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The problem with being a Facebook-user is quitting it while trying to keep in touch with your friends. Presently, this only works if Facebook itself would fail.

I believe if it were still possible to keep in touch with Facebook friends and content without being a Facebook-user yourself, we can subvert the Network Effect, which in the first place is what Facebook owes its dominance to.

A solution may be to force social media companies by law to adhere to a standard on information exchange, much like e-mail and http protocols.

If there is such a thing as "OpenBook" and it still allows me to communicate, comment, view and react to FB-content, I'd ditch FB in an instant.
Surely if a body of legislators thought it prudent to specifically establish the postal service, they would have established a federal law enforcement investigative body.
I'm not saying that there wouldn't have to be other changes to manufacturing practices, import and tariff practices, but I think the framework we go into the problem with. E.G. are people important or our markets important makes a difference in how someone comes up with a solution.
You can't write to the framebuffer device while X11 is running because it will just get overwritten immediately. So that means you can only use it on a machine without a display server running. So... a web server maybe? Sure, but since most people use a web server by SSH'ing into it, a program that writes to framebuffer devices is going to be useless, unless you have a physical display device connected to the server and want to display something on it remotely.

So it's mostly a fun gimmick/curiosity. I wrote a realtime 3D rasterizer that renders to fbdev a while back. It was a fun project, but useless.
It’s been way too many years to give trump the benefit of the doubt. His words are never misinterpreted.
hey - for whatever reason, nobody's hooked up IPFS (as far as I know) as a filestore. It might be because you still need to pin the content somewhere, as vertex-four says, and so even in a P2P network the fact that the nodes keep coming and going means it might not help much.
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Don't you think it's curious that only the police are allowed to have these super-effective unions with literal stay-out-of-jail clauses in their contracts - while Amazon workers who want proper toilet breaks will simply be fired?

Does that answer your question?
His point is that with webtrust certificates (what most people think of as "ssl certificates"), it's easy to validate the identity (DNS name), either by sending a email or validating a DNS record. For code signing certificates, they're not issued to DNS names, they're issued to legal entities (natural persons or corporations), which you can't easily validate.
> But my small city police department recently got a grant for 450 high powered assault rifles and armored vests, on top of the hundreds they already had. There are only 700 officers including things like traffic enforcement.

I'm pretty sure you're talking about Buffalo, NY.[1] They purchased 115 semi-automatic rifles that use the same .40S&W ammunition as their pistols. That's the opposite of "high powered". And they're not fully automatic. They can in no way be construed as assault rifles.

The 450 vests they bought are resistant to rifle rounds. Their old vests could only stop pistol rounds.

I agree that many departments go overboard, but this doesn't seem like an instance of that.

1. https://buffalonews.com/2017/03/07/buffalo-police-to-get-new...
For years now, major internet companies operating in China had to comply with censorship, surveillance, etc.

These companies have three options: comply with the local law (however abusive or unethical it is), stop operations or be willing to be penalized.

Zuckerberg wants to just preserve the status quo, where Facebook is protected from liability and can remain being profitable. The alternative is to wilfully expose Facebook to an unacceptable amount of liability.

Facebook does not have as much power as you think in this situation.
Evidently that is insufficient. Also, more important than just poverty is insecurity. Not being secure in one’s ability to provide for themselves and their family, for example because of volatility in employment markets, causes all sorts of side effects.

I have quite a few acquaintances who simply didn’t get into relationships or have children because they are not sure of their ability to provide the minimum level of care they think they should.
43k reactions and 1600 comments.

You know, I feel like he just might pull through and score another job.
There is also https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
Nurses get verbally abused and harassed far more commonly than you might imagine, in extremely stressful, typically 12 hour shifts, and you just don't hear about them responding with brutality. Source: My wife and many of her friends are nurses.
The Magic Keyboard 2 is great, but their mouse has given me nothing but wrist pain and infuriating muscle-memory issues. I still believe its flaw was being designed for appearance first and ergonomics/usability second, but no doubt I didn't give it enough time. Do you recall how long it took you to get used to it?

(For about 10 years, I've been using a bog-standard, symmetrical, 2-button scroll-wheel mouse by Logitech, and am looking to transition to a finger-operated trackball to save desk space, and just to see what the fuss is about.)
Do you have a better solution? And are you aware that no action means people will die and global economy as a whole might crumble?
Two can play at that game, and if the HQ is moved to a small island, the company can be hit with import tariffs. As long as the customers still remain in the US, the US can extract tax from the transactions.

Not saying they're willing to extract taxes, as we've seen time and again, but very much able.
I've really come to be annoyed with the whole "virtue signaling" debate. What this guy did is virtue signaling but he signaled virtue by actually taking substantive action at some cost to himself. In this case the signal actually represents something real. The issue with virtue signaling that is objectionable is when it is done to avoid taking meaningful action.
> There are five times more vacant homes than homeless people in the United States today.

This sort of disingenuous statistic makes it very difficult to take the rest seriously. Just like there is frictional and non-frictional unemployment, there is frictional and non-frictional home vacancy.

Suppose I sell my house and move out the week before the buyer moves in. The house is vacant, right? But it is not vacant in a way that is useful for housing the unhoused. The house will be occupied again in a week, and an it needs to be cleaned before the new owners take possession.

The same thing happens for apartments: Old tenant moves out, landlord cleans up the place and puts it back on the market. It's technically vacant for a period of time while the apartment is cleaned and repaired, but (again) not in a way that is useful for providing shelter to people who are without homes.

> This represents a large unused supply that need only be made available.

This "frictional" vacancy actually makes up the vast majority of vacant homes. It can't be usefully repurposed as a permanent or semi-permanent place for people to live. The other problem is that the geographic distribution of "actually-vacant" homes may not match the geographic distribution of people who need homes, and asking people to move is a live wire in an discussion about homelessness.

Circling back to the broader point about inflation: You haven't addressed it in any credible way. In particular, even if it were true that there is a vast, untapped supply of housing, I see no reason that landlords won't increase rent by approximately the monthly amount of UBI. After all, they're happy with whatever the real vacancy rate is today, and everyone would have the means to pay an additional $UBI_MONTHLY per month.

Why would landlords suddenly change their tune and leave money on the table?
I think someone needs to look into the onboarding process. My experience so far:

1: Clicked on "Try Now".

2: Was greeted with a blob of text. Spotted "The easiest way to try Matrix is to use the Riot Web ...".

3: Clicked on "Riot Web" because that is a link.

4: Got transferred to a different website with a lot of buttons on it.

5: Clicked on the green "Get started button"

6: Got transferred to another page with a bunch of buttons on it

7: Clicked on "Browser"

8: A new window with a "Sign in" and a "Create Account" button opened

9: Clicked on "Create account"

10: Entered a username and password

11: Got asked to do the Google Captcha

12: Had to select 4 tiles with traffic lights and cklick next

13: Was told to select stairs.

14: Since there were no stairs, I clicked "Skip"

15: Had to select 7 tiles with fire hidrants and click next

16: Had to select 4 tiles with traffic lights and click next

17: Had to select 3 tiles with traffic lights and click next

18: Had to accept terms an conditions and click "accept"

19: Had to enter a recovery passphrase.

20: Had to confirm my recovery passphrase.

21: Was forced to click a "copy" button to copy the recovery passphrase.

22: Had to click "continue"

23: Staring at a spinner for a while.

24: Was prompted with an "OK" button. Clicked it.

25: Was prompted with a "Welcome to Riot" page with different options.

26: Clicked "Explore public rooms".

27: Clicked on the first one.

28: Had to look at a spinner for a while with "Joining room" next to it.

29: Still looking at the spinner ...

30: Spinner is still spinning ... will take the time to post this to HN.

Update:

31: Back to the Matrix window. Hurray! I'm in a channel. Typing "Hello" and enter. It seems to work.

I wonder if it would be an option to shortcut these 31 steps into just one and throw everyone who clicks "Try Now" into a "Welcome to Matrix" channel.
One of the weird things is that writing to the framebuffer can be surprisingly slow. At least I've seen it in practice where a machine that can play a video just fine in X maxes out the CPU and drops frames when trying to write directly to the framebuffer. It seems like it should be the opposite and since it was just something I was trying out for fun I didn't dive too deeply into figuring out what was going on. It may have been something like X was using GPU accel or the video player was writing to the framebuffer in an inefficient way (one write call per pixel) or something.
> > What's stopping prices from rising accordingly?

> Short answer: supply & demand

This seems to run counter to the idea of inflation. Could we not apply your same argument to all goods and services? And if so why have prices consistently risen for all of human history?

I think the real answer is that NOTHING will stop prices from rising accordingly - however the purchasing-power of the average person will still increase due to in-elasticity of demand for the basic goods and services with respect to income. For example, the average American who gets $1200/mo for free would not think to spend that entire $1200 on milk, rice, vegetables and other necessities for his or her family. They would likely save some of it, and maybe spend it on luxury items or use it to help pay for a new car, new watch, etc. This means that to the bottom 50% who is struggling the cost of the necessities of life don't rise by $1200 - they maybe rise by $600 or even $800 - so its a difference of $400 of purchasing-power per-month for those people. And $400/month is actually a huge deal for people in that income group. Also, this doesn't even account for the increased wages resulting from increased consumer-spending.

I realize this logic is add-hoc so someone please tell me if/where I am wrong.
This is why large social media platforms need to have their hands tied when it comes to free speech. They either have it or they don't. This kind of back and forth where they claim to support free speech, but any time somebody says something they don't like it becomes "an issue that must be addressed" needs to stop. The end result of this is that some people's speech is free, but others' isn't. Either you have free speech for everyone or you just don't have free speech.

I do applaud him for standing up for his convictions.
IMO it will be a sad sad day when social media can strong arm companies into taking actions that affect free speech and censorship.
But if you're doing that then those nodes could also implement the store-and-forward aspect of p2p matrix, which comes with its own non-IPFS discovery and thus solves the discovery problem.

libp2p is what IPFS is built on, not the other way round.
Ask HN: Which Coursera certificates should I get?
I have free access to Coursera courses with certificates until end of summer. I can get any course and certificate for free. Which ones should I get for learning programming? I am a total beginner
Such a great idea for such a terrible disease. Not being able to trust your thoughts is terrifying.
why Go when you have C#?
Do you have any concrete examples where the protesters instigated the violence? I have not been able to find any.
Giving people free X might work where everyone's need for X is very similar, and the cost to organize the purchase and giving is less than providing dollars earmarked for something.

But for bikes in particular, this sounds like a disaster. Not everybody wants a bike, but if it's free, they'll probably take it. But bikes come in all sizes, so we have to stock a lot of them, or just have a 'flexible' bike which isn't well suited for anyone. Meanwhile, it's very hard to sell a bike outside the system, because who would buy a bike that isn't free.

I like the idea of giving people some money, and let them figure out what's important to them. If you trash your free bike, no big deal, it was free. If you trash your bike that you bought with free money, you're going to wish you spent your free money on something else. If you spend your free money on dumb stuff and have to eat topramen for the rest of the month, maybe you'll do better next month (or maybe you'll get really good at making top ramen).
They had it under the umbrella of the Justice Department. The BOI was created because the Justice Department didn’t have the will or manpower to perform its investigative duties.
> What incentive would a copyright holder have to sue that they don't have under the current system?

Right now, a copyright holder who sends a half-assed takedown notice has no incentive to put their money where their mouth is. Bur if they have to make a financial investment in order to file that notice and their money is forfeit if they don't follow through with a lawsuit when the notice is contested, then they obviously now have an incentive to follow through with a lawsuit. Especially if dropping their allegations of infringement now means the intended victim of the half-assed takedown notice gets part of that filing fee to compensate them for their troubles and having their work temporarily made unavailable.
unless unionisation?
Why are you against shuffling the budget? The single easiest way to make this work is to begin the ramp down of the military industrial complex and reallocate 75% of that budget to funding schools for ALL, UBI, and healthcare.

You are smart enough to know money doesn't come from the air. We have to reallocate it.
Being a cop is actually a very safe job. I'd bet that your chance of being shot as a cashier at subway is higher than as a cop.
I've been trying to get a nix file running today, and the terminology definitely gets arcane very fast.

I also have the feeling that the tutorials start with the details, instead of starting with an overview so you can understand what is what.

This is guide us already very helpful and I think one should read it before the official tutorial. Thank you!
Great. People are allowed to disagree. He should be applauded though for actually putting his money where his mouth is.
If the car can let me stop paying attention to the road, but only when there's no precipitation, that's still a big improvement over a car that always makes me pay attention. At least in most climates.
Yes, but you brought the option of being shot back in after it had been excluded, which makes no sense to me.
That wasn't the question. GP points out that that is completely obvious. Nobody would doubt that free money would make you happy without considering the economic issues of scaling the program.

The issue is "are the recipients spending the money well"? Are they saving, and using the money to advance themselves, and budgeting? Or is it all going to "waste" and doing nothing productive?
This this this.
Another fine reason why it'll be bad news if the IA lawsuit blows them away: https://web.archive.org/web/20200602191543/https://yajin.org...
It's pretty clear FB management cares first and foremost (perhaps exclusively about) profitability. So the biggest and most effective way of communicating to Facebook management is to hit their bottom line. Part of that includes making it more expensive for them to recruit and retain talent. Refusing to advertise on Facebook and Boycotting their apps likewise. History suggests profitability is the only thing which changes Zuckerberg's mind.
Interesting. How are we going to block annoying content if it is implemented in WASM?
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What do you think is the right thing?
There is no free speech on private social media platforms
Such a great breakdown - thanks for this. Will you up an essay or blog post about this so I can link to it and share it? All the articles I’ve read don’t really get down to brass tacks like this.
What if the worst case for UBI is that it, counter-intuitively, increases the income gap between low and middle classes? Is it still worth it then?
The fact that he took action made it NOT `virtue signaling`.

There is no debate here, only wrong definitions of terms being used.
Or maybe he knows he won't have much trouble finding one.
> You wrote a crowd of evil persons [rioting] and threatening to kill perfectly innocent children.) so you cannot say you are not playing the 'think of the children' card.

It is easy to attack me when you cut away half my words an all the context.

Look at what I am actually writing, and what it is a reply to:

>>> oicu812 3 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: The business of tear gas

>>> The article states, "It also lives in a legal gray zone, due to international treaties that allow it to be used in domestic law enforcement but not in war."

>> geogra4 3 hours ago [–]

>> Right - that seems horribly wrong. It shouldn't be allowed for law enforcement either.
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> -4 points by eitland 3 hours ago [–]

> Do you have a suggestion for a better way to achieve the same results?

> (Of course we can discuss if most of the uses of tear gas are wrong, but lets for a moment think that we have a moment were we need to chase away a crowd of evil persons riotong and threatening to kill perfectly innocent children.)

Can you see it now?

I'm trying to ask an honest question, if someone has a better solution instead of using tear gas.

To clearify that I don't want to support the actual use of tear gas in this situation I'm creating a hypothetical situation where (in the hypothetical situation) an angry mob of evil people are attacking innocent children.

At no point am I suggesting that you are an evil mob. At no point am I playing the "think of the children card" but it seems someone managed to post one comment that derailed the question "what should we use instead of teargas" into this mess.

>> So unlike many (most?) HNers I have actual personal experience with it.

> Why are you assuming HNers are not politically active? I've been tear gassed 6 times since last Friday and this is not my first rodeo. I have a bunch of use gas grenades sitting on my desk whose manufacturers I'm tracing right now.

Have my respect. I do really respect people who care enough to go out and face that stuff and I know you are probably angry, but don't be angry with me for something I didn't write!

Also - and this just feels stupid now - but my actual words still stands and it is not just based on a technicality:

Most HNers -unlike you- know nothing about CS except what they see on the news.
After all the shitty things facebook did in the whole world, inducing depression, suicidal behaviors for the most fragile etc... this person resigns because the CEO refused to censor the elected POTUS. I have a hard time to figure what's going on in his head, and how he thinks it's helping democraty.
Can you tell if there's a round in the chamber from the outside?
No, you misunderstand. That's how much we're spending to decrease worst symptoms of poverty to a manageable level. The actual opportunity cost, in terms of wasted human potential is far greater, unless you believe that current US anti-poverty programs are doing a great job.

(Also the ways its done now has its own share of terrible value destroying externalities, ie: the welfare cliff)
The first one is concerning, but the incident appears to be resolved now (?).

The second one does not seem like a major problem to me, as the police might not know a random filming guy showing some piece of paper to be an actual reporter, rather than just a friend of the rioters filming their action for YouTube. It seems it also was resolved.

Unless there's an easy way for police to make a credible determination if the media badge is valid, I would count it as an honest mistake with no major consequences.

Again, this does not support the implication of the title, that police picked journalists intentionally, and more supports my point that journalists were caught in the process.
Because the “Pro” thing has been marketing bullshit for at least 5 years.
Sure, but the president is a Republican who is relishing the opportunity to violently put down protests.
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Virtue signalling costs nothing - that's the point of the phrase. MLK certainly wasn't virtue signalling.
Is there any example of "change the system from within" having ever worked? I can't bring one to mind off the top of my head, but that doesn't necessarily mean much.
What changes do you hope to see? When?

What does it mean for employees to "help implement the changes"?

What will you do if change does not happen?
maybe you're the moron in not realizing that people can have values other than yours. maybe some prioritize their values to their financial security. maybe this guy is already financially independent. there's more to life than working a prestigious job -- if you don't have values and the spine to live your life true to them, what's the point?
"X isn't going to solve anything." "X will help with..."

I'm seeing a lot of good, evidence-based reform ideas dismissed as not being enough to "solve" the problem. But reform isn't all or nothing! Where we can make marginal improvements, we should. This is a large, complex, and heavily-entrenched issue. There is no silver bullet. Attack it from every angle available.
> But that's not SWAT's fault.

Obviously it's no one's fault. We should just accept things the way they are and change nothing.
The police seem to clearly be allowing looting on purpose. SoHo was looted two days in a row. Where were the NYPD? There are 10's of thousands of uniformed officers Maybe you can say the first day they somehow missed it, but two days in a row? Come on. I refuse to believe that they didn't see this coming - they brag about how they're "gathering intel" on terrorist groups, but they couldn't check twitter to see #soho trending?

They want the story to be about rioters so they're letting them riot. It's a way to shift the public opinion (same way some cops have been seen breaking car and store windows).
Engineers can still do things such as mass walk-outs and strikes, which affect profits and shareholder confidence in leadership. But if the people who care just quit one by one, they'll only be replaced by people who dont care and will never do those things.