skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any state which enforces private land tenure in a non-reciprocated manner will tend towards autocracy over time. A distinguishing feature of high functioning republics is the ability to organize reliable public assessments of direct taxes on landed property within their borders. Under corrupt governments the assessments are never kept up to date and the nobility is given arbitrary and excessive privileges and exemptions to shift direct contributions to the least advantaged members of society. Maybe 50% of local governments and 20% of regional states in the U.S. are high functioning. The federal government was able to organize assessments in 1798, 1813-1816, and 1861 but is generally not high functioning.
It applies to the USA too. (Note: Wikimedia UK is an independent organization. It is associated with, but not owned/controlled by WMF)

However, often restricted donations result in people spending money on things that don't matter, because it might be earmarked for something that isn't needed. Even if not, it can distort priorities in ways that people earmarking the donations aren't aware of.

Its the sort of thing, where the bureaucracy of it clearly isn't worth it for small donations.

According to WMF's financial statement, there was about 4 million of such restricted donations in the 2018-2019 year.
I've seen "Legitimate Interest", but no where has anyone explained what that actually means.
They had many years of time to address this class of issues, and sometimes it has consistently gotten worse, not better. Why would the trust not go down?
The theory is certainly valid in terms of switching from PowerPC to x86 and now x86 to ARM.

The timing and IBM part were inaccurate to say the least.
Russia is effectively a criminal enterprise cosplaying as a nation state. Putin is going to die in the next 20 years and create a massive power vacuum. What you'll end up with is a dozen or so "rightful heirs" with some level of control over the military and nuclear arsenals.
Indeed, indeed.

What I wanted to say is that even if Jiva had no performance penalty, it would only deliver at most 125 out of the 220 MBps that the drive is supposed to be capable of sustaining.
A thought provoking point that will make me think more about how I use language. "I suffered from severe depression. Then came ketamine" would also have done the job.
That’s when I end up glad my country seems so bent on making their own stuff (mostly planes) no matter what. Surprisingly, they’ve even started succeeding in selling those these last few years.
The difference is that ads on websites are somewhat expected and usually easy to block and contained inside a browser.
Ads inside an OS are in a different category of annoying. Especially on Windows where it's not just one setting to turn them off, but they're scattered through the OS, they get re-installed with updates and it's a constant game of whack-a-mole to get rid of them.

I don't get the point of comparing Windows 10 to websites. How about you compare it to Windows 7? Somehow, Windows 7 managed to work just fine without nagging you with ads all the time.
"Not motivated by money" in this context simply means not being profit focused, so breaking even and/or revenue enough to hire some more engineers is probably the monetary goal
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Surely we can do better than to view the world solely through the lens of contract law, of all things.

If your contract contains an non-compete clause, is it now part of your "job" to not do any work for competitors? No, your job is to produce things, not to not specifically do it for someone else. That's just a contractual obligation you have happened to agree to.
It has been previously revealed that this scandal includes espionage against Swedish military industry, like the company SAAB, manufacturer of fighter jet Gripen, competitor of F-35.
Typically the electronics are trying to shed heat, not retain it since there is no air convection.
Both alluded to in the article:

- I think maybe we should actually just have a permanent location for the Olympics. I don't see why we let some ghost village get built somewhere every four years, it's super wasteful and not compatible with how we want to celebrate our humanity. So pick a place, maybe in Greece, but definitely somewhere near snow and water. Build facilities that can be a destination for elite sportspeople permanently. It grows its own culture and economy.

- The Olympics really is for rich people. Football is secondary. Running is legit open to poorer people, but most of the sports are only competitive for upper middle class people who even then need to struggle for funding, and need to spend a fair bit of their youth practicing. I just think of UK independent school students when I look at most of the sports, you need that level of opportunity in your life to have a chance. Then again I'm not against it if it's their own time and money that's spent, I just think of the Olympics as something other than a broad cut of the world's people taking part in an idealistic contest.
I want a cookie policy API in browsers. User has a master switch for: Ask Every Time, Yes, No, and Essential Only – then in the list of remembered sites you can toggle after the fact if your little heart so desires.

That's it, that's all I want. Give me back my web please.

Between cookies and user authentication I think the web is an actively user hostile place. We could and should have done better.
Thanks to Brexit the BBC cannot be held accountable to the EU anymore, no?

Edit: thanks for the responses. Understood: it still applies.
These words have both a literal/medical and a metaphorical meaning.

Paralysed - inability to act

Blind - unaware of what's going on

The metaphorical meaning was probably intended.
Haha, this is hilarious in a very sad way. Can only imagine how the internal conversation about such an implementation went :).
Decades or centuries above 1000km...
The last two Windows updates I let happen force-installed Edge. I removed it afterwards with a helper tool. After it happened the second time in a row, I deactivated Windows updates. Microsoft can go whistle. Should I ever get into trouble for not having updated Windows, I'll trash the VM and restore from a backup. That's a suboptimal solution to be sure, but I don't know how else to fend off this shit.
There is a functional difference between bing and google search though, or am I wrong in still stubbornly googling? The other thing is - perhaps let users choose browser them selves? Or compete by being better instead of being the same...
IMO a box of 3x5 flashcards is unbeatable.
MS managed to kill established competition on their OS platform with their behavior around IE. Apple doesn't allow competing browser engines on iOS in the first place, so this gives them a kind of a free pass on that one. They could be on the hook for abusing their iOS gatekeeper status against other types of apps, though.
Really solid detail on load-balancing. Always so tricky with socket servers.
Why do you think you can decide what black communities need more than the majority of black people? They want more police. You are advocating for them to get less, against their wishes, no?
They are supporting open source, no? Could depend on your definition of course, but still.. Anyway: the tricky point here is that the division/department/whatever which deals with that is not the same one as the management (or whatever group) pushing for these advertisements. To the point that treating Microsoft as one big untrustable entity and putting a dollar sign in its name becomes a bit weird and overly generalistic. I mean, I don't 'trust' any company they way I'd trust true friends, but dismissing the whole of it seems far fetched. E.g. I use their compiler. Do I have to worry about the compiler betraying trust somehow because some completely unrelated team in a large company pulls of stupid advertising? It's possible of course the complete top layer of management is instructing every single piece below it to do evil, like the compiler team putting backdoors in, but I don't think there are signs of such things going on.
The side ventures aren't the thing they are doing now that they weren't back then (Other then wikidata which started in 2012, all the other side projects are really old). Things they are doing now is stuff like having a website that stays up and is speedy. Software improvements for english wikipedia

EN Wikipedia has always been where the lion share of attention was focused on (With wikidata and commons coming in second. The other projects get very little love).
Because nothing happens when you spy on your satellite states. 40 years ago people said it was wrong to have Soviet satellite states in Europe, and they seemed right. Only that they just meant the "Soviet" part of the sentence.
We also openly supported white colonisers in India like the Portuguese in Goa and the French in Pondicherry (just like Vietnam etc). We even voted against Indians at the UN in favor of white colonial rule of Goa (and even forced client states through coups/arms twisting to vote along).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa#UN_attempts_...
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US bullied Indonesia to buy US weapons too. And Indonesia is not a NATO member. Most of those weapons from US is overpriced and overkill for Indonesia need.

https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/03/13/trump-threat-...
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Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola_(ISS_module)
Yeah it's definitely anticompetitive but I find it strange there's no evidence to back the claim up.
> To me, the takeaway is that we can't really rely just on individuals to run moral power structures, but that we need to encode these values into the rules of structure itself - the democratic principles, laws, and enforcement - to get a decent approximation of a civil society.

Hmm, I took exactly the opposite message: democratic checks and balances don't work unless individual members of society really believe in them.
Researching the full extent of the old AT&T long lines network, the AUTOVON network, L3 carrier systems is a very deep rabbit hole to go down. It's a combination of all the major pre fiber Intercity telecom links in north America plus a lot of amazing military grade underground bunkers in some key locations.
The last big Update (21H1) also rendered all 3D Apps useless, none would work on my machine anymore. Not matter which version of the AMD driver I tried.
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That's a good point. Anecdotally, street ketamine friends have come across has appeared pretty pure under reagent testing, but that's obviously still nothing like medical quality.
Ah yes, and that's not totally skewed by the fact that an "edit" in a knowledge graph is at the granulatity of a triple while an edit in an article has the granulatity of a coherent piece of structurally meaningfull information.

Piling onto the glorified garbage dump (just follow the isA edges of any concept you'll see what I mean) is a strawman metric.
>The are certainly not much more than any other country.

I appreciate your naivete but we have to face the truth. The homicide[+] rate of South Africa (as of 2018) is 36.40. For comparison, Afghanistan is 6.6. The US sits at 4.96. Most of Europe is below 3. And that's just the kiling part. South Africa is notorious for its rampant sexual violence. [++]

[+] Within the broad range of violent deaths, the core element of intentional homicide is the complete liability of the direct perpetrator, which thus excludes killings directly related to war or conflicts, self-inflicted death (suicide), killings due to legal interventions or justifiable killings (such as self-defence), and those deaths caused when the perpetrator was reckless or negligent but did not intend to take a human life (non-intentional homicide). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... (2018)

[++] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#South%20Africa (2010)
Because all Wikipedia needs to do is to keep the website up, yes... This sounds pretty much similar with the argument on which the education system gets constantly defunded.
Show HN: Smothering Discussion of Cryptocurrency on HN
At the weekend I clicked on a post on HN linking to Maciej Ceglowski's twitter that turned-out to be a scathingly brutal criticism of Bitcoin.

The HN post was climbing the front-page, and after I'd read the twitter thread I came back to upvote it. Right now I don't remember whether my upvote registered - my HN page was still open, and the post was still visible to me - but when I returned to the first page, it was mysteriously gone.

Only a couple minutes had passed, and I couldn't understand how a controversial Pinboard post had gone from climbing fast, to off the first page so quickly.

It wasn't on the second page, or the third page. I clicked on my browser history, but it seemed to be confused, as trying to return to the post simply got me back to the first page, and still no sign of it.[0]

So I decided to dupe the discussion - this is usually a sure-fire way to check whether a post has been deleted by the original poster, or if I would just get returned to the discussion I was duping.

To my surprise I was now the 'first' poster of this tweet on HN. So the original poster had deleted their post after all (I thought).

Within just a few short minutes my post had also disappeared - almost instantly flagged into oblivion while also climbing fast on the first page.

dang does a great job of moderation, but even he was misled into thinking there was an innocent explanation for the flagging:

"Edit: oh, the much simpler answer is that it was posted twice and both posts were on the front page. People flagged the dupe. That's fair."

The truth is, the two posts never got the chance to be on the first-page at the same time, because some people seem to be hellbent on censoring information on HN, and nearly succeeding.

This critical discussion of crypto was disappeared before it could become popular.

[0] I'm not sure whether having showdead set to 'yes' would have made any difference here?
For anyone curious about the Hobart mixer pictured in the article, that exact unit is for sale here:

https://www.bakedeco.com/detail.asp?id=51771

They don't list the weight or dimensions, but Hobart makes a modern version:

https://www.hobartcorp.com/centerline-20-quart-mixer

This 20 quart mixer is 33.3" high and weighs 189 pounds (204 pounds in its shipping crate).

A great unit for a commercial kitchen, maybe not such a good fit for typical home use!
Thermodynamics in space are crazy. You usually either overcool or overheat (depending on facing the Sun or facing deep space) there is no normal operation. Thermal insulation is a must.
The same happened in The Netherlands with regards to the F35 even though at the time several media outlets already reported that both the Eurofighter or Saab Gripen might be better choices.

At the time there was a very popular right-wing politician in The Netherlands (Pim Fortuyn) who was very much not in favor of the F35 purchase. And perhaps if he didn’t get killed by a left-wing activist, he might have chosen for one of the other planes. However, he got killed and his second in command (Mat Herben) took over the party and agreed with the F35 purchase.

The Guardian reported that some associates of Pim Fortuyn thought that Mat Herben was an establishment infiltrant: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/28/thefarright.po...
In general, I can't believe there isn't a truly good sync app for android. I use Insync on the PC, and was disappointed to learn they used to have an android app which they discontinued. Currently I use DriveSync Pro to keep a few selected folders two-way-synced to my drive, which mostly works, but after a few weeks of leaving it alone, I open the app and most of the time it has been inactive for a few days.
If a butt smells, either its owner doesn't know how to use toilet paper, or the other person is too close.
GDPR is not limited to companies inside the EU only. It covers (the PII of) every _user_ from the EU, location of the website does not matter.
For a comedic experience, open this article with your ad blocker turned off.
Thanks, I thought it was an unusual colloquialism for "couple of"
You find it disgusting that a service, which you probably use both directly and indirectly multiple times a day and costs you nothing, has the nerve to give you a suggestion of donating 10$ once?

That is a very peculiar attitude to have.
That's been the rules for decades in the British edition (my family's older copy is from the 1950s).
Which makes me wonder what happened with the whole 3D printing guns story...at one point few years back it was front page news for a while. Weird how no one talks about it anymore...
GDPR applies to all websites that want to operate within the EU.
GDPR isn’t an EU law, it’s an EU directive, which means that it was (mostly) required to be implemented into member states’ own legal system. This was done in the UK before leaving the EU, in the Data Protection Act 2018.
If you ask some friends to order the following statements in terms of usefulness:

A: X company is shutting down development on their web software product.

B: X company is shutting down development on something.

C: X company is shutting down development on their web software product, which is used for collaborating on software development.

Then I bet that if your friends find any difference at all, they will rank C better than A better than B.

The headline alone tells us B, and the headline plus the LAMP comment tells us A.
GDPR is embodied in U.K. law as the 2018 Data Protection Act. It continues to function post-Brexit
Something I imagine might work (though not really as a shield, but more of a preventative measure) would be to have a few objects in orbit with a very large surface area, so that orbital debris is likely to run into it and get knocked into an orbit that intersects the atmosphere. Let's say these objects have a thousand times more surface area than the objects you actually care about. This would mean that any random piece of debris is far more likely to hit the large debris target than the important satellites.

Making something that can be hit by random objects at extreme velocities without generating even more debris sounds like a hard problem, though. Ice would be an interesting material because it sublimates, but it happens too quickly to be practically useful.
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Having permanent location will kill the very business model of Olympics, which is to allow participating entities to drain ridiculous amounts of money from the next location and to ensure the well-being of the Olympics selection committee through the kickbacks and bribes.

Saying it as someone who had to have to endure Olympics stuffed down their throat as a “lucky winner,” only to be shafted with extra taxes for several years to pay for all that fun, unity and celebration of sportsmanship.

Olympic Games as they exist now are corrupted to the core. It might be just easier to fork the venue than to clean it up.
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> The last study I saw was that 52% of security vulnerabilities were still basic memory safety vulnerabilities. Memory safety isn't the only thing, but it's still the biggest thing.

My point wasn’t that memory safety isn’t a big issue. It’s that it’s not the only cause of vulnerabilities. Assuming your 52% figure is accurate (and I’m happy to take your word on that) that still means that roughly half of all vulnerabilities are not memory safety. Which means your figure actually just reinforces my point.

> People run cat or awk on log files (where an attacker could easily craft particular data patterns) all the time. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.

I think there’s enough obscurity there hidden from the attacker that such usage should be safe from all but the most determined of attacker. And even then, they’d likely need some other attack to probe for usage about what systems are listening to what logs and using which POSIX utils that you could argue the attacker already has the access they need without going to the pain of crafting an overflow bug in a log file.

Im not saying those bugs don’t exist nor shouldn’t be addressed, I’m just being pragmatic about their exploitability.

The bigger issue is CI/CD pipelines. Often they’re define in the same mono-repo as the source itself and they’ll have execution rights automatically because that’s literally their function as a build and test pipeline. But because said pipelines are already visible and already executable, you need to have greater controls around that pipeline to prevent abuse otherwise it’s already game over even without an overflow bug.
Something with a carbon string cutting heads off was the solution, right? (Why though, I don't recall the setup for this magical solution).
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hac... is probably what you are looking for.

There's a very old architecture doc from 2012: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_architecture its kind of outdated and missing a lot of the newer pieces.

p.s. I used to work for the Wikimedia foundation about 1.5 years ago, but don't anymore. Prior to working there I was a volunteer for the FOSS project, and in theory I still am but I honestly don't do much anymore. My opinions are my own and don't represent WMF or anyone else.
Thanks for such a great article!
That’s literally the point I’m making.
The way to solve Gerrymandering is not geometry, but by removing the incentive.

It's easy to remove the incentive: Just add some statewide delegates that are elected based on the "wasted" votes. That way you get both local representation and overall proportionality.

I never see this discussed in the US context, even though it's done like that all over the world. Apparently people will rather come up with obscure algorithms based on problematic census data.
It would have been up to the grand wizards at the Magic the Gathering Online Exchange. I don't remember what the process was back then for converting bitcoin into real money, and if they offered ACH transfers or what.
Ciência da computação = "science of+the computing" = computing science
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Synology has an iPhone app called DS Photo you can use to download pics directly to your NAS.
Enforcing this feels like an immense own-goal for the tennis establishment. I have every sympathy for someone who doesn’t want to talk to the media, and I’m sure the weight of public opinion will be on her side too.

The audience wants to watch good tennis and likes to think the sport and the players come first in the organizing body’s priorities. Sending a stark reminder that money and sponsorship ranks higher is not going to end well.
lynx has this, it's one of my favorite features.
Typically legitimate interest is used where consent isn’t an applicable basis (e.g. for processing a user’s address details in an online checkout).

The fact that the BBC have chosen to add consent options to a purported legitimate interest is a hint that they’re trying to confuse the user.
Oh, they are. Maybe not in the information from the US but definitely in the information from swiss banks, there's a similar program in place.