skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it makes other devs consider similar clauses and at one point it might be widespread enough to show some sort of effect (e.g. less people willing to work for the goons).

You can already attempt to convince people to not do that though, on a massive scale, even. You do not need licenses for that. Licenses are a legal matter. Working for the military or secret services is completely legal, but many would say that it is unethical in some or all cases. Why would you need licenses to achieve the goals you mentioned, or how are licenses of any use to achieve these goals, or what is it about licenses that inherently make them more effective in doing that?
Free software means that anybody can use it. Even people you don’t like, whether that is Amazon or the US military. You can add whatever restrictions you want to your own software, but it doesn’t seem “free” if it restricts what I can do with it.
I agree, just not that the special status should be codified as law (yet). There are plenty of people problems to solve.
This is going to be a person who spends all day solving every problem my business doesn't have.
It shouldn't be that hard to believe. The reality is some people are born with biologically or structurally dysfunctional brains.

Is it hard for you to believe that someone could be born with schizophrenia? What about autism? What about poor impulse control?

When you think about the complicated interplay of social interaction in HEALTHY humans, which includes their innate capacity for violence (We definitely are part hunters with a propensity for war), and you compare the things we know that can go wrong and produce mental deficits of one form or another, it really shouldn't be that surprising that some people in the population would also be born with distinctly anti-social tendencies of one form or another.

Brains are complicated... there's all kinds of interesting things that happen too that may be related. For example, the disgust response of humans is typically lessened or even reversed during sexual arousal. So you can have almost a complete flip in behavior depending on context! The regions of the brain responsible for aggression and sexual arousal are also really close together and related. So is this really that much of a stretch?
My colleague and I had a discussion about the world going down the drain.He argued that it was never as bad as it is now. I disagreed with him,as I think people had so many 'we had enough' moments since the beginning of the humanity,that I see no reason why 5,10,15 or maybe after 40 years someone in China or the USA will say 'Screw this' and it will eventually snowball into another revolution,which will take all these CCTV cameras and social profiling to hell.
The opposite, I have read the Bible and it clearly supports slavery, stoning homosexuals and insolent children and many other things that are the opposite of a good civilization
I don't think the pendulum swung too much towards the experts. Just a few weeks ago, there was an article here on Hacker News (I can't find it at the moment), according to which climate scientists and climate change deniers get almost the same coverage in American news articles and I don't think this is a topic where the truth is in the middle.
Sure, but the Signal source code is open source. I've been compiling it myself for years on Android (and signing the binary with my own key). They can't silently push a binary from the Play Store and overwrite my binary.
Every single time the topic of surveillance or heavy-handed governance comes up, I'm surprised to see how nobody brings up the fact that it's always one-sided:

They can see you, but you can't see them.

This is tyranny.

The people in power can do anything anytime anywhere they want and you'll never know, unless other people in power tell you about it.

There is an ever deepening divide in our society and eventually the people on the lower side will never be able to touch the people on the upper side, and if there's ever a global catastrophe, we'll be left behind to fend for ourselves.
A monkey has human rights in a country where humans don't.

If that doesn't annoy you, you are warped.
>>not much will be investigated.

I live in the UK and I feel like this is the crux of the issue. I am an active member of a sports car forum in the UK and it's terrifying how little police does in case of theft, even when the house was broken into to get the keys. If you get someone to come out and write down a report that is a miracle in itself - in 90% of cases you are just given a case number and told to speak with your insurer, nothing is ever done. I know a guy whose Range Rover was stolen, he reported it, no one came out - then few days later found it parked in a car park nearby, he rang the police to tell them that he found his stolen car, where it is, and asked if they want to come over and maybe catch whoever comes for it(or you know, maybe take fingerprints and such)? Nah, he was told that if he still has the key he can just take it, they don't have any officers to actually come out anyway. I have friends who were robbed, burgled ,and literally nothing is ever done. There is zero police on the roads around where I live, I'm actually surprised people still follow the rules of the road because realistically, the chances of ever running into a police car are somewhere around zero.

It just feels like police in the UK has been gutted to the point that unless you are literally being shot/stabbed, there is not enough resources to actually help or investigate anything. It's a shell of a functional service.
Thanks for your clarification, I edited this post.
An interesting point came up this past summer when discussing allergies in cities. The trees that are planted in cities tend to be male since female trees will bear fruit and are messy.

I wonder if the lack of diversity (yes even in trees!) is causing problems. If there were a mix of male and female would trees be able to evolve or at least grow more offspring.
Yes, in fact, any form of perceived inequality is detrimental to mental health and eventually to physical health.

This is a natural competition mechanism. It's not at all specific to modern economic systems. Pretty much all animals arrange themselves in a "pecking order". It's particularly pronounced in sexual selection.

However, let's say I work less than you and therefore I earn less. This is fair, I can rationalize it, but it's still a numeric inequality and it shows up in a statistic as such.

Therefore, you can just say "inequality does X", it's too simplistic. That's my whole point.
> "I didn't read that"

Why comment if you didn't read the article? It's in the first paragraph: "Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty"
British tanker docks in Dubai after detention by Iran
It would be possible to write a learned program to simulate browsing habits. It is ironic, in a way, that you would need to track yourself, to avoid tracking.
I agree that it could, but I feel like this might be one of those situations where you just have to choose between very imperfect alternatives. If you use techniques like this, you might get wrong information. If you don't, you might get no information at all.

Maybe sometimes it's better to get very unreliable information and try to confirm it independently, the classic example being if they say something only the killer would know like where the body is buried.
FB's history suggests they have a culture of not blowing the whistle when shady things are going on.

I suspect most people want to keep their $500k+/year jobs instead of sticking their necks out. My friends who work at FAANG are largely mentally checked out, and just do it to collect their monies and retire ASAP. You can't pay rent with good feelings.
Doesn't Affero GPL cover this?
Yes that's possible and it is anonymous. I've clarified this in the edited post.
Yes, this is exactly the use case we want to target. What's your cloud infra? We can easily run inside your AWS VPC. If you have your own private cloud, we can run there too - just need to disable the S3 dump. The only dependency we have is Postgres.

Happy to help you setup - Please email soumyadeb@rudderlabs.com OR join our slack https://rudderlabs.herokuapp.com
> Reduce childhood poverty and you’ll improve results.

Everyone knows this, but wealth redistribution is opposed by those who can prevent it from happening, i.e. those with wealth.

So we continue wasting taxpayer’s money and instead funnel that into some VC/PE/index fund owner’s pocket.
I use to defend Telegram but they are technically UK based AFAIK.
Which is why I used GPL as the example -- it requires modifications to be shared. BSD really wouldn't be affected nearly as much.

If we lived in a world where all free software was more like BSD, projects would look a lot less like linux, and a lot more like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel%29
The name remains me of usenet :)
Looks like they copied our ARGUS system, which can be mounted on drones to cover entire cities 24/7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
The US is likely to have fewer infractions, because they make the rules.
1) If someone wants to find something you are "hiding", they will anyway. It's always been like this. Encryption is never a protection against this.

2) Personally I still think e2e encryption is not a secure solution on operating systems that runs godmode 3rd party, eg. google play services: it relies on a key that can be stolen too many ways too easily. Signal included.

3) internet eons (20 years) ago we nearly all used plain text IRC, closed source ICQ, AIM, etc, apart from a few. Recently I started to question the usefulness of "encrypt everything": we do need a way to verify the content from end to end, but is encryption really the way to do so? Are there any other ways, signatures, hashes, etc?

4) All that said, I'm not surprised. Skype used to be p2p, until M$ moved it to server-client, because "battery life". Everything is moving back to the Eternal Mainframe in this cycle.
This generalisation is unhelpful.

You may wish to look at the work of organisations like the Nelson Trust who provide a package of support to women.
Please correct the title to:

"China's super camera can pinpoint a specific individual among thousands of people"
You are confusing anecdotal data (a collection of individual experiences, possibility collected in a systematic way, with structured sampling etc), individual anecdotes ("but when I did went there... ")(which people sometimes call 'anecdata'). It is wrong for anecdata to be given equal weight in an argument to systematic collection, whether qualitative or quantitative. She is not doing either of these things. Instead she explains her history, and then explains the impact of shutting down 3rd party sites has on risk to sex workers. Like many experts in a field, she sees that simple solutions are not going to work.
> I think it’s going to be as bad as a population-adjusted version of the Troubles regardless of which option is ultimately taken.

I'm not seeing it myself; it's not even as bad as the early 2000s days of anti-globalisation riots. There's only going to be violence if the government manage to successfully order it before they get removed, or if they somehow manage to defy the Benn act and achieve No Deal. It turns out there's even a limit to how much Farage can openly incite violence before the police finally agree to take a look: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-...

The key is realising how much Brexit is astroturf. And Farage himself provided a nice demonstration by quitting UKIP and transferring all the attention to the Brexit party, thereby proving that it's his personal movement (with the aid of the newspapers) rather than a broader-based one.
I mean, I agree. I'm not in favor of "acceptable casualties", I'm just saying that the mainstream opinion is changing.
Yep, the chat log backup basically renders WhatsApp completely insecure. They also constantly nag you inside the app to enable it. This is how they caught Michael Cohen (and presumably others). Unfortunately Signal does it, too.
The odd thing about this topic is that I think nobody has articulated the fear of legalizing sex work well.

The reason most men don't want to make sex-work legal, deep down, maybe so deep they don't realize it, is because sex holds such symbolic importance in our society.

The fear is that legalizing sex work would have the side effect of morally legitimizing sex work (i.e. making it less shameful), which in turn would push us a bit more toward a world where we might see the people hiring numerous sex workers as a status symbol rather than a shameful secret.

Imbalance in wealth is a loaded topic. But imbalance in sexual satisfaction is a much heavier one, particularly for those at extremes.

That said, I don't have an overall opinion on the issue, this is just to try to elevate the debate.
Even more minimally, just require them to publish their prices. If you change $10 fifteen time, $50 once, and $150 eight times for a procedure, publish all of that.

And all group buyers should have to publish what they paid for each procedure too, to be fair to the doctors.
> The non commercial clause in the creative commons is also sth like this: free for non-commercial usage, all others have to ask.

Perfectly fine. But then it's not free software, or in this case free creative work. It's as you said: it's free only for some which makes it unfree in general.
dgd was a cool project. i remember when dworkin was talking about persisting the world state to disc. i was pretty sure that ldmud also supported `ed`. super fun stuff!
I couldn't have written it better myself.

On a related note, the person behind the Hippocratic License (HL) which they define as "a modified MIT license that specifically prohibits the use of open source software to harm others" was recently asked by OSI [1] to modify the language in the original document since it might've led people to wrongly believe that the aforementioned license was Open Source Software and that software distributed under it was Open Source Software.

[1] https://archive.is/hKA41
Attack or cooperation with custom soft keyboard makers is much easier. It may only give you one side of the conversation but no ones seems to care if those are secure. As long as they do a good job of spell checking.
Yes. Cancer treatment is very, very invasive.
In general, it's not. Only when the license is such that using the software is impossible, even when the use is entirely in line with free software principles. You're effectively writing non-free software, but masquerading as free, and stealing its oxygen.
Even a 10% can rightly be considered a "plummet" in many business contexts.

If a stock drops 10% in a day, that's gigantic. Considering how precarious the profitability of news organizations can be to begin with, a 10% drop that can't be reversed could be the difference between staying in business and folding, depending on how costs are structured.

If your traffic decreases by, say 10%, that's huge -- that's a plummet. (If your traffic decreases by 80%, you don't need adjectives anymore -- you're probably out of business now.)
This is so cool. Great job!
It doesn't have to be whatsapp that "steals" the key, we have zigote and google play services to do that.
They have a legal entity registered in the UK which they can drop any time.
Whenever I hear about these kinds of things I always think about when they put a gigapixel camera on a little airplane above Baltimore and flew it around all day every day. Being able to just retroactively track cars and people had such shocking power.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...
Nothing funny about the Daily Mail, it's the mouth piece of the reactionary idiots on the right (there are just as many on the left before I get tagged as a liberal) and has been for a century give or take.

This is the newspaper that had an editorial starting with "Hurrah the Blackshirts".

https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2017/oct/31/horrible-h...

Other than using it as a way of keeping an eye on what some people in my society will believe (because the Mail told them to) I see zero merit in it's continued existence.

It's a cancer with a masthead.
I thought it was Berlin.
I'm the author of some popular open source software, but I don't have any illusions about the relative ease of building my software. This author sounds like they are trying throw their weight around, but I'm not sure they realize how much software is easily reproducible, given the right incentives, with nothing more than a spec. Open source is a convenience, and that's why people use it. Pretending that you can have serious influence over what companies are allowed to do with your software, outside of a very narrow and legally well-defined area, is seriously misguided.
A monkey has human rights in a country where humans do not.

Don't dare "logical fallacy" me.
There's nothing you can do that won't potentially skew what a person says. They've managed to verify at least 57 confessions so far, so that seems like a pretty good result even if the other 57 are fabricated.

Personally, I'm not bothered by building up the serial killer's ego. The important thing about imprisonment is that he's prevented from killing more people.
although you anonymously purchase the oyster card, you can be de-anonymized the moment you scan the card, as face recognition links you with that card.
Inequality is usually only looked at at the national level. But it should be looked at at the international level.

For the decades following WWII, Americans didn’t have to compete with much of the world. Those economies were closed off and burdened by counterproductive rules and restrictions. American workers had the leverage to extract more income.

But once those countries opened up, Americans had more competitors. Most Americans still sit comfortably in the GLOBAL 1%, but now many more people around the world have the income to do things like buy medicine, have sanitary and safe living conditions, go to school, and even retire. More people are living longer, healthier lives and fewer are having to bury their children.

Economic systems are very very complicated, and trying to explain them in a way that humans will even begin to wrap their minds around requires assumptions and simplifications. But it’s better to have a profession that is iteratively improving our understanding of human behavior and incentives than leaving it to our evidently flawed instincts and intuitions that has led us down the path to human suffering more times than not.
Never mind their wife / daughter.

A bunch of people in this thread are saying there's nothing wrong with sex work, but if I offered £30 for them to give me a blowjob not one of them would take the money.

There's a weird disconnect here: people think women selling sex enjoy it, and they don't recognise that the vast majority of women are only selling sex because they have no other option.
They rolled out debounce and throttle fairly recently. There's also some very compelling work on a component abstraction (runs in same Liveview process).
A developer goes to a DevOps conference
Buffon's needle or how ants estimate nest size
Effective Ways of Managing Emotions
We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone
The least biased comments should be from people who have lived in China for a year or more but are from the United States. There are plenty of people who have done that.

Anybody with that kind of background care to comment on whether or not china is actually an unliveable totalitarian regime where your rights are constantly trampled on, on a daily basis?
He is saying that he didn't interrupt that from the article--not that he didn't read the article.
Automation via Reinforcement Learning
Bootstrapping a Bug Bounty Program
This is amazing news. Many of the articles about "a cure for cancer" that get posted here and elsewhere don't pan out, but this is the real deal. Obviously the goal isn't 50% survival - it's 100% - but we've come a long way.

I was diagnosed with melanoma in 2010. At the time, the standard of care for melanoma was remove it surgically... and then cross your fingers and hope it doesn't come back.

During the 3 month interval between when I was first diagnosed and when we learned that the cancer had spread, that changed. The first paper showing an overall survival benefit for melanoma patients (by dosing them with ipilimumab) was published in the NEJM in June 2010. Although ipilimumab (marketed as Yervoy) wasn't approved by the FDA until the next spring, I was able to get access to a very high dose of the drug through a clinical trial.

The trial was weird in a couple ways. First, I can get on clinicaltrials.gov, pull up the results of my study, and calculate that if I'd been put in the placebo arm of the trial, there's a 25% chance I wouldn't be here to write these words. That's a strange thing to know.

Second, the side effects were really unusual and unpleasant. I didn't have to endure the acute toxicity you get from chemotherapy, so that was a blessing. On the other hand, immunotherapies (like both of the drugs referenced in this study) mess with immune regulation mechanisms that apparently aren't supposed to be messed with. My personal experience ranged from the mundane to the miserable: fatigue, severe acne, absolutely excruciating eye infections, and other stuff I won't get into here. I'm still dealing with some of these issues almost a decade later, but the key point is that I'm here to deal with them!

Ipilimumab was the first step; James Allison recently won a Nobel prize for discovering the protein that it targets. Nivolumab (marketed as Opdivo) actually gives even better performance, so nivo is the standard and is sometimes supplemented with Yervoy (or so I understand; I'm not a physician.) I can only imagine what the side effects of the combination therapy are like. Remarkably, both drugs were developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb.
Signals backups are encrypted.
You can infer a lot of information from the metadata, like the volume and timing of messages.
You don’t think journalists tried to “get their act together”? This very forum has people copy pasting entire articles from paywalled websites, not to mention the innumerable posters complaining about journalists asking for payment in the first place (I.e. complaining about paywalled websites).

I think it’s false to say “news outlets let themselves get killed”. If it’s that easy to say, then go ahead and put forth a business plan that can succeed even with people copy pasting your text to different websites for free consumption.
I think this is a slippery path.

Freedom 0 says: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.

If free software moves away from this how do we handle the curation of acceptable and not acceptable uses? This is a can of worms I 'd rather be left unopened.

I agree that there is a problem about monetization of software and I welcome the discussion about it. Abolishing freedom 0 however is something I 'd be very hesitant.
Google Achieves Quantum Supremacy. Is Encryption Safe?
Yes, it is a real problem. Cancer treatment is generally not a walk in the park, and you'd be administering it to people who never would have otherwise need it. Imagine having portions of your body removed and/or receiving brutal treatment for no real purpose. Further, these tests have false positives and even in the best case that could cause undue stress and strain.

It's been a while since I've been in the field, but at least as of several years ago the oncologists I knew were starting to turn against heavy pushes for early screening for these and similar reasons.