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Ask HN: RFC Would you share photos under public domain (CC0) license?
TLDR: Would you upload photos of a rock wall and let others freely use said photos in anyway they wish (including commercial purposes)?

Hi everyone,

I'm Viet at the OpenBeta project. We've just launched a photo upload feature that allows rock climbers to upload and share climbing photos. Ultimately, we hope climbers find the Wiki site useful, and stick around to help us improve the climbing route database, which, by the way, is freely available under the public domain license.

Would you upload photos of a rock wall and let others freely use your photos in anyway they wish (including commercial purposes)?

If you're active on GitHub, please share your feedback on RFC 307: https://github.com/OpenBeta/open-tacos/issues/307

thank you!
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That’s a passive aggressive ad hominem without any substance whatsoever.

These people are not some obscenely rich opportunists in power. They are working scientists, who draw public interest because they say interesting things and they are part of a larger discourse.

Now Hossenfelder isn’t known for her fingerspitzengefühl when it comes to criticizing others, but I have yet to find an instance where she doesn’t treat the subject matter with the utomst respect it deserves.
> I'd like to see 6-day work weeks as an experiment.

IMO this needs without a lot of additional context.

Being from the GDR (East Germany), before studying and then working in IT I got to experience a variety of production jobs. From brewery, sausage factory, chocolate factory, to various metal working and consumer equipment making jobs, both as part of regular education (yes, school kids went into production as part of the curriculum - and it was FUN and not "evil child work", and we only got as much as was reasonable at that early age and good training too), but later (after receiving a "Facharbeiter" - skilled worker title after three years of vocational training, combined with high-school, "Abitur", for me "mechatronics" in a large chemical fiber factory) also building factory electronics for VW as part-time job to finance my university life.

Most of those jobs would produce more output with longer times. A conveyor belt job such as in the brewery, the chocolate factory, or any of the other production jobs would mean less products with just four days of work.

HOWEVER, the big difference is what I did later. The IT stuff, the office and computer work, had quickly diminishing returns. When I worked at a large well-known and successful US software company I saw most people browsing the web, playing office golf, or just not being there, and the company HQ parking lot never filled up before 9 am and emptied again by 4 pm - that was late 1990s, with not that many working from home. Similar in almost all other IT related activities I participated in, which were a lot, in both Germany and in the US, in many companies (since my job almost always was at other companies then the one I was employed by, and I later worked as freelancer too).

Production work is manual and often not all that stressful. I could turn off my brain or at the very least not think too much while doing it. Sure, when using a lathe you have to pay some attention, but it's not nearly as stressful as planning and designing software, what I do now. I could easily do the lath job all day, I can't do the software design for more than ca. four hours without the resulting code quality getting significantly worse.

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When the discussion does not mention the context to me it's a sign that it's going off the rails and that people are talking past one another.

Some jobs are okay and useful to do 5 days a week, but others are not. The generalization of talking about ALL work at once makes for a very bad quality of the discussion IMHO.
A few months ago, the IRS made me verify my identity using some janky video conferencing software where I had to hold up a copy of my passport. The software was so hard to use, that I can't believe average people manage to do it. Now, real-time deep fakes are literally easier to create than using the video verification software itself. This will have interesting societal implications.
There are no theories left that LHC, or any collider we could build, can test.

Strings are right out. Nobody has offered any clue as to how to make a prediction that could be tested with possible equipment.

That does not mean none ever will, but it does not seem to be their focus. Physics departments like string theorists because they come with no equipment budget.
What's the difference between this and Metasploit, sqlmap, ... ? Not saying you're wrong, it's just that while these tools have valid and legal uses (pentesting) they're also used in black hat scenarios and one could say the same about DOT.
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I always imagined the USPS fulfilling this need.
It doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it.
Wouldn’t people working on Asahi right now write their own GPU drivers?
Was confused at first as toil is also 'time off in lieu'. AKA unpaid overtime, where you're not paid but get compensated with holiday.
I think this is grossly unfair. The things it did not find have a lot to say in this current discussion.
Yes! We call it ‘opposite day’ and laugh at all the normies who have to go to the [busy place] on a Saturday like everyone else. ;-)
I mean... dark matter exists (or MOND if you are into that). So there's no real question that there's physics beyond the standard model. Why not try our luck in the accessible regions to see whether that's where it lives?
> I think if people are trained adequately

When will this happen? How will it happen?

Websites/services just make this way too difficult. Banks will host official services (that require login) on domains like www2.citionline.com with no way to know whether it's legit or not.

Apple has a marketing site at offers.appletvapp.apple which leads to prompts to sign up - how is any normal person supposed to understand this is legit? That domain is virtually indistinguishable from some phishing site at apple-iphone-offers.online
The main reasons for Clojure to use the JVM was (IIRC) twofold: Access to a large ecosystem where basically every idea has a library available already and being immediately productive because not needing to learn a new runtime (+ previous point of libraries already being available).

With those two reasons in mind, at the time Clojure was created, it made a lot of sense to use the JVM.
Oh, that's how you meant it. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Yes, the new naming scheme is way more understandable for normal users.
> ... so you should keep every avenue open

Each avenue you keep open costs money and takes up people's time. You can't keep every avenue open. You have to decide -- with imperfect information -- which avenues are worth keeping open. And the entire thesis here is that the LHC++ is probably not worth it. You can disagree with that, but if you're going to do so because of possible secondary benefits, you have to take a crack at showing that those secondary benefits -- whatever they may be -- are numerous enough and worth enough to justify the money and time.
I actually disagree with that. I think software and ethics are closely intertwined and too often we see them as disjoint. It's interesting to try to find a software project that does not have an ethically dubious angle to it, that isn't all that simple.
Right at the moment and for the next two decades, any big money should build out solar and wind generating capacity. Physics will still be there. Physicists can work on catalysts and excitons for a while.
birds migrate, humans travel to work, self-organization and herd behavior are very prevalent in nature
Scam is a bit strong. But I can see leadership wanting everyone back to office for whatever reasons, and out of fear of people leaving if they are forced to return to office, they came up with this 4 day work week thing to make it attractive enough for people to stay.
Yeah, interesting. I was wondering if something like that could be happening.
The latest iPads and iPhones have a LIDAR on the back camera. They can be used to scan the environment. And the FaceID setup for the front-facing camera is used to create those animated memojis that match your face.

If you add it to a laptop, it could actually map the background environment and do some really fancy processing for video calls. Or even improve audio based on the room shape it sees.

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2020/03/apple-unveils-new-...
We can't keep every avenue open. Resources are finite. What makes you think that spending $100B on an LHC++ will be more useful to humanity than ten smaller, $10B projects that people might come up with (or probably already have come up with, but currently lack funding)?
High powered vehicles have a tendency to cause sudden acceleration.

Sudden acceleration is a contributing factor in many vehicle crashes.
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>Equally possible, right?

Not equally, since more PhDs end up in industry than academia.

Also, those in academia routinely consult and solve these problems for industry, they make startups, they solve problems that further advance industry. Many bounce between careers on both sides.

It's silly to think those in academia don't work on and solve real world problems and only spend time fighting politics. Those research grants are for producing research, and those corporate grants are for producing items useful to those companies.
I don't know how serious is USPS, but in my country the post office doesn't check if the signature looks the same for example.

Banks face and handle fraud on a much higher level, and have a much better training in identificacion.
Agreed but I’ve yet to hear the killer tactic for how a company gets every employee 100% focused 100% of the time.

I think there are some roles that end up suffering. Like someone who is a product designer and now has to cram more creativity in fewer hours. Someone who is in inside or outside sales and has less time where they overlap with customers to perform demos and close deals. It may work - it may not work.

The penalty for being sick for a day (or your kid being sick for a day) is more drastic too. Although perhaps those folks just use their extra day to catch up.

I’m more bullish on remote work than these 4 day a week experiments.
> But if you have say 100 billion, why put it into "yet another collider" rather than say condensed matter physics and quantum information research?

Because the only reason you have $100 billion to spend is that it's a large scale infrastructure project. And that money is trickling down to member states through contracts to a mix of businesses who hire white and blue collar workers.

It is equal part economic stimulus, political marketing and scientific research.

You can't just ask for the last part and ignore the first two.
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Because disease spread easier in the past on the european continent due to wars and comerce. NZ was an isolated island and Alaska is not really accesible without special clothing and supplies.
Yes, but this has a system, where I don't get "0.bg, 1.bg, 2.bg, ..."
Nice read and good job. You can be proud on yourself!
Paul Krugman – From the Big Short to the Big Scam
Isn't the situation completely analogous to other "ethical hacking" software?

I distinctly remember a very similar discussion around firesheep 12 years ago: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2469667/firesheep-fire...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828955

> There are probably going to be a lot of people negatively affected by this for quite some time to come. One thing to point out is that there are grades of things. There is "public", and then there is "top hit on Google". Similarly, there is "insecure" and then there is "simple doubleclick tool to facilitate identity theft".

> How many millions of dollars and man hours is it going to take to lock down every access point? How many new servers are going to be needed now that https is used for everything and requests can't be cached?
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Ambition-driven hyperactivity disorder
Yes sir...
Quick refresher on productivity in economic terms: decreasing inputs = decreasing outputs UNLESS tech or technique improves. During supply and/or debt driven inflationary periods (eg. now), increased productivity = increased supply and/or decreased debt.

What do these maxims of economics mean for a 4 day work week?

At Beacon, nothing*. But implement this at Tyson Foods, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Waste Management, the FX trading desk at JP Morgan Chase, etc. and you get 2-6% productivity declines & some amount of increased supply-driven inflation unless you offset with new technology (eg. software, robotics) or techniques.

Celebrate work from home, 4 day weeks, flex-time, etc.... but understand that as these benefits carry costs in important (not all) industries. Also, the migration to jobs having these benefits, from those important jobs that do not, drives inflation and/or illegal immigration and so-called "white collar" top-heavy joblessness risk during recession.

No free lunch, even on Fridays.

** Note: UK small business situation is concerning, even if it doesn't apply to Beacon: "Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, showing that 2 million (or about 40%) of the UK's small businesses had less than three months of cash in reserves to support operations. He noted that 10% (or 200,000) were in grave danger, and 300,000 only had a few weeks of cash left."
>Chase and Citigroup are like the McDonalds of financial services, everyone works there once, the talented people leave, the ones who stay generally lack the confidence or ability to do likewise, and they are a PITA to work for

Thanks, this explains the experience I had interviewing with Chase.

I have never ghosted an entire company before, let alone walked into a bank branch to tell them to get their computer doctors to learn to be respectful in a job interview.

On my end, I'd hoped it might be a cultural fit since I think many big tech companies have insider threats because they don't allow people to truly take time off -- it's common in the finance world to force someone to take a vacation at least once a year for fraud prevention.

(The idea being your scam requires your constant presence, it will fall apart.)
Try to simplify my understanding- can we position of apple on a) doing wsl1 or b) even less just provide tool to do wsl1 or c) … wsl2 … tool only to wsl2 …

Or we have a simpler mental model ? From a non-system land programmer point of view ?
Does this apply to nuclear weapons? To biological weapons?

“Tool is expensive” is a real, effective deterrent to frivolous use of a tool. There’s a reason we pool resources into governments, which is explicitly so we (via a government) have capabilities that we (as individuals) don’t have.
Hi everyone. Prince here.

Keep it Brief is a question and answer site. Unlike other Q&A sites, users don’t post questions and then wait and hope for someone to answer. Instead, you post a question you already know an answer to and provide the answer right away.

Like most of you, I like to ask questions and learn new things. I realized that every time some Person A gives me a great answer to a question, there's always at least 10 other questions, related or not, that Person A is also uniquely capable of and willing to answer if only I'd known to ask.

When it later occurred to me that every piece of knowledge/info can be framed as a question and answer, I owed it to everyone to build something that encourages people to share what they know in a simple Q&A format before they've even been asked — proactive Q&A, if you will.

Not that people need monetary incentives to share what they know, but it doesn't hurt. I've made it really easy for users to reward authors. Beneath every post, there's a button that says "reward author for a helpful post -- show ad". If a reader finds your Q&A post helpful, they can click it to view an ad. You get the ad revenue. (You can turn off revenue on some or all of your posts.)

Feedback is very welcome. I’m available to answer any questions and can’t wait to see what you share on Keep it Brief.
> Einstein and the quantum pioneers added abstractions to build physical theories with prediction power, whereas current high-energy physics theory seems to be mostly a mathematical exercise.

I'm not sure there is a fundamental distinction here. The only difference is success: Einstein's and Schrödinger's theories etc. predicted effects that were later experimentally proven to exist. When new high-energy theories predict something, the hypothetical effects are either not testable in the foreseeable future, or eventually disproven by experiment.

It feels like nature itself is against physicists here.
Finally a solution to shared family photo albums, and still no solution on how to back it up.

I was seriously hoping for an integrated way to backup iCloud contents locally. Considering that most entry level macs has about 1/10 the storage of the large iCloud plans, synchronizing data locally is not a viable solution for backups.
Oh wow. I wonder why? Copyright request or something?
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OpenAI attempted this with GPT-2’s incremental release strategy and was lambasted on moral and ethical grounds as well.

https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/

So individuals working on a technology like this have no clear societal consensus to use as a guide when making the decision. Strong arguments can be made in both directions.
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There are non-lethal alternatives to devices "literally deigned [sic] for killing people?"

This logically does not compute.

I guess you mean in situations where guns are currently used, other strategies could be employed?

Since the goal of a firearm is to hurl a chunk of metal through the air at high speed, I can't really think of alternatives. Besides air rifles, we just have traditional powder guns filling that niche.

The usefulness of firearms extends beyond killing people, and I don't think "guns are literally designed for killing people" is very accurate. I think the majority of guns are not designed for killing people. I think the Ruger 10/22 is the best-selling gun of all time, and it's .22 caliber, which is definitely not what you'd choose if the goal of your design was to kill people.
Could you explain it to me?
Indeed it is, but I'm interested in this particular author's stance on this, prompted by their disclaimer which clearly indicates that they realize that there is the risk of abuse, and an AMA seems to be an excellent opportunity to gain some insight.
> But economically, I think it's much like any advanced level STEM course.

I agree. Almost all of those would be some kind of applied mathematics, though.

I was not arguing above for the importance of studying pure math exclusively. For most people, math is a force multiplier when combined with some other knowledge/skill.

> It's more like people kinda sorta remember there was something that sounded like it might be useful in this other area, then they circled back, read up on the details, and applied it.

Absolutely. By having a good and broad generic understanding of a field, you can circle back to it. Understanding something in a more abstract way makes that easier, as it promotes a deeper understanding rather than just memorizing facts.

For instance, if you think of euler's identity in terms of a rotation group it becomes very easy to prove it (at least for someone with a mostly visual understanding of math an physics). But just as important, the rotation group gives a much better understanding of many cases where complex numbers are useful, ranging from physics to electronics to electrical engineering. Quantum wave functions, capacitors/inductors and electrical motors all have this kind of rotational symmetry in common.

So while some colleges may teach quantum mechanics, electronics or electrical engineering with a shallower math curriculum as the base, some abstract algebra can help gain deeper understanding of each, compared to memorizing the formulaes without fully understanding them.

Also, even if many with a STEM degree often end up in a different field than what they studied in collage, the ability to apply math and statistics can often be useful way outside of the field studied initially.

(At least, that's my experience as a former physicist. While I rarely need quantum mechanics, the ability to manipulate probability density function, find and describe symmetries, and have developed a quantitative intuition that spans a 50 orders of magnitude remains useful, both professionally and even as a citizen. )
(In Google’s view), perhaps the need for careful review of these actions has been designed away.
Also there is the wonderful element of surprise.

Sometimes when they dig into the ground they find something unpredictable e.g. contaminated soil which can result in a major cost blowout, a legal fight between government and contractor and then unplanned delays which further increases costs.
> If you create something, make it freely accessible and easy to use, then I think you are partly responsible for its misuse.

That's a dangerous precedent. Would you apply the same logic to a kitchen knife? Or if for some reason only freemium products count (not sure why), then a pentesting tool?

I understand the underlying point you are trying to make but what are you proposing as an alternative exactly? Who gets to decide which products fall into a gray zone, whilst others are only for bad use. We already see this kind of shoddy thinking leading to keeping DALE-2 out of the public's hands (or at least that is their claim).
Serious question. What is the chance this video has been deepfaked? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlL-Uru-cM&ab_channel=CNBCT...
Isn't Rosetta 2 the opposite of libhoundini? (translating from x86 to ARM, instead of ARM to x86), I also fail to see how an application that has its roots in a PPC to x86 translator (Rosetta 1) from 2006, is somehow a rip off of an application from around 5 years ago.

If anything libhoudini is a rip off of Rosetta.
It's worse than that even. The actual color blocks are the same size, the gap is added on, so Safari gets about an 8% "boost" just from having multiple chart elements
No, but it does apply to the distribution of slippery slopes.

The OP specifically said tools "like this"
> It's so cool to have this split. QUIC is so capable, such a neat set of ideas for a transport.

That's what I thought too. A while ago, I wanted to use it in an Android app. I thought this was going to be a no-brainer. After all, Google more or less invented QUIC as SPDY about a decade ago. To my understanding, since they just YOLO'd it they agreed to form a proper working group and create quic. So here we are, ten years later, Google is heavily using quic for all their web stuff, and I naively assumed that Android would've had a native quic implementation for a while now, either directly in the SDK/runtime, or some first party library from Google. Nada. There is cronet, the networking engine of chrome as a library, which does speak quic but only exposes classes and functions to speak http, so you cannot even use its quic implementation directly. I went on and had to use some C library and JNI to do it, which is just ridiculous.

Sorry for this tangentially related vent, I'm still in disbelief.
It does.

They claim 80% of time but it's not true at all as I explained before. Not only that but the cost for the individuals is huge when going back to the office.

You must not live in London to comment that.