skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding ARIN listing a defunct entity as owner: keep in mind that TONS of telecom infrastructure is listed as being owned by defunct companies that were acquired/merged into other companies, or simply reincorporated in a new jurisdiction.

For example, the concrete blockhouse where my neighborhood's DSL modems live sites on land owned by an entity that hasn't existed for a decade. This is according to the county auditor, who is the highest non-judicial authority when it comes to real estate ownership. When CenturyLink bought the old telco they never bothered to update the deed.

That doesn't mean I can go squat on that land.

It just means the records weren't updated when the acquisition happened.
The speaks to the context of serialization formats, which TOML isn't.
disagree. When there's more to do and less direction, I think there's more opportunity to play a bigger part
> amount of land they consume

Many crops benefit from partial shade. So, farms. Likewise cars, so parking lots. Likewise roofs, so warehouses and factories. Likewise irrigation (reduced evaporation), so reservoirs and canals.
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Seriously? The very first line was negative:

"leaves a lot to be desired"

If you don't want to be considered a jerk, in polite company you would say something like "This is a nice project. I have a few suggestions and bugs regarding accessibility:"
Yeah I’ve stuck with MP3s since the days when you could only download 1 per night. I’ve been made fun of uncountable times by friends and strangers alike, but I’ve never had my music-listening not work, no matter what device/OS.
Here, though, Youtube (Google) have contractual agreements to license the use of copyrighted media on their platform, and which is uploaded directly from the record labels themselves.

The RIAA is claiming that YouTube does have DRM on their videos, which if the court agrees, may be the end of youtube support in youtube-dl.
Interestingly I prefer failing hard specifically for data consistency reasons. I've had to deal with systems that swallowed far too many errors and let themselves get into an inconsistent state which then caused other operations to not fail but instead persist invalid data. It's very hard to clean messes like that up (restoring a nightly backup is easy, but that's a last resort).
We started "running out of land" long before IPv4 addresses even existed, yet lots of land is listed as being owned by entities that were acquired/merged/reincorporated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876963

That doesn't mean the land, or the IP addresses, are abandoned.
So... the problem with university research is that frauds who claim to be university research aren't university research?
Apparently Florida should be ready for pandemic adjustments to polling and still report nearly all of their results on election night. They’ve switched to mostly mail in ballots years ago and I think even count them as they come in or something - so they can be reported election night. Granted, it’s Florida. So sanity need not apply and we could get their election results from the SCOTUS.

Personally, I hope the early, in person voting decides the election on election night.
JSON schema achieves the same result and is fairly standard actually.
There are numerous cheap storage forms. LH2. Ammonia. Underground pressurized air. Underwater pressurized air. Molten salt. Mineshaft gravitational.
A bunch of points:

(1) Except when your tokens can contain newlines, which we're stuck with for the foreseeable future. -- not sure what you mean here, because QSN strings are defined not to contain literal newlines. They're escaped like '\n'.

The invariant of QSN is: EVERY BYTE STRING, including those with newlines and nuls, can be represented on a single line. I guess I should put this in the documentation.

(2) A QSN decoder is very easy to write. For example, here's a ~6 line regex that validates all of QSN:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/master/qsn_/qsn.py#L498

True, you need like ~20 lines of code to decode it, but that's very easy too. You can also make a QSN decoder from a JSON string decoder. It's basically changing your tests and moving a few statements around.

(And yes, QSN is a regular language [1])

(3) Oil should grow [2] an awk-like dialect [3] that understands QSN and QTSV.

(4) Although you also don't have to decode it for it to be useful.

1. I can use wc -l on a stream of QSN strings

2. If I know the strings are QSN-encoded, I can search for NUL bytes with fgrep '\0'

It's basically like the UTF-8 philosophy. ASCII is valid utf-8. QSN lines are lines of text.

(5) base64 is bad for humans at the terminal, because it makes everything unreadable. QSN preserves all printable ASCII and unicode.

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I don't think it's going to solve all problems, but it will solve some. It's there if you need it. In typical Unix style, the solutions will be heterogeneous. You can absolutely use the NUL format in Oil, and it now has support for it.

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/eggex-theory.html

[2] That is, if I get help :)

[3] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=awk#awk
Super surprising that software like this could exist in the legal space and with known creators. I mean, it's obviously a pirating app, it makes every effort to circumvent download protection right?
This is an awful situation for Andy. Very sad he has had to go through this.
Thank you for this. I had given up on Python GUI frameworks a while ago. I tried this out and it lives up to its name. Dead simple and does the job.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12437322
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There's been large improvement in cements specifically in the past few years. It can be recycled, enforced, and supplanted by other materials.

Concrete sold today can be bought with an advertised lifespan of 100 years. If you replace a coal plant with a nuclear plant how many years would it need to be net carbon negative? What is the grams of CO2 / kWh of nuclear vs coal vs solar?
To imagine that voyager technology will define the maximum velocity of interstellar travel, a thousand years from now, ten thousand, a million, etc is short sighted. Maybe we never can exceed light speed, but we could get up to a reasonable percentage of it.
Why would you say that? I think an internal podcast is just another communication tool. The natural extension of an internal blog
That really is the worst thing: that they discovered the cure and then lost it.
It’s not hard to imagine that many of those hard to read names historically just happened to belong to minorities. American states have a sordid history of using ambiguous laws for vote suppression.
It just takes a video stream and saves it. There is no DRM bypassing or anything
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Youtube Music is the worst music player I have ever used. Is impossible to use without internet connection: even playing downloaded songs need to wait for the album picture to be downloaded. And a lot of other bugs...
An unbelievable act of humanity, especially since it appears to have been undertaken by a man the French abducted the year before.
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Yet mysteriously, Japanese cars of the era proved to be some of the most reliable cars ever made
Very true, but it was inevitable. The tool worked way too well to remain under the radar for too long. What will be interesting to watch will be where the forked versions of Youtube-dl will end up.
And even more ironically, china is one of the biggest patent/copyright infringers in the world.
I assume GP just used CRC as an example everyone is familiar with. A more modern non-cryptographic hash function like FNV or MurmurHash can produce more output bits (up to 1024 and 128 respectively), reducing random collision probability to a comparable level.

In addition, CRCs are actually quite good at detecting common errors in data transfer (not just single bit flips but burst errors as well). In fact you can prove that certain kinds of errors will always be detected by an n-bit CRC -- which is something you can't prove with modern cryptographic hash functions. Yeah they're useless against attackers but that's not the threat model if you're "not using MD5 for security".
Do you realize that a single reprocessing plant releases more than 10x more tritium in the ocean yearly than the amount currently contained at Fukushima? This has been happening safely for decades, under constant monitoring for impact on fish and other ocean life. The whole recent "Fukushima tritium release" news cycle is entirely FUD, and all nuclear safety experts agree that there is basically no risk involved. Please stop propagating the FUD.

(https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/national/social... has some of that information, but you can easily find more refs comparing tritium amounts at Fukushima vs. normal release at facilities like La Hague.)
Cue 300% increase in development time.
I can't even sort my artists in alphabetical order on the webapp. It's a total embarrassment.
I have the opposite frustration here, where I queue up some music videos on my TV and inevitably after 1-2 songs, I'm staring at static album covers when I know there's an awesome music video that should be playing instead
I'm not sure its given that a civilization that has technology for interstellar travel is going to consider a planet that is suitable for life with little work to be roughly equivalent to a planet that is suitable for life with a lot of work. Its equally likely that they would be economical with their resources and consider a planet that is closer to the desired end state to be much more valuable than a planet that is much further from the end state.
Yes, the right has their own boogeymen, like Antifa and BLM.

However I'm willing to bet you don't see anything about Q in right wing news sources is there is literally nothing to write about them except "these guys think Trump is fighting a deep underground pedo cabal" and I'm sure they don't want to antagonize their readers.
Yeah the speed bothers me somewhat. I haven't tried that method, might be worthwhile.
appreciate you doing that. vulnerability is seen as a weakness, but it should be seen as a strength and form of empathy. Are their other organizations/resources that you'd recommend that are in this space?
If it were easier you'd think we'd be getting alot more energy from geothermal but we don't.

Global Nuclear: 2,500 TWh
Global Geothermal: 12.8 GWh
leaders are selected according to the wishes of the the majority of the people

That's clearly not the case as many systems (not just the US) seek to avoid "tyranny of the majority" and to protect the interests of minorities. Canada's senate does not use proportional representation either - that avoids the country being run by Ontario and Quebec at the expense of the other 8 provinces and 3 territories.

The designs you argue against were specifically implemented to provide a system of checks and balances to avoid a simply majority from unchecked rule. And this is doubly true in the US, where it's a "union of states", not just one massive country. A lot of those rules were put into place in order to get the states to join the US because otherwise they would have had zero say in the affairs of the country.

Those checks you want to remove are not a bug but a feature.
This is a good post because it details to me how horribly broken Shopify's process and culture are. Here's why:

If your software company revolves around getting a director or VP to say "you are allowed to do x technical thing", then your company has already lost. Here's what you need to do instead so you don't waste developer salaries and be outcompeted by better companies:

Every dev is allowed to spin up their own service. Teams can self organize and self govern around business problems they feel like solving. The best teams are the ones that produce the services that product owners rely on the most to get things done.

If you have a culture that involves saying no to dev ideas by default, it's only a matter of time until you lose.
The alternative to the four-hour workweek mindset
Still can't understand the logic, the website is open! If the information can get to my eyes and ears I can put a recording device in-between. At the end of the day the video is being played on my computer. The only logical endgame, if stuff like this allowed to stand, leads to general purpose computing being outlawed.
There is some evidence from 2016 that shows you can determine a person’s values/beliefs, which is a better indicator of who they will vote for versus directly asking them certain questions.

The LA Times poll was one of few polls that predicted a Trump victory in 2016, the link has some details on the methodology:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-polls-20161...

Basically, if you ask someone what they think about police brutality you might get ‘of course it’s wrong’, but veiling that question a bit into ‘how important are safe neighborhoods, strong law enforcement?’ will take you closer to the truth.

Not everyone is happy with the riots in America at all, they view it as crime and certainly don’t want that stuff anywhere near their neighborhoods. Or further, they might not want certain types in their neighborhoods. You see where I’m going? If you start to probe in this way, you’ll find your hidden Trump voter versus asking ‘Did Trump handle coronavirus well?’, which everyone well answer no to, but if the person doesn’t want black people in their neighborhoods as a hidden belief, your polls are going to be fucked (since that’s a closet Trump voter).

No one will ever say ‘social welfare is unfair because minorities leech off of it’, only your most shameless republicans will say it. But guess what, people believe this deep down. How can pollsters surface that belief without arousing suspicion?

Way too many states in the rust belt went red to act like some negligible dynamic was in play in 2016.

Just to note, I am a liberal, in case anyone thinks I harbor those beliefs. But how would you know? :p
An outsider's perspective is that c and c++ are pretty similar except c++ is a little more ... powerful? More something for being a bigger language.

Rust is a bigger language.

There are other languages aiming to be small and a better c. Zig comes to mind.
This is actually the perfect answer to this.

I mean, technically, mozilla's ca-certificates tracker is the biggest attack vector on the internet's infrastructure [1]
and TLS transport encryption relies heavily on identification mechanisms which are recorded, verified and stored in a manner that a lot of third parties have to be trusted, too.

Even when ignoring that salesforce is a private entity with financial motivations, and that the server is hosted on 17 years out of date OSes, I wouldn't trust any single entity with a responsibility like this. Maybe the UN, but nothing below that, and I think a legislation for this would be the "most correct" approach.

I hope that in future (given tlsnotary works in the peer to peer case) this can be solved with content based signatures instead of per-domain-and-ip based certificates.

I mean, a snakeoil cert has to be assumed to be just as legit as a cross-signed cert these days due to the lower feasibility of letsencrypt certs.

Certificate pinning was a nice approach from the statistical perspective, but with letsencrypt taking over this is only valid for 3 months (max) until the pinned cert will lead to a required reverification.

[1] https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/
I think problem is that your argument seems to come from a prior point of view, and doesn't assume good faith on the behalf of people working on smart contract problems (declaring them in whole fundamentally unethical). I would suggest that a better way to pose your point of view would be to ask, "Are there ways to mitigate the automatic triggering of actions in smart contracts?" Posing your point of view as a question like this would be more likely to foster a healthy discussion because there are certainly ways to mitigate the extent of automatic actions (multisigs etc...). And who knows, everyone might learn something as a result of the discussion!

Disclosure: I work in the cryptocurrency space and generally think hackernews doesn't know how to have productive discussions about cryptocurrency.
Startup graveyards are full of visionaries without expertise or the proper skills to execute.
As I recall, there was also an element where the DMCA claimant was protected if they could reasonably believe within good faith that their takedown was valid.

There's also unseen elements at play. If you're publishing semi-anonymously, the counter-claim process can deanonymize you.

Republishing the same content at a slightly different URL is the obvious, cheapest solution.

Very few people have been able to claim damages from false DMCA takedowns, although the DMCA specifically allows for it.
From a practical perspective, it's hard to wish for or imagine a legal system that doesn't rely upon judicial interpretation of intent. An example would be causing the death of another human being. Would you want all four of these incidents to be treated the same from a legal perspective?

- A surgery, which is known to have a 50/50 chance of success even at the hands of an excellent surgeon, goes poorly and the patient dies.

- A serial killer spends six months plotting the murder of his victim before executing them.

- A shoving match breaks out at a bar. Somebody slips, falls, hits their head on the ground, and dies.

- You accidentally frighten somebody by sneezing in a quiet library. They have a heart attack and die.

From a purely logical perspective, these are literally the same thing. A person dies! Realistically speaking, any legal system needs to consider intent.
Your replies seem to be focused in the reaction to his defense of Minsky. Without defending what he said, you're right, it's disgusting how that was reported on compared to what he actually said.

However, (according to Bradley Kuhn, who was a FSF board member at the time) his removal from the FSF was a long time coming even without that incident, though that wasn't obvious from the outside.

Bradley Kuhn was able to write the sentence "In fact, RMS' views and statements posted on stallman.org about sexual morality escalated for the worse over the last few years" with each word linked to a separate post from RMS, spread from 2016 to 2019. Perhaps it's just my reading of them, but your comments give the sense that his defense of Minsky was the only wrong thing he said. That's its own half-truth on your part, there's plenty more that he's been saying for years.

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
We need to take out a lot more than that, because of all the CFCs (1700+ times CO2) and HFCs (2500+ times CO2) vented. If all the HFCs currently in use were vented instead of collected and incinerated, it would produce as much greenhouse effect as all the CO2 we have added to the atmosphere.

Some of the CFCs and HFCs get collected, mostly at industrial sites. Car and residential mostly leaks.

At least xFCs don't acidify oceans.
That doesn't seem to fit with my understanding all that well?

Alternatively, I'm just not sure what you mean by saying that it ( wait, what is the "it"? "the quantum world"? But the world is the quantum world?) "exists outside of space time" .

If one said "the number 3 exists outside of spacetime", that would make sense to me, as saying that it isn't a thing with a location in spacetime, but just a thing.

But I don't think I know what you mean.
GitHub's DMCA policy[0] is very clear on how to reinstate content. It's not extremely difficult, but you do have to send GitHub a properly-formed counter notice, and you do have to be prepared that the sender of the original DMCA notice may sue you to prevent the content from being reinstated.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-...
The problem I think is the extreme cargo-culting that exists with any popular technology -- half the arguments against the current flavor of the month really just begin with "no, this is not sent from god, and there do exist tradeoffs". Which is a fairly unreasonable starting point for a conversation between educated parties.

And then the ratchet turns, and the pendelum swings in reverse, and suddenly that thing sent from god was instead discovered to be sent from satan... and you're still trying to explain that tradeoffs exist
The problem is your comment is unnecessarily inflammatory and accusatory. Often, the unfortunate outcomes you describe aren't due to overt willful interest in actively destroying the assets of people of color. It's very often even more insidious and subtle than that and to some degree grows out of blind spots rather than willful destruction.

My remark is not an exaggeration. One* cannot claim this massacre was some unfortunate oversight.

Those distinctions need to be made for two reasons:

1. It is important to make it crystal clear that racism absolutely involves malice and isn't simply a case of "Well, we didn't realize it was impacting people that way or we surely would have done something else because we are good-hearted people."

2. In cases where it does involve some degree of obliviousness, this must be acknowledged because in cases where people are just blindly going along with historical patterns and genuinely don't wish to harm anyone, educating them that people are, in fact, harmed even if you didn't intend to do harm is the best remedy.

Both points are essential information for finding a path forward. Taking only one of those points and overgeneralizing it actively undermines efforts to find real solutions.

* Changed "you" to one" for the sake of clarity. Apologies for the confusion.
> If that is the whole story,

Here's another part of the story http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html
What a shocker
A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
Is there an audio version of this article? Seems like it was an interview?
I do not and will never trust either company. If I had to choose a top tech company, I would probably pick Apple, although they do have an ad network and have a lot information about you if you are in their ecosystem. Also stay away from Facebook and Amazon based on privacy. If you really want to go with 100% privacy, you could say goodbye to you all these companies and forget about the convenience and using all their services. For me, I’m trying to stay the hell away from Google. I found it really difficult to get away from Gmail, google voice and Waze.
100% agree and I did the same with my own parents.
Title should be:

Open Letter: 745 Democratic & Anti-Trump Economists Oppose Trump's Re-Election

I assume most people see through this propaganda these days...
Retirees in Florida seem to prefer Biden to Obama, which is interesting.

Demographics in Texas have changed a lot since 2012 when Obama last ran. Democrats didn't really compete in Texas then.

> aggressiveness, then why would anything have changed in 2020

Take a look at the polls. Even if you don't believe the numbers themselves.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/20/texas-hous... is a decent summary. It's most likely that Republican will win Texas, but Democrats have roughly the chance of winning Texas as Trump did of winning the election in 2016.
Git was blockchain before blockchain was cool.
Hope you can find a way to fork it. GitHub has disabled the repo and many forked repos.
Can they help me recover my bitlocker password for a usb drive?
Don't forget the massive initial buying subsidies, the ones that only last as long as the government wants them to, the ones which don't cover any of the maintainance costs.