skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sound strange to me that they need a law for this, unless it is intended as leverage to coerce ISPs into collaboration. Secret service agencies do exist for the purpose of doing nasty things governments cannot afford to put their names on, or even be associated with; this would include spying on own citizens. In other words they'd do what they have already done for decades, but this time since it involves ISPs, ie a third party whose collaboration and silence are necessary, it is possible that the regulation includes also some kind of gag order preventing ISPs to tell their users they're under surveillance.
I think this has little to do with predatory pricing, but more with abuse of power. This power has been obtained in an unfair way, by collecting money from investors.
My company has two customers that were unhappy enough that we refunded their money and they came back a few years later.
> Teacher are covered by QI just as much as cops, and there is much less past precedent on use of force by teachers.

Are they? I think it's hard to answer that question precisely, since qualified immunity is not a law that has been passed but a collection of judicial interpretations. Wikipedia says that it applies to 'government officials', and, even if one takes Wikipedia as definitive, it's not clear to me that that should apply to schoolteachers. The only real way to test whether qualified immunity applies to teachers would be to have it be used in a court case. Has it been?
Incredibly telling that the police still pull this type of thing despite how laser-focused everyone is on their behavior right now.

It's almost as if they've been institutionalized to think they're better than everyone else.

Defund the police and use the money for mental health and human services.

Local police service data should be randomly audited by the feds and independent third parties.
You're 100% right, sorry, I read through your answer too quickly. It was the land for trust thing that really covered my question and I wasn't thinking of fee land in that way. I'm very ignorant about this topic, thanks for setting it straight. :)
Is there counter-action taken by YouTube against people who expressed a "bullying" or "harassing" vote?

When using a group-chat system, it's possible to abuse anti-spam reporting. One design idea is to punish those who were involved in an "unjust report". This requires a "justification evaluation" - that can be done by a moderator, or by a broader community vote.

Does YT remove the ability to harass other YT users if that power is clearly being abused?
A sleek and modern look for the time? The basic UI was already over a decade old! (paintbrush)

It's cool that you like it, but that's a surprising way to describe it. As I recall (as a user of windows 3.1, 95, ME and XP), the consensus was that Paint was a retro holdover, like Minesweeper and Solitaire. People appreciated it in a kitschy retro way.

We still have Notepad.
> It's that the employees are uncomfortable doing business with people who they see will use their products to do harm.

This is a ridiculous attitude. The vast, vast majority of police actions keep the populace in general from greater harm. This is just virtue signalling at scale, and I am glad the CEO is ignoring this.

> If you go into a gun shop and the person working the counter believes you're going to use it to kill someone they're well within their right to simply not do business with you.

This is an asinine comparison, and I think you know that.
So long as months are indexed by 1 I'm all for it.
Well that seems like all the more reason for more individuals to run a Tor (relay) node instead of consolidating into a minimum number of easily blockable VPS services. I personally am once again highly motivated after reading all the comments here basically excusing the shoddy behavior by lazy sysadmins.

If my bank blocks me again, my solution will be to use a VPN instead of giving in.
The square brush tool is broken https://imgur.com/a/2CqIdhx
“Obtaining structured data from this system is costly and time-consuming due to the need to tell the system you’re not a robot every few searches. It also doesn’t include some key categories of information formerly available via the API, including the primary charge, bond hearing dates, IR number, and the FBI code associated with the type of arrest.”
I'm excited to see this land in Node.js! Currently there are only hacky solutions for calculating nanosecond-accuracy wall clock time.
> Even the phrasing of "economic terrorism" stretches both the terminology of economy and terrorism beyond what most people would consider by the terms.

The literal firing of some nobody over accidentally making a gesture that looked like a "white power" symbol fits very nicely into the idea of "economic terrorism"[1]. The idea that anything you do in your life could be captured, taken out of context, and shared on the Internet and subject to the fury of a mob (and resulting in the loss of income, employability, and economic stability) is pretty terrifying.

What makes it terrorism is not simply that people are subjected to this treatment randomly (although that does happen too, and should not be discounted) but that there is an ideological agenda behind these attacks. The person who posted the picture from the linked article, those who shared it, and possibly even the company that fired him (though they could have just been cowards) all felt that they were contributing toward a righteous cause of fighting against bigotry.

Of course, even if the gesture was genuine the idea that bigots should not be able to even get jobs as repair technicians (assuming that they otherwise conduct themselves in a lawful manner) is baffling to me. There's no justice in going after people who are already relatively low on the social and economic hierarchy just because the believe repugnant things.

[1]https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...
Oops, I see what I did. I was comparing digital subscription revenue to overall ad revenue. Comparing digital subscription revenue to digital ad revenue is "only" a factor of 8.8 rather than 18 (because just over half the ad revenue is print).

Note that newspapers make little if any profit from print subscriptions in themselves, because they're little better than breakeven with the cost of printing and delivery. The real profit has always come from the advertising. Digital subscriptions are something new in that they're actually making money from subscription revenues instead of just using them to cover unit costs, but they're currently still tiny.
> people often consent to running malware

Ah, but not in an informed way–users don't typically run software they know to be harmful/useless :P (And no, telling them that it is harmful isn't apparently enough to inform them…) But I agree with the first part.
One thing I'm unclear about is this: "If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so." The question in the case, as I understand it, was whether previous acts of Congress had in fact dissolved the reservation. Could Congress, if they wanted to, pass a resolution saying, "Actually, such-and-such bill from 100-some years ago dissolved the reservation." Or can they only say, "Starting today, the reservation is dissolved."

Is Congress empowered to clarify the meaning of its own past statements? Or once the text leaves Congress, only the courts can say what that text means, and if the courts disagree with Congress, then Congress can only remedy that going forward?
Quite disappointed, I was expecting a tour of the ACME factory, purveyor of fine items to coyotes in the southern desert ....
I do not tip at fast food or counter-service places or when I pick up takeout. Presumably GP was comparing the delivery experience to the picking up takeout experience where someone else just happens to be picking up the takeout.
And, so, in keeping with Gorsuch's minimalism. No re-interpretation of existing law, which makes the right happy (or did, until recently, I guess).
That's like saying, "whatever you're building, you should use a saw to do it." The DB is just a tool. Use the right tool for the job.
Right. The metric only makes sense it also a distance is provided at which it is measured.
This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
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This part of humanity's impulses has me thinking we’re closer to the cosmic equivalent of “orcs” than to anything resembling a highly evolved species. Our impetus is to define things in terms that lead to conflict or must use conflict to resolve problems. We’re evolved mammals with a distinct us/them complex. Whereas if we were highly evolved organisms with a more hive like ancestor we might not war with each other as much or ever. I’m thinking like fungi or something.
disoptimal for society- the sleeper will wake with irrelevant skills and no safety net
I've been looking at Hasura [1] due to the accolades it's gotten on HN. It throws up a GraphQL interface to PostgreSQL.

I wonder if anyone can speak to how Hasura's approach compares to designing an architecture around a pure graph database?

[1] https://hasura.io/how-hasura-works/
From the article:

"Relational databases: a software engineering fail

...

That you were taught relational databases at all is an accident. It's simply that they are an early tech that became widely used, so your teacher knows about them, and, importantly, that they are a dream to teach."

What. Really?
ISO8601 is a representation standard, not a standard for abstract concepts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23783603 called for Unicode but for Time, which I think is perfect. In that framing, ISO8601 is UTF-8, but it is Unicode that is needed for everyone to agree on what is "code point" and what is a "character" (equivalently, what is a "calendar date", what is an "absolute timestamp", etc).
That’s an interesting story. It sounds like a mass hallucination until you learn the physical reason for the phenomenon.
> The problem with this is that there is no context. It's impossible to verify or evaluate what happened. Who knows what "helped" means. It could be fixing a bug in an open source software

Which is the worst thing about modern hiring practices.
I wonder if there would be a market for something that presented the user with a food-deliver-app type interface, but in actual fact is just interfacing with an API on the restaurant's behalf (in lieu of the restaurant having a custom delivery order page).

Basically a middle man to replace restaurant's own custom ordering systems (which are often janky, and all act differently). The delivery would still be done by the restaurant's employees, but the service would handle billing the customer, building the UI, and so on.

Such a service could charge a far lower fee to the restaurants, since they would not need to employ, ensure, etc. drivers. I doubt the customer would care either way, as long as the UI is just as convenient as the existing food delivery services.
Because it's a platform rule from most Delivery Apps in most markets.
Does that imply that the German intelligence service has the crypto keys for Windows Update? Otherwise modified Microsoft updates won't work.
If the 'certificate transparency' initiative takes off, this could be easily detected.

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates
>> Are we certain that well-trained human players are not doing search?

Yes- because human players can only search a tiny portion of a game tree and a minimax search of the same extent is not even sufficient to beat a dedicated human in tic-tac-to, leta lone chess. That is, unless one wishes to countenance the possibility of an "unconscious search" which of course might as well be "the grace of God" or any such hand-wavy non-explanation.

>> It's possible that a search subnetwork gets "compiled without debugger symbols" and the owner of the brain is simply unaware that it's happening.

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
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I think your wires may be a little crossed. This is unlikely to have ever been true for magnetic drives, but there is a quite significant grain of truth (no pun intended) to it for SSD.

Consumer SSDs may indeed return an early indication that a flush is complete, but whether they are lying depends heavily on your notion of persistence:

- the SSD may return done once the data is buffered in RAM

- or once it has reached a temporary log

- or once it has reached a 'permanent' location on flash

- or once it has recorded the mapping of data<->location to some separate directory

- or once it has updated some separate root pointer pointing to the latest version of the log/mapping structures in some separate special storage

I don't believe any SSD waits until the last step above before returning done. Separately, the SSD:

- may have no electrical power outage protection whatsoever

- may have supercapacitors fitted

- the supercap may guarantee full durability of every acknowledged flush

- or only guarantee atomicity up to some prior acknowledged flush

- or only guarantee that the drive has /some/ data on it in /some/ state on the next reboot

SSDs are insanely complex
Several hundred?

Two or even three is not usually not considered to be several.
People tip the waiters when dining in. Depends on the location if those waiters share with the rest of the staff.

Picking up food usually has no tips. Delivery involves tipping the driver, which delivery apps already support and they don't take any fees from it.
Could easily be said, however you're overlooking the huge elephant in the room of restaurants being essentially forced into turning into delivery-only or delivery-first businesses due to Covid restrictions. Where I live we've only recently (like within the past few weeks) allowed restaurants to serve food to guests, and only outdoors.
Like all art, fonts are rarely completed and merely published. Hinting especially seems like a fine art that is never done, there's always more things to hint, and more hints to tweak towards perfection of the typographic art.

Some of my favorite fonts have regular releases. As with most art, software enables a more regular release cadence than past such systems. (Such as the days when font foundry was literal and fonts were published to metal and distributed in giant physical cases.)
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That tech that quietly gives persistence to most of the software of the world: fail.
Less opportunity to apply force but plenty to inflict lifelong damage.

Or at least massive opportunity cost and stunting or misdirection.

Teachers and police should be both way better paid and we should demand a lot more from both. These shouldn't be jobs you just get because they are easy(ish) to qualify for and have retirement and you can't ever get fired. We really need some of our best people in both.
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Permanent is such a permanent word.

I think Microsoft will shift more to an ARM focus.

I think we'll see Intel start offering mass-market chips with ARM instructions in them. IIRC, they are already an ARM licensee.
Related:

Continuing Hard Disk Drive Innovation from Western Digital - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPoS94iVC0c
What is hyper-automation? Demystifying a new buzzword
What racist FUD ? If the jurisdiction is territorial then how would state LEOs be able to enforce state laws even against non-tribe members on that territory, and if its limited to offences committed by tribe members there are potential victims both native and non-native Americans that are being harmed here - those who thought of themselves and their properties as being under protection of Oklahama state law (and paid taxes for it) and suddenly find it voided in some or all circumstances.
This is one of those glaring problems that somehow was passed over the last 10 times people got together to decide to improve JS. Remarkable that it has taken so long.
Funny that I found it easy to see your comment in HackerNews because it was separated in ... a thread!

Imagine how HackerNews, Reddit or any other discussion board would be without threading. Now, if you see a #general Slack room of a 100 person company, you'll quickly see that it would be a mess without threading. That's what happens in Discord.
In my 50 TB RAID 5, it has never finished a monthly scheduled raid sync because it takes roughly a week to complete, and performance during the sync is so bad that it is unusable.
"The trillion dollar question. Why are COVID cases increasing while deaths are decreasing? The answer is simple. It's called Simpson's paradox and it's the result of incorrectly pooling data and arriving at a false conclusion. A thread:"

https://twitter.com/mbeckett/status/1278750652160634880
No problem! Vapor does have its own template system if you don't want to build "just" an API: https://github.com/vapor/leaf

I have also looked at Elixir and Phoenix, but have not written any code in them. I have yet to really dive into anything outside the C-like languages (Python, JS, Java, Swift, Ruby, C, C++), and Elixir seems like a good reason to venture outside my comfort zone.

By the way, no pressure, but if you ever want to discuss Swift, maybe do some paired programming/studying, let me know. I'm still fairly new but I have experimented with building a Swift-to-CSS DSL that I would like to eventually spend more time on. If you want to email me, ragheed.almidani is the name, and protonmail.com is the domain.
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Another case of less known but powerful tool - Allegro Graph.

An RDF triple store, with advanced security, and most importantly, on-line materialization and application of schemas/ontologies.
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Anything that either

A. Improves the transparency of the process

B. Improves the entertainment proposition of the gamble aspect of hitting the jackpot.

Maybe with a live event you can do both at once.
In theory sure, in practice nobody had built a general system that works well yet.
Or give day.js a try. It is basically moment.js without its problems, and pretty popular too. I tried date-fns but found it cumbersome to use... Ymmv.
I suppose on this thread we should be wondering how encrypted chat (that can also be wiped/self-destructed) can be decoded?
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This is a unique idea, that feels to be mostly semantic. Ok, you don't want to call it theft, but does that change the justice of the situation? America conquered a series of less developed nations of people through sometimes dubious means, and has spent the years after that conquering trying to erase or marginalize the conquered peoples. America won, so it's not theft, but whatever you call it it's unjust.
Teachers unions often fight standardized testing as well. They just haven't been as successful.
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Thanks, I guess I was more taken with answering on the link to benchmarks on the sub-thread which seemed not what I would consider pertinent. That said everything looks pretty nice.
> Maybe I’ve just gotten unlucky over the years though.

It's not you, it was WD (and apparently other vendors too).

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/14/wd-red-nas-drives-shin...
It's funny as the Germans had different priorities from the US. The US mainly wanted to use it to extract information, while the Germans also wanted to increase profits so that they have funds outside of parliamentary control and supervision. So they looked more at the business side of things.
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In my view the sales tax is at least as big a problem as the delivery fees. Delivery fees cover things like healthcare for gig workers, etc. Sales tax pays for the police who kill people.
> Are they?

The modern interpretation of QI, while all the current news coverage comes from police officers, comes from a case in which White House advisors in the Nixon Administration were being sued over their involvement in a defense contracting dispute, and applies to government employees exercising any discretionary functions, categorically.

> The only real way to test whether qualified immunity applies to teachers would be to have it be used in a court case. Has it been?

Yes. An extensive discussion relevant to public education, with some case citations, is here: https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25919821&bcid=25919821&r...
Is this really so hard to believe? Lots of things that are "Default" are just that way for historic purposes. One example, and I say this as someone who's generally a fan of the language, would be Java - it's taught in so many schools, because it's taught in so many schools.

Everyone says things like "You don't need a graphdb" because their default assumption is that there is a cost relative to rdbms, that's the bias of knowing rdbms. The "you don't need X" is one of the most common tropes, I read those words roughly every day on HN.

As a user of a graph database I'm quite pleased with the experience. I can model things extremely naturally, and relationships are dead simple to express.

Did I need a graph database? No, obviously, I could have used any database, but a graph matched my requirements.
Lots of dutch and then at the very end a proper, "fuckin' hell"
Beware of dgraph 'made for HN' content, it is essentially just an advertisement. See the submission history for this domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dgraph.io
I would say the Rationalist community in general is probably pretty niche, but the significance of Scott is that his blog appeals to a much broader audience than the Rationalist community or even Silicon Valley.
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Amen. This isn't a nonsequitor, I swear: why can't freedom of religion be used to legalize drugs? And, why can't Indian reservations, especially, sell what they please?
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I believe the Congress can simply enact a new law and say there is no such thing as a reservation and the law would he constitutional. That being said it would be similar with China's latest laws on HK if not worse.
Interesting video at the bottom: the Android devices that boot like normal devices, then you can reboot into a shady mode; and in shady mode, when the phone is locked and you unlock with "special" PIN, the phone goes into destroy-all-data mode.
A lot of words and not a lot of stats on relational DB's vs graph DBs.
> Because the city made it illegal

That just seems as PR from food delivery apps. AFAIK the city put a limit on how much the restaurants can be charged, there is no limit on how much a person ordering the food can be charged.
You can have a walled garden but not charge 30% for it. You can have all the protections in place but not charge 30% for it. Also scam apps can and will use Apple's IAP to scam your grandparents still.