skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exploitation view is mostly due to the anonymous nature of those personal, natural person individuals performing the decision to exploit. The personal cost to them of the decision is muted if it is felt at all: the endless layers of the corporate body shields them.

However, if their names attached to such decisions were plastered all over LinkedIn, GitHub, or the even the project "look who is using our project" page, the responsibility that went with that decision authority just went up a noticeable amount. With REST API access to graph-networked tracking of such decisions, someone's track record of these kinds of decisions will follow them. Forever. Such tracking will also start revealing companies with a certain track record. The consequences of that are up to those in the future making decisions whether to interact with those individuals. It could be neutral, beneficial, or adverse, depending upon who they deal with.

Also, nothing prevents open source projects from tapping such aggregated data in an automated fashion, and auto-updating an exception to their open source license. "Anyone may license under <foo-open-source> license, except for the following list of individuals: ..., And except for the following list of companies: ..., <followed-by-legal-stuff-preventing-assignations-for-example>. For you, <consequence-decided-by-project>." Licenses are similarly amended to generate the attribution data in the first place.

That consequence can be whatever strikes the fancy of the project. Whether it be must license commercially, must post a LinkedIn video of them singing "Good Ship Lollipop" before they can license under the open source license, must post an escrow bond they forfeit if they violate the terms, etc.

Shine a light upon the natural person authority, and see who steps into the spotlight proud to show off their accountability.
That's really impressive and insightful.

I've been working all my career (12 years) as a remote worker (freelancer for a couple years, then employee) and poor async communication skills is by far the worst and most omnipresent problem I've seen - mainly because as nobody sees who is doing what, allowing interruptions quickly lead to everybody constantly interrupting everybody. Having Hangout or Slack constantly ringing because three people want my attention at the same time is a sure way toward madness.

The lack of async culture also often manifests that way : a manager/lead/whatever sends a grossly imprecise demand as a one-liner email ; then developers ask questions about what the hell that person is talking about ; then the first person gives a few more details (the minimum amount) and concludes with "can we have a call? It would be simpler".

I think the main problem is that many companies, while they want to try remote work as it "attracts top talents", don't have the proper culture for it, which is, ultimately, the culture of writing. Not only being able to type down the words you would have spoken, but to actually perform thinking writing - which implies to draft a few ideas, then read them, modify them, change their order, remove some, add others, and only when you're sure you've nailed the issue, hit send to share it with everyone.

The typical non-remote employee won't want to do that and prefer to throw vague ideas in the room so everybody contribute to making them clearer at the same time. I'm biased of course, but I think this is highly inefficient.
Considering that every company in the world sets salary based on where you live, is there even an argument here?
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The promised age of information has quickly devolved into the age of misinformation.

Holocaust denial? Vaccine misinformation? Anti-mask propaganda? These things can and do cause real harm to society. To Facebook's credit, they have since banned these, but only after the ideas had spread significantly.
Interesting cultural differences. In other places if you submit earlier than the deadline they assume you didn't care about it enough to use all available time to make it as good as possible.
This is all among the reasons why so many tech enthusiasts have fled to - or at least spend more time on - places like the fediverse, tildeverse, gopherspace, gemini, etc. I count myself among them; I've been spending lots more time on these other places, and tons less time on conventional social networks. But - with maybe the exception of the fediverse - where are the non-tech folks going? Or, is it that the non-tech folks have no alternatives and either put up with the garbage, or simply diminish their overall use/exposure, I wonder?
> Twitter does not enjoy immunity for content that they themselves produce

Exactly. If the law is not changed, any challenge would hinge on the court defining their curation process as an act of production. It may not be as far-fetched as you think: DJ Shadow can copyright a song made entirely from snippets of other recorded music.

For the record, I think the law should be changed. Twitter is categorically different from a small/personal website. You could argue that it is a natural monopoly.
He used a permissive license so that everyone, including Amazon, can use his code without any strings attached. Presumably because he wants his software to spread far and wide. This is the typically stated reason why people use permissive licenses, isn't it?

Therefore, shouldn't he be thanking Amazon for spreading his software?
I expect full remote will be quite rare. On the other hand, I also expect that at many companies I do expect a new normal where many/most people are not in the office on a given day so the office may be there but the prior office experience will not.
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> But this is entirely rational when you live in a society not far removed from subsistence farming, threatened by civil wars and with relatively weak civic institutions: social capital is simply more reliable than material capital.

Heck, I worry about that in our society as well. The generations after the Baby Boomers have not saved terribly much, and as they begin to age and retire the social pressure to support them will get higher and higher (which is good: one doesn't want folks to be indigent). But ultimately that is likely to mean legalised raids on the retirement accounts of those who did spend.

Why save today if it will just be confiscated in a couple of decades? Might as well spend today and enjoy whatever one buys. Or buy portable wealth …
HugOps to them, this is quite the string of issues over the last few weeks.
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But in high temperature superconductivity there has been an steady progress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti... The trick is that since a few years the different groups are using an extremely high pressure.

So a combination of a material and pressure that shows superconductivity at room temperature is new, but not unexpected.

(A material that is a superconductor at room temperature and atmospheric pressure would be a more interesting and surprising. I'd wait until it is reproduced before throwing a party. )
Love the comments here siding with a 1.70 trillion dollar megacap company over an open source developer.
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Thank you for posting this! I rely on an IL-6 inhibitor currently, and used to rely on a TNF-a inhibitor which became less effective over time. Seeing these influenced through breathing, meditation, and cold exposure is really interesting.

It would be nice to know if the changes primarily stemmed from one of the interventions they explored. Could I achieve the same results with one of the three methods for example?
But $LARGE_CLIENT told our sales guy that if we were to just implement $ARBITRARY_CHECKBOX_FEATURE in our advanced configuration they'd sign a 7 figure deal!
> But the author had the opportunity to specify the behaviour that he felt was courteous enough.

So I'm free to treat you like an absolutely piece of shit, be a raging asshole at you, and you're going to defend my horrendous treatment of you just because legally I'm allowed to and you failed to make a contract with me saying I have to be nice in excruciating detail that's legally enforceable?
That he is one of the people that don't believe anything anymore the WHO says because they got the thing with the masks wrong.
Wim Hof is everywhere right now!

This paper tests his method, discussing his performance in a citation, and was conducted by a dutch team.

outside online has a profile of him right now, for example: https://www.outsideonline.com/2417379/wim-hof-method

I wonder what the press is about. PNAS is the real deal, anyway, but Wim Hof makes me update my priors a bit in favor of "this might be woo, watch out!"
GMOs are somewhat tangential to the issue of plant patents. Genetic engineering can be, and has been[1], used to create patent-free plants. On the flip side, genetic engineering is not necessary to create patentable plants, and in fact plant patents predate commercial genetic engineering by decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
I thought most of the treatments were meant to help you recover faster, limit severity and feel better while you had the disease. I must be missing something.
The point is that the story of Cambridge Analytica was mostly a story of Facebook in the first place. CA did engage in some lies and deception to get read access to data that shouldn't have been allowed. But the actual social harm they're accused of causing - micro-targeting ads at specific named individuals - is a deliberate and still available Facebook product offering called "custom audiences". If you've ever gotten your email on a political mailing list, you're likely being targeted in the same way Cambridge Analytica was trying to.
Remember when the WHO and our governments around the world have deceived us that masks are not needed for the general population, instead of telling us to begin using makeshift masks until better ones become available? That's what white collar mass murder looks like.
As far as anyone's been able to tell, I think the third party JavaScript files were hosted on the same BA server as the website itself, so subresource integrity wouldn't help - the hacker could just change the tags loading the JS so that the integrity checks passed.
There's plenty of sense to it.

Every contract, every law states what we see as the bare minimum required not to be actively harmful. They're society's skeleton. But bodies are more than bone, and societies are more than people doing the bare legal minimum.

Look at what the law requires of parents, for example. Food, shelter, clothing, school attendance, a lack of physical abuse. But parents who do the legal minimum and no more are awful parents, and awful people. But more laws wouldn't help. What kind of law could guarantee love? What kind of police could enforce it?

Community spirit is not something that can be expressed in a contract. Acting like people should have foreseen a particular asshole and tried to defend against them contractually is victim-blaming. The actual solution is for assholes to hear from the community that the behavior isn't welcome.
Is it weird that this makes me want to build a middle-age bridge? The part where the water is fully drained and the base layer of rock is being laid is really appealing to me....
If that were true then big companies wouldn't have PR departments. But they do, because public image does actually matter to them. Brand recognition & emotional response to those brands is a huge part of being a big company.
"Everyone hates on Electron" = a very vocal minority of HN folk don't like that Electron apps tend to be higher in memory consumption and executable size, but the majority of users don't really care about either of those. Same for the majority of project leads.

What users care about is "does this thing do what I need it to do on my OS in a relatively timely manner with not too many bugs and not too steep a learning curve?". What project leads care about is "is this tech well supported, cross-patform, and battle-tested, and will it be easy to hire for?".

Using established frameworks that are profit centers for enterprise-scale companies (MSFT/Google) ensures support will always be around, and the largest cross-platform bugs have already been encountered then fixed/documented. Using normal web-tech means performance will be acceptable (people have a good feel for how long things take in web), and hiring/on-boarding will be easy (we routinely have folks with only basic web dev experience building vscode and contributing fixes within a matter of hours of encountering the code for the first time).

I challenge you to try to mentally-argue one of these alternatives to a superior... I think you'll find that you don't have much to say but "look a the memory consumption! look at the download size!", but I'd be interested to be proven wrong.
I agree this is about the culture of software and open source in particular.

Reducing the issue to the bare minimal legal requirement is stooping low, that we cannot expect corporations to behave ethically, with common decency and respect, unless forced to do so by law. Sure, that's the real world, but we should demand better of the people who run and work in these corporations.
They can simply stop spawning more news on anything wuhan-virus related as this shit changes on daily basis.
Bummer. Would love to know why though.
> Where are you getting these prefixes?

There is a somewhat dated system of abbreviations that used be (and occasionally still is) used in finance-related matters inspired by the use of M in Roman numerals where M or m is thousands and MM or mm is millions; different sources disagree on whether MMM/mmm can also be used for billions in that system.

Recently, it's been displaced by a probably-SI-inspired (but not SI-correct, particularly as regards capitalization which remains optional) system of K/k and M/m thousands and millions (but billions are usually not G/g, I've seen B/b more frequently, with T/t for trillions.)
Video creation to communicate status in some cases! That would take more time to consume than text. Times the number of people consuming.

But standup is in Slack.

It seems like there's something unspoken here (pun intended). What are the organizational reasons for the different modes? Are some kinds of communication discouraged, thus forced to be in recorded videos?
This has nothing to do with GMO. You can get protection for plant varieties derived through breeding, too. https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/plant-variety-protection
Fingering we have a pretty good hold on already, so I'm not too worried there.

Importing alternative formats (xml for instance) is definitely an option worth looking into, but because the bulk of the material that is out there that people can freely access is in midi format we chose that one first.
Why?
I know WHO is now politically involved in the US elections and I presume that shapes many opinions.

But, I did read recently about polio eradication from the African continent etc. Obviously not just by WHO but efforts by many organizations, but still a major achievement isnt it?

Update: I actually would like to know why WHO is not credible any more for some. Honest question.
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I agree.

It is fascinating though, to see what predictions still seem as likely (though less optimistic) when we go from a "don't be evil" perspective to the 2020 one.
I agree with that.

However, nothing is preventing Facebook from doing this. Facebook is incentivized to act as you describe. I do not see it as Facebook's responsibility to act in another way. Governments need to regulate this behavior.

If people start to understand the way Facebook is manipulating them, then there is also an opportunity for another platform, which does not do so, or to a lesser extent.
Yes, absolutely, and we will add more import formats.
Yes, the gif is more time-efficient. But I watched the slower video first, and I'm glad I did. While I received the same amount of information, I spent more time thinking about that information.
That's true. There does seem to be some difference though - stories like Elvis Found Alive in Anchorage and Batboy Graduates with MBA were pretty much regarded as entertainment, whereas Clinton Eats Babies and Trump Videotaped Getting Peed On were received as true by large segments of both the population and the media that normally does not make up stories.
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I get the same vibes! But I think he is almost weirdly legit.
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>Facebook recognized the need for a filter like a newsfeed.

Typical Facebook: there's a problem of their own making and try to solve it by introducing more Facebook. I think Facebook is rotten because they keep dancing around the root of their problems: scale. If Facebook were to scale down connections by increasing the friction between people and groups so that individuals were nudged into interacting nearly exclusively with real-world personal contacts, then there would be little need for a technical filter. People's own social filters would take care of that for them.

But you're right. That would be against Facebook's financial incentives because that would make them less valuable to advertisers. They wouldn't have the power to move audiences anymore if the audience is moving itself.
> have users manually upload midi with a proper score attached to some store or community repo with user reviews. It's less satisfying as a solution, but it means all it takes is one motivated user for everyone to enjoy the score.

Musescore already has such a collection of sheet music https://musescore.com/hub/piano so it'd also be possible to allow users to import from there, going from sheet music to midi instead of trying to reverse the process.
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At least one RSTS/E release amusingly came with patch notes that included wire wrap instructions. I distinctly remember a great deal of grumbling when the patch caused issues and the downgrade included undoing the wire wrap patches. If you thought sharing your screen and coding or debugging was high pressure, imagine pulling out one of the drawers holding your computer's guts and dealing with this while a room full of people hovered over your shoulder. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/PDP-11-3...
Yes for all the people who didn't know about Tesla or Elon Musk. Now they know, and maybe they'll buy a Model S.
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My biggest need for an emulator like this is to see the keyboard invoked when using a form. A very specific use case: I’m working on a typeahead UX for a Search input, and how this behaves on a device with a screen based keyboard is hard to emulate in dev tools from desktop browsers... I really want to see what happens when you :focus on an input element and see how much space exists between the field and the open keyboard. If it does that I’m in! As an example Nike.com has a great search UX and is the right way, other sites have a jumpy experience and don’t leave enough room for search suggestions... but this isn’t about whether that’s a good idea or not, I just want an easier way to build that experience. (I’m not affiliated with Nike or that site.)
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The road to environmental hell is paved with junk trinkets like this.
I'd rather call the knowledgeable entity in question "expert" than company, but I was wondering along similar lines: would they travel far to projects or would the knowledge be dispersed to enough people that most projects could just happen with local expertise? (plus temporarily imported capacity for big project, but not necessarily imported expertise?)

What's clear is that knowledge transfer (from region to region and from generation to generation) was facilitated by traveling apprentices, a tradition that still lives on and (I believe) is documented to go back to that time. Their profession wouldn't be bridge builder but merely some contributing role (with the occasional exception of whatever the period-correct term for architect or project manager would be), but of all the masons involved, you'd have some whose learning circuit involved a bridge, of the woodworkers you'd have some who dabbled in cranes before and so on. But was that usually sufficient or was there also a pattern of on-demand traveling leadership?

edit: post was lingering in the input form for some hours, some good answers already there!
No, they won't too but for different reasons (instead of the fear of being wrong).
While growing up in the US, I thought lactose intolerance was the niche.
If it has been published in a major newspaper is it still non-public?
Years ago I read that Easter Island has no trees because the inhabitants chopped them all down before Europeans arrived. The lack of wood for building led to significant misery. The author of the book I was reading noted that all of the island can be seen from its highest point, so the person who chopped down the last tree must have known it was the last, and did it anyway.
An official response from someone at AWS.

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Tim, I run the open source strategy and marketing team at AWS. I hadn't been aware of this but am looking into it. (Regardless of anything we may have done, thank you for what you clearly have done with your project)

Standard Disclaimer: I’m a consultant at AWS. Opinions are my own.
And what does this do to open source forks of the code? How does it affect those developers at all?

I guess I'm obliquely commenting that keeping the project small and in the hands of open-source developers, may be pointless. Otherwise, why agonize over what others are doing with it? Either we want others to use the open-source version too so its a popular desktop with lots of attention, or we don't and becoming a popular desktop with lots of attention doesn't affect those open-source die-hards at all. Either way, a successful project becomes popular on a lot of desktops.
> no one is disputing they have acted illegally

Probably a typo. But I think you mean “no one is disputing they have acted legally”.
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I’m super curious, if you don’t mind my prodding. I looked into doing this for my own version of a JavaScript midi teacher a while back. Any chance you’re doing it via the neural nets sequence to sequence translation algorithms that are super popular in NLP right now? I think that’s a practical way to do it, except for needing a training corpus. I was going to reverse engineer synthesia’s data to try it out, for what’s worth...
This is non-responsive to whether the documents were hacked or not.

The tax returns were absolutely hacked. There is no question that those documents were not legitimately obtained.
The videos are hilarious. The guys brought plastic sleds with them up the mountain so that they can slide down. In their shorts
No, protected plant varieties is a thing. It's different from patents, but roughly the same idea. https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/plant-variety-protection
Was this written by GPT-3? This is such a strange sentence

But yes George is definitely the misfit hacker wonder-kid type, and in both senses of the word hacker. He was one of the first to jailbreak the iPhone and the PS4 or 5 (can't remember which)
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The basic UI looks pretty much the same as the git one I'm used to.
Yes, that is one avenue. I made a - hopefully exhaustive - list of chords the other day and I was surprised at how much I did not know. The next step is to analyze my midi file collection to see what kind of graph can be constructed and how the edges can be annotated. It's a very interesting problem. And in a way that is why I love this project: it combines both of the things I love.