skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This has been my understanding for many years. And so it's ironic how increased moderation to increase marketability brings immunity of service providers under 230 into question.

Especially since allowing providers to increase (automated and best-effort, but not comprehensive human) moderation withour incurring general liability for content was the explicit and overt justification for Section 230, because the kind of complete human editorial control expected of publishers in traditional media was viewed as preventing scalable systems on the internet (where traditional media had other scaling limits that make content liability far from the limiting factor.)

> But instead, we could have had decentralized systems that made liability impossible.

Decentralized systems probably wouldn't have made liability impossible, just ineffective at it's objectives, because no matter how many operators were ruined by liability. the content would still thrive and you'd never hit enough operators.
I don't disagree with you on your premise that AWS has an entirely different, and much larger size and scale than DO. And has a competitive advantage due to that. But your comment also seems to make the assumption that everybody should be content to let AWS (or Azure, etc, entities with very deep pockets) become a literal monopoly, and everybody should be totally fine with that.
Didn't he have some trouble moving to India or something?
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Nope. I didn’t say anything like that at all. You just don’t best AWS by trying to replicate them, since they have enough capital to create four of you several times a year (and do, i.e., Lightsail).
This one is already at least the second coronavirus.

The first was SARS. [0]

[0] - https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/
I said recently in another thread about this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352166) that

> I don't tend to think tinkering with intermediaries' incentives about content is the thing that will get us there, because there are so many other practical advantages that people have perceived in the more centralized services.

Do you think otherwise about that?
Why the Experimental Nazi Aircraft Known as the Horten Never Took Off
this is probably how they get away with such a generous return policy.
Not being a smart ass but how do background checks work for foreign persons? Say for a former student that came to USA 5 years ago and is 23 years old? Odds are that he will look clean in every way. Even if he's a spy all traces are covered.

My other comment was sent to oblivion because it is politically incorrect, but the reality is that a lot students have loyalties to the old country. Also when you add the family back there and corruption being a normal way of getting things done, these things are bound to happen. I don't suggest to freeze them out, just don't be surprised.
It's it just the management types? Plenty of users here in HN defend abusive practices like these just to save some money.
I would assume the issue is partly that there aren't many organizations capable of dealing with it. You need to operate a warehouse for the mattresses, and have some sort of local storefront presence like Goodwill so people can donate and pick them up somewhere.
Sweden is moving unusually rapidly to a cashless (or near cashless) society. A lot of countries are seeing big increases in the use of digital payments but generally not big decreases in the value of cash payments although that may well come eventually. In Sweden it's already happening.

Like most central banks, the Riksbank runs 2 credit risk free payment systems: one that supports commercial banks and another, cash, that supports both companies and the general public.

The central bank's relationship with commercial banks isn't really affected by this initiative. However, the thinking is that a credit risk free payment system for the general public is still valuable for the reality/perception of a stable financial system.

If cash (effectively) goes away then so does the second payment system. What the Riksbank are doing is looking at alternatives that have the payment system properties of cash but in a digital form.

As I understand it, they're looking at a couple of models. A digital cash equivalent i.e. mostly anonymous peer to peer. And an account balance based i.e. central banking accounts for joe public.

It's interesting work and, in my opinion, likely to be followed closely by other central banks as I'm sure they are predicting similar dynamics in the next 20-30 years.
1) if you are on a qa team writing automation, there is a high chance you already know javascript.

source: was qa automation engineer for a few years. I realize it is purely anecdotal, but nearly all of the QA people I worked with knew javascript, even the manual testers.
Coronavirus patients have live virus in stool specimens: new transmission route
That's disturbing. I buy a lot of music, and I only buy it on CDs. I hope that this doesn't impact my ability to get new music very much or for very long.
If Facebook were liable they wouldn't allow the posting or even the possibility of posting in the first place, the law protects individual rights by keeping the liability onus on the author as opposed to the "publisher".
Gotcha, I guess my assumption was that they were taking on debt to improve value not buy new furniture :) Joking aside, I wonder how this is different than say late stage investor preferential rights? Debt would seem better to the company since preferential equity is somewhat covered on the downside and partakes in the upside.
Actual article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3by79/ucla-abandons-plan...
Seconding this :)
Surveiling the population is not equivalent to genocide
You may be right but it's hard to take throwaway accounts seriously.
Cool Mic — FLOSS Android app for live-streaming as source client for Icecast.[0,1,2]

New Features:

- Insert audio clips into livestreams

- Landscape layout

Improvements:

- Fixes for various stability issues

- Improved UX

- Updated libshout version

- Lots of code cleanup

[0] https://coolmic.net/

[1] https://coolmic.net/download/

[2] https://github.com/CoolMicApp/CoolMicApp-Android
Then we should see bleaching and die-offs is most of the reefs around the world. There should not be a pattern of reefs dying off near industrial farming and reefs thriving in remote locations. Which is exactly the pattern that we are seeing. The Bikini Atolls are thriving, Cuba is thriving, Wakatobi Islands, Belize Barrier Reef are all thriving. The US (Florida and Hawaii), Australian, New Zealand are all dying. There is a pattern in the distribution of the die-offs.
Look into how wifi transmission is solved among the many clients (although I'm sure its quite complex now). You might be able to use a random back off time to settle races like this.
"Income statements include things like depreciation. That's real, in a sense. It's future CAPEX."

Depreciation is past capex, not future capex. You could argue that the two are equivalent, because the assets being depreciated will need replacement in the future. But:

1. The assets' useful life may be longer (or shorter) than the depreciation schedule.

2. The future replacements may cost less (or more) or just not be needed at all.
No. Society doesn't need to worry about whether it's tolerant enough of "nazis" (or any hateful, violent, extremist ideologues), nor do we all need to realize that our collective failure to be adequately sympathetic towards "nazis" justifies their extremism. The "nazis" are not the real victims here. They deserve the social and political punishment they get.
Doesn't P=NP say otherwise? Given the solution, the problem becomes polynomial time to verify. Hindsight 2020
It's probably intentional, because "git" is also an insult to imply somebody's dumb.
As far as I can tell, we are agreeing.
New Mexico Sues Google for Collecting Personal Data of School Children
Unionize and refuse to work under those conditions.
Agreed, especially because the jail is the psychological harm that triggers a lot of follow up awfulness for people.
Sorry, I meant "no", it is not welcome.

> Lack of response indicates to me that someone disagrees but can't construct a logical argument to justify a disagreement.

You are correct.
Saying that, they themselves really need to look at Baidu, or Alibaba.

In the approach of "throwing money on the problem until it works" few can beat them. Alibaba's losses were surreal when they tried to get even to the tenth of AWS scale, but they went way further, and now they are profitable.
Casper is losing money in large part because of returns so I'm not so sure!
One of the main benefits to opening up development of games to the slightly less tech savvy is the gems that come out of it.

The fact everyman and his dog tries to sell their first hobby game and stores do nothing to differentiate between quality products and crapware isn’t the fault of modern game engines. Rather blame the commercial culture around game development and the storefronts themselves.

Also if you think Unity etc. are bad you should see the rock bottom quality of internal tools people used to put up with!
The idea that the synthetic generator model must have solved the actual modelling problem is a attractive idea that doesn’t correspond to what people want data for: they want to eyeball it, see what’s in it, test some algorithms, figure out how they might approach the problem. You can do that very well on realistic synthetic data (much better than any other privacy tech) even if the synthetic data has lost some utility through its statistical approximations.

The idea that training on synthetic data is a “charade” misunderstands the usefulness of having realistic, “drop in compatible” data that works with your existing code or models.

The ideas of training models as a service and also of working directly with synthetic data generators to “extract“ from them are great but incompatible with (a) the complexity of real world DS workflows in regulated industries and (b) data scientists current code / workflows / techniques.

If I’m a bank, I’m not going to give you my fraud rules and you’re not going to solve my problems with xgboost. Access to models is just as locked down as access to data.

This is why it’s useful having an intermediary. Like ... a generative model that you can train where the data is and then copy over to where the modelling is happening.
Can't they set up an offsite hotbox to get rid of the bedbugs before it gets onsite? Surely someone could set up a mobile truck that can come, park, and heat up 15 mattresses for the few hours it takes to kill or drive off the bedbugs, no?
I think you can shorten that statement significantly, wlog.
> Methane is a more than viable alternative

Is it?

https://www.sightline.org/2019/02/12/methane-climate-change-...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191216140715.h...

https://www.livescience.com/52715-natural-gas-not-as-clean-a...

We're already coming to the conclusion that electric cars aren't that clean so when I hear about carbon neutral supersonic planes I kind of feel like I'm in a bad dream.
This is crazy. There are so many health related, genetics related, society related aspects of applications that need identification of gender in order for them to be effective. Just eliminating gender because it's not 100% accurate it's bs and no one asked for it.
just "RD Foo /S"
if you know you want it gone why all the extra flags and steps
It's perhaps not nefarious. A lot of GAAP and the standards came about when manufacturing was a lot more prevalent. Concepts like depreciation make a lot more sense when you mentally place yourself in the 1920s.
RC Car Storage and Display Box
Well your $59 flask course looks awesome, you’re definitely on the right track and I see the value over having a direct connection to the creator rather than through Udemy.
Topos Theory Course by John Baez
Human brain seized in mail truck on US-Canada border
Step 1 would be living in a state where it's even legal to create a municipal ISP [0], since all the big guys have lobbied to try and make it illegal.

[0] https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Determine If an International Number Is a Mobile Device and Other Demographics
the problem with that is anything that can 'detect' an html element based on human-language will eventually fail to find something described with human-language due to crappy html on legacy systems.
>A journalist should have exactly the same rights as the average citizen.

It should be the other way around: The average citizen should have exactly the same rights as a journalist. If it were so, then public animosity towards the media would dwindle.
Americans never feel trapped in their jobs and enjoy the highest mobility.
A lot of complains here but I don't understand why is that worse than raising the same amount of money from VC ?
Fun fact, the common cold is also a coronavirus.

Edit: As pointed out in the reply, only some colds are coronavirus. Wikipedia suggests ~15% [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Viruses
Playstation Emulation Guide [pdf]
Don’t know if it’s a reaction to their new raise and they want to try to get full price signups with the new traffic, or what, but I’m seeing all courses full price at the moment.
I was wondering if it was an SRE when the original story came out.

I'd be interested in seeing perspectives on how you avoid this scenario. While you could isolate data access by team in many models, you're still going to have engineers who have access to valuable data. Random access audits? But what about the scenario where your database lives on someone else's hardware?

I guess you could always decide you want to use your cloud providers FedRAMP-compliant offerings.
> Perhaps. But who gets to decide which side of the line any given statement is on?

Umm... we have an existing legal system already does this. It certainly isn't perfect, but your argument seems to boil down to: we don't have a perfect legal system, so we shouldn't have any laws.

I don't see any reason why we can't have laws that make it illegal to run around and hand out pamphlets that deliberately misinform people about if / when they can vote.

> Roundup/glyphosate might cause some harm to someone

You seem to be using an inherently grey claim to make your point. Of course glyphosate might cause harm to someone, there is almost literally nothing that has no possibility to cause harm to someone. This is exactly the sort of claim whose truth value depends on the context and meaning with which you interpret it.

This is different from a claim like "I have a bachelor's degree from UC Davis" or "You cannot vote without a drivers license"
U.S. defense agency personal data may have been 'compromised': letter
They operate a bit later on a different risk profile.

Their MO is more like (1) take something that is basically working but needs capital (2) work out a deal that gives them a enough leverage (e.g. board input/control, debt financing pressure, etc.) then (3) squeeze it for a quickish exit for the PE and (4) move on to the next.

Doesn't always work, of course, but that's the playbook.

Of course the flip side of that is sometimes, particularly with a young company, they just don't know what the hell they are doing. A PE company could potentially fix some of that, potentially at a reasonable cost.

One way to perhaps think of it is this: VC types are in the business of betting on people, and don't necessarily trust the product. PE types are in the business of betting on products, and don't necessarily trust the people.
Image License Metadata in Google Images (Beta)
How is that simpler? That seems like it doesn't scale and incredibly error prone.

If you only have one certificate you may get away with it. But if once you have hundreds or thousands this is absolutely going to break down the human factor.

And even if you do have a single (or few) certificate(s), there are other factors that are going to complicate maintaining this system:

* What if a certificate needs to be revoked by your CA? Generally CAs are obligated to revoke certificates within tight deadlines (ex. 24hr for key compromise). That doesn't give a human a lot of time to replace the certificate.
* What's going to happen when 2-year certs are no long available? Ballot SC-22 failed, but it would've reduced certificate lifetimes to 1 year. Some CAs are moving in this direction anyway, and it's worth noting that Sectigo supported this ballot.
* What happens when the person responsible for renewing them leaves the company and forgets to hand-off the responsibility?

I almost see the infrequency of certificate rotation as a negative since it means the process is infrequently tested and easy to forget about.

Sure tools like cerbot can break, but if you know that it's renewing certificates 30 days out then setup alerting for whenever a certificate expires in less than 30 days. You should have this alerting anyway in case the human responsible for manual rotation forgets.

If you ended up in a state where you were serving an expired certificate then the key issue is your alerting.
> At 5:17 p.m. he called a handler, identified as Associate-1 in the FBI complaint, who arrived in a white SUV two hours later. Driving around Alzabarah’s neighborhood, the two men called “Foreign Official-l” — al-Asaker, according to the Washington Post — at 7:20 p.m., and again at 7:22 p.m. and 7:31 p.m. They then called Dr. Faisal Al Sudairi, the Saudi consul general in Los Angeles, at 8:30 p.m., 8:38 p.m., and 9:26 p.m. Shortly after midnight, the consul general called Alzabarah back and spoke with him for three minutes.

Slightly off-topic: I feel that gives a good idea of how much information can be extracted from very simple metadata (here timestamp and number called) in that kind of context.
True, but the name `git` came from the open source SCM tool, written by Linus for the Linux source code - and now everyone is sort of stuck with that name. This is a commercial product, deciding on a name for themselves.
There are brand ones that are rather expensive, but at least in Europe I know that decathlon makes really cheap silk and cotton sleeping bag liners, because that's where I got mine.

They are made to go into sleeping bags, and I love mine for that use case (less sweat and dirt in your down bag), but I have also used them in dirt cheap hostels.

In one seedy hotel in Italy several people in my party had a lot of bedbug bites, but I can't say for sure if it actually protected me. I expect I was probably just lucky that there were none in my room.

Still, it's a little over 100 grams (less than 4 ounces) and it makes dirty mattresses in shitty hostels bearable.
Cloud computing: Invisible, versatile and highly profitable
Linode tried to hide the fact they were compromised multiple times. I don't trust anything they say.
Replication of Large Synthetic Genomes Goes Cell-Free
thank you! I hope my state (Virginia) can get on board with this because I'm just so tired of comcast and verizon.
Msybe we will be able to choose a "unsafe" mode from a menu, also by acknowledging the full responsability if anything happens.

Hard to sell indeed.
Concept of the memory. Think about what it really is: a limited flat key-value database. It is limited because it not only limits the allowed subset and size of the key (e.g. 32 bit or 64 bit address) but also the value itself: a region of bytes or words starting at that address, of some unknown size, which spans across adjacent addresses. That seems reasonable only until you realize that it is a flat database which doesn't allow you to store structured data directly. How can we improve this shitty, eighty-year-old metaphor?
The evidence is so comprehensive, and yet we can't see it.

Pages 36 to 51 of volume one of the Mueller report concern the hacking and dissemination of DNC emails. It has many detailed claims and conclusions, but what's notably missing:

The actual evidence on which Mueller bases his conclusion that both DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 are cutouts for the GRU. He doesn't even indirectly allude to specific evidence, let alone include it in the report. It just isn't there.

Funny thing: on page 46 it cites a 9/15/16 Twitter DM, @guccifer_2 to @dcleaks. If they're both false identities for the GRU, it seems odd for Russian state coworkers to be communicating with each other over cleartext DMs on Twitter, an American company. (Unless that's just to deviously throw us off their trail.)
It's a national shame that state AGs are elected not assigned.
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Incorporating fluorine in a molecule offers additional flexibility over the more common chlorine and bromine compounds commonly found in natural products. For example, the fluoroquinolone antibiotics are distinguished by their introduction of fluorine, yielding compounds more effective than found in nature.

There are a few fluorinated natural products made by wild organisms, but they are very rare considering the elemental abundance of fluorine on Earth and the high utility found for fluorine in pharmaceutical development:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23034231

The strong bonds formed by fluorine, and its formation of insoluble compounds with alkaline earth metals, probably explains the rarity of natural fluorinated products. The fluorinated natural products are no more "dead matter" than other poisons evolved by plants against herbivores, but it's hard to evolve out of local minima that exclude fluorinated compounds.
If different groups all operate in a way that is unacceptable, then it doesn't really matter (in practical terms) which group is worse than the other.
There are 3 options for moderation:

1. Platforms with no moderation (8Chan -- except probably even worse, because even 8Chan moderates some content)

2. Publishers that pre-vet all posted content (the NYT with no comment section)

3. Platforms that retroactively moderate content only after it's been posted, in whatever way they see fit (Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Youtube, Reddit, Hackernews, and every public forum, IRC channel, and bug tracker ever built)

Revoking section 230 just gets rid of option 3. It's not magic, it just means that we have one less moderation strategy. And option 3 is my favorite.

Option 2 takes voices away from the powerless and would be a major step backwards for freedom of expression. It would entrench powerful, traditional media companies and allow them greater control over public narratives and public conversations. Option 1 effectively forces anyone who doesn't want to live on 8Chan off of the Internet. Moderation is a requirement for any online community to remain stable and healthy.

Even taking the premise that Twitter is an existential threat to democracy (which I am at least mildly skeptical of), it's still mind-boggling to me that people are debating how to regulate giant Internet companies instead of implementing the sensible fix, which is just to break those companies up and increase competition. All of the "they control the media and shape public opinion" arguments people are making about Facebook/Twitter boil down to the fact that ~5 companies have become so large that getting kicked off of their services can be at least somewhat reasonably argued to have an effect on speech. None of this would be a problem if the companies weren't big enough to control so much of the discourse.

So we could get rid of section 230 and implement a complicated solution that will have negative knock-on effects and unintended consequences for the entire Internet. Or, we could enforce and expand the antitrust laws that are already on the books and break up 5 companies, with almost no risk to the rest of the Internet.

What problem does revoking section 230 solve that antitrust law doesn't?
Digital mortgage servicing platform Brace raises $10M to fund growth
Can you ensure that this process is followed fully and correctly all of the time?