skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are aware that we have a global pandemic right?

So if even you won't treat everyone as a possible threat, the chance that 'guests' bring in the virus is high. Since Japan is an island, most people will fly there by plane and most people will be inside the plane for at least 6 hours+. Even if at half capacity the chance that there is 1 infectious person/ person becoming infectious is high.

All Tests are snapshots of whether or not your infectious at time X.

Quick tests are only valid for 6 hours since they only check whether you are infectious.

PCR Tests are more accurate but take some time to get the results. Thus there is a chance to get infected afterwards and before the flight.

So all 'guests' would need to go into quarantine for 5 days just to make sure that there is no infection. Who is going to house them? Is it feasable to have large numbers of foreigners quarantined in Japan? Will they follow the rules? Will they were a mask? Looking at the news and the rule bending rule breaking that is happening in the west regarding the pandemic gives litte hope.

Furthermore, to protect your own country from a new outbreak is it really a wise decision to add another thousands of people into an already overcrowded city?

EDIT: Adding to that, since the whole world is not yet vaccinated mutations are a real threat, even in the US they found 2 new mutations in the past weeks. The later even seems to be immun to the vaccinations.
Thus to not have to cancel the whole event and all 'guest' bookings one could also argue that the best way is to minimize the risk, chaos, loss. Now everyone can plan around the restrictions and further cancelations are less likely.
Stimulants also work very well on people without ADHD, so why not give them to everyone!?

It seems crazy that we've made it this far as a species without medication; so why should it be required now? Maybe the issue isn't the children, but the environment they are in?
> a manipulative SOB who was fresh off a career as a local TV news personality

I bet the Alan Partridge jokes were flying...
In case anyone else was interested in the original sources for the quotes:

> Andrei Alexandrescu was right when he said Rust feels like it "skipped leg day" when it comes to concurrency and metaprogramming capabilities.

https://archive.is/hbBte (the original answer appears to have been deleted [0])

> Tim Sweeney was complaining about similar things, saying about Rust that is one step forward, two steps backward.

https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/121381423618448588...

(He said "Kind of one step backward and one step forward", but close enough)

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-brightest-futur...
> a social contract

Just like the rest of the cryptos that require all the participants to use specific protocol and software and agree on specific rules.
Yeah, recruiters are incentivised to sell you to a company, that's when they get paid. I believe a lot of companies have a clause that the recruiter only gets paid if the new employee works at the company for an X amount of time, but I suspect they gamble on the employee blending in.

But it's damaging, and the company will not be pleased with the recruiter if they find out they've scammed them into hiring.
I had few contacts with consulting firms because I actively try to avoid them, in particular the big ones. But each one with which I had an interview was clear they were going to modify my cv for their client and they even asked me to lie in the future meetings with those so that I could confirm whatever they were gonna write in the cv.
Hey! Camelot maintainer here. You can check out this doc for details on how Camelot extracts tables from PDFs: https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/how-it-work...

As pointed out in this thread, right now it only works with text-based PDFs. But there's a PR[1] which will add OCR support (using EasyOCR) for image-based PDFs in some time.

[1] https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/pull/209
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> The evacuation probably lead to more deaths than radiation.

I suggest you re-read what you wrote.

250,000 people lived a chunk of their lives in school gyms. We're talking millions of man-years lost.
Brown M&M's clause, I like it.
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Cloud going up in smoke.
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When I first started blogging around 2004, pingbacks were very popular.

I remember setting up my blog so I could take a photo on my Motorola Razr, email it to a special address and it would get added to Flickr and then auto posted to my blogger blog.

I went to Glastonbury music festival, which got flooded and took some amusing photos. When I got home I discovered via messages added via pingbacks, that lots of people had found my blog post (I guess via Google search) and linked to it from their blog.

Even now I’m quite amazed at what was possible without Twitter and hashtags, all done using open protocols, and all on our own websites.

Update - thinking about it some more, I don’t think I had the ability to send emails from my phone back then. It’s hard to imagine that because these days it’s just totally the norm. I know that I did have the ability to send MMS messages which could include images, so I must have been using that in some way. In any case, I was able to take a picture while out and about, have it added to Flickr, have it posted in a blog post, and get pingbacks added to comments when people linked to my post, that was nearly 20 years ago!
"She wasn't in a position to lose a job at the time, and felt she had no other choice but to begin lying about numbers to meet the targets "

But what have they done to deserve the truth?

More or less this is how we get thinga like Chernobyl, when the entire chain is lying because the cost of tellong the truth is too high and there is no incentive to do so.
What opportunity?
Economists and Non-Economists Can Get Along
I use tarballs because it allows me to not trust the backup servers. ssh is set up such that backup server's ssh keys are certified to only run a command that will allow them to run a backup script that will just return the encrypted data, and nothing else.

It's very easy to use spare storage in various places to do backups this way, as ssh, gpg and cron are everywhere, and you don't need to install any complicated backup solutions or trust the backup storage machines much.

All you have to manage centrally is private keys for backup encryption, and CA for signing the ssh keys + some occasional monitoring/tests.
Years ago, I recall someone musing about sending dvi files to an administrator, when asked for Word/Wordperfect files.
I have found that over time org documents tend to become coupled somewhat to your Emacs configuration and are not generally portable. I guess this is the reason why many org example snippets on the net do not really work exactly the same.
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Please, no, no more "This is a PEN" Japanese-language chauvinism, I beg you. There is a whole thing in Japan about how the Japanese language has various hidden beneficial qualities, like it's some kind of gift from God. This idea about expelling less air while speaking in Japanese is firmly in that vein, and it got a lot of play on tabloid news shows, and it's total garbage.
Oh, ok. Thanks. That sounds more cumbersome than I had expected. I think I'll just wait until they become generally available.
0. Experience joy. If you haven't you won't get it. The same kind of awe and joy you might have experienced the first time a compiler you wrote finishes without errors and you are able to run the executable.

1. I'd like to think it made me less intense and easier to work with at my (remote) job

2. I became more extroverted

3. I've embraced extreme uncertainty and became much more flexible and creative. Pivoting in life doesn't scare me. I thrive when things are in flux and I have to improvise.

4. It helped me discover my passion for street photography

5. I met amazing people and created a circle of friends

6. I met my wife

7. The pandemic has been a non-event for me

8. I have not experienced winter in 10 years

9. Amazing food. Nothing wrong with food in the US but it's not as good as most people think, especially if you are poor. Unless you live in NYC and you can afford it.

10. When I woke up pre-pandemic on Sat morning I had 100 postcard-worthy places to choose from that most people only dream about visiting in their lifetime. All within a one or two hour flight radius. When most people contemplate driving 4 hours up north to a state park, I was debating if Hong Kong or Bali are worth the extra hours of flight only for the weekend.

To sum it all up, if the thought of getting drunk with random non-English speaking people in a small bar in Tokyo you stumbled upon, or going astray and walking though a field in Myanmar to take you to a small village with no roads and interacting with the people there who are wearing traditional clothing doesn't excite you, than you won't get it. But that's ok, we all enjoy different things.
You could probably monetize that service with a public API. Then screw over companies that take advantage of your services by providing them data that makes them liable, e.g. if they use it in gambling and they award the wrong prizes.
Yea the r/movingtojapan thread is full of people complaining about how the policies seem to give Japanese citizens a free pass while blaming the importation of new virus strains on misbehaving foreigners (whether or not that's true). They've fully blocked immigration (not tourists—legal immigrants) despite fairly strict quarantine and testing policies.
I've only ever increased the amount of experience I have with a technology and only when I am already proficient in it. No sense not applying to a job demanding 2 years of xp when I have 1 year but can use the tools proficiently, especially given the X years metric is usually pulled out of thin air by a recruiter.
Thanks for the references, indeed, Tim said one step forward, one backward, my bad. He posted long time ago.
We don’t need hyperexotic negative energy to travel to the stars, we just need to live a lot longer, and we need our friends and family to live longer too so we can comeback and see them again.
Most of the time, when someone's said something like "their politics directly harm me", it's something like "the policies implied by the positions this guy's professing (or directly advocated for) would have bad effects for me". Could be wrong, obviously- it's a pretty vague phrase. But I'm sympathetoc- if they hold a certain position, and cultivate a certain identity, and that makes certain other positions disgusting to them to the point they cut out friends- good for them, I guess, and I get that being alone isn't pleasant. But that's the price you pay for being the kind of person who responds that way.

I guess presumably he would have gotten new, less offensive friends if the governments of the world hadn't made it illegal.

(How'd he end up friends with these people in the first place?)
Yup. I've had something similar where the interviewee was giving answers that felt very practiced. The recruiter was present in the room as well, taking notes (probably to prep applicants for the interview). We didn't hire the guy, and we no longer allowed the recruiter in the same room because of that.
I thought like you in my early 20s. I remember thinking that travelling was a waste of money. Until my first travel. I visited New York and it completely blew my mind. That was almost 10 years ago and I can still remember the first time I got out of the subway, I was speechless. Sure it looked like all the movies I had seen but being actually there and feeling the life in that city was such a mind blowing experience. It was also my first time in the US. At the end I don't think I really "gained" anything from it, but it allowed me to experience a place that was so different from where I lived all my life.

Obviously each city is a different experience. I visited San Francisco and it was kinda meh. I visited Tokyo and it was dope. You can't really know until you actually go over there. :)
Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female (2018)
For small firms, CEO / CTO maintaining off-sites at a residence is reasonable and not an uncommon practice. As with all security / risk mitigation practices, there is a balance of risks and costs involved.

And as noted, encrypted backups would be resistant to casual interdiction, or even strongly-motivated attempts. Data loss being the principle risk mitigated by off-site, on-hand backups.
The RFCs are the best bet. They arent really that "distributed". The current definitive reference for DKIM is https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6376. Theres also an "official" website at http://www.dkim.org.

Other RFCs are either obsolete, or talk about some crypto specifics.

All you really need to know is that DKIM signs the message to prevent tampering. This includes the content and "from" header (optionally other stuff). Anyone can sign it, but its up to the verifier to decide which of the signatories to "trust". For example, you dont NEED to sign with the senders domain key, which is why google is flagging this 3rd party signature with some custom UI.

DMARC formalises this with identifer alignment, to ensure that a signatories domain key matches the "from" address domain.
Nothing too crazy, just a simple daily cron to see sync user data and database dumps on our OVH boxes to backblaze and rsync.net. This simple setup is already saved our asses a few times already.
Stranger danger.

If you're having lunch with someone, you probably know them well and trust them to have a sense of hygiene. Some random person who sneezes on Line 9 during the morning rush, not so much. Or at least that's how people's minds appear to work.

This behavior seems to be sustainable only because the background rate of infection is so low. It really is vanishingly unlikely for anyone you come across in a coffee shop to have the virus, as most of the cases have occurred in relatively isolated groups like religious cults, prisons, and hospitals.
I've heard about two companies who hired specifically in Scala because it would filter out mediocre Java developers.

I mean they got an unmaintainable, over-engineered and elitist Scala codebase as a result but hey, at least hiring was a bit easier.
> this is usually not possible since the water is still salty from the sea

Excuse my naive question, but where did the population get drinking water from prior to the GMMR?
“Gee...dat dere’s a damn nice reputation ya gots. It’d be a cryin' shame if sumptin’ wuz t’ happin to it. Ain’t dat right, Louie?”

The Internet has given the classic protection racket a whole new dimension (and legal cover).

It is sad, because real reviews could be extremely valuable (and they were, for a short time).

I guess this was inevitable.
1. How come so much water collects in the desert, rather than closer to the coastline?

2. Is there some decent English text, in a book or online, which describes how Libyan society worked up until 2012? With focus on social and political structures and their interaction?
Just a note to anyone considering using PDFs for their CVs. Plenty of companies use Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) to manage recruitment process. Most often keywords are extracted from the CVs. PDFs are harder to extract from meaning you might not even be considered (or even ever seen) by a recruiter due to a far from perfect implementation. Of course the case here is different all together but maybe this insight will save someone's a fair bit of frustration.
getting new job might help?
I'm not a rust expert, so I'm not sure how close this proposal is to Composita

http://concurrency.ch/Content/publications/Blaeser_Component...

Essentially each component has a buffered interface (an interface message queue), which static analysis sizes at compile time. This buffer can act as a daemon, ref counter, offline dropbox, cache, cancellation check, and can probably help with cycle checking.

Is this the sort of model which would be useful here?
Is there any worry about what would happen if the water supply runs out? The article noted that the GMMR might run out in 60-100 years and supplies millions of people with water.
When hiring, we filter applications on what they claim on the CV but also actually dig into the required skills on interview.

If we find a mismatch, it invalidates the candidate as a whole. If someone claims 8 years of MOVA but doesn't know basic stuff about MOVA semantics, they were either lying, they are incompetent, or they have been coasting.
How... what. What if the fire is electrical? You can't just go "well the triple interlocked electrical isolation will trip and cut the current" if a random fully-charged UPS decides to get angry...
Keep your job, move to a different place with high-speed Internet every month, do it for two years. Best time of my life.
But now cigarette smokers can't use your toaster. Neither can grandma who likes smoked salmon for breakfast cooking on the stove nearby.
In my experience if someone can't read UML and know how to write a decorator pattern something is up. Honestly, I've never used it in depth but for design patterns I expect people who are "seniors" to understand it. And I expect any expert to be able to look at UML and get the gist of it.

On a side note about design patterns, once as a junior I was at a digital agency and they were doing an in-house tech talk where one of the leads was giving an explaination and he was showing the singleton pattern but what they had allowed for two instances and when I tried to make it clearer to the intern that normally there is only one instance per singleton. The two leads were "Yea but it's still a valid singleton" - it was not but I wasn't point that out directly but continued to make it clear that most people would expect a single instance when talking about a Singleton.
I only just realized the Paul Graham/Peter Gabriel easter egg...
I'm Spaniard. My national ID has a chip and I use it daily to sign documents with a card reader and a password. You can change your password at police stations that issue ID cards. The signature is legally valid.
The Azure SQL database services are pretty nifty in this regard.
India’s growth has fallen from 8-9 % to 4-6 % in recent years which is similar to China today. China grew at 10 % + for a long time. India even by GDP metrics is 25-30 years behind China.
I did it for two years in remote places of Oceania, best time of my life.
OTOH, removing things like "Warranty void if this sticker is removed" clauses means the pressure is on manufacturers to actually think carefully about how their product can be repaired.
Does this project link up to the Rhein-Amstel canal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam%E2%80%93Rhine_Canal
The more insecure your workers, the easier it is to get them to come in, regardless of what the supposed rules may or may not be.

Fast Fashion for example often employs workers in more or less sweatshop conditions close to the customers (this makes commercial sense, if you make the hot new items in Bangladesh you either need to expensively air freight them to customers or they're going to take weeks to arrive after they're first ordered - there's a reason it isn't called "Slow fashion"). These jobs are poorly paid, many workers have dubious right-to-work status, weak local language skills, may even be paid in cash - and so if you tell them they must come in, none of them are going to say "No".

In fact the slackening off in R for the area where my sister lives (today the towering chimneys and cavernous brick factories are just for tourists, your new dress was made in an anonymous single story building on an industrial estate) might be driven more by people not needing to own new frocks every week when they've been no further than their kitchen in a month than because it would actually be illegal to staff their business - if nobody's buying what you make then suddenly it makes sense to take a handout from the government and actually shut rather than pretend making mauve turtleneck sweaters or whatever is "essential".
> Modern JITed JS is fast.

The caveat here is that it's not nearly as fast for code that isn't properly warmed up, even in the face of herculean efforts to make it so.
You are conflating social skills stress tolerance and self mastery. The idea that you can think your way out of something that is a basic property of your nervous system is very insulting. What is happening here is that you are unable to step outside of yourself and to understand what it might be like to have a different kind of personality. What that tells me is that you are not emotionally intelligent. Someone with high social skills has an ability to step outside of themselves and appreciate the world from another's shoes that you seem not to possess. So the statement that I am in some way socially inept because I have a more perceptive but less stress tolerant nervous system, honestly falls a little flat. You might even say that being attuned to detail can make you better attuned to social detail.

I spent, what, 35 years. Maybe. Working on myself because I bought into the line that you can change your personality, that if you are not living up to what the status quo expects of you, then you need to work on yourself. And then I had kids. And I saw that they could not change. That their nature was not some malleable thing that listens to the whims of what the world expects from them. There are parts that can and do change, but the bedrock properties do not change, they are who and what they are and that is good.

You cannot step outside of yourself and admit that others may live in a different reality that finds things you find easy, difficult. And finds things you find difficult, easy. There are high stress tolerance people and they are great and good and useful. And you have low stress tolerance people and they are great and good and useful. But they are not the same, they have different abilities and to try to deny that is wrong headed.
> Signal client

OK.

> for Emacs

Uh, is it possible to view images from Signal in Emacs? If not...

...Why?
I do not want to discourage you but please humble request no to one more "influencer" or "YouTube personality" Or "YouTube celebrity". Even 5 years old is philosopher these days. smh
Hello! Can you provide me some mean to contact you (or contact me) as well? I'm interested, and have professional resources, in participating to welcoming/established open source projects.
I have cycling on my CV but I have no intention of doing tour de france
Yes, indeed. Yet, this is the problem to solve.

I don't know if you are using Rust, but what would you say, why is that? Where does that motivation come from?
Not a problem for the current government ministers. It'll be someone else's problem when that happens in a couple of decades.
Software development is cyclical in that regard. I mean another example is JSON, which has a subculture where they are trying to add structure and schemas to it. At the same time there's gRPC, which is more aimed at performance.

But some really smart people already built all of this decades ago with XML and XSD. It's painful to write, but computers don't mind at all. And for transfering effectively, there's EXI which can move XML documents over the wire in a compressed binary format, instead of awkwardly converting it to a text-based format and gzipping it over http before converting it back to a digital format.
On the other end of this I include "Staying Hydrated" as a skill in my CV so as to increase the chance of detecting whether the person who's interviewing me received the original version, something doctored or someone else's CV entirely.

One time they didn't receive my CV at all, because apparently this was the extent of paranoia the consultancy through which I was hired was exhibiting.
Not really related, other than bat dispersion models, but I always found this fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb