skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is interesting and I'm glad to know about it, but there is a glaring flaw in his reasoning which nobody else here has commented on so I'll do it:

"I was in Holland a few summers ago and was trying to convince the Dutch that if the Greenland ice sheet melts, they have less to worry about than the Antarctic ice sheet melting. But it doesn’t register."

because, is there a polar melting hypothesis that melts the Arctic without melting the Antarctic? It could be that his idea is that both poles have water stacked up from ice sheet gravity more than it would be than melted, but the reasoning in that quote doesn't make that point, it makes a different point that is not useful, and he is I guess saying that there would just be more flooding than expected near the equator?
The tweet that ate my week
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> Maybe he just has a different opinions - he understands them, but he disagrees that it's a problem (or the biggest problem).

Given the unique ability of his technology to magnify and control the distribution of information should we impose greater liabilities if their actions are demonstrably negative?
A Mexican friend, long living in the USA, told me how much the Trump family reminded him of corrupt elite families in Mexico: "The dad thinks he's above the law and constantly cheats on his wife. The sons wear their hair slicked back and boast about how good they are at business even though they've never done anything in life but sponge off their dad's companies. And the daughters think they are glamorous fashion models and dream of owning a lifestyle brand."
It is working now.
Yes, I think people who at shoot people consider the consequences to their immediate actions, like everyone else. Unfortunately, there is rarely a significant cost to the individual cop in most acts of police violence, and many are more likely to shoot a second time.

https://theconversation.com/police-officers-accused-of-bruta...
Text of the tweet:

"Most of my great public health colleagues are greatly over-estimating the likelihood that the U.S. can mount a national test, trace, and isolate program as have countries like Germany and South Korea. My friends are mistaking a political-cultural challenge for a technical one".
In the UK (N.Ireland) rubber baton rounds used to (not sure about currently) have to be shot to ricochet off something, so you would fire it a few feet infront of the protestors with the round deflecting up to the legs/lower body and losing some of its velocity during the ricochet.
On one my past job there were fingerprint reader system on enter to office. Almost 6 years later, I were still able to enter office with my fingerprint.
I was responding to this statement:

> Right - that seems horribly wrong. It shouldn't be allowed for law enforcement either.

I'm not trying to discuss if the police are doing the right thing, only te correct way of applying force.
To all who aren't happy with the way FX is going, may I suggest palemoon. I've been using it a long while and it's just straighforwardly good. http://www.palemoon.org/

Perhaps the easiest way of letting Mozilla know how you feel is by helping them lose market share to another.

PM is a good browser. Not affiliated, it just works for me.
That is a lie. TD was one of the most peaceful and rule-abiding political subs.
This looks pretty fake, although a future Exynos may have similar specs.
I don’t think the police need MRAPs. That’s a bit over the top. However, it does seem they need some sort of up-armored police cars given how many of them have been destroyed in the rioting. SWAT maybe has some use for military equipment, but only for bona-fide SWAT situations (hostages/bombs/active shooter.) But rolling out MRAPs for general policing is a bad policy. It’s one step removed from deploying tanks and it’s a bad look and probably counterproductive.
Imagine the efficiency of having your whole userland written in one line of code!
Define "a lot"

I remember doing some tests once that had a cost breakdown and they would vary a lot in price (meaning some would be let's say, single digits, some others would be in the triple digits area - think USD/EUR price ranges)
You may not like it, but in this country, if they're not punching people, they have the right to march.

I disagree with Nazis. I abhor their ideology. I also disagree with punching peaceful marchers, even if they espouse a hateful ideology. "I'm going to use violence to take away your right to peaceful demonstrations" is also an ideology I despise.
IA haven’t come out with an official argument so there is no need to put words in their mouths.

Also if the IA scheme becomes legal it would certainly not be a an all out end to copyright. Just the realisation that limiting an unlimited digital asset is stupid and copyright in the digital age should be defined in a new way. Ppl still would not be able to use your work for free.

Edit:
Like back when we only had physical things it made sense. There was a physical limitation. Now we are trying to apply the same concept in a very different world. I just think that doesn’t hold and we should just have a new definition.

E.g: there is no reason to own a physical copy to lend a digital one as the medium should not hold the copyright. Maybe charge a fee for access and then if you want the physical book you only pay for the medium but if you want the digital one there is no additional fee.

My point is more the fact that the medium limitation is something that never really gets the focus and that is a very broken part of copyright in the digital age.
It seems this would made the effect from the icebergs bigger rather than smaller, because the gradient decays by r^3 instead of r^2, so the distance is more important?

Like, the gravitational acceleration is
a = GM/r^2
while the gradient is
da/dr = -2GM/r^3

So for moon vs glacier at 1000km you'd get

- 2 * (Gravitational constant) * (mass of moon) / (391184 km)^3 = - 1.638×10^-13 reciprocal seconds squared

vs

- 2 * (Gravitational constant) * (1e19 kg) / (1000 km)^3= -1.335×10^-9 reciprocal seconds squared
I imagine it happens all of the time with self checkout.
Big vegetarians of the reef drive fish evolution
Do you feel like you had prolonged exposure to someone at a close distance?
Trying to use a crisis to return sanity to copyright law isn't an overreach. The blame lies squarely on those who have spent decades creating draconian copyright law, and those today who defend it. "I'm an author" or "Think of the publishers!" is no excuse for supporting unjust laws.
IMSI-catcher : International mobile subscriber identity-catcher
Meanwhile, all bad actors know the best way to deliver malicious code is via javascript exploits in a browser.
Worked first time for me.

Automatic detection of onion versions of sites sounds great.

Edit: refreshed once, still worked. Refreshed again, "You are not authorized to access this page. " Refreshed a third time, worked again.
But FMJ is more dangerous in an urban environment than hollow points as it will penetrate an individual and could hit a by stander.

Hollow points make sense in my opinion as police/citizens should only use lethal force in extreme circumstances. Hollow points can stop people quicker. The problem is that police has not been very good about using lethal force.
> This would be a great opportunity to avoid the classic Unix mistake of using text files as the lowest common denominator everywhere

Text files are just a binary format that happens to be easily readable by humans, thus making the hurdle of parsing or generating something to use that format much lower. It usually is this hurdle that is most important to longevity and wide spread success than close to metal sympathies- cf JSON and Protocol Buffers
Absolutely,
I personally hate Trump and Facebook but he is still the president.

The idea it is even a discussion to censor the president is lunacy.
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This seems like a fun game:

> If you perform low-altitude flyovers while citizens exercise their right to assembly, you are attacking them lethally and must expect lethal reaction also. Please DO NOT do this.
Thank you! I will give it a try
This is a known / common deficiency. But does it make sense to blindly take Vitamin C for example?
Donate please!
> The more common size for these protests seem to be around 2 inches in diameter.

40mm, about 1.5"
It may very well be true, and in fact reasonable that there's a lot of false positives and that 'it was designed that way' due to obviously an inherently higher error rate.

So it's really a that the parameters of the tech are overlapping poorly with the parameters of customer convenience, perception, treatment, and other aspects of the next consumer experience and op. costs.

This is probably a great example of understanding the limitations and special needs of AI in the real world. It's not magic, it's just 'some magic' that we have to develop processes to work with.
They made no claims to this effect, have announced zero partnership, and instead made claims entirely contrary to this. It seems remarkably specious and apologist to imagine this as an argument now.

I don't even get why IA did this, or why they threatened the project itself with this side project. Many people gave money to the project for the internet archiving, not some sort of robinhood book distribution system. Whoever did this should have created a completely separate side project instead of effectively bankrupting the meaningful, justifiable project in the process.
I am not sure how to respond here. The answer is yes, but I am not sure we are talking about the same thing.
I need some tear gas, and a mask https://www.amazon.com/WHYIT-Ventilative-Biochemical-Respira...

where is a good tear gas source?
Setting precedent with out-of-copyright and

They already did allow out-of-copyright works to be downloaded as many times as anyone wants, without DRM. They're out of copyright. That's unambiguously legal and always has been. There, they've done what you wanted them to, they "segregated the risk from the main organization" (you'd have to have a pretty warped worldview to imagine it makes a difference, but nothing in your comment would have actually done that).

Allowing a third party to run the National Emergency Library would have been another.

I've read this line over and over again. Is this what you meant by it? "The organization that has all of the books and is registered as a library shouldn't have run the library that's legally grounded in them being legally-recognized as a library and having all of the books that they have."

If so, I completely disagree with you.

This makes way more sense than you're giving credit for. IA isn't run by a five year old.
> This makes some sense if hyperthreading can sometimes cause extra latency for some threads to get real CPU work done, which is hard for the OS to strictly control.

Threads requiring hard real-time responsiveness can (and do) request to be marked as such by the scheduler. And the OS is certainly aware of what hyperthreads-presenting-as-cores belong to which physical cores, and uses this information in scheduling. So I'd find it implausible that any modern OS (esp. one that already had good DAW support) doesn't already have logic to try to keep the other hyperthreads of a core on which a hard-realtime thread is running, as uncontended as possible, by either not scheduling, or very conservatively scheduling (i.e. "early" pre-empting) anything on that hyperthread.

I have a feeling it's something much more arcane. Maybe a hitch generated by the core switching "licenses" due to an AVX512 instruction.
"Onion Location" and "Onion Names" are very welcomed improvements.

Not having memorable names makes it tough for people that use a non-persistent OS for Tor. I'm all for creating more accessible URLs.
I thought that was just to correct for the initial definition of a second which was inaccurate. But, it looks like it is the reason for leap seconds:

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/leap-seconds-background.htm....
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I still have the issue but I do still use pycharm (I do docker local and then just go from there - but my preferred was always basically "remote" develop - I used to use that so if I was on my laptop or desktop etc I was always on the same (linux) machine even if coming in from mac or windows.
France approves five billion euro emergency loan for Renault
And that doesn't mean the change is good! Our brains also get used to bad smells, after we've been around them for long enough. But newcomers will notice, and the air will still seem fresher when we step outside.
it's not just about it, it's about Russians had their hands in it over political affairs.
The thing is, the cops STARTED this situation.

They should have their weapons and equipment taken away, like in most civilized countries.
> Mr. Gallego said. “Our neighborhoods aren’t war zones.”

Unfortunately, I am not sure that will be the case in a week. I think by the time the actual voting on the bill comes, it is likely that either the protests have died down removing the immediacy of this, or else there is so much destruction in the cities that this becomes not politically viable.
Politics is downstream of culture, and as the demographics of the country shift more towards those of Mexico or Argentina (for instance) we should not be surprised when our political climate reflects that.
They famously abused the stickying bug for years to get their content to the homepage. Reddit even changed the /r/all algorithm to specifically address gaming and exploitation by TD. The quarantine system was also introduced to isolate TD from the rest of the site, like a gangrenous limb. It's simply not the case that they were rule abiding.
So the police are being anti-democratic.

I'd agree that traceable rubber bullets is for much further down the line. First you need prosecution of any officer shown using a gun at a person's head or upper-torso when they're not responding to a situation of immediate threat of loss of life. Seems the evidence should be there for that.

Swift prosecution, and where appropriate conviction, of police abuses would help to quell the current unrest IMO. Like on Reddit yesterday I saw video of an officer placing a stick in an already subdued persons hand, then beating them in the head and retrieving the stick ... is there any reason that person isn't already in jail? They should fast track prosecutions, have them in prison - of found guilty - by the end of the week.

Swift, open and impeccable justice is called for.

You can't entirely blame individual officers IMO, watching riot footage knee-on-neck is clearly a widely adopted technique, presumably it's taught. And putting someone in a riot with a weapon, we should expect aggressive actions, it's a natural human response that can't easily be trained out.

Mandatory gun cameras for riot police might be useful as this point though?
We use Knox: http://github.com/pinterest/knox

Think of a lighter vault, with ACLs for people and/or machines to access keys and versioning to rotate keys.

In our case, Knox depends upon AWS KMS to "lock/unlock" its storage.
Don't justify an exaggerated response like this. A laser pointer is not lethal. There is no comparison between a laser pointer and the armaments on a military helicopter.
It's so uncharacteristic of the way the IA normally behaves. Whatever special rights a lot of people think they have as a library, a lot of their archiving operations are on somewhat shaky ground. BUT they're a non-profit, don't monetize with advertising, bend over backwards (further than many think they should) to take down anything anyone with a legitimate claim wants taken down even retroactively, and generally don't do anything that makes them a particularly attractive legal target. Yeah, you can argue about them collecting so much content on essentially an opt-out basis. But, at the end of the day, they do provide an opt-out so it's probably not very attractive to sue them when you can get the same result by asking for a takedown.
I wish I owned a business too big to fail.
> is no longer lending digital books via "controlled digital lending."

This is definitely inaccurate. Many elements of CDL are clearly still in effect, such as the use of DRM to enforce the "check out" provision. It's a real lending system. The only thing that's new is the "unlimited" claim wrt. the number of copies that can be checked out at any given time - and we still don't know how far that "unlimited" actually goes. We should wait for IA's legal response on this.
Pixelbook go is absolutely perfect for people like this https://www.google.com/chromebook/device/google-pixelbook-go....

Good Keyboard, good Screen, Fast and good battery life.
"Linux runs perfectly on old hardware."

I prefer NetBSD. I do not need graphics. I make custom images that boot from USB or the network.

As for Windows, there was a time, in the 32-bit era, and before the widepsread availability of virtual machines and Windows 3.11 images, when users were compelled to upgrade hardware and Windows versions. It was not made easy for a non-technical user to buy new hardware and use 3.11 if the hardware came with a more recent Windows version pre-installed. Microsoft will not facilitate installing older Windows versions on newer hardware ("metal", not VM) and may actively discourage it. In contrast I can easily install any version of NetBSD I want on new hardware. I am not compelled to install the most recent version. There is user choice.

How easy is it today to run Office in a VM on Linux?
I was speaking figuratively, since they were an investigation and Assange is the one who ran wikileaks when they released the DNC/Podesta emails.
I think all my musical equipment has a USB-B port on them, work over USB 2.0, and I've got like a dozen USB-A/USB-B cables around. Those plug into every other computing device in my house except new Macbooks (and iPads, but, Lightning to USB-A adapter, so, still USB-A, and notably I can't share that adapter with a Macbook because Apple's approach to this has been a bizarre mix of foot-dragging and waffling on the iDevice side while running way ahead of the pack on the other). My enthusiasm level for buying new cables or adapters only for fairly new Macbooks when any other new computing device I buy would still have USB-A ports, and then have them maybe not work anyway because USB-C compatibility and cable/adapter quality is a shit-show, is exactly zero.

And I'm not made of money and I have other hobbies that require cash so I buy used musical equipment so I can get low-end pro gear a generation or two old for at or under new prices for amateur/crappy gear. There's little chance I'll buy any USB-C native musical equipment of any kind before 2030 or so. Who's cycling out all their gear—musical or otherwise—so fast that dropping USB-A and HDMI entirely in 2016, on a "pro" laptop, made any damn sense?
Gotcha. I thought the article was referring to polar ice in general, not just specifically ice sheets (over land areas). Still, the gravity produced by that mass doesn't seem to be enough to make a real difference (see my other comment questioning the comparison with the moon/tides).
That was well worth the read. Looks like the pipeline isn't exposed, which is what I'd expect for a VLIW in this role. They've got a some support for speculative loads but it seems pretty small so I'm not surprised they're having trouble adapting to general purpose code.
The internet archive must look into placing their property into trust
That was not against the rules and was nerfed pretty fast - certainly not for years. And then they were artificially censored, held down, attacked and lied about and doxed.
Realization Changed My Life
It is a bit strange how the in-house and other competitor is also mentioned, Walmart are big on data warehousing and management, in a lot of cases they are pushing innovation and r&d, in some cases for decades. This article needs to show a more detailed analysis of when it does actually work, a fraud KPI ?, or something else besides some anonymous complaints.

You can trick any system, but that's not telling on it's overall effectiveness.
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Another tale from a developer on their experience getting a code signing certificate from a certificate authority:

https://twitter.com/hanspagel/status/1262317935898566658
This is blatantly ridiculous. IA allows authors to opt out, despite how incredibly unethical it is for authors to opt out, and copying isn't stealing in the first place.
I think they were considering being charitable by taking into account people's feelings and situations during a trans-national emergency.

I myself borrowed an old book (which I already owned, but I wanted to compare differences among versions), turned a few pages, but then got distracted and didn't open it again (the virtual loan expired).

I think it's a shame that people are trying to crucify an exemplary organization for doing a charitable act (no good deed goes unpunished, and all that).

And, to be quite honest... Most of the books are at least 20 years old... So it's not like they were distributing best sellers that were actively being sold.

I think it's a situation where publishers "are being forced" to be litigious, because they have an obligation to their shareholders to always take the option that yields more money; the Internet Archive just happened to leave themselves open to being a target, so they _have_ to do it.

This reminds me a bit of Commander Chris Hadfield's cover of Space Oddity, and if I recall correctly, that David Bowie didn't own the rights to his own song and thus was unable to approve or deny an extension for Cmdr Hadfield's video on YouTube (and the controversy of the takedown).
> Turns out "people are bored and entertainment isn't as freely available" is maybe not a great justification for stealing people's stuff.

Luckily absolutely nothing was stolen.
They would need to restrict capabilities, not just cut off access to "military-style" gear. They make the same mistake with gun laws where they ban "military-style" weapons because they look scary, but allow weapons that are just as deadly because they have a wooden stock and don't look as scary as "military-style" weapons.
That will make discovery of hidden services much easier, this is great!
Distortions of the Mercator Projection...
Ask HN: Why don't more apps use OTP as the first factor?
Hi,

Is there a reason besides inertia why most applications that require authentication use a secret like a password for the primary factor, rather than using a OTP app?

For context about me: I am pretty new to programming, learning web application development. So maybe this would be a Very Bad Idea, and I just don't know why yet!

But it seems to me that some advantages of using a OTP would be:

1. It would be easier to temporarily grant someone else access to your account - as long as the app gives you a way to log out all other sessions and reauthenticate

2. It would remove the burden of remembering/managing unique passwords from the user
Thanks. I'd been dividing it between spacelike and timelike. I forgot there was a third option.
I downloaded the Tor Browser a decade ago, maybe even longer, in an effort to be privacy conscious. I used it here and there but I never made the switch to using Tor by default. Some time later I remember reading the US government was tracking people, or had a list of everyone, who had simply downloaded Tor. I also vaguely remember reading about how using Tor could potentially expose you to legal risks because of the way the information hops between user computers. I don't really know much about networking or the nitty gritty of how Tor works so I uninstalled it.

I don't know if any of that was true and even if it was I'm sure a lot has changed with how Tor handles privacy and directs traffic. Are there any good resources for average Joe internet users to read about how the browser works so I can better understand the risks/rewards?