skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Email and usenet both existed and ran just fine before Section 230.

Email and Usenet didn't have the eyes on them and the billion dollar coffers legal teams could drain that they do today.

> There's good reason to think that low-volume, heavily-moderated forums like this one would have no problem without the CDA.

Without equivalent legislation that removes liability for hosting user content, all it would take is a cease & desist or arrest for someone to decide that the risk of hosting a free forum like HN just isn't worth the legal liability.

> "As it exists today" - and why should we assume that the present manifestation of social media is the best possible one?

Nobody suggested that the current manifestation is "the best one". You're posting on a forum where many people are able to amass small fortunes working for, and selling to, companies that regularly rely on Section 230. One only needs to look at the tomes of case law created by these companies based on Section 230 to recognize this.

> Why assume that large-scale content moderation is an unsolvable problem?

Again, nobody suggested that it is an unsolvable problem. It's a solvable problem with giant piles of money and an extremely lengthy payroll.

The problem is that the liability for user content being unwaived has a chilling effect for those without giant piles of money and an infinitely long payroll. GeoCities, personal blogs, personal sites, hobbyist forums, and other mainstays of the nascent internet would either exist with massive censorship or not at all.

> If all their employees who are currently focused on getting people to click ads switched over to developing efficient moderation, could it be solved?

How many people would be able to bootstrap a site that allows users to upload content in any form if they needed a billion dollar payroll to hedge against the liability of being sued out of existence, or being raided and arrested in the middle of the night?
Hourly white collar workers? Where are you from?
Maybe people could take different "3rd" days off?
I think you just assume that unless bills are returned to you as damaged and you need to replace them, all the bills printed are in circulation.

And I don't think the peg needs to be exact. If bills are destroyed and the peg becomes 1 dollars = $35.05, things aren't going to fall apart.
Have you read the guidelines in relation to your apparent perception that quality is decreasing?
Wait... Todd Rider the DRACO guy?
I like 4x9, because a lot of work is already 5x9 if you include mandatory lunch break.
I like the idea of working less, but it's going to be hard to use Germany as a poster child. The German economy hasn't been doing to great recently. In my opinion it's largely due to carrying lagging EU economies, but it will be hard to use a struggling economy as a positive indicator

Germany: https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-growth
US: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth
https://www.system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox

> Is it similar?

Alex describes Waterfox as privacy-friendly.

System1 describe Waterfox as privacy-friendly, and so on. A few highlights:

>> … our promise to him was that we could provide much-needed resources to further build upon and market Waterfox to a broader audience, while maintaining the aspects that Waterfox is known for. We will honor that promise to him and the Waterfox community, …

– and:

>> … Alex will continue to drive product strategy, only now he has resources to hire a team and build an even better product. By leveraging the System1 engineering resources, Alex will be able to roll out more features, more quickly, while maintaining the Waterfox commitment to its users. …
Bayesian Deep Learning and a Probabilistic Perspective of Generalization
I worked 9 hour days with every other Friday off and hated it.
>As the article mentions, the threat model here is primarily an insider one, with a "rogue" user leveraging this method to obtain capabilities the domain administrator intends to deny

What would be those capabilities? They'd have to be user-level policies, which already limits what you could do.
Why travel restrictions aren't stopping the coronavirus
I am curious. Where do they work? What do they do?
Cash money is replaced at face value if it is damaged - presumably the owner of the cash has an interest in seeing it kept safe.

But unless the Treasury is notified and presented to their satisfaction with damaged bills for replacement, by definition, there is no way of tracking destruction/damage to cash money.

The amount of cash in circulation is tracked: https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircv...

In the Euro zone - with negative rates, holding on to paper money can mean a positive return: "German Banks Are Hoarding So Many Euros They Need More Vaults"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-31/german-ba...
I feel like I'd probably be as-effective with a four-day work week. I monitor and respond to issues when I'm at home anyways. But I think it'll still be a while until this becomes substantially more popular.

At a previous job I was furloughed one day a week for a while, and it was definitely time I enjoyed having available, I just wasn't fond of the 20% pay cut that went with it.
"Naked Helium" -- What a nice way to say "we output alpha radiation"

> "The hydrogen/boron fusion creates a couple of helium atoms," he continues. "They're naked heliums, they don't have electrons, so they have a positive charge. We just have to collect that charge. Essentially, the lack of electrons is a product of the reaction and it directly creates the current."
> they all rely on hosting your own server, or some kind of strictly limited "community" plan

Happily this is not true of Zulip! Open-source projects get free hosting on zulipchat.com, with the exact same features as our corporate customers. Quoting from https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/ :

> The hosting is supported by (and is identical to) zulipchat.com's commercial offerings. This offer extends to any community involved in supporting free and open source software: development projects, foundations, meetups, hackathons, conference committees, and more.

(I work on Zulip.)
Whereby you seem to be making the case for "dead" languages.
Why is this so common in defense?
Maybe different employees could have a different day off so that the business can still run unless there is only one individual that can do that particular job. I think that would work for at least 95%
I'm no fan of prop 13, and I agree that it contributes to the housing crisis. However, I wouldn't call it the main driver. I still think that a failure to build (actually, this is probably better described as a deliberate success in preventing housing from being built) has been the main driver of the housing crisis.
Not the public key, that would violates FIDO's design requirement forbidding correlation. A key pair is minted during registration and the relying party (web site) remembers that specific public key. The FIDO2 device remembers which site it was and its corresponding private key.

That's why it needs storage for each such resident credential on the FIDO2 token.
If that were possible it would be exploited on every instance of the insecure software. Luckily what you are saying is far fetched. Why is it that you think a VPS is some fragile thing that is sure to be exploited? There are literally millions of instances chugging away, serving up files. Let's use our best judgement.
We're a Segment competitor, not a Heap competitor (we actually support Heap as a destination). A significant number of Heap's users use both Segment and Heap. That's actually one of the big reasons we started Freshpaint. A lot of people would buy Heap for product analytics, but they would still setup manual event tracking for Segment for their other tools. We started Freshpaint so you won't need to setup event tracking at all.
I think it depends on what kind of work is performed. For the manufacturing industry, this would be a very bad idea as workers will start losing focus during the last hours of the day which potentially would increase the volume of workplace injuries.
True. But you completely lose these 4 days. That’s at least my experience.
I think this is the perfect storm.

1) Privacy-conscious browsers are trying to get exposure, so they are stretching an extremely narrow privacy risk into something extreme.

2) (I also believe) media companies are worried this will rob them of ad exposures, so they are incentivized to cover this as something scary.

3) The "bad guy" is Google. This means the amplitude of the story is immediately 10X larger.
Not being in the apple world I wondered if this submission meant anything had changed regarding running stuff like this on iOS, but no:

>Why isn't this in the AppStore?

Apple does not permit any apps that has interpreted or generated code therefore it is unlikely that UTM will ever be allowed. However, there are various ways people on the internet have come up to side load apps without requiring a jailbreak. We do not condone or support any of these methods.
The usual path for this are unions.
Sigh: Second milestone is getting enough reactions to demonstrate an energy gain by counting the amount of helium that comes out of a fuel pellet when we have those two lasers working together. That'll give us all the science we need to engineer a reactor.

I love the work, I love that they have exploited the fact that we can build things (lasers) now that we could not economically build before. But the fact is that so many many things die on the aforementioned step from the article.

That is the step wherein the science doesn't give you a way to engineer a reactor, instead it illuminates something you didn't know before and so that you now realize you can't ever build a reactor that way.

So when I read these papers and the science isn't all figured out, I temper my enthusiasm. High hopes, low expectations, that's a good motto here. Unlike the stellerator where all the science is "known" and they are engineering an implementation step by step by step.

I've added it to my fusion project collection under "interesting long shots", check back in 5 years to see what the science taught them.
does this add an additional vector to that case?
I don't know if I'm pro a 4-day work week, (I'm personally not for it if it's 4x10 instead of 5x8)

But I'm reading the book [peak performance](https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Performance-Elevate-Burnout-Scie...) (Highly recommended) and I generally think that companies should really encourage those employees to work at a schedule that works best for them (This is obviously harder for shift work where the value comes from having a person in a chair at certain times)

We have all these norms about 8 hour days, and 5 day weeks and not sleeping at work, and I think people should be given the freedom to work in the way that works best for them.

One norm I'm trying to get used to breaking right now is the norm about "sleeping at work". I would be much more productive if I napped for 15 or so minutes twice a day. I know that when it comes to coding or writing I could get a ton done in a 3-4 1-hour-sessions day if those 3-4 hours were clear, well defined and rested. I could get much more done in "3-4 hours" than an "8 hour day" with meetings and other administrivia thrown in. I'd guess my optimal work week is somewhere around 26 hours, assuming that the space between those 26 hours is spent resting and focusing and getting ready to work hard those 26 hours.
That sucks. I've not worked in the BA, but can relate to a lot of this.

With respect to the interview process specifically, I've had an offer rate of maybe 30% over the course of my career (I'm in my 50s), and the process has been pretty easy. Sometimes a few whiteboard questions, but no take-home bullshit, etc. So, not too hard to find a job.

But on my last search, a few years ago, I experienced a lot of what you're seeing. Lengthy, unprofessional processes with maybe 15 companies. I finally ended up elsewhere, in an academic position. Pay is painfully low, but in pretty much every other respect one of the best jobs I ever had. And that's partly because the pay is low--my manager knows full well that I'm virtually irreplaceable, so I have a lot of power in the employment relationship.

Anyway, the thought there is that perhaps before leaving the technology field altogether, it might be enough to leave "Tech(TM)" (the part of tech that's huge in the BA and here on HN). There can be interesting things to do at rather boring sounding places.

Good luck!
Thanks for the informative answer, I learned something today.
To each their own. My work week is spent on work and I can't really enjoy the time before or after work. I'll never enjoy M-F.

I'd rather have a 4x10 than a 5x8.

If my side hustle ever graduates into a startup and I start hiring other people, we're doing 4x10 or 4x9.
Is it though? I worked in 4 different jobs across 2 different countries and this was unheard of. Not even a single one of my friends do this.
The accompanying blog post is unfortunately unreadable with an ad blocker on that blocks third-party trackers from Google Analytics, Facebook, and New Relic. It hijacks scrolling and continually scrolls back to the top. (Mac Safari + 1Blocker + PiHole.)
User Group Policy isn't exactly a security mechanism, it exists to prevent users from unintentionally breaking their profile. There is multitude of ways how the user in question can inject arbitrary code into processes that are affected by user group policy as these processes are owned by that user.
Wow, what a dumb justification for the privacy concerns. URL hashes aren't even sent to the server, let alone have anything to do with DNS. We already put sensitive stuff in URL hashes, like OAuth tokens.
The vast majority of those clients are probably Android
The Opportunity rover's final photo of Mars (2019)
Definitely - I went through some of his lectures after I had read up on Linear Algebra as part of a course (from [1]) and had used it in a bunch of applications, but I still found the lectures worth going through if only because his fantastic exposition helped me visualize things better.

[1]we followed Huffman-Kunze https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Kunze-Hoffman/dp/93325...
Another toxic part of the FOSS movement. Ill use whatever I want, thank you very much.
So I looked it up, and found there actually are two side reactions from the primary fuels, no deuterium required. In a thermal plasma the resulting neutrons would carry less than 0.2% of the energy output. I don't know what the percentage would be for this reactor, since the fuel isn't a thermal plasma while fusion is happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Boron

Neutron energy would be a bit under 3 MeV, comparable to fast fission neutrons but in much lower quantity for the power output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_temperature

Interestingly, that page says the thermal neutrons in a conventional nuclear reactor are better at activating materials than fast neutrons.

According to a presentation I saw by the leader of MIT's fusion program, the inner wall of a D-T tokamak would be activated by the neutrons, but would only need to be stored for a few decades. D-T releases 80% of its energy as 14 MeV neutrons.

According to LPP, which is working on a different boron fusion design, a 20MW reactor would activate the walls with short-lived radiation, but it could be safely opened for maintenance after about twelve hours (iirc).
> before but they renamed it to "/events" recently

Pretty sure it has been /science for at least 2 years.
10 hours really seems extreme. I am certain that the vast majority of office workers could produce the same level of output at a 4x9 schedule as they do in a 5x8 or would in a 4x10.

And most would be profoundly happier people.
I understand the historical context of laws, my point was they are fundamental and we can believe them as fundamental truths. But those truths are layered, for example the world is round to a point but if holographic projection hold true, then it's true nature is not round at all. That being said there is enough foundational evidence to say that the earth is round is true, but I would not say the science is settled. Not until we answer the question of holographic projection. Some germs cause disease, some are actually extremely beneficial to us, so I would not say germs cause disease is settled. I believe that the science is settled is as strong of a statement as it conveys no more research or discovery is needed.

No rules elevate my opinion over theirs, if anything mine should be regarded as less I don't hold my credentials out there as an authority.
Haha yeah -4, that's pretty far out. Lots of people who hate tax credits out there!

It's really hard to defend libraries though. They're not just an inefficient use of space. They're bad for the environment too, as people have to travel back and forth all the time to swap books, discover the book they want isn't returned yet, etc. They're often badly maintained. Their books get damaged, lost or stolen. Their selection is really, really limited.

Buying a book online is a great replacement except for the buying part. For most people books aren't a big part of their expenditure. For people for whom it is it'd be reasonable to effectively give them the money back instead. Especially now the marginal cost of the "book" is near zero, like with software. If the admin systems were good enough you'd never have to think about it: it could be integrated with the booksellers checkout system so the cost is literally zero. Of course that's not how tax credits really work today, but it could be done that way.
> I mean I've been thinking of writing a post (and a knowledge sharing session with my mostly C writing, older generation developer colleagues) about modern development [...]

There's a (generally) younger cohort at Handmade Network[0] that might be interested in your essay. I'd encourage you to make an account and post it on a new thread :-)

[0] https://handmade.network
Yeah that sounds way too inconsistent on a weekly basis for me
This course was a godsend for me.

Before I dropped out of FSU, I managed to rope myself into two math classes (Complex Variables and Game Theory), both of which had a strict requirement of Linear Algebra, which I hadn't taken.

I was a bit panicked because it was a bit too late to sign up for anything else, and so I binged through this MIT course, and learned just enough to get permission from both the professors to still let me take the classes. It definitely would have been better to have taken linear algebra directly, but having this as a resource was super valuable.
Remote work is increasingly available. Good luck!
It is an especially big deal for working parents... having a day when kids are at school/daycare to do chores and errands is huge... so many things are impossible to do when you are chasing kids around. I get way more done on a weekday home than a weekend.
Source for this? I'm from Europe and I have friends working in 2-3 different countries in Europe, but 32 hour workweek is not standard anywhere.
Never even heard of such a thing being standard in Europe.
Hey sounds brilliant, congrats on the launch.

As soon as I heard of Segment, I knew they were onto something valuable and can only welcome more competition.

Now that I've been nice, allow me to get the plastic pitchfork.

I see no mention of GDPR, I assume you are going to restrict your market to NA for now? What about CCPA?

In the same vein I don't think you have any integration with open-sources alternatives to commercial software that one could host on premise.

That's an odd choice given the shape of things to come wrt privacy.
> Clojure, other Lisps are non-existent in production compared to the software world at large

Clojure is also non-existent in production to the software world at large.

The latest Clojure survey had roughly 2500 people giving feedback. That's a drop in the ocean of many millions of Java, C, C++, C#, Python and Javascript programmers. Rough estimates say that there are >7 million Java programmers world-wide.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-python-d...

The number of Clojure programmers is probably less than 1/1000ths of that.
I could see two possible positive outcomes to making a private conversation of that nature public. One, we find some impure but pragmatic horse trading, and the voters breath a sigh of relief at the revelation that the politicians aren't as caught up in partisanship as we'd feared. Two, we find out the reason they aren't caught up in partisanship is that the partisanship is less a disagreement over how to serve voters' interests and more distraction from how they serve their own interests.

Making a private conversation public is an extreme measure, but it also seems very appropriate in extreme circumstances.
In this case, 106 168 320 discrete LEDs, if we assume RGB and believe the 12288×2160 + 4096×2160 figure in the article; or 35 389 440 discrete LEDs if we count each (presumably RGB) pixel as a single unit, or if they're using a Bayer-pattern screen like PenTile AMOLEDs.
videos from the course are also available here http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs053/current/lectures.htm
Really wish Slack did not require a backend service just to auto-invite people. Makes it more difficult to allow anyone to communicate with you on your project.
GDP stands for gross domestic product. As its name indicates, GDP measures the production of final goods and services. Borrowing foreign money to buy foreign goods has no effect whatever on a country's level of production and therefore it cannot have any effect on the country's GDP either.
The Bretton Woods agreement never had anywhere near enough gold to account for all of the currencies pegged to it. The US held all the gold and agreed to the fixed conversion and everybody else agreed to never convert. It never had to balance presumed destroyed bills with the gold reserve.
What? I was just saying that I liked that system, I wasn't trying to engage in any kind of real apologia.
It's in the URL fragment (the stuff after the hash), so it's never even sent to the server.
It's from a semi-popular book [1]. The author admits it's not a precise studied value; for some people it's likely much higher [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent-eb...
[2] http://ulrichboser.com/how-many-felonies-did-you-commit-toda...
Karl Marx saw it as of vital importance to the workers' health, writing in Das Kapital (1867): "By extending the working day, therefore, capitalist production...not only produces a deterioration of human labour power by robbing it of its normal moral and physical conditions of development and activity, but also produces the premature exhaustion and death of this labour power itself."
My family is in Germany and a lot of them also work shorter hours. This works for all kind of jobs including upper management and specialist jobs . It’s a misconception that some jobs require 40+ hour work weeks. When the 40 hour workweek was introduced a lot of people also thought that the economy would crash and it worked out just fine.
Lack of competition certainly limits customer options if there's no statutory privacy protection. However, I don't get how privacy protection is so distinguishable from statutory protection against fraud, for example.

Also, if competitors do respect privacy, why would statutory protection be burdensome?
Discord, a private company that does not enjoy any sort of common carrier status, may not have any obligation to make up its own rules, but it also doesn't have any obligation not to make up its own rules.
It comes from this book about prosecutorial overreach:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

It's not without its criticisms:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-...