skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the narrative very useful. For example, she asserts that rape and prostitution feel very different, and that American laws (compared to UN ones) consider them similar in that there can be no consent in either case. But if she had just said they are different, it would just be a meaningless opinion.

Instead she tells her whole story and gives you the facts and feelings that occurred when she was raped, and the ones that occurred when she was a prostitute, the helps you understand for yourself why they are different. That's a much stronger effect on the reader than just reading person A asserts fact B without them showing the work.

Similarly the story about the drudgery of other jobs she performed that were not prostitution helps you compare what her life would be like if she didn't have that option. Then the same thing happens for filming porn vs. doing privates. A lot of people without experience might think porn stars/models don't often also do prostitution, so it's important to bring up in the narrative that a lot of the film stars were also doing privates the whole time, which makes the film work seem less pure and separate from other sex work just because it is legal.
Probably not deliberately, but something can always go wrong, which is probably why they added an additional clause that messages older than 30 days should be deleted.

More interesting is what happens if someone gets a new phone. In that case (if I understood correctly) they might ask for the sender to resend the messages with a different key. If they really are forced to add a backdoor then that's where I would fit in a MITM attack, as it is limited in scale and detectable when used excessively.
> Anyone can add ethical stipulations to the license of their choice but the result is no longer a free software license.

Yes, of course.

The question is whether we want to change that. Of course our current understanding of Free Software makes such a license outside its bounds. Of course the Four Freedoms and the OSD both prevent restrictions on use. But do the Four Freedoms and the OSD accurately capture what we really want out of free software?

To be clear, I personally lean towards "yes, they still do," but I think it's absolutely healthy and important to talk about why they do. The OSD wasn't handed down by the gods on a mountaintop; it's a set of rules that we believe facilitate a broader social purpose, and we should be always willing to ask whether we still agree with that social purpose and whether we still think the rules get us there.

(Also, it's true that "free software" might end up being the wrong term for a changed definition, but it still seems important that the free software community, including the FSF, participate in these discussions.)
You've seen a couple of actual paradigm shifts, and the dozens of hype-cycles in between. You can tell the difference between the two: what's important and what's not.

You've been up and down the stack enough to have a decent understanding of how things are implemented at the levels above and below the ones you work in. You can avoid the leaky abstractions in your stack and your abstractions don't leak on others.
But isn't the EU downsizing production of meat, and importing more over the years? (Which would be a double problem, since you now have the issue of transportation).
I sincerely hope that you (or others) will not get around to implementing this idea.
How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism
I think CarPlay runs basically entirely on the phone and the car manufacturers just add a feature to their existing software to show the pixels coming from the phone.
Exactly, there is no precedent for this
GPL and copyleft are a clever hack to weaponize Intellectual Slavery laws against themselves, but a much simpler and better solution is just to work through Congress to repeal Intellectual Slavery laws of copyright and patents.
In this context I read “complete freedom” as “use without restriction”, and that doesn’t seem to be the case with less permissive licenses. Not sure I completely understand what your comment implies but I’d love to better understand what you mean if you care to expand on that idea!
See the above thread in response to the poster making the same argument, tho in a somewhat more crass way.
I think this is the issue. They want to create these licenses that restrict people's use, whether be it "good" or "evil", of software and yet still brand them as "free software" licenses which couldn't be further from the truth. In the end , this only brews confusion and misunderstanding. My belief is that if you want to create an "ethical" license, whatever that might mean at a point in time, then do it and brand it as such but then don't come and try to pass it as "free" when clearly it's not. This way people who want to use free software (or license as such) and people who want to use "ethical" software will know where to look respectively.
you may slip up, or the system can always flag the id card if they're unable to make an automatic link to a card bought with cash, causing a human operator to get involved. If they see that you block your face everytime, they then can activate and access the total surveillance resources and flag the card.
I had these thoughts as well, especially about advanced AI,which can go far beyond of what nowadays machine learning is capable of. Yet, if mass dissatisfaction is big enough, a lot of things cease functioning, introspectively of how strong they are. However I agree with the sentiment,that it will most likely be much harder than it used to be even 100 years ago.
You may have observed that recently the FSF was hijacked by people pursuing an agenda unrelated to free software concerns.
Not to mention it's very cringey, as well as the somewhat implicit messaging where "the kitchen is not only for women", see we have a progressive man here who's preparing a meal for his wife.
>> while the U.S. won’t be able to use information obtained from British firms in any cases carrying the death penalty.

Lol. So I guess it cannot be used for actual terrorism. They can use it up until an act of terrorism occurs. Then, now that murder charges are on the table, they cannot use the same date source to catch the perpetrators? The US isn't going to waive the death penalty on every terror case. That isn't politically possible.

We have to just admit that US laws are increasingly incompatible with those of the rest of the world. Treaties are getting harder and harder to reconcile. The US needs to back off its departure from international norms.
China hates Canada, no way these tech stocks are being listed in Toronto, it’s nonsense.
There is definitely a shortage of proven executives.
That's a common mistake: read the bible. First you need to be catholic, only then you can read the bible without do the same mistake that our protestant brothers do.

I do recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civiliz...
So what large developments do you expect from the iPhone X jailbreak?
In my ElixirConf keynote, I highlighted how automatic form recovery is on the roadmap, provided we can determine that such a recovery is possible on reconnect. More advanced dynamic forms will require manual recovery, and as you said it can be done today, with 20 lines of JS:
https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/5d2f6e99112c9a67fedb2b85...

We are going to formalize the idea of a "stash" to send back up client state on reconnect, which would remove the need for this JS entirely. It is also worth noting that if someone packaged up that 20 line gist into a JS package, your application or anyone else could do `<form ... phx-hook="SavedForm">`, so "need to write JS anyway so might as well write a JS app" isn't quite accurate because it's a tiny escape hatch that doesn't require throwing away or rewriting any feature. Writing 20 lines of JS to keep shipping LV features is much different than rewriting an entire application in JS. I would actually argue the fact you have the escape hatch in this scenario is one of the merits of the library. Anyways, I hope we can keep you around once other features continue to land :)
Impact Mapping: Refocus the scope of a project on specific business goals
Computer-Age Typography: Hybrid Legibility Explains That Ubiquitous Check Font
> clearly the treatment of these individuals does not deter the countless daily immigrants who nevertheless choose- willingly- to take the risk

Have you ever met a refugee? I suspect not. Every refugee I’ve ever met had no interest in leaving their country but felt they had to for the safety of their family. They’re well aware they’re breaking the law and the consequences they face if they get caught. But when you’re desperate even the possibility of your family being separated and caged and treated entirely inhumanely is a better prospect than sticking around a war-torn country or a dangerous political environment.

Should we jail the starving person who steals a loaf of bread? The homeless person who “camps” without a permit? The old man with cancer and without health insurance who politely and half-heartedly attempts robs a bank in order to get access to health care[1]? Maybe that last one, sadly. But my point is that desperation can make a “criminal” out of anyone.

Edit - Link to the unfortunately true story for anyone interested.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/nc-man-allegedly-robs...
> They could easily include a keylogger in WhatsApp and bypass the e2e encryption, for example, and us regular folk have no way of knowing.

This would be quickly detected by anyone looking at the data the WhatsApp app was sending back to the server (this isn't hard to do on a jailbroken device).
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No, you would also have to audit the entire codebase.

You could also decompile the Whatsapp APK and do the same thing (it's Java after all).
The China problem is of our own doing, of course. Up until Trump nobody had any interest in addressing it. I'll just say nobody before him took this on because of the potential for political suicide. Love or hate him (I'm +/- around neutral, hate how he presents the presidency, like most of what he is actually doing when he is not busy saying stupid things) forcing a realignment of China is a good idea.

This had to be done 25 years ago, when it would have been far easier to accomplish. Attempting this today is equivalent to not detecting cancer early enough for a simple operation to extract it fully with minimal consequences. Instead, we wait until it has metastasized and nearly have to kill the patient in an attempt to cure him. Notice my use of the word "attempt"...because there are no guarantees.

The China problem, I think, can be boiled down to a few important line items:

- Intellectual property theft
- Currency manipulation
- Terrible disregard of the environment
- Objectionable labor practices
- Predatory practices with foreign entities operating in China
- Fraud in regulatory testing and standards
(UL/CE/TUV mark from China testing means nothing)
- Lackluster of participation in foreign aid
(for the second largest economy it is embarrassing)
- Asymmetric property ownership laws
- Abuse of the global postal system
(free shipping from China because the US taxpayers subsidize
their packages within the us to the tune of US $500 million per year)

There's probably more, though I think these are some of the main points. If any other economy behaved this way they would be universally scolded in around the world. If the US, Germany, France or the UK behaved this way we would have massive marches all over the world. China does this and more and people, for the most part, are either oblivious to it or don't care. The problem with this is that they are sacrificing their own jobs and their kid's futures for their inaction.

I think the value of playing with reasonably similar rules is that one entity can't destroy other players by using out of the norm methods to destroy them and then gain supremacy. This is why we have such things as antitrust and monopoly laws. This is why such methods as price fixing and bribery are illegal in the US and Europe. This is why we respect intellectual property, fight for humane labor practices, respect safety testing of the products we use and help less fortunate nations to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and generally speaking.

China is almost the diametric opposite of this. And for that they likely deserve a bit of a reality check today.

Non an easy problem to fix. Others have allowed this cancer to metastasize for decades. To fix it today you have to be a complete a--hole and go for broke. It looks like the job fits the guy in the White House. Not sure if he will succeed. The other problem is that, in western democracies, leaders and some policies tend to only survive term limits and election cycles, while in China they know they can stay the course for decades.
Biases color this judgement so it is very hard to judge where it ends.

Im about to say something to illustrate this bias please think before you react. Additionally I don't actually believe what I'm about to say.

"The Holocaust wasn't that detrimental to society. This is just my opinion, feel free to disagree with my points in a civil way."

The statement is neutral and civil but the word Holocaust ignites an incindiary bias that has no basis in logic because the logic behind why isn't even stated yet. Theoretically such a comment should not receive any downvotes based on the premise alone, yet knowing how people are, it will get voted down.

Replace Holocaust with taxes, bitcoins, or a more neutral word and the votes will shift. This is the same kind of phenomenon that is affecting comments about the CCP. Your bias prevents you from recognizing what is civil and what is not.
This orangutan was born in captivity, sold, had a baby in captivity, had her baby sold and taken from her, and now she’s gained some respect of her life in a sanctuary for her kind. It’s actually pretty high up in the scale of bad things that humanity does to itself.
I don't know how down voting people can be confused about the truth of your statement. They can obviously give up communism in all but name and still retain authoritarianism and all the secret police, labour camps, informers etc that go with it.

China is literally selling their surveillance tech (with backdoors of course) to Western local government...
https://theconversation.com/amp/is-chinas-social-credit-syst...
Reflections On Trusting Trust:

https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p7...
Copyright law is bad, so let's all make it worse?

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.
This makes me feel bad about clicking Install > Activate on all those WordPress plugins every day.
The country has since 1972 started “re-education” camps of the Muslim Uighurs [1], the confuscian Falun Gong [2] and the buddhist Tibetans amongst others [3]. This is not to mention their social credit system that shut anyone voicing dissent as well as their family from taking public transit, transacting, starting businesses and many other things [4].

Moreover, they are allegedly forcibly extracting organs for donation from people in re-education camps and prisons [5]. If true that is just evil.

How can a country that oppress people they didn’t in 1972 and moreover do so more effectively be freer?

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/worl...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong

[3] https://www.voanews.com/south-central-asia/tibetan-re-educat...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

[5] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/news/chi...
I had almost the same thing happen once - but the server was serving requests 'very quickly' because it was caching everything based on the LB requesting it.
> This applies in the US too in most cities I’ve done business in.

That they note that you don't have a right to privacy is the only odd part. It's fairly common around the world to have to present your passport / passport details at hotels for their records. It's definitely not strange that China's hotels would require that.
> In the US, ITAR could hypothetically be used to make open-sourcing of cryptographic algorithms illegal.

Wikipedia has some good info re: export of cryptography[0].

In addition, two circuits (Ninth[1] and Sixth[2]) have ruled that source code is protected by the First Amendment.

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley
Let's imagine a hypothetical. Imagine we take a fresh planet, mostly identical to Earth. And we populate it with 1 billion infants, a billion robotic baby sitters, and no external influence. Our robotic Rosies will all behave identically and simply ensure the children do not starve and receive a homogeneous education. All will also be raised in mostly homogeneous settings. Do you believe that there would be no murderers, or others engaged in grossly deviant behavior in this world?

It's a fun thought experiment for quite a lot of social (and economic) issues really because it makes you consider notions of nurture vs nature and how many things are likely to emerge even without the preconditions which we have which do make them much more likely. For instance I'd certainly agree if we took 1% of our Rosies and forced them to sexually and physically abuse their charges, we'd certainly see a much larger ratio of those 1% end up as psychopaths, but that doesn't preclude the fact that, as I think you'd agree, you'd also certainly see plenty of psychopaths within the other 99% as well.
If it's in an academic's employment contract that they don't get to keep the rights to their academic papers it means 1) they already got paid and 2) they can't give away work that they already sold.
> Spot on. And excutives are the 0.1% of the staff. They climbed up to the top levels of responsibility.

I think you meant top levels of decision making.

Executives rarely deal with the fall-out of bad decisions. Management and normal workers get axed, executives get a golden parachute and a cushy board job at another company from one of their fellow executives. In other words, they carry zero consequences and thus zero responsibility for their actions.
WhatsApp contains significant amount of native code, making it much more difficult to analyze.
These drugs were originally developed by a company called Medarex, based on academic research. Bristol Myers bought Medarex in 2009 I think.

From what I understand, Bristol Myers almost didn't develop the drugs. Back then the idea of targeting the immune system to treat cancer wasn't a mainstream idea. It's a very good thing they moved forward with them!
Massive discussion of the submission of the ArXiv link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21078068 (335 comments)

Another submission, this one from gizmodo, but with no comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21098129
If "free software" is the wrong term for the license then the discussions might not be relevant at all to the Free Software Foundation or the free software community.

I highlighted right above how one of the desired use cases of this proposed "ethical" licensing model is to restrict a fundamental human right of the users of the software.

In the best case, what we are talking about is not free software. In the worst case, there may be actors involved in these discussions hoping to use outrage mobs to destabilize the free software movement, in particular application code still licensed under GPLv2.
Obligatory racelbythebay post: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/21/lb/
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> No, you would also have to audit the entire codebase

Look no further than the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability
GPL doesn't prevent that unfortunately.
Why would they want to prevent spammers from sending them money?
Contrarian is probably referring to the Rasputin like celebrity pundit economists who are funded and promoted by undeclared vested interests. Like the realtors backing Friedman (or was it Hayek?) and those Freakonomics guys.

I'm TOTALLY FINE with lobbying, patronage, sponsorship, and bias. More than fine. If its declared.

But even "serious economists" like you have to admit there's personalities claiming expertise you know they lack. The whole Gell-Mann Amnesia thing. Those times someone on TV spews some nonsense that makes you want to kick a puppy in outrage.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/national-park-glacier-war...
The rest aren't much better.

The Express and Telegraph were right facing, honest but partisan newspapers forty or fifty years ago. Now the Express is a racist comic, and since the famously and comically reclusive Barclay brothers bought it, the Telegraph is working on getting down to the Mail's level. The Mail are currently working on buying the i.

There really isn't much left on the right that you can rely on. Which is depressing considering most of our press is right leaning.
> If I can compile the code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren't any backdoors

Where does that leave the rest of society? Having open source software and hardware is not enough, we also need laws that prohibit mass surveillance and support our efforts to uphold human rights.
Agreed, idiot-punditry is alive and well in all areas of specialized domain knowledge. Charlatans make me want to kick things in outrage as well.
There weren't a lot of vendors employing anti-salesmen to convince people not to buy stuff, or promoting research about how their products didn't work.

The sellers of snake-oil will always win over the denouncers of snake-oil, because very few denouncers of snake-oil are also willing to dedicate their lives to snake-oil.
Some first shared teaser tweets by Elon Musk with some incredible photos.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1177662806117584896

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1177314408604680192
Just a side note, IMHO 'intellectual property' and the associated concept that ideas can be owned is gross enough that you don't need to take it any further.

Again my opinion, but calling it 'slavery' moves into the realm of histrionics and to me undermines your overall position. The fact that you can thread a few needles to make the leap doesn't really justify where you land, especially while there are people suffering actual physical slavery in the world today.
Could you explain why people from small, poor countries would be identified as malicious bots by Cloudflare?
> Use signal

I would, except it requires a mobile phone number.
One can infer that the NSA cannot break strong encryption used in WhatsApp.
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Yep, it's a super difficult problem. Having the source code available, and being able to validate the builds yourself makes everything a lot easier.

It's one of the reasons the Debian project has worked so hard at reproducible builds: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About

Bugs can certainly occur (like Heartbleed etc) but the alternative (closed source opaque binary blobs) is much worse.
@mods pls change title
I think we’re better off dealing with people as humans instead of trying to force them to conform to homo economicus.
I've enjoyed using this site. Please make it HTTPS by default, though.
Idk, I feel a lot of the current “bads” people are committing on others or suffering are due to people not standing up to trolls and bullies.
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> And it's misleading

And worrying that a large number of readers interpretation of the article was influenced by a headline. We really have to do better and be vigilantly aware of how media and power influences public opinion, especially during times such as these.