skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I'm utterly confused if you're not, though I recognize that you may have a different perspective based on your background.

Do you live in a metropolitan city in the US? Seattle, USA is my point of reference. I have lived for 15 years here, mostly living in the most dense neighborhood and mostly working in the downtown core.

Seattle is a low-violence, high-civic-engagement, high-trust, relatively wealthy city. There is typically a small 10-50 person protest weekly in front of the Federal Building. There will be additional larger protests several times annually, with a 200-500+ person gathering probably about every two months in favor of pot, anti-war, or whatever. Then 2-3 times a year there will be a large gathering, often around May Day, MLK Day, Hempfest, etc., where thousands will gather for (generally permitted and pre-planned) marching and demonstration. This is all the baseline activity level regardless of things like COVID, Trumpism, or BLM.

It's very usual to see strollers and children on shoulders at these events. The strong presumption is that civic engagement in Seattle is safe and normal.

If you come from a place where political parties have proxy street-fights with backed youth gangs, or where ethnic mobs are torching trains full of apostates, I understand (and I'm very sorry and hope it gets better). I know the world is a scary place and that there are such things as violent mobs.

But despite how inconvenient it might be to have one's commute path blocked, or how scary it might initially be to have an Other-looking youth shouting hyperbolic slogans, protests here (and elsewhere) generally don't start, and don't inevitably turn, violent.

That particular reaction requires another reagent altogether, and usually quite a bit of activation energy.
Yeah, selling free software doesn't work out in the practical world. There are astonishingly few business (RedHat) making money selling free software, and we don't really want authors using that business model. (Want to know how Dumbledore died? Buy an expensive subscription and get access to Harry Potter technicians). The premise that because a handful of business are able to survive on a different business model, authors should be forced to do the same, is abusurd.

> I'm asking for evidence that more copyright brings more wages to developers and less copyright means less wages.

Very simple. Look at the real world and the business models of top 10000 software companies. There would be <10 companies selling free software. And authors can't go the subscription route.

>many publishers make money selling public domain books.

Nobody here is saying IA couldn't provide "public domain" books. The point is they shouldn't be giving out the labour of authors for free, just like you won't like if people took out your labour for free.
To me, it was pretty clear that the police in Santa Monica and Long Beach allowed the looting to occur while treating the protesters like criminals from the outset. This isn't to say that other local precincts weren't significantly better in their treatment of protesters, but there's clear evidence that many police departments are either corrupt or completely inept in addressing violent crime.

This has been a long time coming, too. In the last few years, many police departments around the country have thrown their hands up and publicly stated they won't be bothering with most property crimes. The way they see it, the only crimes worth their time involve people not committing real crimes at all or crimes involving guns or knives. Anyone who doesn't get why people don't trust the police has been living under a rock. This goes beyond just racism.
See also farmers' produce stands that are often completely unmanned and run 100% on the honor system.

People take fruit and vegetables, and put the money in the box--or if the farmer is tech-savvy enough, through their phones. And even if a few people don't pay, they still get more money from their inventory than shipping it to a wholesaler or a grocery store. (As far as I know, direct to a local gourmet restaurant pays best.)

For an extra employee on the duty roster, you're probably paying minimum $7 per hour, every hour that store is open to the public--probably 16 hours a day, every day, for a big box. That's $41k per year, plus the per-employee costs for 2 or 3 people, which are probably another $60k, unless you're an employer that doesn't offer benefits (i.e. Wal-Mart).

The employee would likely have to stop $200/day of petty theft. That doesn't seem impossible, but the problem is that if you pay your employee minimum wage, they don't actually care that people are stealing from their employer, because they have no actual incentive to do anything beyond what is the bare minimum requirement to avoid getting fired, which may be just catching one shoplifter per day.

And then, after all, if one caught every shoplifter, every day, people would stop trying, and one might miss quota on later days. The person whose job depends on shoplifters has a perverse incentive to encourage shoplifting, just as cobra-catchers have an incentive to breed and release snakes.

So the problem is more that it's too expensive to hire someone at a rate high enough to make them care about doing their job well, instead of just keeping it indefinitely while gaming the right metrics.
Looks cool. The world needs a lot more network-agnostic and P2P apps. We don't need the man in the middle.
Remember:

* Apple knows best

* this is a totally legitimate product decision because no one likes wires on their headphones since like 2016

* what you really want is bluetooth, especially airpods -- have you bought your airpods yet? Ecosystem FTW!!1! -- even though they introduce latency that's unacceptable in some situations

* Apple knows best, and look, you don't get a career as a bold product thinker by caring about some kind of insignificant minority of niche creators who care about latency in music making

* Besides, why are you such a whiner? Just buy a $35 dongle that takes up your only port like everyone else (at least, until we finally succeed in our quest to remove that port too and achieve seamless invulnerable portless design, a rock, and island, and an island never cries)

* Apple knows best

* Look, why are you such a hater?
There are several things posted daily that are not "of technological interest" and land on the front page. Sometimes those things are even tangentially political. Unfortunately, I think this topic makes plenty of people very uncomfortable to talk about. Whether that's because of privilege or ignorance or something else altogether, I don't know. However, I think the ramifications and scale of this situation merits paying attention regardless of how uncomfortable it makes someone feel to encounter it. The rest of the world certainly is.
Worst possible case you can drop the messages from a domain, which is how federated systems already work.

There's no reason to ever revoke control for messaging systems, though, genuinely: imagine if your e-mail address could be taken on a whim by anyone. It can be! But you'd never want to revoke control of a domain rather than just marking it as spam or illegal and dropping messages from it. It functions as an inbox more than it functions as an outbox.

Addressing space should be permanent.
You can recruit a clueless person to be a “virtual assistant” or similar, give them some random admin tasks (to make it feel legitimate) before sending the letter to their address and asking them to read/scan the contents for you.

A similar approach is successfully used by scammers to recruit money mules.
Unfortunately, that's not an absolute. I've often been told to basically dumb down my writing in my papers because reviewers who are not native English speakers will not understand what I'm trying to say and will feel frustrated. And you don't want to frustrate reviewers...

For example, I once used the plural "lemmata" for "lemma". That is correct English, "lemma, lemmata", although it's much more common to use the Anglicised form "lemmas" (as, e.g. in formulae/formulas). I've also had colleagues "correct" my grammar when I've used expressions like "Absent X, Y occurs" or "X need not be Y", etc.

Sometimes, "excellent" writing is not the goal; writing that gets the point across, is. Much like code, indeed.
That's pretty much enough for anyone who wants to have Math Maturity. Good luck!
The evolution from Apple Smalltalk to Squeak did change the object memory quite a bit but only added a few bytecodes. The Cog project added even more to the bytecodes in several steps (specially with the change of blocks into proper closures) and more recently moved to a very different object memory called Spur.
if it is an instance on the cloud, GCP and AWS let you define ServiceAccounts that get populated on the Instance at boot time.

you should only let the instance access the secret it requires.
Studies like this do not settle that issue for me.

This study is based solely on what the participants claim they spend money on. It's a core principle of the study that the money is "no strings attached". That makes it useless as an actual study, IMO.

Without a more comprehensive study of the budgets of people before and after, the idea that the money won't be spent well is a fair argument.
The poster you are responding to is not making his argument in good faith. He is more than fine posting inflammatory political statements on HN:

>The benefits of diversity is the Left’s pseudoscience...I want climate deniers and diversity sycophants alike purged from the scientific apparatus.[1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912265
I am thinking of the opening scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", where Indiana Jones is trying to replace the golden idol with a similarly-weighted bag of sand.
That makes a lot of sense - I think making signing easier should be the goal, not removing signing requirements entirely.

Part of my frustration comes from this paradox: it's harder than it used to be to share a native application with others, even though we now have sandboxing that makes it significantly safer.

It feels like most of the pieces are in place, MSIX has matured to the point where it's pretty easy to distribute an application that runs in a sandbox with auto-updating. If Microsoft can just make the signing part easier, I think we'll see a much more vibrant community around native app development.
That's because their support was always fake. It's about non-existent "censorship" of conservatives, nothing more.
Why limit to billionaires? Total net assets in the US ~ $270T, so you can pay for UBI and balance the budget with under 2% wealth tax.

The real problem is how to realize this tax. I think it is probably too hard to actually appraise everything/etc; thus something like a monetary policy might be appropriate. The problem here is that USD is not in a vacuum so side effects might make this impossible.
How to Apologize
Why did the police shoot teargas and pepper spray into the crowd?
Hi @Arathorn, any work on using IPFS as the media store? It seems like this would be also a really good project for Matrix and doubly so for p2p matrix...
Being able to easily read and edit them matters too (pipes are just files so one might choose that file to be a persistent file on disk).

Having a none-text format would mean all your file editing tools would have to then understand this new binary format. So you’d have to rewrite every tool to manipulate that data as if it’s text. By which point you’ve effectively just reinvented ASCII.
Perhaps a net of various social services for the safety and welfare of the people? Perhaps it could be called a "social safety net"?

There are a lot of reasons why people (myself included) think that UBI would be better than the welfare system we currently have, which is (AFAIK) like what you describe. Google around.

My favorite reasons to expect UBI would work "better" are: 1) drastically simplifies the government's part of the system, 2) works within the existing economic system, and 3) empowers people to make their own decisions about their own lives, needs, and wants.
No disagreement
You can easily disable it. Did you try that already? Do you need help?
Anyone know what the HTML is for adding my onion address to my page for people visiting from the normal web entrance? I looked through the changelog for the bit about this auto-detection but didn't see it. Is it some sort of link tag thing in the <head> like,

<link rel="alternate" title="my site but on tor" href="superkuhbitj6tul.onion" />
It means that getting something you want will not necessarily benefit you.
Fantastic blog. The way you have used characters to display pictures, timelines. Lots of hard work and very meticulous.
Whatsapp, Juniper Network, Netgate and now iXsystems. While FreeBSD won't die anytime soon. Its usage and resources is definitely shrinking.
Haven't had a problem with a lot of popular services, only Sling so far. Even my local utilities let it fly.
> So, suddenly murdering the person who is going to put you in jail for the rest of your life seems like a zero sum game to a sociopath.

"you win and I go to jail forever / I win and you die" actually literally is a zero-sum a game. People fight/support wars over even completely unrealistic fears that they might one day lose even a bit of their freedom.

Maybe you mean that deciding not to voluntarily lose that zero-sum game makes someone a sociopath. And, tbh, in that situation, I would rather surrender than kill (for a lot of reasons, both moral and practical). However, I also wouldn't call someone a sociopath for deciding to kill in order to avoid a life sentence. "Live Free or Die" is literally the motto of the state of New Hampshire.

If I were about to arrest someone who knew they were going to jail for life, I would go into that situation expecting a life-and-death struggle. Even if that person were a completely balanced and mentally healthy person. Anything less seems a bit naive.
It seems you went from tear gas to live fire without considering other options like firing over the head of a crowd, or using riot shields and batons to push people, or any of many other options. It seems to me that quite a few people just want to endorse whatever the police are doing and just attach some half-baked rationalization to it like 'do you prefer to be murdered.'
This is great! It always bugs me when I can't find an implementation of a paper to reference. I'm much more likely to read a paper if there is code associated with it.
Current decentralized DNS projects have many problems that revolve almost entirely around UX, but performance isn't really one of them.

Especially given in an environment like this it'd be used mostly to get the initial connection, performance probably wouldn't be too big a problem.
So let’s say a platform censored “Focus on the Family” and “Black Lives Matter”, which one do you think the current government would fight for?

But the current administration claimed the reason to get rid of Network Neutrality was to “reduce regulation”. If they don’t like the current platforms they should create their own. Isn’t that the entire mantra of conservatives to let the free market address such problems?
You're ignoring part of the experiment. It's important to figure out what people spend it on and how their spending habits change (which appears to be what this is measuring just judging by the summary of the initial results), the question isn't just "is it nicer for the people who have it?".
The GP didn’t mention a lease so I assumed it was month to month, in which case the landlord terminated the lease and the renter moves out.

If they had a longer lease, then I’d agree the landlord can’t force them out before the lease ends.
A very nice article -- more pessimistic than I'd be -- about the limits of outsider understanding when predictions come from complex models that few understand.
Wouldn't it be better to pay police/firefighters/teachers more? If it means a little bit more in taxes for getting well trained (in dealing with the public), empathetic police officers, I am all for it.
If you're one of the majority of writers and relying on publishing for your income, you are probably not relying on publishing for your income but rather food stamps.

Publishers aren't really on authors' sides.
Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent spread of COVID19
I don't see how the tweets twitter added an annotation to could be seen as grey area.
What events were you at?
Everything is on video these days somewhere.
Can you point us to an online video example that you were at?
Distributed mobile ad-hoc routing is an area of research where I feel there has never been a satisfactory answer to "how do I deliver data efficiently?" Typical schemes will cut your bandwidth to a quarter of its nominal rate.

Fixed ad-hoc routing is a little better, but tends to be kind of fragile since nodes can appear and disappear at random. I've never found a system that worked as well as I would like, although I think there could be value in a network that separates the high bandwidth user data from the low bandwidth routing data. Like it uses 802.11 for the data, and LoRa for the routing decisions.
Andrew Yang's argument is that a lot of people already receive some level of help from the state (food stamps, unemployment, etc) which would be transferred to cash instead. So you need to account for those as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/gv57ho/phi...

maybe maybe
It's unfortunately not an easy task, getting people to see a whole issue and not just their own interpretation.

Whatever your side, have empathy for the people you oppose and try to understand their failings and mistakes. Without that, progress and improvement are nearly impossible.
Was in a rush between meetings, mea culpa.
I think you are on the right track, in so far as we need to understand what the constant across many different cities around the country.

Here is what I think (I know I will be burned at the steak for this):

The media market is the constant.

Media organizations and reporters are incentivized to get the most extreme and sensationalistic footage, so they are taking more risks and crossing more lines than every before.
Partially, maybe. But there's also a large role of qualified immunity and poor use of force policies in departments around the country. If an officer isn't required to report every time they threatened lethal force, it doesn't matter what the contract says about what should be done with use of force complaints.
Ask HN: Blackouttuesday
I know we usually reserve setting the top bar of HN to black for deaths in the computer science community, but perhaps in solidarity with the peaceful protests against police brutality for black Americans, we could set it today as well?
Why would it? A lot of people like and actively use it. If you don't like the integration with Home, you can disable it.
this somewhat reminds me of taco bell programming http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
> but where does it say police can attack non-violent bystanders?

That's the general point of police. They do not only attack violent people, but anyone, who violates the law. In this case it is the law of unlawful assembly.

Let's turn the discussion, as I think you have some predispositions there. How do you think police should prevent looting and damage to property on the street (like parked cars, shop windows, etc) during 95% peaceful protests, when the protestors form a crowd, and the peaceful folk refuse to disperse, because "they are just peaceful bystanders"?

P.S. Regarding the paywall. It seems to cut at your screen height, so the more vertical space you have, the more text is available.
If the value of the car to the owner is derived from its scarcity, then making more copies of that car available will, from a certain way of thinking, harm the owner (from their perspective). If you own a jaguar because you love to drive it, more jaguars on the road seems neutral to good. If you own a jaguar because it demonstrates that you can afford it and others cannot, more jaguars on the road seems bad.

The root of this difference is whether a personal value system is based on the sum of utility- how many people are happy, and how much- versus the spread of utility- how much better off I am compared to my neighbors.

Much of present human culture publicly praises the former- collectivism which "raises all ships"- while individuals quietly optimize their personal advantage, and cry outrage at policies which they perceive as allowing others to "close in" on their own standard of living. This tendency toward zero-sum thinking- and the resistance to social progress it creates- is a troubling problem.
It's not impossible that those companies would try, but it's not impossible that strict legal action could prevent it at least in theory. I think that if we just acknowledge markets don't care about the welfare of people than we have a commonly agreed upon problem. Should it be morally acceptable to put our hands up and say, luck of the draw, some will die deep in medical debt and others get to become horrendously wealthy. As a species I hope we have progressed enough to move past that base thinking.
> Rather importantly, they note that while parathyroid hormone levels are inversely proportional to Vit D serum levels, they start to go up with high levels of Vit D.

...in that particular polynomial fit.

> Keeping PTH levels low is likely beneficial. The Nairobi study found PTH levels were lowest in people with vit D levels around 30 ng/mL.

The minimum of the polynomial fit is around 35. If you look at the scatter plot, there are only six samples near 50 ng/ml and they're all over the place. You can not draw your conclusion from that. There's no significant deviation between 40-50 ng/ml.

My question is, why would the body stop producing Vitamin D around 40-50 ng/ml if 30 was optimal? Why not stop earlier?

> Keeping PTH levels low is likely beneficial.

Not sure where you get that.
I use the self-checkouts pretty much every time I go to walmart. I frequently do not put items on the scale after scanning them, either because they're too large to bag or because I've run out of room. I assumed the scale wasn't running.
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking
"(and perhaps, even more, that no books at all should be scanned)"

I believe this to be the publishers' goal; they have been complaining about the IA's digital copies for years.

And that includes out-of-copyright and out-of-print books.
It depends. How did you end up in this situation?
Facebook is apparently currently having an all-hands that is not going well:

> have to say, from what me, @sheeraf and @ceciliakang are hearing....this is not going over super well.

> Zuckerberg spent probably 20-30 minutes delivering his reasons for the post staying up. now taking pointed and heated questions from employees directly

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1267894523700457472
Calm down man, you're reading way too much into my use of the word "President" and trying to twist the words into some anti-Trump rant. The article was about Trump, my comment was on the article linked to here.
We live in such cynical times that instead of simply applauding someone for doing the right thing they are either accused of virtue signalling or criticized for having associated with people before it was totally apparent what their moral stances were.