skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FCC approves 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast properties [pdf]
I use yelp to see reviews and menu but call directly to place a "togo" order.
I recently got a job lead from a FB recruiter.. the very first question was about my age. Really put me off.
> How can we repair a system that's been systematically corrupted over several years?

It's not the fault of the "system". The "system" wrote a law that says what the DEA is allowed to do (not this). It's not the "system" deciding to ignore that law, it's people. Hell, it's literally people with names. There are senior administration officials named all over that article.

You fix people by electing better people.
As far as I'm aware, the Australian government got permission from Singapore to make the fork in that way, so as long Singapore didn't accept external contributions (or if they did, under a contributor's agreement) then they're in the clear. GPL doesn't automatically make it impossible to copy code under other licenses. You can license code out in multiple ways. GPL is just the default license that can be used without explicit permission.
I miss the days when it was considered polite to keep one's political opinions out of the workplace. The workplace political activism these days is eerily reminiscent of the good old socialist times behind the Iron Curtain.
I just run a single Synapse server in docker.

Self hosted Riot is only relevant if you want to customize it, but I've found radical [1] to be a better alternative since I'm the only one using the server.

You can always fall back to using the Matrix-hosted Jitsi and TURN instances if you don't host your own (although I don't end up video calling with riot anyways).

[1] https://github.com/stoically/radical
Cuomo urges de Blasio to use more cops against looters
My apologies if you know this, but by graph it means the mathematics definition (a type of data structure) and not the actual visualization image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mathematics)

Compilers convert source code into graphs and then perform optimizations on these graphs. They never work directly on the source code itself. Once the graphs have been optimized, they're then converted into the target format, which is typically assembly language or bytecode.

So mostly this is about techniques compilers use to optimize and transform code.
That is absolutely not true and I don’t know why you think that, other than you’re super sheltered. You have no clue what you’re talking about

Tell me why the Mexican Mafia has no teeth. Enlighten me. Tell me why the Aryan Brotherhood is less dangerous than Kubernetes

It’s not ever worth discussing with y’all, seriously. The privilege here is so insane, you’ve obviously never been anywhere near a ghetto
Ask HN: Where do you still use paper in your job?
I just had to mail a paper check recently after a very long time and was wondering where people still use paper in their job, especially with everyone being remote
Maybe a counterexample, but it's also a really weird situation. The arms in that case were seized from government arsenals (that's how I'm taking "public arsenals", evidently under the authority of the government pre-seizure, anyway), and the whole thing was a reaction to a very recent military coup, plus the elected government was still kinda trying to resist Franco and the army at that point. At any rate, the rebels here were the military faction under Franco. Plus the scrappy resistance using looted public arms lost :-(
FB is the network of people on your green list, and FB's most pronounced "algorithmic" influence is deciding priority on a feed of your green-listed friends, but ultimately one has to ask -- can you handle your own relations? Are your friends' ideas just way too infectious for your free will to handle?
+1 for a static site generator with GitHub + Netlify.

Even manual deployment to Netlify is enough for most needs. Just drag the public folder in and you're done. It's an automagical experience.

I am actually in process of moving to Hugo/Netlify, and if I come close to bandwidth or storage caps I hope B2/Cloudfare has implemented official solutions by then. I'd personally love to avoid s3.
Because that’s action movie nonsense. The issue is that they pull out their guns too easily, not the place they aim them. Guns are not a tool for disarming or wounding. For one thing, a leg shot can easily kill. Second, it’s extremely difficult to make that shot with a pistol, even for trained police. Third, if someone has a weapon and they are about to kill someone (which is the only time police should be pulling out their guns), a leg shot might not stop them quickly enough. And disarming someone with a bullet is absurd except in very rare stand-off situations where the person is sitting still, and a sniper has had time to get set up.
I'm not sure I want to take typography advice from a website that doesn't even underline its links.
Thanks for this generous comment. The author of TFA has articulated a genuine problem that is central to many large-scale investigations these days, across many domains. We rely a lot on complex computer simulations, or complex physics-based models, that have a lot of fiddly details that are understood by only a limited set of people.

Yet, we want to learn from these models, and we want to reach conclusions from them. This has turned into a key problem for the scientific enterprise.

There are so many linked issues, some technical, some philosophical: Mere Monte Carlo state exploration is wasteful and doesn't provide much insight. Often we don't have error bars on model outputs to even know if an "improvement" in a metric is significant. There can be unknown unknowns that keep us from trusting our models completely.

It's a very rich and challenging problem space.

In my understanding, the Dept. of Energy was the first community to engage with these problems due to the test ban treaty. They had the mandate to ensure the nuclear stockpile works, despite not being able to fully test it. So they need models and they need to know how far to trust them.

One landmark reference for that is the NAS report on uncertainty quantification and complex models: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13395/assessing-the-reliability-...
So the NSA is doing what they actually should be doing?
Intelligence isn't the limiting factor to economic success. One can be smart and lazy.

Conscientiousness is the limiting factor to economic success.

One doesn't need to be very smart, just lucky enough to get the opportunities, smart enough to recognize them, and hard enough working to follow through.
Yes, uncover the magic, good job!
Even if you could, how long do you think your FOIA request would take to get processed vs. the rekeying frequency of the encryption?
Mining revenue is the network cost of running the Bitcoin network.

What if you ran a business that spends billions per year on network cost, then somebody told you they could reduce it by 98% and make it a flat cost, forever. That's proof of stake.

Ethereum launches the first phase of proof of stake this year. When Ethereum v1.5 launches in ~18 to 24 months, Ethereum's network cost will undergo such a transformation. The millions per day paid to Ethereum miners will stop being paid, forever. It's a ~98% cost reduction in perpetuity.
That's opening a can of worms. Some corporations invested in new opportunities, some bought back stock. The ones which bought back stock presumably didn't see any profitable investment opportunities. In the absence of monopolies (an important caveat), profitable investment opportunities create value (the service is worth more to the customer than the price, and the supplier's cost of providing the service is less than the price). A company could pay one person to dig a hole and another person to fill it back in, and they'd be creating jobs but they wouldn't be creating value -- that money would be better spent paying them to do something that people actually wanted. When a company buys back stock, they're returning capital to their investors and essentially saying 'we're already doing all we can, your capital is better allocated elsewhere.' If the government steps in and forces companies to make investments that don't create value rather than return capital to investors to be allocated elsewhere, you've created an inefficient planned economy.
> Go programs compile down to a single binary with all dependencies included. In contrast to C#, no runtime is needed, so applications may run in very thin containers such as scratch or alpine.

This was by design and not necessarily a bad thing. C# was meant to compile to managed code for better security and performance ( JIT ) - though people can argue over the actual merits.

> Go has no generics ... You’ll find yourself freqently writing small bits of code for operations that would be trivial LINQ statements ... Go returns errors which are then checked by the caller, rather than try/catch blocks and exceptions for error handling ... Go has no concept of awaiting an action (more on this later)

These are pretty important stuff that Go is lacking.

> Go places a strong emphasis on its applications staying up to date with the language, in contrast to the fragmentation in the .NET and .NET Core ecosystems

This isn't really much of an issue.

C# people primarily use C# to make money developing on/for the microsoft/windows ecosystem ( windows servers, sql server, IIS, sharepoint, azure, etc ). So a better way to introduce Go to C# people is to show how Go is better at interfacing with these microsoft software/servers or how Go can improve productivity within the microsoft ecosystem. Otherwise, you aren't going to have much success selling Go to "C# people".
> The problem is not actually fixing America but convincing anyone how deep and widespread the problem is.

There's a Churchill quote that's similar. Something like: The problem isn't winning the war, it's convincing others that it needs to be fought.
Can Grubhub do this phone scamming thing if the restaurants don’t agree to work with Grubhub? If not, it’s on the restaurants to figure out they’re being scammed and cut off Grubhub. I agree it’s extremely sleazy but if restaurants opt into it what can you do?

Regarding online ordering: restaurants need to decide if this is a space they want to be in (to grow business by allowing another channel for ordering) then research the field, pick a vendor with a fee model they like (or build their own!) and get actively into the game. For better or worse this is like having a phone number however-many years ago. You can choose not to but the technology is getting more and more popular so if you want to “keep up” you have to learn a new trick.

There are some up-front flat-fee vendors out there that will allow you to set up your menu for online order at your domain. And if you don’t want to spend the time, Grubhub will do it for you for a fee, and if you don’t want to pay the fee or spend the time, then cross your fingers and hope your customers are ok ordering by phone. But online ordering is not going to come out of nothing at no cost.
People should ask where who are they speaking to and if the operator lies they should take legal action.
Cannabis seeds and hemp seeds don’t contain thc
>No, the judicial and legislative branches have ceded it.

Well, it is the executive branch that chooses the supreme court... For every John Marshall there has been on the court, there is likely a Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr with his famous quote “If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It’s my job.”.
In the article it says you can copy `/dev/fb0` to take a screenshot. I tried this, but I don't know what format that would be to be able to display it or how to convert it to a usable format. Any ideas?
Zuck good job, well done. Let's vow to protect free speech everywhere.
FYI, your link doesn’t work - apparently jwz redirects links from HN.
I thought the right to bear arms was useless for defending against tyranny when the government has nukes and apache attack helicopters.
Same, hope that robert stays safe out there (and remembers to check his keys)
Jailbreaking is harder than rooting though and apple constantly fixes the holes so maintanence cost.

Few android manufacturers even have instructions to change your rom or root the phone. Lot of them support it while apple doesn't. Android is also open source so you can push your own changes at os level and reflash it . You can't do the same for iOS. You also have control over the hardware more than you do on iOS - way easily. Overclocking isn't possible on iphones.
There's no contract with books. Further, most capitalist philosophers worth their salt admit that intellectual property is ridiculous: there were actual debates when the copyright system got put into place, and there were actual debates when the patent system got put into place.

You could choose to deny reality and call Milton Friedland a "crazypants" capitalist, or a non-real world capitalist, but you'd not only be wrong, you'd come off looking ridiculous.
Location: Remote

Looking for: a scrappy startup that can pay a few thousand a month to grind and hustle with.

Currently: Sr Dev at... Think Mikey mouse... nice name drop but whack ass stack. Not unemployed but looking for something else.

Would like to work with: Anything JS. I’ve worked with the raw, worked with all the lame frameworks, worked for dudes that wanted to create their own lol... I’m serious, any problem you want solved, I gotcha. Think The Wolf from Pulp fiction or Matt in the Martian. Professional problem solver.

Caution: major problem with authority, but if you’re cool we’ll vibe. I just don’t do well with playing house or “business” ha. How about we solve some problems and make some money instead?
> suspected check forgery,

This guy had, according to the coroner's report, recently used meth, had fentanyl in his system and the police stated he resisted arrest. He also has a police report from 2007 where he pointed a gun at a pregnant lady's belly to restrain her while his partner ransacked her apartment for jewelry and drugs. Sounds peaceful to you?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/george-floyd-fentanyl-methamph...
https://files.catbox.moe/f4ylk1.jpeg

(and BTW it was a forged $20 bill, not check forgery)

> jogging down a street

You use this as an example of police brutality in which the police weren't even involved. And then you immediately follow with "Save your talking points for when they're actually relevant"? Will you?

> sitting in one's own home

Breonna Taylor, a black woman, who's boyfriend shot first at the police when the executed a no-knock warrant. Does this sound racially motivated to you? If they were white, would the officers not shoot back?

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Maybe you should stop skimming headlines of MSM and start actually trying to uncover the whole story before you help perpetuate a race war with lazy, anecdotal and misleading examples masquerading as actual talking points.
Stop building tools to enable fascists. Has anyone not learned the lessons of history?
I forgot to mention this when I added your post to my favorites a few hours ago: I really appreciated this response! Thanks for giving it.
> provides over a standard "electronic signature" today

What is that standard, praytell?

Can you use Docusign to buy a house (maybe), pay your taxes (no) and open a banking account (no). There are thousands of IAM silos, not one "standard".

I'm not interested in holding back progress on government efficiency or preventing identity theft in an increasingly online world because the two big political parties have irreconcilable differences about a wedge issue.
Police use of force policies can help to end police violence
There are points in the road where it's a bit unclear the exact path you will take. This is not one of them. The car has an extremely clear line of sight to the lane, enabling it to know that there are no curves before the obstacle.

Just like "emergency braking is bad" shouldn't remove the option of slowing down, "car can't always tell where the lane goes" shouldn't exclude using precise lane information when it is available.
> There are a lot of people trying really hard to trick users into installing software they don't want. There's big money in it. Authenticode strikes me as an entirely reasonable step to provide more signal to the systems trying to identify and block crapware.

Maybe that should be up to the machine owners to decide what to install themselves (crazy idea I know).
Does it really matter? Whether it's the FBI or the DEA on the street arresting people, does it make a difference? They are both federal law enforcement and both are held to similar standards.
Populism has always, from day one, all the way back in Ancient Greece, been a threat to democracy. People don’t really want lofty philosophical ideas. They want the rules most favorable to them. Been true for thousands of years and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

The surprising thing isn’t that rule of law is being threatened. It’s always being threatened. The surprising thing is that it ever evolved at all. And despite the constant threats, it still manages to evolve, one tyrant at a time.

CGPGrey has a great pair of videos on pirate social dynamics that everyone should watch. Economic factors, not shared idealism, created the flat hierarchy.

Nobody will choose idealism that’s not beneficial to them.
Yes and no. More and more there's less legislation and more executive orders. Perhaps we need a limit on number of executive orders per term?
Namecheap WordPress hosting.

3 bucks a month and they handle scaling and all that shit for you supposedly.

It's not free but you get a way more functionality than a static site offers.
I'm trying to figure out what kind of warrant you're imagining that would justify bringing a full SWAT team to evict squatters who were known protesters in an ongoing legal dispute with the property owner, not some gang kids.
Many Muslim countries are also skewed to elect conservative Muslim government. It's not they hate democracy. They just don't trust normal people to make the right decisions.
I agree that looting/destroying property is bad (obviously...), but I disagree that it's a problem that's even within an order of magnitude of the behavior I've seen out of the police. Property can be replaced. It's called insurance.

However...our right to not be inflicted with cruel and unusual punishment, our right to assemble, and our right to freedom of speech is in grave danger here. That's why I can't stand that everyone is focused on the looters.

Speaking of the constitution, whered the 2nd amendment people go? I thought I'd have some allies in them.............
Polarized light has been known for ages, I think this is some kind of coherent state that allows those bundles of photons to carry more angular momentum than normal. I think the classical solution also allows for these twisted EM waves, but I'm not 100% sure.

Edit: To be precise I think it's something like group velocity but applied to angular momentum, but I'm not an expert.
It is true. One can never know.

This is a reminder not to place ego-value in software work, to keep a small footprint, to shed identifications, and surrender into that deeper Truth of our being.

Acknowledging the inevitability of fallibility, it becomes important to adopt a posture such that once we become aware of a deeper truth, we stop living out what becomes apparent as delusion.
Record Ratings and Record Chaos on Cable News
Look into the p25 standard. I wouldn't know but I wouldn't be surprised it many agencies use it for digital/analog data and can probably be brute forced with cheap hardware. Search for p25 DES-OFB. Now would be a great time for a rainbow table.
Violent revolutions aren’t great when the ruling system is a democracy. By definition it’s going against the will of “the people”
I was referring more to other jobs such as IT Helpdesk (who also has to do server or network admin because it's "other duties as assigned" after they're hired) and the like
In the absence of proof, how is the contemporaneous assertion "[AIDS] was the product of biological weapons experiments conducted by the United States" any less reasonable? We didn't even realize until the 2000s that AIDS had been around for over 30 years at the time the assertions were made.

Prior to SARS-CoV-2, researchers around the world had been warning that the next global pandemic would likely 1) be a coronavirus that 2) emerges from bat reservoirs 3) in China. There was a whole special issue of the journal Virus with multiple papers making that claim: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/viruses/special_issues/viruses_...

At least one of those papers was written by a Wuhan Institute researcher.[1] Is that supposed to constitute circumstantial evidence that implicates the institute? That's the sort of spurious logic at the core of all conspiracy theories. You can implicate anything with coincidence; it's a collection of related coincidences which constitute a hypothetical causal chain that make for evidence, and there are none with respect to the Wuhan Institute. And not only that, such a hypothesis has to overcome the a priori likelihood, not to mention substantive evidence (e.g. pangolin intermediary), of it emerging precisely as claimed by the consensus hypothesis.

Is it possible it leaked from the Wuhan Institute? Sure. Just as it was possible the U.S. manufactured AIDS as part of its extensive biowarfare program. They're both still nutty theories, it's just that one has the benefit of hindsight and distance filtering all the contemporaneous coincidences, while the other still seems intuitively plausible without the assistance of analytical thinking to clear the brain fog.

[1] "Thus, it is highly likely that future SARS- or MERS-like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China." Yi Fan, Kai Zhao, Zheng-Li Shi, Peng Zhou, Bat Coronaviruses in China, March 2, 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/210
Human solutions are _also_ always imperfect.

On top of that, you have to also account for the concept that the employees themselves might steal from the store.
Relevant context and citation:
“ Ehrlichman died in 1999, but his five children in questioned the veracity of the account.
"We never saw or heard anything from our dad, John Ehrlichman, that was derogatory about any person of color," wrote Peter Ehrlichman, Tom Ehrlichman, Jan Ehrlichman, Michael Ehrlichman and Jody E. Pineda in a statement provided to CNN.
"The 1994 alleged 'quote' we saw repeated in social media for the first time today does not square with what we know of our father. And collectively, that spans over 185 years of time with him," the Ehrlichman family wrote. "We do not subscribe to the alleged racist point of view that this writer now implies 22 years following the so-called interview of John and 16 years following our father's death, when dad can no longer respond. None of us have raised our kids that way, and that's because we were not raised that way."
Ehrlichman's comments did not surface until now after Baum remembered them while going back through old notes for the Harper's story. Baum said he had no reason to believe Ehrlichman was being dishonest and viewed them as "atonement" from a man long after his tumultuous run in the White House ended.

Baum interviewed Ehrlichman and others for his 1996 book "Smoke and Mirrors," but said he left out the Ehrlichman comment from the book because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author.“

So the author heard the quote in 1996 but didn’t “remember” them until around 20 years later - you can decide for yourself whether that seems credible, and whether any writer wouldn’t use such a quote at the time for “stylistic” reasons.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...