skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the 'overnight' part is key here. I can easily get approval for 20k-100k in necessary software but the approval process can take 1-3 months. If a free service suddenly goes paid without notice, it is much more disruptive than waiting 2mo to start with a new paid service.
First thing would be to de-correlate this 'news blockchain' entirely from any sort of 'coin', 'token', whatever 'currency' thing — a blockchain is a distributed database, period, 'crypto-coins' being just one application for this storage.

There are several ways to do it then but a standard would likely emerge, as in: "we <publisher> commit to mirror-publish our content to ThePressChain."

You'd likely store only text (say the raw html) on the blockchain though, so using links for pictures etc; which implies your CDN is archived publicly for later retrieval (I suppose a deal with archive.org or equivalent is in order to bolster such a paradigm).
A WhatsApp bug could have allowed crashing of all group members
Indeed. It is other programs that are written in C++. (-:

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/
Have men became omniscient ? Have Science already discovered and understood everything there is ? No. So, saying that free energy is impossible is shortsighted at best; Why people spend so much time trying to debunk everything instead of searching the Truth themselves ? The more I dispose myself of my ignorance the more I see how blind humanity is to what is around us;
Relative to software, it's basically forever. At some point you're still riding a horse and demanding that a highway be horse-accessible. It's unreasonable.
So here's how I do it for internal network devices. I have a RaspberryPi running on 192.168.100.1 on my local network. On https://www.duckdns.org/ or whatever your favorite DNS provider is, I signed up for a free account and created myRaspberryPi.duckdns.org and pointed it to 192.168.100.1. While you're logged in, grab the DuckDNS API key.

Next you need to use ACME or Caddy (I use the latter) and tell it to do the Let's Encrypt DNS challenge using DuckDNS. It looks like this for Caddy:

# in the Caddyfile
tls {
dns duckdns
}

# in the CaddyEnvfile
DUCKDNS_TOKEN=your-api-key-goes-here

Then you start it like this:
nohup caddy -http-port 80 -conf /etc/caddy/Caddyfile -envfile /etc/caddy/CaddyEnvFile -agree -email you@email.com &

That's it, now I can go to https://myRaspberryPi.duckdns.org and I've got HTTPS on my local network without anything exposed on the internet EXCEPT my device's internal IP. You've got to evaluate how much of a threat that is.
I have to agree. I'm all for unionization in our industry to improve employee leverage and even more open compensation sharing to help drive comp up... but this is a step too far. Pushing your message in this fashion is clearly irresponsible no matter how "by-the-book" it is.

With that said, the organization and orchestration problem for movements is a very real problem (finding the correct people and disseminating information). This is something businesses are well aware of and they use that to their advantage.
I think it's less about Management endorsement and more about notification blindness.

If you start adding wholly unrelated messages into the security warnings, people start ignoring them. We've seen the same with medical systems where doctors and nurses ignore the important pop ups because so many are just interruptions.
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> Dropbox has total access to your unencrypted files.

The application maybe, depending on how you set it up. Not the website itself.
I would concur. However, spending wisely needs coupled with higher income. That's what most people don't apply. Save 10% or more of your income at all times, see your revenue continously increasing, even if not tremendously, and in matter of a few years you can start investing (housing, business, whatever)

See yourself spending near all you get, even getting significant income increases and you get stuck into a loop of ever spending more. Its also very risky, as if that incomes downfalls, it can easily cost you all the small stupidly useless property you already have.

I think the idea is to control your spending and find ways to increase income. I bet jayz continuously did that or he would have ended up like many other stars who lost it all. Or maybe just luck/talent..
Up for me in Cape Town, South Africa.
Google is beginning to implode.
I am but I love cities and I would like to live in the hearth of a world class city and sadly the salary is not enough for that.
>Why bite the hand that feeds you?

I would say that better you would ask , was this the right time to bite the hand? Because there are good reasons to do it, like if uber self driving cars developers would have done something instead of disabling safety features and lick the hand that feeds them.
I suggest that you go and look at the history of what happened with uselessd .
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I can't speak for this person's business, but profit margins can be slim.

This year my wife's company will have paid more money to contractors than she profited. Sure it was a "meh" year, but if she spent a few thousand dollars unexpectedly on IT, it would have erased her profit.

My point is that when you go out of your way to do things Free, it's because you couldn't afford the paid solution.
Soon Java will become the new PERL with 20 ways to do the same thing & developers will have to spend hours on Google trying to figure out what that wierd bit of syntax actually does.
>The requirement for the code review for internal tools already seems awefully restrictive.

How on earth is that restrictive? Having code review for any important code should be normal at any company. Just because the tool is internal doesn't mean it's trivial and any engineer (especially a 21-year-old: how is she even an employee and not an intern at that age?) should be able to merge anything in willy-nilly.
I’d call this bold.... ideals aside, maybe she calculated how much she’d win in the lawsuit? Possibly a large net win?
I used to play cs 1.6 using hamachi, and it was unmatched at that time. Sad to see the gradual downfall of project.
Random speech doesn't become any less random just because it is federally protected. On the contrary, it actually becomes less federally protected if it is random, because federal protection of speech requires specific time, place, and manner.
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> Fact 1: The earth has been warming since the last ice age.

The Milankovitch cycles have crested since that warming. Without the CO2 we would be cooling.

> Fact 2: Solar output has increased recently

Citation needed. Furthermore, if you can explain how an increase in the solar output woudl warm the arctic more than the tropics, there's a Nobel waiting for you.

> Fact 3: Water vapor accounts for almost all of the greenhouse effect.

Water vapor has a habit of coming down as rain.

> Speculative: Some people believe the data has been manipulated

I challenge you to find a single temperature reading, longitude, lattitude, altitude and timestamp, and tell me when it was manipulated.
Personally, this is exactly what I assumed Google to be like when it comes to unionising.
If they did exist, we would take their effects as baseline assumptions and just ratchet down our opinion about the crisis, if that makes sense. To the extent there are buffers, we just assume their effects, and we'll be unpleasantly surprised when the buffers run out.

Examples: in the 70s we had a great deal of particulate smog, which effectively reduced some of the radiation hitting the Earth and camouflaged the effects of global warming. But instead of saying "hey, global warming must be a big problem since we're noticing X amount of warming EVEN WITH PARTICULATE SMOG", it just let us ignore global warming for longer.

Example: the deep oceans have been an effective heat sink and some amount of the global heat has gone into them. Again, instead of saying "global warming must be a big problem since we're noticing X amount of land warming EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A GIANT HEAT SINK", it just let us ignore global warming for longer.

So, to the extent that there are any buffers, we'll just build them into our baseline of "how bad the problem is", and therefore ALL of our surprises and feedback effects will be seen to be negative.
That doesn't fundamentally relate to instant communication. Back then, you'd be worried as well - after all you probably knew a hurricane just landed.
I don't know how this works where you are, but when I'm asked to review code for someone, that's exactly what I do but also only what I do - I don't ask them if they have a design document for the change or approval from the features team. It's not my job to verify that.
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If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? A person that was recently promoted, was designated as a high performer, (and I have nothing to back this up but seemed strategically recruited since they did not fit the google mould as a high school drop out?)

I think a reasonable reaction would be to remove the message from the extension, put in place a better review process, better training and possibly some minor negative comments at review time.
> admins of popular ActivityPub instances have far too much power to silently censor things from tens of thousands of people.

This is a tired line of argument. Centralized systems are no better. ActivityPub is not FreeNet, and if you want censorship resistance then you're using the wrong network on ActivityPub.

ActivityPub is about being able to build communities that still interact with other communities. And if one community doesn't want porn, hate, gore, and ideology X to be federated with it, and that instance becomes popular, perhaps it's popularity is because of the censorship, not in spite of it. So who are we as outsiders to dictate its members and its admins are ethically wrong for systematically censoring only from their community ideology X when building their specific community? We have as much of a moral right as to demand that church communities discuss the proper usage of BDSM rope knot placements for safety and maximum pleasure. That is: none.
People do similar things quite often at Google and I haven't heard any of them getting fired before.
It seems to me that Google fired Ms. Spiers specifically to discourage future labor organizing activities within Google. Because it was a process-approved insignificant revision by both functional change and reach means that the inevitable Streisand effect actually plays in Google's favor. They will be perfectly happy with any slap on the wrist as long as it moves the eventual union further down the road.
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I agreed with this at first, but according to her medium post ( https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for... )

"Part of my job was to write browser notifications so that my coworkers can be automatically notified of employee guidelines and company policies while they surf the web"

If this is true and her job is literally to create javascript notifications of company policy, then I think it's entirely reasonable what she did considering it IS company policy (well, law really) that you have a right to organize.

Link to the popup: https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg
> Nuclear energy and trains are possible, even if they require electrifying the railroads.

Note: this is not a great idea; trains release less than a third as much co2 as a truck and electrifying cross country rail would be very expensive. You need extremely high voltage for long distance transmission, which is incompatible with pantographs (the metal things that power trains/buses from overhead).

You'd essentially need to build dedicated HVDC lines alongside all trunk routes, with regular substations (which are immensely expensive for HVDC) to inject power into the lines. Cross country HVDC would be really great for the grid, but it would be better to build a dedicated solution and forget about the trains. For context, the transmission losses for electricity cause ~2x more CO2 than all trains.

There are just better things to spend money on. Even if we put cold war levels on investment into reducing CO2 theres still better things to do, like dealing with landfill emissions, land use, rehabilitating environments etc.

> Not sure about those "carbon removal" techs. A lot of the CO2 tends to go in the atmosphere.

One way of looking at it: exhaust gases are 29% CO2 (from oxygen being burnt). Air is .4% CO2. Removing CO2 from air is, bare minimum, 75x more complex than preventing it.

> You can't fight unemployment and inequality and try to reduce emissions. I can see ideology being a big problem when dealing with climate change.

IMO that is a profoundly unhelpful way of looking at it. The money spent on the Iraq war would be enough to buy enough batteries to store ALL US ELECTRICITY for full two days. People didn't think twice about sprinting into war. Renewable energy is a largely trivial cost. People need to be convinced to throw scraps at it before we scare them with real changes.
definancialization?
These efforts will be broken up. No matter the cost. A google beholden to unionized employees is a threat to the establishment. Where google goes other companies go. A democratized tech space is the last thing power wants.
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That justice isn't equally applied doesn't excuse the perpetrator.

If you're speeding over the limit and the cops pull you over, you still deserve the fine, simply because that's the law. This doesn't mean that the cops themselves are innocent of any wrongdoing, but the two issues are separate.

And of course civil disobedience can be justified if the law or its application are unjust, but using it as an excuse after the fact is lame.
I don't think it helps, I think it just punts on the question. Let's get concrete:

I fire a polarised photon at a polarised filter oriented 30° off. In Copenhagen there's a 75% chance it goes through, and a 25% chance it hits the filter. In MWI there are two branches, one with squared amplitude of 0.75 and another with squared amplitude of 0.25, and there's a "me" on each side.

Now, say I can bet on what happens at even money. In Copenhagen we'd say "betting on the photon going through is positive expectation." In MWI though, one of "me" wins and the other loses, and we just say "there's less subjective chance of being the loser"? Or "the loser has less amplitude, so less moral weight"?

I don't think it's super satisfying.
Serious question: how much will this impact LastPass? I get that a buy-out creates some risk for the company's future, but is migration really required in the next 6-12 months?
> Google’s response to this was to suspend me immediately and without warning. This was the week of Thanksgiving, the same day they fired the Thanksgiving Four. They also dragged me into three separate interrogations with very little warning each time. I was interrogated about separate other organizing activities, and asked (eight times) if I had an intention to disrupt the workplace. The interrogations were extremely aggressive and illegal. They wouldn’t let me consult with anyone, including a lawyer, and relentlessly pressured me to incriminate myself and any coworkers I had talked to about exercising my rights at work.
I agree with the concept of the levels, I disagree with the ordering - particularly the final one, because philanthropy is something that almost everyone can practice, it's an individual choice.

The idea that you must first have your entire life laid out with a massive house and first class flights and stuff before you start helping others is deeply wrong IMO.
> what can we do about the people that don't believe this data?

Organize the people who do believe it to exert pressure.
I agree that "Don't slack off dummy" would have earned a rebuke, but I wouldn't be surprised if any controversial political activist message would have been grounds for termination, especially with Google's new policy regarding political activism in the workplace. She would likely have been rebuked if she had just posted a flyer in the cafeteria, but she modified an internal tool.
You are being a bit too quick to equate finitism and constructivism. Hilbert was a finitist, but not a constructivist, and Brouwer was a constructivist, but he was not a finitist.

Brouwer's analysis of the continuum depends heavily upon the notion of a "free choice sequence" (aka a lawless sequence). The idea is that a creating subject -- i.e., you or me -- is free to make an unbounded sequence of choices to produce a sequence. At any finite time, you can only have made a finite number of arbitrary choices, but if you wait long enough you can make any number of arbitrary choices. Because these choices are arbitrary, free choice sequences cannot be described as being generated by any finite rule.

This is a constructive process, if you imagine (for example) generating a lawless sequence by throwing dice or from the clicks of a Geiger counter. But it's not a finitist one, because there is no finite data from which a choice sequence can be computed. This let Brouwer retain the idea that a mathematician can only have considered a finite amount of information at any point, without having to make any identification of the real numbers with computable functions.

In terms of complexity, there's an interesting analogy between choice sequences and the question of whether randomization gives you extra power -- the Miller-Rabin primality test lends immense force to the intuition that RP is stronger than P, but we might be centuries from proving it.

Even if we set aside randomness, though, an ultra-finitist/complexity-aware-logic is something that basically every logician I've ever talked to has agreed should exist, except we basically don't know how to do it. It's something that pretty clearly demands more creative insight than technical grunt, and unfortunately imaginative leaps don't come on demand. :/
It passed the Assembly in a bipartisan manner, but the governor was a republican (Reagan). It was also introduced by a republican (Mulford).

I didn't mean to excuse the Democrats who supported it, they were racist opportunists, I merely wanted to point out the CA Republican party dropped its principled support for 2nd Amendment Rights as soon as the people they would be protecting didn't look White like them.
Creators of the Ray distributed computing project raise $20.6M
I'm pretty sure that if I stood up in my office, I could find one or two people who would rubber stamp a change for me, assuming it was in good faith/approved, and would discuss implementation details/issues with the code, rather than question the reason for the changes. Particularly if the changes were tagged with a Jira. If your only defence is "well, what I did wasn _technically_ allowed", you lose the benefit of the doubt.

Incidents like this are the reason why red tape ends up introduced on small teams, and are what turn projects into a nightmare to work on.
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> Realistically you can't entirely deconflict these names. So you always have a risk of shadowing names from the public Internet.

It's totally save and legitimate for ycombinator to use secret.ycombinator.com on their intranet without telling anything about it to the outside internet.
Not worth the effort?
In both cases it pays to use them responsibly.
"But you can’t follow me to the bathroom stall and keep telling me."

"plaster it on everyone's screen" did you read the same article I did? The alert was triggered off a single consultancy's site. I really doubt it was a common hang out spot.
Fake media and NGOs: A pro-Indian network designed to influence policymakers
I am interested in what others think of Educated. I made it 3/4 of the way through and struggled to get that far. The stories seemed very repetitive.
It depends on the industry and the company. In some types of government work, it's a very serious security violation.
I like this. Where is it from?

In response to it: You can't apply this to everything, you need to pick you battles. There might be better means to an end.
Sometimes "free" is the maximum the budget will allow. Sometimes it's just about feeling you're been ripped off with a bait & switch.
Wouldn't she have had to make a pull request? Since when can't a developer make a controlled change to code?
Reviewers are supposed to review holistically, and in cases where something raises larger questions (do we actually have approval for this change?) they shouldn't approve until those questions are resolved.

In this case I suspect the reviewers were supportive of the protest, and so approved it even though their authority didn't cover this kind of change.

I don't think any of these people should have been fired, but "by the book" is not a good way of characterizing this process. That would have been proposing the feature to management, getting their sign-off, and then making the code changes.
True that the former strategy requires more responsibility from employees. In larger companies you have more opportunity for your behavior not being penalized, so many companies increase strictness of processes.

But I fail to see how the employee in question did something that justifies firing her. Maybe there are other factors involved, but I certainly think that people opting for getting rid of her only on the basis of publicly available information shouldn't have any form of responsibility for staff to be honest.
meh, my hair was thinning anyway, so buzzed it. Then, as my kids reached the age of 4 or 5, I 'let' them cut my hair for me.
Its just an analogy. Something to show that a distribution might appear interesting but is actually not.

The point is that Bell's theorem relies on the assumption that a linear distribution must be expected and the paper is arguing that that has not been sufficiently proven. At least that's my understanding of the paper's argument.
1) Not everything is running bare Apache. In fact, some services might have some rather strange web-driven GUI (or, more interestingly, curses-like) that requires you to carefully load a certificate, a CSR, and so forth in a somewhat arcane manner. Some pretty niche serving exists out there and I have had to deal with a bunch of them, to the point where I had to write extensive documentation on keeping the certificates up to date on each separate weird service. Many of these services have a "no user-servicable parts inside, your warranty will be voided ..." clauses in the service contract which deter spelunking.

2) Some services require wildcards, like proxies.

3) Some organizations have, due to someone far away making strange decisions, policies about certificate authorities, and people to audit for compliance. Therefore, a cert costs money and, for a site which is purely informational, that's a hard sell.

4) Because we're not running on a hosting provider, a VPS, containers, or cloud.

5) Because not everyone wants to deal with some combination of the above every three months due to Let's Encrypt's expiration policy.
Its not just Excel. I have legacy bash/perl/python scripts sprinkled liberally around my world and it never gets better.
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Whether Every Country Imports More from China, the US, or Germany
oh, and one more tip: Buckley, Kerouac, Sanders and Yablonsky discussing the so-called "Hippies".
No sane setting gets us down to 2°C. I don't feel taken seriously. Can I get a slider for the frequency of volcanic eruptions?

On a slightly more serious note, can we tame volcanoes by somehow - ideally - producing energy and ... prevent eruptions, somewhat comparable to the way earth wires actively do so with lightning strikes?