skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You people realize authors, by and large, aren't millionaires, right? They write in exchange for, when things are going reasonably well, money for food and healthcare and whatever bullshit writing app you're currently working on (but won't be pirated, because Apple will protect your cherished revenue stream, while you go on about how incredibly unethical it all is).

Calling people "trying to preserve their livelihood" "incredibly unethical" is the most entitled, self-serving, upper-class-bubbled nonsense I've ever seen in my life. Pretending that gutting people's ability to be writers is a net social good - because it gives people access to the very stuff you're gutting their ability to create - is such flagrant champagne socialist nonsense that it's amazing anyone can put that forward with a straight face.

You wanna talk about copyright law being broken? Hell yeah, it's broken. Disrupting the chain of royalties that allows authors to survive is probably not the most effective way of dealing with it, insofar as your argument boils down to "things authors create are too darn valuable."

And I'm bowing out. When I start replying twice to the same comment, I'm clearly too engaged to reply tactfully.
The Italian Covid contact-tracing app is now developed in open source
> Sorry if I wasn't clear, but to put it lightly, I do not plan on asking the police for suggestions.

It's still not clear what you want.

You want to protest in the USA about George Floyd (so not current events or a broader helping) and treat all the police as adversarials?
Thank you! also covers Vine/Byte and the outlook for NA social media
Civil War? More blacks are killed by blacks - far more than blacks are killed by police. That is the real civil war. When are black leaders going to address that?
Transportation Infrastructure in the US
> certain classes of works would indeed go away

Unlikely and definitely unproven. Historical precedent rather shows that at least 96 % of the books would be produced even without copyright, given less than 4 % bothered to register the copyright when it was mandatory. And less than 1 % of the 4 % required a copyright term longer than 14 years.
https://archive.org/details/howtofixcopyrigh00patr/page/104/...

If tomorrow Congress repealed the Berne convention and shortened the copyright term to 5 years from publication, in order to make the Internet Archive's "National Emergency Library" permanent even without fair use, probably a good 99.9 % of the works would still be produced.
Actually a portion of spending by participants in this study is tracked via pre-paid debit cards.

To quote from the article: "Data show that since the pandemic started, food spending by SEED recipients increased nearly 25% over the monthly average. In March, it accounted for 46.5% of spending the researchers were able to track using prepaid debit cards"
Short run-down of issues with my late-2019 Air:

* Effectively can't play YouTube videos at all if the browser gets even just a wee bit busy (say, 30 tabs or so, including the usual portion of busy news sites). By "not at all" I mean the output starts getting so shoppy (and the controls so unresponsive) that it's just not worth the bother. By contrast my 2013-2016 Airs could do on the order of 50+ fully loaded YT tabs without much sign of strain (beyond starting to get a bit slow at the controls).

* While we're at it -- even standalone audio files are dodgy (if the environment is just a bit loaded). It's like the audio interface itself is perpetually hosed / overloaded.

* This despite a 2x upgrade in ram, and 4x upgrade in SSD space that I thought would take care of most of my performance issues.

* My UX experience was generally consistent on 2010-2016 models. That is, everything you hovered over / clicked / dragged behaved "the way a mac should" -- without having to even think about it. But with the 2019 model (Catalina) it seems they have to "improve" a lot of these default behaviors, which took weeks of trial and error to figure out (some of which I still am figuring out).

* It freezes up (requiring reboot) way more than it should (and correspondingly seems less tolerant of high browser loads). It's never a great experience when a laptop freezes up to to high load (which is of course perfectly avoidable). But I had to push my 2013-2016 really far to get it into the same level of instability. Basically it seems it can take only 1/4 the load of my earlier models.

* USB-C (which is just plain dodgy, and there's only one free slot. Can anyone explain what they were thinking with that?)

* Other stuff I'm probably too burned out by my overall experience with this thing to bring to the foreground of consciousness.

The only problem is - I'm still basically addicted to Macs (and have had consistently less than happy experience with Linux-based desktops over the years). Largely due to the overall UX, screen + audio quality (along with lightness and thinness). And (when the used to be reliable) their stability and low overall maintenance footprint.

With that said - is there any current offering from Apple that's at least reasonably stable (particularly in regard to browser load and audio issues)?

Or if not - what open source notebook offerings are people using these days (that are reasonably decent in terms of screen quality and overall responsiveness)?
A dangerous president to not censor the President?

Yea ok.
I had a tire blowout in the fast lane of 101. The CHP ran a break and the policeman pushed my car to the slow where there was room for me to change my tire.
You don't lose any messages with downtime if others in the group are on different home servers
"Prostitution: a luxury you can now afford!"

You have to understand that you need to sell UBI to America. It will never be implemented unless you can convince the tax paying populous that it will be "good", for some definition of "good". With taglines like that, you are making ubi less and less desirable for most people.
You need to have a threat model. Then work out a solution from that. Ask yourself, why are you encrypting the hard drivers ?

One threat model might be: Burglars sneaking in during the night and stealing the hard drivers. Then you would store the keys on a different location then the disks.

Then you make it a routine to reboot parts of the fleet, like scheduled simulation/training so that everyone knows what to do when you actually need them.
> And for good reason.

You consider the Posse Comitatus act as being passed for a good reason? Perhaps the effects are good, but the Act itself was mainly passed so that the white former slaveholding states of the south could enforce racially charged laws without the Union military preventing them.
Protesters Shelter in DC Home Overnight After Being Attacked by Police
> public policy often needs to make a decision with incomplete information

I disagree. Individual people and businesses often need to make decisions with incomplete information, but individual people's or businesses' decisions are only about their own actions, not about everybody else's. But public policy decisions affect everybody, so the criterion needs to be a lot stricter for how complete the information needs to be and how confident we need to be in our knowledge before we impose a public policy on everybody.

> You've got to take calculated risks sometimes.

The idea that public "leaders" should be able to take calculated risks with everybody else's money (and lives) is, IMO, pernicious. This is exactly the mentality that has created so much mess in the world throughout history. No, "leaders" should not take calculated risks that affect everybody.
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Stopping traffic risks the lives of people in ambulances so it’s pretty hard to condone that. Make noise, block access to some businesses, etc, but don’t block streets and cause traffic jams that could kill people FFS.
Speak for yourself. I prefer others be allowed to illustrate their repugnance without meddlesome filters getting in the way.

Besides which, it's also a matter of public record keeping. How unfortunate it would if by spicing up an unpopular decision with a few choice words, the President of the United States could count on having things sneak under the radar/get caught in the pipes.

In short, you like being muzzled? Have at. I will not stand for anyone having the same done against their will. No matter the level of repugnance, obscenity, or inconvenience to myself.

What would the world do without those oh so valuable examples of what not to be?
> If you still don't think what Signal is doing is enough, you can run your own signal (or matrix) server, but then you are running a very, very valuable server from a graph analysis perspective.

...which is precisely why we’re working on P2P matrix. No servers; nowhere for metadata to accumulate (other than the clients, of course).
> we know the black bloc and similar groups engages in these tactics

How do you know this? What's the process by which you established this as a known thing?
They did, but it wasn't particularly clear.

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> If you say "let's wait" you're saying "it's safe to keep doing what we're doing" even though you don't have any justification for that.

As I responded elsewhere in this thread, by this criterion, we should stop pretty much everything we are doing. Which is not a viable option, never has been, and never will be.
> my money taken away

This assumes that the money has been earned completely fairly. Every law or norm restricting black people (redlining, restrictive covenants, discriminatory hiring practices, etc) is effectively a subsidy to white people. Therefore, some of the dollars in their pockets are stolen, in a moral sense. Restoring some of those dollars is only fair.

Mind you, I'm not sure if it's practical, but that's the logic.
Ok, how do you select the things to research without bias?
Twitter names former Google CFO as chairman
Disagree. Private channels have zero obligation to be propagate any political leader's inflammatory rhetoric. Indeed, I'd say the social media feedback loop does substantially more harm than good when tensions are high, since Trump feeds on attention and tends to double-down when pushed. He can publish a press release on an official government website if he wishes, just like any prior president.
We can't easily validate models of reality that are complex/stochastic, because any experimental result could be a statistical anomaly. In particular this is a problem for models of long-term and/or global phenomena like climate or public health, since we only get one "experimental run", so to speak. Therefore:

> Confronting the problems of complexity, validation, and model uncertainty, I have previously identified four options for moving ahead: (1) dispense with modeling complex systems that cannot be validated; (2) model complex systems and pretend they are validated; (3) model complex systems, admit that the models are not validated, use them pragmatically where possible, and be extremely cautious when interpreting them; (4) strive to develop a new and perhaps weaker scientific epistemology.
> But nicotine and caffeine aren’t chemically similar, not really. When I covered the health effects of nicotine last year, I asked Adam Leventhal, director of the USC Health, Emotion, and Addiction Laboratory, how the two drugs compared. “They’re apples and oranges,” he told me, citing a long list of distressing caffeine withdrawal symptoms like anxiety, depression, irritability, and hunger.

Oh whups. I made a typo there. Can you guess which word?
And the solution to broken copyright law is to ignore it, at the expense of working-class authors, rather than ... working on the law?

You realize this undermines the ability of our society to produce the actual written works that we're arguing so damn valuable that we can't abide locking them behind a paywall?
It's a SeanCordicon tweet that Trump is retreating. The content of that tweet is:

> We knew this moment would arrive.

> We are the calm before, during & after the storm.

followed by a Reagan quote.

Cordicon is a QAnon conspiracy theorist. "The Storm" is a prominent thing in QAnon stuff [1][2] about how Trump will impose martial law to quell unrest and then he and the military will use that for a quiet coup to purge the government of Democrats and others.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/QAnon#.22The_Storm.22

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/qanon-4chan-the-stor...
Clearly you’ve never driven in the US of A. ;o)

Facetious commentary aside – and I do apologize for the tongue in cheekness – as a European I’ve always been struck by just how many wrecks and other debris are littered by the side of the roads in the US. Mileage varies I’m sure (no pun intended) but I covered 6660 miles on a road trip through in the US last year and it seemed almost universal to me that you’d see at least one car wreck (often partially or fully burned out) and loads of other debris like blown tires etc.

I think I’ve even got video from when I was leaving Kennedy Space Center and just a few miles from the bridges there was a car by the side of the road engulfed in flames.

On my latest road trip someone explained to me that the remnants of blown tires are from 18-wheelers that just keep on truckin’ once that happens, basically ignoring it till the next stop or even later. Given how many trucks you see on the road I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true.
Sure, but you often don't know the connections. Working on deep learning, for instance, can seem pretty innocuous, but it most definitely has applications in propaganda, warfare, surveillance, etc. I know where I work, there is no mention of our military customers, only other branches of the government, despite the military buying a lot of our tech. I think it's intentional so we don't discourage younger engineers from contributing.
Or, at the absolute minimum, fire them.
I wonder if we could achieve a win by just deprecating OpenType with its weird custom database format and having fonts be ZIP files with images and a JSON manifest (or shaders and a manifest, whatever). The manifest could contain all the meta-information and information about ligatures and kerning and so on.
DUIs kill far more people than guns; he was a menacing danger to society.
https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...
Exactly. He could have done whatever criminal things prior, but it has nothing to do with the specific scenario. He wasn't resisting arrest and was unjustly killed. Whatever he has done in the past has no bearing on it.

People tend to forget that others are just mere humans, and no one is a saint. Ffs, even MLK, for all the great progress he brought about, was cheating on his wife, which is imo pretty immoral and universally condemned. But it doesn't diminish his accomplishments in any way.
Microsoft: Teams-Skype Interoperability
That sounds great, thanks. Unfortunately I just tried to use Riot.im on the default server to talk to a friend (also on the default server), and my messages aren't getting to him or his to me, so it looks like Matrix still has some way to go.
In my example, big grocery chains here had 5-6 employees at launch then dropped it to just one.

Now they have 2-3 employees monitoring the self checkout.

There is a certain point where employers become more focused on reducing shrinkage than headcount.
I'm not a specialist on this. I recommend trusting the experts on https://is2020over.com/
Oh I agree, that was how they were supposed to be used but rarely were.
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I think we’re hardwired to look for contrepèteries when we hear the syllable ‘cu’.
I thought part of the point of how IPFS is designed is that you don't need to "implement" it, you just ask for a hash (file) in the IPFS mount and it goes and grabs it if it's not already there? Should just be a matter of handling IPFS URLs correctly. Which, I guess that's something to implement, kinda, though if you already have a handler for 'ipfs://' and Matrix passes off a click on such a URL to your OS to handle as it will (as it might to a browser for 'http://') then there really isn't anything to do
Hey now, try not to crap on the work of people whose circumstances you don't know. A quick glance at the HTTP response shows the page is served by Plesk. It's often the case that off the shelf software like this is selected, along with a "nice looking" theme, by someone with no technical background. And it's also often the case that said "nice looking" themes have not been built to accommodate the use case they're applied to.
The number of actual cops shot in the US is extremely low. Logging is five times as dangerous as police work and the most dangerous part of being a cop is the amount of driving they do.

Even miscellaneous agricultural work is more dangerous and they make 24k/year.
Except there's a ton of other channels those announcements also go through, and legitimate announcements are not what people are worried about. Legitimate speech will be seen one way or another.

But violent/hateful/racist speech has no place in social networks, and should be struck down immediately.
What are you hinting at? A second amendment thing? Because that really has nothing to do with the monopoly on use of violence. You can be violent without a gun. Who gets to be violent in a legal manner is an orthogonal issue.

And how is it ironic? When has the second amendment ever done anything for victims of police brutality? How often has widespread gun ownership been used as an excuse for excessive police force?
> It's great to see that countires are starting to become more and more technologically independent.

I'm of two minds. On the one hand, I like seeing a diversity of technologies. On the other hand, economic interdependence is one of the forces that prevents countries going to war.
What I have done is set up my application with Google Cloud Run.

In my case I used that for two websites - one is a blog and another one is a website for auto-generating comments.

In the case of first one, I use middleman to render static HTML files and then create a container that ships nginx and the application.

For the second app, the backend that generates comments is a Node.js application. The frontend is an app created using React, compiled into static website and Node.js serves the files.

Both apps cost me less than $0.1 per month and they have some traffic, but not a lot of it.

For the first app, I've also set up a CI/CD system using Google CLoud Build. So, every time I commit a new blog article, things get updated automatically. I did not have time to migrate the second app to same approach, but it should not be hard to do.

Google Cloud Build + Google Cloud Run can help you run a large variety of technologies almost for free, but in my case I only did it for stateless apps. You could use Google Cloud Run with a database, but I have not tried it.
How many dirt bikes do you think someone is buying? Is your concern that after being on UBI for a year someone will have 12 dirt bikes and a starving child?

If 99 people don’t buy drugs, and 1 person does, is the system a failure?
Green day releases a new song: "Wake me up when 2020 ends"
Hardware key control (HSM) with smart card controlled access.

Locked in a vault.

Keys are an actual secret key (within the HSM), unknown to any human.

Two people with two different access cards have to be present to enable key operations.

So, you don't have to worry about changing keys as employees come and go, because no one knows the actual keys.

There is a whole structure of spare cards stored in offsite secure storage in case a card is damaged, lost, or stolen.

Card set one is stored separately from card set two.
Even if he was DUI, no one has canceled due process. And even with due process, I don't think we give people death sentences for DUI.
Speaking of Germany...

WARNING GRAPHIC NSFW https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article10267909/Demo...

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Wagner