skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still more work, because some people will get upset that they're not allowed to promote genocide. It still has edge cases (I've seen some hairy examples from Facebook moderation guidelines). It's also still more of a free speech issue than deleting spam is.

That doesn't mean such a ban would be bad, but it is complicated, and someone who doesn't like genocide might still not want it.
How much value does like and other sharing buttons provide to anyone other than Facebook/Google/Twitter these days? I’d argue very little.

I used to work for one of the larger social sites in the UK with many millions of unique users and we found that the social buttons got next to no engagement. Before I left we began the conversation about removing them entirely as they were just dead space on the page.
You've already linked the concept of excess to legality, definitionally. This is why you lack the ability to understand what a moral amount could be.
None of this is at all relevant to my point. SFPUC charges over $4/ccf for wholesale water. This does not include distribution costs, and this is paid regardless of whether the water is sold, leaks, or is used for firefighting. If SFPUC’s wholesale customers purchased desalinated water and managed to escape their SFPUC contracts, they would eliminate this expense.

edit: http://bawsca.org/water/rates/wholesale
An actual lawsuit has limited teeth, but the European Commission could do something. So far, it refused.
https://zenodo.org/record/2565052
But making them equal is the goal. When they are unequal we create moral hazards. Moral hazard like this has to be least appealing part of having shareholders.
In fairness the quote I responded to was this:

> The problem isn't with the corporations...

Are you saying that _none_ of the corporations with large money at stake are taking the financially rational approach of influencing the current state of the laws to have these "loopholes" or are you just saying that Activision Blizzard hasn't done so. If you're saying the latter, maybe you should edit the post I responded to to make that clear.

Edit: Small edits fixing terrible writing.
That's fair. Do you know what a moral amount would be?

I don't know, but I also doubt that anyone else really knows.
You have to compare a scooter being used 24/7 as a rental with a bike being used similarly. Pretty sure docked or dockless ride share bikes need a lot of maintenance too.
You no longer need to architect modal editors, but I'd say most people see enough benefit in it that it continues to persist, despite modern keyboards having arrow and function keys. Hell, I only just learned vim a few years ago, and it certainly wasn't because my keyboard lacked arrow keys (it didn't).
Have fun using signal with your two friends.
Such schemes are sometimes described with the tongue-in-cheek term "tax avoision".
Linking can be copyright infringement ("communication to the public" and therefore in need of permission by default) in EU, if the judge dislikes you enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS_Media_v_Sanoma
https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2017/06/breaking-cjeu-says-tha...
WaPo has been pretty fair if not overly gentle. Trump has mostly been flipping out over pretty bland and factual reporting that happens to be embarrassing for him because he keeps doing embarrassing things. And it's pretty grossly unethical to use your office to punish the media.
>Does anyone have an idea of how big 8chan and 4chan is in terms of users?

SimilarWeb (Alexa competitor) estimates that 4chan has 73M monthly visits (not visitors!), and 8chan has 16M monthly visits:

https://www.similarweb.com/website/4chan.org#overview

https://www.similarweb.com/website/8ch.net#overview
How does Hy manage recursion given the limitations there in Python?
I can't admit I understand exactly what's going on in this case, but usually the story is that companies claim they have no US tax liability on revenue kept in a non-US subsidiary.

And the same companies stuff all the non-US revenue into a low-tax subsidiary, even when it's effectively earned in high-tax ex-US jurisdictions to avoid their taxes too.
That's assuming you have a choice to not be affected by someone's opinion. If there was a pervasive culture of people posting articles on HN casually assuming that you're an idiot you'd find it much harder to ignore.

And if people on hiring committees, in fact just one person on each hiring committee, absorbed this by simply not having time and effort to expend to mentally challenge that assumption, you're pretty screwed, all philosophical arguments aside. Assuming you have to work for a living.
Few people do.

Most people attempt to fill out their returns in a rather straightforward manner as laid out by the forms. The loopholes are not published in the tax forms.
The transfer of information (i.e. reading some text) is not the same as a punch being thrown.

The punch is liable to damage your body. The information, on the other hand, has to first be processed by your brain.

Because of this processing, you can even give something like this a try: simply notice and become curious about the feeling of offense that wells up inside of you, instead of allowing it to fully take you for a ride resulting in embarrassing comments on Hacker News.
The tax law is written to incentivize desired behavior. We all benefit when you save for retirement so that you aren't a burden to society later.

But loopholes are different. If you discovered a loophole that made it so your landlord can not enforce rent collection, would you stop paying rent ? That's basically what these companies are doing.
As you may remember from the Project Maven controversy, there are a lot of people on HN and in the tech community who are fundamentally opposed to the US military being more effective at carrying out its missions.
I’ve seen a few people go flying off of their scooter and I know one person who broke their wrist. I don’t know what the miles to death rate is. If you excluded the drunk people who’ve been killed in crashes they probably aren’t too dangerous.

I’ve been concerned by the number of children on them, and a huge number of adults with children who appear to be between 4 and 7 years old. Also I’ve seen a number of people riding on streets at night, sometimes against traffic.

In regards to specific dangers. You have small hard wheels and if the scooter hits a pothole at speed there just isn’t many ways out of a negative outcome on that.
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> I searched all around my office and dug through my big box of (mostly useless) cables, but still no luck.

> Just when I gave up (of course) I found it!! Yay!!

There has to be a name for this phenomenon or a 'law'. There is a whole world of emotions that goes with it, from starting out with expectation of failure to the 'yay' exhilaration of having found it. If it is found it will be in the last placed searched, not anywhere else.
Learned Hand never sat on the Supreme Court; he was a district and appellate judge for the Second Circuit.
Some assumptions made in this article that are questionable:

- The dominant use of VR will be content consumption (I disagree personally, and think it will be communication and collaboration)

- making content for VR is expensive and difficult. (This has been trending downwards over time — game engine tech is nearly commoditized, creation tools are cheap or free, learning resources to create 3D assets and games are plentiful, and content libraries are cheap and free. VR content tends to be short form as well, so less need to have massive amounts of custom content.)
Make a great big pile of it out in the desert? These[0] guys are doing it in the forest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Kali_(Heringen)
Doesn't sound "perfectly legal" when tax authorities are running after you.
Yes, which is why I like the make target method. You can make the target apply to new files exclusively at first, then incrementally add old files as they are touched in the course of normal work.
Blizzard takes significant advantage of the product of taxes massively disproportionate to any individual. They have an obligation to pay into it how they use it, and they have the money but purposefully are going around it. There is a lot immoral about it.
Dunno, in my case the court agreed that my actions were "perfectly legal".
Thanks for the comment.
As answered to the previous comment, yes, I agree. Likely I did a poor job of explicitly saying that those advises are not generally applicable.
It usually makes sense to have a dedicated machine (pool of machines) that a properly configured to run perf tests. And nothing else is executed on them.
Settling a tax dispute with $345 million owed is indicative of doing something wrong. It's different than you just being audited.

At best it's indicative of bad accounting, but for a company like Activision Blizzard and at that amount that seems unlikely.
I think you took a major step up from something that isn't actively killing anyone to something that is.
Democracy Vouchers have been a game changer in Seattle. Lots of small campaigns that would've petered out earlier have persevered and been well funded due to community support enabled by this program.

Politicians are interacting with people they would've previously ignored, as now every voter in Seattle has $100 per year that they can invest in a candidate or candidates: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/candidate...
This business-friendly, or rather business-subservient attitude is puzzling to me.

You do know that we have the right to complain about whatever we want in democracies, and this can be one of the paths that change is enacted through, I assume. So why exactly are you trying to censor those that complain, because it makes you feel uncomfortable?

We will criticize tax evasion and even lawful-evil tax avoidance. You will have to live with it. If free speech becomes unbearable, I'm afraid the only solution right now is moving to North Korea, China or any of those countries where it's not tolerated.
> "Did you read the article? The point the article makes is..."

You're likely getting downvoted because you're explicitly violating the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
> What is that "thing" that makes us determine that a language is fat or light?

In the same way the word modern is thrown around in the context of languages that have evolved a bit, I think heaviness is a notion that is an indicator of how committed the person is to the tradeoffs made by the tech: a heavy language made tradeoffs erring on the side of technical debt and the light one has not.

But it's easier to present one's own preferences as technical facts when trying to flame or troll.

In the case of frameworks, they often make choices for you, they are opinionated. It's easier to get unhappy about it, in a bike shed sort of way
Well yes, but the review power (both nominally and in practice) does lie with the publication/venue editor[ial team], it's just that they have decided to delegate almost all that power to rotating teams of volunteers, because they can, and because they want to for obvious practical and financial reasons.

A system with an "editorial teaming willing to delegate when necessary" simply becomes the current system as the editorial team is willing and able to delegate, and it's neccessary pretty much all the time because of resource constraints - because being an editor generally also is an unpaid volunteer position done in addition to your normal work in academia.
Not fully, but spoilers and ailerons in the -8 are FBW.
If you do it legally, there is nothing illegal about it. If you do it illegally then it's illegal.

If you are doing it in such a way as to violate the social contract, then regardless of legality, I think a case could be made that it is immoral.
I doubt they dreamed up these schemes themselves. Rather they hired some big accountancy firm that does have impacts on how laws are written to do this work.
Deplatforming looks a lot like an authoritarian quarantine of a message that is on the verge of spreading. It lends credibility that isn't deserved.
I just went to the download page and it says: "Mailpile packages are currently available for recent Debian-derived distributions, including Ubuntu. The packages are architecture-independent and should be compatible with most desktops, servers and embedded hardware (such as the Raspberry Pi). They have been tested on Debian 8, Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS."

So sounds like it will run on the Librem 5 at least.
Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume
Regarding #1 and #2, I think it's even worse: there are lots of "auto swipe" apps that swipe right on everyone. It's a common hack for guys to buy Tinder Premium, swipe right on everyone in sight and then choose from the match pool.

Tinder is a super lazy product, terrible even. I wouldn't be surprised if they're optimizing for a high number of matches and happy with that outcome.
In the article they mention that they moved money to countries that are in a EU blacklist so for now i am siding with tax authorities
See "Panoptykon files complaints against Google and IAB"
https://edri.org/panoptykon-files-complaints-against-google-...
Not really, taxation at this level is extremely complex. $345 million could just be because of unclear phrasing.
Scale? Cheaper? Self-hosting a single server in San Francisco is cheaper than AWS too. AWS sells convenience and baked-in knowledge.
Citation needed. Most gun owning americians I know are generally more well-adjusted than the rest. Your own dislike of guns does not make others with a different outlook broken. Maybe your own perspective needs work.
> As far as I’m concerned, the problem is the capital cost of the plant and the plumbing to safely suck in saltwater and discharge brine and has essentially nothing to do with electricity.

Nothing to do with electricity? What is this based on? Everything I've read indicates it's a very large cost. For example, this [1] paper puts electricity's share of costs at 44% vs 37 for fixed costs.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1936-704X....
This site makes me optimistic. I see many people here want to do good things.
This pessimism is a reaction of...differnt things.
If there would be no reason to be pessimistic, so why should people be it? Why should media write it?
And right, it is a choice to look at smal/big/personal/political/international and/or global problems. Or to keep your self safe in your pink dream bubble. Everyone has a choice. But tell this to children who had to flee and are hungry.
Maybe sometimes its better to search for the root of the problems.
When i did it, i often came to this conclusion:
Some very rich, mighty and shameless people with unimaginable possibilities, live in their own bubble.
So i decided to disturb their bubble in diffent ways.
Like this.
What makes me optimistic? That everyones bubble will make poof, and will be gone. And maybe that it will be enough time to do usefull things with their money.
Because we all live under the same sky.
But even thy sky is comercialised in so many diffrent ways, people will be suprised if the would know, in how many diffrent ways.
Many people want get tuned in better things. Mostly the one, the media is writing of.
And thats everybodys chance.
Media and sites like HN, can connect so many different people and thoughts togheter.
Visions and ideas, worldwide!
I dont know a better site with more expirienced and minded people like here are. So many interessting views and articles of individuals who want to make the world a better place.
Peoples who know the systems better than others. Cause they wrote the code.
I see our media acting, i see why and how. Also i see HN. here. And i think i realy exist, so i see my world and the changes around me.
Also i see the world as a whole, with her own universal code.
A code a human never will be able to programm it on a machine.

But in the end youre right. Often it only needs to change the own view on/at something, to know hw to act.
I haven't counted myself, but UNICEF says it's over a million: https://www.unicef.org/health/files/health_africamalaria.pdf

Also "An estimated 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year."

I'd speculate that malaria seems more fixable than TB.
> This has gotten more and more extreme to the point that they are now basically against any gun control laws including restrictions on machine guns or any sort of background checks.

You are aware that ownership of machine guns is both extremely restricted and rather expensive, while almost all legal gun transfers require a background check, right? (The transfers that don't require a background check are private sales in certain states) Or are you saying that people want these restrictions to be rolled back?
You're right. I'm sure there are many such companies, I just seriously doubt Activision Blizzard in particular is one of them.

E: I edited my prior comment.
I have never thought of B before, so thanks for that. Let me challenge you by with one problem with the whole copyright system. Right now there are many works that were produced decades ago, are still under copyright, but cannot be bought at all because its not economically valuable for the copyright owner to produce a few dozen/hundred copies a year.

Society is worse off because the above is true for possibly millions of works, and while not having access to one individual work is not that concerning, in the bulk it is. A significant part of the cultural heritage of our society has been lost because of the intersection of copyright law and economics.

One reason many people support short copyright periods (5-10 years) is because they want to prevent the loss of cultural heritage. Not to mention most of these copyrighted works at this point are held by Big Media companies and not the actual creators of the work.

Do you see this as a problem? If yes, do you have a proposed solution?
I did. One American state tried to get taxes from me for money I earned in another when I was young. I disputed it via a letter and they cut it to 5% of what it was and then told me any further appeal needed to happen in person. So I’d have to fly by a certain date, spend time in court, and clear it.

I paid. Fuck the tax man.
A small collection of gotchas to regexes:
https://www.rexegg.com/regex-gotchas.html
They are called class action lawsuits. And lawyers wield them like blazing hammers. Basically, corporation A doesn’t like what you are doing so they speak to a lawyer. The lawyer puts out advertisements on busses and craigslist to find people to join the “class.” And once they have enough info they can turn the “class” into millions of people. Now you are facing lawsuit with payout in the tens or hundreds of millions. And you have to fight it and it is extremely expensive. Then at the end of the day you have spent a boat load of money and settle and the lawyer pockets 4% which is usually several million dollars. Then you wait until the next class action comes around. And thats what owning a company in the United States is like.
CBOR isn't merely _inspired_ by MessagePack. cbor-ruby forked a Ruby MessagePack implementation. Its format is conceptually and fundamentally the same.

As for the rest of the process, that HN post I linked to has a basket of links at the end which are a good summary of what happened. I still (as I wrote before) won't characterize events, I think people should make up their own mind about it. But I think it's not biasing to reiterate:

> At least cbor-ruby started with the MessagePack sources. The story is that Carsten took MessagePack, wrote a standard and added some things he wanted, and called it something else.
Ah, but you're mixing industry with skill here.
I can be an old-fart surfer and not be a paid surfer, for example.
> calls for internet platforms to better police and accept liability

Hollywood has for years been quite transparent that this is a high-priority objective and long-term campaign for them. Establishing "rules of the road" for the "wild west" internet, a thing of "little good" and free-loading "entitled" users, where most traffic is video downloading. It's one advantage of group-think ("no-one honestly disagrees with our position" so why not describe the obviously fair and uncorrupted right thing). It's only the tactics, the lobbying to establish precedents, the press story placement, the taking far-too-respected tech "down a notch", that is less discussed. So the superficiality of press coverage, of competing visions of what the internet is and should become, has long struck me as odd.
The difficulties you sight are all at the low level of platform development. The company that can create a viable AR platform will likely not have the expertise to create content, so I expect to see the platform to be open to indie creators early on in its lifetime.

In fact, I can imagine a future where this company decides that any consumer facing product is not their cup of tea, and sells/licenses chips/lenses/software/patents/etc to consumer facing companies that put the final product together.
You can probably run it on Android using Termux if it doesn't require root.
Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted 3rd Party Encryption (1997)
We of course should not eradicate all mosquitoes. We need to only eradicate the blood-sucking types.

Many mosquitoes do not suck blood; they eat plant products and / or suck plant juices. They could take over the ecological niche of the blood-sucking varieties, and can even be cultivated a little bit to support the local mosquito-eating populations of birds, bats, dragonflies, etc.
What exactly is the data being transferred? It is that the user has visited the site, correct?

The only way the third party site can know that is via third party cookies, or attempting fingerprinting as a third party iframe. Do you see any other way?

I thought that the EU already realized that this is a matter of cookies - in this case third party cookies of a site that you HAVE logged into. Browser makers should just let the user make a decision whether they want the requests to be automatically sent with third party cookies in this case — OR to explicitly approve every single time they log in using oAuth or want to share something.

Whatever happened to this proposed law from 2017, which correctly realized that it’s the Browser’s responsibility to let the user select the cookie policy they want:

https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/t...
tl;dr Carbon Dioxide traps.

I have no idea what all the tvtropes links are doing in this comment. Some weird kind of spam maybe?
If you laid down all the list nodes in a contiguous array in the correct order, sequential iteration would still be slower than an array scan.
Said smartphone assistants can be switched off and one still has a smartphone. Switching a smart speaker off turns it into a paperweight.
Everyone who has done BIOS work thinks that UEFI is a bloated mess, to put it lightly. UEFI is itself an environment with comparable complexity to an operating system. Linus' posts about it are worth reading:

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html

The result should be generation of intermediate files and the final hello.efi program file of about 46KiB on a 64-bit system

That's bigger than the whole MS-DOS 3.2 kernel.
Not really. We're discussing extremely complicated multi-jurisdiction legislation here.

A criminal conviction for tax fraud could in fact be "significant evidence", a mere disagreement by itself is not.