skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's not true on many levels. What the navy said was that the videos were taken by their aircraft and that they were UFOs, but nobody said the UFOs were extraterrestrial craft. Nobody has any "meta-materials from possible ET craft".
It makes perfect sense in the broader context that the current administration has been bloviating about "looking into" Facebook and other tech giants to investigate alleged anti-conservative bias. Keeping the video up and defending yourself as a neutral entity is precisely what I would expect Facebook to do if they wanted to keep the DOJ at bay. Not because they're breaking any laws by having a bias, but that they're currently staring down the barrel of anti-trust investigation. If they wanted to win some points with the current administration, this is exactly how they'd do it.
It's also important to understand the role of negligent maintenance and improper design, as well as long-term decisions to prioritize commerce and profits over safety.

Otherwise it's all too easy to point to the people affected by the floods, rather than the system which changed the risk factors.

For example, you write "building a major city under the sea level".

It's below sea level because "engineers accidentally sank half the city below the level of the sea" - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/how-h...

> What was beginning to happen was anthropogenic soil subsidence—the sinking of the land by human action. When runoff is removed and artificial levees prevent the river from overtopping, the groundwater lowers, the soils dry out, and the organic matter decays. All this creates air pockets in the soil body, into which those sand, silt, and clay particles settle, consolidate—and drop below sea level.
Blizzard bans 3 college 'Hearthstone' players for Hong Kong protest sign
> What is an example of a beta-sheet peptide?

WW domains[1] fold stably into a three-stranded sheet. Also, not strictly a sheet, but beta hairpin motifs (e.g. tryptophan zippers[2]) are known to be stable isolated from their parental domains.

[1]: http://www.rcsb.org/structure/5VTJ

[2]: http://www.rcsb.org/structure/1LE0
I don't honestly remember much about Beta other than not having the impression it was an improvement. :) But I don't think Dice, which bought the site in... 2012, I think?, was a very good steward of the brand.

I'd never heard of Soylent News. I can't decide if I love or hate that name. :)
Show HN: FOSS for Maintaining Technical Docs. Would Love Feedback
From where did you buy this? Thanks!
> Cryptocurrencies - and particularly stablecoins - are a reliable, fast and cost-efficient medium of exchange

May I respectfully ask for a citation on this statement's three claims please?
https://productive.app will work with no need to dial a separate recording number or "merge calls", which is especially hard to do for unplanned incoming calls.
John Tate Has Died
The 1st Amendment, as it is interpreted in the USA, bars this. It's not absolutism that's blocking a US Right to Be Forgotten, it's decades of court precedence. It's not arguing that we can never restrict information ever, it's just that the US Supreme court has consistently ruled that publishing factual information is protected.

> If one objects to the right to be forgotten altogether, then one objects to the right to demand that even false and libelous content can be removed from the internet. You can sue for defamation, but you can't prevent the publication and spread of defaming content.

We have exceptions to the 1st Amendment for defamation and copyright. They are very, very narrow exceptions.

The Right to Be Forgotten works in Europe largely because Europe has different standards than the US on what Freedom of Speech means. When a US citizen and a European citizen talk about Freedom of Speech, they're not necessarily talking about the same thing.

That's not to say Europe's take is necessarily wrong. But it is to say that Andrew Yang is running to be the president of the US, so the European interpretation of Free Speech isn't relevant to his platform proposals.

> the right to be forgotten doesn't apply to private or public spaces, it applies to data on the internet

Public/private spaces don't go away on the Internet.

A corporation or private actor can delete content from a forum/website they control for any reason. They have a Freedom of Association. But the US government may not compel them to do so, except where that content falls into extremely narrow exceptions that have been carved out over decades of legal debate.
So the business costs $0 a month to run?
So the lawyers, who got a million and a half bucks, agreed to settle on behalf of the 145 million victims for $22,500 - or a value of ~$0.000015 per victim.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Shakespeare, 1591
Standard fee is a good idea. It works in Germany. Another idea is to have a portion of legal fees go to offering counsel. If you spend five million on lawyers, I get two and a half million for my lawyers.

Really reduces the incentive for overspending the opposing party and encourages cheap quick settlements.
Fishing and Submarine Cables Working Together – Catch Fish, Not Cables [pdf]
> The irony of course is that the most intolerant and closed minded ideologies cloak themselves in the language of "tolerance" and "inclusion" while often violently shunning those who call out their lies.

The bigger irony just how much of the world they're willing to exclude in the name of inclusion, lets not stone gay people to death and lets teach women to read have not yet become universal agreements, let alone the smaller things that would put you on the receiving end of cancel culture.

Uganda's criminalizing homosexuality again, should a young Ugandan girl who publicly supports this be kicked off gitlab? What about a Saudi Arabian man who is against women driving? Privileged westerners would gladly cancel most of the world.
I opted out of a class action settlement once (the Google/Apple/etc wage fixing lawsuit). The opt-out did absolutely nothing except that I didn't get a check but I did retain my right to sue. The tart letter I wrote to the judge about the quality of "my" attorney, though, that got a reaction. Not from the judge, but from those attorneys. They went from "won't return your email" to "very concerned to make sure I was satisfied". Only time I've ever had a lawyer dance for me.
Voyage Through the Hidden Physics of the Cosmic Web
I...doubt that's an accurate characterization, because the things that you are describing lead to fragile software. Biological systems are hard to understand and to modify, but maybe that's more due to redundancy that has evolved than to systems that are coupled like bad software systems. After all, if they broke like buggy software, we wouldn't have so many diseases to study; living things would just crash and stop.
For specialist roles and experience, I'd definitely interview differently. Hard to do live coding there, but if you can tell me exactly about how you've solved problems in the space, that's awesome.

Most of where I've see the "how would you manipulate this array" type of stuff is generalist stuff or new-to-the-particular-subdomain candidates, where if I asked for exactly what I'm looking for them to know, they'd fail. Gotta just look for people who can learn it on the fly fast instead, and I haven't found any better proxies yet. :|
Not to mention you'd have to give your personal information to the company with a data breach again.

I'm sure your credit card is 100% safe.
I find him completely untrustworthy starting with his famous statements regarding his early users and their privacy expectations. Since then he hasn't done anything to engender trust but has enabled the spreading of outright falsehoods and propaganda, and extremist and violent content that emboldens others to act out their own sick fantasies.

The World Wide Web already provides an open platform representing "diverse views" and I see absolutely no value in facebook trying to claim that mantle as they have promoted such "diverse views" as the mass shooting videos and ISIS execution and propaganda videos even when alerted to the presence on their platform.

facebook under Mark Zuckerberg has not shown themselves to be worthy of trust and in fact have shown the opposite. facebook needs to be broken apart into its constituent parts as they cannot be trusted as they are.
Workers' Comp Benefits: How Much Is a Limb Worth?
That sounds right. Good for you for going out for it. Hiring / firing in government is certainly not helping the situation, and budget fights are always a struggle.
Can anyone put this in perspective for penalties for other data breaches? Honestly I'm used to data breaches having no penalties other than maybe "we'll sign you up for credit monitoring" (that I don't want or need).
No, if the government orders you to do something you do it. Disobeying a legal order would be a political statement. ('civil' disobedience)

The GitLab policy was meant to stop ideologically motivated employees from sacrificing the reputation and interests of the company for their own personal political objectives. Of course, enough other compainies have already been taken over by allied ideologues that they pressured GitLab into allowing politically motivated behavior.
An article painting blockchain in a skeptical light with straw man arguments. I'm sure I'll be downvoted though since HN is highly anti-crypto and because I didn't write a dissertation as a response dissecting each and every false reasoning presented in the article.
By R should be in the title?
Show HN: Sweesh Wants to Be the FBI for Startups
Hey founders,
A company that just graduated from the recent YC startup school wants to be the FBI for companies.

We will be helping companies to do background checks, profiling and analysis of their competitors or Bay other company or individual.
You can get early access now to the startup

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There is a free Trail where you can request for one free profiling of a person or company. Save your spot now sweesh.us
The attorney fees shouldn’t depend on the time they spent on the case, they should get paid for creating value for their clients
> adding a value to an enum is the only one that comes to mind

Adding enum values in a transaction is now supported in PG 12 as long as you don't try to use the new value in the same transaction.
I used to be a believer in cryptocurrency, and I still it think it has practical applications, but not as currency. When my credit card got skimmed and the thief started to make unauthorized transactions, I was immediately informed of this, called my bank and eventually got my money back. This is the moment where I realized if I have my all my money in crypto, when it gets stolen or otherwise, I will never get it back.
Good OOP is good FP - they swim in the same water.
composition, generics/adt's, elegance, encapsulation...

In it's ideal form it's about taming the metal like a trick pony.

I'm nowhere near that level, being a fortran in any language sorta guy lol, but when I see well-built stuff, I take notes. Matryushka dolls, lol

Kay et al were swimming in the same water as Hewitt etc, conceptually. He said that the key takeaway from OOP was objects passing messages (actor model), not so much the inheritance story (the composition)

but yes, they all criss-cross there
They provide arguments and data points why Firefox is the most secure browser. This is not silly, but allows to have a good discussion. Care sharing other evaluation results from reputable sources?
Wow, you're really confident in that assesment. Maybe you would be interested to see the WikiLeaks leaked email exchange between Tom Delonge and John Podesta where Tom talks about his collaboration with Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3099

The truth is the US government does have these materials and more...
I wonder if it has something to do with body-positivism? Why would anyone get himself in shape, if he/she is beautiful no matter what they say?
The start of the video is talks about the problem and illustrates some concrete examples. At 6:50 it starts the solution, by presenting a key invariant.
The GP is pointing out that companies may improve security by providing employees food on-site which reduces the exposure of business information to people who do not work for the company (insofar as people with access to the on-site food are a proxy for people employed by the company).
All the victims should opt out and class sue the law firm for crummy representation. Surely all my data is worth at least a whole penny!
Here's a list I found earlier: https://www.wheretospendbitcoins.co.uk/search

I might order a raspberry pi from The Pi Hut and a hammock with 50% off for paying with BTC at another site.
Hostgator founder Brent Oxley is selling his premium .Com domain portfolio
Telemetry seems like a big issue when its comes to security, and it's good to be explicitly called out in such evaluations.
> I was surprised that the CIA will take dual nationals on as Officers.

You keep your citizenship but cannot carry two passports.
You sure about that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censo...
I know they're not operating in China but that appears to be because Chinese authorities have blocked them and not any particular moral stance.
Citizens should not need to spend millions of their own dollars to “enforce the law”
> the attorney’s fees look pretty reasonable

Is this sarcasm? You are kidding right? They get paid for wasting everyone’s time?
I’m pretty sure the point was for him to tell us all that he is an “elite” CEO at the end of the article.
You clearly know about this, but your comments are not very substantive. It might be more valuable to explain what the article is getting wrong. Many HN readers are fairly technical and interested in stuff like this.
Yes, the Prenda Law business model.
not really true.
postgres supports "insert .. on conflict" which is functionally a subset of sql merge. the feature was introduced years ago and i would not be surprised if eventually sql merge is glommed into pg core.
White liberal internationalism is a rebranding of the paternalistic and imperialist white supremacy of colonialism.
Collective punishment is always a bad idea.
We already have the concept of separation of powers. Judges are paid by the government, but issue injunctions agains and rule against the government all the time. We make sure that this is under the purview of the judiciary.
> You are free within your first amendment rights to leave that defaming information up after it is proven to cause harm in civil court, but then you are still liable for the damage it continues to cause.

IANAL, but this is a weird interpretation to me. I'm not sure how to describe a court fining you for publishing information other than, "compelling you to remove that information."

I dunno, this really doesn't line up with my understanding of libel laws.

Of course, bear in mind that the Right to Be Forgotten has very, very little to do with libel. If we were just talking about libel, we'd use existing libel laws. The fact that Right to Be Forgotten exists in addition to libel laws should be enough to show that it is targeting different information.

I dislike that people bring up libel when debating Right to Be Forgotten, because I view libel laws as largely irrelevant to the debate. It's just trope #3 again[0].

[0]: https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
When you have 100 million, getting only 50m is hard. That is how chinese ccp play the game. That is how at least one nba player play the game.

They will relax, tight, find some weaker ... they have taken control of 1.4 billion people. They know politics.

God bless America.
I’m sure the correct solution is to attempt to control the entire rest of the world.
Could you list some of the places you look to learn? Where do you find relevant academic papers? It's hard to find information about what this learning workflow is.

Any recommended resources?
Exploit Database
I’m astounded at how little testing companies do with their products. Most high school students with nothing better to do could have hypothesized this problem and tested for it if only somebody had bothered to ask them.
The government should regulate whether devices alert themselves to new guests in the house?
I think the Smalltalk paradigm is deeply defective and the Actor model (the purest form of OOP to my mind) remedies most of its faults but perpetuates some others. A few flaws:

- Modeling all communication as synchronous message-passing. Some communication (such as evaluating mathematical functions) is naturally modeled as synchronous procedure calls, while communication which is naturally modeled as message-passing should be asynchronous by default (to address unpredictable latency, partial failure, etc.).

- Emphasizing implementation inheritance as the primary means of code reuse. This is now generally acknowledged to be a mistake, so I won't elaborate.

- Deferring all method resolution to runtime. This makes the amazing introspective and dynamic capabilities of Smalltalk possible, but it also makes it impossible to statically verify programs for type-correctness.

- Relying on mutable local state rather than explicit, externalized state. This is controversial, and it's a defect of the Actor model as well (yes, passing new parameters into a tail-recursive message receive loop is equivalent to mutating local state). The partisans of OOP and the Actor model believe this to be a virtue, enabling robust emergent collective behavior from small autonomous software agents, but it makes predicting large-scale behavior difficult and debugging nearly impossible.
I was trundling along quite happily (had to squint or sigh a few times) until I hit this:

"The name of the root is the empty string (" ") generally denoted with a dot (.):"

... and left.
Elixir Is Rubbish
Wow, this is one of the most confused articles about cryptocurrencies that I have ever read. He runs off the rails almost from the very beginning:

"currencies are systems of value exchange"

No, a currency is a physical token issued by an institution that is a proxy for money, usually bank notes and coins. Money is the system of exchange. The dollars in your bank account are money, but they aren't currency. The dollars in your wallet are both. Old Zimbabwean dollars are currency but not money.

It just goes downhill from there.
Interfaces can have static methods.
I've always tried to argue that if a problem can be sub-divided and those sub-divisions as well, we can understand it eventually.

I.e. the good old divide-and-conquer principle.
But, the marketers hired specifically for Facebook do care if you're going to Instagram more since it endangers[1] their product... Facebook Inc cares because one of it's branches is less worth in investing in but is happy the money you're spending is still within their product universe.

I think that you're being a bit over simplistic, there is a lot of decision making based around company component performance, poor sales number within the Facebook native platform may influence more money being redirected to support Instagram which might end up as a personnel cut in an extreme circumstance.

1. Reeeeeally loosely defined, since AFAICT Facebook isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
If you need help building a website, just use square space or something.

You did not graduate from startup school. It's not a program like that. Don't mislead people.

Is your logo a... screenshot of another company's logo?
A small Austrian retail shop got a $4k fine from GDPR because their surveillance camera pointed too broadly at a sidewalk. It'd be funny seeing regulators try to apply such restrictions on consumers.
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What Is Star Citizen? – Digital Foundry
There's always one person who makes this comment like it's an original thought and useful contribution.

I'm talking about culture, not law. The US and the west in general has always had a strong free speech culture.

It'd be ridiculous to only rely on a law limiting government as the thing that defines what is and is not okay.

There's a reason this is being called our generation's 'culture wars'.
Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce?
What are your biggest SaaS related expenses? which ones do you want to reduce?
You didn’t back up any part of your assertion at all, unlike the article.
Can someone ELI5 the emphasis on the term edge? What edge are we talking about here? The developers machine? Embedded environments? It’s unclear.
“ ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.”

Is propublica good/reliable news source? Always looking for good news sources
Anyone can send an email to anyone else and make any claims they like. Now please prove to us that the "collaboration" and events described in that email actually took place.
I dunno, FB business pages seem to be really flaky. I'm just myself but I'd do a cursory check of google reviews and call it at that.
Why Every Customer Touchpoint Is an Opportunity for Great Customer Service
How to make remote teams productive
Well the card got skimmed targeting the store/machine that attracted the thief in the first place, as a consequence of being a giant honey pot. So you fell victim thanks to the system and you're thankful for it?

Still super early days and there are some services that are starting to offer some services for custody or key storage in case safe keeping like Casa and whatnot. Just give it time. There are positive knock on effects to reducing credit fraud and charge backs.
> but this is not the same thing as being an imperative device. Almost every CPU out there is multi core these days

The interface to the CPU is imperative. Each core (or thread for SMT) executes a sequence of instructions, one by one. Even with out-of-order and speculation, the instructions are executed as if they were executed one by one.

> and GPUs absolutely don't work in an imperative manner, despite what a GLSL script looks like.

They do. Each "core" of the GPU executes a sequence of instructions, one by one, but each instruction manipulates several separate copies of the state in parallel; the effect is like having several identical cores which operate in lockstep.

> If we had changed the mainstream programming model years ago, perhaps chip manufacturers would have had more freedom to break free of the imperative mindset, and we could have radically different architectures by now?

The cause and effect are in the opposite direction. The "imperative mindset" comes from the hardware. Even Lisp machines used imperative machine code (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#Technical_overvie... for an example).
Maybe the phones are only "figuring it out" by having very loose acceptance criteria for the correct pattern. For all we know, the 6 scans could be mostly marketing fluff to give the appearance of robust matching.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls on Senate to Pass Immigration Reform
Then "faith" that people are going to continue to believe in the Bitcoin that you believe in. I mean it’s not scarce anyone can clone and fire up their own bitcoin.
You might do something in between "write a dissertation" and "whine about downvotes for an unsubstantive comment". What do you think is a strawman, and why? A paragraph is better than nothing.

And, I don't think HN is "highly anti-crypto". There are quite a few pro-crypto people here, and quite a few skeptics. Each side probably feels that HN is biased the other way, because HN (as a whole) doesn't whole-heartedly embrace what each side considers self-evident.