skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to change the status quo, you’re going to have to argue why it should be changed.

If you want a reason why politics is not a protected class I’ll give you third. First, there’s not wide spread persecution based on political beliefs. There simply isn’t. Second, eliciting political beliefs to a protected class is tantamount to undercutting all political association everywhere. You can’t argue for anything, as you’re “oppressing” the opposite view. Political speech is strongly protected already. What you’re arguing for is forced association, and compelled speech. Third, political speech is inherently mutable, which makes it completely irrelevant to a protected class, and do nebulous they are impossible adjudicate.

Far from a false narrative, I’m saying there is no difference a social network and any other private publication. It’s a private enterprise and they can do use it anyway they want. Just because something is big, doesn’t suddenly make it public. A newspaper also has a huge audience, but they don’t have to publish every rando’s letter. Nor do these platforms. Enforcing a TOS is well within their right.

If there wasn’t a Ga, or a Venemo, or a 8chan, or a Voat, maybe you’d have an argument. If we were talking about something at a very basic layer, you’d definitely have an argument. But none of that is what we’re talking about. It’s “I have to use twitter/YouTube/Facebook, because they’re popular!” Well.. too bad.its no different than the old mock headline, “Man upset that unpopular ideas are unpopular”
WeChat v2.0
Does Electron have another revenue stream that isn't accounted for here? Are the full-time employees paid a wage above the poverty line? If so then yeah, this doesn't make sense.

But I think the sentiment isn't trivializing, that 1 child out of 7 might have a parent who works on one of these projects.
Indeed, public blockchains aren't useless, they're extremely useful for one specific thing: censorship resistance. Evading the law, that is.

Now, of course the law isn't always just, it sucks that most countries ban drugs, it sucks that governments don't want anti-government activists to get donations, but the terrible things done with buttcoins vastly outnumber the non-terrible things.

Cryptocurrencies have largely fueled the rise of ransomware, extortion and scams.

People are literally burning energy on hash bruteforcing just so that scammers and malware authors could get paid.
1600 round mile trip, give or take. Georgia to Western Ohio then across to Eastern Pennsylvania, relatives in Eastern to North Eastern Ohio but that is an EV desert. I did this within weeks of buying a Model 3 LR. Added about ninety minutes to the 600 mile drive. Three stops. I did ignore the Navigation charge time so I could avoid the SC inside of Cincinnati.

If you follow the suggestions of the car and are willing to stop more the charge times are lower. However as I was hoping 190 to 210 at a time and driving the standard speed of I75 at the time I tended to push the charge to 80% or more.

Now the reason there is ninety minutes is you need to factor in charging at your destination. Seeing that my relatives had nothing more than standard 120 I was in effect anchored to my closest SC which was thirty six miles away. So at that point I charged to 95% which took longer. They don't live in a small Ohio town but there were only two good chargers, one at Nissan and one at the Ford dealer. Neither is good for a true long range car.

After that trip I realized there really is no point in carrying the mobile charge cable. I simply found hotels with nearby SC setups. Do not rely on destination charging as you are just as likely to find "guests" who act as if they own it and hotels are not keen on stepping in. There are times I swear fellow EV drivers are the most entitled pricks I have ever met.
Ads and anti adblockers seem especially out of place on a .org site, perhaps because the TLD was "originally intended for non-profit organizations or organizations of a non-commercial character"[0] (though such provisions were never enforced and now apparently completely absent).

Speaking of adblocker blockers, Nano Defender[1] is quite effective at blocking them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org

[1] https://jspenguin2017.github.io/uBlockProtector/
Even if everything you just said is true, that doesn't make higher prices increase demand for labor, nor even leave demand flat. The "old wives tale" that you need to actually refute is that rising prices cause decreasing demand, including for labor. So far, you haven't even attempted to refute it.
Can you help anyone if you're homeless on the street?

At some point there is a trade off to any number of choices. I choose to keep active employment, and open what I can, when I can. Mostly utilities that I wrote for work that aren't core functionality that it makes sense to separate out anyway. Heaven help me if something got too popular and people wanted a support model.
Same way you'd overturn any civil right. Get a two-thirds majority of states to agree and hold a constitutional convention. Probably easier to just move to a less free country.
That's before my time, and I think some of the stuff I heard about was from when most people were getting GNU software via FTP, and later. (Though FSF sold paper books.)
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Interesting that it seems that this post is what made you make an account to comment on.
The roots of their demand are somewhat tragic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42137476
The accounts' transaction histories, and the transaction histories of their transactants is all that anyone - even Amazon - has to go on - in both toy scenarios.

The difference here is the transparency, and the resulting web of trust that can emerge.

You may not have done business with company X, but you can observe that many users who successully transacted with companies Y, Z and W (with whom you have also successfully transacted) have all left good purchase reviews for company X.
When will governments start selling licenses to hunt poachers?
...does this mean the US government doesn't have to respect copyright? Seems unusual...
That's outstanding!
Open source developer here making 7 figures per year on my own. I don't take donations, I use an open core model and charge companies for access to my commercial products. AMA!

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...
Bitcoin's annual carbon footprint equal to Las Vegas, researchers say
In practice how this is works is that the person being harassed goes to HR, HR does nothing, and then that person quits. Nothing usually happens to harasser. The point of HR is to protect the company from its employees, not help mitigate disputes.
License zero is "the gospel"? Sounds like someone's got a bit carried away with their inflated self-importance...
YC Summer '19 Cohort
Does anyone have a list of the Summer 2019 batch for Y Combinator?
/r/lostredditors
$ gpg --import < /tmp/g1
gpg: key 61B7B526D98F0353: 24 signatures not checked due to missing keys

it's signed by 24 things. I didn't drill down into what, but its obviously highly cross-signed. Somebody could do a sunlight on the key thing about it?
F-22 is not a "perpetual prototype", you're probably thinking of the F-35. And F-22 is optimized for Beyond Visual Range (BVR) detection and destruction of their adversaries before those adversaries even know they're in combat, both via A2G smart bombs or A2A med-long range missiles. If that's the only kind of "combat-not-combat" it ever sees, it will have been worth it - less planes and pilots lost.

That said, it's also one of the best dogfighters in the world in case it ever comes to that, but that kind of combat will be deliberately rare.
Pretty sure there's a shadowy government hand puppeting this entire dog and pony show.

Be surprised at how unsurprising the whole thing is, because if Facebook rolls this out smoothly and it's low-key successful, it's alphabet agencies all the way down.
I read no racism. Immigrants can be any colour.
Yes please.

Like a lot of comments here, the only winning strategy I've found with Fiverr is to hire 3 or 4 sellers for the same task and pick the best.

But I have to admit, I once ordered a completely custom logo for $8 and it was perfect (the 2 week wait was worth it).
Few technologies will ever stand up to the will of adolescents trying to do things they’re told they’re not allowed to do -- Scott Berkun [1]

[1] https://scottberkun.com/essays/37-how-to-build-a-better-web-...
(Starsky engineer here)

IANAL, however, a lot of road activity is regulated state-to-state in the US. It turns out to be a really fascinating regulatory problem.

To get a flavor of what we're dealing with, we've had some concerns from law enforcement officials that our tele-op drivers need to be sober, and that officers need some mechanism for administering a field sobriety test to someone who may not even be in the jurisdiction.

IMHO, there needs to be a federal solution to some of this. If it becomes common that vehicles and equipment are operated across state lines, it will become increasingly difficult to comply with every state's rules. That said, unlike some other companies, we are very committed to honoring both the letter and spirit of the law. Our view is that this is an important moment for US civic engagement where industry, labor, insurance, vehicle manufacturers, and the public need to come together and work it out. We explicitly are not taking a "move fast and break things" attitude toward legal compliance.
That repo is 3 years old. Does it work with more recent versions of Docker? (I'm on windows right now, so can't check, as it requires NFS on the host).
That was a metaphor.
A Few Thoughts About Deep Fakes – Stephen Wolfram
TF2 doesn't have any BR modes. KOTH is a standard arena shooter mode, with teams and respawning; "KOTH" only signifies that the objective is to control a static area in the middle of the map.

The closest that TF2 gets to a BR is its "deathmatch" or "elimination" mode, I don't remember the name, in which there is no respawning and the last person standing wins. However, this is very different from a BR; the maps are still tiny, there is no loot to upgrade your character, and there is no "circle", which is a wall of damage that shrinks to force the remaining players to move towards each other rather than staying put.
The choice of IP range for your network is still a conceptually separate thing from the choice of whether or not to NAT outbound connections from said network. Certain choices of IP range might make NAT more or less useful to you, and thus might influence your choice, but it's still a separate thing.

Yes, I'm describing behavior from the perspective of Linux and iptables because that's what I'm familiar with... but this is the generally-understood meaning of "NAT" when used in this context, and as far as I'm aware this is how basically everything implements it. This is the behavior you'll be seeing.
Let me rephrase, then. It's harder to trust someone who's obviously speaking exclusively for his own interests.
Check out VG Maps for maps of just about everything 2D.

https://vgmaps.com
Why is Linux file system never really improving when there are so many potential developers? In the last 15 years I've only switched from ext3 to ext4 which isn't much of a change.

And the only alternative I hear recommended is xfs which is also around forever but not advanced, zfs is license restricted and btrfs isn't widely used enough to consider using it daily.

It's sad Linux is still stuck with basic file systems without any of the modern features to this day even though there must be huge demand for a more modern file system that can go with kernel GPL2.
MSNBC and CNN have the exact same problems as Fox News, the degradation of journalism is not a partisan issue.
I don't know him but his contact page lists a number of ways to get in touch: https://donbasile.com/contact/
For expand/collapse, one of the very few things I've liked about "new" Reddit is being able to click the indent bar alongside comments to show/collapse. Something like that in this for HN would be helpful.
Highly recommend pilfering folks from Riot Games’ engineering team based on chats with folks there. Solving similar problems.
> Olive tried the [unlawful “taking”] approach after the University of Houston rejected his claim that the public university should pay for a photo it used without permission in web and print publications, contending the university has sovereign immunity, a well-established legal principle that protects a state from getting sued.
Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay hit with penalty for not allowing public beach access
IMHO, it's all there is.

There's going to be a huge Poof when all the blockchain middlemen come to jesus, and accept that a blockchain's value is in not having a middle.
Their internal name was "GlobalCoin" but looks like it will be called "Libra". That said I like "FaceBuck" or "ZuckBuck" way better!
WeChat reduces the iPhone to "The thing we run WeChat on." It acts to commodify the iPhone. If Facebook is going to become another WeChat, this is just about the last thing that Apple wants!
So someone out there could make a killing by running their own stream that acts as alternate audio for the matches. Couple of super-fans in a booth with a video feed of the match, no audio passthrough, their own SFX person and statistician feeding them talking-points...

Charge bars a few dollars for the feed, and watch 'em rake it in.
Trump Suspends Tariffs on Mexico
You could equally just pick one of the above commentor's list and use it for 20 years (minus a few for the relatively new ones). They all still work, whereas when Apple transitions they remove the old option.
All stablecoins are Venmo calling themselves decentralized cryptocurrencies. Venmo is honest and tells you it's managing a USD deposit balance for you and amending its private centralized ledger accordingly (and sometimes providing a short term credit service on top). FB et al are lying to you and putting a disingenuous patina of techno hype and grossly misleading decentralized implication on their project by calling them cryptocurrencies. Not surprising but completely uninteresting.
I am tired of this company. First they remove my ability to add more devices, and now this... Sorry, but the only use case I had for DropBox wad syncing my 1Password, so I will just pay them instead and use my iCloud and Google Drive and OneDrive accounts. Two of which I pay for (and should probably stop for one of them).

I just need something that minimizes vendor lock-in and works on all platforms. These days maybe that is, surprisingly, Microsoft.
Precisely why they're doing this.
Is it worth going with those? I'm torn between deploying stuff on Kubernetes (on a managed control plane, of course, which you can get for free nowadays with providers as long as you use their own machines) and rolling my own with the Hashistack.
Weight, even if it’s low, still increases stopping distance and requires more grip to get around corners. You can’t escape kinetic energy.
Curious, why didn't you guys decide to use a cross platform framework?
I've done a small amount, but mostly as hobbyist stuff.

If you haven't looked at it already, Glen Fiedler has a great series on game networking on his Gaffer on Games blogs that covers a lot of those topics in ways that were really helpful for my implementations. https://gafferongames.com/tags/networking/

It looks like his site is down, but it's also available on the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190405204744/https://gafferong.... It's all fairly high-level stuff, and I'm sure it mostly just retreads ground that you're familiar with, but I thought the explanations were all super-clear and helped crystallize a lot of thoughts that I already had but hadn't focused that well.
I don't think you really mean this literally. Hundreds of forks... :)
Databases are the one thing I will run as close to the OS as possible (usually on a VPS) so I can reason about them as simply as possible.
They plan to “market it aggressively in developing nations”. Western companies extracting rent from the global south: this is colonialism by another name.
I'm amazed Fiverr is "worth" close to half upwork. Upwork seems to be in an incredibly strong position and that service has improved a ton in the past 2 years.
Seriously. 2m is the bread-and-butter of local ham communication. It's used as widely as the 11m CB radio band, and for similar purposes. Back when I had a car I had a 70cm/2m dual-band magnetic antenna on my roof that I would use regularly, as do many others.

It would also be insane to attempt to re-allocate this band for any other purpose, given how many millions of transmitters on this band already exist out there. The average car-mounted transceiver puts out 50 W. Many base stations run at hundreds of Watts, and are attached to quite excellent antennas (e.g. my parents have an 18 foot antenna on a mast at the top of their house, with a total base elevation of around 40 feet).

Good luck taking over the band. None of these drones can put out a tiny fraction of the power that the existing users of the band are already emitting.
Can you elaborate on exactly the types of things and roughly the pricing you pay for to do this?
'Recycling' in this case means giving them to some child or charity that gives things to poor kids. LEGOs are an extremely powerful learning tool for young people.
> Are the full-time employees paid a wage above the poverty line?

Yes, very much so. It's tech. We're all really, really lucky.
As a someone who has been gaming since about 1980, I find this fascinating. I think it's entirely likely to see credible machine generated maps, rules, art style before long.
If there is an accident who gets the citation?
Golang – Handling Errors Gracefully
Exactly. ICE is/was more size- and weight- efficient than electric. We had motorcycles with the performance of normal person modern motorcycles many decades ago.

Electric power only became practical enough for motorcycles in the last few years.
Not related to the article but recently it's hard to get an objective view on any Facebook's news in HN comments
due to the overall attitude towards the company.
> And without an irritating ad-blocker detector, if you want your stuff to be read don't block it with this sort of nonsense.

Just click it away.
Nah. 2m is an excellent general purpose, medium-range communications band. The next closest bands on either end are 6m and 70cm, both of which have different characteristics (70cm doesn't do well with buildings, and 6m is too long for good handheld antennas).
YouTube was recommending kids’ videos to pedophiles
How do you use Nomad? Do you run Docker containers with it? I don't need the scaling, I need the part where new versions of code are autodeployed automatically, services are connected together, and basically things update without having to run ops checklists every time.

Kubernetes feels too heavyweight and deploying machines feels too snowflakey...
I posted a bunch of pictures from the Hong Kong protests in the past couple days.

It shocked me that all of my posts were blocked immediately, people can see my old posts but not those new posts with the "sensitive" pictures.

I downloaded those pictures from bloomberg, so I am sure the wechat / tencent is running some web crawler and ML to identify the news picture from the online sources and block them automatically.
Still there is some way to get around, by assembling a group of pictures together and adding some noise (adding words, etc).

What's more, the regime is not only monitoring wechat or weibo, it's monitoring non-domestic social medias like twitter as well, for example here's a pictures showing a huge screen, where a lot of tweets are being process my some NLP algorithm, and outputs a result showing whether the tweet is positive, neutral or negative towards the regime [1].

This is how a totalitarianism would apply technology, it uses everything it could to control the people in order to survive.

China is now going full throttle to become a nazi + commie country, it's THE CANCER for everyone else who loves freedom and democracy.

There will be only two possibilities in the 21st century, either the Communist China crashed like USSR, or a war will happen between the China and the west. Hong Kong is literally the frontline of the battlefield.

[1] https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2018/09/%E3%80%90%E7%A...
I don't know about conquering us, but gorilla warfare is a distinct possibility.
thank you very much for you sincere concern and for this valuable information. current situation in Sudan is total cut off mobile broadband internet but they kept fiber and landline working, maybe to run their own communication .. people are afraid to go back to offices after regime had killed over 100 protesters and spread army on street where they search passing people phones for any type of pictures or videos that document their crimes, if they found any of that you well get beaten and taken away God knows where.
the HAM radio idea seems applicable the most in current situation

again thank you for your humanity
I think people are missing the big picture here. This isn't a replacement for Apple Pay, Alipay, or PayPal - it's something new, driven by the sheer scale of Facebook's userbase. The cryptocurrency aspect is a smokescreen for the actual impact.

In fact, I predict that national governments are going to have to get on board with electronic currencies if they don't want to unwittingly transfer control over their own economies from their national treasuries to a private company.

Indications are that this won't be pegged to USD, but rather to a basket of international currencies. Since there are so many ways to combine a basket of currencies into a single value, this gives Facebook plenty of leeway as to how to price this currency.

Essentially, this is the equivalent of the virtual Facebook nation-state establishing their own federal reserve. More importantly, they've already got buy-in from the major non-governmental players. This will essentially create, all at once, a settlement layer that not only bypasses any individual national government, but also the established banking channels like SWIFT.

The US dollar is the predominant international reserve currency at the moment, and the US government leverages that as a pretty big club via SWIFT injunctions.

If there is an alternative that is ostensibly neutral from a governance perspective, and publicly auditable to prevent arbitrary adjustments/freezes, I could see that being very attractive to countries with a less-than-friendly relationship with the US. We already see rumblings to this effect in US-unfriendly countries:
http://fortune.com/2018/07/26/iran-sanctions-cryptocurrency/

Of course, since Facebook is based in the US, it also provides the US government with a nice, local target for legal leverage. But it would also be very easy for Facebook to spin off this as a subsidiary and place it somewhere out of reach, like Switzerland. Perhaps they could call it something like Libra Networks? Wait, that sounds familiar...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-switzerland-paym...

It would be very difficult to outlaw transactions in a currency when those transactions can be initiated and validated on a blockchain directly by the participants. You'd have to play the whack-a-mole game with access to the chain itself, because with direct validation, you're essentially trying to outlaw barter. Look at the efficacy of the cryptocurrency ban in Venezuela as an example.

Facebook is currently doing an end-run to create the first supranational currency, and it's billion+ users combined with the technological agility (specifically, the lack thereof) of national governments means that they actually have some chance to succeed.
These soft robots will amaze you
It sounds like you fundamentally just don't understand the psychology of people who buy lottery tickets.

That's fine, then don't buy them yourself, but it makes no sense to argue against other people's actual experienced feelings and thoughts. You can't use logic to "win" this.