skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would take "go fuck yourself" to be a clear request for personal disengagement and, if that is as far as it goes, is crass/profane but not abusive (in the sense intended here).
What do you do afterwards ? All good jobs eventually end up in a handful of mega corporations. The startups will either be acquired by one or become one.
Songs of the Humpback Whale (1970 Album)
It’s very different. The West begins with privacy as a basic expectation, and is surprised when it doesn’t exist. In China it is never assumed in the first place (between individuals and the state). People accept the surveillance and mostly trust the state to act responsibly, or at least don’t see it as a major problem the way it’s seen in the US. Companies proudly display this kind of censorship and surveillance tech, and get very little social pushback.
Peer to peer buying with Bisq. You can buy or sell with/for BTC. There's an escrow system. Works well.
The Most Ambitious Effort yet to Reform Policing May Be Happening in Ithaca, NY
Sunk cost. They'll lose their equity stake in the property (as well as future income) if the bank forecloses on the property because the landlords aren't making mortgage payments.

Do the banks want to be in the situation of being landlords (even temporarily) of a huge number of tenants who are not or cannot pay rent? Doubtful. Does that mean they're a little less likely to foreclose on a rental property when there are lots of small landlords in this situation? Probably. Would I want to gamble a rental property on a banks reluctance to foreclose owing to the widespread nature of the problem? Absolutely not.
50 Years of Pascal
I am using the standard architecture difinition.

More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring

There are many goals in refactoring, specifically this section:

> Potential advantages of refactoring may include improved code readability and reduced complexity; these can improve the source code's maintainability and create a simpler, cleaner, or more expressive internal architecture or object model to improve extensibility. Another potential goal for refactoring is improved performance; software engineers face an ongoing challenge to write programs that perform faster or use less memory.

I was addressing OP's analogy to cutting pieces of written prose and rearranging.
Except now people are literally choosing not to pay rent. And there are no consequences. So who wins in this scenario? The landlord is screwed over, and the house is taken by the bank. Then they sell it at a loss cause its filled with a useless nonpaying tenant and that bombs all the housing prices in the neighborhood. Millions of dollars will be lost, corporations will come out ahead, and everyone is worse off. Brilliant, this moratorium.
> hyperacusis

TIL. Thanks.
I think this goes beyond simple overleveraging. For landlords, an aspect of their risk mitigation was the ability to have legal recourse for non-paying tenants:

> Weaver ... says the eviction moratorium is just a "pause" because it doesn't mean that "the landlord can never collect the rent."

> In practice, though, collecting rent money will be extraordinarily difficult after the moratorium is lifted. The case backlog in housing court could mean that landlords will wait years for their cases to be heard, and recovering large sums of money is difficult under the best of circumstances.

> Owners say that having almost no legal recourse when their tenants don't pay their rent was not part of the deal when investing in real estate. Landlord groups around the country have sued on the grounds that halting the judicial process that allows them to retake their property violates their due process rights.

I think it was reasonble for landlords to assume that, in the worst case, they may not be be able to find a renter but would at least have the ability to live in the house themself. Now they can't even do that.
> As Kowalski has acknowledged and reported by others, Prolog was invented as a subset of Planner that only implemented backward chaining.

From the featured article: "It was at this time that we learned of the existence of Carl Hewitt’s programming language, Planner [20]. The lack of formalization of this language, our ignorance of Lisp and, above all, the fact that we were absolutely devoted to logic meant that this work had little influence on our later research."

Personally I think I'll believe Colmerauer on this one.
Because the visitor pattern is just pattern matching in OO clothing.
Let's not be too conspiratorial, but it is worth pointing out destruction of the bourgeoisie is a central tenant of the Communist Manifesto. https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/communist/full-text/bo...

Also Carroll Quigley, mentor of Bill Clinton, expressed shocking disdain toward the bourgeoisie in Tragedy and Hope. https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/09...

Is it much exaggeration to say the message from the far left and from the establishment to those who staked all their capital on one or two rental properties is tough sh!t?
While mid-reply and defining what the problem is, I realized a solution would be to just ignore the nested git project B, and deal with them separately. I must admit my original question wasn't well thought out, as I can't recall why it was important that there be a relationship between A and B at all, even if they are of the same project.

Mid-reply context preserved below.

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I have a git-inited folder A, called 'Build my web app'. Inside it, it has non-source-code stuff like pictures, pdfs, notes. Also inside it is a folder B, called 'my-web-app-js', which is source code.

[Problem was that making a commit in project B would trigger unexpected changes in A]
I'm sorry that you experienced that. I work on the team responsible for the instance agent. We're aware that there have been performance and resource issues with it, and are always trying to drive down resource usage. If you're okay without any metrics for the instance, you can always completely disable the agent.

Over the last several months we've migrated most things to Go (which was always the ultimate goal), and introduced a plug-in based approach with it. Recently we enabled a feature to allow you to enable or disable plug-ins used by the instance agent dynamically.
the outpouring praise of no CSS and no javascript websites in 2021 is tiring and not reflective of what most internet users outside of the hackernews bubble want in my opinion. Your intuition was correct, I am a Senior Frontend Engineer in California.
Rocky Linux Community Update – February 2021
To be fair, at the time I wrote my comment the Reddit post had 400+ votes and the HN one was in the early double digits IIRC.
We should look forward and choose the best policy for the situation we have at hand, not look backwards with relief that it is getting better.

I don't mean that as an argument in favor of rent control or eviction moratoriums, it is an argument in favor of using the best basis for policy decisions.

I'd rather see the government just hand landlords money vs throwing people who may just be getting back on their feet into disarray. There has to be some point where things go back to normal, but we are at a point where 2 months from now is basically certain to be a better time to do it than right away.
Actually is based on the usage. And in next 2 months we gonna release normal monthly packages. Every user will get certain amount of credits which are reduced for each second Automatio run. It mean that Automatio is charging per second of what is used, but on monthly subscription basis.
This is all ass-backwards to me. Cancel mortgages, too. Problem solved.
Not really. There are no proofs that SHA can't be broken by efficient classical means, let alone quantum means. Once the incentive is there people will start looking harder.
Cea Weaver, who is used as a foil and whose perspective is unfairly maligned in this article, is basically 100% correct. Landlordism should not exist. Housing is a human right and should not be an investment commodity.

> Emergency policies enacted in times of crisis are prone to becoming permanent, which some members of the #CancelRent movement say is the goal.

This is a good thing. The COVID crisis has exacerbated the huge inequalities in housing in the US, and now is a better time than ever to fix things.
I think the concept of privacy directly conflicts with anti-censorship. The most private system is also 100% censored.
This was the machine that kicked it all off for me, too. My school had one of the 4016 models when I was in fifth grade. Upon seeing how enamored I was with it, my teacher let me take it home for the summer. I couldn't believe how lucky I was! But little did I know! Later that year, my mom and dad got me an Atari 800 for my birthday! I was truly spoiled.

I think I've posted this link on HN before, but it bears repeating. The PET in our classroom had a tape drive and a cassette with the Andromeda demo. We were positively transfixed by it as kids in 1981! If you haven't seen it before, and have a little patience, it's good for a chuckle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElLt7Dm8F9M
I don’t really get how this is possible. They should be able to take out a loan against the property to pay for any expenses, and just sell it at the end to pay off debts if they need to once this is over. They’re upset about lost income but not really struggling... Their net worth is just as high as a renter with a few hundred thousand in the bank. I would have a hard time feeling sorry for somebody in that position

> working-class landlords

lol
> unknown spider on a banana leaf in eastern Nicaragua: https://i.imgur.com/iFMJxtl.png

Without having the eye arrangement is not easy, but taking in mind the habitat and shape, a member of Ctenidae would be my first candidate

Compare for example with Ancylometes or Ctenus.

If not, we could start weaving further from there. Zoropsidae, Lycosidae or Sparassidae (check Heteropoda venatoria for example) would be other acceptable family candidates. Those last couple of legs seem very characteristic.
There are plenty of publicly traded large security companies. They may not be the absolute best, but they're not going to screw you over.

I would feel pretty comfortable calling G4S, Securitas, GardaWorld, DynCorp, Brinks, Control Risks, etc.

Alternative, you call the whitest of white shoe law firms and retain them to find a good security firm for you.
> Is that still needed for those family members with Apple computers?

Honestly though, it's not nearly as needed on Windows machines either. The common maintenance needed for software issues has strongly decreased as good security features have become more advanced and feasible. One of those advancements is windows realizing "Hey, that unix permission stuff, that seems like an up-and-coming idea" and actually implementing proper ACLs to protect most of the sensitive files on your machine.
Switching to Arch Linux
I think most people use laptops over desktops as their primary computer, so some younger people may have only used touchpads over mouses.

Though I don't really pay attention to people's mousing skills.
> How do you check their health is okay

Depends how ill they are and other factors.

If they're old but healthy, it can make sense to monitor them.

Also if they have dementia but can potentially walk out of the house.

If they're old but terminally ill, it doesn't always make sense to call for an ambulance, since a hospital can't help them in a meaningful way. Calling once a week might be reasonable if they have untreatable cancer, etc. (I went through this with a very old parent who had terminal blood cancer (ie. that's literally what "died of old-age" means.)

So I think it's good to work through the various scenarios for various solutions.

As a "utility service" the LifeAlert product sounds generally very useful.
On Linux, it's easy. Because we have the source code and it's licensed under GPL.
That’s an amazing example! I’ve had the pleasure of trying out the mapping part of D3 for a client job recently and while it’s been a bit overwhelming, seeing demonstrations like that really show how powerful it is. And, to some extent, why it’s so overwhelming!
it seems the definition for "reply-guy" is quite broad and could include anything from an "unwanted opinion" by a person with the "wrong" ideology in their own profile, to ad-hominem attacks.

the right part of the quote of what she dealt with is IMO relevant and should be quoted in full to keep the message intact (for anyone who hasn't read the actual article):

> "Everything from the casual mansplaining-reply guys to really targeted, persistent harassment and stalking and explicit threats that have led me to have to go to the police and file reports."

reply-guy is IMO (in its weakest form) a product of the twitter algorithm that divides and makes people try to interact in hope of getting seen. But it's the whole range she talks about.
The Nigerian Central Bank is irrelevant.

"All the US banning crypto will do is make the United States fall even further behind in the space"

The US will fall further behind in fraud, ponzi schemes, tax avoidance, and wasted electricity?

And so ...

Cryptos have demonstrated zero value to society as of yet, and there are some drawbacks, least of which is wasted electricity.

If they ever become useful as a medium of exchange, all the same regulatory rules have to apply, ergo, the frictionless hope is gone, in other words, they are pointless, and serve no purpose other than as a distraction.
This is why I really like Vienna’s housing policy. They have half a million affordable housing units which are very nice. They’ve removed the private profit motive and speculation on land value that drives up housing prices. And if they needed to put a hold on rent collection, it would be the government that suffered the loss rather than private owners.

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl...
Silicon Valley has been taken over by Methodists!!! ;-)
For sure! I just added that long video at the moment of creating new homepage, and my logic was it better to have something then nothing. The video is to long definitely, so once other priorities are sorted, gonna either create myself or invest into short explainer video.

Thanks for the feedback anyway!
Obviating property rights is another factor in our increasingly 'low trust' society.
True, but it is mostly white men who engage in sexist and racist behavior online, at least in the predominantly US English parts of the internet. Perhaps related to the internet's heritage as a white man's space.

Therefore it's mostly women and colored people who get targeted for this sort of abuse, being not men and not white.
> Almost paid 300 bucks for Final Cut Pro.

Tip: If you're in school or have a family member in school, Apple's "Pro Apps Bundle for Education" is a great deal. https://www.apple.com/us-hed/shop/product/BMGE2Z/A/pro-apps-...
Show HN: Write a document classifier in less than 30 minutes
> do you suggest SaaS businesses should reject those customers who prefer paying with prepaid cards

Not the parent, but: yes, absolutely. Prepaid cards are for making one-time payments. They are not suitable for setting up ongoing subscriptions, and it is entirely appropriate for a merchant to reject them in this context.
What measures?
> Why do you want to be able to run the app elsewhere? To test new features? To reduce regressions? Reasonable goals, but at the end of the day the only thing that is identical to production is production. Unless you have a real time copy of all of the data and you continually run copies of all real time production requests, it's not production. It might be the same code and a very similar infrastructure, but without the same data and load, you are going to get regressions in production. Maybe it's flaky historic data or unexpected patterns of load, but whether we like it or not, we're all already testing in production.

That is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Sure, there are classes of bugs you'll only be able to find in production, but there are also large classes of bugs you can find in a development/test environment. In general, it's a good thing to minimize the bugs you find in production. It's certainly less stressful.
The moral basis comes from how the majority have agreed to structure society. A family isn't legally allowed to go to an unoccupied piece of land, start cutting down trees or making mud bricks into a shelter and stay there. We have divided up the land (a limited resource) into parcels of private ownership with government-enforced property rights.

With that comes a moral responsibility to make sure that everyone can obtain reasonable shelter. On the other side, for the person that owns the land, they provide access to what they own (as per the legal system that society has agreed upon -- private transfer of property, the banking system, etc). Not only do they provide access, they also provide the service of upkeep to the dwelling, upkeep of fixtures and security (locks, access control, etc). So it isn't like they are sitting back and collecting an income from the air that other people breath.
Ask HN: STEM summer camps for middle schoolers?
Does anyone have recommendations for STEM summer camps for middle schoolers? Many camps seem to have gone virtual because of COVID, but also cancelled their middle school programs. So looking for any recommendations for good coding camps, engineering camps, or anything fun for middle schoolers.
You're really conflating a couple other issues in with the original idea here.
Now I must research what fzf is ... :D
If you were an alien visiting our planet and getting a snapshot of our culture, I can totally understand your take. It's very real and mirrors my experience also.

However, you aren't. There's a history here that you seem to be ignoring.

> I see people being mocked on the basis of being "mediocre white men" far more often on Twitter than I see them mocked on the basis of being "mediocre women of color"

Wowza.

Has it occurred to you that centuries of colonization and slavery have rendered marginalized groups in such a way as to be viewed with mediocrity as a default? And territorial, warmongering, profiteering people (among whom, white men have become most wealthy and "successful") are rendered as great?
What sort of hardware do you need to play around with 5G networks. I have a limesdr sitting around I originally bought for some docsis and 802.11 projects, that I think may support some range of 5g frequencies, but people I’ve talked to working on 5g projects tend to look at those expensive USRP radios I can’t afford.
The latest "False" fact check on that page is from 2015. Meaning that she went through the 2016 primary, 2016 election, the entire Trump presidency, and the 2020 election since the last time Polifact rated one of her claims false. And the claim was sourced from Pew Research but mistakenly interpreted.

Meanwhile on Fox News, Tucker Carlson had a "pants on fire" just last week.
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/
> Of all forms of documentation, examples seem to be the most effective.

This is applicable in almost all types software, not just graphical ones like D3. Many software lack this and can be made much better/attract more adoption if there are more examples.
Sorry about it. Not sure about the <blink> tag. Automatio homepage was made in Webflow, with all of the animations.

But I understand your frustration, it's never good to overdo it with something.
Don’t put words in my mouth, I didn’t suggest government regulation of speech.

Though I will admit debate rules where each side gets equal time back to back to be somewhat humorous. That’s mostly my love of chaos and the spectacle of such an idea.
Got evidence for this?

(I'm not calling you wrong here.. I'm just pointing out that it's very hard to correlate a user with a real identity.. there are a lot of people out there)
Basic JSON support using Prolog's built-in operator precedence parsing or pio lib should be as easy as

:- op(600, xfy, :).

MyJSON =
{ "this": "bla",
"that": 100,
"L": [ 1, "two", 3 ] }

provided your Prolog has curly braces (should come with DCGs).
CMU's compiler's course teaches neither "forward" nor "backward".

It teaches in increasing complexity.

You start by writing the whole pipeline for straight line code. Then you add branches, and structs, and functions, in succession.

This bypasses the whole "which direction?" debate.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15411-f20/www/a...
The whataboutism WRT to the NSA detracts from the importance of the issue.

> I am not sure what is news here.

In fact, the Chinese government goes to great lengths to downplay and hide the extent of their censorship efforts, and it might actually be a surprise to some people. It is worthwhile discussing ALL forms of censorship, whether it be by the NSA, Beijing, or corporations. The only way we can deal with these issues is by discussing them at length and raising awareness.
Conjoint Analysis
Another interesting blog post by the subject of this article: https://blog.blockpartyapp.com/p/what-counts-as-harassment-a...

I think Block Party more or less acknowledges that it's not about blocking actual harassment (though it probably tries to do that, too), and more about insulating people from "unwanted content". What exactly this means is only alluded to, but seems to amount to the exclusion of people who disagree with the poster.

Is this actually about stopping harassment or more about the cultivation of echo-chambers? Are "unwanted reply-guys" people who e.g. point out identical male/female disparities among CS graduates in response to allegations that tech is biased against women? And what's the consequence of this kind of blocking? Is isolating people from viewpoints outside an accepted orthodoxy supposed to be a positive for society? If the "reply-guys" followed suit, and configured their Block Party to filter out people with opposing viewpoints, would that be a positive outcome?

If Block Party is effective in actually curbing actual harassment, stalking, etc. then that's a great effect and Tracy is right that it's something platforms should do themselves. But I get the sense that it's less about harassment and more about "unwanted content".
Ex-CEO of SF cannabis delivery co Eaze pleads guilty in $100M bank fraud case
Writing commit messages for checkpoint commits is a drag and doesn't provide value for me. Much prefer just to amend and use the reflog whenever I (rarely) need to look at work-in-progress history.
It is amazing what people can do when they work at it instead of demanding others give them stuff for free.
Rebuilding the Team Spirit with Discord
Part of the issue we often forget, here in countries without mass censorship, is what people under these regimes actually experience.

If you are born into, grow up in, and continue to live in a society where all external information flowing into your society is filtered through government censors... would you even know it? If you did, would you think it's bad? Or is that just your government protecting you?

It's literally all you would know.

To understand that it's not that way everywhere... to understand there is a better way of life outside what you've experienced... to understand unfettered access to raw information is a good thing even if it makes your government/country look bad - takes experiencing it first-hand to contrast it against what you've got.
Which of those two groups (landlords vs banks & debt holding funds) pays the most to lobbyists and campaign contributions to all parties? Sorry to be cynical but how can we not be so until it's properly cleaned up?
Huh, I’ve been interested in Go’s application in telecom/digital communications. I’ll have to take a look at this. Most of what I’ve been working on (non 5g) has been Erlang and the bit of C I’m stuck with.