skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might just be as simple as people feel more anonymous and thus more emboldened when everyone is wearing masks.
Really amazing. I find this sort of thing absolutely haunting. It's a vivid reminder that there is nothing particularly special about this moment in time: it's only special to us because we're living it. But their present moment was no less vital and immediate and real to them as this moment is to us. And yet, it happened so incredibly long ago!

I had the same feeling when I encountered a beautiful statue of a woman that was created in ancient Egypt. It was in a museum and I lingered at the display case, essentially just gazing into her eyes. Her personality shone through in some undefinable way: it felt like encountering another human being across an incredible expanse of time.

These moments, I find, are very poignant in the way they remind us of our own mortality — but also our deep connection to our ancestors and to the past.
>prison should be about rehabilitation, not punishment

It should. But simply letting people out is neither.
1. The US has the most incarcerated people per capita in OECD

2. US prisons seem to be awful. They should be about rehabilitation, but they are focused on punishment.

3. Because of point 2, we are reluctant to imprison some offenders, in fear of destroying their lives and chances of rehabilitation.

4. The cash bail system is not the norm across the world. It is weird to only jail people who can't afford to pay.

Are there any attempts to copy Norway's Halden prison in the US?
> Someone being in prison simply for being of a certain ethnicity isn't the same as someone being in prison for crimes.

Even when policing in the US is so completely racially motivated? Driving (hell, biking/walking/breathing) while black is a reality of the US carceral system.

The last year has really shown the world that US policing and incarceration is completely broken and highly resistant to even governance change (who's in charge of whom?)

I'm not saying what China does with the Uyghur population is right. Just that the US is not far away. Hell, look at the border detention centers.
No, not for the word "liar".

Defamation laws in the US are narrow. Insulting someone, calling their character into question -- that's not defamation. Even technically factual statements can be shown to be not defamation if the context shows they were not meant to be taken literally. The word "liar" is very, very unlikely to ever rise to that standard.

This is also why Stossel's claim is likely to fail. It is very hard to argue that the label "misleading" is a provably false statement of fact.

IANAL, but if you're hoping for Stossel to win, you probably shouldn't hold your breath.
3rd Circuit Court says celeb can sue Facebook for unauthorized photo
That's... kind of a rubbish summary, but I'm not sure what I'd want a ~700-word summary of The Great Gatsby to look like.
If ChakraCore is behind on ES6 compatibility, that has nothing to do with its recent abandonment. ES6 was finalized over 6 years ago (not to mention the time that was available to work on supporting it concurrent with the development of the actual standard itself).
Thank you for giving me the courage to go this route. The only reason I'm on Windows at this point is for gaming. Time to give Proton another try. I can't wait for my Steam Deck to arrive next year! =)
Here in New York City & New Jersey, bail reform was passed circa 2019. This limited when bail could be imposed on people, including the almost complete elimination of mandatory bail. It is completely up to the District Attorney's discretion.

The idea was that illegal drug dealing shouldn't come with an unusual burden for bail, given that its non-violent. This was heralded as a victory almost immeadiately: there was little change in crime rate within the first months of it being passed.

This seemed really strange to me. Why would you declare victory like this so prematurely? It was just _months_ after it was passed that people said "look no difference, more humane." Such proclamations should be waited at least two years so you could handle any noise.

Also noted in this thread has been the new hyper progressive DAs who don't prosecute unless its really bad. Take SF with Chesa Boudin, who doesn't prosecute thefts under the felony limit (roughly $1000) _at all_.

There's a lot to be said about whether these all form moral hazards but I leave that to one's own interpretation. I will say that people under ~35 never knew a New York City so dangerous you couldn't walk around at night.
Costs cannot be controlled. That’s not how it works. That’s how you get empty shelves.

I think some inflation will happen but not dramatically in food and clothing. We do not have many naked and starving people in America. It’s the premium consumer goods that will see higher demand - think dishwashers not Chanel.
Wikipedia to the rescue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_syndrome#Causes
Prisons serve 4 roles; rehabilitation, punishment, deterrent and public safety. How you balance these is done differently in many countries.

The US seems to historically have focused on the punishment aspect most of all.

I'd say deterrent and then rehabilitation are the main ones in the UK.

In Scandinavia it's mostly about rehabilitation and public safety, with punishment being almost non-existent.
Inflation always directly hurts those with the most the most by value alone - but it can specifically cause hardships to those who are in some critical point where an extra dollar could cause a dramatic increase in quality of life.

I think most proposals around sustaining this benefit in the long term don't rely on pure monetary creation but instead would shift it to a budget item that is directly funded by taxes (which in theory can be better targeted to hit those with excess)
I wish it could be REALLY clear when a laptop is off. What happens when I shut the lid? I don't know, I can't see the power button anymore.
Should airplanes forbid PC laptops?

It’s more serious than laptops committing suicide in bags. It’s, anything with a high-energy battery can short itself and cause a fire. Worse, it could be malware or hardware. At this point I am surprised the vulnerability hasn’t been used by anyone.
Not sure if you're aware but the US recently started sending checks to families every month.
Opinions can't be fact-checked.
You can only fact-check stuff that is objective (and the percentage of objective stuff in news is 0)
> On the other hand ssh sessions staying opened are nice.

Probably a convenience feature for the NSA folks logged in trough the Intel ME.
I don't think people at established companies care about gaudy job titles at startups. Being a director at some chaotic mess of a company (and much of the time that is what startups are) doesn't signal competence.

The opposite can be true, when IC's at startups who have not truly learned their craft jump to management too early.
But Dems don't demand the same results of cops as Republicans. There simply isn't any room for "both sides" logic in this instance. Only one side even entertains demilitarizing police forces, curtailing Civil Forefeiture, dismantling police immunity, legalizing recreational drugs and redirecting police funds to social services so that police don't have to get involved in the first place.

There is a reason that Punisher stickers, and Thin Blue Line imagery exist in law enforcement and Republican communities.
This doesn't remotely support the claim of genocide. The guy was actually accused, tried and convicted of a crime, probably involving the distribution of jihadi material.

The crime of illegally distributing documents would be brutally prosecuted in the US, possibly outside the legal system. Whether it's jihadi material or pirated Disney films.
Fact check: While it's true that oftentimes fact-checkers use carefully crafted semantic arguments and an appeal to authority to validate or invalidate certain claims to sway opinion, they do not perform any censoring themselves.

My favorite is this one, quoted directly from Snopes:

> Hillary Clinton used a hammer to smash her mobile phone during an FBI investigation.

> What's True: One of Hillary Clinton's aides told the FBI that on two occasions he disposed of her unwanted mobile devices by breaking or hammering them.

> What's False: Hillary Clinton did not personally destroy her phone with a hammer.

Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon...
A version of your comment from the PRC perspective would be:

"These people are at the wrong mix of discrimination and are poor because they refuse to follow our laws and participate in our system. They have a right to convert, a right to appeal, and a right to negotiate by turning in family and friends who refuse to follow our laws."

In fact discrimination would be the basis on which they are putting people to work, in camps.

Additionally and separately: every single thing you've mentioned (right to a lawyer, right to appeal, even visits and costs of phone calls) have been shown to be stacked against low income, blue collar, or minority citizens repeatedly. A quick google search of "right to [x]" "poor defendants" or "black defendants" will clean this misapprehension right up for you. https://lmgtfy.app/?q=right+to+a+lawyer+%2B+poor+defendants
At the same time the largest growing group is supposedly "Asian" Americans according to Pew research. It's funny how they group over four billion people into one ethnicity. Ironically (or not) the two major economic work horses in the American "alliance" are experiencing sharp declines in population growth, while the Chinese and Filipinos make up the largest group.
Rent is only affected by income/capacity to pay to the extent that supply is limited.

You could give everyone currently living in Detroit $10,000/month, and it wouldn't impact rental prices at all, because there is an abundance of supply. Do the same thing in NYC, and indeed rental prices will soar.
Current SF6 level (four orders of magnitude more heat-trapping than CO2, by weight) accounts for 10% of heat forcing. How the heck do we get that stuff out of the atmosphere?

There is a replacement, now, for SF6, for use in power stations and wind turbines. Now the SF6 in use needs to be pumped out and disposed of safely, and SF6 actually banned. And, we have to persuade China to replace theirs too.
Awful awful map. Terrible colours. Unintelligible
The blurbs I've heard say this has cut US child poverty in half. I should find a source...
Just like some of them were slow to take on 2.2 over 2.0, and 2.0 over 1.2.

Web servers have historically been pretty conservative as far as software goes.
I'm still with her
My kid contacts ExpressVPN when this happens and he says they are pretty good at following up.

We have no illusion that a third party VPN adds any security; we use it for this reason. I vpn to my personal colo machines when away from home.
> I don't think the trend towards urbanization is likely to reverse.

Except covid does seem to have reversed the move into cities. More people are now being allowed to work from home and we've seen that they're choosing less urbanized places to move to. Whether the trend out of cities continues after covid abates remains to be seen.
They would get their income tax back, but not payroll taxes.

The distinction is important because Social Security only applies on income up to ~$140k (this year). Due to that, the amount of Social Security tax revenue from a poor person is fairly close to the amount paid by someone rich. A family of 4 at the federal poverty line ($26,500/year) pays $1,643 dollars to Social Security. Someone who makes $4M/year pays $8,853.60.

So 5 families at the poverty line == 1 bajillionaire from a Social Security perspective.

I'm not in favor of the proposal, but it's not as absurd as it looks, policy wise. Morally, I would agree with you. This is an inevitable outcome of combining low wages and 1099s. It's really hard to force yourself to put your payroll taxes away in savings when you're only netting $7/hr and your bills are past due. It does also put them in a position where they should really have a tax professional, instead of just doing TurboTax or whatever.
At one place I consulted, the fte lead ignored flaky tests and attributed failures to the tests being wrong.

A few months later...

The code that was failing intermittently was found to be using floating point types for money. Yeah, I'm gonna wanna fix that.
> Seems good for society that Stossel will be taking this to court.

It's good for society that he's taking somebody to court with ample resources to defend themselves against this utterly frivolous lawsuit.

"Disagreeing with an easily triggered blowhard" is not actionable under US law. And, much as you might think it should be in this particular case, I suspect you would find that libel laws more favorable to plaintiffs (as they exist, e.g. in the UK) would often be used against people with whose political views you are sympathetic.
> In practice this won't happen, because PoS coins don't deliver the same features (security, decentralization, permissionless) or the market doesn't believe they do.

It's been what, 2 or 3 years since decent PoS designs were introduced to the market? The crypto market is still trying to tell the difference between their right foot and a private key. Give it a few more years and eventually the market will settle convincingly on a design it values the most, be it PoW, PoS, or something else.

In the mean time, it's silly imo to say that the market has decided. The crypto space is still a volatile bloodbath of old chains dying and new competitors rising.
Ask HN: What are good alternatives to Crashplan for personal backups?
A couple of days ago I got the following mail:

Hello,

We’re sending this communication regarding backup and policy updates to CrashPlan for Small Business.

Starting October 20, 2021, we will release a series of automatic updates to implement the following changes on all devices:

- Minimum backup frequency and version retention settings of 30 minutes
- Deleted files retention limited to 90 days
- Additional file exclusions

We are making these changes as part of our continued commitment to safeguarding backup integrity while keeping our service price competitive. These changes are mandatory and it is not possible to opt out. If you’ve deleted files from your computer that you would like to retain, you’ll need to restore them before October 20.

So far I was able to keep my deleted files in my backups forever, which for instance allowed me to restore a Bitcoin wallet.dat from 2013. Naturally I'd like to keep this setting and not have my backups retroactively purged.

Therefore I now want to start looking for an alternative solution with following features:

- multiple destinations possible (e.g. Dropbox, SFTP, Hard drive)
- encryption of files before they are uploaded
- incremental backups
- file versioning
- point-in-time recovery of files (to avoid ransomware issues)
- retention of deleted files possible

So far I've been recommended https://www.arqbackup.com/index.html which looks like it ticks most boxes.

What other solutions and approaches for macOS can you recommend?
Facebook is trash. Delete it now
It’s just a duplicate thread being moved to the original thread where the discussion on the topic is much further along. I’m sure you understand how counterproductive it is to scatter and divide discussions on a single topic across a website.

This is simply about having relevant information accessible in the one place and is absolutely fair.
Super interesting, thanks! Any idea what the timeline will be on your fund?
XV works with Netflix, just not the default servers.
I feel like my noticing and caring that he's working on one of those flimsy white plastic folding picnic tables is exactly why I (probably!) won't ever be this advanced in my hobbies. Focused on insignificant details from the start (yes I know, a firm work surface is also good ;).
Artifically Intelligent Infrastructure
200k years ago, that's incredible, not even the wildest science fiction can imagine what the world will look like 200k years from now
That the link is HTTP in no way prevents all or part of the payload from being indecipherable to an entities attempts at inspection.
Yeah, I think the easiest way to test that Service A is meeting its API obligations is to send some requests to Service B. Hyrum's Law means that that's the only way to really test the important aspects of Service A's API.

And I think this can be generalized into a general philosophy of using your users as a test suite for your API: http://catern.com/usertests.html
> The most likely outcome is that very quickly all the UBI money will be going to the few landlords and soon people will need "UBI plus a job" to pay rent and make ends meet.

This doesn't make sense. If it was the case, raising the minimum wage would have the same result, but studies have shown that people are better off when the minimum wage goes up. Landlords do not have infinite power to raise prices, because they are in competition with one another.

To the extent landlords have too much power, it's largely because we have decided to prevent the construction of new housing for many years.

> And desirable housing is always limited.

Does not have to be if you allow people to build more housing, and fix the regulations that make it overly expensive to do so.
It depends on how much UBI is. There is plenty of housing in the US, for example -- except there isnt enough near where jobs exist. If UBI was sufficient for survival, people could migrate away from high cost areas to exurbs. There are huge swaths of housing once you go far enough, except that isnt possible if you still need to supplement UBI with a job and are hence tied to a major metro area.
Sure, but it behoves advocates to UBI to say:

"We have a solution that not only includes handing outs cash to everyone forever, but to fight the associated, unavoidable rent inflation we will introduce sweeping changes to hard-earned building standards, negatively alter the character of many many neighbourhoods, and add a massive beurocracy to introduce and enforce with the power of the state all sorts of price controls."

They don't do this because obviously far fewer people would think its a good idea.
4 year vest, 1 year cliff is the standard, and even that is going away at some places.

An employer who wants to keep you will demonstrate that by compensating you well and giving you an opportunity to augment your skills.

This offerer sounds like someone who has experienced turnover problems and has decided that it's everyone else's fault.
There are systems deployed by the U.S. military because some general or colonel saw Enemy of the State and said "I want that surveillance tech." Look up Gorgon Stare.
What if they become a shitty musician? And curent researchers get paid even less, because their money goes to a kid who'd rather play his ukulele inestead of working?
I disagree. Straight from the wikipedia intro:

> According to a 2014 Human Rights Watch report, "tough-on-crime" laws adopted since the 1980s have filled U.S. prisons with mostly nonviolent offenders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
This sort of thing is sadly very frequent. The thumb is definitely on the scales. Fact checkers show their bias not only in things like this where they bend over backwards to say something is false, but also in what they choose to fact check.
IMO, that seems like apple but the lines are getting closer than ever
How many were in the civil war vs ww2? What was your odds of going against one? Huge huge huge difference
I can see the argument for the price of rent rising, but why would the prices of food and clothing rise? My understanding is that those are highly competitive markets, with low margins on top of the cost of production, at least in their non-luxury segments. Is that wrong?
Yes, I said it was still e2e.

What they meant - I think - was they moved away from "a primarily end-to-end integration test suite" to "service-as-black-box unit-ish testing" plus "focused end-to-end integration testing for critical paths".
All end to end tests are non-deterministic due to asynchrony. At some point you have to trust the discrete states of your software.
Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go
Why? Red Hat employees are not different from any other volunteer.
Ever tried the "teach to smoke" challenge?
I have just recently done the same thing, Pop OS with Steam, on my gaming PC. It works perfectly so far and I'm so thrilled - CS Go, Planet Coaster, and most recently Gas Station Simulator have been playing great for me. It gives me a lot of hope that the Steam deck is going to be a real game changer.
I came away from the article with a pretty good idea why.
I don't think a single infraction of hate speech would warrant any consequences, it would need to be a multiple offenses before punishment is doled out. This punishment could just be a temporary loss of voice communication privileges. Eventually if they are a habitual offender, it could lead to longer loss of voice comms, and then eventually a repeat ban.

Producing identity verification documents that many times over and over is not something a 13 year old will likely be able to do, relatives would certainly raise questions from those relatives as to why they need them.

I see the ridiculous Orwellian service is being the anti-cheat software we have to run already.
They literally did this already (miners were kicked out/shut down, the exchanges were shut down or put in line, and now the broad legality of simply owning/transferring them), and Bitcoin is still doing it's thing, more or less unphased (let's be real, a 10% dip is hardly remarkable in the crypto world) - demonstrating in technicolor how even the most empowered state, with far-reaching and unilateral control of every domain that cryptocurrency requires to operate (law, finance and telecommunication), is relatively useless in it's ability to hinder the mechanics of cryptocurrency. Driving it more underground will not squash it.
I think that's one of the biggest weaknesses of using the pandemic as an experiment on UBI - it's one of the best ones we'll get for a while (and I think we have seen increases in luxury spending from most sectors which would indicate greater financial security) but at the same time we're seeing the continued echoes of supply chain shortages. It'll be hard to determine precisely why the price of meat has gone up from two prior, there are quite legitimate additional costs on production by having increased sanitary and working space requirements - and I think both sides of the UBI debate will be able to sanely say that those costs were either mostly due to the pandemic or mostly due to labour shortages driven by the covid benefit... and I don't know if we'll ever get a really clear answer.
Caddy also does the whole Let’s Encrypt thing for you for SSL
> resulting in up to 30% in lost sales

Citation needed.
So coreutils rejects cp/mv features because it's "feature complete", but when a committer finds an idea for new features, it's accepted. Double standards
I can rephrase it: why do you think it impossible for vastly resourceful entities to acquire so much power they can control the decentralized system - in a softer way, probably but still.

Imagine a world tmr where bitcoin is everywhere. You ll have mining conglomerates in the cheapest electricity providers working as cartels to help each other and protect their interests (so can envision centralizing a blacklist of addresses they dislike, coordination on software version etc), de facto cartels of whales (like todays "billionaires" people describe as a collaborative force), and large lenders who concentrate capital and therefore still can buy out whatever they want (today called banks).

How do you think the blockchain solve any of that?
There's basically no value in having tests against third-party code anyway, because all the test is going to do is tell you that they broke their interface. And by then, production is already broken.