrest that guy, and/or freeze those accounts. And maybe prosecute the bank or payment-processor that was willing to take their business, in order to disincentivize such service providers from offering them accounts in the future. Do that over and over.
I didn't say it wasn't, but if I didn't have a full time job (i.e. if I was retired), I would have more time for books. As it stands, between sleep, work, kids, and family obligations, I have about 2 hours of "me time" per day to spend on books (or video games, or programming, or any other hobbies).
Would you mind providing me with a few examples on how shamelessness can be pulled off on an individual level? I can see how shamelessness works when you are really big either politically or socially (Ex: Donald Trump). But I am having a hard time thinking of individual examples where the social cost that comes with doing shameless things outweigh the benefits.
I'm no fan of JIRA, but why are we all using it if we hate it so much?
Gott nytt år!
The funny thing is, a strategy to do this kind of thing was explicitly laid out by a U.S. Army major named Michael Aquino in 1980. He appears to have gained influence after his paper's publication and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. I imagine the sort of things he advocated had already been going on for some time so I don't think he represented some kind of inflection point, but it's not like this stuff has never been openly discussed.

https://www.wanttoknow.info/mk/mindwar-michael-aquino.pdf
> Flagging seems a bit more objectively defined than downvoting though.

I think I get what you mean, but if you give people only one really strong negative signal, they'll be tempted to use it whenever they have negative feelings about something, thereby devaluating it. This may very well have been why downvotes were added in the first place.
This is 10 or 20 years too late and still too limited in scope. Allowing up to three calls per 30 days? Just set up 10 companies and hit everyone, everyday, forever.

I don't understand why digital protections are so limited.

The incentive for those in "untouchable jurisdictions" to commit cybercrimes skews entirely towards high reward, low/no risk.

I honestly just wish I could cut off all phone calls originating from out of country. If this could be technologically enforced, I think it would dramatically lower scam calls.
Have they? Or do the people they impact simply not blog about issues.
Vit D supplementation may slow Horvath epigenetic aging (2018)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201231214510/https://napicella...

https://archive.is/oVdE2
The file itself is beautiful and makes me want to put in my pocket and carry around. Hope there's more single beautiful files in the world, reminds me of the single header culture in C where every person can have their own nice little .h file that belongs to themselves.
Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!
He's been tangentially involved in cancel culture before. See this article https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo...
and also his original post https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4892
which demonstrates his prior interest in this.
> Every organization, whether tiny or enormous, needs a members-only messaging service that cannot receive traffic from external or unapproved senders.

> Organizations that need to let certain members hear from the general public, or communicate with untrusted (perhaps anonymous) customers, may establish a separate service instance for that purpose.

Rather than throwing away all existing email clients and servers, couldn't this be achieved by configuring an inbound mail rule to drop all email from addresses that aren't in your address book (and from servers that don't support DKIM)?

It doesn't seem very meaningful to say "Users should only receive messages from approved senders, unless they need to receive messages from unapproved senders". Email is useful precisely because it doesn't have the extra step of requiring users to manually add an address to their address book before receiving a message from a new contact, such as a receipt from an online purchase.
It's a duplicate of previous discussions, the one gaining the most traction being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25575321

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597142

Another possibility is that political topics (in this case "cancel culture") tend to be controversial enough, to be flamebait, that these topics tend to get flagged
> Even then, telco's have more lobbyists than all the silicon valley big tech combined, no exaggeration.

Very interesting, and certainly not the first time I've heard that. I wonder if and when Facebook is going to encroach on telco turf.
Love this group <3
I originally put gullible, but changed my mind.

Anybody that has taken chemistry and biology in high school should be able to grasp why organics are not better. This is basic science education. The arguments of folks that embrace organics are nothing more than pleas to emotion and sometimes pleas to tradition. It is not ignorance, it is stupidity.

It is the same thing with petroleum. The majority of folks on this site want to see the end to oil exploration and refining, because they only consider its use as a fossil fuel. An electric car could not be made without oil. As an example, a single tire uses seven gallons of oil, five gallons are used as feed stock and two are used in the manufacturing process.

There are plenty of highly educated people here that simply ignore reality because it makes them feel better.
Well, for starters, it's simply untrue that every company (likely) will (barring bankruptcy of course) eventually need extreme scale, and the implicit assumption that the up-front cost of implementing such scalability is necessarily worthwhile. That may be true in Staruplandia, but the industry is a _lot_ bigger than the world of Silicon Valley style startups.

For example: My current company is a small lifestyle biz. Sure, it's a "tech company", has an event-processing pipeline and the like, but if we were 100x more successful than our wildest ambitions, we still wouldn't need anywhere near 25.6k IDs/sec/server. And, given the objectives of the company, it would make more sense to turn customers away than to grow the team to accommodate that sort of demand.

The simple fact is that in a great many situations extreme scale isn't needed. And, either way, the cost of implementing extreme scalability can inflict its own harm. Highly scalable systems usually come with more operational complexity, and steeper learning curves. When you have a small team, this can impair -- or even cripple -- product development. If your company hasn't found product/market fit yet, this attitude of sacrificing the present for an imagined future can materially reduce the likelihood of that future coming to pass. Of course, the opposite is sometimes true as well. Companies have, in fact, failed because they found product market fit but took so many shortcuts they couldn't adapt and grow into their success. But the point is that determining how much to invest in future-proofing is a complex and nuanced problem not amenable to sweeping generalizations.

Now, this clearly isn't such an extreme case, but frankly Sonyflake (the original, not the Rust implementation) seems to be operationally simpler than Snowflake while offering perfectly reasonable tradeoffs. The Rust implementation might prove entirely useful to any number of organizations _based on their needs_. If they have a Rust codebase with a single process per machine this could easily be a simpler and more robust option than Sonyflake.

The kind of arrogant dismissiveness based on one's own personal (and highly specialized) experience that's shown in the downvoted comment tends to leave a bad taste in peoples' mouths. Thus the downvoting.
Tools that generate warnings can be configured to only do so on new or modified code. We do the same for our code. It can be a difficult, but ultimately some codebases require it.
Maybe that and the sense of duty of the city police.
Yes Stormlight series, the highlight chapter being the kid who uses her superpower of 'awesomeness', that was great.
Books that I particularly enjoyed this year:

I reread the tripod trilogy by John Christopher: The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead, and The Pool of Fire. Hadn't read them for a while but enjoyed them as always.

Heaven's River by Dennis Taylor is the forth in the Bobiverse series.

Three Laws Lethal by David Walton.

The House of Styx by Derek Künsken took me a while to get into, but then enjoyed it.

The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert Sawyer. Don't usually like historical fiction but will make an exception for this one.

And for something different, if you want to try rural Australian fiction find anything by Jane Harper, but in particular The Dry and The Lost Man.
That cointelpro method became the flamboyant sting directed at the mafia after illegal gambler j Edgar Hoover died and no longer covered for them.
why don't they use text messages?
This is the best 3x5 card/elevator pitch version of the private equity playbook that I've seen. The part about making the company pay the 'investors' for buying the company is especially poignant.

If anyone never quite "got" the rancor directed at Mitt Romney for his association with Bain Capital, this should clear it up.
I'm quite confused as python development under OSX is extremely simple:

1. Install pyenv [1] and the specific version you plan to use.

2. Use poetry [2] for dependency management, which pins the python version to the one defined, ideally the one you've set via pyenv.

--

[1]: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv

[2]: https://python-poetry.org/
Format of labels; what is an epic, vs a version on an epic; what do swim lanes represent; do you tag cross team dependencies etc
This is my main concern, for myself a bunch of markdown files in git is enough of a CMS. But having a modern CMS that is also usable by editors would be really nice.
That describes most of Chris Morris's work

Brass Eye is his most outlandish creation but before that he did Jam which is (to quote the comments of the following YouTube video) "absurdly poignant" https://youtu.be/LhKla4MEstY
Happy New Year! If you're in the United States, don't forget that today is the last day to make your tax deductible donations to charity for 2020! Here are some of my favorite tech related charities that I donate to:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate/year-end-challenge--LDEF

https://www.python.org/psf/donations/

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/
Agreed on all points. What's interesting to consider is the implications of the existence of a technology like social media which can provide the perfect means for short feedback cycles, experimentation, and mass dissemination. And then you dig into the military roots of the internet itself and start really rubbing your chin. There's a good account on Twitter that delves into some of this: https://twitter.com/cuttlefish_btc
Canada has a similar group:

https://digital.canada.ca/
I wonder if you might enjoy the first couple seasons of homeland? there are a lot of problems with the show, but in some ways it's a surprisingly charitable portrayal of islamic terrorists.
A lot of us think that if it was a real coup attempt that the mastermind was Erdogan. Infiltrate the coup plotters and trigger a hopeless coup.
mtPaint 3.50
Enroll them in Lambda school :)
Breached is a legal term... they were compromised but probably didnt suffer a breach. The MSRC blog post is exactly there to cover those legal grounds I guess.
It's obvious why You-Tube allows them access to the content system. It's the price of being allowed to operate there at all.
Wow strapi looks really good! And the pricing is totally fine
Doubting Thomas
There were lots of recessions where they didn't go off the gold standard. The contraction in 1929-1933 was so large, that going off the gold standard was the simplest option.

Unemployment responds to increases of the money supply. This pattern is quite visible in the macroeconomic data we have. Also, "employment" includes everyone who has a job, so there's nothing funny about the metric. "Unemployment" requires some restriction, because there are people who have no plans to enter the work force in the near future, such as college students, the retired, or the fraction of spouses that plan on staying home. If you don't like the definition the media reports, there's a whole spectrum of alternate measures that the BLS computes that you are welcome to look at, instead. Over short time intervals they tend to march up and down together.

I may have forgotten the lesson of King Edward II, but I remember the lesson of the Great Depression, which caused Adolf Hitler to come to power. He took Germany off the gold standard, and engaged in large fiscal stimulus, albeit for the grim purpose of conquering Europe. I also remember that Karl Marx predicted that the internal contradictions of capitalism meant that it was doomed, and how those claims looked like they were being vindicated in the 1930s, because macroeconomic stimulus was applied so late.
It's just a pretty fuzzily defined theory. It's surely true that Western governments use memes and similar content to convince people of things. Quite often they do so openly, with military ads and public health messages and such.

But China dictates public perception - in addition to sending messages, the government has full editorial control over all major social media platforms, and regularly intervenes to shut off discussion on any topic they'd prefer people not to hear about. It seems very unlikely Western governments are doing anything like that.
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Safari has support for WebAssembly.
How could it look organic when it came from a robocall?
I think people in many white collar jobs highly underestimate their ability to set boundaries and make their work/life balance healthier. (Not sure if OP's job is white collar, but her Twitter bio suggests it is.)

The excuse I always hear is that if they don't work that hard, they'll get fired and replaced with someone who does. I'm sure that's true for some jobs, but a) it's likely very few of them, and b) why would you want to work for/with people who have so little respect for you and your health in the first place?

Sure, promotions might come less often and raises might be smaller, but that's a trade off you can consciously make: more money, or better health and family/friend relationships. And you also set an example for your peers: if they start complaining about their health or about burnout, you can show them that it's a problem that can be solved. And the more that people do this, the more people will realize it's possible and the right thing to do.

And yes, there are some who live paycheck to paycheck, hold multiple jobs, will take any job they can get, and don't have much choice. I'm not talking about people like that... though that is another conversation that should be had more often; no one should have to be stuck in a situation like that, but so many are! And yes, there's unfortunately sexism and racism involved; I expect women and POC will get looked upon less favorably if they set stronger boundaries than white men will. But I don't see that as an argument to destroy your health.
> Caveat: Not an endorsement of freemium; it's pure evil.

Could you expand on this? When I started getting serious about lifting way back when, I used an app to manage my routines. At a certain point, I decided I was getting advanced enough that I could make use of some of their premium features, at which point I converted and have been a happy customer ever since. I have friends who feel the same way about (eg) Spotify, TODO apps, or any of a number of services for which the free version was essentially an unlimited-length, limited-feature trial version.

These seem to me like completely aboveboard, mutually beneficial implementations of freemium. To your mind, what makes this "pure evil"?
Poland under Russian occupation: https://histmag.org/Rynek-motoryzacyjny-w-Polsce-1980-1989-c...

Translation:

There were also extreme cases. Some of them were so sloppy that they prevented safe participation in road traffic. One of the readers of “Motor” received the FSO 1500, in which a factory defect in the body made its driving almost impossible. In the TV program “Kram”, aired on October 12, 1986, an interview was conducted with a man who found 41 defects in a new car he had bought. After consulting with an expert, it was found that there were 45 of them. There was an opinion that in order to drive the new Polonez without any problems, it was necessary to invest 100,000 zlotys in its renovation (~10% of total value). These cars, however, passed the zero inspection without any problems. The sentence of one of the engineers working at FSM can be considered the best justification for this: “People will buy any car”