skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Microsoft can make a civil suit and gain control of the botnet infra, rather than just get damages, can I get poisoned by a mine/factor and get equity in the factory?

What's weird is that presumably the botnet party, the natural counterparty, didn't show up in court, but MS appeals to a third party (domain registry) to get control of their assets rather than something more neutral for damages.

I'm no lawyer but this seems awfully weird.
The sentence is only ambiguously defined if you look at the sentence by itself. Thankfully courts don’t do that and shouldn’t. When an interpretation is hotly contested you need secondary supporting documents to interpret it properly.

Of which we have numerous writings and documents to show what that sentence means. We have documents which break down what the Founders at the time meant by militia and what they thought about ownership.
Can you pls do distcc? Thanks
It's a bummer that paying someone to be a part-time maintainer didn't work out. I wish part-time professional-level work was more acceptable in general.
> makes absolutely no practical or business sense. Two major groups buying windows are business clients (who would rather you not change things so that their 20 year old custom software still runs in Internet Explorer) and the average user (who couldn't care if the Kernel was NT, Linux, or a literal peice of Corn as long as things work).

The hypothesis is that users would not even know. API compatibility would be retained through emulation layers, or perhaps hosting legacy Windows inside a VM.

Not proposing that Windows Subsystem On Linux (WSoL) is going to be real, but this attack seems out of touch to me with the technics of the matter. I don't think it is so unimaginable for Microsoft to create a non-disruptive rebase of their OS platform APIs onto another environment. Many have already, in their free time, done just that, quite successfully, albeit Microsoft would have to go further.
The way around it's done in TFA though (adding a USB-C port to a DC barrel) seems least risky thing you could do to me - assuming you're using a known-good standards-compliant supply, you're only relying on the 'PD trigger' board requesting the correct voltage. Could add OV protection or a regulator if you don't trust it.
In that case, it wasn't just the total numbers, but also his views on:

- Hitler's preeemtive strike against Russia (total Nazi-revesionist BS)

- Russia overstating the numbers in their reports on Auschwitz (which goes into the HD direction, as this is a common first step in getting people to believe HD theories).
History is written by the victors, eh? I guess we'll just have to wait and see (or, rather our descendants will).
Here's an interesting story from Priconomics about spectrum auctions & Milgrom and goes into the past to discuss how Milgrom created an Excel spreadsheet on multiple floppy disks to run this first "online" auction for the FCC - https://priceonomics.com/the-spectrum-auction-how-economists...

It should be noted that the auction format Milgrom created for the first FCC auction, the SMR auction, is no longer the preferred auction format for spectrum auction. The preferred format has shifted to a general clock auction (round-by-round for generic blocks) with a supplement round where the actual blocks are assigned in a Vickrey algorithm. Additionally, as computing power has increased, the "combinatorial" format has become popular in many countries (Canada, UK) where bidders can submit different package bids which are all taken into account with the winner determined by a SAT solver.
I did used to entertain the idea of aliens visiting this solar system.

And then I better understood the stupendous energy requirements for a two-way trip to even the very closest neighboring solar system. And it is just not practical, even for a civilization at the end of the technology development tree.

We might see one-way probes, but they are as likely to be a part of hegemonizing swarm, looking to convert all usable matter in the solar system into computronium. Certainly they're not going to just faff around, kidnap a few people and then leave quietly.

When aliens visit, everyone will know. Luckily, we haven't seen any evidence of Kardashev type-2 civilizations nearby, so we may be good for a while. Though that's also sort of depressing, as it is weak evidence that life is not too common across the galaxy.
Have they? Because I still regularly encounter educated people who can't tell the difference between free speech and threats, harassment, etc. If you can't distinguish between free speech and coercive speech, then you don't understand the free-speech position that you purport to oppose ("He who knows only his own argument knows little of that").

I recall a thread on cancel culture a few months ago where virtually everyone on the pro-cancel-culture position were arguing that free speech ideals were meaningless because threats and harassment are also free speech ergo you can't oppose cancel culture without also opposing free speech--of course, threats and harassment aren't free speech, and this is precisely why free-speech proponents oppose cancel culture.

It seems like this is one area where more debate can be genuinely enlightening.
If you calibrate your LCD monitor you'll also end up with eye burning brightness as far as i know :)
Free speech isn't the issue here. It's not censorship, it's moderation, and companies have every right to moderate what content is allowed on their platforms.

I think it's important to distinguish between the two. Censorship, that is the government proscribing or restricting what people say and thinks in general/public/day-to-day life, is an egregious attack on people's liberty. I think we shouldn't tolerate any limitations on free speech.

Moderation, or companies determining a code-of-conduct for the properties and platforms they control, is the same as someone telling you to shut up or get out of their house if you say something that offends them. I think what's important there is that the code of conduct is clearly stated, objective, and enforced even-handedly, which hasn't always been the case as of late.
Technically, it's not the first p2p game with hidden information (there are implementations of p2p poker), but definitely the first generic one, where cryptography is not handcrafted for minutia of particular game rules.
Ask HN: How to build a VR hmd from scratch?
Does anyone know some high quality materials to learn how to build a VR HMD from scratch? I don't mind paying for it.

A little context of me: I'm a full-time JS software developer who majored in CS. Programming won't be a problem for me even it's not JS. However, I know almost nothing about hardware or graphic or motion-tracking stuff.
> They can joyride around inside the parking garage as long as they like.

No, the car will be disabled due to the anti-theft system. The anti theft system doesn't need connectivity to work.

It does need connectivity to be disabled remotely by Ferrari. However, that is never needed during normal operation. The owner of the Ferrari modified the car (after market seats, apparently), causing the anti-theft function to immobilize the car as a safety measure.
This is the comedic response I have come to expect from Holocaust deniers. Carry on with your hyperbole, as we all know that you will.
I don't know anyone who even knows what Parler is, let alone has used it. This is gonna be the next Voat.

Websites that are predominantly extremist content because the only people using them are those banned from all the major platforms don't tend to succeed.
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Those things you worry about are already illegal. Direct threats of violence (through speech) are already illegal. Funding raising for terrorism is already illegal, including fundraising through speech.
Why does it matter which it is? Just ban police from purchasing military grade equipment.
I think the problem they mean is a lack of NAT for IPv6 preventing anonymization behind a network device like your home router. This article addresses it a little.

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/01/ipv6-security-m...
> there is no need, ever, for police to have the automatic weapons, APCs, and "non-lethal" weapons they are buying from the military.

I agree with the sentiment, but my impression (based on little evidence) is that the "need" here is to create a wider market for these weapons.

It takes money to develop new weapons, and a larger customer base helps defray those costs.
I don't trust them for a second. I use them because things are published there that I need to reach.
That's just a slippery slope fallacy. The holocaust is a non-recent and well documented event, and its denial is clearly a masquerade for hateful speech. Holocaust denial is outlawed in Germany for good reasons.

Not to mention Facebook is a private company and it should be free to censor whatever it wants to censor; book burning is a real issue only when its state sponsored.
Can it be done? Who's been banned from the major platforms and has then established a similarly sized platform of their own elsewhere? You have to admit that this is at least a huge roadblock for hateful extremists, no?
Helium: Building the People's Network with RAK
Backyard dealer in the balkans? Good luck crossing the Serbian border or in fact any EU/non-EU border with a trunk of ammo. I just mentioned Serbia because their border police is rather too vigilant. They wanted to tear a friend's RV apart to look for cigarettes or drugs. Imagine how delghted they'd be to find a trunk full of ammo. It would almost certainly be on the news. Also if you're under 30 and looking cool, you're very likely to be pulled off for a not-so-quick routine search. Also good luck crossing the Swiss border if you succeed.
The issue is, who is deciding where the freedom of speech ends and necessary actions to restore balance in the force start.

I think the real issue is education. In a better educated society people would understand that II WW did happened and would more or less know what it was about and what Holocaust was. In case the society did not know, it could turn to experts for advice. In any case, deniers would be shunned, belittled and generally not heard seriously.

I still think freedom of speech should accommodate people who want to embarass themselves by claiming obvious falsehoods and this move is just a part of slippery slope to complete loss of what should be universal right.

The response should not be administrative action by private company but ostracism by general public.

Now, this is of course impossible in a society where almost half of it declares would want to reelect a person that lies about everything even when he doesn't need to and who doesn't care about anything other than his own interests.
No, free software is about freedom not money.
You're referring to the salary negotiation service i.e. 10x Ascend? They can definitely help with offers outside of the U.S.

As for the main agency (10x Management), they also have people from all over (both clients (the talent being represented) and the customers).

Let me know if I can help / intro, etc.!
Interesting.

> I guess this would be quite an increase in scope.

That's quite the understatement :)
Facebook doesnt exist in an American vacuum. You are mapping your values and belief system onto the world.
> As 3D printers become common household items, the same level of gun control will require detailed mass surveillance and/or restrictions on common items like pipe and scrap steel.

Are people worried about un-riffled longarms though?

Unless you have a way to rifle the inside of a pipe, that won't really be an issue. You'll just be making inaccurate muskets.

The important item isn't the 3d printer. Its the CNC Lathe.
Sir David Attenborough Answers Questions
Very interesting.

There are so many USB charging standards - I had been thinking that it should be possible to construct a universal USB power converter. (Even in the case where the charger can't supply the watts the device wants, you could accumulate some energy in a small battery large cap and charge intermittently). But I suspect the reason it hasn't been done so far is liability - there are bound to be a few devices that don't play ball and blow up.
It's like eating a candy bar with 10% of the sugar. The mind will think it's almost as nice as the original candy bar.
You're just using abstraction to move the subject from the first incidence of 'intolerance' to the second, ie suggesting that FB's choice to target content is the epitome of intolerance, rather than considering the nature of the content they are attempting to socially sanction.

Eliding context to reframe a specific action as a general behavior is misleading, although you may not have realize this.
> Of course Stack Overflow is great. It has a wealth of information, experts and allows for larger questions to be asked than "How do I write to a file", like, "how would you design this database schema".

Googling questions brings me to stack overflow which has years worth of information, and answers to all of these how do I do X with Y questions, along with links to the documentation. Why would I want to use this site rather than stack overflow, what does it do differently? If SO has everything your site has plus more, (and lets be honest, SO has answers for those questions), I don't see the benefit here.

> I personally am not a Python developer and just seeded some initial snippets

While I understand why this is done, this is exactly the issue. The code you have right now is wrong, but stack overflow's is correct.
We have to ignore it now because of this new rule. How are you going to respond to something you can't see?
Oh I see from the article it isn't MREs or bugles.
I think it's normal to consider that porpoises are dolphins. Sperm whales, not so much.
I'm personally waiting for Facebook to start removing 'misinformation' on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.

(Turkey officially denies that such a genocide ever happened, so 'misinformation' could go either way depending on your geographic location)
iPad Computing – A Student's Perspective
> if you want it faster you should rewrite it in C. But I don't think such a drastic and destabilizing change is necessary.

I've worked around the python linter and it is written in C. The bits in python (especially our custom rules) were horribly slow.

Lint is building a tree of the code and going through it recursively. Going through a large tree in pure python is horribly slow, it has to interpret every single line of code again and resolve every variable again, because they could change anytime, the overhead is insane.

It's the one thing that python cannot do, parsing tree. If python had a JIT it might be doable but currently it isn't.
Firefox adopted rapid version numbers basically because the rest of the browsers did. For years Firefox was on 3.something, and they'd get questions from people saying things like "Microsoft is already on Internet 7, when are you going to support Internet 7?" If I recall right, Firefox skipped versions 5 and 6, and starting with 7 they decided to use a rapid version number scheme and deemphasize version numbers in their marketing.
Hackers have stolen over $22m Bitcoin from fake software updates
How is spam and scams not speech?

Hate speech, scams and spam are all speech and they should all be removed and not tolerated.
"Risky areas" sounds like a dog whistle to me, much like "bad neighborhood"... When you think of these "risky areas", what do the people within them look like? Do they deserve to have militarized police literally rolling armored tank-like vehicles through their neighborhood, and what sort of impact do you think that has on them?
Same! I am trying to switch over to Godot, they seem to be developing with an eye towards the kind of assets I'm actually going to use, instead of AAA super-high-res stuff.
i thought there wasn’t an economic nobel prize?
Indeed. kevent() isn't quite there on FreeBSD yet, and the Linux kevent() library doesn't work the same as the BSD one.

* https://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?kevent

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549116
You can frame it as regulatory capture, but to a large extent, it's more about environmental and consumer protections that the auto industry has spent decades fighting.

As somebody who drives an ancient car, I'm keenly aware of its lack of safety features. The "american steel" argument falls flat; my car was made before the concept of crumple zones, much less airbags -- driving this boat, I'd be seriously injured or die in a head-on collison with a Yaris, where the other driver and passengers would probably walk away. Unless my gas tank explodes and engulfs us all, that is.

If everybody was driving pre-1984 vehicles, the emissions would result in horrible smog, bringing most cities on par with Beijing.

The world must bring carbon emissions down to prevent severe climate change. Maybe lax safety standards could contribute to that; but environmental regulations must not go.

Follow up: the "free" market that you propose is not actually free, but ignorant of externalities that the modern market has limited facilities to account for.
I guess it helps when the technology being deterred (strong lasers, etc) are simply not fun and recreational. I frankly have no strong desire to turn on a super strong laser and burn things with it. On contrast, learning to operate firearms safely and accurately can be a life-long pursuit. They're simply more recreational thus the desire to own.
According to Wikipedia

> On 28 May 2014, a 19-month-old baby boy's face was severely burned and mutilated when a stun grenade was thrown into his playpen by a SWAT team serving an arrest warrant for a suspected drug dealer in Cornelia, Georgia. The baby survived with facial disfigurement.[17] The family received $3.6 million in settlements in 2016.[18]

So yeah, the baby survived. That doesn't mean there was no harm done.
Well let the operators of the botnet complain to the courts about Microsofts actions in court.

The defendants aren't going to show, so its an easy win for microsoft.
The posts on reddit said it went into some uber-lockdown because it also didn't have reception so even adding cell or wifi repeaters wouldn't have worked.

My guess is this some serious anti-theft for when your very expensive car gets stuffed in a shipping container - it bricks itself until you present it physically at a dealer (at which point you'd hope it gets flagged as stolen).
My understating is that Microsoft only attacked and seized their domains. I don't think they actually have remote control over the servers, end even if they have the owners could simply just wipe and reinstall. And since these servers are physically located in countries like Russia or China I doubt Microsoft has the capability to do a physical sizing even if they wanted to.

That being said and given the power corporations are gaining year by year it will not be long before Microsoft will file to have their own SWAT team to physically size or destroy computers and/or crackers.
The De-Carbonization of the Economy
>Except that the cost of producing that is not actually high. Individuals have built cars out of parts in their own garage.

"Individuals have built cars out of parts in their own garage" doesn't really prove that the costs for producing a car isn't high. They're most certainly enthusiasts, and they could have plowed tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of parts/labor into it.
If they're actively going to curate what is and isn't allowed, as far as perfectly legal speech goes, then they're no longer a common carrier and no longer subject to the protections afforded to such entities.
> Why is so hard to understand that government limitations on free speech are fundamentally different from private ones?

Because Facebook wields more power than most countries' governments do. This would almost certainly be a lot less upsetting if it were a smaller site doing it.
OK, but when are they gonna remove communist-propaganda content?

Communism is not even mentioned in their Hate Speech Policy and believe it killed a lot more people than even fascism (90 million vs 10 million). Today this hateful ideology is spreading completely unchecked in Social Media.

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech

As a Communism-survivor I feel very strongly about it.
Maybe those weapons should cost more instead.
It's OK not to like people who want to kill you for what you are rather than anything you did. You do not, in fact, owe anything to people who dispute your right to exist.
> ...just toe your car outside...

Hehe I wouldn't normally pick up on typos but this a great one - "tow" your car outside, unless maybe you're planning to kick it out there :-)
You call it "digital book burning", and you call Facebook a "primary communication channel", because your argument necessitates that you exaggerate so. If you see Facebook for what it is --- not an arm of the government, not the only voice anyone has, but just one of many communication platforms --- it's clear that this is no violation of free speech.

Facebook isn't determining "what is true"; it's just determining what it is okay with hosting.
Show HN: Framework-like experience with vanilla JavaScript
Hello everybody! This is my first Show HN post. I was curious about question: Can we get framework-like experience (React/Vue/...) without bunch of npm packages and webpack. I hacked together simple core to build web apps in .html files. Core is TEA inspired (The Elm Architecture).
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There are 2 information processing errors with the Moses Illusion, instead of just the one of identity. The given answer is that it wasn't Moses. But as well as that, it wasn't "2 of each kind" either:

"Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth." -- Genesis 7:2-3

For whatever reason we are taught as children that it was 2 of every animal, but really it was 1 or 7 pairs, depending on whether they were clean, not clean, or birds. The song singing "2 by 2" is essentially correct, but deciding that means there were only 2 sheep is not correct. Spoiler: There were 14 sheep.

That makes 2 information processing errors. In terms of coding, it's not easy to tell what errors the identity issue would cause since that would be implementation specific. But the second issue would clearly trigger a buffer overflow.
The effect of temperature on persistence of SARS-CoV-2 on common surfaces
Not really. Freedom of speech as defined in the constitution:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Internet speech is not the same as freedom of speech. Facebook is a private platform and when you sign-up and use them you abide by their rules. This is not censorship. Facebook can ban whatever they want. They are not censoring anything. They are just denying the use of their platform to spread absurd anti-semitic ideas that have no place in an educated and civilized society.

I have said this before in HN, but I'll say it again. There seems to be this idea that freedom of speech comes with an automatic and superseding right to distribution. That's 100% wrong. You can believe whatever idiotic ideas you want but you can't claim freedom of speech to force other people to give you a platform for your beliefs.
Writing documents and using spreadsheets, creating presentations, reading and responding to e-mails, and browsing the web, which is what she uses, covers pretty much 99.999% of the uses a computer gets.

Do you have a concrete use case where Linux fails and Windows succeeds?