skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addressing point 2 from your post: during the extradition hearing, a couple of witnesses declared that sometimes journalists are actively helping sources to avoid detection. See on Craig's Murray blog[1], I remember Daniel Ellsberg also had a similar comment but I can't find it at the moment:

> Lewis You have as a journalist merely been the passive recipient of official information. Presumably you have never done anything criminal to obtain government information?

> Hager You said “passive”. That is not the way we work. Journalists not only actively work our sources. We go out and find our sources. The information might come in documents. It might come on a memory stick. In most cases our sources are breaking the law. Our duty is to help protect them from being caught. We actively help them cover their backs sometimes.

In point 3 you're convinced that the timing for releasing the Democratic papers was related to undermining the presidential bid intentionally. However I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that an impartial journalist would release sooner rather than later documents that pertain to a current developing event. Withholding them would have been "actively" getting involved in the presidential election. I think the blame for the leak lays solely with the people that leaked them, not with Wikileaks or Assange.

(Also, I see that someone else already clarified the situation about the European Court of Human Rights.)

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
Thanks for clarifying, and for working to open things up for all platforms, I really appreciate it.
> Please expand on that point to clarify.

Our actual response to COVID has had huge second order negative effects, like killing the economy, for no real benefit. You need to include that in your analysis.

> The FDA never lied during the pandemic

I didn't say "the FDA", I said "institutions" in general. That includes both government organizations like the CDC and the WHO and the mainstream media. The FDA isn't the government organization that generally does direct public communication in a pandemic, so they didn't lie because they didn't really say anything at all. They did, however, botch development of tests and kept state and local health authorities from developing their own tests.

> mostly social media

You obviously have been living on a different planet from me for the past year.

> you're not offering a solid alternative

Oh, you want me to reinvent society from scratch?

You're right that I don't have a working alternative society in my back pocket, but our current society is clearly not working. The first thing to do if you're in a hole is to stop digging.
Israel is starving several generations of Palestinians of opportunity and experience [0], resulting in civil unrest. Israel could de-escalate its tensions with its neighbors (including Iran) at any time. It just needs to start treating its neighbors with respect.

Unfortunately, peace in the Middle-East would shift political power in all countries involved, shift government spending, reduce military aid from superpowers [1], and reduce the importance of the countries to the superpowers. A lot of power and money is trying to prevent that from happening.

You don't need to play along with those powerful people. They don't want to help you. Lasting peace would help you and your descendants much more than continuing the current situation.

[0] https://www.btselem.org

[1] https://explorer.usaid.gov
Plot twist:
Now all of Iranians which were hidden behind VPNs reveal their identity, and GH will block them all together.
nah. it sounds like you’re arguing what the odds are but let me ask a question: what are the odds that a self driving car has a “glitch”?

At what threshold should one be willing to bet their lives in this probability every time they drive?

Right now we are speculating what the odds a self driving car has to make a mistake. But there aren’t any truly self driving car out there. So how do you determine the actual odds? If you replaced all the cars with self driving cars how many accidents would we have?
I believe Dang sent me an email notifying me that he manually put it in that queue.
A scenario: you want to help people. You have the opportunity to get a very well-paying job on Wall Street (finance or whatever). You reckon that you would optimize your good-output by working more rather than helping directly (you don’t have the skills or know-how to help directly, you also reckon). So you get a well-paying job, work 60 hours a week in order to earn more money and advance your career, live frugally and donate 70% of your income to charity. At this point you are spent: you cannot do more good than working those hours without burning out and thus hurting your career long-term.

Now you are alienated from your charity: your work in finance indirectly helps other people, but you have no way of experiencing or connecting to that other than looking at statistics and numbers; the lifeworld of your charitable work is just some numbers that you get every quarter from the various charities that you donate to. You have no direct involvement in them.
I don't see how this is about "privacy". How are you defining that?

I'm not even sure why anyone would cant to consider money exchanges "private". You want currency exchanges to be recorded for auditing, at the very least. The idea of invisible transaction causes and allows more harm than good.

Fiat barter is always an option if you want to avoid a ledger.
Is Everything Securities Fraud?
If you cover the middle ground call me, I subscribe (as a customer) . What I mean, I know how to code and am (sometimes) dreaming about making an SaaS. But even before exploring idea space, I feel the whole surrounding infrastructure, like data safety, reliable login, payment (big one) and even CSS layouts are all a big turn off for me. These things every SaaS must have. And is really everybody reinventing the wheel? I would probably try to buy it. (not sure if such things exist). This seems at least a problem space you need to solve before the no code thingy.
> No you are not missing anything

A bold statement. And then you proceed to speculate with:

> "Luckily I never fancied a .eu domain, but if the EU would have prematurely revoked my domain then I'd be very unhappy."

So you don't know if they are missing anything or not. You didn't prove it, but you sure have an opinion about it and the EU, which doesn't add to discussion. Which is why you're being downvoted.
We need as many people as possible to get a vaccine. High risk is secondary and only worth thinking about at all because of limited supply.
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Because the company’s growth story which much of the high valuation is built on is instantly eliminated, sending prices plummeting while the people working inside the company just go on to get new jobs somewhere and make more money.
> The FDA rushing the approval of vaccine that might turn out to be unsafe harms their credibility in the long run.

FDA has just paid for this risk of losing credibility with hundreds of thousands of lives. Was it a good price?

> The worst case scenario of a hastily approved vaccine is so high that it probably makes sense to bear the cost and take the health/economic hit.

Really? You ran the numbers? Show your work.
Maybe the bias should be we should take public health seriously, and if it costs some corporations some money for no improvement, that isn't actually the worst thing in the world.

Something like regulations to reduce lead in the air could be the biggest material improvement in people's lives since we eliminated lead from paint and gas. Bigger than any improvements we've made in education directly. But rules like these just get in the way.
>a US tech company has the power to censor a popular UK media company for being critical of UK government policy

As always, this comes down to the fact that Google owns the platform they are broadcasting on. No one is preventing them from using other platforms. If the UK doesn't like it, they need to pass a law preventing Google from operating YT in the country unless they follow said law. GDPR is a great example of this.
It isn't even an expensive parking ticket. Traffic fines in the Bay Area are in the hundreds even for minor offenses.
Youtube is soo.. Police state that can be. I think China is like paradise compared to that organisation.

Please people.. Find something better
Maybe, but you could also have done something like opening up the trials to a much larger population or doing a sort of EEUA, basically making the risks very clear, having people sign a bunch of scary forms, but allowing people to take the vaccine if they wanted it, especially after Phase 2.

There would have been many people who would not want to take an unproven vaccine, but there might have been others that found the risk reasonable, assuming production could have been made available earlier.
> unnecessarily harsh and critical self analysis

Where? The article starts with "we pivoted our YC startup"
and then claims that some behaviors are "morally incompetent"...

...to justify the pivot.
Looking at the number of bills introduced right at the start of the new congress I'm under the impression that many of these are introduced only so the congressperson can go back and say "I introduced a bill to do ____" and brag about it.

https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legis...

It would be interesting to data mine these and see how effective certain legislators are at just introducing bills compared to actually getting them passed.
Vulkan-Based Game Engine for Object Pascal
Why Italian Covid-tracing app was such failure?
One of the most innovative startups in Italy. Bending Spoons is based in Milan.
When you open the site you find "We hack the future". If you go to the manifesto section they state "We're hackers".

They manage to create one of the most innovative covid-tracing app, supported by the government immuni was immediately available.
But still, when you scale too fast something can happen. Public sanitary service wasn't able to update the app, and as a result very few where the reports and notifications.

What's your opinion on that?

Some english details here:
http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioN...
FFS. Google has a holiday freeze through December. We're in a pandemic, so they probably just halted app rollouts as well.
Nice one!

I agree, it is still in its early stages.

Looking at your code it seems it would be useful to have a way to repeat a play command without a chunk.

I think something like:
"
play E4 for 1b rep 5
"

As a way to repeat something 5 times for example (and reduce duplicates) could be a future solution.
That would be roughly equivalent to merging the Pacific and Mountain time zones and abolishing DST in WA/OR/CA.

Which I also like. We can call it the Western time zone.
No. Kids should wake up later and go to school later. It's a totally separate issue.

By your same argument, the health of workers faced with depression from getting off work at night is also worth noting. I don't have a compelling paper to cite, but I can say that anecdotally everyone I know and talk with about DST hates wintertime hours.
Ha, and what is that energy being used for, huh? Power ad-servers :-p
Hey there, where can one contact you to discuss this further?
The article mentions that "some structures" will be demolished, but that other plans are far from certain. I'll definitely keep an eye on this to see if they do a better job converting this mall than the converted mall that I've experienced!
Welcome to communism
You can, but it is orders of magnitude slower.

Try the "primes.js" example in the nodejs repl with CheerpX, then run it on jslinux and see for yourself.

On my machine it runs about 600 times slower in jslinux than in CheerpX.
Up until 2015 the leaf's max range was 84 miles. Teslas were never nearly that low: 220 (3 v1), 244 (roadster v1). 249 (S v1). The leaf now has 107 with it's biggest battery.

Tesla's big bet on the supercharger network was the game changer. Before that, EVs we're only a 'second car' for commuting. With the SC network, an EV was parity with ICs, not a set of green/cost tradeoffs.
I am quite skeptical that it will take place this year. The project is already 14 years late and ~20x over the original budget. I expect them to announce a shocking delay later this year, blaming COVID.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope#Cos...

https://xkcd.com/2014/
But you're not muting the keyboard, you're muting everything.
> Also, the difference with a truck and a UTXO/address is that the latter can be reliably and deterministically tracked. Assign identifiers once and bob’s your uncle, if you want to surveil economic activity.

That seems a lot more useful if people were using it like a bank account. Once you figure out that a given address belongs to Alice, if that address starts paying for hotels and cloud services, now you know what Alice is up to.

But anybody who would be interesting to surveil would know not to do that. So you get an address that keeps receiving transfers and then sending it to an unregulated foreign exchange because they're using the cryptocurrency to buy their local currency. From there the cryptocurrency goes into the hands of various uninteresting randos with no connection to the original party.
I didn't downvote you, but if you want to avoid downvotes, you should probably substantiate your opinion.

> Great ideas, but terrible execution on literally every matter.

Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 things worked on by the EU that I think are well implemented:

- Erasmus programme

- Roaming regulations

- EU-China investment treaty

I also really like the GDPR, but I understand that its enforcement hasn't been though enough...

Why do you think that the EU's execution is terrible on literally everything?
The rules of .eu domain ownership were known in advance, and there was many years of advance notice and one year of transition rules. If domain owners didn't take action on that long transition period I'd say the incompetence lies with them.

As per the article:

> and owners now have three months to prove their right to run a .eu domain. This means updating contact data to transfer the .eu domain to an EU-subsidiary outside the UK; or declaring citizenship or residence of an EU member state.

So they still have a grace period in addition to the previous transition year, in addition to the time after triggering Art. 50
you answered your own questions. people that don’t understand the nitty gritty details of technology (any technology) will put more faith in it than people that understand it.
The SANS broadcast was taken down?
Not sure where you are from but getting a SIM (mobile connection) or even getting your own SIM/number re-issued is not as simple as that is in many (western) countries.

Transfers/switches/porting always have a decent cool-off period. So while I am not saying it's as safe as it gets, I was just wondering whether you were assuming it's the same way in many other countries.

PS. Credit cards just can't work just based on credit card number, CVV, and expiry MMYYYY here either. You have got to have that SMS OTP auth and in many cases a password as well. Also, at POS (shops, restos etc) you must enter your PIN, it's not optional. (Now up to ₹2000 some cards let you just swipe/tap w/o a PIN, but it's an opt-in feature)
Interesting that they include mamba install instructions before conda.

Is mamba taking off with the recent (and upcoming) license changes that anaconda made? I’m not familiar with mamba though I’ve had my eyes open for an alternative to anaconda (also seen poetry mentioned a few times here).
Unfortunately teenager and adult hours are forced to be synchronised, so schools just cannot open later.
Bandcamp is a way to enable your existing fans to support you. They don’t really have the popularity contest or “discovery mechanisms” over there.

Soundcloud is a radio and Bandcamp is a CD shop, if you like a retro metaphor. One is Instagram, the other is Shopify. Apples and oranges. Find new fans through Soundcloud and Spotify, sell your work through Bandcamp.
People have always resisted change in the automotive market, whether it be with ABS, power steering, starter motors, electronic stability control, seat belts, air bags, traction control, cruise control, automatic shifting, etc.

You aren't making a unique argument about lane keeping that wasn't made about all these other improved technologies in decades past.

In the near future people might not even be driving their cars at all. What excuse are you gonna have then as for why people actually shouldn't demand that manufacturers provide that feature?
I am assuming, based on the old saying, you are recommending NOT seeing how the sausage gets made?
I think the OC actually wanted active noise cancellation of the keys for their ears.
I've long said that if I ever struck it stupid rich, I'd buy a mall to live in.

It would still have stores. I'd pay to have those stores stocked. Ideally it would have a 90s-era movie theatre in it, too. But otherwise it would be empty.

Why? So that I can live every day like I'm the last surviving human. Dawn of the Dead, minus the flesh eaters.

(Alternative plan: buy up a ghost town. Same plan, otherwise.)
Sure, I get what you're saying, but I hope you see my point here. Pursuing 2nm lithography (which is something like 1-2 nodes from bleeding edge?) with 135 billion euro surely tells you something about their commitment.

I would also point out that many of these companies you mention are immensely scattered. Take anyone and you'll find their resources spread across an evergrowing domain/portfolio. I'm not saying it's bad that Apple is developing cars and Facebook VR headsets - I'm just saying it spreads them thinner. If the EU found it valuable enough to pursue e.g search within the next five years it's not at all unfeasible or unreasonable to do so. It might even be better for the greater good of the internet frankly.
Worth noting that TicketMaster also paid $110MM to "acquire" SongKick in order to settle the original (civil) lawsuit.
Sorry, thought you meant “initial” total purchasing price, if that makes sense. Road tax is back, this year. No ferry fee is only on Europe roads. No toll fee still. Also service cost is probably cheaper, as electric has less failing motor parts, not sure about the battery though.
Oh, how I miss my 486, with a Model M, and running OS/2.
Corporations absolutely do act, just as surely a person acts even though only their fingers or individual limbs may be moving. I agree the individuals should be subject to criminal penalties, but so should shareholders and board members, who hoped to profit and looked the other way, respectively.
it's easier to kick off in a jenkins pipeline since it's standalone but is otherwise less powerful, less general purpose, and the architecture to support the commercial/cloud offering causes some weird trade-offs when you are crafting test cases.

As a url-blaster it's working fine for me, though.

"modern developer focused" normally means elegant code like found on the (helpful link https://k6.io/blog/announcing-jmeter-to-k6-js-converter-tool)

const index = __ITER - ((__ITER / 2) | 0) * 2;
switch (index) {
case 0:
Off topic, but does anyone know where one gets started on making motion graphics like in that video? This combination of cool maths and animated visuals is so interesting to me, but I wouldn't even know where to begin. What kind of software is used to generate this kind of visualisation? Are there free or affordable online courses? Is there a job market for someone with this ability and also with software development chops?
> standard time kills people

What is this, a high school competitive debate?

I could just as easily argue that permanent DST kills people. People are sleep deprived, and stressed, and have higher rate of depression, etc.

I think these claims are best supported by public health experts that actually use studies to back up their claims. In fact we should ask public health experts if this move is cleaver instead of leaving it up to the politicians to decide what is best for us.
We Built a Facebook Inspector
5 years is okay for a phone, but once you subtract the time it takes for Android releases to get into new phones it can be a problem. Hopefully the manufacturer releases OS updates! Hopefully.
the type system simply does not allow you to ignore errors

Which is excellent.

the gold standard in error handling is Rust

Really? What library is in fashion this week for handling errors? I have so far used vanilla Rust, error-chain and Failure.

Seems like there is so much choice to improve the gold standard:

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/error-handling-survey/#librarie...
I'm curious: what was the rationale for not talking about this at all until it was ready? It seems like "we're working on a possible solution" would have been a good response to the many complaints about this.

Was there some reason to believe that mentioning you were working towards this license would have a detrimental effect on the review process for that license?
> a "private exchange" of your life for your stuff?

What stops you from attempting that now? Consequences. You're assuming you would not also be putting your life at risk attempting to do so? (I'm not talking about state enforcement or punishment. We are all free to protect ourselves.)

As for your "deep hole", note I said the homestead is valuable because of the costs incurred to _keep_ it.
noterbox.com

Personal cloud / data capture and management with user's choice of storage.

Stage: proof of concept, with a working demo.

I am a solo technical founder, looking for a co-founder also with technical background. I am based in the UK.
Ask HN: How to protect open sourced data-centric project?
I have a few ideas for open sourced projects I want to work on. Over the years I've realized something I have a knack for is collecting, organizing, and curating information. To help fund this I was planning on having a website to make this information accessible to the average person and sprinkle in affiliate links where organically relevant. However, this type of website is something that could easily be duplicated as it'll just be a front end to the open source content.

I want to work on these projects for the benefit of everyone, but at the same time I'd like to be compensated (even if it's peanuts). I guess part of this is also because it'll give me a little bit of sense of self and would suck to put in all that work and get little recognition after a bigger player rolls that information into their website.

Has anybody dealt with this before? Am I over thinking it? Should I go with something other than an MIT license that would require updates to a fork to also be submitted to my repo? Is it harder to attract contributors when it's not an MIT license?
https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12#issuecom... this is a classic
As far as I understand it, IAP doesn’t give the app vendor the customer’s personal data.

This is in fact a chief complaint people raise against being forced to use IAP.

Apple is the one holding the customer data, and does provide the customer with a right to be forgotten.

I’m open to the possibility that there is a technical detail I’m overlooking here, but I can’t see the issue.

What’s wrong with just saying: ‘We’ve deleted all the data we have on you. Remember to cancel your subscription in the App Store.’

Where is the legal issue?