skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better perhaps, but what's your proposed path to implementing that? Is it achievable, and what eggs get broken in the course of cooking that omelette?

One huge roadblock I can see is that you would need to address the question of what would replace privately held platforms? If the suggested replacement is something the government operates, you now have to address how that conflicts with the overall neoliberal philosophy of government that we've been operating under for the past couple of decades that precludes the notion of such a thing being operated in that manner. So now we're looking at quite a lot of smashed eggs.

Whereas the former suggestion is something that has, at first glance, a reasonably straightforward path to implementation via legislation, and related precedent to boot. It's easier to make a targeted override of a behavior that is an inherent part of the system under which it emerged, than it is to overhaul the entire system to correct that particular behavior.
I thought at first that he was a pompous ass who was out of touch and mostly wrong.

And slowly, I noticed that he was still a pompous ass, but he was right. And longer I observe, I notice that he wasn't wrong, but ahead of the curve. And instead of being an ass, he was calling these issues out before they reared their ugly heads... but lo and behold they did eventually.

That's why I'm a proud member of the FSF.
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And if you built a really nice house and people saw leaving the city to join your new house community. The G would just buy your house and move everyone in the walled city.
My goal wasn't to point out a specific regulatory solution.

My goal was to highlight an exceedingly tired and bogus argument.
I for one really dislike touch screens and menu driven controls in most applications. Especially if driving. Even controlling an iPhone is error prone when it’s mounted to a gps holder in a moving vehicle.

Give me tactile buttons, switches and knobs that do one thing well, are keyed with different feeling textures and are backlit.
Beat it in 6:13! That was totally hilarious, the fake captcha was by far the hardest (just like the real deal).
While trying to save the internet from censorship, extremists, and hackers[...]

How can you combat censorship and extremist speech at the same time?
> ...buying into the idea that speech can be “harmful”..

Speech can’t be both so powerful we must protect it at all costs and simultaneously harmless.

I understand that it is incredibly important to protect free-speech but to imply it has no impact is disingenuous. We fight for it because it has power not because it is powerless.
Regarding content and video distribution, we already have a working decentralized platform: BitTorrent. We even have clients allowing searching and previewing videos from torrents (PopcornTime and the like). The infrastructure is already there, the only barriers are psychological at this point.
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For mass appeal? Sure. But you said "nobody" would clone the repo and host it locally. I intend to!

I'm not sure mass appeal matters much here anyway. I could get behind the "sell yourself better" comment but this is such a niche application I'm not sure packaging it more neatly would net appreciably more users running it locally.
That's an extremely difficult problem given the speed at which social media changes and the slowness of legal changes. Look at the explosion of Discord. Also, social media isn't a commodity service. What happens if YouTube is broken up? Facebook? Instagram? Twitter?

It seems safer to also require that any platform that offers free, open access to social media style content not show any bias towards that content unless it is otherwise illegal. If you want to pretend to be a public venue, you've got to have the responsibility of keeping a public venue.
He is literally a genius.

The question you should be asking yourself is “why do I have to take freedom away from others to earn a living?”
Line-drying vs machine drying was, and I suppose still is for some older people (who probably inhabit the bulk of HOA boards and such) a class issue.

People with means had mechanical clothes dryers; poorer people didn't. (Clothes washers achieved much greater market penetration and did so significantly before clothes dryers.)

Even going back to before home laundry machines, to what is today an older person's grandparents' era, in big cities the low-cost option was to have your laundry returned to you wet, and you dried and folded it yourself. People with more money, naturally, got theirs returned dry and folded.

Scratch the surface of any obnoxious neighborhood rule and you'll find some sort of class-consciousness or economic insecurity behind it. People don't want to see laundry because it reminds them of poor people, or they're afraid it will make the neighborhood look poorer than it is. I'm not saying that's a good opinion to hold, but I think that's why it's a weirdly sensitive issue.

In another generation when it's firmly an ecological/"green" thing to line-dry your clothes, and not a sign that you can't afford to do it any other way, there probably won't be any opposition. Then it's not a social class signifier, it's just an individual oddity.
The states were definitely sovereign entities before the nation was created. (Some would say the nation was foisted upon the states through a long period of subterfuge.) Maryland received its charter from the English king in 1632, almost 150 years before the revolution.
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Are users responsible for any other piece of machinery they purchase that they don’t fully understand?

The very fact that you can choose different web browsers, some that accept and save cookies and some that don’t, or different email clients, some that load remote content and some that don’t, means that the user made a choice.

They purchased hardware that they chose, they installed and configured apps and services that they chose, or that came preinstalled on the hardware that they chose.

I would venture a guess that most consumers do not opt to fully understand the consequences of their consumption choices, sure. But that doesn’t mean that their choices, or the consequences thereof, are any less their own. Ignorance of the consequence of one’s choices is itself a choice.
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Incomplete fixes for CVE-2019-1002101, kubectl cp potential directory
I think you've nailed the problem.

Any alternate wealth stores you can think of?
I bought a used Thinkpad to use OpenBSD.

The default installation is good and the internals are easy to understand. It's not as complicated as Linux. The security etho is what brought me to OpenBSD and the simplicity and easy to understand how everything works made me love it even more.

The only reason why I haven't use it much after a few months is because I needed RStudio. I wanted to settle for tmux+vim workflow for R but I've been busy with other stuff.
Work is work, everything that is not work is not work. We’ve given corporations like google and Facebook near dictatorial powers in the United States. Not only with their own employees but American citizens as well.

Google has demanded total arbitrary adherence not to the idea of don’t be evil, but rather don’t do anything anything that google doesn’t like - with like having no particularly rational basis.

It’s time For corporations to be put back in their place.
Disagree. I found the channel to be useful and educational. For example, I knew people could crack WiFi passwords but never actually understood how until I watched null byte videos. Now I can be more vigilant about protecting my WiFi. I really hate these generalizations about these wannabe hackers being kids playing League. I’m 33 and I would venture a lot of people watching those vids have legitimate interest in exploring the ethical hacker profession. You may not get the proper education nor exposure but it’s a start. Also I feel like mischief is part of adolescence that’s required to develop interest in a more serious pursuit. As a kid I did plenty of this type of “hacking“ but on a more basic level. This in turn made me more fascinated about how things work, got me into game exploiting, which lead to virtual sales, e-commerce and ultimately a decent paying job.

I’m not happy that today’s society wants to monitor and deter everything. It leaves no room for exploration, growth, mistakes and learning.
Did you mean Route 1? Route 66 isn't an option for NY to Boston...
I saw her present at a conference recently, and subsequently bought her book. I'm finding it all fascinating, especially the pea plant experiment. I am not well enough informed about the state of the art in either consciousness research/thinking or plant reactions/behaviours, but it's certainly made me acutely aware there's something going on there which doesn't fit in with my mental model of how plants work.

I'm going to be following along here for quite some time I suspect...
Google search is, well, controlled by Google. Just like Youtube. Social media is also ridden with content policies and censorship (Reddit is among the better, but they are still centralized, and Reddit search is a joke).
Food not lawns!!
> The desire to hold some entity legally responsible for any accidents seems to be the key problem.

Kind of off-topic, but do these minivans have insurance policies? Or is there some Alphabet subsidiary that allows them to act as insurance for themselves?

If they do basically insure themselves, they will already be paying out insurance whenever their AI fails to follow/obey laws, so the only issue with placing blame is in the public/media's eye.
By defining anything that you don’t agree with as extemist speech, and deciding that you are the only person who gets to decide what legitimate speech is.
I love all of the TIS-like Zachtronics games. I remember ignoring a professor and finishing the hidden puzzle during a 6-9 humanities class a few semesters ago.

It's the perfect mesh between "fake" and a real skillset.

I could also definitely see having a school leaderboard (to optimize for the best solutions against class mates) being very fun.
> Fuck the modern life. As I age, I am getting more and more grumpy. Can someone explain why electric cars have to look like a fucking spaceship!? Why can't they just be regular cars with electric drivetrain?

That's probably the result of trying to appeal to early adopters. For all the progress that's been made in shifting how people view electric cars, making them appear a bit more futuristic through design is apparently still an advantage for the marketers. We're still early enough in the transition that you can feel like you're buying "the future" today. That said, the shift towards using touchscreens for everything is really an industry-wide trend, and not specific to electric cars. They appear futuristic (which appeals to consumers), and they're cheaper than physical buttons.

If it makes you feel any better, time will probably erase that first consideration. It's the Tomorrowland problem[0]; eventually the future catches up to your design, and what once appeared futuristic becomes dated. It's the second one that's a sticking point for a future shift back towards physical buttons.

0. https://boardwalktimes.net/the-future-that-never-was-the-tom...
I dont think GoDaddy survived by KKR hiring a top notch engineering staff and knowing what direction to take the technology in. They probably did some spreadsheet magic with debt and tricked some fools into thinking that was a value add.
A typical suburban-sprawl house is in an exclusively residential pod, separated from the nearest commercial pod by several miles on a fast road with no bike lane. If a teenager on a bike can reach any kind of business without mortal peril, it’s a different kind of suburb from the ones people react so negatively to.
I thought it was achieving gravity by means other than rotation :(
I don't trust key-only auth; what if I need to access my machine from a new computer I haven't done this with before?

Is there any way to configure SSH to use a custom high-entry password that's different from the user's local password? My local password is something reasonable for me to type regularly (e.g. for sudo prompts), but I'd love to have a super long password just for SSH that I have to copy from my password manager each time.
Tell that to the surviving members of families who died at the hand of isis who do their recruiting on Facebook of all places.
And it's more than just a book, it includes playable versions of the web games, which was the last thing I still had Flash installed for.
I think the most egregious problem from a holistic perspective is their lack of prioritization for software engineering. Things like packing large amounts of specialized mathematics constructs (and whole libraries like git and markdown) into the main distribution (causing memory size and startup time problems), lack of interfaces or similar abstraction tools (which are strictly speaking not necessary from a functionality perspective, but are useful as organizational and code safety tools), and an inability to tune their garbage collector. Their debugger was also pretty shoddy when I last used it (e.g. it wasn't a priority for many years), but I'm pretty sure they have fixed it significantly by now. And hey they have macros, which just invokes the problems with lisps, but at least you can do whatever you want programming construct wise if you really want to.

"Internally" they have some poor interactions with external developers (meaning people not from MIT). [deleted a rant] In the end I suspect Linus is probably worse to work with, it probably comes with the territory, so it's not like it's a deal breaker.

All of this is to say I agree with this article: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ one of the best things a programmer can do is contribute to tools, specifically including Julia, which advance our ability to understand climate change. It really is in my opinion the best programming language to further scientific advancement. I just wish I had the capability to work with them.
Shit, I think I last used it last week! In my GUI wrapper for rsync while transferring some large files. It took about 45 minutes for one of the files.
Citation sorely needed. Every time we read about the "opiate catastrophe", Ohio or Indiana features prominently. You know, where he actually was born and also graduated high school and university. I can't believe I'm having this argument with a greenbean account. Why are you embarrassed to denigrate the Appalachian region using a permanent pseudonym?

And this is denigration, which would be accepted for no other region or nation. In the first place, because it defies logic that some lawyer with no particular sociological training would be accepted as some sort of authority about a region he visited as a child during some summers when his hectic home life allowed. Second, because blaming culture for the misfortunes of any particular group of people is the oldest trick of racists, trickle-down economists, and other awful people. This book is full of corny anecdotes proving Vance is one of those awful people; he judged this person for showing up to work late and that person for smoking too many cigarettes. Third, because ITT we've seen Morgantown WV questioned as "authentically Appalachian"; this is serious double standards.
There's no point since you'll be downvoted to the abyssal plane and nobody will see your comment.
They have to say it because otherwise people don't subscribe. I know some youtubers who never did it hut had to resort to saying it because their subscriber numbers where stagnating otherwise.
We’ve been in contact with people from Mozilla regarding Pyodide, so our intention is not really repackaging but being able to use Python server side via WebAssembly (eventually we want to get rid of our package and use Pyodide directly).

We don’t want to steal other people attention but to bring more people into the WebAssembly ecosystem, and you can only do that by helping bringing more packages to it.

If you are aware of other ways of running Python server side with WebAssembly I’d love to know more!
wpa_gui does come with wpa_supplicant in many distributions and is easy enough to configure. This helped me configure it: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-953484-start-0.html
Honestly? Take the mentality you see in the world - the bottom line comes first, the consumer wants easy consumption, security comes first, whatever else - and try to imagine where that comes in conflict with the things you love. What would have caused that conflict? What, if anything, do you see coming out of it?

And if you think Stallman was the tinfoil-hat prophet, you gotta hear about this guy Karl Marx. He predicted the economic turmoil of automation back when the US had a war over "States' Rights" to choose whether Slavery was Legal.

I predict that the US will slide further and Further into being a 3rd world nation, until suddenly, another collapse happens. US citizens wont break right away... No, they'll suffer it for a while. They'll even go hungry for a while - and I'm not talking about Detroit or Chi-raq. Im talking Seattle, Houston, NYC looking like the Rust belt, complete with bridge collapses and deaths-via-crumbling infrastructure.

China's upcoming divorce from the US markets will insulate them from the crash, but their involvement in our real estate market will only worsen the crisis for Americans. Russia, China, and the Eurozone will finally band together with their currency-basket idea upstaging the dollar. And Americans will still think we're special.

Then, when the Hoovervilles have swollen enough to be dangerous, someone will have the bright idea to mobilize and radicalize us. Still, we'll do nothing, even in the absence of Netflix and Cable TV. But that wont stop the government from trying to herd us into camps, just like the immigrants... And in those, with the forced absence of soap, sleep, food..., something will snap, and the guillotine will be reborn in fire and fury.

The Climate Change problem? Will get so bad it starts on Xenocide before anyone does anything effective - the sole exception being economic collapse. And we're going to have to shoot a few CEOs for the rest of them to take any of it seriously.

Everything from human trafficking to drug use is going to boom.

You know slavery - just barely behind propaganda, it was the second biggest influence on modern management practices. Psychology just taught us how to sugar coat it better.

Speaking of Propaganda, 1984 aint got shit on 2019. And 2030 is gonna make today look adorable.
If you read the article, you'd see that the appeals courts ruled against them - ruling that the couple did not have that right.

The state legislature passed a bill overriding local ordinances to protect vegetable gardens specifically.
Really cool reading this when I just started 2 weeks ago and I was perusing the Video Architecture docs. It's cool to see how far Twitch has come :) thanks for sharing
> The taxes paid by workers cannot be counted as the corporation's contribution to society, because this tax would've been paid regardless of the employer

This only makes sense if you're assuming the total number jobs, salaries, or GDP can't change. If you decrease the number and/or size of businesses, income tax collected will absolutely go down. That's what happens in a recession.

Whether you consider income tax to be a worker's contribution or their employer's contribution is a meaningless distinction. Any policy that attacks either side (causing fewer or lower paid workers, or fewer or worse paying employers) will reduce the amount of income tax collected.
It doesn’t add anything to discussion.
Hosting and serving video is a real barrier to uploading content for the vast majority.

Also people don’t want to go to random sites for video, they like YouTube itself. Most video is discovered and watched entirely within, not from external links.
Don't know if it makes a difference, but after checking my history, I was using -crf 21 and bumped it down to -crf 18. My brain is telling me I read somewhere to change cfc in steps of 3, but I'm not sure how reliable that is. So I never tried 20.
There is a limited set of natural, or unalienable, rights. Some guys wrote A Thing about that twelve score and three years back.

Most others are very much granted or reserved by law, contract, or custom.
You're free to not give Google money and to create your own services. Otherwise buddy, that's just capitalism.
What I am worried is that a lot of the "cool stuff" is disappearing from the web. I remember back in the day (late 90's) we had CrackStore, Phrack, Fravia, DeCSS, the box.sk domains a vibrant reverse-eng. community and a lot of really cool content.

Nowadays with the USA policing a lot of that content has disappeared, and slowly people are pushed not to do new content. There are some very small efforts in some subreddits, but a lot of this is pushed to the underground, where it is difficult to find.
I agree that statistics can help a lot in experiments and should be a part of standard education. My point here is, when physicists encounter uncertainty, they are encouraged more by the current culture to design a better experiment with deterministic theory to reduce the error, compared to analysing the results statistically. It would be better to have both, but it's not as bad as you might think for focusing more on the former one, at least for some fields I'm familiar with.
CVE-2019-11246: Another Kubectl Path Traversal Vulnerability Disclosed
I wonder if this will give a boost to a new Peertube instance dedicated to infosec content. Seems like this should be right up infosec's people alley.

Peertube uses web torrenting to distribute videos, so it should be possible to host it without needing the massive delivery infrastructure of Youtube.
Why do you want the government to intervene in the affairs of private business?
I don't think it's any coincidence that one large market with essentially zero regulation, software development, has pushed prices to literally $0.
Okay, 15 years ago. I think it was Word 2000 which added whatever lawyer features were missing (something about word count iirc). Also the stickiness wasn't entirely the word processor but also document management systems implemented as WP extensions.
Cockroaches could soon be almost impossible to kill with pesticides
My understanding was that the drivers were originally added partly in response to the "Fremont Flyer" incident, where a test train under autonomous control drove itself off the end of the track: https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/8143196966

Even today, the automation on BART is far from perfect, and the drivers are more involved than most people realize.

The trains still like to over-shoot the end of stations, requiring the driver to quickly initiate a manual stop. (The stop signal is RF based, and apparently sometimes the train misses it.)

On top of that, they often need to drop down to manual control for certain sections of track, for various reasons.
> We got a letter from the neighborhood saying the laundry was unsightly.

Florida actually has a law for that too - which disallows HOAs from banning them.
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Hey, rotation works.

There was a NASA-funded NIAC proposal about using linear acceleration (oscillating up and down in an elevator) to do the same thing, but it's pretty strange compared to just using rotation.
I think there are still lot of technical challenges to design something like this for long space missions but the design needs lot of space and resulting structure can be enormous.
Short of moving hacking tutorials to pornhub, is there anywhere out there more interested in serving our fringe cases?