skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The joy of a "rational actor" is that their utility function can be anything, and therefore their "rational" behavior can be anything - including things that an outside observer would consider irrational:)
> Cops showing up expecting something where there is nothing should not result in anybody dying, it should result in confused cops and little more.

I completely agree. I also think the man who "hired deadly swatting" should be immediately released with an apology from the society.
This all makes sense to me. I share your same expectations.

Now, I'd also expect Snowden to make sure he is not breaching those NDA's. Afaik, he is not one to make these types of mistakes. Looking forward to his response.
It was published by Macmillan, which has US offices and subsidiaries. They do fall under US jurisdiction and will likely comply with US courts.
Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations to Limit Extremism
The Karmic Oslo is the electric love child of a bike and a scooter
> Being the kind of person who would do what he did

And what kind of person are you? You’re a “good” person and Stallman a “bad” one? Stallman’s evil but you’re just ignorant? Ha!

I’m not a fan of Stallman, but your shit stinks too.
I used to manually back things up on premise but then it became just too painful and without proper raid I never knew quite when my number would come up. With BB I never worry about. Hopefully I won't ever have to use their retreival service. So far so good.
Seems like a great line up, 3 workshops and food and cocktails. Mini Kubecon in Montreal :)
Totally agree with this dude
This is the "It is illegal to inform the citizen base that the government has removed their constitutional right" lawsuit.

The NSA and FBI removed every US citizen of their constitutional right, to privacy. Edward Snowden informed the US citzen base on their constitutional rights being removed.

This lawsuit is the government saying it is illegal for any US citizen to inform all other citizens when the government removes their constitutational rights.
I think we're a little past the need for an "alleged" qualifier.
It's awesome that you're willing to help out, but increasingly these kind of interactions leave me with a bad impression -- I don't want to have to complain in a public forum to get some kind of meaningful response.

Not calling you out on this personally, just noting a general trend that's become really common the last few years.
An advocate for gay marriage, abortion, trans-gender rights etc would never have a leadership position at Chic-Fil-A and would be fired in a heartbeat if they came out with such opinions. A anti-gun advocate would not be allowed to sweep the floors at the NRA. A vegan would never be allowed to do PR for a meat plant.
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Also they almost never declare tips for tax purposes
Because a brand is all about revenue. The entire purpose of VC financing is to build a brand with outsized mindshare before the market is mature enough to have established players and then fix the operations later.
iPhone 11 Pro Preview: The Camera Hardware Changes
P2P messaging is a hard sell, in my opinion for a couple of reasons:

P2P requires knowledge of the peer's IP, which can be unwelcome depending on the messaging partner (and it's hard to make a config for do you trust this person enough to see your IP: yes, no, only if I'm on network X, not if I'm on network Y, etc)

P2P requires both nodes to be online simultaneously, so it's difficult to make work well for asynchronous messaging with smart phones or mobile laptops or desktops that are regularly turned off. Maybe you remember how Skype used to be?

So, I think you definitely want a server based store and forward messaging path to ensure delivery and for (optional) privacy from peers, and adding an optional P2P path is additional work, without a lot of gain; at least if it's text. When you start sending media, the bandwidth/storage savings from going P2P make it worth exploring.
You think there doesn't exist a single mentally healthy middle-class 17 year old girl who would have sex with an elderly man for a large sum of money? That only the poor disadvantaged girls solicit sugar daddies?

This idea is counter-intuitive to me. When I was 17 my religious convictions prevented me from having sex with anyone, but I imagine that without those beliefs I would have at least put _some_ dollar figure on the price for me having sex with a 74 year old woman, and I certainly didn't have any history of abuse or desperation.
Don't Let Congress Hand Patent Abusers Their Ultimate Wishlist
And conversely, this is why terms like "homicide" and "manslaughter" exist, because judgements in cases of one person killing another depend on specific circumstances and intent.
Yep. I would never ever house my company in a building where the landlord insists on high res pictures of my visitors being taken by their systems.
Thank you so much! We love sharing and hope it gets others to be more comfortable doing it as well (to our knowledge no one in SaaS really talks about churn rates if they can help it). The idea being, the more folks that talk about things the better. If you can avoid making a mistake someone else made because you read their story about it from their perspective, that's good for everyone!
I’m setting up a Windows VM right now.
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Please guide me how to comment here, on the posts shared
in a way this is evidence that Excel is usually not the right choice
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
Any sources on this? I don't get the impression that the protestors are well-funded.
Naive question: would't a local SQLite database be more than enough?
Not OP but Firefox on mac has a long-standing issue with webrender that causes major resource utilization issues.
California bullet train land snafus add to delays, costs
In fairness, it's still a bug, just way over the cost/benefit threshold to bisect:|
> "unwitting victims" would be more like it. Or perhaps "American citizens".

Non-citizens residing in the US were also affected. As were previous US residents who got a credit card or home loan or bank account while here.
> there are certain discussions you just cannot have

The way I look at this is through responsibility. It's like what we learned in Spiderman, "With great power, comes great responsibility."

So it's not that Stallman can't have this conversation anywhere. It's that when he has it so publicly, it makes people question whether he is wielding his power well.

Sometimes responsibility means not saying anything at all. Presumably, Stallman is at MIT for computer science and free software. Why is he speaking off topic to MIT students and alum? Presumably he could develop non-MIT relationships and have whatever crazy conversations he wanted.

More often, I think the responsibility is just to do a lot more work. If you're famous and you speak off the cuff on topics that you haven't researched, then your comments get a reach that's undeserved. It's a misapplication of your fame.

I thought that about PGs most recent luggage comments. This is something that had an answer that he could look up and share with people. Or if that's too hard, he could have gotten a thorough answer privately. Seeing him be so willfully and publicly ignorant made me question whether he deserved the power that comes with fame. Laziness like that is diminishing and eventually it gets to the point where people are so diminished that they should lose their jobs and/or positions of authority.
I actually completely agree with you; the value isn't how long it takes or how much effort goes into it -- it's how much it's worth to the user. The problem is that most contributions, individually, just aren't worth that much to a users individually.

For example, how much would I personally for a fix to a graphical glitch fixed in the Dolphin emulator? Think how hard that is to quantify! Is it worth $20? It it worth $0.00001 over thousands of users? Is it not worth anything because nobody even noticed it?

If there was a dollar amount attached to it, would it ever get fixed at all? Maybe it's value is too low to bother now that we've quantified it that way; new features are worth so much more.

Even if you sell something for what's it worth to the end user, it might not be worth doing. Most of my open source projects fall in that category: It's worth maybe $20 to an end user, and there might be handful of users, and that's definitely less than my hours are worth to make it. But that's why it's not a business.
Yes, a product that is twice as expensive as Gitlab and has like 10% of the features.
The right question is not why it was punished so lightly, but rather why it was even possible in a first place.
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Amazon Releases Data Set of Annotated Dialogues to Aid Development of Socialbots
The Purpose of Education (1947) [pdf]
Have you ever heard the story of Darth Wordpressius?

I thought not. It's not a story the HN Council would upvote.
Regus has more locations, owns the buildings instead of subleasing them, is profitable, and is valued at 3.6B. 15B would be not be a sane valuation for Wework even if they weren't bleeding money at an alarming rate.
Yeah, I especially like that Mozilla's own pages will tell me my browser is out of date when running ESR:)
Communist Party >of< China

Edit: Why the downvotes? The parent comment wrote "Communist Party China".

Addendum: CCP can be interpreted as the Chinese Communist Party.
I am sorry, I got it after posting this, I need to press the discuss button.
Atlas of Surveillance: Southwestern Border Communities
>because it’s a business expense

This here is the reason. For you and I, this is not an issue but some people can be extra ordinarily sensitive to the prices. And even if most of the customer base is fine with it, some will be quite vocal on the internet and one media house needs to run with it and Backblaze will find itself in a PR nightmare.

Though I agree that they unnecessarily wore their heart on their sleeves.

A coupe months ago, Basecamp went down and their blog post was profusely apologetic (almost as dramatic as Backblaze's blog here). People pretty much told them to shut up in the comments and carry on with their work.

That's the thing, this price increase flies in the business world. Not necessarily in the consumer world.
If you think about this as a marketing campaign for Coil then it seems to me to be brilliantly enlightened. I mean that sincerely, no sarcasm.
This is new to me too, so I can’t take any expert high-ground here as I’ve never had to do one either. From that perspective I’m glad that you wrote the blog post as I’ve learned a few things from it.

But as a customer I can say that you have a really good reliable service, and one that I’ve shopped around for. You’re effectively my only point of failure for personal artefacts and one of only a couple for anything work related. I do implicitly have an immense amount of trust in your product and let’s be honest, you aren’t charging all that much for it.

This is to say if you were to take the more direct and blunt approach next time I absolutely wouldn’t hold it against you - in fact I’d say you don’t need to devote so much sweat into something that is just another fact of life. Costs go up, I’ll get over it, so don’t worry more than you need to.

I can tell your heart is in the right place though which gives me confidence and thanks for your response too!
> Grow up, graduate, marry, start a family, buy a house

There's your problem. Don't shackle yourself to a system you already know doesn't care about you, then get upset when it's abusive.

- "Grown up" is a children's game (which somehow doesn't involve taking responsibility for them world),
- you don't need college to learn or hone a skill,
- you can love a person and not marry them,
- you can't simultaneously dislike the world and justify bringing children into it,
- and if you can't afford your house you can always sell it and live in a van.

Open Source Software is one of the few decent things people still do, even if the world they're doing it for is not.
> but Stallman, as a member of faculty, has 0 legitimacy doing it on faculty mail.

Are you saying that this kind of legal and cultural discussion should not take place in academia?
Hi - I'm sorry for the experience you had. I'm the PM for our Runner team, and we're focusing our next milestone purely on fixing some high priority outstanding bugs, that have been open for longer than they should have.

Is this the issue you are referring to about the cache issues? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/21409 If so, it seems like it got lost in our triage system, I've set appropriate labels so now it should get the appropriate visibility.
Gitlab doesn't have even basic notification centre, people been asking it for years.

Github API integration is stellar, API token permissions can be configured granularly, Github apps marketplace is awesome way to start using third party services.

First class integration experience is opposite from Gitlab goals, they try to be everything and capture every single usecase and it shows .
The fact that it's a "serious call" doesn't excuse shooting him on sight. Shooting people on sight is totally inappropriate ROE for a civilian police force in any situation.
What Stallman did isn't illegal. So some legal standard of likelyhood of physical harm need not apply. But I dispute your claim that rape apologia by an authority figure is unlikely to cause harm.
I am, I have come to believe, in the exact same situation as you, except that I have never contacted the moderators. My account is even almost exactly the same age as your account. It’s very disheartening to hear that contacting the moderators, which I have considered doing, will apparently accomplish nothing.
Passenger Assaults Against Airline Customer Service Agents at Airports [pdf]
I expect cops to not shoot unarmed, innocent men but clearly that's too much to expect and I live in a fantasy world. How come this doesn't happen in other countries despite their police also carrying guns? Are US police that evil? Stupid? Scared? Scum? Or all of the above? Because there is no excuse for this officer doing what he did nor for the prosecutor not prosecuting. This is what we call justice in America?
Yeah, the police officer should really be facing some sort of punishment as well. They were responding to what they thought was a hostage situation, and shot the first person to walk out of the house. Even if it was a real hostage situation, why assume the first person out is the hostage taker, and not a hostage?
Since they can't be made too visible: Stallman's actual comments: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6405929-091320191420...
The reason some people claim this is twofold:

First, that contrary to prior common belief, the range of possible physical strength, endurance, pain tolerance, and all types of personality expressions of women is effectively the same as that for men.

Second, that regardless of scientific evidence, the belief in differences between the sexes has been very widely used to oppress women in so many ways, including but in no way limited to prohibiting them from voting, limiting what types of job they were legally permitted to hold, and effectively treating them as the property of their husbands or fathers, with no will or agency of their own.

Until the generations that were actively involved in doing these things finish dying out, and probably the ones that were taught by them, too, claiming there is no biological difference between men and women, regardless of its veracity, will be a completely justifiable defense mechanism against being told to shut up and make sandwiches for the rest of their lives.
> the statistics are that police are much more likely to face someone with a weapon in the US.

Absolutely. And one reason we're supposed to respect the police is that they take these risks. If they instead start shooting people first, they aren't taking the risks, they are creating them.

Being a police officer interacting with citizens is more dangerous than being a citizen...but is it more dangerous than being a citizen interacting with the police?
In economic terms, sounds like the marginal utility of adding an engineer goes down significantly as companies get larger and past the start-up phase ;)
The parent's definition basically defines "free" as something that doesn't exist. It's not very useful.
I agree with you. We need to supply police with both lethal and non-lethal weapons. Anyone who thinks otherwise should strap on a vest and knock on a door tagged with a 911 "shots fired" situation. Go talk to someone on the front lines and tell them they are doing it wrong. They are scared shitless and just want to get home to their family too.
The person who did this clearly did something that they knew was wrong, and that ended in somebody dying.
Is there a constitutional right to privacy? Where is that enshrined? I say this as someone who values privacy for all.
That's quite a conclusion. This relationship between a programmer and a man who was shot during a swatting seems off. Would it be the gas station's fault who provided gas to the police vehicle en-route? A police officer using deadly force without any potential to be harmed himself is where the failure lies.
How does this compare to Gratuitous Space Battles?

https://positech.co.uk/gratuitousspacebattles/
That attitude isn't limited to WeWork or SV, unfortunately...
I have absolutely no idea what this is.
Was it a no knock raid? Context matters. If you break into someones home then it's perfect legal for them to shoot you in most states. It doesn't matter if you're a police officer or not.
Sure, but it seems weird to prioritize the life of the police officer over the people they are sworn to protect. Policing is inherently dangerous. Sitting at home playing video games should not
Exactly. Where is the accountability for the government officials who deprived us of our rights in the first place? There's been none. They made a few perfunctory gestures toward self-control, and kept right on violating the Constitution in the same ways under programs with new names.
It's the one about unlawful search and seizure.
> Somehow I convinced myself that because I introduced one level of adversity into my life (dropping out), that I was special and had completely earned all my success, and that people who weren't as successful as me just didn't work hard enough.

Do you think that's common for richer folk? That's just mind blowing to me tbh.
First sentence of the paper:

> 1.INTRODUCTION For a vehicle travelling in empty space it’s momentum, as well as it’s energy, comes from it’s fuel.

His, hers, its - are all possessives.

This is why one should have papers for publication, a CV,
or a résumé proofread by someone who can spell correctly
and understands grammar. Spell-checking software is fine,
but it will not catch everything. If it is important,
read it aloud to yourself, then get a friend to read it aloud
to you. Yes, here the intended meaning is obvious, but
this left me wondering about the accuracy of the rest of the paper,
which is not a good start for any reader of anything written.
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> without a gigantic investment in hardware to support an over-engineered replacement protocol.

Bullshit.

Almost every piece of hardware sold since 15 years is compatible IPv6. There is no need of any "expensive hardware".

The main reason that IPV6 never lift off is the lack of interest, lazyness and no will for configuration.
”The United States’ lawsuit does not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution of Permanent Record. Rather, under well-established Supreme Court precedent, Snepp v. United States, the government seeks to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden because of his failure to submit his publication for pre-publication review in violation of his alleged contractual and fiduciary obligations.”

What? Either he released inappropriate material and it should be pulled, or he didn’t, and they should leave it alone. It is my understanding that a breach of contract does not entitle one to compensation unless one can show damages. By making this statement, they seem to be saying that there are none.

They’re basically saying “he doesn’t actually reveal anything problematic, we just want to steal the profits for this work, because we don’t like him and we can.”
The person who actually made the call was sentenced to 20 years: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/man-behind-fatal-swattin...
Sure, that's what "listening and asking questions" is. But in the beginning, when you know very little, your default should be to absorb, not to espouse.
I'm working on something on this exactly. Do you mind emailing me at wow.its.nothing@gmail.com?
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Redefining words is basically RMS's gimmick.
Well that should just be about enough for each customer on Apple iWeb Cloud Services to have their own ip address once it gets started.. :')
A swat call is someone telling the police that there's an armed and dangerous person on the other side of the door.

That's not one of the instances of police, say, choking a guy selling cigarettes to death. It's a situation where even someone courageous is going to be pretty amped up.
This is a lot of America's problems in one story.
> Was rms defending Minsky in court?

In whose mind does this comment even start to make any sense? Are people supposed to only point out facts that contradict what a righteous Twitter mob is inventing if they are in the presence of a judge?
There may have been a late night Denny's involved, but the rendering engine inside the original Phoenix/Firefox came out of the existing Netscape codebase. And that had thousands and thousands and thousands of person hours invested in it, by a largish engineering org, before Firefox saw the light of day.
To what "ethno-religious viewpoint" are you referring?
If you read the post, the question is how to change the behavior, and in the US would be white collar criminals are dissuaded by jail. We could give them a social score too, that seems to work in China.
Looks like they're finally available for enterprise grid customers too! Last time I checked it was only for standard plans.
I mean, I'm posting on HN so clearly I'm an expert in... oh... damn.
4 important numbers, from the video:

WeWork's average lease term: 15 years

WeWork Tenant's average lease term: 15 months

WeWork's lease obligations: 47.2 bn

WeWork Tenant's lease commitments: 3.4 bn

Almost certainly, the video glosses over (read: ignores) the likely fact that the 47.2bn is over that 15 year average, and the 3.4bn is over the 15 month average, so this doesn't necessarily represent a shortfall in the long term.
It's not like they were knocking on the door. They'd established a perimeter like across the street from the house.
Try writing P2P software and you'll see it. NAT is like 16-bit segmented addressing. Go find some old 16-bit C programs and see what a "near" vs "far" pointer is and that whole mess. IPv6 is like the arrival of 32-bit real mode addressing with the 80386.
Toilet paper startups
Are you sure your iMessage is encrypted? Blue Green
> I recognize that some such tech is being utilized on the front end in this case, and that the problem is non trivial, but I see this as FB saying 'good enough' and not pushing as hard as they could to improve the tech to where it can be trusted to make the decision. I sense that they may be telling themselves they're doing social good by 'creating jobs'.

This seems like a weird take to me. Why would this be your conclusion rather than that the technology isn't good enough yet?
I'm working on something like this right now. Dockerized and runs on local dedicated server (Mac Mini, Old Windows Desktop -> Linux Server)

You mind emailing me at wow.its.nothing@gmail.com if you could you like to talk about this more?