skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally, limited liability wouldn't apply to people making decisions for the company: if a CEO decides, for example, not to recall deadly exploding cars because of a cost/revenue analysis, the CEO's 401k should not be off limits as a source of funds for a settlement against the company.

I don't know why you assume you benefit from this not being the case: when Ford was sued for the Pinto, shareholders of Ford lost money which they wouldn't have lost if the decision makers had paid more of the settlement.

One possible way to regulate this is related to voting and non-voting shares. If you want to invest in a company without taking on liability, you can invest in non-voting shares--since you can't make any decisions for the company, you can't be held liable if the company decides to do something wrong. But you shouldn't be able to take part in the decision making of a company without also taking responsibility if you decide to do something wrong.
I'm sure selling data to the NSA, federal, state and local governments is very lucrative to these companies and is a primary revenue stream.
is this in essence a convex-hull problem, except instead of closing, we continue?
Taking ayahuasca when you're a senior citizen
I don't have any obligation here! I'm just sharing my own little experiment, which you are free to disregard.

While providing little details, it is actually providing value to some here.

In terms of measuring success & picking stacks, I have also a good experience (after 35 years of coding - I hate to mention that and this is no "call to authority", but I've seen a fair bit of stacks), and Elixir is a good investment at the moment for my use-cases.
I think you are very confused about the maturity of authoritative DoT.

Have a look at https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dprive/documents/

None of the authoritative DoT drafts have even been adopted by a working group yet, so based on the usual IETF timescales means they are probably years away from an RFC.

There are still substantial problems to be worked out wrt working out if an auth server supports DoT without slowing things down horribly, and working out how to authenticate a server without getting mired in EPP and the ICANN/registry/registrar policy swamp. The threat model needs to be clarified: do we need to protect against active attacks (much more difficult and stronger authentication required) or just passive snooping (which allows opportunistic upgrade). Does TOFU make sense?

So many questions still to be resolved, as it were
I think the whole conversation is silly; FP is another tool in my toolbox. Yes, with some effort I can accomplish most jobs with a crowbar, but why would I do that?
The passive voice of "Facebook...has been assailed" is amusing given that the present publication has been the one leading the charge.

The central exhibit of this piece is an assertion is that a political ad should be censored by Facebook and others because it "falsely claimed [Biden] committed corrupt acts in Ukraine". It did not make such a claim. The ad, which was much harder to find than the dozens of articles declaring it "false", repeated a video statement by Biden that he used a US-backed loan deal to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, and it repeated a statement by the Ukrainian prosecutor claiming he was fired because he was investigating a company associated with Biden's son. But other sources assert that the US wanted the Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was corrupt himself, or because he was getting in the way of other corruption probes.

See https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/fact-trump-tv-ad-misleads-... and https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-20... for the ad and two fairly well researched but opposing takes on the issue.

This isn't libel, this isn't accusing someone of a crime, this didn't fabricate sources or quotes: it's just political innuendo. Demanding censorship of electoral material because it's tacky or slightly misleading by dubbing it "false propaganda" doesn't seem right.
Either xfce or dwm. Here's a great guide to OpenBSD on a 5th generation X1 carbon: https://jcs.org/2017/09/01/thinkpad_x1c
thanks so much Gil :)
Unless this is a development from within the last year, this is not universal.
saw this great summary on a comment about minecraft servers and griefers...

"The lower the cost to get in, the more people who violated trust. The higher the price, the less people who violated trust. When personal reputation was on the line, no one violated trust."

Which sums up the issue nicely.
You know what would be a great comparison? The amount of money in/out of the Mozilla foundation way back in their start when they had an equal 10% market share against IE6 (probably around 2003 or 2004?); along with breakdowns on what they spent it on.

They're kinda in the same boat with Chrome that they were with Microsoft/IE way back in the day, but the composition of the company and user base has changed a lot!
Here's a list of Bluetooth security problems according to NIST: https://twitter.com/dchest/status/952981861080461312 (full PDF: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpubli...)
The comment specifically says: "I can adjust the heat to 55 when nobody is there which saves a lot of money and more importantly I can ensure the heat is not turned off (which could cause frozen pipes) which some guests do for some reason."
It's not particularly popular/widely advertised. The handful of people I know who have done it are all art enthusiasts. Probably the mild inconvenience of getting the painting back to your room is a factor here. There's a £30 deposit per painting https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/kettles...
Yes, I am being superlative. However the traditional system would not function without all those parts - bitcoin effectively accomplishes many of these functions with compute alone, while traditional stock market uses compute for a much more limited scope. I simply want to point out this vast discrepancy in scope of comparison.
This is exactly why the hypothesis is weak. At the moment it postulates a particle that only ever manifests in such a way that it explains gravitational behaviour at a microscopic scale, in certain observations, and has no other detectable interactions or properties whatsoever. There’s no theory of how it forms, no theory of how it might be created or annihilated, no evidence for it in any particle physics experiments. We just have this one class of equations that produce unexpected results, so we put in an extra term and say were done. That’s just not good enough to say anything definitive about what it is.

Physicists know that’s not good enough, and that it’s a major problem. I hope we do make progress, do come up with further experimental evidence or ideas for experiments we can test. For dark matter I think that’s actually likely, but I’m not so convinced about dark energy, there the evidence is a lot thinner.
Into air that's not in the stadium or street. As long as the cool air is dumped into the bowl of the stadium, it will remain there.

All you need to do to make it work is use a compressor capable of high ambient temp. operation, like these:

http://files.danfoss.com/TechnicalInfo/Rapid/17/Article/Komp...
In my experience, distance is the norm. I'm not sure I've ever seen a hiking/walking trail marked for difficulty/time rather than distance. (Of course a trail map/book/description may include more information including a range of time to complete.)

Ski trails of course are usually just marked for difficulty level. (Which is mostly relative to other trails on the same mountain.)
I appreciate Yang as a candidate and I hope his ideas gain traction. That having been said, implementing these rights is a huge task. For example: "The right to download all data in a standardized format to port to another platform" Just deciding on a standardized format for all data will involve significant political effort and technical effort.

I don't think it's even possible to apply these as blanket rights to all data. Focusing on certain domains (healthcare, finance, etc...) will help.
No, the client gives the order and the bank executes it. If the order is unlawful for the bank, they cannot execute it.
SMS 2FA is better than nothing if, and only if, you don't allow password resetting by owning the SMS.
>I'm curious if that remains true?

It's complicated, like any scenario where there is individual benefit but social harm (with healthy mixes of fault and incompetence too). It's so obvious sometimes it can get lost, but the people behind the ransomware are criminals. Ransom paid to them is money that is in fact directly going to supporting criminals, the government and in turn taxpayers aiding them. At "best" they're very pure single type cybercriminals and it "merely" supports them in pushing more ransomware. More often criminals are into a diverse set of activities, ranging from other varieties of cybercrime to being part of a real world physical syndicate, in which case some of the ransom is going to an organization that does stuff like murder/assault/human trafficking/drugs/etc. The strong reactions against just paying the ransom, even if it's cheaper and a clear winner from the individual first order perspective of Baltimore City, stem from this and that hasn't changed. Even if it costs $18 million vs $76k, that is still $0 directly going to the criminals themselves. On some real level, if Baltimore just paid the ransom they would be attacking the rest of us for their own benefit following their own fuckup.

Sometimes there might be other mitigating factors in the intensity of people's reactions, but most of them don't apply here. This wasn't an innocent or complex mistake, it was utter, mind blowing incompetence at the most basic level. It wasn't a matter of economics either, or technological sophistication. They'd be immensely better off if they'd merely aimed at any basic network share and cycled a few USB hard drives into a safe deposit box twice a month. That'd still be embarrassingly primitive and ineffective by any remotely modern standard for any significant organizational entity, yet it'd be something. And since it's a democratically elected government entity the complaints about it falling on citizens fall a bit flat too, because citizens have a duty to be checking on their government in a democracy. And this has been a lesson that has helped push things forward elsewhere at long last, so some good came from it that wouldn't have if the ransom had been paid.

So basically yes, it remains true for a lot of us.
This is both untrue and likely to start a flame war.

You're likely thinking of the debate over reddit, YouTube, and Twitter policy changes, where the people banned were largely white supremacists.

Of course in those specific debates, "free speech" was being conflated with "the right to say racist stuff on private companies' networks".
There was an interview recently from the "Talks @ Google" with Chi Gook Kim, a professor of Assistive Music Technology at Berklee (who is also blind) who talks a little about Braille music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMl_n5_hzA
Our library in does the same. The Graphotek only charges a small fee of €2.50 per painting. http://www1.stuttgart.de/stadtbibliothek/bvs/actions/profile...
Streamliners: The Legendary American Passenger Train
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I find that the slightest modicum of oil on my skin is enough to stump my sensor.
I’m curious why you think that. I find Mark Zuckerberg to be measured, reasonable, thoughtful and I believe him to genuinely care about the values he espouses.

Personally I could not think of anyone I would rather have run Facebook. With such great power, I think it’s positive to have a platform that represents a diverse set of views, and is committed to not policing content unless absolutely necessary.
I was also shocked to read they spend between $20-100 million in advertising!

Which that much money, couldn’t they just use the majority of advertisement budget to pay a team of great developers for decades?
> ssh-keygen(1): add an experimental lightweight signature and verification ability. Signatures may be made using regular ssh keys held on disk or stored in a ssh-agent and verified against an authorized_keys-like list of allowed keys. Signatures embed a namespace that prevents confusion and attacks between different usage domains (e.g. files vs email).

Nice! I hope this will eventually be used for various signature systems like for git commits.
Perhaps an issue with your local DNS server. Use Google's public resolver to test.

dig @8.8.8.8 -x <ip address>
AWS Docker registry (ECR) is a good middle ground since you don't have to maintain your own registry and you can take advantage of IAM to improve security.
Basically, but I would consider checking with your legal council on the exact terminology that you use to make life easier :-)
The problem with this thinking is:

1/ You have to trust the criminals are "good" people and actually took the time to write code to decrypt the data.

2/ Paying the ransom paints you an easy target for the next exploit.
They have/had campaigns run on YouTube, you can watch them on their channel.
I haven't looked this up, but I'm pretty sure audits are way down. There was a recent an article saying the IRS was focusing on auditing poorer people because it's too expensive to audit rich people. Since their budget is completely separate from tax income (and their budget has consistently been reduced), it was driven by their local incentives even if that means total tax income was way lower.
Meetup is heading Ning way => https://www.zdnet.com/article/andreessen-founded-ning-cuts-s...

I run the Explara Community Software, which powers smaller to the largest community like https://hub.tie.org/

Explara Community Software has super advantages to group owners who don't need Meetup network effect as such. More on https://info.explara.com/switch-from-meetup-to-explara
> Star Trek portrays a society that is not run by mobsters, warlords, delusional ideologues, and sociopaths.

Interestingly, while this is certainly the background assumption of Star Trek, it is much less valid in episodes where the crew must interact with their own government.
Personally I'd prefer to live/work in the left panel of that comic.
There's a pretty big difference between "My holdings went belly up because our process wasn't efficient enough" and "My holdings went belly up because I was caught giving cancer to kids". Limited liability may be intended to protect in the former case, but it also protects in the latter case.

Part of the difficulty here is that ownership confers some power to shareholders (the ability to vote in some corporate matters) but doesn't confer any responsibility for those decisions. For the average investor, this is a good thing: I don't have time to vote in every shareholder election I hold the right to vote in, so it doesn't make sense to hold me liable for elections I didn't vote in.

A possible solution here is non-voting shares. Limited liability could easily apply only to those holding non-voting shares, and people could have the ability to convert voting shares into non-voting shares if they don't intend to vote in shareholder elections.
http://archive.is/ocSqN
Are you blind? The only clusters that seem to significantly overlap with each other are South Asia and Mexican American, and you could probably distinguish those with a 3 axis PCA plot.
I would argue in this case that there is no "exactly how to fix it" when it comes to public sector technology, that said - you're absolutely right. Organizations often want the competence and then align things against competent people working to accomplish that goal. In order to solve the problem effectively, you've got to be an organizational hacker with some patience as well as a technologist - which requires a slightly different skillset than solving the easier engineering problem.

All that said, laments about "how do we fix government X" will never be solved if we deem the cost of entry too high to even attempt to fix it ourselves. Obviously this is all in addition to and outside of any democratic process that would lead to reform of how these positions were managed, performed, etc.
I've gotten refund checks that were bigger than I expected, along with a letter saying that their math says I was owed more than I thought I was.
legOS could potentially pass.
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Does this mean that watching video via firefox on OSX will no longer make my machine heat like crazy?
No, stop spreading this misinformation. A "platform" can moderate all they like (section 230), and they can have it both ways. They can even moderate opinions they don't like. There is nothing wrong with that, and it's how it should work.

You are free to ban people for violating your terms of use, you are free to ban them for expressing an opinion you don't agree with, you are afforded this freedom by the First Amendment, because the government may make no law compelling you to speak on behalf of someone else.

The "publisher or platform, choose one" line is a lie brandished by those who are trying to instate The Fairness Doctrine 2.0, where private businesses are somehow compelled to be politically neutral in their moderation, which by the way is impossible to define. Remember that the original Fairness Doctrine (which tried to make TV news politically neutral) was found unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.

Private company, their website, their rules. If you don't like it, make your own platform - there's nothing stopping you. (Sidebar, this is in contrast to an ISP where there are often regulations and local laws preventing competition, and enforced neutrality makes sense in that space as a consequence of a government-granted monopoly. That's not how the current FCC saw it when ruling on Net Neutrality, and I think they're wrong - but I'm getting off-topic).
Its been beat to death but Freedom of Speech is a limit on Governmental Power to silence citizens.

What is often missed in the Free Speech discussion is the concept of the "marketplace of ideas", that is the importance of Free Speech is allowing the market to decide which ideas/speech is the best. The problem with FB and all other platforms is they are replacing the market with their own algorithms to maximize advertising revenue.

Facebook standing for Free Expression is such a play on words...Facebook stands for monetizing the content users give them for free.
> "[O]nly the truly elite ones run towards the fear."

Every time I read the philosophizing of a venture capitalist, it sounds more and more like an indoctrination into how to run your company in the venture capitalist's favor.

If you're a venture capitalist with a portfolio of dozens of CEOs running toward their fear, odds are a few of them are going to crash through and win, and the rest you can just disregard as the cost of doing business.

If you're the CEO actually running toward the fear, it's more of an all-or-nothing thing.
Beta Test CockroachCloud: CockroachDB as a Service
Actual spec for systemd-homed: https://github.com/poettering/systemd/blob/homed/docs/HOME_D...

"If the UID assigned to a user does not match the owner of the home directory in the file system, the home directory is automatically and recursively chown()ed to the correct UID."

I wish systemd fixed centralized UID/GID management first before trying to do this bit.
> It’s not about fairness. Why is everything about ‘fairness’?

Is that not a worthy ideal to strive for, as a community?

Wouldn't you prefer a world where we all have equal opportunity? Where, it comes down to who wants it more, not who had the best start?

...

The rest of what you have to say is clear evidence that you've always been naturally a morning person. You don't understand what it's like to perform at 50% of your ability just because you're forced to be awake at that hour.

I'd personally love to see all these pro-morning people espouse the non-biological bull rhetoric, when they're asked to stay up until 4am. Lets see you perform your best, passing tests, focussing in class, etc, at 2am in the morning.
It isn't slower for me, and Firefox + uBlock Origin have the benefits of being FOSS (no for-profit making decisions behind the scenes) and having much better control over blocking.

Brave sometimes totally fails to block Outbrain-like junk at the bottom of articles, and that seems like it must be intentional.
> Can I use it for federal too?

You may want to read the ProPublica article.
Facebook is a really great platform for getting clicks and likes. But most traffic is fake or garbage.

Locally things look a little better as long as you aren’t in a metro that is dominated with bogus traffic. Works great for small business outside of major metro areas.
Dijkstra's is actually a special case of A-star where the heuristic is zero.
In this case I'm comparing Intel with Intel. AMD did not release Threadripper numbers yet.
Tell HN: I will build a prototype(docker,angular,flutter,ci) in 7 days for $4000
Hi, my name is Bogdan and I'm a Software Engineer (9+ years experience) and I'm trying to do something fun.

This could be your MVP. This could be what you link to in funding applications or show investors. Don't expect anything too fancy - just a web application that closely matches your basic vision.

Examples of things I can build:

- Integrations with 3rd party APIs
- Real-time web apps
- web content management system (login, registration, content)
- REST APIs with Swagger and mongoDB/SQL
- Flutter mobile apps on both Android and iOS

Be creative!

What I want from you:

- a phone call explaining your vision
- mockups, sketches and copy text to include
- seven days of patience

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- Node.js REST API with mongoSB or SQL database + Swagger
- Web application with Material UI (Angular, React)
- Mobile application using Flutter (iOS and Android)
- Docker
- CI
- Firebase FireStore (realtime)
- hosted on AWS, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud
- Material design
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Leave questions or ideas in the comments below, or feel free to email me: everythingdocker [at] [the google product] [dot com]. I hope to get started in the next 1-2 days.
I know I'm gonna be in the minority with this, but what if you really just don't care despite knowing the danger?

I have a Google Home in my bedroom, and it's extremely convenient for controlling my lights. I'm aware of the privacy concerns with such a device, but out of all the things in the world that worries me it's just not far up my list to disregard the convenience. I imagine a lot of consumers might feel this way. Now this would be a different story if something was forced upon me (like the government mandated some device, and I don't have an active choice in having it) but I'm making an active choice to buy this device and use it knowing that it could very well be recording the conversations, sex, whatever else goes on in my bedroom.
What does that have to do with the ability to e-file for free? I didn't say it was a good option, just that it existed. There's plenty to complain about without making things up ("You CAN, if... [...] 1) you are under a certain income threshold").

> The problem is the lobbying has stopped making forms easier or non-existent. They are complex because of private corporate influence, not the constituents of the I.R.S..

Where did I contradict this?
TOTP is better than SMS in that it's secure with fewer caveats.

Why am I being downvoted?

I'm literally willing to volunteer days of my time, unpaid, to prevent SMS 2FA in favor of something more secure (i.e. TOTP).
Dutch application of international rules to cyberspace/warfare