skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I agree with your assessment of the questions asked. Question 3 is related to if the governor should rule by executive order if the opposing party doesn't cooperate. This is pretty much exactly what you're saying in your second sentence, just with executive orders instead of courts (bypassing the normal law process vs. monopolizing it). Question 4 is then about ignoring unfavorable court rulings, which again is pretty close to the undemocratic things you're referring to.
What statute?
Perhaps it's the fact that breaking things in science leads to really bad long term effects? Think what would happen if we rushed through a medicine for cancer and it had an effect after a few hundred thousand patients have started taking it.
> I guess it's too much to ask that police obey the law they are supposed to be enforcing.

Historically, we see that any group given power eventually starts abusing it. For modern definitions of abusing power, anyways. Past societies would have seen it differently, perhaps the divine right of kings or some such nonsense.

A fascinating example would be the wealthy nobles of the late (western) Roman empire. They shielded citizens from military service, and in exchange expected work from them, generally on their vast estates. After the collapse of the empire, this relationship eventually evolved into the feudal lord/serf relationship. Also, Diocletian's reforms didn't help, but that's a topic I'll leave for another post.

I guess this is kind of a long-winded way of saying this, but what you're asking for does seem unreasonable in the long term. Human beings don't seem to work that way.

That all being said, the long term I'm referring to is the 250+ year timeline. We might be able to goose the current system along for another few generations if we do it right. If it's worth it or not depends a bit on your perspective.
Actually, it doesn't. The difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks, in theory every ~2 weeks, but if a large percentage of the hash power suddenly disappeared it could be much longer.
You can't convince the half of the country that thinks those are tools needed to be "tough on crime" to unilaterally disarm. There has to be some concession.
In Australia each vote received by a candidate is worth a $ amount of funding (paid by tax payers). We also have campaign donations. But I wonder how far the tax payer funded model could be taken.

Each vote represents a) the path to election but also b) funding for the next election campaign.
Discussion from a couple of weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23194727
Only accepting signed drivers is fine trade off for its power IMO.
There've been reports that the Minneapolis Police Department has used Stingrays. Apparently there are some phones that can detect it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker#Counter...
If it had been a totally innocent man, ok, but Mr. Floyd had prior convictions of selling cocaine, robbery and assault.
Yes, it is wrong that a police "executes" a serial criminal on the street, without trial.
But is it worth starting riots all over the world for this guy in particular?
I kind of really want to contribute to this now. I've contributed to SerenityOS, too. But do I have time? No.
What do you make of Trump's many pleas to handle the opposition and journalists with violence while campaigning?
Any other ideas so far? I’ve mulled over this question of best first computer for children. The best I’ve come across so far is a plain Linux installation with no desktop environment and a text-based typing program.
For open source apps: Perhaps have a build service (Azure+github) that builds the software from source, then automatically signs it. Perhaps have some kind of application + manual review + requirements (like Github 2FA) process. Scanning for malicious source code would help a small bit as well.

For individuals: Some countries have an electronic identity system (eID), that would allow verification of name + address when code signing while being as secure/more secure than the usb sticks one gets for an EV certificate + the EV address/identity verification process. Because there is no standard this would be a lot of per-country work. And some countries don't have a (good) eID system (or an ID system at all). I only know the technical details of the German one and that one would work.

For businesses: EV certificates shouldn't be too much of a cost there. Though I am annoyed by the lack of competition driving the prices down in this area. Maybe make it easier for new authorities to enter the market?
I want to bail out peaceful protestors but not looters. Is there an organization that is doing some vetting?
No, I'm saying that comparing police to doctors isn't useful.
You're ignoring the reality that digital assets aren't like cars.

You made a stupid analogy, I called you out on your stupid analogy.

Close to 100% of the cost of creating a book, movie or song lies in the creation

Correct.

not the duplication.

Exactly! Duplication costs nothing and as such should be free to all.

If all of the audience copies it for free instead of buying it, the creator makes nothing.

This never happens, and you'd have to have the strangest mindset to believe it does. I've got three bookshelves stocked with nothing more than CC-licensed hard copies of books. (I actually just spent $200 acquiring a mint copy of one that was particularly special to me as a child a couple of weeks ago.)

It has ZERO to do with whether the book store is deprived of the use of the copy.

Then maybe you shouldn't have made such a ridiculous analogy.

It has everything to do with whether the creation costs are split evenly amoungst (sic) the users.

Costs shouldn't be distributed evenly: people who can pay more should pay more, and people who can't pay at all shouldn't pay.

Here's an assignment for you: imagine writing a book or creating a movie.

Sure. I'd argue that books are objectively more valuable than movies, but you're obviously not taking this at any level but the most superficial.

Now imagine that everyone pirates a digital version instead of paying you.

Completely unlikely[1], and also ignoring that theater sales are where movies actually get the majority of their revenue, but sure.

[1] It's actually impossible, because the pirated copy had to come from somewhere.

Do you feel okay because no one deprived you of your original copy?

I'd recommend looking up Drew DeVault's words on this topic. He recently wrote a book, was receiving reasonable royalties from it, all the while it was licensed under a CC license.

Or are you depressed because everyone is using your work but not paying you what you asked?

People don't have a right to a business model, and if we're making decisions on levels of depression now, I declare that the idea of hypercapitalist nonsense like you're advocating for and that the current intellectual property system defends is depressing to me, and we have to change it now to something that supports authors (or, radical idea, everyone) while also not robbing the public of information.
Yes, this is the key warning of Spolsky’s post [1]: The rewrite team had invested years of work and still had nothing shippable.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
From the article linked above [0], it appears that 20 minutes is good enough. My GP mentioned something similar to me a couple of weeks ago. The interesting point is _when_ to go out for 20 mins walk and for where I stay (Sydney,Australia), the timing seems to be this :

Noon during winter
Before 10 AM or after 3 PM during summer

[0]https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/high-vitamin-D-foods.php
I mean you can absolutely do your first businesses model as long as you don't claim to actually be McDonald's your fine.

The issue here is they agreed to allow GrubHub to pretend to be them. You'd never get that deal with McDonald's since they'd just not agree to it since they know it's a horrible idea but tons of people running restaurants don't understand they are getting a raw deal.
But no one cares DV/OV/EV differences for web certs.
Ending cash bail policies wouldn't directly address police violence, but it could reduce the incarceration rate. There are many people in jail waiting trial for crimes they did not commit, simply because they could not afford bail and would not take a plea deal.

Ending the use of private prisons and restricting police use of military equipment and weapons are also frequently suggested proposals.

In terms of police violence, I think the main thing lacking right now is accountability. There are a lot of ways to impose that. One avenue is to impose accountability from a higher level of government (for instance: the FBI getting involved if local government doesn't act), and the other traditional approach is accountability from voters.
To be clear, the 1992 Los Angeles rights invoked the Insurrection act AT THE REQUEST of the state which is markedly different than Trump's proposal.

The more direct example of invoking the act in spite of opposition from states would be the enforcement of federal law law during the Civil Rights era.

Two good explainers on this:

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jun/02/can-donald-tr...

https://time.com/5846649/insurrection-act-1807-donald-trump/
Well,

One thing that stands out on it is that the top article is OpenAI's gpt-3 paper. While I've only read popular summaries here, one point that's highlighted is that the model involves 175 billion parameters. Which seems like an indication that while you can download the code and the paper, you're going to be able to run it - at not until/unless GPUs get much bigger (or you have Open AI, Google or similar level resources).

I wonder if you could have a site which not allows the uploading of code but actually involves the code executing on the site.
You don’t need to be rooted for basic searching. Back when I ran android I found an app that would alert when you connect to a tower not in the database. I think it was called AIMSICD but it’s been a while.

I think you would need to deploy more advanced techniques to be sure though.
I want this but for v8/js!
Carcassonne base game already does it by allowing you to play without farmers.
I doubt they really care to stop or punish retail looting. Probably just testing / practicing their ability to detect more serious terrorism. I hope...
> the various media organizations wouldn't gleefully reprint it word for word.

Ah, but they’d contextualise it, the nasty hobbitses. Which is what he’s upset about twitter doing in the first place. So that probably wouldn’t work for him.
Maybe a bit of a weird question, but does anyone know why there isn't just a single EU-wide effort? Or is it just politics as usual?
Applying Computer Vision to build great UI/UX for applications
What did we do before we needed corporations to tell us what is safe and unsafe for consumption? Even as late as 2010 I cannot recall some e-nanny telling me that I downloaded a naughty executable image. I do not recall anyone having a life-altering problem due to lack of such a system, but I only know so many people.

Any way you slice this it's more about profit than it is about security. There is no amount of locking-down of Windows that will prevent my friends and family from figuring out how to completely fuck up the machine anyways and everyone involved knows it.

We were literally just talking about how awesome it would be to dumpster Apple's iOS ecosystem in favor of a .NET/Surface ecosystem, but if its going to be the same enterprise signing certificate hell, then Microsoft can fuck directly off too. I am so tired of this shit. We have spent the last 2 weeks fighting Apple certificate nonsense on behalf of several of our customers.

Apple, Microsoft, and others who would force code signing identities on developers: Kindly fuck off with your nonsense. We would like to get back to writing code and delivering excellent customer experiences. Trust can be built in many other ways. You are not the sole arbiters of trust. I would much more likely follow advice from a green username on HN than I would your smartscreen technology or any ridiculous certificate chain backing it.
Is this better than GeoGebra https://www.geogebra.org/3d ?
So how do you avoid calling a 3rd party when Google won't show you the correct phone number?
In general, the judicial branch can't quite make new law, but they can throw out (in whole or in part) or place limitations on an existing law. (There's some nuance to that.) That seems like a relevant distinction to draw, as it's an intentional aspect of the checks and balances between branches of government.
So we need to become skilled Windows developer before buy a certificate.
I agree, there should be one.
One of the reasons that DejaVu’s development stalled is because Google launched the Noto Fonts project, which is free/libre (SIL Open Font License) and quickly outdid DejaVu in Unicode coverage.
It's not "for this guy in particular". Merely the straw the broke the camel's back.
Grubhub’s CEO said on an earnings call that customers are “promiscuous” and not demonstrating loyalty to a single dining app, so while you have your anecdote, it doesn’t appear to apply across larger sample sizes.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-grubhub-results/grubhub-b...
There's also FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO / FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO through which you can set the current screen information. You can also do fake double buffering this way, by allocating a mode that's twice as tall, drawing to different parts of it, and changing the yoffset to present each "buffer".
I was wondering this as well, I did some digging. It's really interesting actually, it doesn't seem that Germany is that much of a veteran when it comes to copyright (In the early 1900's they virtually didn't have any copyright law in place).

To your question, yes you can inherit something from your grandmother. Inheritance is designated by the original author, and enacted in the event of their death (As far as I can tell).

Source: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_ur... (Section 28)
Ah but fonts are so important to the 'look and feel' of any publication that has text (and possibly even to those that don't!).

They are also important to the built environment - in Lisbon, Portugal where I now live, all the signage I see out and about is sans-serif, possibly the same font, and quite likely by the same handful of design agencies. I am genuinely feeling oppressed by sans-serif!! I long for serif, or indeed anything to indicate individuality and self expression (the graffiti is sometimes really good though).
and here I am working on a big distributed system that has to handle 200k records a day (and hardly does successfully). sigh.
I wonder if restaurants could add creative licensing terms to the metadata of the images on the legit sites?

"...By reusing our image for marketing purposes without prior written consent, you agree to a $3 royalty fee per page view."

IANAL, so no idea if that could be held up in court, but would be fun to see someone try.
Agreed. It's not good that only Apple can sell cheap certificates.
The Grubhubs and DoorDashes are not logistic services but also marketing services. Most companies sign a marketing agreement with them.
I think they have removed the cars from the lidar on purpose as there would be privacy issues if the cars were shown. Same would apply for pedestrians and shop facades.
To me this conversation is more about popular opinions in general and how many of them persist as a result of ubiquity over any sort of merit

Times Roman is just another example of the defaults becoming the standard and we've all been trained to know the defaults serve hardly anyone yet we keep hammering away at them relentlessly as if they'll give us anything but default outcomes
Any individual's choices do not influence the laws of a polity, generally.
And in some places continue to act with full police authority.
The site, and his complaints, came long before he had fonts to sell. And if you take the time and just read straight through it, you'll get a lot of knowledge and expert opinion (with which you may reasonably disagree), with no obligation or nagging to buy the fonts.

The site started years ago purely as an "educate yourself about fonts and stop using the fucking defaults!" site.
Malpractice insurance and touchy premiums, fuck up, and you can't afford to be a cop and a dept can't afford to hire you.
That's also my understanding of it, that does sounds like a business model based on trademark violation / brand impersonation.

The only reason they get away with it is they target small restaurants which are unable to defend themselves. They would try to create a fake <yourlocalcityname>mcdonald.com, it would be taken down immediately.
At first I thought this was a a way to run a Beowulf cluster... that brought back memories (is Beowulf still relevant in 2020?)

I forgot Devuan is the fork of Debian with Systemd stripped out.
Something I've noticed in a lot of police encounter videos: there is no attempt at de-escalating the situation. The shooting of Daniel Shaver is a prime example of that: a benign situation made deadly by high strung officers shouting and giving conflicting orders to a stressed, innebriated man. I get that they shot because it sorta looked like Shaver may have been reaching for a gun while he was stumbling, but that whole situation could have been avoided with some simple deescalation techniques.

Is the lack of interest in deescalating situations due to training or mentality or the wish to maintain authoritative appearances or some other factor I'm not thinking of?
Because the DEA has a special unit for it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...
I'm sorry, but "both sides" arguments are nothing but a deflection.
Ask HN:  Where can I find archived dark web content?
I'm conducting a research project and specifically interested in archived hacker forum discussions of exploits.
I feel like 5e did a really good job of feeling like it was D&D while streamlining out a lot of the “recreational accounting” that 1e was.

Though I still had to resort to automated character sheets to roll my character because there was shit I just could not figure out how to do from the PHB...

1e was kind of a mess though, remember how Bard was a weird expansion class you could only play after like 20 levels of three other classes instead of “you are a person who has about as much training in music, social engineering, and magic related to those things as anyone else at your level has in whatever they do”?

My 1e/2e groups sure did tinker with the rules to work around shit like that, my GURPS groups mostly went by whatever set of books the campaign was using, and my recent 5e experience after a long time away from RPGs felt like I remember 1/2e being without all the bullshit and confusion that nostalgia elides.
Why do so many people view "retirement" as sitting on your ass doing nothing? It is a weird cultural stereotype, perhaps perpetuated to glorify work culture.

This is probably why the term "financial independence" was coined, to break away from this misconception.

Retirement/financial independence is not needing the paycheck anymore. It's owning all of your time to use how you want.

There are plenty of "retired" people that don't sit around on their ass all day. They've retired from the full time rat race but are very much active, doing what they want to do. It might even still sometimes look like "work", but it is on their terms.
I admire your optimism. I don’t think you’re right, but I admire it.
Because I'm not feeling risky enough to try for it...yet. I'm not feeling risky enough because our life is pretty good as it is. Our life is pretty good as is because we don't have to worry about finances, as my job pays incredibly well.
There's an underworld that will buy stolen goods and part them out. And lots of middlemen who will help buy the goods. They don't need to ever turn on the device.
On the Internet of Things, We People Are the Things
It's not an either/or proposition; and given the low cost of changing the base font for a document, all using the defaults says is "I don't care about presentation at all".
It does kinda make sense this way, because national healthcare providers are integral to operations.
Password resets are a great example of an almost universal usage of OTP, thank you.

Of course, they deliberately discourage you from using that regularly, by making you set a new passphrase when you log in from a "magic link" sent by email.
So Twitter is now the only way to know that Trump is a bigot, racist and proto-dictator?
Sure, but are they also promiscuous about ordering from the restaurants themselves or just across apps?

I am also promiscuous across apps (DoorDash just because I got the DashPass for during the pandemic), but it has been years since I ordered anything other than pizza directly.

So the industry as a whole just owns the customers rather than the restaurant.
Related question: How do big companies (FAANG) store their root private key?
If a form of protest is acceptable, it will be ignored by the government/corporations/media unless it is to support its own agenda.

So violent protests against violent oppression is acceptable. Violence against not violent issues are not acceptable (like vegans against farmers, eco-activists protests, etc).
A new way to build cross-platform UIs for Linux ARM devices
Networking Tips for Screenwriters: So Easy Today Even a Child Can Do It
Yes, but that is an entirely separate phenomenon from the one I was raising.

Immigration is not the reason the U.S. is not losing the Lockean "rule of law and property rights" layer.

It's losing it because other ideas have come to predominate the intellectual landscape.
I used your service to listen to emergency service radios during the recent Australian Bushfires. The fires got really close to my family's home, your service allowed me to keep up with what was going on in real time. It really helped. Thanks.
Ask HN: Which magazine is worth subscription (in paper)?
Thinking to subscribe to paper magazine for hi-tech, software engineering or science field. Which one do you subscribe and think worth it?
fbcon emulates the VT-100. The VT-100 has no support for text formatting, unfortunately. If a new standard was proposed and you could get acceptance, similar to some of the other newer protocols like displaying images in the terminal championed by iTerm, I'm sure Linux would accept a patch for it. I don't think it's a terrible idea.
according to https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2019/12/12/amazons-rekognition-..., current facial recognition software is able to distinguish faces in very blurry mosaics using statistics.

it doesn't matter though. as I've explained, it's far easier to come up with flawed schemes than prove them insecure. just because I can't explain why your specific scheme is insecure doesn't mean it stands a chance against real cryptographers.
Ask HN: Are distributed, remote research labs are possible now?
I'm an early career researcher in a fairly large research group, and I've always been involved in collaborations of some sort or the other that are remote over the past few years. But recently with COVID and the other issues happening, I've noticed a lot more potential collaborators are open to working remotely on projects. I reach out to well-known researchers at University and even in Industry, and it anecdotally seems like more people are down to work on projects with distributed teams. Is anyone else seeing this too?

I'm sort of thinking about starting a formal collaboration that is entirely remote and ongoing. I’ve been discussing with lots of my colleagues and friends across research and engineering, and it feels like there is so many low hanging fruit in bridging the gap between research and application in different ML topics like Meta-Learning.

Do you think there is an opportunity for a distributed research organization to build practical useful ML tools? I know many researchers in a cluster of related research areas that are interested but I'm not sure what the best path forward is. A flexible, online research collaboration seems reasonable.