skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument is that the federal prison system outrageously mistreats detainees as a matter of course. Limited evidence suggests employees in the prison he was in habitually falsified reporting to get out of work. I'm done with this thread now, but I'd encourage you to read the Slate article I linked to.

One of the articles that I linked to earlier in this thread is an interview with an academic who said she'd been trying to draw attention to the outrageous mistreatment of the detainees in that prison for years and thought it was really a shame that it took something happening to someone as famous as Epstein for it to be covered in the news.

All my point was was that you can't use the fact that he was treated outrageously badly by the guards to prove that it was a conspiracy. What happened to Epstein should be taken as a wake-up call for us to reform our judicial system.
Are individuals on the hook if they are unconscious and have things done to them without their consent for their own good?
> it matters where the audience is.

I don't think that strictly applies here; the stores don't play a predominant role in marketing the games (at least for popular titles), so they don't have exclusivity over an audience.

I think the relevant question is the extent customers decide not to purchase a game because it's exclusive to an alternative store.
This is software running on a users' computer. They will always have the opportunity to modify their configuration (or patch the running software if needed). The argument that DoH is a step backwards doesn't make sense, since it's always been possible for software that wants to circumvent hosts file / DNS filters to use an alternate name resolver.

I agree that we should push for more configuration options, but the fact remains that it's the users decision to run software that doesn't respect their freedom of choice, and ultimately they control the code that runs on their machine.

DoH is overall a huge benefit to preventing in-flight tampering and protecting user privacy. The net-benefits far outweigh the downside that "good" network providers can no longer tamper with DNS results.
I was just in Copenhagen and saw this building from a distance. I was curious about it then and am surprised to see it featured here.
Mirror check on 'intense nationalism' - how many Americans supported or still support unlimited US military actions around the globe, not to mention CIA buggery? How has democratic activity slowed this down in any meaningful way in the last 20 years?

You are not as immune as you think to government propaganda, it's just easier to spot when it's another country.
ML-1 Mobile Power System: Reactor in a Box
On the other land, do you want to live in a lawless society where there is freedom but no personal safety, and why would the internet be any different in that regard?

The assumption is to let law enforcement do their job with safeguards in place to prevent overreach. The tech community are in a good position to monitor overreach and provide transparency, right?
Unconscious, and not breathing?? That would be scary.

For the stuff we were doing, it was very deep, steady, and moderately faster than usual breathing, nonstop - the instructor thought afterwards that I may have been doing it "too fast", including the breathing out part, rather than letting it flow out naturally, but he'd never encountered someone having a seizure before. Regardless, I'm not going to personally experiment with it anymore, but I suspect I'm a fairly extreme outlier.
negative: "employer", "apps", "perf", "idioms", "culture", "humanity"

positive: "closes", "binary", "btw", "disclaimer", "bullshit"

The word cloud seems fairly useless.
I don't get the significance of the quotes, and the article doesn't seem to clarify. What, I wonder, is the intended difference between "we 'may' have discovered …" and "we may have discovered …" (except possibly a weird third layer of distancing)?
Fair enough. If we can't agree that Michelangelo's David is art, there's really no room for agreement.
> I don't see where AI comes in at all.

I get frustrated by the wide use of the term AI. What is AI other than, well, programming?

Even when I've spoken to devs who have have made game AI's or conversational AI's it seems that a lot of their work is with good 'ol IF statements and exceptions.

Somehow I had always imagined that an AI would be more like a neural net with an operational engine that didn't require exception based programming.
Zuck’s anti China stance has nothing to do with having a spine and everything to do with Facebook’s bottom line. He is merely using China as a very convenient punching bag and foil to deflect attention away from Facebook’s own gross abuses of power.

This is exemplified in his address on free speech several weeks ago - trying to position Facebook as a defender of American values (free speech and human rights) versus big bad China.

Make no mistake, if Zuckerberg actually cared about the values of a free society he would fix his own platform. Don’t applaud him for throwing shade at an even more authoritarian regime.
This is only true if devices and programs don't use pre-baked in DoH servers, like chromecast currently is.
I can't upvote this enough, you've just described the actual solution to this problem recommended by economists (which of course no one is interested in). It's a bit depressing to have it be almost totally absent from the conversation even on HN.

It's called a border adjustment tax, you tax at point of sale and deduct domestic factors of production. So the tax is on what's remaining (profits and foreign production costs).

For the foreign part apparently the currency exchange rate appreciates to cancel out the tax so it doesn't actually have a protectionist effect, although that's certainly not obvious to non-economists.

It was actually floated as part of tax reform a while back, and got interest from economists on the left and the right, but corporate lobbying killed it.

Of course redoing the tax code isn't simple, but this appears to actually be a totally solvable problem that doesn't require the cooperation of every country in the world or legal battles with every company about where their profits are from.
That's because Google tried to be the network for everyone. There are a lot of people.. several billion, and if that's your market, then 300m doesn't cut it. (They also forced it onto everyone.. there was little community there.)

On the other hand, being the social network for a smaller audience is very do-able. Even Facebook started locally at Zuckerbergs college, then expanded to other colleges, before eventually opening up. Being the social network for a single school only requires a few thousand people.. then you're the social network everyone (in that school) wants to be on to discuss events relevant to the school... and you've created your foothold.

Google was never interested in a creating a foothold in a small niche. They said "We're google.. basic marketing rules don't apply" and they learned they were wrong.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. This is insanely off topic and can't end well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or like the US and Russia always intercepting each other's aircraft. When reported in the media there's often a lot of bellyaching, i.e. "we were just minding our own business flying in international airspace, and then they showed up and intercepted, and they were so rude!" Like, maybe if you hadn't been flying your bombers or your spy planes 13 nautical miles from their coast they would be a bit friendlier. Nobody buys your "poor me" bullshit when it's clearly an example of a defensive response to an aggressive provocation.
Could something like Starship carry a large mirror?

Or could it ever be feasible to manufacture a large mirror on the moon, if a large enough one can't be flown?
I use syncthing, but I don't think there is an ios client.
Americans are allowed to chose whether they get certain tests or not; and whether they get treatment or not for stuff found by those tests.

America has a problem with over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment. It seems that merely giving people a choice, telling them the cost, and getting them to pay a contribution isn't enough to prevent this.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708862/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2662877
Retitle: "One surveillance state is jealous of the other surveillance state"
Yeah, my wife was close to filling for divorce when she had to sign and provide all her residential history. Not being German that history was quite long. And yeah, alcohol was also a thing. The most annoying so was social networks. At least it gave me the motivation to get rid of some accounts.

And that is before you see how relevant data is handled in real life and you are left scratching your head in some cases...
Ah I see, so what you're talking about is the syntax for defining a sum type. This confused me too. In Haskell, a definition of a sum type looks something like:

data MaybeInteger = Nothing | Just Integer

This defines the type MaybeInteger by saying how to construct the values that inhabit it. `Nothing` is a value that is immediately of type MaybeInteger. `Just` is a way to construct a value of type MaybeInteger by feeding it an Integer. You use `Just` to construct a value by applying it to an Integer: `Just 4`, for example.

There is an alternative syntax for defining sum types that might be clearer:

data MaybeInteger where
Nothing :: MaybeInteger
Just :: Integer -> MaybeInteger

When using sum types, we use a case statement:

case x of
Nothing -> "nothing"
Just 1 -> "one"
Just _ -> "something else"
Netflix’s Reed Hastings Is a Coward
> this campaign is a refresh of the state's "Meth Changes Everything" marketing strategy

That's just as unintentionally funny to the point of living parody. Was the tourism board involved
One quick and easy example is China.

To echo what someone else said further up the thread, the fact that they have the data is a liability to people. Policies and protocols can change over time. Just because they have great data access protocols in place now doesn't mean it will always be that way.

What happens when the temptation for more profit becomes too great? There are plenty of companies who have (unknowingly) killed their golden goose for short-term profit.
IANAL, but pretty much no. GPL covers software that is linked against GPL software or containing any GPL software. Just having a GPLed file present, especially if it is in the past, does not affect anything not depending on the GPLed file. Products routinely ship together with GPLed software without falling under the GPL, as long as the non-GPL program does not depend on the GPL software, doesn't link against it or doesn't use any source under GPL.
I would pay extra not to have any updates or touchscreens.
I do that on weekends when the noise at home is too much and before the kids come in for reading time at the library.
Doom 1 and Body Count (Ice-T's metal band's first album) for me.
Mars's atmosphere may have been thicker in the past, and wings could be vestigial appendages from the creature's ancestors.
it is absolutely rape.
I would urge you to do research to confirm your assertion here. What I described is not a fringe view, it's literally a summary of the Criticism section in the Wikipedia entry for the law in question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917#Criticis...
Paint.net - surprise surprise. i use it for years, it is awesome. Plus IrfanView. This is a powerful combo
> Once you start distributing your HTML5 game on PC distribution platforms like Steam or GOG, you need an actual executable that people can download to play the game offline as well.

Can someone elaborate on this? Why is this needed? Is it a market penetration decision? Does steam not allow HTML5 games?

Due to virus issues, etc, I would prefer playing an HTML5 game in the browser. I don't want to install something that could contain viruses or be a vector or increase my attack surface.

I'm missing something, but not sure what it is. I don't use Steam or install games on my computers, but I do play HTML5 games.
> I'm merely returning the attitude which was presented to me.

An eye for an eye indeed makes the whole world blind.

Sorry to have fueled your anger.
I think you're right (profit motive and health care don't mix) but then how do you cut the Gordian Knot? I'm cautiously hopeful that price transparency might be a start.
If I was the co-founder of one of the top websites in the world that had to pivot from my shitty news organization into what looks like a shitty version of Diaspora, I’m not so sure I’d be thrilled with “thousands.”

You need network effects for social network rivals to take off. That isn’t to say there won’t be a Facebook successor (there almost certainly will be one — the big challenge for Facebook is if it has a piece of that or not), but just as Diaspora, Google+, Peach, Ello, App.net, Gab, Mastadon, and any other number of attempts at this have failed (calling Mastadon a failure is unfair, but its not Twitter and won’t ever be), so will this.

Snap was a threat to Facebook’s core messaging properties (WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram), so Instagram had to blatantly copy Snap to win back momentum. Snap is still a thing, but unless it leans into the fact that it isn’t owned by Facebook (which is ultimately what hurts WA and Instagram), it isn’t ever going to catch-up, especially on a global level. TikTok has the sort of network effect Vine never had, and could be a real contender for the next generation, even with its ownership questions. Twitch and YouTube still have opportunities for growth — and there is still lots of room for innovation in the live video space.

And look, maybe this will be a really nice niche community for a small group of people. I hope it is. I hope the people that signup and pay for it enjoy it. I hope Wales doesn’t get bored when it doesn’t have tons of users and make tons of money.

There is a market for small community social networks. Not everything has to be the scale of Facebook — I’d argue it’s better when things aren’t that size — but let’s not pretend we’re not talking about this because it’s being positioned as something that is “taking on” the giant — when it would be more helpful - but make for a poorer headline/narrative - to say, “rich dude wants to recreate The Well for a generation of users who doesn’t know what The Well was.”
It's odd that you bring up FF since they they do have global configuration in /etc which is used by sysadmins to set mandatory or default preferences.
If it weren't for finiteness restrictions, you could write the following in Haskell and it'd make a natural number type that acted basically as expected.

data Zero = Zero
data One = One
data Two = Two
...
data NaturalNumber = Zero | One | Two | Three | ...

Whatever you would say about sets, you might as well say the same thing about types; the distinction in terminology doesn't amount to much. The natural numbers are the disjoint union of {0}, {1}, {2}, {3}, ... . They're also the disjoint union of the even naturals and the odd naturals, or the disjoint union of {0}, {1}, primes, and composites. There are a million ways in which they are a disjoint union.
It's not the wand, it's the Wizard
You said "The level of infiltration of the 50 cent army on YouTube is absurd" and gave an example which you now say "is not an obvious example of 50 cent army". If the infiltration level is absurd, and you and your friend have been analyzing it for a long time, why not give a clear example in the first place?
Add to that network the ability to order physical printed copies of photos for cheap automatically sent to your house you could have a goldmine with people who still make photo albums/scrapbook.

You would have to only allow those in your family/inner circle the ability to order your photos but for families who use Facebook just to keep in touch/share baby photos having a social media centered around family groups could be lucrative.
> Unfortunately, I had to stop going because President Trump no longer allows Americans to visit North Korea.

Not that I am particularly fond of taking Trump’s side on anything, but I think this is a fairly reasonable policy given North Korea’s tendency to kidnap Americans and use them as leverage in negotiations.
Just do a search for something like "music ear defenders/protectors" and you'll see plenty of options.

Don't go for the cheap disposable rubber foam ones because those just block your ears. Look for proper reusable silicone ones. They are specially designed to block harmful frequencies without muffling or distorting the sound.

Good luck :-)
I think this is part of it, but also suspect that the rise of tribalism and polarization is playing a role. There's little desire for nuance when in this mode.

Our side is good, the other side is evil. With us or against us.

Superhero movies tend to embody this simplistic view of a complicated world. We're the good side and we destroy the enemy who is irredeemable. Fin.
That's clearly what's happening and it's the problem with the system, it has no way to determine if a song is actually the original recording or if it is an original performance based off of a public domain song played correctly the two will be largely identical (to the satisfaction of an algorithm designed to not be fooled by small pace changes in the different performances).

It seem ridiculous that (it seems) the Youtube provided royalty free tracks aren't explicitly stored in the Content ID system as un-claimable songs. It would probably require modifications to privilege those matches before others but if you can't even count on music provided by YT I don't see how any creator could feel safe using any music in their work.
> Most people would fly to the U.S from wherever. That is telling you something.

> but healthcare innovation is done in the U.S

These are assertions without much evidence. Don't forget that the US does well on relatively meaningless measures (5 year survival rates for cancer) but poorly on all cause mortality. Why do US citizens die younger than people of other countries if the US healthcare system is so innovative?
I actually prefer the second answer in that stack exchange, the one from Gilles. It basically says what I'm saying:

It is not that there are no mathematical correspondence, but ADTs are not constructs of any mathematical theories. There's no ADT in set theory. There's no ADT in category theory. The only place you might find them is in type theory, but that's unclear to me if that is the theory that defined them, or simply the theory used to define them mathematically after their invention in computer science. And like Gilles answer suggests, ADTs brings some concepts that complicates the mathematical formalism for them.

This is why the whole sum type and product type thing is loosy washy. You can say Java classes are product types, but they are not quite like Haskell's product types, etc. They aren't an implementation of a very well defined mathematical theory. Unlike say how Java and Haskell both have support for set theory and algebra built in.
So in principle, couldn’t you aim the mirrors in a straightforward way by attaching some kind of radiation emitter (maybe pulsed) to the collector? If the mirror can sense the sunlight angle and the incident angle of the sentry, you don’t need any additional position information — the mirror plane is normal to the angle bisector.
Obama campaigned as anti-war. So did Trump. Neither of those presidents have lived up to their campaign promises, but it seems clear to me the American people don't want to keep the most insane of US military actions going but feel powerless to stop it. The tricky part is that corporate media on both sides of the aisle never saw a war they didn't love. But that's different than the American people.
many thanks!!! just lost the animation for readability
What trial was he to face? Sweden hadn't charged him with anything. They wanted to interview him as a witness, against himself essentially, so they could use what he said against him if (not when) they might have actually charged him in the future. He offered repeatedly to be interviewed, first in the UK and later in the Embassy.

This whole situation was ridiculous and kafkaesque. Charge him or do not charge him, and if you do charge him then, any only then, demand extradition.
It doesn't. The "non-neutrality" is in the minds of the readers, it's "triggered" by the name of the orange man.
It's worth it! Even tough it's been worked upon forever; Dropbox. Napster, Emule, FTP, Kazaa, MIME, zmodem. I've never connected the dots between these two comics but they are published just some months a part. Basically this is a social problem not a technical one.

https://xkcd.com/949/
https://xkcd.com/927/
Major Squarespace Outage
> It is only emergency rooms where I don't get a choice - if you need an emergency room close is important.

i feel like the folks on here peddling this line have not ever spent any time watching who comes through an ER.

most of the people who go into an ER aren't dying, or screaming in pain. they've just got a problem that can't wait until urgent care opens up again in the morning. or they need something done that urgent cares aren't equipped to do (fancier diagnostic equipment; whatever). they've got plenty of time to consult with a hypothetical "find a cheap/good ER near me" app.
I think everyone here is already well aware of this, considering that some variation on this same comment gets posted repeatedly every time China's human rights issues are in the news.
Some venues are better than others. Figure out which places and events have sound engineers that give a shit, and go there.
Yes but the point of Starlink is to fund Starship, which is a lot bigger than Falcon 9. Its fairing is 9 meters in diameter[0], large enough for all but the top six land-based telescopes.[1] Its payload is 100+ tonnes, five times larger than Falcon 9's.

Starship is also a lot cheaper per kilogram of payload; at scale, as low as $20/kg. Cheap launch also makes your satellites cheaper to build, since it's less of a disaster if you have to replace them.

Musk has already floated the idea of building a second-generation Starship with an 18-meter fairing.[2]

[0] https://www.spacex.com/starship

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflec...

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-musk-starship-the-next...
Well, on cases like the Aeneid, we can even point to whom it was meant as a flattery and propaganda. So there's certain resemblance.
If it turns out to be sound, I think it's a step in the right direction: "Substituting a ton of UBQ’s pellets for the same amount of polypropylene saves the equivalent of about 15 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, Quantis concluded; adding as little as 10 percent of its material can make the result carbon neutral, depending on the type of plastic being created."

Ultimately we need a solution that does not create more plastic, but that's just my uninformed opinion.