skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taxes are how societies have decided addressing social good should primarily be done.

The United States in particular has never had a broad social consensus that all charity and nonprofit organizations should be nationalized and controlled by the state. Given the broad scope of 501(c)3’s, including the fact that some of them work at cross purposes, such a move could only be described as totalitarian.
Read all about it,

https://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Tax-Dodge-Destroying/d...
Time just flies by when I'm noodling around on my banjo.

Oddly, my wife tells me it seems like I was playing forever, even if it just took a few minutes.

Weird....
Why not? The idea that only a single company may profit off an IP or idea for perpetuity is against every sense of capitalism and competition.
One https://www.reuters.com/article/us-albania-banks-shooting-id...
In the sale of a corporate entity to another corporate entity there are always lots of sets of competing (false?) binary opposites: the vested, and un-vested. the contracted, and the uncontracted. The knowledge workers and the cleaners.

You should not assume there is a single binary choice feeling here. I could imagine a contract cleaner in Red Hat facilities checking out how well IBM pay cleaners, and deciding they prefer IBM, or go to another job. A vested knowledge worker, who is looking at both realizing their vesting state and acquiring a huge tax bill might have more than one view.

A new hire, who dreams of working in IBM Zurich might rub their hands with glee.

"it depends"
What would it replace the face with?

Judging by the examples, correctly-coloured yet featureless skin.
Caselaw data is public domain, but it's very expensive to digitize -- partly because it's mostly stored on paper, and partly because it's mixed together with copyrighted material.

For this project we had to scan 40,000 volumes of caselaw. We used a high speed scanner at the Harvard Law Library, and went through about 40 million pages at a rate of 500,000 pages a week over a couple of years. The pages then had to be redacted of copyrighted material like headnotes inserted by private publishers, since courts typically don't publish the cases themselves, and those redactions had to be checked by humans.

That work was funded by a startup, Ravel, which is why we ended up with temporary limits on commercial use of the data. No later than March 2024, however, it will all be fully available for bulk download by anyone in the world. If necessary we'll set up a torrent. :)

(Hopefully earlier! For any state that starts officially publishing its caselaw in digital form, we can immediately release their caselaw back to the beginning, as we have already for Illinois and Arkansas.)
I like how ansible was really func 2 and now vespene is the real ansible 2
It's aggravating to see how many people regardless of nationality would willingly trade away their freedom for some temporary gain and encourage others to do likewise. The next government can lay off all the litter picker-uppers but you won't get your freedom back in return.
...and no access to multicore processing that's been ubiquitous for over a decade?
“Qualcomm bullied Samsung” you got to be kidding. Samsung has internal Modem team working hard to replace QC chipsets, but never successful wrt performance, it was pathetic. So Samsung took approach of using QC chipset in premium market segments and dumped their own modem chipsets in countries like India, Korea.
Once I was a bit late and got back to the drop-off location after close. They tried their very best to make it impossible to drop-off after-hours (can't even slip keys under door).

When I called the rental co. to see what I could do (e.g. extend a day), their centralized call centre script went something like this:

"blah blah blah you had a contract with us, you have to immediately go drop the car off at one of these other locations, blah blah blah".

Why make me sound like a criminal when I called YOU to figure out a plan?

Anywho, came back the next day and paid for an extra day with no added penalties/handcuffs. Much more convenient than bee-lining it to their downtown location.
"site:reddit.com <niche topic>" is still useful and bypasses most garbage.
Perhaps you are not the product that they prefer to cultivate. You are not useful to them, so driving you off is actually a benefit to them. Win-win!
I guess I'm as much of a sucker for believing KitSplit's statement as the guy who lost his gear was.
Apple Intern Posted an Open Letter about Diversity
Some things (the barrier reef) may not be able to shift fast enough to compensate for the climactic shift. Reef structures do exist south of the barrier, and I have read that migratory fish stocks down in Tasmania now include species now normally found further north, so I could imagine there are compensations, but still: 2000+ km of coastal organism, wiped out in my lifetime.
The original ones, but I will bet that there are follow on patents that still apply.
Right but in fact not so much. Despite government and tech becoming ever more important to one another it's often hard to discuss politics without revealing a position of some sort and political positions are generally downvote magnets. To me this is both good and bad...
^this is how I use twitter as well. Thriving community in this tiny corner of the web, focusing on neat electronics projects and interesting tech or creative hobbies.
Smalltalk-71 perhaps?

http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
Aluminum wars https://www.google.com/search?q=+Aluminium+Wars

Almost certain that there's a market: want X killed? It will cost you this much.
I always wondered what happened when the Halon fire suppressant in the machine room was released. The operations people used to say "you die" but I now wonder if post-event, all those hosts are toasts.. (not that halon is helium, more that the operating environment assumptions around things is constrained by normal atmosphere and the fine print may well say "doesn't work well if you change this")
Do you think that's unjustified from them?

I, as a fairly non-descript white guy, am always worried when out walking near a single female that she might be afraid of me and what I might do and take steps to help alleviate that (walk slower, etc.).

I mean, it seems like the most reasonable course of action. Sure, I'm never going to confront/assault/rape anyone, but the 5'2", 110 lbs woman walking in front of me on the street? She has no clue. How hard is it for me to slow down half a step and give her some relief?
Apple complaining about others abusing patents always makes me laugh
This is great and everything, I'll never criticize anyone giving to charity for PR gains.

I'm wondering how something like Amazon Smile affects customer behavior. Amazon makes you really think about using Amazon Smile (doesn't just donate a portion of all sales to charity, no way to automatically make all direct amazon.com purchases automatically do this). You need to remember or use some tool to make everything through smile.amazon.com.

Is consumer spending affected by this? How much better do users feel about themselves after purchasing on smile.amazon.com vs amazon.com? Are they less likely to return an item? Leave a more positive review?

Obviously any money going to charity is great in the first place, and using smile.amazon.com to give that 0.5% is worth it. Just curious.
They say theft only happens 0.02% of the time. But according to the article, they consider it "voluntary parting" instead of theft when someone doesn't give back a rental camera. It's a sneaky move on their part.
I don't understand why this is an extension and not just built-in functionality to their website, though.. it feels like a potentially crooked way to get me to install an extension.
Smalltalk started in 1969 or so with first release inside Xerox Parc was in 1972 (Smalltalk-72). See early history of smalltalk : http://wiki.c2.com/?EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk

See Carl Hewitt's retrospective on Actors which he attributes inspiration to Smalltalk, simula and lisp here:
https://arxiv.org/vc/arxiv/papers/1008/1008.1459v8.pdf
> Well, there's always the obvious one, which is firewalls are much easier to deal with, since there aren't two separate ports in use, so you get rid of a whole class of network and firewall errors that are quite common.

If possible, one should use extended passive mode (EPSV) over TLS. Then, we are just talking about two ports instead of one, without any of the connection tracking complexity on middle-boxes that active mode or non-extended passive mode can require (such as rewriting the IP address in the PASV command response to implement NAT). And then, you have to wonder, if you have to substantially change the software in use at the client and server (and possibly even write custom code, per your Apache+$LANG suggestion), are those significant changes really worth it just to save on one extra port open on the firewall?
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Guidelines for creating web platform compatible components
> Did this really happen somewhere?

It was in Eastern Europe. I was about 15 at the time based on remembering the friend I called after it happened. Assassinations were pretty common, granted not using bombs like that especially in a busy residential area.
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>Remove the YOU from social media, and use it to have fun about whatever it is you do to have fun, and it can actually be ... fun.

This doesn't change the fact that 99% of things people give credit for to social media can be easily done without mediation through a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Neither does it change the fact that Twitter and Facebook have a whole slew of horrible social effects. Centralization of the web, political polarization, emergent mobs trying to ruin people's lives, rise in depression and suicide rates, normalization of global surveillance, normalization of censorship, etc, etc.

Jaron Lanier has some interesting thoughts on the economy behind some of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321672
Thank you for actually doing the math! 60mph is probably the fastest speed limit for a 2 lane road as described, but it would still be a hard stop to make going 40mph, and you are likely to get rear ended by the driver behind you.
Where did you see that it was quarantined? As far as I know their sticky posts can't appear in /r/all anymore and it was excluded from /r/popular.
Not nearly as much.
Am I missing something? Does this mean $100M in donations since the beginning of Smile? That sounds astronomically low.
All over the world there are testosterone poisoned males engaging in as much obnoxious behavior as they can get away with (e.g. riding motorcycles with no mufflers). Particulary coming from the Southern US it is absolutely delightful to be in a place where "rednecks" are completley suppressed.
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Sorry,

https://smile.amazon.com/Great-American-Tax-Dodge-Destroying...
The GLCMs positioned in Germany were just down the road from me when I was stationed there (Hahn Air Base was the host base for Wüschheim Air Station), and were a major reason why the INF treaty was signed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/04/12/c...

I've been watching developments around the potential demise of the INF with some concern.
Make a list of privacy-preserving things Signal does: the elaborate privacy scheme for user profiles, the special privacy proxy for GIF sharing, the envelope certificate trick they just introduced, &c.

Then go see what other messengers do to provide the same UX.

Depending on the messenger you pick, you will likely not have to give up your phone number, but you will leave the messenger operator with a log of everyone you've communicated with.
"These protocol changes are an incremental step, and we are continuing to work on improvements to Signal’s metadata resistance. In particular, additional resistance to traffic correlation via timing attacks and IP addresses are areas of ongoing development."

It won't prevent correlation attacks, but it does make metadata attacks in general harder and less confident. An improvement is an improvement even if it doesn't completely solve a problem.
Reading the techrights post right now. Thankyou for posting this.
Not gonna say the exact place and city not sure it matters. But seeing people's couches, tables, kitchens, toys all exposed via a big hole in the building was pretty surreal and kind of hard to forget. Pretty sure I didn't dream that, as you seem to be wondering.

The amazing thing is nobody got killed, many people in the surrounding apartment were lucky, or not home. Even the banker was not killed.
Holds true for biomedical sciences, which is what hhmi focuses on.
I’ve given up on most social media; HN is the only place I comment now, although I’ll read lobste.rs once a day for professional news.

Honestly, at some point I realized it was making me miserable. Why would I want to keep doing something that makes me unhappy? So I stopped.
I just did the math on this and 0.02% of $4,000 is around $1, while KitSplit apparently charges 20% fees, or $20 on a $100 rental. It sure seems like they could afford to self-insure.

Or are you saying that they're lying about the 0.02%?
Bitcoin Predicted to Be the Nail in the Coffin of Climate Change
I visited Kitsplit, holy misleading advertising batman.

> Your gear is always covered. KitSplit renters must show proof of insurance coverage, which we vet, or they must buy it through us or leave a deposit for the full value of the gear.

Always covered unless they just outright steal it, then not at all covered. There's numerous examples of similar text throughout their site. In fact I spent a good 15 minutes and finally found this mid way through the final paragraph of their insurance page:

> Please note, however, that the insurance accepted on KitSplit is industry standard equipment rental insurance and does not cover some rare instances, such as if a renter commits fraud.

They also say things like this:

> We strongly encourage all owners to have their own annual insurance policy for their gear, in addition to the coverage provided by KitSplit. [..] We strongly encourage all owners to review and understand the terms of their insurance policy and what it covers and does not cover.

What they mean is that neither your insurance or theirs will cover fraud. So using the service, even double insured, is high risk.

> We are a small team of filmmakers and photographers

Kind of odd in contrast to what you said about yourselves about your most recent round of funding:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kitsplit-the-camera...
One mans "political statement" is another mans "user-centric feature".
Huh, never noticed. I've used it without issue for years now.

Occasionally I'd have weird crashes, but nothing permanent.
If I recall some of the HardOCP vr reviews, a 1070 is the minimum for a decent experience without many dropped frames.
I'm a notorious Concourse fan, I'd be interested to understand why you think it's almost impossible to work with.
As irrelevant as this comment is, this is EXACTLY what my mind thought about the subject line too. If you hadn't posted it, I might have. Power on!
Briar is leading the field on privacy issues today, unlike Signal. There is no metadata leaking who you are sending messages to or from, just a connection to the Tor Network. This problem is still unsolved in Signal, with only partial protection of some messages looking to be added in the future, while mitigation tactics like running your own server are unsupported & discouraged by Open Whisper Systems.

The post about Giphy integration was a great piece of writing about an interesting technical challenge, and Signal's solution to the problem (a TLS proxy run by them, with a client that only accepts Giphy's TLS certificate, making queries quasi-anonymous) is not a bad way to go about solving things.
Awesome guide, thanks for sharing!
I see. Well. This is what I love about Google+ (the best social network ever IMHO): it doesn't ask you who are your friends and who are not, just whose posts seem interesting to you and who would you like to share what you post with.
The thing about "credible" is that it has two sides. Was his denial also credible?

We need a shared public consensus around the truth about particular situations, such as whether someone has done something bad or not. One way to do that is with a trial, that has long-established traditions for admissible evidence and due process. And it has a definite and timely conclusion.

Is this shared public consensus always right? No, and it doesn't have to be. We just have to have a process that everyone has enough faith in. Do the particular parties always need to agree with that public consensus? No, they and their friends, family, etc. may still proclaim the innocence of a convict and there's nothing wrong with that.

The problem is when the public is called to be a huge jury on all kinds of issues; informed by whatever evidence makes it in the news (with no standards of admission). That leads to different people coming to different judgements, and those judgements build up into different sets of facts.

There's a saying "you are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts". That is a noble idea: that we can share facts and disagree, and that allows us to ultimately compromise and work together. But it depends on a shared consensus of what the facts are.

For better or worse (I believe better), when evidence is inconclusive, the shared public consensus is to give the benefit of the doubt to the accused. One-sided "credibility" is not conclusive and doesn't belong in the set of shared public facts.
I don't think I disagreed with any of that.
IMHO instead of going for compressing/minifying/whatever else, it is far better to just remove the useless cruft in the first place --- and then you can still apply such techniques to whatever is left to squeeze out a bit more improvement. The best way to make your site ultra-responsive is to cut out all the bloat.

Related item: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445
Personally, I know it’s a factor in my not using their mobile app. I’ve also talked to somebody who uses the app to shop, but then went to web to checkout with Smile.

On the other hand, I really don’t know how much Amazon cares if I use their mobile app. They don’t get pushy about it.
The moment old people hop on Instagram, expect it to die quickly.
And Smalltalk - for much the same reasons - has some pretty quirky code in the VM to be able to make the concept of message passing between objects work fast enough to do real work. There is a pretty sharp dividing line in the VM between 'the elegant stuff' and 'the hack to make it all work', where the primitives are activated.

Smalltalk primitives and their classes are of necessity implemented outside of the language, they 'just work' and you can not inspect their implementation within the VM because that would require you to reflect on its own implementation, which it can not do for obvious reasons.

So even though Smalltalk is 'self aware' to an extreme degree that self awareness does not extend all the way to the bottom, and I don't see how that would be possible anyway. At some level you will have to make the jump between the CPU you'd like to have (the one executing Smalltalk directly) to the one that you actually have.

There is this guy: http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/jecel.html who has been working on a ST hardware implementation for a long time, I am not aware of its current status.

But note that even in that situation you will still be limited, but then not at the level of the VM builtins but at the level of the CPU instruction set implementing the primitives.

Ideally Smalltalk would be able to transcend the boundaries of the computer it runs on sending messages to other computers with proper error handling, that would be some kind of hybrid between the BEAM and the Smalltalk VM.
#2 is part of the trade off for more privacy vs ease of
use. this goes all the back to classic pgp
This isn't a particularly surprising story considering the history of science. To give an example of how this sort of thing played out historically, Marshall Nirenberg was basically persona non grata (or at least dutifully ignored) at many scientific conferences prior to his postdoc's discovery of the codon for phenylalanine. At the time, he was working at the NIH, which was considered very low prestige by many contemporary scientists. Somewhat fortuitously, Francis Crick heard a lecture by Nirenberg at a conference in 1961 and considered it good enough to bring to the attention of the other key players of the day, and Nirenberg was elevated from obscurity to stardom. For whatever reason, Nirenberg's postdoc never really achieved stardom, despite being the individual who actually made the discovery.

For more information:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/854683...
I am willing to stipulate "short of running everything over Tor" for the sake of argument.
This colorless, odorless powder could help solve the global food waste problem
can you share the script ? I'd be very interested in trying it out.
The APFS source code isn't available, but you're free to disassemble apfs_vnop_readdir in apfs.kext. I'm seeing a couple of calls to lck_rw_lock_shared, so it's entirely possible that there's a lock here.
Why do you think there are no "ordinary users" who don't have phone numbers, or don't have them in a manner that Signal needs? For example, it's pretty common for older people (especially in less technologically developed countries) to not have smartphones.

I personally know at least one person who can't use Signal because they don't have a smartphone to install it on (but could install it on the desktop, if the desktop app didn't require the phone app to be configured first). I know two more people who can't use it because they use tablets, and Signal still hasn't released a table version, even one that works the same as the desktop one.
Hubble has been around enough now that the next generation of stellar and space engineers are getting though university and into NASA and other space ventures.

Kids need to see the previous generation has set extraordinary goals to inspire them to set their own goals. What could be more inspiring than a middle school student seeing Hubble launch, being inspired to study and then after college get to participate in what inspired them in the first place.
> Or are you saying that they're lying about the 0.02%?

Yep. Because otherwise they would pay out.
Interesting observation! You could easily imagine an automated system going into some kind of oscillation if it didn't handle this properly.

Here is why it doesn't happen: whether you are climbing, descending, or flying level, you always have a specific target altitude or flight level. This target determines the setting you use, and you know which kind it is.

For example, you may be flying level at an altitude of 8000 feet and Air Traffic Control instructs you to "climb and maintain flight level 240" (roughly 24,000 feet).

You start a gentle climb and then change your altimeter to 29.92 because you're going up to the flight levels. You don't need to fiddle with the altimeter when you cross the transition altitude, because the target altitude/flight level is the only one that counts.
If a company's TOS says one thing and their support drones say another, having a transcript won't help you.
Yes, they want you to install an add-on Amazon didn't make. You don't have to install it, just go to smile.amazon.com when you shop. They even do reminders every once in a while to help you remember. Or change your hosts file to redirection www.amazon.com requests to smile.amazon.com.

Or raise your hands and claim it's all a conspiracy I guess.
Likely. And even if they weren’t lying, admitting full liability would be an incentive to fraud (arrange for your kit to be “stolen” by a co-conspirator, then collect the reimbursement) so you would probably see that percentage soar.