skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> absolute total autonomy and ownership of their conversations, because the only place their conversations exist is on the devices they own.

This also means a total loss of data if something happens to the device.

Of course, I can imagine some usecases where this would be a plus, but I suspect that most of them are on the wrong side of the law. Now, coming from Russia, I know that it doesn't automatically mean it is something bad, but still, in vast majority of cases, it does.

Not my cup of tea, thanks, because keeping my data is very important for me. For this, good old federated model with client-server architecture strikes the best balance between reliability and privacy. Just use your own domain name, and all will be fine
Allegory and effect of good and bad government
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Palazzo Pubblico frescos: Allegory and effect of good and bad government
Translations of the Bible are almost always copyrighted, unless it's the King James version, which IIRC isn't really that popular anymore. For that matter, all translations are copyrighted.
I am suggesting to consider that possibility, yes. I noticed the opposite is taken as truth without review.
Redis in the Age of AI
Yep, that's my point. It was designed assuming both people know the phonetic alphabet. It's not so great when you're trying to use it over the phone with a tech support person who isn't familiar with the alphabet.
Exactly, it speaks to the same point about overeating my parents brought up when I was young. A lot of families, without questioning it, continue the practice of pressuring children to eat every last scrap on their plate instead of stopping when they're full, which was implemented when their parents or grandparents were dirt poor and the next meal was not a given. That has got to have some strong impacts and the reward and planning centres of the brain in profound ways.
US cited for police violence, racism in UN review on human rights (2015)
Top Books on Automation Testing That You Should Read
I've filed that for you at https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/13897. Please keep the feedback coming there; we are currently chasing down first time user experience snafus like this on the current app.
The number of people that are getting hypothetically trampled is too damn high!

Time to shut down the free speech.
> or is it better if they stay and try to make things better from the inside?

How would engineers have the political power to do this?

Unquestionably, mass resignations from experienced devs would send a message, lower the overall competency of the company (therefore weaken it), and lead to a stigma attached to working there in the future.

Anything else is excuse making from those who are comfortable and don't want to leave.

The impact would be enormous. How could it not be?
matrix-media-repo has an early implementation for IPFS support: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/issues/115#is...
On the contrary, when you're paying people to do a job, explaining why you've decided a certain way is not your obligation. And when the people you're paying are software engineers, you're unfortunately inviting verbal abuse. (This should change.)

[Obligatory disclaimer that I don't approve of everything he does]
I have found a number of age appropriate games at a local toy store.

The owner is very good at curating them. Sloth in a Hurry is for ages 5+, my daughter loves to play it with us.
I think I've heard that argument made by a "sovereign citizen" once in a youtube video. It ended with them being tazed and booked by a police officer for noncompliance.
Oh hmm, I thought those were the same. I did think this has been supported for years, though I've never seen any indication that my browser is actually using the Onion service.
I think one way to look at nix is that it want to act(in good way) the central source of truth for deterministic package, and one way it goes about it is by doing the step for both system level packages, and language level packages(for example, if you approach a nodejs app, you will lock both the nodejs version, the underlying openssl or other headers lib used by node-gyp, and the node_module packages itself in nix) and that is one of the main flow of nix, take a existing project/app/software, and convert it to usable nix packages, and that work even in edge cases like:

- app that is binary , so you can't build it from source, but is using dynamic libraries, then you can use autoPatchelfHook to tell nix to patch the binary to swap out the libraries to nix's version

- app that uses a lot of hard coded file system path that you would prefer not to patch them all out, then you can use buildFHSUserEnv to package/run the application/package in full FHS-compatible scenario

but the main point is that, nix is extreme in its approach, and the best approach in my opinion, is to do swapping step by step, ex:

you want to convert a existing project to nix, lets say nodejs

- you add the main deps in the default.nix (nodejs, yarn, high level utility needed to build)

- use sandBox false to allow building the app with yarn/npm in internet accessible(by default nix uses sandBox which disallow internet inside build step, which causes issue like npm install not working, etc)

- confirm working, then start using tool likes yarn2nix, other similar, and convert the packages itself to a usable set of nix packages

though I do agree that nix have the knowledge bias issue, and alot of my learning of nix involve me looking at the nixpkg sources itself and sometime even the nix's code
I think I am failing to get my idea through. I am thinking more in the sense of having IPFS as a way to increase redundancy of nodes that might be able to serve some media.

Yes, discovery is not an issue for matrix. But p2p matrix on its own is not able to say "oh, your contact is sending you a message that contains a 10GB file, let me see if I can find other nodes that have this file already and get it from the swarm"

10GB is an exaggeration, but picture a group sharing hundreds of silly videos a day and you already can distribute the load quite a bit, no?
Money goes in circles, so I'm not sure how useful a comparison that is. And there's a ton of rich people that have 8 or 9 digits of wealth, too.

> that means the average person is loosing 4 out of every 10$ their earning. And, that's just the average.

Yeah, that's just the average. The median person is paying less, and should be paying even less than that.
What is Zynn? And who is its parent company Kuaishou?
Tech has been Wal-Mart’s competitive edge for decades. They had an IBM and electronic POS since 75 for inventory management. They had a company wide network in 77. In 87, they installed the largest satellite network at the time. Allowed two-way data (inventory and sales) and voice communication and one way video to all of their properties. They built an enterprise DW in 90 and put EDI through the internet in the mid-90s. There is a reason they could beat every other retailer on cost for decades until Amazon came around.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cio.com/article/2437873/45-...
I'm agreeing with you that "thug" is used by alt right people as a racist term. I've been on those kinds of forums too. I see it all the time. That's a reason why Obama was called out for using the word too.

But you can't assume that because Trump used it he is racist. It is ambiguous at best. You think Trump is anti-black so you will interpret it to be racist. But the facts don't make that clear.
I certainly don’t think the police cars in NYC going through those pedestrians - the first example on the page - is a good example.

People crowded around the vehicles and starting throwing things at them. While I would expect police to have more restraint/less fear than they did, that wasn’t the police starting violence. I would expect almost anyone to have the same reaction they did.

There was another NYC incident that people were up in arms about without context and it turns out one of the police had been hit in the head with a brick.
No one can define what "free speech" really is in clear, unbiased terms. China and the USA have vastly different interpretations of free speech. Which do you engineer your platform to support?

Will you continue to use moderators? If speech is truly free, there will be no need for content moderators. And yet as technologists we know that as soon as moderators stop doing their job, a significant amount of questionable or uncomfortable type of content will come in.

Whereas civil rights have a basic coalition of countries that support a finite number of things to protect, namely protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability;
The equipment is not the only problem. But it is a very big problem, and it’s the easiest to solve. So let’s solve it.
Why should my browser connect to a nonstandard port just to load a webpage?

https://martinheinz.dev:1234/api/v1/posts/24
One of these groups could in theory arrest their bad apples. The other cannot.
I see, applying it across the population age distribution, yes.

This virus is dangerous to the elderly, but not nearly as relatively dangerous as the flu is to the young:

https://freopp.org/estimating-the-risk-of-death-from-covid-1...

If the young had political power, the response would be a lot different, but because the wealth/power lie with the elderly, the current response is predictable. Fascinating times
1. Nobody was attacking you in first place. Re-read the comments. 2. You complained about my writing style and got a reply in a same way. Ironically you seem to have problem with that. 3. I don't care much about karma and posts turning grey. If you don't like my opinion just move on.

Learn that there are more views than your own. I won't be writing in a way you want to get upvotes from you. So again, keep your lectures for yourself and stick on point.

Good for you if your kids know how. I am not really interested in that, so keep it to yourself.
Yeah, I'm not aware of any "normal" libraries going the CDL route, all the digital lending I've seen takes the form of licensing ebooks and using Overdrive or something like it, and those ebooks are totally separate from the physical holdings (and they're also, from the library's perspective, priced totally differently, with significant restrictions on usage and total number of lendings and things like that).
Added basic markdown syntax style support to vimwikigraph.
Don't be obtuse. The thing everyone is talking about. Zuckerberg's policy of enabling Trump and a political message that is opposed by many, but enabled by not leaving.
Inflation steals future opportunuties from those who save money, and it generally steals future from new generations to come. When a family opens a bank account for their newborn child to use it for paying for their higher education, they do it in a hope that this money will preserve its value.
> MSIX can be sideloaded by default in every supported version of Windows

Is that true? I thought MSIX sideloading was only enabled by default in the recent Win10 2004 release (better late than never!). https://www.windowslatest.com/2019/08/12/windows-10-20h1-imp...
It doesn't necessarily mean total loss of data, because it would replicate onto your other devices - and you could also run a server too as an always-on p2p node. The idea is to have a hybrid, so casual users can start off p2p but then pin their accounts to a server when they see the value.
I see you don't provide evidence, only anecdotes. If you want to start looking for evidence, let me know and I can suggest some ways to look for relevant studies. Here's one:
https://ec.europa.eu/growth/content/study-estimating-displac...
Time for another operation Pig Roast.
I saw one for a site aggregating videos of police violence, and then the data one I mentioned. Do you have links to others?
Otp apps require a device or a token. Requiring this removes the ability for a user to get in if their phone is dead, or lost. The support burden is also higher for a reset. Nothing is a show stopper, but also painful enough to prevent wider adoption.

Back in the old days you used to get single use passwords for secure system. This creates a similar problem, where loosing the sheet meant you needed new passwords.
The onus is on both. One may be able to do it better, and more conveniently, but everyone's responsible for doing their bit in ceasing and stopping violence.
It's like a car dealer said "you fool came to buy a car in that hard time. I see that you really need it, so I will charge 10x the price"
"But look! You have an entire parking lot of cars that nobody wants to buy. Maybe you could give me a discount?"
"You are right. I will charge 40x the price!"
I really like what IA does, but I can't see a justification under copyright law that would allow them to have unlimited checkouts of the same book. They'd be well advised to drop the policy and hope the limited time they offered this, and their status as a non-profit, is enough to get those who filed the suits to drop them.
I didn't make a generalization. I asked a question.
Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley (2015)
You're correct that he should have a different standard applied to him, but it should be higher than normal, not lower.
I'm also interested in an SMS bridge
Ask HN: How do you get a promotion when you work in a remote office?
Some years ago, I wrote a book about telecommuting, including a section about the reasons people don't want to be remote workers. High on the list was, "It's too hard to move up in the company" because if you're out of sight, you're out of mind.

Well, now suddenly nearly everybody is a telecommuter, whether or not they like the idea. So that particular skill is particularly relevant. And I've been assigned an article on "How to 'manage up' when you work from home." I'd like your input.

My article is meant to compile practical how-to tips for people working from home on “how to stay on your boss's radar.” What advice do you have to share?

Ideally: Give me a bullet point (“Do XYZ”), why (“It accomplishes _this_”), and perhaps an anecdote sharing how it made a difference.

Please don’t expend energy telling me why it’s important, or what the barriers are. Take that as a given. I’m looking for solid “Do this” suggestions.
I think Groove/Zune Music is Microsoft's music player.
From The Histories of Herodotus (d.424 BC):

"Hemp grows in Scythia: it is very like flax; only that it is a much coarser and taller plant: some grows wild about the country, some is produced by cultivation: the Thracians make garments of it which closely resemble linen; so much so, indeed, that if a person has never seen hemp he is sure to think they are linen, and if he has, unless he is very experienced in such matters, he will not know of which material they are. The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp-seed, and, creeping under the felt coverings, throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed; the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy"
... never?

People are always correct to choose the most inflammatory interpretation?
Robinhood daily total doesn't add up
I've been noticing for a while that my 1d performance total on Robinhood makes no sense, when cumulatively adding up my portfolio totals. In fact it's usually off by a significant %.

Anyone know why this might be the case. If totals are inaccurate, I'm going to have to dig into each transaction and compare against the performance being presented.
What you're describing does not sound like Facebook's jurisdiction.
Police unions shouldn't exist. It would be like having a union of military soldiers. Imagine if the US military had a union that refused to defend the country unless every soldier got immunity from war crimes and high 6 figure salaries. That is effectively what the police unions have done to this country.
Freedom of the press is certainly important, and if anything changes because of all this, people hearing about it will be instrumental, but it's not a replacement for proper systems of accountability. If the bar for getting away with murder is "don't make national headlines," something is deeply wrong.

Up until now the bar has been far lower than that.
If "the press" is the enemy of the people, who would be the right person/party to gather information and report news?
The police? Not so much. Police don't make law, they shouldn't get to decide very many things at all.

The state (or city, or nation, where appropriate)? Absolutely, but only when absolutely necessary. (like curfew orders which follow widespread disorder and destruction)
> Brilliant! So much misery would be avoided if people could be taught that simple rule.

Isn't that not being understood by even the wealthy elite a precursor for a Bernie Madoff? I think 'financial literacy' is an unobtainable panacea when most, even supposed economists, don't have much more than of an insight as to what Money actually is and will simply often repeat what was forced fed to them in school about fiat.

The truth is the concept of Money has evolved so much in just the last 10 years, that PhDs and Masters thesis written on topics just 5 years ago are some what moot when seen in this light.

As for the notion of a 20% risk-free return is concerned, I think the same adage applies: a fool and his money are soon parted. Just because the person selling you these products wear suits and sit in a bank doesn't mean he isn't a predatory con-artist that is so typical on every street corner.

They just legitimize their largess with nice decor, lawyers and lobbyists, but that's about the only difference.

But just to be clear, as much as I blame bankers for the financial crisis of 2008 that heavily impacted me despite no actual fault other than being born in the 80s, and these instruments that essentially rob innocent people, I'm also entirely unsympathetic to this occurring:

> It worked so well—earning him 18% a year in dividends, on average—that he eventually poured $800,000 into the investments, called leveraged exchange-traded notes, or ETNs. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, he lost almost every penny.

Why would you wager your entire retirement on a risky bet instead of cashing out your profits, and MAYBE letting your initial investment (essentially house money) ride in this risky instrument to see potential benefits? Maybe I've become immune to the scams and charlatans with ICOs and alt coin pump-dump scams after 9 years in the Cryptocurrency space, but I'm also well adapted enough as Human being to know that common sense has to prevail when it comes to matters of finance.

As an experiment to that end, I occasionally go on WSB just to see how infectious vacuous exuberance is still so rampant post-2008 and it often leads to the same predictable outcome.
You'd be hard pressed to find a leftist that supports police unions.
As another observation, I've been to the protests in Raleigh, and at least 75% of the initial violent actions have been from individuals in the protest.

(I say 'individuals', not 'protestors', because the latter are peaceful people. The instigators are rioters and looters, a small minority of the people hiding within the former group.)

The other 25% has been initial violent action from the police. Things like shooting gas and charging forward when protestors were simply standing still.
One big thing that I think people can do is start saving police footage. It's pretty easy to do but can be especially helpful. Even just seeding a torrent of that is a way to passively help, I think.

I was also wondering about this question, so I hope that people might have some good ideas.

One that I haven't thought my way through completely (as it's not my domain whatsoever) is a generic way to round up online sales totals. Maybe a browser extension that lets users round up what they're set to spend to the nearest dollar, and donate what's rounded to a relevant charity or fund? Charities could maybe partner with the developers of that open source app (or write their own extensions) to plug into it, and it would allow for people shopping online to choose where the money goes. As we've moved to online shopping being asked at the counter to round up for (possibly out of date/favor) charities has left a lot of people's lives, so an open source team that works to put that on major sites as an extension could be very beneficial. The ability to add charities with software and without waiting on large corporate partnerships could really benefit this system.

I figured it'd use PayPal for the actual payment maybe. There might be serious holes in that, but it's something that came to my mind earlier today.

I think ideas that could incorporate protesting while being mindful of coronavirus could also be interesting.
This is how the modern economy appears to work. There is no guarantee of return on capital, or that capital must hold its value.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/f...
The article doesn't mention employee theft -- and that's going to happen in the back room anyways, not in aisles, so this system wouldn't even apply.

The article seems to be mainly about theft during self-bagging.
This argument always seems to frame "the poor" as being unable to deal with having money, as if it's better to leave them poor else they'll just misspend/lose it.

As long as people don't get scammed _future_ basic income, I think people will learn over time how to manage money, just like I don't worry about how getting a raise will make me more vulnerable to scammers.
You already cannot discriminate against a customer because of certain characteristics of who they are (race, orientation, etc). You can however kick someone out of your restaurant for what they say, how they act, or what they do, similar to being banned or fact checked on private social media platforms.
To be clear, I 100% disagree with any use of military action within the States against American citizens.

That being said, what you are saying isn't true. Exceptions to Posse Comitatus include "Federal troops used in accordance to the Insurrection Act, as was the case with the 1st Marine Division and 7th Infantry Division being sent to curtail the 1992 Los Angeles riots."

Should it be illegal for the President to send troops against citizens to restore order? Perhaps, yes. Is it illegal? Certainly not.
Fintech for sure. Use it as an opportunity to learn about stocks and other securities. Then use the data science with that knowledge to make money in the market.
So how do you propose that a government that can’t police fairly, regulate speech fairly?

When geeks (of course not used an insult I am a huge one) didn’t like the status quo when it came to the dominant software platforms, they created their own alternatives. If conservatives don’t like the platforms that are available - they can create their own.
In many places the people committing property crimes are off-duty cops themselves or right wing agitators taking advantage of the situation, they're not part of the people protesting.
How to find a cofounder in San Francisco?
I have the ‘17 MacbookPro and detest the touchbar, especially for programming since I use the ESC key quite a bit. Changing the volume is a ridiculous 2-step process, and I never use any
of the dynamic shortcut buttons. The butterfly keyboard is also obnoxious. I’d gladly forgo the gimmicks in exchange for more RAM or other hardware upgrades.
I think so few employees will actually walk away, that him leaving won’t have any impact. They might have had more impact by sticking around to Exert some influence from the inside.
Which is insane, because it's "need" not "want".
If you think about it, every compiled program is a one-liner.
Civil rights leaders disappointed and stunned after call with Zuck and Sandberg
Neither--the binary proposition is ridiculous.

Public officials can clarify comments, but I reserve the right to consider them in the context of their wider statements and actions. It seems silly not to.