skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moderation's easy in a decentralized model: run your own server, and refuse to federate with servers that are run by (or used by) people you consider to be assholes. Server admins can easily band together to contain (or isolate) "bad" servers as most of the Fediverse has done with Gab.
Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
I'm not against automation in principle, but in this case you don't actually need to standardize before you automate.

Observation: people are prefixing their commit messages with emoji!

Automation: let's group commit messages by emoji, with an "uncategorised" bucket for emoji-less commits. Job done, that's all you need.

The "standard" that defines which emoji to use and when can evolve completely separately. I'd argue that this standardization is actively bad, as it adds to the learning curve when contributing to a project, stifles creativity (you may only use these emoji in exactly these ways) and wastes time by encouraging bikeshedding (people adding new categories, or arguing over existing categories).
Is there a command line tool to generate QR codes out there?
No ISP is going to invest in high-speed internet to rural areas without a built-in base large enough and willing to pay for it. In any case, I'm pretty sure that they'd charge somewhere north of your reasonable price. As for trains, even less unlikely. Running a train is a massive expense in capital costs and maintenance. Any trains still remaining today are exclusively freight save for Amtrack which only follows its limited routes.
This is similar to what Firefox has been doing lately, right?
What if someone learned something on their own time, do they get to be reimbursed from the employer?

Or, can I ask my employer to reimburse my under-graduate and graduate tuition?
Apple is probably a bad example, here. It's got more cash than it knows what to do with-- nearly as much cash as debt. And its debt is at a relatively low interest rate. It's arguable that while interest rates are so low, it makes sense to take on a bit more debt than usual, and when interest rates get high, it makes sense to reduce your debt ratios.
Same concern - I'm working on getting some info removed from mastodon. it's terrifying how hard it is to get someone (volunteer mods) to actually remove something...

This sort of case makes me an advocate for centralized access to moderate/regulate/also be accountable... but then if there's this magic backdoor to data access and removal...?
> I’m amazed to hear this from programmers. You can learn this for free, anywhere, at any time.

Some people are more passionate about their jobs than others no matter the discipline.

I love my job but it's still just something I do to fund my actual dreams/passion. Why would I spend more time on it than I need to when I already feel like I don't have enough time for my own interests?
The linked article itself contadicts the list by showing several examples of modern peddleers. Pretty much every large city in tge world is filled with them. That's a profession that will exists for as long as humanity does.
First, why should they contribute? You make it sound like a problem for the FOSS guys being exploited, but the choice of license is usually made explicitly to allow third parties to profit from their project without the burden of contribution.

Second, despite not having to contribute, license while, LLVM has still seen so much contribution from big companies (Apple for one) that the whole argument is moot.

Third, I meant companies like RedHat, or projects like Mongo, MySQL and others -- far more successful money-wise than most niche commercial compilers the kind that you appear to be a fan of while deriding FOSS for not making money...
Well, not doing it on your own time is the exact point of the article linked. I mean, if you want to pivot into a completely different career in a completely different company you should do it on your own, sure, but GP wants to change position within the same company, and wants to move in an understaffed department. Why should they do it on their time and dime?
Leeches, everyone of these people are fucking leeches. They don't create value for the greater economy, they only provide profit for themselves at the expense of citizens and governments.
Keybase
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That's only true if you own single shares that you can't divide. If the market cap of the company is divided in enough shares that everyone can sell their portion of the buyback then it can be exactly like the dividend. And investors often directly reinvest the dividends so if you are holding an index fund that reinvests dividends, buybacks or dividends are the same except for any tax differences. If you're holding an index fund you also don't have the problem of the shares not being divisible, because someone else is managing that in aggregate for you.
How did it work out for you? I'm also trying to do the same.
Isn't capital expenditure usually the company's responsibility? If you wanted to have nothing but opex you would rent all of your equipment and hire contractors - but that would get expensive quick.
ActivityPub is a horrible protocol, and not decentralized. Neither of you know what you're talking about, and not even the people working on AP like AP!
> Anyone can buy a router and start an intranet.

Thats more like saying that anyone can pick up a piece of mail and become a mail carrier. There are all manner of legal and practical barriers that require an internet to work outside of your street.
Ok, so I have an alexa in near every room in my house. My kids lose their fire tablets all the time. It would be awesome if there was an alexa skill saying "where is Johnny's Tablet" and it could tell me which alexa it was closet to based on the bluetooth.

Alternatively, I'd prefer it if I could just set off the alarm on the tablet like I can via the "manage devices" section in amazon. But I'm not always at my computer and it is unwieldly as hell. But the bluetooth thing could help me find non-amazon devices like my ipad.
You can't, and you shouldn't. Your "resources" (what a derogatory way to refer to people, by the way) will be more valuable, more competent, if they know more than just that what's needed for your team's direct focus.

Being able to place your own work in broader context is very powerful.
We do 4 hours a week, and I still feel it's too little.
"Yay or Nay"?

Hell nay.
your small town does not sound like the typical, depressed American small town where despair is palpable, there's extreme poverty and drug addiction.
> That's what incremental compiling does, and it has been enabled for a while.

While this is true, the compiler is not yet fully incremental in my understanding, there's still a lot left to do here.
JackFest!!
I think that was GP's point as well. That fully hands-free RCE process just doesn't seem to happen as often on OSX as on windows. Whether that's because of market share, software differences, or something else remains open for debate.
Since 2019 is not yet filed I assume you mean 2018 as "last year".

Here's Amazon's SEC filing for 2018 [1]. They paid 1+ billion on income taxes (page 37) on 11B in profits. They paid billions more in property taxes and other regulatory taxes.

Note that annual taxes also are affected by previous year issues. This is why from the same document, same page, you see them paying 1.4B on 3.9B of profit.

So getting upset about a year of no taxes with profits, when it truly does happen, is missing important nuance on what companies do pay. Check surrounding years, and read the SEC filings to see the reasons, which I've always found to be quite reasonable. It's not as bad as the pop press would have you believe when they cherry pick the outliers from one year or another.

And the pop press usually ignores all the other taxes that corporations also pay, focusing solely on income taxes, as if that were the only tax.

[1] https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/ce3b13a9-4bf1-4388-8...
Mastodon isn't decentralized, it's federated, and ActivityPub is a terrible protocol (that Mastodon frequently disobeys).
I haven’t seen this mentioned in this thread yet, but there are income-based repayment plans for US loans. There are different plans, but it works much the same way as above, roughly: if you earn above a income threshold (~$20k), then you pay 10% of your income until a) the loan is repaid or b) 20 years have passed (remaining balance is discharged. But, you have to apply for these programs, and many people don’t know they exist and loan servicers have incentives to keep people on traditional repayment plans.

It’s not a cure-all: you can still default, and there are cases where you can end up repaying more than a traditional loan. Nevertheless, it should be the [/puts on sunglasses]...default option.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
> "you immediately sorted everyone into heroes and villains and self-righteously took a stand"

And when you proclaim that this person "views everything in terms of an ideological battle between the Free Software movement and everyone else", would you say that's a more nuanced and balanced take on the matter?
Also, due to this bug, adding a single printf line causes everything after it in the file to be recompiled without there being a need: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47389
Possibly not, but there does seem to be strong correlation between languages using LLVM and long compile times. Perhaps Jai is an exception, but it's hard to know how or why that is given that he has not released his language.
Coopers are definitely not obsolete. Making a good whisky barrel is not an easy thing.
And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's great. Sometimes people don't know when to give up a shtick and end up being typecast for decades.

The part that's perplexing is why she (and some others) see that content as somehow beneath her and why she has this general negative and insecure attitude towards the "shitty robots" content she created. That content entertained a lot of people and allowed her to stand out from the mass of other Youtube content creators.
There is a difference between:

1. learning outside of work for your own personal enjoyment;
2. learning for professional growth and;
3. for professional needs.

Category 1 is where learning for free, at anytime is valuable, you are doing it as a hobby or as a personal curiosity, so taking your own time for that is fun and enjoyable.

Category 2 is murky, I've definitely done a lot of studying on my own dime to improve myself or learn technologies I could apply on my day-to-day work but... When I could I did it on company's time, on this category I'm using my time for something that will have a direct return to the company, if I can get paid for it I'd always choose so.

Category 3 SHOULD NEVER be done on your own time.

This mentality of needing to use your own time to do any kind of professional development only fosters the race to the bottom, where you are required to use your own time to improve yourself because the company you work for is only interested in extracting maximum value out of your billable hours...

I agree that in the parent's comment case they could have used some of their free time to improve their backend skills and then try a lateral move in their job but it shouldn't make you "amazed" that someone isn't willing to sacrifice their free time to earn a little bit more of salary while their company extracts a higher multiple out of that same work.
Nope, it's intended whenever you want this semantic, and do not want to pay for landing pads. Embedded is a common case where this is true, but it's not exclusively for that.
> How is decentralized twitter supposed to solve misinformation?

There will be a space where different people and organizations can build filters that rate information for veracity and other traits. Over time these filters will develop a track record. People will be able to filter their feed through such filters.

Centralized orgs can already do this, but they make a central and opaque choice about it. This means that there is a lot of pressure from various interest groups to make sure that the hidden filter is biased towards their favored viewpoint, and the users cannot really see what the result of this fight is.

It's like how it probably wouldn't be a good idea to have just one news organization that served the whole US.
you just taxed the folks selling it at the same time.

does the company get a tax break if it buys its shares back at less than it sold them for?
> So what can I do as a manager to make it more “okay” to spend time at work learning?

Maybe instead of having them read something, make them give a presentation on it to the rest of the team?

Then they have deadlines and produce content. Sounds just like work to me.
Mastodon isn't decentralized, it's federated, and ActivityPub is a terrible protocol (that Mastodon frequently disobeys).

Further, GNU Social still doesn't implement AP. This is largely because AP is very annoying to implement, but also because GNU Social sucks.
Make that 4 hours a week and maybe you'll feel better.
They aren't going to reimburse you after the fact, but if you get approval in advance many companies will reimburse for graduate programs or other courses.
It's all a holdover from assembly-line factory jobs. You need to start at a specific time and work hard the whole shift. If you're 3 minutes late, the line is delayed by 3 minutes. Software development is a very different profession.
It’s amusing that you mention Eastwood. If you are thinking of spaghetti westerns the sound wasn’t really recorded when filming (actors were using multiple languages anyway) and the movie was dubbed on studio by the original actors or someone else depending on the output language.

“There was a crude “guide track” recording what was spoken, but often Leone lost or ignored this guide track and when the time came to loop the dialogue, frequently no one could remember who had said what. Eastwood recalls being warned to keep his OWN NOTES about what he said in each scene, and sure enough, when he was called on to loop the two Dollar movies, production had lost the guide track. They had NO IDEA what Clint had actually said in each scene and Clint had to re-record them as best he could remember. (Another reason why his lip movements don’t entirely match up.)“
You can do stuff on your own time, especially if it's pretty much orthogonal to your day job. But I expect any job to include material time for relevant/adjacent training. Otherwise, it's in the same category as hiring manager expectations that you're working in open source in GitHub repos in your spare time.
A bike courier or lawyer racing to the court house benefits far more from the roads then others but doesn't pay more. Common carrier regulations were widespread in moving atoms.
To be fair, Twitter did pioneer oAuth back in the day, and now everyone uses it... worked better than Meebo’s xAuth
And imagine how much programming and debugging effort could be saved worldwide if everyone did as you and I do.
Make that "... Bitcoin Forum thread".
Here I was hoping for North American Hoplites with Dory spears and all I learned about was a commune :(
Almost half a million Turkish credit cards' details sold on dark web
Here's the problem: you're asking governments to have first dibs over the actual owners of the capital. The whole reason that companies are doing buybacks is that they cannot turn all of their money from $1 into $1.05 anymore, and they give it back to shareholders to go figure out how to get returns. When the government uses it, they turn $1 into somewhere between -$0.20 (wars) and 0.10 (infrastructure with myriad bribes/kickbacks along the way). I don't think it's a good idea to encourage the later over having people who stand to experience the consequences of making bad investments (the rightful owners of the money) make investing decisions.
I’m confused. Companies are using profits for the buy backs. Corporate profits are already taxed.
> "But it's also kind of childish to scheme and hold grudges for not getting something you never bothered asking for."

When you state that he never bothered asking for something, what are you basing that on?
Is the Russ character in SV based on Jack?
But FedEx has rates the same for everyone because they are a common carrier iiuc.
Your team "leader" sounds more like a team "director".
Would Mastodon be able to handle the load of Twitter?
What law, though?

That implies a consumer-friendly regulatory regime that can be persuaded to keep up with all the different attempts to game the system. The idea behind net neutrality would be only having to have this fight once to assert that all traffic is of equal value.

Edit: this comment expresses exactly what I want to say already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21762679
The divide in this society is becoming so deep stories like this almost seem like a parody.

If you're at a high enough level you get paid in equity-based compensation or benefit from a close relationship where someone gets paid in equity, then you're golden. These are the greatest times in history, every number keeps going up and everything keeps improving. Endlessly increasing buybacks and endlessly increasing equity compensation is doing nothing but accelerate this massive growth at the high level.

For everyone else it's a nightmarish hellscape of gig jobs and poverty and debt and zero healthcare. It's such a different experience that rich people might as well be living on the moon.
The Nobel Peace prize is very political and plays favorites. She already won a Right Livelihood Award "alternative Nobel prize." I don't think people should win awards because they have the spotlight but because they got something done. She may well get something major done, and we sure need it either way... then I hope she wins every award because she would basically be one of the literal saviors of the world, like that Russian officer who didn't launch the nukes.
I'd like to see moderation work like adblocking. You subscribe to whatever moderation feed you like, and it blocks tweets that the moderators decide to block.

If you don't like what the moderators are doing, you can select a different moderation feed, or start your own.

This way we decouple the moderation from the platform.
Funnily enough, I just saw an old Computer Chronicles episode the other day which talked about how slow the bus was and they had Dell showing off a 486 + graphics board blowing away the same 486 and an ISA? graphics card.

If you haven’t seen it already, the 8 Bit Guy has a fun video about working in AST’s tech support in the 90’s:

https://youtu.be/2hdazA-VUf0
I was installing everything that was “free” back in 1995. You cannot expect a teenager to be familiar with internet-privacy mantras; it’s actually horrible how we’ve created a situation where these poor kids are forced to learn and self-defend against an onslaught of trackers.
Just in case this isn't obvious: You can import any GuitarPro file and play it in FATpick.
Ah. Hopefully you, and anyone else reading, understand now the argument as to why a private construction that comes close to a public space, but without actually touching it, might be considered to be depriving the public of the full use of that public space.

It's a similar argument as to why some people who live in the desert are not allowed to collect the rainwater that falls upon their property. Apparently sometimes you can own the weather, and sometimes it's a commons, and sometimes it belongs to someone else, somewhere downstream.
Are you sure you're not bikeshedding?

It sounds like you have several people discussing a change that's going to have a limited impact on outcomes, if any at all. Another warning sign is if people are having more fun arguing over the change than they would do actually using the new system.
Show HN: Zero to FPGAs Using BinderHub (Jupyter and Kubernetes on AWS)
https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/
It's certainly decentralized, just federated instead of distributed.

And yeah, it sucks as a protocol (but not that badly, the standard is just weak like everything else the w3c produces) but it's better than reinventing the wheel. Or letting twitter unilaterally dictate a standard.

And please stop spamming the same message down the page.
> in the US your licenses expire after 10 years

Yeah, but we don't have to re-test, and it can all be renewed online for free.
This loss is particularly bad to me because I don't know if there is anything else that can trigger so much wonder. I grew up in an area where science wasn't much known or very well respected, and even controversial. But seeing the Milky Way away from the city as a child had an effect on me, like letting me know in a peaceful way that there must be way more to reality than I was being told. Really sad that it's becoming harder for so many to experience that, they may never know what they missed.
By value not by volume. Just wanted to clear that up.
> I somehow doubt Dorsey doesn't know about ActivityPub - why not just endorse it publicly if he genuinely cared about decentralization?

He doesn't care about decentralization. ActivityPub is impossible to directly control and it has no innate analytics, advertising or monetization layers. This makes it impossible for Twitter to utilize such a protocol.

If anything, Dorsey wants to embrace, extend, and extinguish AP by making an incompatible protocol that he can then pump VC money into in order to have it gain traction on Twitter's terms - with all the ads, spyware and analytics that Twitter desires.

The protocol wars begin anew.
It’s not clear to me what ‘decentralized’ means her, if not federated.

Perhaps you could explain?
Seems there are different standards for invasive in the medical industry. Geez.
I think that's kinda the same as what expo-cli is using to display a QR code on a terminal. Right?
I'm cautiously optimistic. Twitter has been been making some bad decisions with content moderation, and has abandoned the idea of being the "Free Speech Wing of the Free Speech Party". Decentralization should restore that...

...should. That notion could disappear really fast if Twitter gets to decide who can run an instance based on their belief systems.

In the mean time, it's an interesting case study of what happened to Wil Wheaton when he tried to join a Mastodon instance. Already, even in these comments, people are expressing concerns about how Twitter will be able to maintain control over "misinformation and abuse".

That's the whole point of decentralization guys. It's impossible to moderate Twitter without being authoritarian and creepy. Bail on the concept of controlling others, and delegate that power to the end user by means of improved blocking tools.

If decentralization is going to work, we have to abandon our desire to control others with a centralized authority, and accept that responsibility as our own.
Tesla is an American brand. I would argue Ford/Lincoln is the best Detroit motor company. GM makes meh cars. Chrysler is no longer American.
Filling a Gap in the Literature: Roger Moorhouse on ‘First to Fight’
That sounds like the most invasive option
Yeah, buybacks don't affect tax revenue at all. They're just a Boogeyman for unintelligent liberals.
It’s 2 hex chars per byte. You have to divide by 16 6 times. Or rather by 32 (2^8) 3 times.

0x0 - 0xF can be represented with 4 bits or half a byte.
I’m not getting this headline. Buy backs are something done with profit.

So replace the headline with “s&p 500 Profits now outpace all R&D spending in the US”.
> a week of study leave

Nice thought, but if my wife can see me, that week will become "fix stuff around the house leave" or "visit her parents and don't read anything leave". If my coworkers can see me, that week becomes "fix these bugs for me leave". They'd have to fly me somewhere for that to work.
So it’s like a 401K with no contribution limit, but taxed twice (second time at cap gains rate). Too good to be true for billionaires.