skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was also looking for this, I guess here: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Spec/AptSign

I doubt this will happen any time soon.
Hedge funds rethink tactics after $12bn hit from meme stock army
There's some equivalence, if this is actual paid vacation, that is, vacation time that must be paid out in dollar terms if not taken, and is an actual form of compensation that can live on a balance sheet. In some such employment situations, it's common to "bank" lots of this time, to be paid out in cash periodically, or on retirement.
Well, in this shared-secret case we're talking about "symmetric signing keys" (really: MAC keys). Those types of keys are not defined by the users, they are issued by the party you're connecting to and delivered over a known, reasonably secure out-of-band mechanism.

I am all for having transient secrets, but without an extremely well integrated and robust vault they would be unmanageable. Plus asymmetric handshakes are computationally really expensive, so you don't do them all the time.[ß] The 30-day rotation period for these types of secrets is merely a reasonable compromise between "assume all shared secrets will be compromised" and the human factor.

ß: a friend set up a dedicated payment gateway device for a UK challenger bank. For just one card issuer. That thing can supposedly run at 10Gb line rate, so doing asymmetric crypto frequently would murder performance and latency.
Not trying to mom you, but have you tried turning down the brightness until it’s the same as a sheet of paper in the same location? It’s made a big difference for me, but takes some getting used to.
Transaction fees are per byte of data so you would be paying a huge fee.
Most megalomaniacs I know aren't particularly happy people. I don't think the sudden outbursts of rage that we've come to know from cops are because they're zen inside.
Except py3 needed to be a breaking change, because unicode handling. It doesn't matter if the API rearranging was delayed and the only change 2->3 was string/bytes handling, it still would have taken a decade.

What's the alternative? Deprecate warning old-style string handling and slowly nudge it out? Great, that's not actually decideable, since you need to know how a str is being used.

str are at the very heart of python. This would be a gargantuan task just to write the linter.
The officer at the polling place I worked Tuesday in Brownsville NYC went out and bought everyone cold water cause the community center was so hot. That was nice of her.

I think a lot of the NYPD are fairly average humans who probably don't really enjoy... tackling people or whatever.

Definitely hear a ton about the one's that do though. And there's some real pricks for sure as we saw during footage of the summer protests and police response.
The #emacs channel on Libera Chat (irc.libera.chat:6697) is indeed a very friendly and fun channel.

For those you are new to IRC and want to take a quick glance at the channel without choosing clients and configuring them, here is a web-based interface to connect to the #emacs channel:https://web.libera.chat/#emacs

Here is the Matrix bridge for it accessible via Element's web interface: https://app.element.io/#/room/#emacs:libera.chat . The Matrix bridge could be useful for those who want their nick to stay connected to the channel even after closing the browser without having to set up an IRC bouncer for themselves.
The iPad’s inevitable Mac-like future is hiding in iPadOS 15
Thanks for the recommendations! I was having trouble finding resources, so I’ll have to check those out.

(Further question: do you by any chance happen to know of a good textbook? I personally find that I learn better from textbooks than I do from online videos.)
The meters used in my area can be wirelessly shut down by any nearby power technician.

They have vans with very visible PVC pipes mounted on the roof to interact with the meters.
I think some exceptions are small/medium businesses, specially small businesses. If you look at the majority of small businesses not only in America but all over the world, they don't even make profit, they just pay the bills, they don't have the mindset of grow at all cost.

About Costco, I really don't know, but I know some big companies can have ethics because I've worked for one. It was the best place I ever worked.

Unfortunately, it is rare these days.
I think you're leeching off someone else's infrastructure and using it to do things they never meant it to do. Sure, the technical capability is there, but your use case would drastically increase their costs. You are essentially cost-shifting your customers' costs onto theirs. Not cool.

It's like building a cloud storage solution off Gmail's free storage. It can be done, has been done, but that doesn't mean it's cool to do so.

Your system would increase costs for DNS providers all over the world, without their consent, just because you're using it as a loophole. It was a problem that wasn't there fixed in a way that leeches from rather than gives back to the community.
> The LoLa runtime is designed to be saved to disk at any point not executing any code. This means that you can let your script execute for 1000 instructions, save the runtime state to disk and resume execution a week later on another computer, not having any problems with script resumption. This is especially useful for games which often want to embed the state of their scripts into the save files.

This seems pretty cool. Don't know if this is more common in game scripting languages, but I've never seen it before
The GDPR is absolutely not enforced. I've reported this exact dark pattern to the ICO over a year ago and nothing happened.
I do feel for you.

I"m Canadian, Ontario specifically.

We've done well with vaccinations, though nowhere near close to 95% and we're still in the longest lock down world wide with no real signs of things going back to normal.

But there are signs that things are getting better. Its a long time betweeen now and September, let's give it time to see how things go. As long as the trend is moving in the right direction and governments give back their emergency powers( we have an Ontario government that just granted themselves a longer stay on their power even though we're doing really well in terms of vaccinations nd case counts) then maybe be patient and let things play out.
Do you think it was worse? Why?
It's not clear to me that this was a poor decision. You can't send children to school if there are no teachers. And the teachers were not going to put their lives on the line for those jobs. Teachers are well aware that whatever is going around among the students will get to them. They get every cold and ever flu.

If school boards said, "We're staying open for the sake of the children", teachers would have said, "Fine, watch them yourselves."

Compared to that, remote learning was a no-brainer. It's obviously deeply imperfect, and that cost students, but it at least made schooling possible. That literally may not have been the case any other way: send the students to a school building and they may have been the only ones there.
> the grid to become inadvertently dependent on the cell network, which is, in turn, dependent on the grid

The grid wouldn't be dependent on the cell network. Billing would.
> Getting a cancer diagnosis today is a huge deal because testing is infrequent, usually in response to a problem, and the diagnosis tends to be late and accurate.

Getting a cancer diagnosis is a "huge deal" because getting cancer is one of the worst experiences a human can go through.

Getting cancer carries the weight of imminent death, obviously. But some cancers can be cured with high survival rate, so what's the big deal? The deal is that these cures are often brutal chemotherapy or radiotherapy or whatever treatments that destroy your body, your sleep, your appetite, your ability to go to the bathroom yourself, your ability to do chores by yourself, your ability to do anything a normal human being can do. They DESTROY you.

THAT'S the "huge deal". NOT the frequency. Cancer RUINS YOUR LIFE for the period you get treated, IF you survive the treatment at all, let ALONE the cancer. And you are proposing we tell sub-1.5 million people EACH YEAR that they might have to go through that, while STILL ignoring the proportion of the population that will never learn they have a false positive because they got unlucky (which, AGAIN, we need to consider, since even miniscule probabilities matter at this scale.)

So until the day we figure out a way to make getting rid of cancer as easy as popping a pill (we're getting closer thanks to gene therapy, but patients may still receive the destructive treatments in the meantime), culture will not "adapt", it will remain a "huge deal", and we will keep "this type of thinking".
> The idea that software patterns can be made illegal is just absurd, and goes against the early vision of the free software movement

The free software movement has never been about a libertarian, free-for-all, wild-west. In particular, it has always been about taking power away from developers, and giving it to users (e.g. see gnu.org/philosophy ).

Whilst FSF, GNU, etc. don't advocate banning certain software (AFAIK), they're certainly not averse to government intervention for social good. GNU Taler is a good example: a cryptocurrency which offers anonymity to buyers, but sellers remain identifiable for tax collection.

Also note that 'freedom 0' (freedom to run the software for any purpose) only requires that a license itself doesn't impose restrictions on users. It's taken for granted that users are already restricted by other mechanisms. For example, a license with a clause like "the software must not be used to commit bank fraud" would be non-free, but that doesn't imply that the free software movement approves of bank fraud; simply that (a) in places where bank fraud is illegal, such a clause is redundant, and (b) in places where bank fraud is legal, such a clause would constitute a developer exercising unjust power over users.
Or, look for high usage and rob people for their crypto-mining rigs or pot farms! /s
I think I get the tech side of this and how creepy it is to be caught that way. But what is nefarious or needs to be secret about a "happy hour"? Isn't that just a promotional event for bars/restaurants where discount food/drink sales for some period?

Edit: Maybe I get it. It seems certain states have made it illegal to run "happy hours", presumably because people drink too much and behave badly. https://spoonuniversity.com/place/why-did-these-8-states-mak...
It is easy to look at Python 3.x today and say the migration should have been easy, but some of us were there, and remember how intransigent some core devs were about things like u"" and %, and how Python 3 offered nothing better upon release.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036773
To the employers they are roughly equivalent, to the employee they are certainly not equivalent.
Developing a gameboy emulator from ground up with zig programming language.
> A system can be racist in terms of outcome without having been intentionally designed to be racist.

The problem with this line of thinking is it is so broad in its scope that it could literally be applied to anything where there isn't perfect uniformity of outcome. Just take out race:

> A system can be ___ist in terms of outcome without having been intentionally designed to be ___ist.

Consider these dubious outcome-based claims:

Classist: poor people don't own cargo ships, therefore the shipping industry is classist.

Sexist: spas attract more women than men, therefore the spa industry is sexist.

Racist: most Ethiopian universities have majority black student populations, therefore most Ethiopian universities are racist.

You get the idea. The question when assigning blame for ___ism shouldn't be What is the apparent outcome?, but What is the apparent intent? – and it's only fair to assume good intentions in others until proven otherwise.
Shouldn't need too, if you know where you've planted then you can kill any plant that's growing in an unknown place.

For all the other types of pest, you really don't want to be automatically spraying that, you're one software bug away from having a very bad day.
As I say in my other comment, Policy needs to be data driven, not driven by complete speculation. Later it doesn’t matter what comes out if at the time the “theory” policies were based on were unfounded speculation. That is grossly negligent. Timing matters. And all of these matters are still speculation.

Based on the best data at the time, advocating hydroxychloroquine was grossly negligent, and while there still isn’t good studies that say different being data driven means using the best available data at the time to make decisions not being a time traveler and using future data. Here is a contemporary article on the drug https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/health/hydroxychloroquine...

And here are a few more on the topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/technology/hydroxychloroq...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/trump-fact-ch...

None of those stories seem unfair reporting.
Mexico is the 9th largest economy by GDP and dwarfs all other countries in the regions. I think you proved is point, rather than negated it. Also, as a counter point, Mexico's proximity to the US had alot to do with the corruption and current regime in mexico.

Drugs across the american border is very lucrative giving power and money to alot of bad people in Mexico. Watch Narcos Mexico to get a wiff of the proximity to the US creating cartels.
Not every infraction involves someone getting injured or killed.
This has been my experience as well, and I was putting up with it because of windows 10 being the "last version" on sort of a rolling release schedule. But now that they're going back on that, I don't understand why they've been making so many workflow- and documentation-breaking changes in 10 recently. Why not just hold major changes until the next release?
You'd love The Santaroga Barrier by Herbert.

I typed of this excerpt and have used it countless times:

>To those men in their oddly similar dark suits, their cold eyes weighing and dismissing everything, the people of this valley were a foe to be defeated. As he thought of it, Dasein realized all customers were "The Enemy" to these men. Davidson and his kind were pitted against each other, yes, competitive, but among themselves they betrayed that they were pitted more against the masses who existed beyond that inner ring of knowledgeable financial operation.

>The alignment was apparent in everything they did, in their words as well as their actions. They spoke of "package grab level" and "container flash time" -- of "puff limit" and "acceptance threshold." It was an "in" language of militarylike maneuvering and combat. They knew which height on a shelf was most apt to make a customer grab an item. They knew the "flash time" -- the shelf width needed for certain containers. They knew how much empty air could be "puffed" into a package to make it appear a greater bargain. they knew how much price and package manipulation the customer would accept without jarring him into a "rejection pattern."

>*And we're their spies, Dasein thought. the psychiatrists and psychologists - all the "social scientists" we're the espionage arm.

The Santaroga Barrier,

Frank Herbert, 1968
KPIs are not a shit system, they are actually important to running any nontrivial organization.

The issue isn't whether KPIs are good or bad but what you do with them.

KPIs don't need to be tied to actual people, usually they are tied to teams, systems, projects, processes, etc.

For example, a number of users resigning from our services might be a KPI.

KPIs are an important tool to understand what is going on and whether we are going in the desired direction or not and to communicate this to your teams.

KPIs are a tool for telling your organization what you think is important, to set the incentives in the right direction.

KPIs will not help you if you have no effing idea how to set incentives -- they are just a tool in case you know what you are doing.

Because they are just one step from being a target for your teams, you need to be very careful to communicate what you mean exactly when you set KPIs.

Now, if you make number of users resigning from your services a KPI, you immediately need to set some additional guarantees that this is not overused -- for example by making it difficult for your clients to resign. This might be another KPI (user satisfaction with regards to how easy it was for them to resign).
Matrix protocol, or Element app for iOS
Complexity Economics

I've been binging books on the topic as well as exchanging dialogs with a colleague over email. Books list:

_Completed_

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1422121038/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, And Society) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472064967/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671872346/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947864351?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...

_To Be Completed_

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy - https://www.amazon.com/dp/087584863X?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_...
your skills are weak, old man.
I highly doubt this. Historically speaking the invasion dynamic is going the other way - FROM Europe INTO Russia. Russians are scared of the European invasion, not the other way around.
It boggles my mind that the average voter is ok(or at least ok enough not to make an issue out of it) with the status quo of how police departments operate.

I've just come to terms with the fact that what seems acceptable to me in regards to how the police operate is drastically different than the consensus.
Most US jobs don't allow you to accrue unlimited unused vacation time. Police, at least where I live, are allowed to. You often hear stories of large six-figure payouts on retirement, from years of accrued vacation time.
> [snip] I would guess a very small number ever use up their vacation time, an exceedingly difficult thing to do in any American job outside of tech (and maybe even for a lot of tech workers).

It is? Maybe I've just been very lucky in my jobs- even before I was in tech, when working night shift stocking shelves at Walmart or doing customer retention at a call center, I've never had a problem using PTO. I'm sure everyone's experience is different so I'm not saying you're wrong, just that this is a surprise to me.
Learning to teach. Teaching programming with python to my friend's kids over Google Meet. So much fun.
there's probably a lot more context, but this is a pretty common marketing feature

some examples:

https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce

https://www.hubspot.com/products/marketing/exit-intent

i like how this page describes them more as 'needy' than 'dark', since dark seems to imply immoral

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/needy-design-patterns/
Signal sold out? How so?
The phrase "the bias is correct" sounds like an oxymoron. Could you explain what you mean by it?

Also, who is (oft-)suppressing the "elephant in the room"?
Not OP, but a happy hour is usually a period of time when bars serve discounted drinks and such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_hour

It's illegal in several States. It was only made legal here a couple of years ago.

>The reason for each ban varies, but include: to prevent drunk driving, avoid the nuisance to neighbors from loud crowds and public drunkenness, and to discourage unhealthy consumption of a large amount of alcohol in a short time.
For first timers

- Duolingo(don't do it for more than a few months)

For beginners

- https://www.languagetransfer.org/free-courses-1#french

For all others, some sort of immersion approach is the only way if you don't live in the country.
Figure out the general approach below and adapt for your target language.

- AJATT
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-t...

- TMW
https://learnjapanese.moe/

- Refold
https://refold.la/
Yes you are right. I was more establishing this person's successful contributions and that they appear to provide meaningful contributions. What is happening now with all the new proposed changes that is causing a stir is something that I really can't speak too since there is no easy way to navigate their proposed changes.
> The officer at the polling place

I’m sorry, the what now?
> The two are thus mutually incompatible.

I disagree, there can be conflicts between the two goals when resources are limited, but I think systems can be defined that support both.

College admissions is a strange place to promote the idea of equity since it is a fundementally inequitable process that is designed to find people with advantages and give them bigger advantages.

By introducing race based discrimination into college admissions you are reducing equality in a way that that doesn't create a more equitable situation. Anti-asian racism will handicap these students in other parts of their professional life so using the argument of "promoting equity" to discriminate against them in college admissions as well seems purely pernicious.

If you truely want to improve college equity, you need to first make changes to what is required for success at college and then adjust the admissions process to find candidates that can succeed.
It is not an exaggeration, the Python3 move was one of the worst releases ever in terms of managing the process. It took a decade for library creators to have it all settled. It was not end users fault that they depended on libraries that wouldn't upgrade for several years.
IMHO, services like Hey is for people who don't know how, or don't want to bother, to set proper inbox rules (it has many other features for sure but organizing emails is one of the biggest selling point as far as I see).

But for me, I just want a reliable, dumb, boring email service without any "smart" features. I will decide what to do with every type of incoming emails myself. Fastmail gives me exactly that.
The audacity they have to run ads promising to simplify taxes when they're responsible for that complexity is amazing.
I think you mean BugBust, not BugSnag.
Tell me one tech company that does not use dark patterns? And I think the problem is not only tech, it's everywhere. People turned on the "money at all cost" mindset. They know their actions will do harm to someone but they simply don't care.
It's not because it's happening on a computer. It's because the behavior is largely imitative or following a script.

The initial folks who figured out how to build a computer a minecraft were very creative.

Rube Goldberg machines I think do involve a fair amount of creativity. it's not because they are physical per-se, but because the physical environment tends to force individual and creative thinking to solve the problems unique to that environment. Physical environments tend to be less homogenized and predictable than digital ones.

Designing and building a replica of a Boeing 747 is less creative than a rube goldberg machine, but depending on how many decisions you made yourself while building it makes it more or less creative.
Ugh, they used chime for every meeting we did with them, so annoying.
> Edit: I should clarify something. FOSS isn't sufficient. Citizen-owned software means we control the repo, builds, distros, etc. Microsoft, RedHat, whomever can fork or whatever, for resale or whatever. But we always control the root.

Who is "we"? That's the point of FOSS: "we", as "we control the repo, builds, distros, etc" is defined basically as anyone who wants to do it. The idea of forking is an incredibly important part of that, but it sounds like you're suggesting that "we" would be limited to a specific group and centralized control.