skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That may be a great philosophical argument, but in the eyes of the law (which is what we're discussing here), IA was giving away someone else's property, so it really can't be considered a charitable act.

Internet Archive is a nonprofit with a philosophical mission. I don't agree with them all the time, but I view that their responsibility is to act primarily in accordance with their values. Unfortunately, they ended up taking on powers that they may not be able to handle, but I believe that they are in the right and the publishers are in the wrong, which is a more important conversation to me than whether their decision was strategically prudent (probably it was not).

> Even setting aside the law, there is a question of ethics. If I give you a license key to my software, and you give it away to 10 of your friends, would you consider your act charitable?

All software that I have worked on outside of my job is free and open source, so I would. I believe that it should be mandated by law that all non-trivial software be free and open source. To qualify this, I wouldn't do this on an individual level without your consent if, say, you were a small creator and you depended upon licenses for your livelihood. But small creators are not the plantiffs in this case, nor the people who primarily benefit from strict intellectual property laws -- massive publishing companies are.
That isn't universally true.
> Then that is what the media should be focusing on.

All of those examples are from "the media" - what you choose to consume is up to you..

> Whenever I hear something Trump in Europe (like now from the BBC) it is about one of his Twitter gaffes

It's not a twitter gaffe to threaten to extrajudicially murder protestors / looters.

> Why do Facebook people walk out over a tweet and not over these issues? That is what is mind-boggling.

Straws + camel's backs.. In any case, this isn't the first time their employees were fed up -- similar sentiment was raised when he called for a complete and total shutdown of muslims entering the US:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-employees-pushed-to-re...
Not saying this isn't a possibility, but you'd think in the last 5 years of thousands of altcoins this sort of thing must of happened at least once? I guess the interest has to be there to attack it? Though if the interest was there more people would be mining it. Something like that.
People want to leave but stay for the network.

How can we leave and take the network with us?'

Edit:

I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of.

Also, organizing and protests...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/censorship

>The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.

I get the whole "private companies deleting racist content isn't violating the 1st amendment" meme that frequently gets brought up, but this is one step too far.
My tip: partner up with someone who wants money, and that you know has the skills to make it, and has the ethics to share profits with you. Steve Wozniak might be an example of someone who did that.

The smart people I know that are not rich because of one of two prime reasons:

1. They are not wealthy because they are not driven to make money. The scientist, the stereotypicial engineer, the altruist. The majority of self-made wealth I have seen is due to a real desire to make money, and work hard at it with little regard to other concerns like how enjoyable or prestigious the work is.

2. They are smart in particular areas, but really let themselves down in others. Maybe they can’t work well with others, maybe they intellectually can’t do sales, maybe they don’t keep motivation to work on a winning thing, maybe they gamble or drink, maybe they have psych issues.

Note that there are plenty of exceptions to the above (gain wealth despite the above, or lose it even with the above).

Finally plenty of smart people just don’t value money that highly - they are smart enough to have different goals in life. My guess is you want money for the social status but that you don’t actually care much about money - if so maybe accept that and choose your own path.
> Is it possible with multiple disks and an extant error correction algorithm to prevent data corruption indefinitely, assuming some maximum error rate?

This is the main thrust of the Dynamo paper, yes. You can solve all the technical problems. Put something in a "living system" like Amazon S3 (where data has 17+ clones; and where ops people are there to both replace individual hard disks as they fail, and to gradually port the system over to new storage layers as new technology displaces old), and then—presuming the company providing the service is still there—it'll be vanishingly unlikely that your data will have degraded on a human time-scale.

What's left in the way of "indefinitely", though, are political problems. "How do I preserve data indefinitely" gets into the same sort of hairy problems as "how do I enforce my will on my descendants after I die?" kind of questions, where you start to see people putting forward ideas like immutable autonomous trusts.

The key question being: how do I ensure that the stuff I want to stick around, sticks around, after I'm dead, during a period when literally nobody else cares about it, until a later time when somebody else does care about it?
Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
Israelis excel in the defense industry and their mandatory military service means few people with physical and perceptual aptitude are untrained.

I assume you are implying an Israeli cannot be a good police trainer because they occupy Palestine, but I disagree.
Very nice. Started using Matrix sometime ago and was thinking in running a homeserver myself.

This new p2p stuff is a great addition to an already very versatile platform. I think Matrix has a huge potential.
> today's battery technology has ensured sufficient energy density to make all-day long battery life a reality.

That is a sad comment.

Yesterday's battery technology ensured sufficient energy density to make _all-week_ long battery life a reality. Yes, those were much weaker phones computationally, but I'm fine with staying with just phone calls, SMS and calendar when I'm low on battery, for an extra week...
Now if this were an important Facebook employee writing this, and many Facebook employees were considering getting together to leave and start something better, I would totally love that.
I don't think deleting a Facebook account really matters in this day and age.

The FB Ads SDK has infiltrated every nook and corner of your life. From websites to your phone to TV's to iot. I am scared by the prospects of that level of intrusion than anything else. They don't need your account.

Visiting my account off FB activity was just there tip of the iceberg. They can connect everything about you without your involvement...

A mere FB account doesn't do much. Sure in the short term we can have lengthy blog posts about "deleteFB" and so on but really it's mostly for sentiment not really concrete.
same machine. 2nd best I ever owned after my 2012 13" macbook pro.
Small space heaters run at 750 watts on the low setting.
> It does not mean we need to "stop doing pretty much everything we're doing". Not sure where you get that idea.

Because your own stated criterion is that we need to be able to justify what we're currently doing based on scientific knowledge. We cannot justify most of the things we're currently doing on that basis.

> The idea is we should live in reality

We apparently don't agree on what "reality" actually is, at least with respect to how much of an emergency CO2 emissions are. You think they're a dire emergency. I think they're not an emergency at all. You will, I take it, claim to justify your belief that they are a dire emergency based on some kind of scientific knowledge. But it isn't. Nobody has a good enough predictive track record about the climate to make such a claim. So this claimed "knowledge" isn't actually knowledge at all; it's just people's beliefs and hypotheses and speculations. And that isn't a good enough basis to dictate public policy to everyone. Which is one of the key points the article we are discussing in this thread is making.
Good point about the difference between censorship and censorship. It's a lot different if it's orchestrated by the government. But still, feels very non-hackerish to call for censorship when the argument has always been that big tech is doing too much curation and that information should flow free.
From BBC [1]:George Floyd: Can President Trump deploy the military?

"In short, yes under certain circumstances.

....

The Insurrection Act says the approval of governors isn't required when the president determines the situation in a state makes it impossible to enforce US laws, or when citizens' rights are threatened.

Another law passed in 1878 requires congressional authorisation for domestic military use, but a legal expert told the BBC that the Insurrection Act was sufficient legal authority on its own for the president to deploy the army...."

With that said, let's hope that there won't be any more blood.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52893540
Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?

Why does leaving one require someone to leave all the others?

Do we not bandage a wound just because there are other wounds?
The only mail provider I ever heard of this working with is Google. And if you already support multiple usernames per email address, why not support using the same username for different email addresses? It's not like leaving it blank couldn't be valid, too. After all, it's the combination of email + username that is the actual DB key, just like it is with email+name@provider.tld

If the intent is to allow two people to have independent accounts even while using an email they both control, offloading that to the email protocol seems broken to me. It's the exact same email address from the perspective of security. Anything coming after the plus sign should be ignored for the DB key, but kept around for sending emails, so it can still be used for filtering those emails (for convenience, not security). So they could sign up either as

alice <couple@notgoogle.com>
bob <couple@notgoogle.com>

or as

alice <couple+alice@notgoogle.com>
bob <couple+bob@notgoogle.com>

but that difference should only ever matter for their email filtering, not for identifying them.
We have been seeing a lot of that on the hiking trails around here. They're swamped, mask compliance is near zero and they're litterbugs. We are also getting undesirable elements out there--vandalism and things like snatching phones.
Ask HN: Laid off, taking a gap year before grad school. How should I utilize it?
I was planning to go for grad school for data science this year, but have deferred my admission to 2021 given the current COVID-19 situation. Unfortunately, I was laid off a couple of weeks ago. I now have a year before going for grad school, and I'm thinking of taking a gap year. Would this be a good decision career-wise? What should I do to ensure that I get the most out of this time? And, if you took a year off work, what would you do?
700 from 82nd at Joint Base Andrews. 1400 more to be mobilized, issued bayonets
The larger an organization scales the more it relies on signals rather than explicit spoken directives.

In fact the majority of communication operates on signals and we ought to know that by this millennium.

If you're not using signals to advantage well then maybe you've got a culture where people are putting out the wrong signals and they're being ignored or people are putting out conflicting signals and a lot of the wrong signals are getting picked up or any other combination that doesn't spell success.

I wonder how many founders in the industry would say the same and how many of them are captains of a barely floating ship with dozens of little holes?

And a million other questions about why victory is never guaranteed, only deserved.

Or maybe you think culture grows organically like some crazed survival of the fittest type of scenario.

I can tell you more about how that works out by examining the kitchen and the bathroom than attending any management meeting.
L1 is typically 3-4 cycles in modern processors (latency) or 2-4 accesses per cycle (throughout).
I don't think that's what causes doctors to be ethical (most of the time). Pros of being a doctor: high pay, you get to help people. People who don't want to help other people will not become doctors.

On the other hand, people who want to harm others, have a higher chance of joining the police force. (Not all police officers, but some.)
A baby step you can take if you want to leave Facebook is to disable (I forget if that's the exact term, it might be deactivate) your account. This removes your access to the site, and hides your profile - while leaving the Messenger half of your account untouched: messages, contacts, etc.

I've done it before for mental health reasons, and found it really refreshing.
Are you saying the police in Bellevue and Kirkland showed up with AR-15s and knocked on private residences? I haven't seen any claims to that.

Are you saying residents there own AR-15s? I'm aware DC has very strict gun laws while Washington (state) is more pro-gun. But on the flip side, I'm not aware of protesters holing up in private residences.

So I don't see where your comment has merit. Can you clarify?
This is well described. Nix is fundamentally a different way to manage an OS compared to almost anything out there. While I think the ideas behind it are revolutionary and is the right way to build infra, the UX and organic growth of it makes it fairly difficult to get into - so there is unfortunately a steep learning curve. I think I sunk a solid 40 hours into building a declarative config for my own dev machine before I had a decent (but far from complete) understanding. But once you grasp it, it is quite mind blowing, and you wonder how anyone could cope with traditional mutable systems and the associated temperamental config management.

I think Guix might be the answer as a more approachable implementation of the Nix ideas, using Scheme for its config language. I haven't spent much time with it but I got going a lot quicker initially compared to Nix.
Last Word and Rotate String – Weekly Challenge
You may already be aware of this, but SomaFM has an ad-free version of this idea streamed 24/7. I enjoy it.

https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033
Someone please create thislotterywinnerdoesnotexist.com
I say forget "the network". If your so-called friends don't have your email address, they aren't your friends.
Yeah, San Jose just scrambled theirs 6 weeks ago. One article from 2015 claims only 2 departments in California did this for the primary radio communications, so things are changing that way.
It... has happened. Multiple times.

Bitcoin Gold: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-gold-blockchain-hit-b...

Vertcoin: https://www.coindesk.com/the-vertcoin-cryptocurrency-just-go...

Ethereum Classic: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-classic-51-attack-th...

Google is happy to show you more.
by that you mean that it allows for obfuscation and performance?

It sounds quite meek if the worst attack just consumes more of my battery.
Opinionated +1 :)

The C# compiler is called Roslyn which might not be obvious for people trying to find it on GitHub - it's incredibly well supported, regularly updated, and lively:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
> they didn't even flinched or complained or even frowned upon that brand of unprovoked abuse

I have seen dozens if not over a hundred videos of the police acting inappropriately over the last few days. I have only seen a single video in which any of them were stopped or reprimanded by another cop and that one "good cop" was a woman of color. If this inappropriate behavior is done by such a small percentage of the police force and is frowned on by all the other good cops, why is there so little evidence of police policing themselves?
I dunno if you noticed, but the law doesn't always exactly mean much in terms of what actually happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_labor_unions_in_the_Un...

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

References
Google is sued in U.S. for tracking users' 'private' internet browsing
>Now, a top marginal tax rate of 61% is the kind that you see in Sweden, Finland, Japan, Quebec Canada, or Denmark.

You are not describing a marginal tax rate though. You're describing an effective tax rate, as you acknowledge immediately above.

In Japan, the top marginal rate of income tax is about 55% on taxable income over ¥40M (say $370K). Let's see how the marginal tax rate between the fourth and fifth quartiles in your example compares with that, and also look at Japan's effective tax rate around the same income levels as your highest quintile.

Your fourth quintile household takes home $86,570 on an income of $101,570. With an incremental income of $132,415 above that, your highest quintile household takes home only $4,325 more. The marginal rate of taxation is therefore 96.7%

Someone with an salary of $250K in Japan (call it ¥27.2M) gets a standard earned income deduction of ¥2.2M plus a personal exemption of about ¥400K. The taxable income is about ¥24.6M.

National income tax will be about ¥7M. Local income tax will be about ¥2.5M. Take-home pay will be about ¥17.7M and the effective tax rate approximately 35%.
Most promotion fodder is being visible two levels up.

So you need to figure out how to get on calls with those people and appear to not be an idiot.
It would be racist to say that, if you were describing two communities starting at an equal historical footing, with equal starting resources, and one community didn't have it's knee on the other community's neck
If you're dealing with such a static single-machine dataset, why not go for SQLite instead of PostGres?

There'd be much less setup overhead
A much farther developed ecosystem for most/all aspects of computation, including lots of free software. I know, nVIDIA are terrible with their close-sourcing of almost anything and their OpenCL betrayal. But AMD is too much of an inferior option for doing compute work.
If it were me, and I had a first hand account of what he did and whether he had a justifiable reason, I would have it documented and escalated after returning to the office, hopefully anonymously, or at least confidentially.

I would also keep an eye on that officer to see if there were more violations.

I would not break formation and try to handcuff another officer in the moment, because it would be strategically unwise.
I thought that you couldn't transfer copyright in Germany, only grant licences with all rights.

Like even as a developer, it's just in your employment contract that you grant all rights for work done for the company to the company.
Query your friends for alternative contact information (email, phone #, etc.). Select your next platform(s). Leave contact information on FB. In 1-6 months, return to FB and remove your account.
Ironically giving a very concrete example of the benefits of deplatforming people..
Lack of money
To take a counter view..
I have literally been waiting to get into VR since 1993 and the Lawnmower man.

Why do I not have a system?

It is not cost.
It is not building the system.

I would say the main reason is I don't like video games.

There is just something so lacking with VR if you don't want to play games.

I remember the old MIT media lab mobile computing devices and videos in the 90s. They were nothing like a smart phone. More like the failure of google glass.

I do wonder if the headset is simply a wrong path.
>Another answer I found said no modern operating system will let you access the framebuffer directly. BUT LUCKILY THAT’S WRONG.

I don't know why this works for OP, but my understanding is that the original assertion is true. Writing/Reading directly from fb0 does not work on my machine.
It doesn't 'have' to be high. The hash rate could be 1/1000 of what it is today without any risk to 'settlement assurance'
Copyright (at least the closest German equivalent of it) is non-transferable and automatically belongs to the creator, so it isn't really meaningful anyway. That's what licenses are for.
Bitcoin Gold was hit by double spend multiple times, and that's just what I remember off the top of my head.

However there are obviously diminishing returns for such an attack. The alt coin value drops drastically when users find out about the attack and flee to more secure currencies.
Personally, I find social media to be very problematic. I strongly dislike facebook, twitter, etc. for how they are affecting the way so many people think. It's not because of their business models, it's because I think their product is fundamentally bad for people.

That line of reasoning doesn't lead to any opinion of google, apple, amazon (except youtube, which has some of the problems of social media).
As far as I know, in Germany copyright cannot be transferred. There is a special and limited exception for direct employees, so the company can hold the copyright, but I doubt that a client (like the government) could hold it.
Include some benchmarks? :) I've always wondered how production/robust JVM implementations make themselves "faster" after they warm up.
FB will just attract more right-wingers as they play the "hands off" role, both as users and employees. Every person who leaves because of this will be replaced by someone who considers FB to be the "fair and balanced" tech company.
That is not what they do though. On the other hand, it is what black bloc rioters do.
The only reason I singled out engineers is that this article was written by an engineer. I agree it can go both ways.

https://xkcd.com/793/

:-)
Your site helps me know what's happening when I'm in Chicago. Robert thanks you for your service and for checking those keys. o7
All the major cities that are having these issues are 1 party cities that enjoy their citizen duly re-electing them time and time and not getting anything they promised.

I think the two party system at the nation level is bad but nothing compared to how all major US cities are 1 party cites. Why change anything when the status quo keeps you in power and lets you fill your pockets.