skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Negative externalities" seems to be the operating pivot of this conversation. It seems to me that many laws are a system to identify entities producing negative externalities, and make them bear the cost of that externality. The purpose of the lawmaking process, then, is to be a system that discovers new externalities, or more precisely, defines what is a negative externality and what is not, as it relates to chosen policy.

At what point in the progression of scientific consensus does evidence for the consideration of a new externality require a response by passing laws that define the externality and how it can be bourne?

One argument is that there is not enough scientific basis to ground policy regarding CO2, specifically. And, separately, there is enough evidence that some forms carbon energy should be restricted, but due to other factors like pollution from coal. This argument is coming from a strong negative-rights model of government (like the US), where axiomatically people are allowed to do anything not currently restricted by law. The advantage of this system is that it allows people to act in the face of ever-changing circumstances of the world without needing to get approval from the government every time a new thing is discovered. The disadvantage is that now you have to hold externalities to higher bar of proof.

I think that we, individually and as a society, still have to act in the world, imperfect information and all. We cannot demand perfect data to base our decisions on, because always waiting for perfect data means that every decision will be too late. But, just like in science, we need to be able to change our beliefs/laws as evidence mounts that the basis for our previous belief is wrong. The problem is that politicial discourse is so deadlocked on pure narratives (all negative or all positive, no room for nuance or complexity) that we'll never be able to agree.
Thanks for the suggestion. I usually try to remember to at least do a smoke test in the other major browsers (Firefox, Safari and Edge) but didn't get chance this time.
LA Residents Endlessly Roast the LAPD in the Most Satisfying Zoom Call
If you want that then you also want 100% open hardware. Because let's be honest, you will be wasting a lot of time and effort solving already existing problems a 100 times over if everyone does the same thing. Less reliance on one country or company and less chance of states spying on you.
Some municipalities have tried to get into the high-bandwidth-ISP-as-a-public-utility business, because they’re too small for $BIG_TELECO to invest in, but they want fiber networks to attract businesses and remote tech workers. It’s mostly been unsuccessful because running a local and profitable ISP is hard.

In the few municipalities where they’ve been successful, the big telecom companies have been more successful in lobbying state legislatures to make such municipal enterprises illegal. “It won’t be fair to private businesses to have to compete with a tax-funded local teleco.”

It’s a reasonable argument, but it perpetuates the problem. Maybe the solution is for cities to award a prize (say, $2mm) to private ISPs that can offer high bandwidth connections.
Gosh if only the cities that are burning to the ground right now had dem senators, dem congresspeople, dem governors, dem mayor, dem city councils we could solve this thing. Alas!
I'd say it's that, plus tensions manufactured by social media and angry clickbait, plus a general sense of increasing income inequality. Humans are sadly well-attuned to how well-off their fellow humans are.
It might be interesting to see a list of "often-mocked sayings that have a point".

Two that I know of involving politicians and the Internet are

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

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

I'm sorry to say that I've personally made fun of both of these people for these soundbites in a way that I now regret.
It was pretty amazing going to JDK 1 and seeing names in the source code I remembered from doing VisualWorks Smalltalk.
I think that and the resulting unemployment boom certainly contributes, but you seem to miss the obvious point here - that the Black and Brown people of US have other objective reasons to protest about, too.
Aren't we coming full circle back round to UML? UML is very good at designing and documenting complex code and it's interactions at many different levels, and having a common graphing notation helps ensure everyone is on the same page by looking at the same diagram.

The problem comes when the design and the code get out of step, but there are tools available to round-trip the code and model to keep everything in sync. Executable UML used to be a thing too, but I was never very convinced by it.
Nice work, have you thought about making it a browser extension? I would use it literally everyday!
I don't think these apps will be a success either but Immuni (the Italian contact tracing app) had more than 500k downloads in a single day on iOS and it's still in testing regime, available only in 4 regions out of 20
Show HN: Just hit $15k/m running unlimited design service by myself
Who's to disagree with your aesthetic judgement? You're not wrong to like it, if you like it.

I found it sufficiently obtuse that I walked away from my life's dream. The nostalgia circuit touts it as an amazing educational environment, in my experience it was not.
iOS 14 to include built-in translator in Safari, Apple Pencil support on web
Doesn’t Ycombinator constantly tell startups to “do things that don’t scale”
A laudable idea but why restrict it to the protests? There's a problem with police brutality in lots of places and at lots of times (even just the perception of it), perhaps a more standard way to report and record which can be replicated easily and hence, compared better, might be an idea. (As I was writing an issue opened up on this kind of point https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/issues/83)

It seems to me that the current set up excludes the vast majority of people (who are unlikely to know markdown, Git, or Github) which limits its effectiveness.
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Smalltalk was inspirational, but the environment was a double-edged sword. In ParcPlace Smalltalk even things like stack frames were editable classes. One of the first mistakes I made was trying to edit the stack frame class in a running VM. It immediately corrupted the VM.

BTW another brilliant innovation of Smalltalk was incremental compilation. Edit a method, save, and it was instantly part of the runtime. It must have existed in other systems but Smalltalk was the first language where I encountered it.
>You don't just shove a disease through a population when you don't know what the effects are.

Nobody is "shoving a disease"; the disease is naturally progressing, that's what diseases do. Most moral systems distinguish between actively causing harm and not doing something that could prevent harm.

Not only that, but while we may not know exactly what the effects of the disease are, we know exactly what the effects of the lockdown are, and it's causing immense misery to many many people. So it's a case of weighing up something of unknown badness (the disease passing through the population) against something with known, definite badness (the lockdowns). So we need to be reasonably sure that the unknown badness of the disease is sufficiently bad to outweigh the known badness of the lockdown.
> It's easy to say that, but Canada has a smaller population than California, but spread over the surface area larger than that of the United States.

That is an extremely misleading statement. Approximately 75% of Canada's population lives within 150km of the US border, and even that is not a uniform distribution , there are dense urban population clusters.
Sure, Black and Brown people have legitimate things to protest. But all I see are videos of white kids throwing bricks and otherwise stirring the pot.
People who aren't vegetarians, fans of Berton Roueché, or both, might not know the origin of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine!
I don't disagree, but I'm not sure if any of these other countries have quite so many criminals and organized crime that are also armed to the teeth.

If the cops stopped carrying weapons, would the criminals stop as well?
> No stupid app to download. No account to create. No bullshit fees. No marketing emails. I just tell them what I want and then go get it. It's refreshing.

That's how it always was, I really don't get this disconnect between people wanting to always hide behind a keyboard or smart phone when it comes to food. It's always been the most social thing I do in my entire day, as it has been done since for thousands of years, and I just can't see why people feel either super embarrassed and outright aloof when it comes to ordering food.

I mean if you know you're going to try and use an expired coupon or not going to tip well, I guess that makes sense, but in my experience most people just seem to have some inexplicable aversion towards food ordering and pickup. Yet seem to want to chat with the checkout lady about mundane matters, whereas I just want to get out asap and cook with the stiff I'm trying to buy and keep things to a minimum.
Can't they run a newer encrypted system on separate channels than the older system is using, with some kind of repeater set up between the two?

You'd need to upgrade at the base station upfront to have both the old and new systems, and add a repeater, but you could then take your time replacing the radios in the field instead of having to replace them all at once.
Is it really though? I mean, it used to be.

Rogers wants $75/mth (CAD - $55 USD) for 10GB data and unlimited talk and text. Let's compare to the US:

- AT&T wants 65++ USD ($87 CAD) for a comparable plan.

- Verizon wants 70++ USD ($94 CAD) for a comparable plan.

- TMo wants 70 (all in) USD ($94 CAD) for a comparable plan.

And each network in Canada is dramatically better than AT&T and TMo, and roughly comparable to Verizon.

Back in the day, there was a huge difference, these days, it's kinda the same. I remember when the iPhone first came out and you could get an unlimited AT&T plan for $60/mth and Rogers wanted $120++. Those days are long past, though.
Possibly a lot, given the potential exponential descendants 1 person could have. I have several ancestors and their relatives that fought for the North.
My kids could trace 5-6 generations back to the civil war, meaning 32-64 ancestors to consider.
Not exactly what you're asking for but a friend of mine is running a bunch of static analysis tools on these apps, looking for security/privacy warnings:

https://github.com/iivanoo/covid-apps-observer
If this is true, it's all very terrible, it makes me dubious of the entire situation and I would hope that there would be an external (Federal? Non-Barr appointed?) investigation.
Unfortunately, in American politics, it's the equivalent of getting a week or two to work on the problem, and then you're fired and a new consultant is brought in. Do they identify the same problems? Even if they do, is their top of the list item to fix the same as the prior consultant's? Welcome to the revolving door of American politics.

What's worse, it's not really like you're a consultant, because then you might be able to leave it behind. It's more like you all work for that company, and it's a revolving set of promotions and demotions, and you're forced to watch people abandon your work for some other goal that you think is at best less important, but have no real ability to influence.
Twitter front end listener architecture (2015) [pdf]
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I think the first line itself (High Performance Computing) reveales that this is a special purpose computer (read - real supercomputer). 512 cores and 24TiB of memory further confirm that. However, this is just a small sized supercomputer (unless that's the limit of resources a user can reserve). I don't know the constraints on this particular SGI machine, but many regular apps cannot be run or rendered useless in HPC domain even when using Linux.

@ketanmaheshwari, which supercomputer is this?
I didn't think NixOS patched the runtime linker (though I could definitely be wrong).

They do eliminate any ability to automatically find libraries, and the dynamic loader does not exist at the path where it exists on most other distros, which means binaries linked elsewhere will not run unmodified on nixos.
Civil partnerships, brought in for the purpose of giving the same legal rights for gay couples as married ones had, presumably also granted these rights. Since then gay marriage has rendered these redundant for their original purpose but they still exist. Some overtly non-romantically involved, long term, co-habitees are now using civil partnerships to protect the surviving person from estate duties upon the other's death.
The anomaly now is that the people have to be of the same sex and there is pressure to allow people of the opposite sex to form them.
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Here's one closer to home: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2563358

Admittedly it's not the best example. But personally I'd weight sites offering unbiased information (some of which may indeed be happen to be merchants) higher than those trying to shove "the world's #1 mattress" down my throat.
(Not the author) I like Git for the decentralization and ease of someone backing it all up. Agree that there's a huge usability cliff for anyone outside our circle that wants to contribute.

Maybe a good add-on project for someone is creating a website where potential new incidents can be submitted and evaluated, then pulled into the repo automatically if they pass muster.
So? Clearly they venerated the plant no matter what.
The Democratic Party used to be the party of the south/segregation. What year (or decade) is the point where the two parties flipped places on this issue?
Nature is full of examples of intentional waste as a form of signaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

That said, IMO Proof of Work is indistinguishable from Proof of Stake with extra steps. And considering the massive environmental externality of Bitcoin mining, I want to see the major nations heavily tax, if not completely outlaw, Proof of Work mining.
At this point, if that's all you've seen, it's because you aren't looking.

So maybe look up videos of cops shooting journalists, smashing windows, bashing people in the face when they weren't doing anything, and running people over with their cars. There are literally hundreds of such videos from the past few days.

Then you'd be able to say you've seen videos of things other than white kids throwing bricks.
Totally, I know that, but even with that, the density isn't comparable. I mean, how many Californias can you fit into this coverage map? [1] I'm guessing a lot of Californias -- Alberta alone is 1.67 Californias by land area.

And then there's the geography. You can drive to each major point in California in a couple hours, but it's not as easy to get to Moose Factory or Fort Mac, let alone lay the backhaul to supply the towers in the middle of absolutely nowhere.

[1] https://www.bell.ca/Mobility/Our_network_coverage
You can also easily see this in game benchmarks, eg in https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-pe... "From a quick look, there is a little below a 1% [game FPS] difference in PCI-e 3.0 x16 and PCI-e 3.0 x8 slots".

Also an important thing to remember is that the vast majority of GPUs (and GPU end-users) out there are iGPUs that share memory with the host and can also be programmed to take advantage of this fact.
There's a reason gpg supports --armor; print a backup copy of any important keys and stick it in a safe deposit box.
a small tin or belt pouch with multi tools and odds and ends to use as a macguyver solution to your problems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhXEScR9b8M

https://www.edcforums.com/threads/grey-maning-a-tactical-bag...
It's really interesting the world we live in, some people look at these clips and get enraged at how horrible the police are. I look at the clips and they all make perfect sense.

For example, the first clip I looked at claims "Couple of police officers are seen beating and manhandling an unarmed man. The officers are throwing punches while he was on the ground and pinned.".

What ACTUALLY happened was that a protester was physically assaulting somebody else, and the police rushed in to separate them and secure the situation. They attempted to arrest the assaulter, who then resisted arrest and started punching an officer in the face, and was therefore punched back as a result.

The clips are primarily given without any context of what led up to the event, which is hugely important, and then "conveniently" forget to mention all of the relevant information, such as the fact that the person getting hurt was resisting arrest and punching officers in the face.

The fact that you have to "conveniently" leave out facts, leave out context of what led up to the events, and give political spin to what you're trying to show makes me immediately dismiss everything you're trying to say.

The second clip I've looked at claims "The Police try to break up the peaceful protest by resorting to hitting individuals with batons.".

What ACTUALLY happens is that they cut out all context of what led up to the situation, and cut in to a point where anybody with half a brain could see that the cops had been giving lawful orders for rioters to disperse, for what was probably a long time, they're on a loudspeaker giving them lawful orders to disperse, warning them that if they don't disperse force will be used against them, they decide to ignore lawful orders, and force is used against them to make them disperse.

The way the headline makes it sound, they were just nice peaceful protesters, not causing any problems, and police just rolled in and started beating them.

Get out of here with this nonsense.
Your last sentence is specifically what's being called into question.
Guess it's time to move fast and break things. I hope we don't break anything too important...
I mean, the United States is predominantly white. It's nearly certain that most people on video will be white, as a result. Also, the presence of white people does not negate that the protests are about black lives (not COVID). I won't engage with the statement about bricks because another user has that covered.

Many of my black friends don't like the idea that the protests are about COVID tensions (even if income inequality and unemployment obviously contribute). It's felt like an erasure of their struggle. I'm Hispanic and have been profiled a few times in my life. While I cannot pretend to know the full spectrum of the black experience in the US, I'm inclined to agree that I feel similar, too.

Edit: no clue why this keeps getting downvoted. The protests are (1) not only about COVID and (2) implying that they're only about COVID feels like erasure to Black (and Brown) people. Unless I'm missing something, here. Perhaps I need to be more detailed?

The entire point of this protest is to be heard. There is a population, long silenced, that has a message to convey. Today that message is BLM - and it is incredibly taxing to convey that message. To then look that movement in the eye and completely miss the message, returns us to square one: the problem of being unheard. That is what I mean by "a feeling of erasure."
You really don’t want the state being the practical arbiter of whether or not you can connect to the internet.

Sure, you might have legal recourse if they decide to unplug your entire political party’s ports one month before an election, but in the meantime, you’ve lost the election.

Right now you just go get a different SIM.

The state being in direct control of who and how to censor is a loaded gun aimed at the head of a free society.
The "line marriage" concept from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress comes to mind here.
> To bring $1 worth of US currency into existence, it only costs a fraction of that amount.

> But to bring $1 worth of bitcoin into existence, it costs $1.

But this just says the seigniorage value of creating bitcoins is 0. It doesn't say the total value of creating bitcoins is 0 -- they might continue to produce value after being created!

For example, the situation you describe applies in full to actual physical currencies. The Somali shilling trades at the (quite low) cost of printing the paper note. But the existence of the shilling still has value; it enables commerce in Somalia.

Economies operating on a basis of metal currency, or cowry shell currency, also have this feature - pretty much by definition, the trade value of the currency is mostly just the cost of producing it. (For coins, the trade value is usually slightly higher.) But every time a trade occurs, gains from trade are produced, so the currency constantly generates additional value just by being in use.
> To be fair, I have been surprised many times how difficult it can be to find an online menu for places I like in my area. Lots of places might not even have a website, but in these cases, I actually use GrubHub and the like to read the menus only.

Don't. Do. This.

Grubhub menus are often incomplete (and we all know the prices are wrong). I just checked a nearby restaurant I often frequent and the items I usually buy are not on the Grubhub menu.

If they don't have a web site and you want to see the menu:

Go to either the Google Maps listing or the Yelp listing.

If Yelp, don't click on the menu if they have one within Yelp.

Instead, click on the photos. You'll almost always find photos of the menu uploaded by Yelp users.
They just have to ban them from secure zones / departments, and companies that value their security can ban them internally.

If you don't trust who you're communicating with to follow the same measures, then you shouldn't be sending them your secrets.
When this administration with the support of the Republican Party has intimidated peaceful protestors in DC with military helicopters a la Baghdad, yes, it is deflection to talk about that at this moment in time.
The main one being how late they left it to begin writing and how they managed to finish it with so little sleep.
> ...and utter failure by the Democratic party would occur simultaneously during the ongoing pandemic

Anyone know what failure she's referring to here?
You mean like how FDR threatened to do that during the new deal, and then the court backed down and let all sorts of unconstitutional stuff through?

When we ended a government of enumerated powers and everything could be done at the federal level without an amendment - great things like the drug war.
Has anybody had any experience with hosting their domains and web sites/content(personal and professional) on the Google ecosystem? Specifically; Google Domains/Sites/Pages/App etc.?
> Knowledge and culture is not anyone’s property. It is the collective work of all of humanity and ought to be treated as such.

This is a specious ideology without a mechanism to reward creators. At the moment that mechanism is money, either through sales, or for a rare few patronage. Without reward, creation is limited to the otherwise idle, and the collected work of all humanity lessened.

Personally I advocate the right to buy at a reasonable cost (as reasoned by society). Once a reproducible work is released to the public, you can't refuse my payment for it.