skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning Rust without the context of what it solves with C seems a bit weird to me. C isn't easy to master but it's a lot smaller language than Rust and easier to get up and running.
Super interesting. I wonder what other latent domain-specific intelligence GPT-3 picked up during training, that is parseable with text in and text out. Like a flash cards generator?
The country most ravaged by COVID-19 where the spread is entirely localized, requires international passengers... good thanks.
>I think the climate science, reporting, and advocacy seems pretty good (at least with respect to bias)

Doesn't this blow a hole in your whole argument? If there is little bias in this climate change coverage and conservatives still object to it, what makes you think they will accept any form of objective truth?

>Consistency, consistency, consistency. It's not enough to be honest or well-behaved once, it has to be a protracted effort over time. On the basis of this one event, a reasonable person wouldn't conclude that NYT is genuinely aspiring toward honesty and neutrality, much less someone who tends toward paranoia.

You aren't going to get an argument from me that the mainstream media is perfect on this. However I think it is clear that centrist and left leaning media is much much better about this than right leaning media.

>I don't think that "the right" has ever been this detached from mainstream epistemology in the first place--I don't think our institutions have ever been as compromised as they are now, at least not on a left-right axis. But there's probably no reason to limit our case studies to corruption of a left-right nature; we could equally look for any institution that lost the trust of a group of people and then gained it back (in part or in full).

Fair enough, but the loss of trust needs to be linked primarily to a perceived lack of truthfulness and I can't think of any examples of that either that aren't linked with an overt lack of truthfulness. Right now any bias in reporting, no matter how small, is magnified and even truthful and completely objective reporting is seen as biased. I simply don't know how you regain trust after that when the problem is more exaggerated in people's perception than in reality.
See what I mean? There's always an excuse for leftist calls for violence; whereas right-wing calls for peace like Trump's recent tweets are akshually dogwhistles for violence. I'm disgusted.

It just jumps so easily to your mind how to defend, defend, defend leftist violence; you don't even consider yourself doing it. You too have trained yourself well as an ideological crusader.
Be careful at home coronavirus is still spreading between us
It is certain that you have noticed a second wave of the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) just after the sanitary deconfinement.
The difference, as I understand it, is that the government made the choice for people rather than a private organization. Under the US constitution, free speech means that the government cannot limit your speech except in narrow circumstances. This has no bearing on private organizations, which is why Twitter can ban users.
> If there’s a copyright or public safety issue with a piece of content posted on a social media platform, the law should provide for a takedown procedure against the content, not against the whole platform.

For many kinds of criminal content posing an acute public safety hazard, it does, and it's very simple: if you have knowledge of the existence of the material, you must take it down or become yourself criminally liable for it, in addition to anyone who is already criminally liable. (For copyright, there's the DMCA takedown process, which is more generous because people don't tend to get killed as a forseeable consequence of civil copyright violations.)

Of course, if you are a second level host and don't have item-by-item control (such as AWS for a site hosted there by another firm), the only efficient way to acheived that may be to drop the entire account.
My first donation still means the most to me: a hamper full of chocolates and a personalised card. That was back in April and I'll treasure it for the rest of my life. The fact that someone's willing to go through those lengths to say thank you is still mindblowing.

Since then, the project that I've been working on opened publicly for donations in November. We're going to hit 1,000 donations today, with ~$13,000 and close to ~$600/m recurring [0].

It's a massive motivator to keep going. The "thank you" messages and financial contributions have turned my time spent contributing to open source into probably my most emotionally fulfilling experience.

[0] https://opencollective.com/ankidroid
You make good points.
72 hour? In Florida you only pay out-of-pocket if you get the 1 hour test...
* They bundle everything in a virtual machine file (!!) and not standard Docker containers*

Glad someone is mentioning this. Did not have a good experience with ERPNext. Why is it written on an obscure framework: Frappé, named after the programmer. If I'm using Python web framework, flask or Django.
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That first person could drive from New York to Nashville perfectly freely. The drive from Hanoi to LA is much more difficult.
IDK, maybe ironkey is just really secure. I knew someone who worked at a nuclear research facility for a major defense contractor and they used them. If the US gave them the green light I bet you they had the NSA poke at it.
Same here. One of the main benefits of sharding is that it creates independent scopes for transactions of all kinds, not just those managed through Paxos. It's a natural way to parallelize everything from transaction processing to backup.
A lot of web-infrastructure is public API these days. If someone misconfigures their S3 instances and allows the public to access it... accessing internal S3 data (despite being from a public API) is considered hacking IIRC.

The law doesn't care about how easy or hard it is to perform the hack. All it cares is about intent.
Depends how long dead we’re talking about. You might like this paper[1] which asks what evidence would be left if there had been a pre-human industrial civilisation.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
I don't think an argument of consistency really works here. Sure that has happened. And possibly in those countries they suffered consequences for their part in that. That does not mean they should not apply those principles in the US, in this instance. All these things are context specific, driven by judgement taking into account the whole circumstances.
This is a silly strawman. Developers often write hard to read code, and even if generics are useful to the writer, doesn't mean they are useful to the reader. Many developers do not consider the reader, or if they do, not very in-depth. You can also make the argument that generic code is uniformly harder to read than specific code.
> I haven't come across a QM book so far that explicitly (i.e. with an example) demonstrates how one morphs into the other as a variable, say size, changes.

Ehrenfest's theorem would be an example where Newton's 2nd law is recovered as the wavefunction's spatial extent is reduced on the scale of the system being studied. More generally, you won't get an explanation that shows a morphing based on size because size is not the limiting factor. It's how isolated your system can be from the outside world. This is obviously much much harder as your system gets bigger. Decoherence theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence) recovers classical probabilities as a system interacts with its environment.
US constitution? This happened in Uganda.
I think an interesting difference between chat clients like Slack and email is this.

With email every user must organize a single firehose of an inbox. Chat channels area already a default compartmentalization but beyond that, chat services default to shared organizational structures like channels and threads.

In email each user must manage the conversations themselves through labels or what have you. In successful chat systems, you can passively benefit from the organization of others. Mailing lists help but aren't enough in their current, aging incarnation.

It might be possible to disrupt the email space by recognizing and adopting these UX differences.
You know, if you narrow your definition enough, it becomes physically impossible to satisfy. Try adding "...and was issued on a Thursday."
Well, whether they’re good or bad UX depends on assumptions about whether the second-level categorization is more meaningful organization-wide or on a user-by-user basis.
It's strange how they think they are part of an open internet movement.
Popper's point is that if someone wants to curtail your right to free speech, you have the right to curtail theirs. On the other hand, if a political opponent respects your right to speak freely, you should do the same for them. It's not really a paradox; it's about symmetry.

By analogy, imagine if someone commits murder. Would putting them to death as punishment also be murder? No. You have the right to life as long as you respect other people's right to the same.
Speaking as an Australian, I'm not allowed to travel to the US at all right now, unless I'm moving there permanently. Keeping everything open (and thus keeping covid rates high) isn't doing your international tourism sector any favours.
True. And in the early (internal) alpha days, false positives for wake word detection were quite high. So we felt the pain from eating our own dogwood; even though we spent huge amount of science / engineering resources on reducing those false positives, we knew it would never get to zero while maintaining acceptable true positive rates.
There's a great rule of thumb for workplace communication mediums I saw long ago. It was something like this:

- Email: Not urgent. Expected response: ~1 day.
- Chat: Somewhat urgent. Expected response: < 1 hour.
- Text: Shit is on fire. Expected response: Immediate.

Building on the points OP makes re the problems thinking one line at a time in chat, in this little mental model there's a whole lot of daylight between email and chat. And there's lots of problems with email that make it not a great communication medium for semi-urgent things.

My sense is that we need a better primitive inside chat platforms to differentiate between "this is important and we need to have this discussion now" and something closer to email-ish pace.
Amazon: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-investigate-amazon-ove... & https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/06/13/if-amazo...
Google: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-sued-again-over-anti-0... & https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/anti-competitive-g...
Facebook: https://medium.com/swlh/facebook-is-killing-the-competition-... & https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529504-state-ags-ftc-s...

Granted these are just lawsuits at the moment and not final verdicts but still it's not hard to see how they don't play a fair game.
Iran and China both banned stuff all the time. I think a few other countries did too, those just leapt to mind first.
Central Spain contains a large plateau at an elevation of ~500-1000m above sea level.

Checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meseta_Central , I was almost correct. With an area of 200000 km^2 (from german Wikipedia) it is even larger than I expected.
Religion requires belief, but belief doesn’t require religion.
my friend's father passed away from covid three weeks after contracting it at a curling tournament which they obviously shouldn't have held, even in a small town in the middle of nowhere. he was 65 years old and had just retired. being dead is also not cool.
I think Azure DevOps handles context pretty well. I can look at old tasks and see associated commits, conversations, and related work.
Also last week "Spain records lowest temperature ever at -34C (-29F)" [1]. This is in the Pyrenees where is not unusual to reach low temperatures, but still freaking cold.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/spain-weather-snow/spain-rec...
> It claimed Parler was exclusively used for violence

This is completely false.

> In an email obtained by BuzzFeed News, an AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the calls for violence propagating across the social network violated its terms of service. Amazon said it was unconvinced that the service’s plan to use volunteers to moderate calls for violence and hate speech would be effective.

> “Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms," the email reads. "It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service.”

I am not an English major, but from a reading of those two paragraphs, it does not seem to me that AWS has claimed that Parler is solely used for violence.
youtube-dl perhaps? Not sure in what order the naming will ho
As a citizen, I am shocked and appalled by this backdoor. As a software engineer, I can't help but marvel at the creativity and thoughtfulness put into the exploit.
Please. Uganda ran newspapers out of the country, they routinely arrest opposing politicians, and they remove anything that might get in the way of the dictator staying in power. Museveni shuts down opposition - it has nothing to do with Twitter other than the fact that Twitter is a popular form of communication.
Isn't Canadian real estate mostly a parking spot for foreign capital these days, and has nothing to do with the actual demand of people living there?
I was exaggerating there I admit, mostly because I can't post some of the hell I've seen without breaking contracts. The worst example I've seen was a completely generic data type specified abstract syntax tree. I spent a couple of weeks rewriting that using concrete types and managed to find and fix tens of trivial bugs caused entirely by the design.

The point is really that it's hard to reason about such things and define if they are appropriate or not for a lot of people. It's a lot of rope to hang yourself with.
I am a "Parler User." I have an account and until it was taken down I used to check it every few days. Don't make assumptions about a person's politics from the mere existence of software on their device.
Took me a couple of minutes to figure out who you are :)

Still proud of this product!
When they were shutting down the internet during the arab spring uprising?
> Did materials influence the style of script?

Absolutely. Cuneiform arose because the Mesopotamians had clay. It started out as stuff scratched in clay. Someone realized it was easier and faster to press a triangular stylus into clay and write with wedges. You would have never got cuneiform if the Mesopotamians used papyrus and ink. But I think you're seeing something else.

Look at Egyptian hieroglyphs and compare them to Egyptian hieratic. Both writing systems were invented more or less simultaneously. Hieroglyphs were usually used in monumental or formal contexts, being carved or painted on objects or walls. But it was also written on papyrus. There's tons of detail and it took a lot of time to write. Hieratic was a simplified form that could be quickly written on papyrus with a reed pen or brush. You've got a script writing/cursive writing distinction.

When you're looking at the green group, I think you're mostly seeing a cursive/script writing distinction rather than something arising from a difference in materials. Some scripts lost one style or the other.
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> Weird thing is if you look at what's going in Canadian real estate, the shitty weather is not reflected in price at all.

Some Chinese investor needing a safe heaven for their assets (and/or, in case some purge happens like with Jack Ma, for their family) that can't be seized at random by the CCP does not care at all about the weather, only about the country showing a spine to China. That is why the real estate market of Canada is so thoroughly messed up - a third of Vancouver's market, for example, was Chinese (https://www.fortunebuilders.com/one-third-of-vancouvers-real...).
> She faked her voice in public for years. That's next-level dedication.

She spoke at an artificially low pitch. This isn't exactly unheard of; almost all Japanese women speak at an artificially high pitch.
Signal is open source, Telegram isn't.
To be fair, weev (in this case) didn't really do anything legally wrong IMO other than maybe should have stopped once they had PoC as you would with a bug bounty. However, those standards for responsible bug finding/disclosure weren't fully developed yet and I consider one of the problematic overreaches of the CFAA. Even ended in weev being radicalized in jail, so no one won, AT&T was still embarrassed by it. If someone leaves a unlocked filing cabinet on the edge of their property near the public road full of PII and people cross onto the property and look in the filing cabinet and take pictures of the files and use it as evidence of the property owner's irresponsibility, "should have known better" isn't a compelling argument to me to arrest them for trespassing, breaking and entering, and theft. This was a case where they didn't even bother to put a fence around it, they just assumed no one would notice it.

Weev, at best, committed the equivalent of a misdemeanor in my mind, and that's probably only because he kept downloading everything he could even after they had enough to call attention to the issue.

I think a similar case happened with a teenager accessing public records in a hidden directory on a government server, they tried to throw the book at him too for calling attention to it, when legally citizens could access the data anyway, and they were the ones that made it available to public. They tried to ruin the kids life over it, but thankfully cooler heads and a public outcry about it prevailed.
Exactly this. The problem lies in the power to control expression lying in too few hands. Just having the same media system, but with the government directing who they ban is just passing the buck.
That's not the other hand, that’s what I was saying in GP.
React-admin[0]? Doesn't read openapi from what I could gather but solves similar problems in a best-practicey kind of way.

[0] https://marmelab.com/react-admin/Readme.html
I've grown bananas at our backyard and our family farm in Kerala, and my oh my do I hate them haha. Story time.

Anyways, one thing really annoying about banana trees is how dry them get during the summers. It's literally just a husk of dried plant matter that's upright. So you can guess what happened when I had to burn some compost and organic waste, while not taking into account windspeeds. Nearly burned down our neighbor's clothes hanging on the side, and possibly his house too when the fire nearly went out of control.

The trees are too hardy that even if you cut them by the stem, then burn the remainder, they'll still grow after a few months. If you really want to pull out a banana tree, you better get an excavator to grab them by the roots.

Another thing, the sap from the Banana tree can really mess up any clothing you have, especially white ones.
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best thing Uganda has ever done, TV News should also be closed, only OFficial News papers with Neutral publishing should be allowed during the Election
Yes, you are right.

This is the most unfortunate consequence of the idea that free speech must be limited.

If it is accepted that a part of the people cannot be trusted to not do wrong things when others tell them to do so, then an unavoidable consequence is that to that part of the people the right to vote must also be denied, because if they may be convinced by lies to do very wrong things, like violence, then it is even more certain that they will be easily convinced by lies to do a minor mistake, like casting a wrong vote.

Any proposal to deny the right of voting to stupid people, or to give different weight to the votes, depending on the "intelligence" of the voters, would rightly generate huge protests.

However, any proposal to restrict the free speech without also restricting the right to vote is logically inconsistent, even if many seem to not notice this.
I feel establishing indoor positioning using device GPS is questionable unless the Capitol has an indoor GPS repeater.
I'm left wing but I despair for the future of the left.

If the right had control of the tech companies it would have removed left content years ago and never blinked or even thought twice about it.

The right never agonises over its own strong decisions, whereas the left, if it takes strong action , wrings its hands in agony about whether it has done the correct thing or not.

That's why in the long run the right will beat the left because it is utterly shameless in taken any action it can to assert power, whilst the left is reluctant to take any strong action.

The left scores a knockdown on the right via social media restriction, but soon enough, the left will offer a hand to help the right back up so they can win the fight.
It's a real pain in the ass not having generics any time you're working with algorithms and data structures. Linked lists? Graphs? Trees? Go is generally quite nice to work with but it implementing these basic structures again and again with different underlying data types makes me feel like I'm writing Java. Which is ironic because, you know, Java has generics.
It was not done by a bunch of amateurs that is for sure. Now everything points to Russia, but that is also the most obvious clues to leave as who would question it. However...we know the NSA wants to be in every system and this kind of operational security and evasion screams of the NSA to me.
All right, with the longer explanation I see where you're coming from on this. I would still stand by my observations (the part you quoted), though; there hasn't been even the most anodyne public statement expressing sympathy, calling for unity, vowing to make a full investigation, or the like. That this administration may be resisting making such statements because they are implicated in the attacks is pretty extraordinary.
Snapchat is a CRM for college kids
How do we make education more modular? The hope being that a free and open source self-directed system could be suitable (and thus) compassionate/kind to beginners of all kinds and at different skill levels. That it allows many entry and exit points, sort of like a branching of interconnected plateaus and islands. Stepping stones from everywhere to everywhere. Rhizomatic. Cross-connected topics with illustrated and detailed guides.

It would be beautiful if it, as well as recording your progress, if the system would also enable you to contribute back to the curriculum, allowing you to create a better suited lesson (an alternative) for the next learner, who now has a choice of two lessons, one new lesson complementing the original lesson. Or it could add a step that was missing. I think some distributed application framework like holochain or DAT would be perfect to build this on.

The closest I've seen a modular education system is Ryan Carson's TreeHouse, where there are 'tracks', topics and courses - which are all made up of modular components that are available and reorganized based on the learner's interests/wants/goals.
Isn't pouring boiling hot water on car glass a pretty certain way to shatter them by thermal stress?!