skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the way to think about this is leverage. Courts, media, law enforcement, bureaucracy are all strictly necessary for the shared belief in law to hold, but it's the shared belief that does the lion's share of the work of keeping society coordinated. Taken together, the institutions achieve orders of magnitude greater effect than it would seem from the work they put into it. They do that by creating conditions in which a much more potent phenomenon can arise and sustain itself - that of the intersubjective belief in law.

(Which is why I consider attacks at public trust as existential threats to society - why I consider many white-collar crimes to be on par with murder, why I think current ad-funded journalism is a huge net social negative, and why I think many of hot SV startups need to be disbanded. They're all trying to erode the conditions that allow the "shared delusion" of civilization to function.)

Or, excuse the bad analogy, think of it as shield generators in Star Trek and other sci-fi. A starship will have this critical bit of technobabble that you could break with a wrench, but when activated, it directs energy into a field that can laugh off megaton explosions. It's the field that does the work, the generator only keeps it up.
Is the new boom in digital art sales a genuine opportunity or a trap?
This is not "open source" as in the definition above. It's "source available".
That demonstrably false - ask a random joe how much tax he just paid, and he will know. Ask him how many companies bought his data, and he wont have a clue. He doesnt even know who has it, who sold it, or anything for that matter.

If, every time his data was sold, he got a notification, then maybe we would see a change.
I think will be solved similarly as telecommunications, using space.

I mean, suborbital container launches.
Yes, it's the remnants of the command economy and production targets, but generally structured as state owned companies.

As others have pointed out, you don't easily stop and start foundries.
Applications of Python
‘These people are broken’: Why the UK’s war on drugs has failed
> Japanese-speaking people have trouble understanding each other?

Probably no more so than speakers of other languages.

What I meant is that written Japanese often conveys information that will be lost if the text is read aloud as it is written, as words written differently are often pronounced the same.

English has similar cases, such as “right,” “write,” and “rite.” But Japanese has many, many more. For example, the words 壮観, 送還, 相姦, 相関, 相観, 挿管, 創刊, and 総監 are all pronounced sōkan, but they mean, respectively, a grand sight, repatriation, incest, correlation, physiognomy, intubation, start of publication, and inspector general. When the words are seen, their meaning is immediately clear. When they are heard, the listener must infer which meaning is intended from the context, and often the context is insufficient.

Radio announcers, when reading aloud a text, will sometimes explain the kanji with which a word was written. Audiobook narrators probably don’t feel they have the authority to do so.
AI at work: Staff 'hired and fired by algorithm'
I genuinely cannot believe the number of people who are equating the actions of a private organization to authoritarianism and “cancel culture”. Is this not the free market working as intended? That the public has a voice in who/what succeeds?
I don't think it makes sense to view producing such content as so frightening.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190602191056/https://cphpost.d...
> Cartoons and drawings depicting paedophilia do not encourage people to commit child sex offences in real life, a report by experts who treat sexual problems concludes.

The report, carried out by Sexologisk Klinik, which is a part of Rigshospitalet, was ordered by the former justice minister, Lars Barfod (Konservative), after the Socialdemokraterne, then in opposition, demanded a ban on drawings and animations of children being sexually abused.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130111326.h...
> The findings support the theory that potential sexual offenders use child pornography as a substitute for sex crimes against children. While the authors do not approve of the use of real children in the production or distribution of child pornography, they say that artificially produced materials might serve a purpose.
I'm not sure what "collecting user's consent" means. It sounds like asking users if they consent or not, if so what's the problem? Maybe it means 'collecting consent' in a way that users don't actually get a real choice or aren't fully informed of the consequences? It's very unclear.

Apple obviously does collect a lot of information on users that are necessary to provide various services. The concern is if this information is used for purposes other than providing those services.
It's disingenous, or, more precisely, rhetoric, to state that there are no correlations at all between people with certain IQ and traits/interests/likemindedness.

You've asked questions of whom you don't have interests in the answer (it's fairly easy to find correlations, in particular, reading the whole conversation), so this classifies as trolling in my opinion. If you had this attitude when you joined the club, I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't been treated friendly.
She's a very old woman now and will be dead soon enough.

It would be nice if that precipitated the end of the monarchy here. Depose them, seize all their land and other assets, it's only fair. Useless scroungers, the lot of them.
Oh, so precrime "enforcement" pantopticon like China. This is a moist dry-run to try out more undemocratic, diabolical tyrannical over-policing on Americans.
> Such a waste of resources (but it's not your resources, so developers don't care).

I've always wondered if it wasn't intentional. Things running on the client means they don't have to run on the server, and you can save money this way.
> They aren't doing 20x replication. They do 20+20? erasure coding, so the overhead is 2x or less.

With "sending that backup to 10 machines" I meant "egress 10x of 250GB" = 2500GB. With a pricing of $0.01 per GB after egress tops 100% of stored data, or 250GB, that's 0.01 * 2250 = $22.5. I'm not talking about replication overhead on their side.
Sounds like they just aren't innovating. The degree to which they have solved the issue obviously isn't enough.
I infer from the downvote that I phrased badly - not "what for?" in the uncurious sense of "what loser would want that without a need?", but rather "is this for a specific purpose that would constrain you or purely for joy?"
This is only the preliminary concept mockup, not the final note.
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I think this is disingenuous.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

I think that 50% of people have no idea what the value of metadata is, nor how much or what they are leaking.
I don't think it being Linux is too important for people. If somebody made a working FreeBSD for a phone and there was official support for that device, then people wouldn't be all "Well, it's not Linux". I don't think I've seen any interest from BSD maintainers to bring any form of it to phones though.

As it is now, the PinePhone is officially supported by Manjaro and that makes it the most obvious option. Also, all attempts thus far to bring open source to mobile has been some form of Linux, so it's natural that when people think "open source phone", it's probably going to be using Linux. PinePhone itself already has 18-ish different distros, including ports of Debian and Ubuntu, so it's certainly well on its way.
>"it's obvious that they aren't getting requests from law enforcement to protect users' privacy"

Obviously privacy law is not something enforced by law enforcement!
Lockdowns simply don't work. How do I know? Because Sweden, which for a long time refused to introduce any COVID restrictions at all, has less deaths per 1M people (1317) than France (1425), which introduced full lockdown.

Also, Texas recently lifted all the restrictions couple weeks ago, and number of cases and deaths is still falling.

I'm sure there are more examples like that.
Brave's main distinction is the cryptocurrency thing... as a browser it doesn't offer an interesting difference over the competition for privacy. And as privacy is a cat and mouse game, I'm not sure that Brave has developed the reputation that they get an edge on this problem over Apple or Mozilla.

After that I'm not sure what it's offering. What is the eye opening factor here? In what ways has Brave really taken leadership?

If Google or Apple did the same things Brave did with their cryptocoin donation scheme it would seem incredibly abusive. Also, if Apple promoted that they used local machine learning to develop profiles for optimal ad placement on you, it would only damage their brand.
ESA gives UK space an £8.5m Boost: Rocketeers eye a 2022 launch
And 1 year later you've finally deployed a registration form.

And 6 years laters you've invented an undocumented poor man's version of Flask.

And 16 years laters you invented your own ruby on rails, except with no community, no third party libraries, no support and no documentations.

At some point you've left the company and some poor soul is dealing with your simplicity.
And Google already breaches the GDPR with their non-compliant consent prompt.

But regarding law enforcement requests, GDPR explicitly allows any data sharing that's required to comply with the law.
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I also found a press release on the Julia Computing website:

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/BrazilNationalinstit...

But the forum link above seems more informative and the software architect has answered questions within the thread.
RTFA.

There's is nothing against RMS in this post. Please don't start a flamewar out of nothing.
I've lived in London for a while, and I'm still fascinated how uncommon £50 notes were. You try to pay with one and they look at you as if you were some kind of drug lord.

Hop over to Switzerland, and you can buy a coffee with a 1000 franc (GBP780) note without any issues.
My partner and I shipped our furniture from the US to Europe for an international move. We were tracking the ship going back and forth between Hamburg and Copenhagen for weeks. Turns out the moving company gave us the wrong ship number, and our stuff had been waiting for us in the destination port.
Read the top comment.

You start with a Makefile and a main.go and from there on you invent the universe, starting from (almost) writing an http server.

Welcome to the future.
Suez Canal suspends traffic. Where are the SREs?
Did someone predict this possibility? Where are the SREs?
What is your approach in predicting and preparing for disasters?
Recovering a full PEM Private Key when half of it is redacted
Roman emperors brought people together by throwing other people to the lions. So I'd guess throwing RMS to the mob would also count as good leadership?
Go to a money exchange place (preferably somewhere that doesn't have too many UK tourists) and ask nicely if they have it and ask to buy one.

The caveat is because places with lots of tourists will have their "pocket change" (old notes)
(Un)like computers, judges sometimes die and guess who nominates replacement judges.
Are you referring to the IQ? So, a conversation starter like "Hi! What's your IQ"?

I've never heard it, and I don't think anybody, except people with incredibly poor social skills, would use it.
I have purchased libre software. An example is RCU (reMarkable Connection Utility): http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
> but then you wouldn’t use S3 for that either

Why do you have that impression?

S3 and similar are used a lot for backups, especially Glacier.
Any site that does not support Firefox Android is bound to have serious quality issues. Or maybe the implementation of the site is an act of malicious compliance designed to deter engagement and dissent.
They are looking for 1 criminal so they took data of a 1,000 people?

Is it cool for police to seize property of thousands of people just because someone somewhere might have commited a crime?

Because then your property can be seized at any time without reason, there is always some crime somewhere nearby.
Aye I don't deny such people exist in the UK, but if they tried to get schools to change their curriculum, they would not be given the time of day like folk in the USA.
I’ve been using 1.6.0-rc1 for
a while, and it has been stable and fast with precompilation, reducing the “time to first plot”
to just a few seconds.
"little harm" is an anodyne way to talk about people dying and suffering. Maybe not as many, but I sure as hell don't want to take my chances and catch it.

Also are you sure about that metric? This chart looks like deaths/day are 2X above summer levels (30 vs 15): https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/10/nation/latest-coronav...

"Only" 2X deaths per day when cases are 5X per day is an improvement, but I am not rushing to eat indoors or go to a concert or gym. In fact, I am nervous as hell that loosened restrictions are going to increase spread the way they did last fall, and a bunch of people are going to get sick, suffer, and maybe die who wouldn't if we just buckled down for another month or two and got vaccinated.
More likely the out of control budget deficit.
Constructing a sponge function from MD5
One thing that stands out to me is an unintended consequence of the pricing structure:

Storing a 250GB backup and sending to 10 machines: $1 for storage, $22.5 for egress.

Storing a 250 GB backup, 2250GB of /dev/zero, and sending your backup to 10 machines: $10 for storage, $0 for egress.
Where is the other side, i.e how are people with hard drives recruited? It didn't seem to be on this site but it's important to know otherwise how do we know it's not, for instance, a botnet?
Exactly. It’s not as easy as saying “oh look, people want to see us” as it is bureaucratic red tape that a festival has to adhere to.
Also, just because people want to see you perform doesn’t mean a venue does. Some venues will only take certain artists, others lack the space, all while more and more smaller to medium sized venues are closing.
Music as a business is evolving to just digital content and marketing. It’s sad.
I don't understand the wording.

He says "when I saw your message. At that time all I could see was what was in your message. At the same time I sent another message to get a copy of https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html. That arrived subsequently."

Doesn't that mean he received the original posting after all?

> Oh well.

If you ask me that shows poor leadership. Everybody does make mistakes but not reflecting on those mistakes and trying to do better will result in getting left behind.
You've got to plug both holes in a sinking ship.

The imagination deficit by the public can be fixed separately but both that and knowledge of what is going on is necessary to stop this.

There no "1984" (art that acts as a sort of standardized warning - to the point that it's almost a cliche) for a world with Google. Not yet, anyway.

While the themes of 1984 are relevant, the tech isn't. We don't have TVs that record us at home but we have something potentially worse.
> I'd like to solve the use case where a dev in Oklahoma makes $80k or a dev in Texas makes just above six figures while doing the same work. Maybe that helps clarify the problem. I can't accept that the delta is just for COLA and commute to work.

The delta is because $80k is the best option an OK resident has (or the best option the person selling money thinks the OK resident has, and same for TX resident at $100k. If the OK resident accepts $80k, then this shows the person selling money was correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Employers are selling money, employees are selling labor, if they agree to a price then both parties have agreed to what they think their best option is at that time.
Unlikely, because where do those workers go? It is the same in the IT market - contracts changed to in-scope without significant bump.
Interesting site. I can't follow the reasoning. How do you think posts are prevented from reaching the front page? Do you claim they did reach front page but were then ... magically deleted? Or got more downvotes? Or where just [flagged] by the admins?
Too bad it’s not possible to selfhost
Google AdSense
Google is definitely much more than a search engine. Google got introduced in1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a research project at Stanford University to find files on the Internet. The name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word 'Googol' which stands for number 1 followed by 100 zeros. It was picked to give you an idea that the search engine is intended to provide you with large quantities of information.https://www.youtheuniverse379.com/2021/01/a-helping-hand-from-google_8.html?m=1
I saw an eagle try to get a baby loon last year at a lake in Maine. The mama loon was on the spot though. The eagle came in fast and low, mama loon raised a terrific racket and got between the chick and the eagle. They struck together and the eagle flew away without its prize. Loons are large, strong birds. Quite a sight to see. After that both parents stayed right by the chick for a while. I do like loons better than eagles. Hopefully the expanding eagle population doesn’t put too much pressure on the loons. Loons have about 3 chicks every year but only about 1 year out of 3 do any of them survive, even with both parents protecting them. They make up for it by being very long lived birds (30 years or more).
This is not true in the US as state laws apply for where the employee conducts the work, not the location of the employer.

The employer will need to withhold taxes for the state of the employee as well.

This is frequently hard to detect with everyone teleworking, but rest assured that HR is getting a call if someone works in a state with maternity leave laws requiring it.

While not generally applicable for digital jobs that telework, I think the most obvious would be minimum wage. If I live in Seattle and telework to a job in Alabama that pays only $11, that’s a liability for the employer.

Of course, I think that if an employee was teleworking from a location without approval that’s likely grounds for dismissal.
I know you're exaggerating slightly, but how would a coffee vendor make change for that many francs?
It’s almost as if making things harder for yourself and assuming the worst about others has consequences...
I can be happy that the FSF exists, admire a number of the goals RMS has strived towards, and still be aghast and horrified by RMS's lack of personal boundaries[1], lack of respect for women[1], and specific pieces of writing that lived on his site for decades that were in favour of child abuse.

I'm not sure how meditating on it is supposed to negate the latter. Nor how that is supposed to provide a space in which software is free of the shackles of the misogyny of the popular.

[1]: Literally just listen to the women who have had to work along side him on the MIT campus for decades. The fact that it was a known fact in the whisper network on campus and that they had developed tactics for "dealing with it" shows you pretty much everything you need to know.
Ape is supposed to be a boring language with C-like syntax that's very easy to embed and use (coming from game development there's definitely a need for that). Although I do think that the way it handles crashes with "recover" statement brings something new to the table.
Are there other analytics packages which can operate in a purely session based way?
How do you access your database?
How do you do migrations?
How do you do end to end testing?
How do you do fixtures?
How do you do user input validations and error reporting?
How do you do translations and 18n in general?
Do you have any kind of admin ui?
How do you handle assets?
How do you do ajax calls?
How do you send emails?
How do you handle general error reporting to sentry, or similar?

Go is great for systems programing, building kubernetes, CLIs, etc.

It is very far from being a good idea to use it for general web development. Right tool for the job and such.
1982: The Hobbit
You can certainly choose to believe this, but it is wrong.

What you are referring to is choosing to blow something up based on a systematic approach that follows the laws of armed conflict, with frequent legal oversight, separate after action review, in a system that strongly punishes failure to follow process. This system is fully endorsed by the US Congress, representing the citizenry.

So if some civilians get blown up, 9/10 it was a deliberate decision.
> the FSF (in the form of the FSFE)

As of right now, they are separate organizations.
Why doesn't BBC link to the actual paper:

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/02/09/bjsports-2020-...

Results:

The HIA process confirmed concussion in 106 players (HIA+) and excluded this in 50 (HIA−). 32 sncRNAs were significantly differentially expressed across these two groups, with let-7f-5p showing the highest area under the curve (AUC) at 36–48 hours. Additionally, a combined panel of 14 sncRNAs (let-7a-5p, miR-143-3p, miR-103a-3p, miR-34b-3p, RNU6-7, RNU6-45, Snora57, snoU13.120, tRNA18Arg-CCT, U6-168, U6-428, U6-1249, Uco22cjg1,YRNA_255) could differentiate concussed subjects from all other groups, including players who were HIA− and controls, immediately after the game (AUC 0.91, 95% CI 0.81 to 1) and 36–48 hours later (AUC 0.94, 95% CI 0.86 to 1). When prospectively tested, the panel confirmed high predictive accuracy (AUC 0.96, 95% CI 0.92 to 1 post-game and AUC 0.93, 95% CI 0.86 to 1 at 36–48 hours).
Unlimited free next day delivery offsets this, but I see your point.
Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth
I personally believe we should be doing more to promote and empower our scientists instead of shunning them for political or financial reasons. We certainly can't write a wrong long past, but we can make sure to not repeat it again.

The £50 note feels like lipservice if anything.
There is no FA. It is an email from 2015.

I am just questioning if this submission here and now is part of the seemingly concerted effort to discredit RMS in the last few days.
We now manage a network of over 250,000 NAS devices that are part of our network. So we know how to handle devices going offline without losing data. This approach has been used at scale since 2014.
In my city, in 2021, 10 Covid deaths and 13 opiate OD deaths.
Those do not scale enough with miles driven.
Agreed. I also find it amusing that there were two other brilliant minds who heard the explanation and thought nothing of it. No one seems to mention that very much. Perhaps politics and logic don't really go hand in hand.
> Also, if you do not feel represented by an organisation, why not do the OpenSource-thing and fork the organisation?

As of right now, the FSF Europe is no longer joined with the FSF
Vehicle taxes is like putting everyone on an all you can eat data plan.
I track the front page every fixed interval and do a diff. Some of them get pushed off quickly (say < 30 minutes). I also track, secondarily, all the other stories with a lot of points and comments that don't get to the front page.
Definitely. If somebody is winding down their career, I totally get just sticking with the thing they know. A couple years back I decided I wanted to try my hand at building a mobile app. Starting from square one kinda sucked; suddenly being bad at something I am used to being good at was a drain. The ROI on a switch like that depends a lot on how many years you expect you can be putting the knowledge to use.

And yeah, I too worry about people who do that early on. Some things will probably last. E.g., I'd bet that Salesforce admins will still be employed 30 years from now. But the odds are not as good for most technologies in use today.