skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the end, America did join the fight and took part in defeating the Nazis. But back then was a different time. I don't think Americans are too excited to get into another conflict they'll yet again be blamed for any of the negative effects to come out of it.

Are you American? Aren't you tired of playing hero? I'm tired of getting involved and then becoming a target of hate and demoralization.
Europe itself didn't have slavery, and was by global standards, quite productive before it ever acquired colonies and slaves.

But I agree that it could have been rising productivity that led to the abolition of slavery, and not the other way around.
Arguman is indeed an interesting platform, but I also feel like it is almost impossible to reach any sort of conclusion on it.

For example, https://en.arguman.org/there-is-no-such-thing-as-global-warm.... Every argument, good or bad, falls under some sort of fallacy.
Renewable isn't really accurate for wood, at least not in human time scales. A maple takes about 25 years to mature. It's about three maple trees to a cord. Assuming 5 cords per winter, we're talking 375 trees before the first tree cut can be reharvested (assuming it was replanted immediately). That doesn't into account soil depletion and carbon release.
On the profit-type scale going from "doing a service" to "extortion," sitting on domains you have no use of feels much closer to the extortion end.
Yes I know about it. Allies have always engaged in snooping and peripheral intelligence operations against each other. As long as it doesn’t go after vital national interests, or involve really nasty stuff like killings and such, it’s just part of the rough and tumble of international affairs. You have to look at the full picture, not get hung up over single incidents.

Note German intelligence wasn’t so much complaining that the Americans did it, as much as that they weren’t allowed to do it back.
If this guy's here: your ssl cert is expired.

EDIT: oh never mind, it's just borked? HN hug of death?
What if I just borrow your car when you're sleeping? You lose nothing.

What if I break into your house and use your TV while you're at work? You lose nothing.

What if I set up a tent on your lawn and take it down whenever you want to play frisbee? You lose nothing.

What if I grab some girl's butt at a dance club? She loses nothing.

As you can see, requiring an act to explicitly deprive someone of property is a slippery slope. There are dozens of examples of "borrowing" that just aren't done in polite society because the owner doesn't want them to be done.

The same is even more true here. Piracy hurts the author's ability to sell books. Free copies just have that effect. Every normal human understands it. Only a few computer people like to pretend that their "borrowing" is somehow magic.

Piracy destroys artists.
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An application can require MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to access all files.
Isn't Uber going to be hammered by Tesla eventually? Not sure why it's still a company.
> Is this true for civil cases? I presume no one is being charged with a crime here...

Yes. The publishers are saying 'the Internet Archive violated my rights and has caused monetary damages. They owe us for those damages.' It's up to the publishers to provide that the Internet Archive violated those rights.

Now civil trials and criminal trials have different standards for evidence and determining guilt. In criminal trials, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone committed a criminal offense.

In civil cases, the complainant (plaintiff) just has to prove via a 'preponderance of the evidence' that their rights were violated. Meaning, it's more likely than not their rights were violated.
Your "Just prohibit.. " line sounds like a mandatory sentence to me; just in this case a mandatory sentence of "none." What would be left to the judge's discretion exactly?
I kind of hate to think that someone would want to buy it and attempt to turn a profit.
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Netflix, Snapchat, Pokemon Go, Super Mario Run, etc. will intentionally never work on a FLOSS phone, so I doubt it'll ever catch on outside the tiny enthusiast community.
Of course Linus wrote git, so it's not like he's against modern workflow. There are kernel forks of course, I think that not using web front end is partly due to reluctance to become dependent on an commercial service that Linux people don't control, and partly due to the fact that they like to keep their hands in the mud.
I did some more research and it looks like the EFTA (Electronic Fund Transfer Act) protects electronic funds transfers (EFTs) in bank accounts, not the FDIC.

https://www.thebalance.com/banking-fraud-protection-315828
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"Piracy of songs, movies, and applications actually improves sales, according to a study that the European Union funded and then tried to keep from getting published"

doesn't mean anything. it's still illegal.
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I agree. Hardware switches should also be put on computer cameras, microphones, network cards, etc. There will still be vulnerabilities, but most of us use locks on our house and car doors even though thieves can (and do) break the windows. Hardware switches on computer equipment can remove some vulnerabilities and (sometimes) add a means of recovery.
Governments should focus more on long-termism than short-termism in general.
thanks so much chickenpotpie (author of both here).. these long form things are challenging to write, so nice comments like this make it worth it.
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I think it's Gmail having issues since our login emails sent to Gmail and GSuite arrived late as well. It's been like 7-10min delay, even though our mail delivery system said that the email was delivered.
I think it is incorrect to assume every free download would otherwise be converted to a sale.

I'd guess it's probably closer to every 100 free downloads, 1 sale is lost.
This doesn't really fix it. Rewriting everything in Java/Kotlin won't magically grant the terminal all of the permissions that it used to have.
I'm pretty careful about that... I will almost always only order if Amazon (or the mfg) is the seller... and even then, I still favor Amazon (mostly for return hassles).
feel the need to bring up the wonderful https://learnxinyminutes.com, which has a ton of references just like this for other languages. It actually looks like the lua file there is the exact same one linked!
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Don't forget restricting the execution environment, breaking things like Termux and partially obviating the advantages of having an Android device in the first place!
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I think this information is obsolete. Lua supports integers (64 bits, by default) as of 5.3.
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No, it's just enlightened centrism. Where one put two things that shouldn't be compared against each other, and then dismiss the core issue by saying "see, both sides are just as bad".
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It seems like, with covid-19, the mask protects the wearer more than expected. Just another anomaly of this virus.
> There are company now that sell drives with special WORM firmware.

Like what? I’d love to check this out.
The causation of the Industrial Revolution is one of those historian's favorites because there isn't a definite "yes" to it, and you can point to origins going as far back as the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Great Migration. Europe lost its old identity as it went into the medieval period - with one large invasion after the next, it was difficult to keep track of anything - and the new nations that formed from the ashes gradually lost their taste for subjugating and extracting tribute from each other, preferring trade competition instead, which is an innovation! If you look at most earlier empires, there's trade, but it isn't in a systemically central position because the ruling class would stomp out competition. That there were multiple of these nations is critical to the process: it allowed someone who angered a so-and-so to flee elsewhere and keep working. Fleeing is a common recurring theme in biographies of notable early modern people. This allowed Europe to keep holding on to ideas and discoveries over time, putting it in a good position to absorb the world's knowledge.

Why Britain specifically is a subset of the question. One of the precipitating factors often cited is the enclosure movement, which was part of a push for stronger, more logical systems of property rights(a big philosophical movement originating in the late 1600's and gaining steam in the 1700's - "life, liberty, property", utilitarianism, and related ideas all come from this period, and in Britain these ideas were especially popular). Enclosure had the effect of kicking peasants off the farm, leading them into wage labor, and Britain had a colonial system already in place, giving it many export markets and therefore demand for manufacturing. Add to that the local availability of coal and the gradual ceding of governing power to Parliament(another centuries-old process) and you have something resembling a thesis for preconditions of industrial capitalism - a stable country ruled by its merchants, with a strong export market, availability of labor and energy sources, and sufficient knowledge to usefully organize the labor.
I hear you.

But is that a problem with the tool, or the lack of sufficient contribution on the topic from sufficiently interested and invested people like subject matter experts?
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niche with a french accent sounds like the "nish" in "varnish".
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But we're still JIRA customers, which was the point I was trying to make.
What are the limitations of just using Gmail or something? Paste in the email list from somewhere and off you go.
author here. I wish I'd kept Ziplines.. I could build something neat on that. Needed cash at the time, so had to sell.
well this is the bleakest thing I've read today
What's wrong with the comment syntax?

> Also, seriously? Double is more than enough for integers?

Not saying that I like it, but it's the same as Javascript. If I recall right, Lua is heavily influenced by JS.
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That wasn't so crazy back in the time; it had many time-honoured precedents, ranging from the Boer war internment camps to the SWA internment camps, to the ones in WWI in occupied France and Belgium, and, of course, the make-belief internment camps for Armenians in Turkey; a really good book that explains how the idea that interning a whole ethnicity was a good idea sprang up is "Absolute Destruction" by Isabell V. Hull.

(Note: the US and what it did and does, does not exist in isolation; these outside-US developments are germane. Also, it was evil and cruel and contra-productive, but that wasn't a problem, because since it was what you would do, in case of war, it had to be done.)
Bitcoin is a fascinating thing. People think this is a bug, but I think it's a feature. The cost of physical settlement and risk is measurable and transparent to everyone involved.

If you think that a bank transfer has less risk, you are not looking in all the right places :)
Just read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" if you want more thinking about this topic..
Isn't that A LOT more than just getting cable for Internet+TV? I mean, YouTube doesn't include the $50/month I'm paying for internet.
It's not the same at all, and I don't think the differences are pedantic.

The water heater runs the same regardless of whether it's being tested or is running normally in someone's home. Really, this test "cheat" exposed that the test itself was not measuring what it thought it was measuring; and hell, a manufacturer could accidentally cheat with their design.

The car would run differently if it detected it was in a test situation. In the real world, with a real driver, it would run in a way that would give different test results (if you were in a position to run the test while it's being driven).
Here's the quote:

"New issue trackers feel faster for the same reason switching browsers tends to feel faster—you're getting rid of all of the crap you piled up in the old one. Don't migrate your backlog, start with only a couple engineers in a new issue tracker, and suddenly, wow!, this new tool is so much better!"

I guess it can be read either way.
Both VHDL and SQL use -- for comments, so I'm kinda surprised that this us the first time you've seen this style.
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> all I can think is yet another promising startup vanishes into the depths of Google, never to be seen again.

Like what? Android, YouTube, DoubleClick, ReCAPTCHA, Waze, VirusTotal, Nest, DeepMind?

Aside from search every major Google product is built on an acquisition. Maps was Keyhole and Where2. AdWords was Applied Semantics. Google Docs is Writely, and Tonic. Google Voice is GrandCentral. Google Analytics is Urchin. Google Shopping is BeatThatQuote. Google Flight is ATA. etc. etc. etc.

Whatever startup you're bitter about probably wasn't going to make it outside Google anyway and it was an aquihire, or Google gave them the runway to prove it out and it didn't work.
I appreciate the link to the Wikipedia article, but I don't see anything about statistics indicating a majority. Did I miss something in my perusing of the article?

Edit: I was able to pull this citation from a previous discussion regarding police and perjury:

Myron W. Orfield, Jr., Deterrence, Perjury, and the Heater Factor, supra note 13, at 83:

> Respondents, including prosecutors, estimate that police commit perjury between 20% and 50% of the time they testify on Fourth Amendment issues.

It should also be noted that many of these respondents did not consider lying at a suppression hearing perjury, infra text accompanying note 47, which would have the effect of artificially deflating these percentages.
> People tend to overestimate what their 4wd is going to do for them and aren't sufficiently cautious.

Or because when it snows the ones who can afford to do so take the "winter beater" 2002 Trailblazer instead of the car they usually drive.
The biggest nonprofit of them all is the United Nations. Maybe they should have a department for equality at the world level. Let’s do it properly for everyone at once...
When it increased to 50 that was my upper limit. I had to cancel my subscription today.
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I can't say I'm fond of this, however well intentioned, and the main issue I take is with this:

"We’ll use our partner’s perceptions, for example, to figure out whether the reservations of those seen as a certain race are declined more often than others, which will help us create new features and policies to address any difference."

What 'features' could be put in place to prevent this? Modifying the name shown to a booker? Or auto-rejecting non minority names to even the odds?

I don't doubt that the people behind this are doing it with good intentions, but it is an absolutely terrifying to me & I wouldn't want to support any business that is essentially attempting to racially profile its users and potentially treat those users differently based on that profile, regardless of why they're doing it.
What tartoran posted was fine. There's no rule against profanity on HN and it isn't necessarily disrespectful.
not as much as 200% slower
3. It is also easy for bad faith actors to exploit the response for their own benefit, undermining the nascent response directly, and undermining it indirectly by undermining those who argue for change with integrity
Some commenters are asking about what we can do to fix this, so I thought I'd list some potential action items off the top of my head:

- Getting rid of elected judges will certainly help, though it looks like Hayes wasn't elected but appointed by the city council. I'm not totally clear on how local judge appointments work, but it might make sense to consolidate this power at the state legislature, which will have more visibility and accountability than the city council. In general, I think a lot of our issues with civil rights and justice reform could be helped by consolidating more power at the state level rather than the city/county level, and creating a clear hierarchy of power between the statewide and local entities.

- People talk about having term limits for judges, but I'm not totally sure I agree with that. It's something to consider though, and worthy of study.

- Improve funding for public defenders. It might make sense to require municipalities to match their budget for prosecutors with their budget for public defenders, or some fixed percentages. Elevating the office of public defenders and making it a viable career path, much like being a career prosecutor, would go a long way.

- Look into expanding when you can rely on the services of a public defender, like in traffic court for more minor offences. For some people a hefty fine can make them destitute, and they need someone to advocate for them and make sure the fines assessed are fair.

- Strengthen national organizations for public defenders, like the NAPD, through grant programs.

- Increase liabilities for judges in the event of gross misconduct. This should include not just suspensions but monetary fines (which I know can be levied for lawyers engaging in misconduct). This can be done not just with legislation, but possibly legal action. And there might be grounds for civil rights lawsuits against municipalities and states that fail to properly vet and discipline judges conducting this sort of gross misconduct. Generally speaking judges are not personally liable for any actions they take on the bench, but the bodies that are supposed to oversee them could be.

- The Justice Department should perform more investigations of these sorts of systemic civil rights violations, much like they did in Ferguson and Baltimore. It should be expanded to the point where they aren't just conducting these reviews after some bad behavior gets headlines, they should be conducting random audits to improve accountability. This can be backed up with legislation requiring the Justice Department to conduct regular reviews, to ensure this is happening consistently and doesn't vary from administration to administration.
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You can't help the homeless if the workers who help them can't afford to live near the people they're trying to help.

> This is one reason why people are interested in things like UBI

Can you elaborate on how UBI would help? Homelessness in high-opportunity low-housing-supply regions is not a problem of individuals not having enough cash, and neither is the inability of non-profit workers to live in these places. If we handed everyone cash, we would simply be writing a check to the landlords in high-opportunity regions like the Bay Area, because everyone would still be bidding up prices on the same housing supply.

The core problem on both sides of this is that these places, the Bay area in particular, make it extremely difficult and expensive to expand the housing supply to mitigate this problem, and the article alludes to this:

> We have the empty lot to do it in and we hired an architect but it came out to cost so much we postponed

At the end of the day, high rents push people on the margin onto the streets and they make it expensive to house the people who need to help them. Solutions that purport to dodge this problem with cash handouts (UBI, renter's credits, etc.) will only help landlords unless we also ease supply restrictions.

That said, for people who are already living on the streets, the solutions are even more complicated, as there are often confounding issues like mental illness, substance abuse, etc. that require shelter space and intervention by non-profit workers (and then we're back to the housing supply problem).
This is getting out of hand, at this point, going with the special deals at Comcast is a better option.
I think it's more correctly stated that it's not public knowledge if they were mined by Satoshi or not. One can say they were not part of the "Satoshi miner pattern" that was identified years ago, but we don't know exactly how many of the blocks mined outside that pattern were or were not Satoshi's. Hence my "might".
Well, it’s not like nobody predicted this. We’re back to cable, but even more expensive. Somehow even a company with a monopoly on the internet eyeballs still bows to the old barons.
> There were also tweets from the reporter, who said in effect "what do you [Scott] have to hide?" about the SSC story.

Woah, really? That's bad.

> Scott's attempt to spin it as a positive story in his farewell letter is, I think, an attempt to both influence the NYT in that direction, but also to keep the focus on the doxxing, and not on why SSC might be controversial. He's trying to keep that part out of the public debate entirely, which seems smart.

That's actually a pretty reasonable interpretation, and probably flips the script in a way that they weren't prepared for. A couple days ago the NYT ran a piece begging people not to cancel their subscriptions. I didn't read the piece to see if it reference SSC, so it could just be a coincidence, but I know there was the #ghostnyt campaign on Twitter in response Scott closing his blog.

The Daily Beast also reported that some of the staff internally at the NYT (mostly the tech folks) were rather irate at learning (from Hacker News, no less) about the planned doxxing of Scott.

> Also: I'm sorry you're being downvoted so badly, I don't think it's deserved.

Thank you. It's really not that bad and my net karma is actually up quite a bit overall from this thread, but kind words and interesting arguments matter more to me than votes. I won't speculate as to the motivation behind the downvotes, and they won't change my opinions, but I do treat them as an opportunity to look at how I could improve the usefulness of my comments here.
Yeah they just control about every university. I'd argue it's even worse to have fanatics control what's supposed to be the most liberal places than to have a clown and moron for a president.
Iraq are our allies against ISIS, they did most of the actual on the ground fighting. Saudi Arabia was terrified Saddam would attack them next, and we now know that was his intended next move after a Kuwait. Also the US is the prime obstacle to Iranian operations against the Saudis. SA spends big on defence, but they’re hopelessly inexperienced, while Iran has plenty of military experience from the wars with a Iraq and operations in Syria. They may look under equipped on paper, but they’d eat SA for breakfast in an actual conflict.

America’s efforts at regime change in the America’s are an appalling catalogue of screwups and bloody disasters. No argument there.

But then NATO has been a useful and very effective alliance, effectively keeping Russia in check. Ask the Baltic States or the Eastern European states how they feel about it. We’ve had setbacks like Ukraine, but boy it could have been a _lot_ worse. Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines and Japan have benefited hugely. Even Vietnam is now becoming a regional ally.
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