skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that. There are a few large differences between chat and email, so it's not a great comparison.

1) length -- most emails are significantly longer than any single chat message

2) context -- email threads are saved (and indexed) in the context of their thread.

With chat, you really don't get ether, so it's significantly more difficult. You can never really know what a message is a reply to. Responses can come fast or slow. Individual channels can have multiple conversations happening, if not simultaneously, then at least over time.

> as long as people use the tags

I mean, that's the difficulty with any system... getting people to use it. If your team can be disciplined about the tags, then I'm glad that works for you. I not sure it would work well in many other contexts.

I've tried a few different options over the years, from archiving/indexing IRC chat logs, to bug trackers, to wikis, to email, to Slack, to Notion, etc...

Almost anything can work if you're disciplined. My problem has always been getting the rest of the team on board.
People also left IEDs in the building, walked around with weapons and zip-ties, chanted "Hang Mike Pence," and did a lot of property damage.

Please don't downplay what happened on Jan 6 as "walk around a building," it's absurd and that kind of equivocation doesn't belong here.
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The idea is to pick up an old rotary phone and hook it up a raspberry pi which will make phone call over VoIP. The rotary dial will just be the user interface, the mic and speakers will be hooked to the RPI.
There are some project on github explaining the project: https://github.com/hnesland/aselektriskbureau
I plan to enhance it a bit to use the original ringer with the help of some power electronics.

However I have no clue on how to create a Voip server at home to serve phones locally and assign phone numbers.
Keep in mind individuals can test positive for months after being infected but are not at risk for spreading the virus. It really should be a negative test or 14+ days after a positive test.
Well sure. And there may have been a dino civilization. But without evidence, what's the point of speculating?
Does anyone have any experience managing engineers that are actively working on changing the way the company does business? Curious if engineers that excel at doing what they're told would get more done in the same amount of time.
Well stated, I wholeheartedly agree.

> It is amazing that simply tolerating a diversity of opinions and listening to them has become such a radical notion!

I hope and believe that in time it will become less so again.
There was a really cool article a few months ago that tried to model polarization on the political spectrum [1] -- on the premise that most people will start off moderate on issues and then update their weakly-held views to align with people they like, and against people they hate, until they converge.

Through this lens, my own theory of what's happened is that a few conservative news outlets -- conservative talk radio, Fox News, etc -- made themselves into an anchor on the political spectrum by strongly holding opinions that would capture a large audience. Christian/pro-life, pro-freedom, pro-free-market, and all the other stances ossociated with conservatives. The left is much less organized because it's trying to capture all voters who don't fit the mold of what is conservative, and there is a ton of diversity outside of conservativism a la LGBT rights, the role of police, the role of unions, how to help minorities, how to help foreigners, the state of US jobs, the importance of the environment, etc. Conserviatives are probably much more unified in their views on these issues than liberals are.

However, as time moves forward the conservative values haven't changed while liberal values have been updating much more quickly, and there's no path for conservatives to come back to the center. If you're pro-life but sympathetic to minorities, you have to choose between the side you see as murdering babies, vs the side you see as not offering help to minorities. You probably side with anti-abortion, then after a while convince yourself that not helping minorities is the right thing to do anyway.

I think a way out is to have more than 2 anchors, e.g. a way to vote pro-gun but also pro-environmental regulation. And I think a way to achieve that is to switch to ranked voting -- it makes 3rd parties more viable so you can vote for the candidate that most aligns with all of your views, which gives people more flexibility for changing their views.

[1]https://phys.org/news/2020-06-theory-political-polarization....
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen expressed freedom of speech at roughly the same time as american Bill of Rights, and used formulation that is more general and does not restrict just the government:

"The free communication of thoughts and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man: any citizen thus may speak, write, print freely, except to respond to the abuse of this liberty, in the cases determined by the law."
The CEO actually said they deleted all > 10 posts. The riot on the Capitol was actually organized, surprise, on Facebook!
This is hilarious copypasta; it's truly a perfect example of Poe's Law!
Uh... I always thought it was! You're right though. It shares the philosophy though.
Creating good software inherently involves some form of exclusion; you need a strategy to exclude bad software. There are fundamentally two families of exclusion strategies that can be used: formal and informal. Formal exclusion is when you exclude bad software through formal constructions, like proof systems. This works great but is expensive. Informal exclusion is when you exclude bad software through social pressure. This works well and is cheap. Any organization that successfully leverages informal exclusion will inevitably be perceived as "toxic" in the modern jargon. If you've been in open source for a while I'm sure you can think of some examples.
Sorry how is that related? Are you implying that the OP's post was one-sided?
A German calling their computer "Wolfsschanze"? They are not joking.
Yes, but quotes are pretty limited in usefulness, particularly since different clients quote email differently and threads can get shredded quickly.

> It's still better than most IM apps IMO.

Yes, but you are trading one set of limits for another.

It's a bit surprising that at this point we haven't standardized on something better than essentially IRC versus email.

(Ok not surprising, frustrating)
Is there no easy to extract the hash?
I'm more interested in finding out how we know certain combinations of letters (e.g. words) means] specific things. Who conveyed this info to the first person or persons who invented the alphabet?
Are the US intelligence community / media saying that the attack was by the Russians?
In the case of banishing someone like Trump from Twitter, where that is justified by many previous misleading messages, I agree that this is right.

However, this discussion thread started about the actions done against Parler.

I had not previously heard about Parler, but I understand that the efforts to stop its activity are based on claims that it does not perform adequate censorship of the content published there, unlike Facebook or Twitter.

If there are people that have published there things that are punishable by law, they should be punished. If Parler itself has done something illegal, then they should be punished.

However, if some private companies sabotage Parler based on the fact that Parler does not have the same censorship rules as themselves, then that is clearly wrong.

From what I have heard here, it might be good if Parler disappears, but I cannot accept that the end justifies the means.
Wow okay.. Some people have too much time on their hands. Since I'm not giving them my money, I honestly don't really care what they do.
When three big tech companies collude to shutdown an entire platform you have gross anti-competitive behavior that violates the Sherman Act. If this is allowed, then big tech companies become the defacto gateway for information flow. What our government is not allowed to do -- undermine free speech -- is now accomplished by another entity and the free market place of ideas becomes a monoculture. No different than censorship that China does, except is is accomplished by large monopolistic companies.

Making a blanket statement that everyone on a platform is propagating hate is akin to saying everyone of a certain ethnic background is a thief. These gross generalizations are the very heart of stereotyping and racism.
Guys, correct me if I'm wrong... NickM, you can understand mRNA in this case as a software/firmware update for an operating system to fix bugs. So you can basically teach the body that he is doing something wrong (e.g. autoimmune disease) and tada the body is not doing it anymore
cool site. I've been wondering about building a video streaming app/platform but unfortunately I couldn't find anything related to that here. Any pointers on how one can go about building a Zoom like service? Is Web RTC the way to go?
What I am saying is that yes, we already know left-wing people want conservatives out of the public discourse.
I think we can't know for sure unless they will release some of it like the shadow brokers did.
But the shadow brokers show that it is possible for hackers with high valuable leaks to post it for sale in the public Internet.
Facing the choice of whether to explore space, consider the worst case scenario. If we explore space, we could potentially destroy the evidence of non-Earth life that we are trying to find. The worst-case scenario from a anthropocentric point of view is that we don't get evidence of non-Earth life. If we do not explore space, we guarantee that worst case scenario. And, ultimately, we doom all Earth-life to extinction in a billion or so years; an extinction we may be able to prevent.
I don't understand how you are measuring "security" quantitatively to say "1,000% - 10,000%" and "100x".

But yeah, security is in a terrible spot, throughout the software industry.

It is not clear to me what the steps would be to improve it. It is not clear to me whether these steps would increase software costs (something that is quantitative) by "1,000% - 10,000%", and if so how society as a whole could possibly afford it, in this society where we have put (insecure) software everywhere.
I think the line is 'due process under color of law'- The legal framework would/should make any action automatic and any debate is done under the court system.
For the record, runit's code is in really bad shape.

It uses deprecated APIs, and also hasn't been updated from K&R C. There are a number of type warnings on 64-bit systems. The build system cannot be used for cross-compilation, and compiling/installing it is a disaster kind of generally.

Runit's licensing is all over the place, and its documentation is incomplete/inaccurate. It's been abandoned by its creator, as near as I can tell. I tried to get in touch with him a couple of years ago to offer some fixes, and got radio silence. There is no apparent way to contribute code to the project.

I've never used the busybox version, and so I can't speak to that one. But upstream runit has been a dead project for years, and badly needs to be forked by the distros that use it.
Feel compelled to provide context on a double-standard, here are just a few counter examples of leaders in US politics who have, with their speech, “promoted conspiracy theories” and “incited violence” with no measures taken to make them accountable for their words. While no person, country or company is perfect... maybe Uganda witnessed this and decided to take a more formal position, like BigTech decided:

- Stacey Abrams claimed election fraud and was never censored on social media.

- "protesters should not let up,"
- "This is a movement, I’m telling you, they’re not going to stop, and everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day," she said. "And everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not."
- Vice-president elect Kamala Harris

- "there needs to be unrest in the streets." -
- "You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives."
- Rep. Ayanna Pressley

- "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere."
- "You think we’re rallying now? You ain’t seen nothing yet,"
- "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,"
- Rep. Maxine Waters

Probably more.. something to consider.

“You Americans are gullible. We’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands”.
— Nikita Kruschev
No, but I should! It's pretty low-hanging fruit as far as write-ups go...
Sorry, this is too cheap. Basically all you are saying is that climate may change (which it always has) and whenever there is an unusaual weather event, you can blame it on man made climate change. I am not buying this.

If you were right, we should see at least "some" sort of trend, but at least in this official graphics, I just do not see it:

https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
If i3 is descended from wmii, that's news to me.

wmii moved to Google Code[1] before becoming abandonware before Google Code shut down.

Nevertheless, I continue to use wmii as my daily driver (as it has been for just a few months shy of 10 years), but it's really starting to wear on me that bugs won't be fixed unless I fix them[2], which I no longer have the gumption to do.

[1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/wmii/

[2]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/wmii/issues/270 (when Google Code archived, a lot of users got weirdly anonymized? "Swift Bird" is me, apparently?)
Normally that would make us mark this one as a dupe, but the posts are subtly different enough, and the material so interesting, that maybe we can leave this one up. Hopefully people will investigate the actual contents of said zoo and comment on those, rather than just generically about Smalltalk.
But obviously some element of luck is present here. Unless we're willing to say that the success or failure of the merger is entirely on how hard each employee worked.
This is so funny. It's like two people in a sword fight. But the sword handles are actual blades as well. So whenever someone draws his sword to cut the opponent, he also cuts himself. What a way to kick off 2020 vol. 2
I am 99% percent sure the hackers are among the CUSTOMERS of Solar Winds.

That way they were able to live-test infected SolarWinds distro in their own controlled environment and develop all possible mitigations and techniques - the sheer amount of these evading techniques suggests they were built up over time, and not instantly.

Being Solar Winds customer and receiving infected updated versions every time gave them opportunity to perfect their techniques and hide for so long

At least that what I would do if I were a hacker and wanted to persist and be very careful about not getting detected
Cartel may be a better term, but the argument holds. The point is they collectively wield undue market power and function as a de facto collective in the use of that power.
Something smells fishy. Oh yeah, it's your stale sales pitch.
> There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn't completely consistent with and expected from a cold

Unfortunately, I think these days symptoms of "just a cold" are enough reason to self isolate for long enough to reliably get through the Covid incubation period - which locally (Sydney .au) has been reported to occasionally be as long as 10 days or more.
The problem is that for many communities there is only the Discord. Quite technical communities - building projects they obvious feel will have longevity.

Mozilla Hubs springs to mind but there are many more. It's become the norm. It's crazy and more people need to speak out if we're not going to lose a big chunk of a generation's tech knowledge.
I'm in the US. The test was taken on a Sunday evening at about 7:30PM, and the results were delivered via text message the morning of the following Friday.

My guess is there's a lot of variability in how long it takes to get results. I know folks who've taken the same test and they got results back within 48 hours.
I can't speak for Madrid but here in Lisbon at roughly the same latitude we have no central heating and we usually go by with a single small ~900W space heater. According to wikipedia the all time record for low temperatures was -1°C, so it's usually fine.

If the temperature was to drop to below -10°C I'm not sure what I would do. I'd try to buy a better heater, but so would half the city so that might be a problem.

Madrid tends to have more extreme weather than here though, I suspect because the ocean offers us a certain thermal inertia.
Maybe they weren’t as astutely aware of the antitrust political wave we seem to be in. It feels like 5 or 10 years ago this merger would have happened regardless of comments like this. I think after the 08 recession there was little appetite for anything that could make business less effective, and big business loves mergers.
This takes seems really off to me somehow.

They reported a min temperature of -25C, noted it is in an area known as "spanish siberia" (e.g. somewhere that expects cold weather) then note that it was unusually cold even for there, the coldest in 'at least 20 years'.

They also reported -16C in Madrid itself, and the struggles that hospitals were having with a combination of COVID impact and a large number of additional fracture cases from falling on ice.

None of this seem particularly sensationalized, misleading (intentionally or otherwise), or whatever you mean by "woke".
> You have to correctly judge the level of the problem, and not run away from too many of the small ones, and not miss any of the big ones.

That's not really how the emigration math works out in practice. Generally speaking, if the net benefits of leaving are greater than staying, that's enough justification to leave, even if society is still largely functioning and even if you could realistically make a difference(tm).

The idea that one is morally obligated to be responsible for change in their communities is just one aspect of the larger discussion of ethics vs distance: e.g. is it sensible to expect a sub-saharan african to deal w/ the ramifications of civil war while "doing one's part" consists of merely advocating for the homeless in California?

What, then, of africans who go to CA for a better life, and what of those who aren't willing to leave CA to get their hands dirty on the more pressing humanitarian issues in Africa?

There are many wildly different opinions on this dilemma, but IMHO when push comes to shove, individuals will first and foremost look after themselves - Philanthropy comes second to that.

Sometimes this means abandoning one local cause for a better "deal" (in terms of what a foreign society can provide in return for the value brought in by their immigration and their labor); the bigness of the local problem often doesn't even factor into the equation, as by definition, social problems can't be easily solved by one individual's actions alone.
> Diversity factored into 1 of 3 subcategories in 1 of 3 top level categories. It isn't fair to say the "CDC recommends prioritizing [essential workers] over the elderly because the elderly are disproportionately white" when it is just one piece of a much larger and more nuanced discussion.

For the two top level categories in the rubric, Science and Implementation, the elderly-first approach had achieved a score of 6/6, while the essential workers-first approach had achieved a score of 5/6. Elderly-first was favored at that point.

For the third top level category, Ethics, elderly-first was given a score of 1/3, while essential workers-first was given a score of 3/3, which brought essential workers-first to 8/9 as opposed to the elderly-first score of 7/9, driving the decision.

As part of the subcategories of Ethics, essential workers-first netted 2 points from the subcategory "Mitigate Health inequities," the first a positive point for it because "Racial and ethnic minority groups disproportionately represented in many essential industries" and the second against the elderly-first because "Racial and ethnic minority groups under-represented among adults >65." That is what drove the outsize result in Ethics.

Here's a direct question for you: diversity considerations netted the essential workers-first approach 2 points. Would you say that "significantly greater number of lives saved" should be worth the same as diversity (2 points), a bit less (1), or a bit more (3)? Or do you go with the rubric and say the number of lives saved merits no consideration at all, because it's not an ethical concern on par with diversity?
I stole the data in millions of people's Google accounts
I'm also in the same situation with my home country. I was born there, has the country passport, don't mind 2 week quarantine, commercial airlines have expressed interest but they are simply not allowed. Only a pitiful amount of repatriation flights are done.

I can't believe it's harder to go back to my home country than to get a visa to the US. I'm lucky I can stay long-ish term in the US but many many others are screwed.

I understand the country is underequipped to deal with a lot of people coming back and it's better to protect many more people inside but I do feel forgotten sometimes. What's the point of having the citizenship then if I can't even come home?
How many trillions of dollars do you think that would cost? Where's that money going to come from?
Does Intel really have chips in 2021 that can finally support standards like 802.11s(mesh) (finalized 10+ years ago) and RSN-IBSS with SAE/WPA3 using encryption with MTU allowing encapsulating standard 1500 ethernet, on 5Ghz, along with the basic boring modes like AP/VLAN, station?

Atheros and Mediatek do this out of the box, since years, on mainline kernels.

Unfortunatelly, distributions usually compile wpa_supplicant without MESH support, at least Debian does (or did).
So many people don't actually realize, how crippled these Intel Wifi cards are. Especially, now that kernel 5.5 removed the "disable_lar" (Used to enable AP-on-5GHz) module option.

I'm expecting a lot of disappointed customers dumping their Intel cards on the second hand market soon.
It was on my radar in mid January; I know this clearly because it made me choose not to buy plane tickets for a big family celebration scheduled for the end of February.
That's both very correct and very unfair, at the same time. Bravo!

/Spent an hour shoveling snow today
It depends on the threat profile. In an emissions secure zone, inside a big metal box like say a ship, the chance of a bug in the monitor's hdmi circuitry can be higher than the risk of the vga being sniffed.
Why would they lose motivation with C? Its really not that difficult. At least not compared to something like haskell or even something like python at times (are dictionary comprehensions actually that easy from a syntax POV? What about how copying a dictionary isn't an element by element copy, but a reference/ptr copy?)

Even with undefined behavior (which a newbie won't really have to care about at the beginning IMO) C is relatively simple from a flow and structural point of view. If you are saying you can do cooler things in python than C at the beginning, that's probably true, but its unclear how many people drop CS because the language they are using doesn't enable easily making cool things.