skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually signing a contract doesn't begin and end at a signature. It requires a meeting of the minds, which the signature is meant to represent. A contract without a meeting of the minds - such as a contract presented in a context coercing the counterparty not to have an attorney parse it for them - is invalid, signature or no.
Do you think they notice that Element uses Matrix as a protocol?
didn't get
Resource with 150 micro-influencers segmented by niche and IG handle and emails
Perhaps you should take a look at https://asciidoc.org/
It kind of is, even if it is not intended to be. Here’s how it works.

Deplatforming by the major social platforms is actually a way for them to create a moat. The field is now salted with toxic lunatics looking for a platform. Anyone who tries to stand up another social will instantly be inundated by them, and their presence will drive everyone else away and back into the arms of the incumbents.

Social is now like a zombie flick. There are walled gardens where it is safe, but outside stalk the walking dead. Trying to build another shelter is an exercise in repelling the undead long enough to get some walls up.
Why do you need to pretend things are racist when they aren't? IT and security use medical terms like 'viruses', and bad computers are 'wiped clean', so 'clean' is a common term and there's no reason to pretend that its intended to be racist. A clean network is a joke though and will fail
> (relatively small)

Tether market cap is currently $24 billion and growing exponentially. BTC market cap is $700bn but that price is set on the margin by redditors buying $100 on a credit card, there is no depth to it. The Tether hypothesis is that ~all~ of the market cap of BTC is ultimately derived from thin marginal price on retail exchanges. You can't sell a billion of bitcoin for USD 1 billion, nobody has ever tried, there is not a buyer, and that's only .1% of the market cap. Any thin real cash in the ecosytem is exfiltrated by miners selling into retail to pay electricity bills. If Tether stops printing, retail stops buying, and there is no more cash for electric bills, network stops. This is both a game-over scenario for bitcoin as well as actually high likelyhood of happening due to action by US Government against Tether.
India’s own messenger, hike is shutting down
Excellent speech love Arnold, loved the sword cameo.
I think I'm a bit special in that in my field (nuclear power), many of the smartest people in the world worked hard with vast funding between 1940 and 1960. Later the field got less popular and most people with knowledge of that stuff died. But today lots of investors and technologists are digging back into it to help fight climate change. So there are all these absolute gems in huge technical reports that were declassified in the 1960s and 70s that people are keenly interested in understanding and cataloging.
Now that it’s cheaper than ever to make a FO I expect to hear of a lot more UFOs.
Secure and blinded medical data analysis with OpenSAFELY
The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (2016)
A JSDoc test tool for documentation-driven quality
Parler did nothing to prevent users from organizing insurrection and violence (and succeeding). Twitter flags posts and suspends/bans users who violate their TOS.

You know damn well Parler only exists because their users were already banned/flagged from Twitter and needed a safe space for their hate and radicalization.
This isn't a tutorial/how-to, am I missing something?
The argument taken to its extreme is that all of civilization is a mistake since civilization involves specialization which means individuals give up their decisions on things. It's a very pessimistic argument and assumes that people don't use the saved energy for productive endeavors. The fact that civilization has prospered indicates to me that they do in fact simply find other things to spend their mental energy on. Do you want Einstein spending mental energy on picking his next restaurant or solving the fundamental questions of the universe?

edit: Much has been written about how the most productive people aggressively remove having to make trivial choices from their lives. To the point of having fifty copies of a single set of clothes.
I have a similar story. My first year of college I worked two 40 hour/week jobs during the summer and a 30 hour a week job during the school year. I was determined to get a well paying internship so I could reduce my work hours and still pay for school.

There was a snow storm during the day of the spring career fair. Classes were cancelled but the career fair still happened. I was one of the only ones that showed up and passed along my resume to all of the tech companies that attended the career fair. Had it not been for the snow storm I would not have received an internship which led to my first time job. I was a college freshman, B student due to having to work and I had zero practical coding skills outside of one semester of C++. The snow storm was certainly luck but showing up at the career fair was not.

However, much of my classmates in the dorm chose to play in the snow and I chose to go to the career fair. Luck does play a role but luck is really putting yourself in a position to take advantage of opportunity. If everyone that lived on campus showed up at that career fair I don't know if I would be in the position I am today (25 years later).
And "MariaDB" was named after another of his daughters.

If memory serves, he also has a son (whose name I can't remember) after which he named some other piece of software (which I also can't remember).

All of this is almost certainly mentioned in that link you shared although, at the moment, I just can't be bothered to click it.
>I think a lot of people care about re-integrating those with right-leaning views to society.

Ah, so right-leaning views disqualify you from society now? You have to be re-integrated?

Have you spoken what you wrote out loud? Do you not understand the message that sends?

>It is important for them to express their own concerns in their own words instead of just joining in various egomaniacs' power fantasies.

>As much as they hate the far left, I believe that progressives such as Bernie and AOC are actually far better for them, and everyone they know, than the current GOP leadership.

Wow. The self-referential inconsistency is strong with this one. If you truly don't grok that what you're asserting the right needs re-education to address, and the same devotion you're putting into Bernie and AOC are two sides of the same coin, you seriously need to reflect.

1) Causes. Not people.
2) Just because they don't like the stuff your team or tribe likes doesn't make them any less of a human being.
3) You win no friends and convince no one by demonizing that which they look up to, then copy pasting in what you like and telling them they're sick for liking what they like. Yes, society is full of people who spend a great deal of energy doing just that; but it doesn't mean everyone knows what they are doing when they are doing it. The beauty is that things just generally work out in spite of it because people don't build up enough momentum to destabilize the overarching social structure. It's like Brownian motion writ large. In the case when you're doing it correctly, you must have put in the effort to understand what it is you're replacing first, why it ended up there, then making your entire pitch readily communicable, and being willing to live and let live genuinely.
4) It has taken really immersing myself in both liberal and conservative communities to realize how insane most people are, and how little work the average person puts into thinking out the consequences of policy direction. I'm amazed anything manages to stay working at all.
I have seen the problem described for years. What about the solutions? They are not easy, but would go along these lines:

https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#Distributed-Operating-...
Note: Taek is the same user that the SiaSetup website (the main source of documentation about the project) is criticizing as "unstable project management". Be warned about this man before sinking any significant amount of personal time or money into this project. Source: https://siasetup.info/concerns-about-sia-and-skynet#banned
Yeah, there's actually organizational changes happening to help remedy this. At risk of over-simplifying:
- Sia is the blockchain project that lets renters and hosts create a market for storage space. (using SiaCoin as the cryptocurrency)
- Skynet uses this market to provide a data backend for a web ecosystem for developers and users. They access the ecosystem through "portals," which are actually just specialized hosts on the sia network.

Data on the Sia network is encrypted at a storage layer (as part of splitting it up to send it to hosts), but Skynet files are accessible to anyone who has its hash (portals, ISP, etc could see this info when you access the URL). The file contents are not encrypted by default because they're meant to be widely-accessible, but you can encrypt files on the client-side before sending the, to Skynet, which is what https://skysend.hns.siasky.net/ and some other projects do.
I've worked with a number of teams over the last few years who use AWS and I'd say from top to bottom they all build their strategy more or less the same way:

0. Whatever is the minimum needed to get a VPC stood up.

1. EC2 as 90%+ of whatever they're doing

2. S3 for storing lots of stuff and/or crossing VPC boundaries for data ingress/egress (like seriously, S3 seems to be used more as an alternative to SFTP than for anything else). This makes up usually the rest of the thinking.

3. Maybe one other technology that's usually from the set of {Lambda, Batch, Redshift, SQS} but rarely any combination of two or more of those.

And that's it. I know there are teams that go all in. But for the dozen or teams I've personally interacted with this is it. The rest of the stack is usually something stuffed into an EC2 instance instead of using an AWS version and it comes down to one thing: the difficulties in estimating pricing for those pieces. EC2 instances are drop-dead simple to price estimate forward 6 months, 12 months or longer.

Amazon is probably leaving billions on the table every year because nobody can figure out how to price things so their department can make their yearly budget requests. The one time somebody tries to use some managed service that goes overbudget by 3000%, and the after action figures out that it would have been within the budget by using <open source technology> in EC2, they just do that instead -- even though it increases the staff cost and maintenance complexity.

In fact just this past week a team was looking at using SageMaker in an effort to go all "cloud native", took one look at the pricing sheet and noped right back to Jupyter and scikit_learn in a few EC2 instances.

An entire different group I'm working with is evaluating cloud management tools and most of them just simplify provisioning EC2 instances and tracking instance costs. They really don't do much for tracking costs from almost any of the other services.
Which sounds ridiculous as well. Many outside of the US think the place is changing for the worse, no question. There's a big problem when large contingents of people believe this stuff, no?
No, it wasn't clear. It's not that different from views I've seen expressed on here before.
They sure have the right to. But I also have the right to criticize their decision.
And it's important to understand that's the one exception - MPs have freedom from prosecution only when they're speaking in parliament, and that freedom is moderated by the fact the house can have a majority to suspend that MP from parliament.
So, it’s important to get this right. In reputational effects, like this one, we don’t care about

P(I use this | I’m a bad person)

because, like you point out, this obscures cases, like breathing air, where P(I use this) is already high. Instead, we care about

P(I’m a bad person | I use this)

And we especially care if this conditional probability is perceived to be high. This is because then your potential users will worry that if they use your product, others will make the (justified!) Bayesian inference that they are bad people. Because they don’t want to be seen to be bad people, they will avoid it.
> There was also a study done by Vanguard which showed that historically, dollar-cost averaging underperforms lump-sum investments which was just as interesting to me.

I'd be very interested to read the study, but the only text I've found so far is this: https://investor.vanguard.com/investing/online-trading/inves...

It seems logical to me that lump sum investing > dollar-cost averaging (which is why I do the former), but I'd be curious to see empirical research.
I did it once. Flaked like crazy. Never again.
> knowledgeable, expert Unix user

I wouldn't describe myself as that, but I think I'm a little bit past noob at this point.

I don't "brush aside" a program because it's node, but it's definitely a strike against it. I don't like dealing with the massive amount of dependencies that always seems to follow along with it.
This is not only much needed, but also will help shape how our legal system can adapt to new technologies.

I had the privilege of sitting in on an Election Law class last year at YLS. The topic was gerrymandering, with a discussion of the legal arguments presented in Vieth v. Jubelirer.

For non-lawyers, the plaintiffs arguments for what should constitute illegal gerrymandering is technically complex, using statistic concepts, graphs (computer science), and even np-completeness. In essence, the argument was to use computers to draw all possible congressional districts, score them on the basis of discarded votes, and if the scoring of the drawn districts is greater than two standard deviations from the mean district, determine it is unfairly drawn. I found particularly striking an audio recording the professor shared of a lawyer struggling to answer John Robert's questions on technical topics. The professor used this as an example to be prepared to answer questions that you may not have a background in, even if the expert witnesses had already explained the concepts. Unfortunately, the court rejected the proposed determination of unfair gerrymandering in a 5-4 decision, with the dissent stating that the presented way to determine unfair gerrymandering was clever, correct, and should be revisited.

As we continue to push the frontiers of what we can do with computers, we need informed lawyers who can clearly present deep technical topics, and we need judges who are capable of understanding them.
I use Firefox mostly cuz google gets too much of my info already, to use Chrome.

I also make _heavy_ use of containers with firefox. I have containers for everything from clients to banking to gaming. I even have a 'low sec' container with no ad-block or privacy extensions.
I don't think that the reality.
You can check yourself here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Excuse the source, but this article has a bit of context about Khameini's tweets and the repeated call for their deletion:

https://nypost.com/2020/07/30/twitter-execs-refused-request-...

This tweet is particularly famous:

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263749566744100864

Honestly I don't think Twitter's removal of the Xinjiang tweet had anything to do with foreign policy at all, it just made feminism look bad, which does actually crush birth rates (even if that's not what happened in Xinjiang). Right-wing Twitter was exploiting the CCP tweet for this alone.
Context is always an essential hermeneutic tool. Historic context in particular is nigh invaluable for many works. (This would seem obvious, but one of the consequences of 'death of the author' lines of thought is that a work becomes entirely stripped from all context, and much damage is thereby done to reason.)
Here’s what I do:

- never install slack or email on your phone

- use a separate laptop for personal stuff. I don’t/can’t log in to work stuff here.

- put your work laptop away and out of sight when done work

- (optionally) give a few trusted people your phone number if they absolutely must reach you

The last point help alleviate the stress of “I absolutely must always check slack to deal with the latest crisis”
You're arguing that you have other evidence that Trump incited violence. Maybe you do. But the comment I was replying to was quoting a statement made by Trump at his rally, implying that it is evidence that he incited violence. It simply does not demonstrate that. It is not evidence of incitement. It just isn't.

If you believe X because of evidence Y, it does not follow that Z must also be evidence of X, just because you believe X (even if this belief is correct).

Not having the critical self-awareness to recognize this is likely to lead you to believe all sort of things that aren't really true, as you start thinking that everything you see confirms your existing beliefs, even when it doesn't.
Agreed. Though, that to comes at a cost, so I don't want to do it except when it's worth it.

http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-w...
Thank you, I really value this type of advice from older and wiser people. I don't have anyone in my family who knows money well so I need to learn from others
I'm not really preparing with anything special.

It's always a good idea to have diversified assets, even if some of it is obscured by a holding company (REIT, metals, etc). Holding a small amount (5-10%) of "cash" can be good if theres a downturn so you can buy deals or use it for emergencies. Owning real property or other physical assets is good too.

I don't think we'll see a big crash soon. The Fed has created a ton of money. If we start to see rate increases, we might start to see money rotate out of equities, but we should also see inflation. We might also see some tech stocks burst (Tesla especially).

If you look at projections or past case studies, they seem to indicate that if you create a diversified portfolio and don't try to time the market, then you have better returns than trying to time the market. Of course you can always get a financial advisor rather than listen to random people on here.
> I followed your directions to the letter using flak-seed oil and several coats done in the oven and yesterday when attempting to cook eggs, they stuck terribly. Please advise.

Does anyone successfully cook eggs in cast iron?
For a more accessible description of what sia & skynet do, https://siastats.info/sia101 is a good starting place.
That's a very good speech. At this point can the Republican party be saved, though? He made the comparison to Krystallnacht, which is a stretch (and feels very wrong), but is relevant in that in both cases the authorities stood by and watched. That seems to be problem: the party, its beliefs and those within it are still held in esteem. Calling some unnamed people "spineless" isn't the full-throated denunciation of the ideology and all those affiliated that seems needed. All those Republican congresspeople voting against certifying the election indicates this anti-democratic ideology has taken strong root within the party -- has become the ideology of the party. The Republican party itself has become a threat to democracy. If they won both houses in the next election, would you trust them to certify the election of a Democrat president? I'm sure there are many reasonable Republicans on here, but can you still trust the party to represent those reasonable beliefs? I'm not suggesting all those people should suddenly become Democrats, just pointing out that I don't know that this is a problem that can be fixed without much more drastic changes.
> There is a distinction

It is a distinction with no real meaning to me, in this case.

If I was an employee at Twitter working to expand the reach of my platform, and the platform was being used to brag about genocide, then I would feel partly responsible for normalizing that behavior.
Twitter and 4Chan are generally for bareknuckle flamewars, and low-effort shitposts. In short, they're the least useful elements of the fringe, and their producers are easy to find because half their fun comes from ignoring bans, and pseudononymously transgressing social norms.

The content that is constantly forced to move is dialogue, and ideological exchange. The useful stuff. If you want to follow those discussions, you have to pay constant attention, and be prepared to run through social media accounts and platforms like tissue platform, or socially engineer yourself into multiple encrypted chats.
Section 230 was created when Twitter (and the likes) were much less important for public discourse.

I'm willing to bet that it's going to be amended, just like the EU version of it was.

Consider this precedent :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

> The Court rejected that contention, noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.

In its conclusion, the Court stated that it was essentially weighing the rights of property owners against the rights of citizens to enjoy freedom of press and religion. The Court noted that the rights of citizens under the Bill of Rights occupy a preferred position. Accordingly, the Court held that the property rights of a private entity are not sufficient to justify the restriction of a community of citizens' fundamental rights and liberties.
Would you say that of Count of Monte Cristo?
Wikipedia is also amazing because the foundation publishes a lot of detail about engineering and technical operations on Wikitech (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). I’ve learned so much about DevOps just reading their docs and publicly released code. They also publish minutes of their Scrum of Scrums and Google Summer of Code projects. And they have historical info about key initiatives & growth. All worth exploring if you’re running a website/startup.
There's also

https://fluffychat.im/
Well, that's an explanation, but it's not really excuse.

Other languages have had reforms and there is no natural language that I know of that doesn't have major influences from at least 3 or 4 different languages.
What keeps the lines from intersecting? Is that a property of "Perlin noise"?
Documentation about Sia and Skynet can be found at https://SiaSetup.info in the "Learn" subsection.
Have you tried contacting Paddle about this? https://paddle.com/migrate
Forcing private companies to carry all speech would be a new thing.

Maybe it is the right thing, but it would be new.

I think you are probably giving "Big Tech" a coherent animus that it never really had.
How can you say that when there are hundreds of confirmed cases of ISIS radicalizing people from the internet ? Why do you have a problem believing that ?
Who gets to be the judge of speech liberties? Perhaps we need a bureau of the government to act in this manner, perhaps a ministry, who's mission is to determine whether words and opinions are true or not.
Are there any examples of minimal human-friendly Terms Of Service texts that one could use or adopt to their own projects?
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Moving them underground to limit their radicalization of every day people seems fair. Law enforcement's role is to infiltrate, observe, and prosecute when necessary.
Wait until you hear they don't pronounce the "e", either :-p
So you're pretending to read my mind and claiming without evidence that it's some sort of habit? Very convincing. I did say "at worst" didn't I? That's clearly meant to express that it's an extreme on a range of possible motives or interpretations. When there's a broad choice of equally accurate terms and one makes a choice of the one with certain associations, that choice itself can be a signal. Especially when "keeping out the Chinese" is clearly a major focus of the document. It's a possibility, and I stated no more than that.