skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I think you should always have for a small business or startup. You can make them generic at the beginning if you prefer, but no matter what once you start talking to potential clients, vendors or attending shows etc you need a business card. I personally hate having them, but they are a necessary part of doing business professionally.

My personal opinion is you should never use startup events as a measure on how to conduct business. They are great events to attend to network etc, but I wouldn't use them as a gauge to what is normal business practice.
"..decentralised solutions for everything"

It will never happen, at least not on a scale that will affect significant web traffic.

There is another model, not decentralised but a practical middle-ground: the WordPress model.

Consider the following: Wordpress is an example of a profitable open source app that can easily be installed on countless shared hosting platforms or on a VPS. It's easy to switch hosting providers when you want to (and to take your data with you). It's popularity means that one-click installs are widespread.

Unfortunately, there is no common standard for software installation on the server side, and this lack of an easy installation process for everyone else severely limits self-hosting websites and apps.

Many developers think deploying a server-side web app is a non-issue, or they erroneously think that installing Cloudron/providing Docker instances/typing command line instructions are all "easy". Have you seen the server deployment instructions for "web friendly" languages like Ruby and Python? It's ludicrously complicated. And still developers seen nothing wrong in such install procedures. It's so frustrating.

I wish there was some momentum or traction in making server-side web app installation as universally simple as a one-click Wordpress install. It would also unlock countless opportunities for developers to reach more users or customers. But maybe some developers secretly prefer the complexity? It certainly makes selling a SaaS solution much more attractive over the stupidly complicated self-hosting option.
Yes, it works, still doesn't really come near the experience of a full VM with dropdown terminals and sshfs in the filemanager etc.
Trial by jury gets one set of 10 (12, whatever), whereas the consensus model described would have n sets of 10.

I seriously doubt the wisdom of a crowd goes up when the total crowd size shrinks to 10. I suspect it plummets.

This does call into question the notion of a multiple-jury trial (maybe videoconferenced in, where the individual juries do not interact with each other). Based on this study's findings, it would appear that juries might get their verdicts wrong less frequently with this system.

Imagine if the first OJ trial or Trayvon Martin trial had been before multiple juries; would society have been better off if the results were less dependent on the biases of juries small enough to be cherry-picked?
This kind of breathless horror at the kind of data that Facebook had access to, and sold, is once again disingenuous. Of course they had that data and of course they sold it. They told you so. In their 'privacy policy'. Did you read it before clicking 'accept'?
They don't?

The biggest problem would be lost data, if the anti-spammer cleanup process doesn't back things up and they don't have a good way to recover. But you'd think they'd be happy to get back a paying customer.

Non-paying customers, on the other hand... just how much effort are they worth?
I believe another contributor wrote a Go user-space implementation and Jason decided to build off that for the PC user-space implementations and Android and iOS. So basically, because it was there.
I’m sure there are thousands of Iranian Americans working on Slack that also visit their relatives back home at some point, including ones working at Slack HQ. How far can this logic go?
I can’t give you an actual answer, but what I can say is that my server had an uptime of 180+ days without any apparent memory leaks. I only have a few users though, but we do use it heavily.
That's a good point except that Slack shouldn't be banning people that are not violating sanctions.

In this case, if the account was actually opened from Cuba ... that could be a problem.

What they should do is offer recourse and a way to have this resolved.
"Can't" there was presumably meant as an ethical or moral statement, or as an imperative, not as a description of possibility.

In the same way that "must" can either mean that something is inevitable, or mean that it is imperative.
what history? my grandma's house is older than the US. /s
> 3/4 of terrorist attacks are just Sunni against Shia

I think people are talking past each other here because "Sunni vs. Shia" is a distinction that has great meaning to those on the inside of that religious or regional context, but means absolutely nothing to most on the outside - especially but not only those in the US.

Imagine that there was a wave of Buddhist terrorism. Would people in mostly-Christian or mostly-Muslim countries notice or care about mahayana vs. hinayana (vs. other)? Big nope. If they made any distinctions at all, those would be on the basis of country/region or skin color or just about anything besides doctrinal differences. More likely they'd just tar all Buddhists with the same brush. Do people in Iran pay attention to factional differences in the US, or are we all "Americans"?

So it is with US vs. Iran. Sunni vs. Shia might well be important, might be highly visible to you, but to at least one half of the people making geopolitical decisions it's just not part of the equation. Maybe that's a good reason not to have the ecclesiastical and secular authorities so intertwined, as it makes such confusion almost inevitable (cf. Israel vs. Judaism).
Is there a particularly good IRC client app you'd recommend?
Is there any estimation how much battery would it cost on modern phone?
I seem to remember my university lecturer (way back in '96) demonstrating that rightmost evaluation could lead to "variable capture", but that "leftmost-outermost" evaluation would always avoid that problem.

It's been a while, however, so I might be remembering wrong (or indeed have misunderstood).
I'd go a little further than "documented". MS Office's .docx and .pptx files are "documented" but creating a compatible reader is a major undertaking. I wish people would hold off until there's an existing open source project that can at least decode the files enough to accurately convert the files to another format. Avoid lock-in before has a chance to take root.
The New York Times Technology section really wants me to delete my Facebook account.

https://imgur.com/a/fV6WKun

Is this content organization personalized? Or are they serving this to everyone?
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".
Liking tube sound or, more generally, the defects/characteristics of a particular amplifier (, headphones, speaker, room, ...) is perfectly fine with me.

I get easily annoyed though when people start spewing pseudo-scientific BS justifying that deviations are objectively better than no deviations or that there are significant (or "obvious with good ears") differences between amplifiers where there simply are no such differences.
There's also Mark Notation (http://marknotation.org/), which is also a tree notation. Less verbose than XML and JSON.

{World
{Asia
{China '1409517397'}
{India '1339180127'}
{Indonesia '263991379'}
}
}
Will it be 18 or 24 months before Google discontinues this product offering? How long will customers who chose to use this offering have to move to another solution once Google discontinues it?
A FET preamp feeding a tube power section, pushed into clipping is at the heart of the Dumble tube amps. The Overtone Special (OTS) and Steel String Singer (SSS) are among the most desirable and most expensive guitar amplifiers in the world with models selling for $50,000 to $100,000+
We should replace Facebook with personal websites
I don't think I made any strong claims myself? I guess "Seems to be heading the direction" implied too much of a consensus?
The fact that antiviral drugs helped- does seem to lend a good amount of credence to the theory though?

I've just seen the theory come up a number of times, from a number of locations, in the past few months, so that gave me an impression that it was gaining ground.
Over-the-top optimisations with Nim
I'm not sure why this post is getting down-voted aside from people not liking what it says (perhaps how it says it?). Nothing it stated was factually inaccurate or unjustified.

You really aren't Facebook's customer - no money is exchanged for services rendered.
Byuu's work in emulation and ROM preservation should be commended but his FPGA dismissal seems rooted in envy. After spending 14 years developing Higan, I can sympathize. The fact is, the SNES chips are well understood (partly through the work of Byuu). The SuperNT FPGA code from Kevtris mimics almost every perceptible quirk of these chips in gameplay and I'm sure MiSTer will get to the same point if enough talent is drawn to the project. The list of known timing/graphical issues for the SuperNT is less than 20 from some of the most fanatical users: https://github.com/SmokeMonsterPacks/Super-NT-Jailbreak/issu...

Edit: only 10 of the known issues are confirmed and graphical/timing related.
I think the grandparent forgot to quality autonomous with safe. John Deere (My employer) has been doing autonomous tractors for more than 20 years, there have been videos of dogs driving tractors around while the farmer sips lemonade in a lawn chair. John Deere lawyers will use any legal trick they can to get them taken down though because it isn't safe to not have a human sitting in the tractor watching for trouble (many videos remain because there isn't much to go on). The tractor could kill someone and keep right on going with no care so it isn't safe. Likewise drone aircraft can go one for a while because presumably any other airplane in the area will avoid it. Boats can cross the ocean because odds are it will not encounter another boat (relative to the size of the ocean).

What is hard about self driving cars is we want our kids to be able to ride their bikes on the same streets those cars drive on. Limit self driving cars to just hiways with only other self driving cars and we could have had them 15 years ago and there would be near zero accidents. Dealing with human drivers (who might not be sober), kids, wild animals, and the like is hard. (I'm sure those in self driving cars have a much longer list of things things that are hard)
Because we all have vices.

Should we accept them openly and be proud of having vices? No.

Should we be tolerant of other people's vices? Yes.

Basically: having vices is bad, having vices doesn't make you bad. Vices should not be a source of pride.

I would agree that the HAES movement does get at something that needs fixing: America dehumanizes people. It's hard to explain, but having lived in other countries, I can say there is a dehumanizing element here against those that are deemed less (druggies, ex-cons... and to a lesser extent those who are overweight)
I've taken to a macro that automatically "types" the contents of the clipboard when I hit a hotkey. Super useful with VMs and remote access.
GDPR has the force of law in its area of jurisdiction. If Slack can't comply with it, then they'd better not do business in that jurisdiction. That's how the law works; there isn't some hierarchy of one country's laws overriding others'.
I agree with you.

More than that, drawing is bugged, and sometimes it won't fill out empty spaces in the window.

Or, another times, it draws too much and sometimes it covers buttons on the toolbar, so I see a beautiful grey rectangle instead of the toolbar.

It's slow as hell. I wish it was done in Electron, then it would be faster.

Scrolling through the VM log is very slow.
I am a bit on the fence about the violent nature but if publishers play hard ball, I'm not sure who to blame. In the meantime, if access through libraries is revoked and if that could go on for a whi... oh right, sci-hub, but that works because of running subscriptions. What's the end-game, it goes on slowly and gradually, untill the currently invaluable material became obsolete while a substantial pre-print based reaches critical mass for all disciplines? The landscape is fractured enough despite the giants. Anyhow there's overlap with the patent problematic that you can't just unsubscribe; maybe walls need to be teared down one by one, but you don't need to torch the place (to step up your rather violent imagery).
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You just leave the field empty
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> When most shipments are either insured and/or replaced for free,

The free part of insurement or replacing is a lie. If there is a 10% chance that your packega will be stolen/lost/break/whatever, then the shipping company ill add a secret 10% more to the price. You are paying for it. It's just that instead of an explicit extra charge that you can't opt out, this is marketed as a free feature.
Choose your sacrifice
It really comes down to exactly what you mean by "decentralized". In the case of IRC it is, in a sense, decentralized in that it need not be a single server operated by a single person/company/whatever. Some of the larger networks have dozens of servers hosted by multiple different entities and spread out across the globe. As someone else pointed out (and had their comment killed, for some reason) the concept of a "netsplit" exists specifically because of the decentralized nature of the protocol - there exist scenarios in which the server you're connected to can no longer communicate with some or all of the other servers on the network and so the network is split in two with users continuing to exist on either side but unable to communicate with each other.

Basic, plain, no-frills IRC is also decentralized in that there is not a single user registry (since there is no user registration mechanism at all). Most of the time you're going to add on services (Nickserv and Chanserv at a minimum) and that's going to involve a single point of failure and control for authentication, so there is a potential downside there, but it's still arguably better than it being controlled by a single for-profit company that interprets and enforces laws in different ways.

Whether or not those caveats are in any way relevant to the use case you care about really depends on what that use case is... I would hazard to say that for most people, no matter what the use case, it would be more than sufficient - piracy rings, cyber criminals, and millions of nerds the world over have used IRC to communicate on a daily basis for decades, so there's quite a track record.
All the Percona tool are for MySQL and there is nothing comparable for PG afaik.

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-monitoring-and-managemen...

https://www.percona.com/software/database-tools/percona-tool...
Last time I looked, Riot, Mattermost, Friends, and Rocket were good options. This post compares five alternatives: https://blog.okturtles.org/2015/11/five-open-source-slack-al...

(Disclosure: I work with okTurtles)
Looks cool! Is there a way to make the UI / fonts bigger on 4k monitors?
Well shit. Then you would have to tunnel your VPN through a https proxy, if the iOS client doesn't support that you'd be stuck.
Do you know if there are good companies in Victoria BC as i am intrigued by that as a place to move to.
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You are thinking of the carnot limit.

>It provides an upper limit on the efficiency that any classical thermodynamic engine can achieve during the conversion of heat into work

The word 'efficiency' here is misleading... If one reverses the process, converting work back into heat, you get back all the original energy in an ideal machine (and real machines, for example gas turbines, are within ~15% of ideal for the temperature & pressure change between input and output)
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It doesn't matter that PHP has wised up about security; I've seen modern PHP too, the language is still a mess and encourages bad practices and bad engineering.
One big issue is that healthcare is something you can spend infinitely on.
I'm interested in knowing more about this. Accessing #xyz on Freenode won't let me access the #xyz on EFNet, I don't understand how the servers are linked or to what effect. Surely I have to be connected to Freenode to talk in a Freenode channel? Similarly if Freenode goes down, is the channel I was using still accessible somehow else?
Both Synapse and Riot have been working well for me. I’ve been running my own homeserver for a while now. I use it daily to communicate with a few of my friends. We all use Riot. They use it on Android, I use it on iOS.

Riot is well polished - polished enough that I was able to get my non-techie friends to start using it without any issue.
On one hand, yes, but it's fair because it's an embargoed country. I mean, it's not fair in my opinion, but Slack is forced to abide by the laws of the United States. This approach they've chosen of banning everybody who's ever connected from Iran is stupid and ham-fisted and they are being rightly ridiculed for it.

On the other, the author of the thread is accusing Slack of profiling him racially. What he's implying is that a human proceeded to stalk him around the Internet, on social networks, etc to check if he is an actual Iranian and ban him based on that. And that is a very, very grave accusation.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: the DMCA does more to protect the little guy than it does to protect big companies.

If you're a big company, and you find that someone is infringing on your copyright, you've always just been able to throw lawyers at the problem until it goes away, DMCA or no. Individuals, especially those who aren't rich, don't have that option. Until the DMCA, individuals had basically no recourse for copyright infringement that didn't involve paying for a lawyer they couldn't afford.

Here's something that came up recently that involved a group I'm part of. On Facebook, I'm part of a private women-only group for a particular fandom. Some members of the group are also mods and admins of one of the largest (mixed-gender) Facebook groups for that fandom, and there are a handful of toxic banned people who really have it out for them. One of them runs a meme page. So, one day, one of the members of the women's group, who's also the lead admin of the larger group, posts pictures of a cosplay photoshoot she had done at a con to the group. The photographer, by the way, was the admin of the women's group. Turns out that one of these toxic banned assholes had a mole in the women's group, and he posted her pictures all over the meme page along with a bunch of sexually harassing comments and insults about her weight.

Thanks to the DMCA, that problem went away fast. The photographer, who was livid that people would use her photos to harass her friend like this, filed DMCA complaints on every photo the meme page posted. Facebook took them down in about an hour. Toxic asshole posts them again, another DMCA complaint, another swift takedown. I'm assuming, by the way, that this got the meme page guy a 24-hour ban from Facebook, because that's usually what happens on a second offense. 24 hours later, the whole meme page went down... I'm guessing the owner took it down right after he got back from his ban.
Who asked them to do this ? I have serious doubts that this action was directly recommended in any official government communication otherwise we would have had someone leak it and debate about it. My hunch is this isn't directed by a national security letter or anything like that with mandated secrecy otherwise we would see similar actions from other tech service providers. As far as I know Facebook isn't deleting the accounts of everyone who has connected from Iran or Syria. My suspicion is that this is the result of a shoddy communication between the legal department and some coders and I suspect that Slack will be stuck in a hard place explaining it and justifying it. As far as I know there was no official explanation or blog post, the suade velvet secret slack police just started causing people to disappear in the night. It will also be hard for them to walk back this action because they have set at least an internal precedent and opened themselves and other companies up to attack by opportunistic regulators if they now say they were wrong.
Oh, it absolutely is everywhere. (FYI labour arbitrage has been going on for thousands of years, it's a thing).

Not so much 'ethnicity' but 'visa leverage'.

Sun Microsystems and others faced scrutiny during layoffs for protecting H1Bs over American workers.

Given the leverage that companies have, they often pay less. Also - foreign workers will generally have a lower salary requirement if they come from poorer countries.

This is also the case in Alberta Oil fields where investors try to get temp permit visas for foreign workers (China, Philipines) because hiring Canadians is brutally expensive. It becomes de-facto ethnic because the workers tend to come from specific regions.
That particular episode is old enough to have graduated high school now. The editor and reporter responsible were also fired, and it wasn’t so much that the reporter “lied”, let alone the paper, but that they were lied to by the administration at a time where there was still a general assumption that even Republican officials would not actually blatantly lie to the American public.

So update your talking points. (yawn)
As mentioned in another thread, it is my not-a-lawyer understanding that unlicense and similar aren't enforceable in many jurisdictions, so you end up having it be unlicensed and unusable in many places.
in real life your car insurance company will tell you where to take it
Even worse: Oracle is going around and threatening to sue enterprises that show traffic to the extensions download site from their IP blocks. Happened recently at a previous employer of mine.
OP here. Dear mods, you have now twice changed the description, which I understand. But would it be too much to ask to have an indication that shows that someone who is NOT the OP has changed the description? The way it is currently worded are simply not my words and I have no way of showing that. Could potentially be bad for me.
Sure you can. Its inverse-square law which extinguishes the brightest flame (except of course a nova or supernova). A much nearer explosion would be much, much brighter. But you have to have some idea where to set it off.
I've only read the summary but Philip Tetlock comes to this conclusion based on his work with "The Good Judgment Project" (described in his book "Superforecasting").

The GJP is a kind of experiment he's been running for a few years in an attempt to learn how to improve predictions.

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

From what I remember: overall, teams did better than individuals and wisdom of the crowds because they were able to feed off and combine each other's points of view and separate knowledge.

However! It's important for teams to not let groupthink dominate—individuals within teams needed to challenge each other.
> because the company provides no information and no recourse

From what I've seen on Twitter it looks like Slack is asking people to email them so they can figure out what is going on and if they did in fact err in closing accounts. We'll see what comes of that, but it feels a bit premature to say that they've just cut people off and that's the end of the story.
Well technically hyper-v comes with its own terminal, but granted it kind of sucks and I wouldn't use continuously.
Only if they would otherwise spend that time working, which seems unlikely.
Then the obvious solution is to divide nation states down to small, well-educated populations no?