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Corporate monopolies over the discourse. Though it wouldn't be "the government", why would should the massive power of a $billion/trillion corporations have no check?

What recourse does the average citizen have to abuse from these entities? Think of all the ways Google or Facebook could screw you over or even shape the social/political narrative. This should be a free-for-all?

"Just build your own global social platform"... yea, not possible. In the mean time, they can abuse their power while you get up and running, or never do.

Think of it another way. If the government is constrained, but massive corporations (who pay off politicians) aren't, doesn't this clearly seem an end-around for "government" to encourage private companies to do the censorship they want, enact favorable policies for them in return, and the powerless individual, or small groups suffer similar consequences as if the government themselves censored them? It's an easy hack for the 1st amendment.
Yeah. That isn't what I meant. Thanks for your careful, good-faith argument, though.
The issue isn't the topic itself but the amount of repetition around it. Curiosity withers under repetition. You would see exactly the same pattern if the current topic ended up getting repeated a lot: the users who felt most strongly about it ('loyalty to a cause') would want every single article to be on the front page, and would feel like the mods and/or community must be pro-police-brutality if that didn't happen, just as some people feel like we must be pro-communist or pro-China or whatever.

I tried to explain that above, and linked to past explanations of the same points. If you want to take a look at those past explanations, and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be curious to know what it is. Perhaps it would be helpful to describe what these links contain more explicitly:

(1) We try to optimize HN for intellectual curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(2) Curiosity and repetition don't go well together: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(3) With submissions on a MOT (major ongoing topic), the main thing we look for is SNI (significant new information): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

As far as I can tell, the complete answer to your question follows from those three points.
To be an ad salesman usually requires the gift of the gab. Young Zuck happened upon an idea at the right time and place and couldn't believe people would give him their data. He's been sliding since then.
"In addition to my views about financial literacy, I have argued in the past that good financial regulation would divide investments into normal ones and dumb ones. Normal ones would be, like, index funds or whatever, and anyone could buy them. Dumb ones would be penny stocks and private investments and, good lord, leveraged ETNs on mortgage REITs, and also anyone could buy them. But you’d have to get a Certificate of Dumb Investment before buying the dumb ones. I spelled out the application process once:

"To get that certificate, you sign a form. The form is one page with a lot of white space. It says in very large letters: “I want to buy a dumb investment. I understand that the person selling it will almost certainly steal all my money, and that I would almost certainly be better off just buying index funds, but I want to do this dumb thing anyway. I agree that I will never, under any circumstances, complain to anyone when this investment inevitably goes wrong. I understand that violating this agreement is a felony.”

"Then you take the form to an SEC employee, who slaps you hard across the face and says “really???” And if you reply “yes really” then she gives you the certificate. …

"If an article ever appears in the Wall Street Journal in which you (or your lawyer) are quoted saying that you were just a simple dentist, didn’t understand what you were buying and were swindled by the seller’s flashy sales pitch, then you go to prison."

I so wish that were the procedure.
Yes, true. But it would be an additional hurdle and any weirdness like that is visible. Plus MS or AV vendors could blacklist actual signers that misbehave.
From your comments it’s clear that you’re a garden-variety racist. You’re not worth my time.
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I don't know about political aspect, but I don't think Elbrus is interesting technically. Frankly it's just another dead-end VLIW architecture. VLIW just isn't interesting or even relevant for general purpose computing or even high performance computing. DSP market is the only niche where VLIW has found meaningful usage, and even there, the advantage is not huge by any means.
Uncertainty is always going to be a problem, and (if history is any guide), allowing free peoples to self-organize and make individual/community decisions about how to live has worked out the best.

Having a few elites (or a strident majority) make decisions for everyone else has turned out ... less good.

The worst outcomes tend to arrive when these groups shield themselves from evidence-based reality (usually by forcibly stripping liberty and wealth from their unfortunate subjects and inferiors), to temporarily suspend them experiencing the results of their actions. There's alot of that going around, presently.

Good luck with all that!
I think I played gloomhaven varying levels of wrong (monotonically decreasing) for the first 15 or so scenarios. The classic "wrong attack modifier deck", "elements only move up 1 when you generate", "Monsters cannot move through each other", "That monster has flying" are a smattering of my misread rules.

Who cares? The game was still fun, now we play more correctly (God knows what I haven't noticed I do wrong yet). I'm a firm believer in playing early, and learning from mistakes / as you go.
Never again should we allow people to pretend that their favorite brand of uncertainty deserves special accommodation.
Anime-over-IRC can hit 10GB files pretty easily. I wouldn't label it an exaggeration so much as "uncommon".

I do like the idea of automatically deduplicating every shared gif tho, which would happen automatically since it's content-addressed.
Yes, possibly this could be an optimisation; although then you get to worry about leaking information about your group's contents to the world - anything you send, other clients in your group will ask random servers on the internet for, by a globally identifiable hash. In the best case, this just leaks my friends' meme sharing habits - in the worst case, this announces to the world "I am in a group sharing materials that my Government thinks are dangerous". If someone posts an original file to a public group and a private group, then anyone who downloads that file who isn't in the public group obviously knows that person well enough to be in a private group with them, leaking group membership metadata. And so on.

Random identifiers for each instance of sharing a file to a group would thus be needed, reducing the usefulness of this optimisation quite a bit, where e.g. using the results of the group's p2p matrix discovery mechanism as your peer list to download blocks from has much the same results.
It will be paid for in inflation.

I’m a fiscal conservative but I don’t think the inflation caused by UBI will be any worse than the inflation caused by massive deficits due to military spending and other misallocations of resources. In fact UBI might be better, given it’s spent on actual human needs rather than military hardware that is 90% useless in our present world.

But UBI is still stupid. Paying people for not working is a method of producing less, ie making us poorer. I always wonder why the dorks who go around promoting UBI always seem to ignore the earned income credit, which is our best tool to reduce poverty. Why don’t they ever march to massively increase that?
One huge problem with your reasoning is that the Medicare costs are equally distributed. As we know, that is very far from the case and your solution of equal cash payments will absolutely not work. That's the entire point of insurance in the first place.
We agree.
To me, it sounds like people are quitting their jobs because they think they can read other people's minds.
Question 1 - What is the correct way to build and install self created derivations? Right now I have a custom fish function:

function nix-local-build
nix-build --no-out-link \
-E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).callPackage ./'$argv[1]' {}'
end

To build and install something I run:

nix-local-build some.nix
nix-env -i [store-path-from-build]

The .nix file is in the same format as e.g. pkgs/tools/misc/bat/default.nix.

Question 2 - How to include such a derivation into configuration.nix?
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That really depends on where you're a cop. Most towns in the U.S. are very safe, so yes, in aggregate being a cop in the U.S. is very safe. But no one experiences the aggregate, and there are some incredibly dangerous places in the U.S. that you don't see anything similar to in other developed countries. Sure, being a cop in Scarsdale, NY is a pretty safe bet. Being a beat cop in Camden, NJ, not so much.
Also, if NBC calls something misinformation with "little evidence", then it would be unsatirical to reference some primary sources itself.

"according to a Twitter spokesperson". Which spokesperson and where was this said? I don't see anything on https://blog.twitter.com. Nor could I find any primary recent references to Twitter and white nationalists or Identity Evropa except the editorials themselves.
You can see the same thing in thailand where the rural voters voted in a corrupt billionaire. Eventually his attractive daughter took over.
> The above proposal said the money was forfeited as soon as a counternotice is filed. Hence, no incentive to file a lawsuit.

... except for the fact that a lawsuit allows you to recover that fee, and more damages—if you have a case to begin with. It's a recoverable cost, not a sunk cost.

> Regardless, filing a suit costs more money than they were proposing be put up in escrow.

What are you basing this on? The comment you're referring to very deliberately did not use specific numbers.
That's a really interesting topic. I wish there was more... realistic discussion about those things.

I remember 10 years ago, when the pirate party was hyping up, there were a few propositions of basically a tax based system: remove copyright, but add a 10€ entertainment tax. It felt unrealistic to me to replace a multi billion dollar industry with 80million/year. Digital objects might have nearly zero reproduction cost, but producing the art still costs money. Splitting the cost of a single 320$mio movie on 8bil people, still costs everyone 4cents.

In a similar veine the limitations for artists to monetize their money and rely on others: artist could market directly to consumers instead of having advertisers! But that would mostly select for people that are good at advertising themselves, what morphed to influencers.
> When very‐ high‐ risk officers see premiums go up, they would have to pay the difference out of their own pockets

These policies would almost certainly be bought and negotiated on the union level, as a union benefit. As such, rates would rise for everyone and be passed on to the taxpayer.

Indemnification requirements are simpler, and cut out the middle man. If the union then chooses to pass than risk to an insurer, that can be negotiated separately.
I still go to FPM (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) for any distro-native packaging needs I have.
I assume that GEBBL is either only familiar with the -phile suffix in the context of 'pedophile', or is implying that that could be the case for others.
Looks like MTMR supports it as well, but I didn't have any luck getting it to work. HapticKey is working great though. For as good a job as Apple did with making the iPhone's button and the touchpad feel really responsive, I'm amazed they didn't bother doing the same with the touchbar.
I work in Stockton, and am glad that some people are better off with this. My real worry about UBI 'at scale' is what would prevent the majority voting for massive increases in the amount every election? If every employee could vote to increase "everybody's" pay equally, why wouldn't they? - right up until the company runs out of money and all the jobs disappear.
If you think that high income people generally don't produce enough value to justify their income, then you would probably consider this a feature, not a bug. Otherwise, I worry that it would just lead to highly productive people moving to other parts of the world, as happened with [British musicians in the 60's](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rock-bands-taxes/). Again, if you think those people don't produce enough value, it's not a problem. But we might want to consider trying it successfully in a single state first before rolling it out more widely.
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Welcome to Russia . Actually, since 1993 police actions in Russia were never that outright violent and cruel as they are now in the USA . I'm watching news coverage with disbelief and anger, and I'm wondering if the pot will continue calling various kettles around the world black.
Cool! It is similar to one of my personal projects where I use markdown and Math.js: http://blog.nishihara.me/playground/calctext/

I didn't know nearley.js. Maybe I can extend my own project to make more natural calculations.
Clothes matter more than you think.
See https://twitter.com/EdFelten/status/1267838832298393602
> But we don't. And the only way to expand what we know is to spend a ton of time doing things that we don't know.

That can sound great, at least from a scientist's point of view, the issue is that many times those "things the scientists don't know about" are taken as a given (i.e. closer to the "truth" compared to the things that non-scientists reason about) and they come back to bite us non-scientists, meaning the general public.

This virus has proven just that, with scientists in many countries believing lots of different things (they still do, even after ~4 months since the whole thing has reached a new level), about which things it was obvious "they didn't know that much about", but it didn't matter, because most of the time their voices were heard louder compared to everyone else's and as such the powers that be decided to follow those scientists' lead/advices.

In other words, it's ok that scientists don't know everything, but they should also be aware of that and they should let their "superiors" (government officials, people having the power to influence the lives of millions of other people) know about them not knowing everything. Going back to this virus, I've personally never heard an "expert" say out loud in the media something like: "we just don't know how this virus really works and we really don't know how best to fight it, we're really navigating in the dark here, we're asking you to stay locked-down in your houses because we think it's the right thing to do but we can't say exactly for how long because we really don't know".
> They might have had more impact by sticking around to Exert some influence from the inside.

Burn the house from inside while enjoying all the benefits it provides including 6 figure salary, bonuses, perks and stock..this is what is wrong with the current generation of keyboard activists!! (I'm not accusing you of being one) if one fundamentally disagrees with the principles of a business that they willingly signed up to work for, one should at least have the conviction to walk away and advocate for change from the outside.
Try mawk if you can. I find that it does even faster.
Clear the area how? I think people have forgotten this doesn't need to mean your first step is pulling out the batons. If you tell a journalist they are under arrest, they will always comply. They won't fight back. So yes, still cops' fault.
They're also an incredibly popular tax. Try comparing them with a proper, progressive income tax.
Right, Facebook is not a court, police force, or anything else with legal jurisdiction. Assuming the problem is that Trump is issuing an orders to the military that are illegal, that's not a problem that Facebook can police. The President can likely find another means of issuing illegal military orders that bypasses Facebook.
> What is your solution then?

There is not going to be any silver-bullet solution here. If we ever resolve it, it's going to involve a lot of different approaches. I don't think anyone has a complete answer.

For one thing, putting more power in the hands of users to control how their information get used is a step in the right direction. For example, it should be possible to easily identify and search-for any entity who's paying money to put something in front of our eyeballs or who is buying our data. Even better, it should be possible to strictly limit who or what gets our information.
I also recently signed up, and totally agree that it was a little bit of a PITA.

I will say, however, that a lot of the difficulty appears to be tied to the privacy aspects. I think it's the only service I checked out that didn't require an email or phone number to sign up. I think the privacy/ease of signup trade-off is okay right now, and I also think that Riot is trying to make it better.

Also, I'm successfully using it with non-tech-oriented family and it's been quite good!
This post describes how to do that, via PPAs: https://is.gd/Eu55IG.
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This is really hurting Microsoft's ecosystem, I'm trying to add the latest version of QuickLook [0] to the winget package manager at the moment but because the msi installer isn't signed my pull request is doomed to failure[1].

If Microsoft want Windows to be an awesome developer platform this kind of friction with the tooling helps no-one.

[0] https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/1241
It is a bummer, but they messed up.

Is it possible they were under financial duress anyway and were looking for attention grabbing move to garner support?

I don't understand it, and I find it hard to believe that their legal counsel green lighted it.
That paper's already 30 years old, unfortunately. We can't even hold law enforcement accountable for well-attested acts of brutality currently; it looks like we're a while off from holding them accountable for slowly poisoning people.
> Then FB will buy the next FB replacement, and he will be back to square one.

That seems like a function of how much the owners of the new company value their integrity and how much of a price they extract from Zuck if they do sell. At some point, not selling to FB could be a currency (the new upstart could pull talent which would otherwise not want to work at FB).

> FB is not going to fall like MySpace did

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."

I suspect we will have to check back in on the health of Facebook after another 6 months of the COVID-economy ravages the advertising market. I think FB will be able to see the need to pivot; whether they are able to is not yet known.

> I find it unlikely that FB will be dethroned unless government steps in.

I think more likely users will just leave/atrophy on it like Gen Z largely did or possibly just suffer a slow death if global advertising doesn't recover to previous levels.
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How does an MRAP reduce drunk driving?

How does any military hardware reduce drunk driving?

Yes, police need cars. That’s not controversial.
> Also all the government spending for COVID was also misguided. Not the federal government's role and our debt is at dangerous levels.

What is the role of the federal government, if not "to provide basic services to its citizens in times of extraordinary need"? In the face of a generational pandemic, from which nobody is unaffected, why should the government throw up its hands and not spend?

I recognize that that is something of an ideological statement, and we're not going to get anywhere with non-falsifiable statements. So let's think of it a different way: you say that "debt is at dangerous levels" - how would you quantify danger? US Treasury yields, how we "finance" debt, are at all-time lows - which means that private buyers are willing to pay higher prices than ever for the safety of Treasury bonds. There is absolutely no quantitative evidence that more US government debt is dangerous; in fact, the evidence points squarely towards investors demanding more debt issuance, and thus government spending, given the extremely low rates.
If it's easy to solve, then it should be a footnote in a much more difficult to tackle solution.

Right now, this reads very much like a deflection of the core issues at hand. This will not alleviate the core issue at all in the long term, but gives the appearance that lawmakers are "doing their best" to solve the problem. That they've "taken first steps" and that protests should stop.

No.

This is an extremely common tactic and will lead to no long term changes.

While it is hard to argue against what you're saying, your comment is actually doing the same thing as what the lawmakers are doing - detracting the conversation from the core issue.
Note, however, that this is not an international armed conflict.

(Not that that matters. The rules should be better when dealing with our own people, not worse.)
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> I can interop trivially with basically any native app on my machine.

You must have different native apps than most users.

In any case, there's nothing special about WASM and DOM that makes it less interoperable than native stuff.
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Unique in this context doesn’t mean absolute uniqueness, it means your skills aren’t widely available.

The world needs experienced Go developers for an example. Being able to hire one remotely may increase the available pool of Go developers you can hire, but it doesn’t make them cheaper. That’s because hiring remotely also increases the number of employers chasing the same few Go devs.
Unlike HN thought Facebook has a subscription model, so you can simply unsubscribe from whomever you don't like.
We have no information about their action or inaction, we could only guess that ; judging now seems pointless.
I am a bit of a fan of the games of Carl Chudyk - primarily Glory to Rome, but also Innovation; i haven't really got into Mottainai yet.

His games comprise a deck of cards, and then perhaps a few supporting items like money counters or victory point cards. There are two characteristic things about the cards. Firstly, each card can serve several purposes. In Glory to Rome, it can be a plan for a particular building, raw material for a building, an action somehow related to building (starting a building, adding material, robbing your neighbours), or a member of staff who carries out an action. Secondly, one mode of a card will have some sort of ability on it that modifies the rules, or lets you do different things. In Glory to Rome, if you build the insula (a Roman tower block), you can have three more staff than usual; if you build the scriptorium, you can now complete any building using one card's worth of marble.

The basic idea is fairly simple (but not trivial, because of the multiple uses of a card). But there is enormous emergent complexity. My brain fires on all cylinders while playing it.

This looks like a reasonable explanation of the rules:

https://ultraboardgames.com/glory-to-rome/game-rules.php
I don't disagree with what you say, but I don't see how it's relevant to my comment.
There is clearly a lot of space behind them when they drive through the crowd.