skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As there are people who benefit from bank robbery. After all, the money is still around to be spent by the bank robbers.

But it's still theft from the system and is a transfer of purchasing power from those who produce to those who do not. Or in case of military contractors, from those who produce to those who destroy. Professionally.
The digital privacy tools you need to be using now
It's entirely possible to have health coverage and still be financially ruined by a health emergency due to deductibles and pre-existing condition loopholes.
I'm pretty sure the profit margins and revenue for their potential AI applications are nowhere close to what they get from advertisements right now.
Yeah imagine bitching because you lost a primary communication tool and a bunch of your saved data because of your ethnicity.
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But can't the poor souls stuck on windows use hyper-v and RDP into the vm?
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I receive 2-5 emails a week with 'someone has tried to log in to your account' from Epic games. After seeing this article it makes me wonder how much prevention of brute forcing passwords Epic games are providing vs Just how persistent these kids really are.
The problem of synthesizing a believable trumpet sound is way harder than creating a believable tube distortion. The trumpet is a complex system consisting of the the interplay between the horn and the lips, tongue, throat and lungs of player. Also, the way you interact with the trumpet is widely different from the way you play a piano, resulting in different musical expression.

Compared to that, the dynamic of a tube are pretty simple, though creating a truthful emulation of a full amplifier is still a hard.
I'm a little confused as to why Grab would hire a firm to update OSM via satellite images. OSM had to be more accurate than the outdated sat. images so why was there a need in the first place?
Of course, that's why I wrote "small key-value store"...
This is probably just one of many PR attempts from Slack. All closed accounts are probably owned by their PR team, or they prefer buzz over users. What about Google, Facebook and Twitter, are they closing down Iranian accounts too !?
Honest question: if I go to McDonalds and pay for a burger can they refuse to serve me? I understand that they can refuse to serve me before paying, but after I pay their service and goods too?
I meant no criticism. I'm just trying to understand what they're doing. And damn, just the realization that they have access logs going back years is mind-boggling. If they didn't have the logs, they'd arguably be better off.
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I use hyper-v and rdp every day, very happy with both. I even run Linux VMs in hyper-v.
I can't say that I really care. I don't have a facebook account. I'm sure if they go away someone new will step up and start doing the exact same things.
Thanks for the links! Really cool. Know of any open source Kerbel Space Program type sim?
There is no sugar coating - these two ways of viewing reality are just that - two different viewpoints. It is true that you can find comfort, peace, and happiness in old age. It is also true that your body will become more frail and you will eventually lose consciousness for the last time and turn into a pile of rotting bones in the ground. These facts are not mutually exclusive. To look at the latter and ignore anything that speaks about death and old age differently is just incurious and sad.
Pre-ground beans, a gold filter, & an electric tea kettle are my daily drivers. It's 2-3 minutes longer than the Keurig and significantly better.

Give it a try.
So, uhh, just stop using Slack then? There are plenty of alternatives now.
Well that's not strictly true. Presumably there is a contract of some sort, and Slack must abide by it, entitling users to Slack's infrastructure to some degree.

It's not completely arbitrary. Plus there're notions of estoppel potentially at play.
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I think the OPs point is that this is not true. Roads do not ever, themselves, increase demand in any way. (See any rural area anywhere, full of roads way under max capacity).

> The extra capacity means that people can shorten journey times by using the road, and they then locate their homes and businesses at either end or along the road

Exactly. So if people are shortening their journey times using the road, then whatever previous journey they took no longer exists. The new road did not increase demand, it relocated already-existing previously-poorly-serviced demand to a new more efficient route.

This is generally a good thing, it's what a successful road project is intentionally supposed to do, and why they are worth spending money on.
You can't prove a negative. At this point we don't even know what the principles are.

If you're unwilling to provide me with a prototype equivalent to a rodent mind then I'll settle for a fully developed theory of human cognition. Let me know when you've got one. At least that would give researchers some guidelines to know whether they're making forward progress toward AGI.
PA Tortures Muslim Detainees  ‘ISIS Style’ for PREVENTING Jihad Attack on Jews
Except looking at the past 20 years or so it seems clear that the trend is going the other way around. Slack itself is an example of that, not long ago it would've been a set of self-hosted tools. People have ditched IRC in favor of Discord and friends, they've ditched decentralized forums, BBSs and mailing lists for social networks, everybody hosts everything using the same four or five cloud providers, streaming and direct download is much more popular than BitTorrent etc...

Maybe this trend will reverse eventually but I don't really see the signs yet. The Cryptocurrency crowd keeps shouting "decentralization" but they still fail to create applications that can compete with the centralized alternatives in terms of usability, performance and cost. There have been many attempts at making decentralized social networks but they failed to gain mainstream adoption. IPFS works pretty well but again, hardly anybody uses it.

I'm all for decentralization but there's no denying that there seems to be a path of least resistance towards centralized solutions. They're easier to develop, easier to maintain, easier to upgrade and often easier to use.

So for me decentralization is the objective, but unfortunately it's not "clearly the end game".
That's one logical solution.

Another logical solution is to change the thing so that it is OK to use it.

Another is to prevent other people from using it, or to make it more difficult for them to do so, which can promote alternatives.
surgery for 15k. You can't even talk to a surgeon for 15k in the US.
If anyone did notice the hashtag on his twitter. Iranian permanent residency applicants in Canada are being thoroughly scrutinized before granting them permanent residency in Canada and hence the hashtag. AFAIK, citizens from a couple of nationalities undergo this vetting process by Canadian immigration before being granted permanent residency in Canada. This is probably a call to get attention for the campaign.
Trump has essentially declared that prosecution of US sanctions is now political:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/trump-say...
The idea suggests itself that the problems of the US healthcare system are closely tied to unrestrained capitalism, includings its influence on/over US politics.
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Hey HN! Glowing Bear has come up a few times in comment threads over the years, but with the Slack story on the front page, I thought now might be a good time to actually post a thread about it :)

Glowing Bear is a web frontend for WeeChat, a popular command-line IRC client (that also has Matrix support and lots of other nifty things). It's implemented in pure client-side javascript, so you can easily host it yourself or run it as an electron app (we provide build scripts for that, but no pre-built binaries). We also provide a hosted instance via GitHub Pages at https://www.glowing-bear.org. Since it's not an IRC client but rather a front-end for an IRC client, WeeChat (https://weechat.org/), you need to bring your own WeeChat instance.
>- Is this just how the US ticks right now?
>- Is Slack just completely gone mad?
>- Is this what companies believes is acceptable nowadays?
>- Is this the future of the web?

Iran has sanctions against it right now. Slack, and other companies that have done this sort of thing with Iran, Cuba, etc the past few years, are trying to stay on the right side of the law. To avoid imprisonment, fines, etc. If you think what they did is wrong, start a company and risk serving prison time to stand up for your what you believe in by creating a similar product and offering it to customers that have direct geographical ties to sanctioned and embargoed countries. I'm serious, imprisonment is a very real risk with dealing with sanctioned and embargoed countries.

Doing business with Iran, or a citizen of Iran, can open the door for all sorts of government investigation from fines, to being shut down for an investigation, to having data from other users compromised, to criminal prosecution of employees/officers of the company.

It's a lot easier to just immediately sever ties with anyone that has had dealings with an IP geographically connected to Iran than to go one by one "hey, you an enemy of the state? You sure you aren't? Promise? Cross your heart and hope to die? Ok, we believe you, we'll just hope you're telling the truth!"

Then there's the fact that Slack uses encryption at rest and in transit, there may be a LEGAL REQUIREMENT not to allow users with ties to Iran to use the product under CFR title 15 chapter VII, subchapter C. Or they may at least suspect they are at risk of running afoul of the cryptography export laws as they stand and simply decided, they don't want to risk it to protect the company and other users.

I highly doubt this is some Islamaphobic/Iranaphobic move on Slack's part, this is simply a cover-our-ass move so we can stay in business and not risk prison time.

See:

- 15 CFR chapter VII, subchapter C.

- 31 CFR Part 560 and Appendix A to Chapter V

- Public Law 115–44 (the CAATSA)
Perhaps we can save democracy by replacing the voting mechanism by placing people in groups of 10, and letting them reach consensus before making a vote.
It's a strange meme that "facebook elected Trump" when every news org gave him billions worth of free coverage because it was good for their bottom line. They elected Trump because they knew a Trump presidency would be the best thing to happen to them since Monica Lewinsky. Somehow we all seem to have forgotten that.
Wall Street’s CLO Machine Fuels Fortunes from Toolmaker to Banks
She/He makes a valid argument so I think a downvote is uncalled for.

As someone else pointed out: if anything is unethical here, it is the sanctions. Ensuring your company operates within the law is a business decision and not everyone has the ability to go toe to toe with the government.
Nice! This looks really cool. Look forward to see how this develops.
>at the whims of a foreign corporation that will stop at nothing if it means 2 cents more on their bottom line, or gets them on the good side of a government entity.

Or if it gets them out of a flash-in-the-pan PR issue fomented by the latest political outrage mob, or a couple 'woke points' to score with their ideological allies.

The tech community had its chance to stand firm and demand openness and liberty of use when it comes to accessing communication services provided by mega-corps. They instead let themselves be seduced by "it's a private company they can do whatever they want go build your own platform" when it was being wielded against less sympathetic targets.
2-5 attempts per week sounds like their brute-force prevention can't really be asked to do much more.
I hate to tell you.....this is already a thing with drivers. Las Vegas is infamous for this, and I have seen them in other large cities too. And the issue you describe happens as well. The Car with billboards want to drive as slow as they can for that reason, and it directly competes with folks who are trying to get from point A to Point B
It's good to see the UK finally turning into the authoritarian dictatorship Orwell knew it could be. Good for them!
Great time and reason to migrate to a self-hosted mattermost solution. Time and time again these incidents show that centralized services cannot be trusted with company service infrastructure.
The lack of an appeals process seems like the norm, sadly enough. Maybe, if there's enough of a backlash, they'll restore accounts for people who don't currently access from sanctioned countries.
Not any bigger of a change than electric chargers and that's working very well
Minor nitpick. Office embeds VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) which is pretty much Visual Basic 6. You also get the benefits of early binding and strong typing, for example:

Function DoSomething(name As String) As String
End Function

VBS is a different beast. Whilst it shares the more or less the same language keywords and constructs as VB6/VBA (most VB6/VBA code is valid VBS code), it's actually more akin to a dynamically typed language.

For example, all variables in VBS are Variants, you can't declare things as explicit types, say strings or integers. If you need to instantiate classes residing in external COM libraries you need to use the CreateObject() built-in and specify that class's "ProgID" e.g.

Set thinger = CreateObject("MyLib.Thingy")

vs

Dim thinger As MyLib.Thingy
You need Windows Pro as a guest to RDP.
I hate the tendency to demand phone number to activate two factor. I see no practice reason why not simple TOTP isn't good enough. It's probably not a practical reason though...
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I agree. The whole mess that took place in the late 90s with copyright extensions was just another example of the few using their power to lord it over the rest of us. It's time we the people demanded a better seat at the table. Behold, the power of lobbying! Sickening.
It was a 36-bit machine that supported both 6 and 9-bit bytes, though since Multics was case sensitive (the first case-sensitive/lowercase OS I'd ever used) IIRC the sixbit mode was not used by Multics.

The most popular 36-bit hardware, the PDP-6/PDP-10/DEC-20 family, supported addressable bytes from 1-63 bits in width. Doesn't it seem odd that C defaults to octal? Because of the legacy of earlier machines on which octal was more natural, C & Unix picked it up too, despite being developed on the PDP-7 and later PDP-11.

I think the 8-but byte might have started out as an IBMism.
I wouldn't limit this to tobacco.

Advertising to children is real problem. Adults may be equipped to deal with the psychological games advertisers employ, children are most certainly not.

If children must be exposed to advertising, they shouldn't be the target.
While I understand your point, I don't know if it could be distilled that succinctly. I have friends who have worked in European countries with universal healthcare that was sub-standard by a U.S. perspective. What I'm curious about is whether this is directly attributable to the healthcare system structure or if it's more causally related to other factors like GDP, access to a trained workforce, or basic infrastructure. Meaning, if we look at two very similar countries that happen to have different healthcare systems would the same effect you outlined still hold?
I don't think this is about Slack.
That is what we continue to be told, yes.

So my 15 minutes $600 allergy appointment that insurance refused to cover (after covering the same damn appointments for 12 years) is that high because of others, or so I keep hearing...
How do people export/backup messages from Slack?
Once you @#$& a goat, you're always a goat-@#$&-er?
I've been thinking about running a Mastodon server so I'm in control of my social media, but I'm worried about letting anyone use it because of the GDPR.
I've always assumed Oracle deeply depends on VirtualBox internally, and the amount of feedback they receive via public channels is far cheaper than keeping it closed source and having to internally test the tool.
But from our point of view (the end user), it feels like a bug with VirtualBox because this problem doesn't exist when using VMWare or Hyper-V.

I used a VMWare Player driven VM as a primary Linux development environment for full time web development for literally 4 years straight and I encountered the issue 0 times, but with VirtualBox I encountered the issue in 1 day.

Maybe it's not technically a bug with VirtualBox, but it is something that makes VirtualBox unsuitable as a dev environment for web development.
Highlight doubt that. France and Europe have similar sanctions.

We had an alumni from my university who opened a company and sold some stuff to a client in a middle east country. Hardware parts, not software. One shipment got stopped at the border for a random control, before the police showed up at the office and arrested everyone. Turns out there are sanctions. Couldn't sell there.
>Aside from the obvious wrong of blocking people based on their origin

How is that an 'obvious wrong'? That's how sanctions work. Sanctions are laws that prevent companies in one region from doing business with companies from another region.

>Taking the OP's story at face value, Slack should easily be able to verify with him that he lives in Canada. Instead, they simply block it and bye. I find this extremely hostile.

That I agree with. Slack should do better. But doing better means doing more investigative work and you probably don't want to delegate that to your frontline tech support worker, so it means it's expensive and not particularly scalable.
I disagree with the way Slack handled this, but by now it’s clear (even the original poster seems to have realised) that Slack banned everyone who accessed the service from an Iranian IP, irrespective of who they were or where they were from.

It’s pretty clear that’s it not motivated by race or any kind of profiling.

Slack has no incentive to boot more people off their platform than necessary, so this overly broad ban could be a result of either misunderstanding the US governments mandate, or that might be just what they were asked to do.
That's not what happened at all, that's why it's hard to take him seriously. He makes it look like Slack went out of their way to look at all of their users and check of what race they are to ban those who are Iranians, when they just made a geoip check.
It seems that it blocks ukrainian users entirely. Even in https://www.cdw.com/
MeWe works pretty well and is developing at a pretty rapid pace.
what is the benefit to the public of this system? basically none. the value /lost/ to the public by protecting things that are still popular (nobody will pay to protect unpopular works...) easily exceeds $100.

So this sounds like a really uncompelling idea.
So maybe the fixed term is 15 years, or 20. I don't see the benefit (to society) of having uncertain terms though.

That a book takes a number years to write is irrelevant. The copyright will be dated the year it is published, not when you thought of the idea. Guess what, if you publish a new edition? You can put a new date on that.. the fixed term copyright applies to the copy that you are reproducing, not anything else.

Anyway, GoT books started getting popular well before 10 years was up. George R R Martin got rich from the first few. If copyright on them had expired, well guess what.. he is still George R R Martin and he is still creating books which would be wildly popular and make him plenty of money he could invest for his retirement. That also means that he could have trademarked the characters and situations and retain exclusivity for the stories he created. He could licence those trademarks for huge amounts of money to film studios and get films made. George R R Martin would still be incredibly wealthy with a fixed-term copyright of 10 years.

J K Rowling would be incredibly wealthy as Harry Potter and all the sequels were incredibly popular pretty much as soon as they were written.

As you say though, most authors earn a small stipend from their work. I don't believe that they actually rely on that income through their retirement though. The vast majority of their small stipends dry up in short order. I used to work in the UK book publishing industry, 25 years ago. There were approx 30,000 publishers in the UK at that time, the vast majority of which had one or two titles to their name. That suggests to me that most of the books published were effectively self-published. The authors will have had to pay for the print run, and work another job anyway.
Does anyone else see the irony that this is published on Bloomberg, a company who's historic record vastly shows a disregard for work/life balance?
Depends how you measure, but I feel pretty confident saying that most US hospital bills have never been fully paid off.
1. The export control regulations apply to companies and individuals who do business with any of the sanctioned countries.

2. Discrimination based on ethnicity, religion or political views is forbidden by law.

In the absence of proof that this user had business with Iran (or any of the other sanctioned countries) through Slack's platform, the export control regulations do not apply.

If the user has business with Iran outside of Slack's platform, Slack can not invoke the export control regulations to justify their action.

Ergo, the only thing left here is that Slack broke the law that forbids discrimination based on ethnicity.

If the USA fails to punish Slack for it's illegal behavior, and Slack successfully avoids prosecution elsewhere, other country have the right to block access to Slack completely, from within their own borders.

Personally, I think US citizens should be more concerned with what their government does, especially to and with other parts of the world. For eventually, the will feel the consequences of those actions on their own skin.
Ah well it’s probably smart to take a fresh phone through borders anyway.
How many of your fellow citizens declare bankruptcy because of of their medical expenses, debts?
The Bermuda triangle is an extremely heavily traveled area.
This guy is straight up lying, with no intention of correctly his false claim this is racial targeting.

Even after confirming with a white person banned for using slack while visiting Iran, he continued to claim in the thread it is racial.

Reality: he was banned for using slack with an Iranian IP.

Whether or not that’s export control overreach / unethical / bad business not my point, it’s clearly very different to ethnic targeting.
There was a story about an Indian guy - he flew all the way from California, spent two weeks in India, took a bunch of MRI etc scans and went back. The entire of the trip, including airfare, hotel, scans etc was less than the cost of a scan in the U.S. Not sure how much of this is true (and yes, I do realize I shouldn't be comparing US with a developing country like India, cost wise), but it is definitely believable.
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