skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! As an aside Softbank are also the company that recently bought Boston Dynamics and the less well known Schaft. They also recently acquired ARM Holdings - a major semiconductor company. After a meeting with the president-elect late last year, they announced a plan to invest $50 billion in the US aimed at creating 50,000 new jobs.

It's interesting to see people betting on such a very precise future that is seeming increasingly likely.
I think you are not a lawyer, and your grasp of fair use is lacking.

It's a photo of a vhs tape. They are using it to represent a photo of a vhs tape with their logo on it. What "substantial modification" could you possibly be thinking of.
Btw, $1,500 for a studio is about half the going rate in SF.
No they can't. They can "steal" my slavish picture of VHS, that's all this proves.
>> A lot of column-inches are expended on repeatedly restating that animal intelligences have co-evolved with their sensorimotor systems, which is a contingent fact of history, not a fundamental necessity for intelligence (as far as we know;

How do we know that? We only know of intelligences that co-evolved with their sensoriotor etc, so how do we know that's not the only way to do it?
This is clearly fair use, but rude, as Netflix could've afforded stock images.
>>> It doesnt drop 10% overnight unlike stocks.

You can tell that to the people in Houston who lost their home overnight. Home ownership is not risk free. ;)

I am not familiar with the entirety of the US territory. If you look at properties outside of the major cities, they should be relatively stable, renters have no jobs to sustain ever increasing rent. In the far country side, properties should be deflating because de industrialization.

Agreed that it is great for a diversified portfolio. Especially the primary home, it's self sustaining because you'd have to pay rent anyway. A second home is safe, it can host your child now or yourself after retirement, then it's lower returns.

There are a lot of index funds with various risk profiles. There is no general strategy. It depends on your personal situation, how much there is, where your live, and you family.

Now, that might sound stupid. If you own your home and have some savings, you can basically retire. There aren't much expenses outside of the rent.
> Hope no one is using their Uber stock as collateral for loans.

Wow. I hope no one is taking Uber stock as collateral.
This is an interesting line of thought that needs to be more fully explored, especially as we move into an era where things like UBI are a more serious consideration.

Off the top of my head I'm not sure how such a thing could be structured without allocating some non-trivial portion of tax revenue to it, and then figuring out how to sell that to Congress who seem to prefer more targeted things like deductions + pork that let them more actively micromanage where the funds go.

But worth brainstorming about and not ruling out any idea just yet.
It doesn’t matter, and the artistic value of it doesn’t come into play at all. If you are selling things based on a photo of a napkin I scribbled on while drunk, you’re still violating my copyright.

The author here holds the copyright for those images, and Netflix is using them as part of the design for a product they’re selling.

Fair use only applies when it is for a “”transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work.” (https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-...) which is not the case here.

This is probably just a Netflix designer (or contractor) who got sloppy by using images off the internet, but that reflects extremely poorly on Netflix or the agency/contractor they decided to use.

I work as a designer for a large company, and any time I make assets that might see the light of day, the company takes extreme precautions to make sure situations like this don’t happen. There’s no reason Netflix shouldn’t be held to that standard.
Nice for you. Not so nice for the companies wasting their money on paying you. Yeah, managing software teams is hard. But paying contractors every year to upgrade Rails is malpractice. Can you honestly say that you are capable of going into these legacy systems with thousands of lines of code and upgrading all of their gems, including Rails, without causing regressions? Maybe for a small project your approach is okay but it doesn't scale.
My favourite: "How ancient lentils reveal the origins of social inequality"

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-orig...
That's understandable. Hard to offer advice without knowing the reasons for the unsuccessful interviews. If you did a few and did not get an offer, that's pretty normal and the solution might be to just keep trying. If you did a dozen and can't see what's holding you back, then maybe you need an outsider's perspective.

Also, move if you can. Do not limit yourself to local opportunities unless you must for family reasons. You will adjust to a new location quickly even if it's intimidating at first.
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I think IBM actually has something like this for their mainframes right?
They also have about $120 billion USD in debt. Not exactly the healthiest company in the world financially speaking.
That's not fair use, and that's not how copy right works, you don't know what you are talking about. And your opinions on corporations are insane if that's actually how they were allowed to function. Fair use:

> criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research

Netflix's use is purely commercial enterprise.
Silly?? Are some copyrights less important than others?

It is not "fake caring, because money." I had that happen to me. It is not fun. It is not milking the cash cow. If you no not value the intellectual property you create, or if you have some specific ideological reasons, put your work in the public domain or GPL it or any other source of copyleft.

If you do that, respect the rights to get offended of those who use their copyrights to make money
There is no LEGAL punishment happening. It’s all social.

People can behave how they wish, rightly or wrongly. There isn’t much of a way of stopping at. You could always try suing for libel/slander but even if you win everyone’s going to remember the lie.

A big part of the problem is there are so many people with a lot of credibility making these accusations.
Kudos on launching your startup.

It looks like a great service. I went to it at first thinking it didn't add any value over just launching the service in a Docker swarm (most open source apps have pre-built containers now) but I see the enterprise options as a good value add.
How can you ensure a $1 price if the price of Ethereum goes down and the reserve is less than the amount of Unum?
IANAL, but fair use doesn’t cover commercial art used to sell something, like this DVD packaging. If it did, the stock photography business might crumble overnight.
There is nothing clear about this being fair use. In fact, it seems to pretty clearly not fall under fair use.

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-...
That seems to be the price if you go to the Washington Post. If you go to Amazon and you are a prime member and subscribe monthly then it’s six months free and $4/mo after that.

Oddly if you’re a prime member the yearly subscription is still $100.
> at a cost of a few hundred thousand dollars per launch

They only stated publicly that will cost "less than Falcon 1" per launch. That means less than ~$6 million. The few hundred thousand dollars figure is the cost of the fuel, which will become the main cost after full reusability is achieved.
It's actually clearly copyright violation, but whatever, who am I the internet Police. Believe whatever you want, but if you did this you'd be sued for sure.
Reminds me of Sinulacra and Simulation
Like https://www.peapod.com/ but the items are chosen for you without you having to manually select each one?
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Alpha Go is good at playing Go. It can't do anything else. That's the point the author is making at the start of the article, that intelligence develops by focusing on specific tasks.

There's a lot that is hardly substantiated in the OP, but the truth is that just because you have a machine that's smart enough to play Go better than any human being, doesn't mean you can anticipate a machine that can learn to play the bassoon better than any human being.

The argument about the no free lunch theorem is informative and one of the few good points in the article. An algorithm that is good at Χ is eventually going to be pretty bad at Y. A superintelligence would have to beat humans in all possible X, even the ones it would be really bad at. And that sounds like an impossibility.
This book

If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly - William J. Bernstein

And all of the sources referenced in it. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is also a good one.
We don't actually know that. From what I've seen, the Syrian government faction was maybe a third of the fighting force, but they had air power and the other factions were never able to unite for various reasons. The arms from the U.S. didn't make that much difference, and the war dragged on because the government didn't have a good way to end it without losing alot of soldiers in the cities (and massacring even more civilians). That left siege warfare and massive bombing as their only options, and both of those are slow and ineffective.
Actually that would be only $15k/year or $1.25k/mo towards retirement.
First of all, this probably isn’t “Netflix” but rather some designer Netflix hired to do a job. It is incredibly hard for a company to double-check all this stuff.

Unfortunately he will get the best result with a lawyer. The infringement pierces contracts and even can pierce the corporate veil to make people personally liable.

I believe statuatory damages may be around $10,000 per infringement, so from there he can likely negotiate a reasonable settlement equal to a normal fee plus legal costs.

I doubt he will get much traction another way. Although, I hope I’m wrong, and a little public shaming will get a reasonable result.
How is that any different than buying a cheap 200MB of data per month and getting cut off after minimal browsing? It’s basically the choice between a handful of sites a lot, or a ton of sites but you only have enough data to browse it once. You get what you pay for. Just like fiber vs dialup
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This kind of thing is very common in the entertainment industry, curious how Hn would react to a piece of proprietary/licensed code somehow discovered in some highly profitable SaaS product (is that even a thing?)

I have no ill intentions. I have no intention to ask them to stop selling the items. In fact, I’m happy people are nostalgic about VHS. I’m not looking to milk the situation at all. I’m not threatening to get a lawyer on their case. I’m just frustrated that I had to find out from someone else in the first place.

too passive aggressive, if your work was stolen and used in a product to make $ you have every right to be upset. Lawyer up and get paid.
Where can I get a luxury hotel room for 5 USD a day?
Read the gosh darn article. He says the sides are not his image, but the top is.
How much is a normal house in Colombia?
Needing to pay taxes in dollars has nothing to do with what you get paid in. I know plenty of people who get paid in Bitcoin and pay taxes in dollars.
Wikimedia doesn't support Net Neutrality
If you are a Netflix subscriber, just open a support chat window and ask about this issue. They seem to be pretty ignorant on the whole thing.
Sincere question: how is this different from communism? UBI seems like the same thing.

I am not against communism or socialism, it just seems like that’s what Sam is describing here.
> "Email is bigger than Facebook. Hell, it's bigger than the internet."

Ugh..

Email is a widely successful platform of conversing that hasn't been locked into walled gardens like new forms of communication today, so I fail to see how it's broken. The article seems to set up an alarmist headline that email is broken, just to promote a (nicely designed) email app. None of the underlying protocols are changing anytime soon, nor any of them being displaced by new ones. Rather, Edison is just creating new features on their app.

At a macroscopic level, the biggest problem with email is security. It shouldn't be as difficult as it is to get encryption on emails. Sure, some tech people know how to do it easily, but for the vast public it's something they will never get done (and I'm one of those guys, even though I'm a software engineer.. I claim no expertise of neither networking nor cryptography; any recommendations for email providers?)
I think a major part of the value in Uber is going to be in future self driving tech. They already have the infrastructure, brand name, and so on in place to migrate rapidly to self driving taxis on an international level. Self driving taxis will, almost certainly, end up a monopolized industry due to the fact that the quality of service will increase in proportion to scale, and prices will inversely scale there. The biggest player is going to be able to offer the highest quality rides for the lowest costs.

Softbank's recent acquisitions also hint towards a possibility of vertical integration which would take the above issues and magnify them that much more.
good riddance to these companies.

Uber and Lyft have caused NYC traffic to slow by 12% since 2015 [0]. These private companies have flooded the public roadways and overwhelmed the infrastructure without any obligation to meter themselves or pay for their fair share of access. I finally understand what the NYC Taxi Commission existed for.

[0] https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/traffic-is-moving-12-pe...
That sounds like corporate talk. It's been 11 years since YouTube has been acquired by Google. Insane amounts of money has been poured into YouTube.

Sure, it gets revenue, but I bet it's not close enough to justify the expenditure, and there's no clear path either.
These pictures were just up on a blog..there were no legal or licensing disclaimers. Because like most of us, he never even thought anyone would value a plain picture of a tape used for demonstration instructional purposes. Netflix normally wouldnt pay licensing fees for something they could reproduce in 10 minutes flat. If they knew they had to pay the fee they would have just created their own or used stock images..etc. Some contractor or dumb employee did it...but now they are going to have to pay up. This guy just got really really lucky. I dont see the "plight" or anything that we are needed for..other than to read a curious happening about someone who got really really lucky on someone elses fuckup.
>That strikes me as quite pointless.

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Rails is amazing! :)
take a look at this : https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/learn/v4/overvie...
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This is unfortunate for everyone involved. The author feeling misrepresented on a successful product display sucks. I imagine the person who generated the graphic for the box is being talked to as well.

Often images have misrepresented copyright details on "open source" stock sites that can lead to this sort of thing.

Hopefully the two parties can agree on a credit placement to help clear it up
Although not a newspaper, I find the Economist to have similar traits to your list for the FT. They'll also go properly in depth with many stories (multiple pages)
> Why does a tax on wealth cause fewer GDP-building things to happen? The rational thing to do given a tax on wealth is to spend your extra wealth on services you're interested in, donate it to charities you support, etc.

Another rational thing to do is to create vehicles that store but temporarily impair the market value of that wealth as computed for wealth tax purposes. Put it into a private company and offer minority, non-controlling stakes in that private company to all comers and act surprised when only family members take you up on the offer. It's a minority stake without control rights; it's going to be worth less than the net asset value. Store the wealth there until you're ready to use it, then have the company directors make a distribution, or leave the transfer in place to your heirs, who will receive a controlling interest when their shares (that maybe they bought) are reunited with the shares that you will them upon death. Or invest in something illiquid and very hard to accurately value.

Technically, all of those things create GDP activity for lawyers and accountants as well, but it's hardly good public policy, IMO. (I'm not opposed to a reasonable wealth tax, say 0.25% annually on sums 10M-50M USD and 0.5% annually on sums above that. I don't think it's a tax without lossy consequences though.)
Definitely, Theano is no longer active or have plans to be.

If you don't need mobile on-device D.L., take a look at pytorch. Otherwise, Tensorflow.

Fasi.ai will release some excellent self-paced coursework in January for Pytorch. Best bang for the buck (free, but time ain't) I've seen in any AI learning. Much of the lower level stuff is optimized for you, and he gives some great SOTA tricks for getting in the top 10% in kaggle competitions in like an hour or two.

Alas, no pytorch on device yet. But the state of the art is nearly 100% turnover every year, so the question becomes: do you need SOTA? Many problems are 98+% solved these days, so maybe we've reached "good enough" with some of these applications of d.l.
friendly reminder not to use google DNS if you care about privacy (which you probably do if you're using a VPN in the first place), because you're basically giving them your fingerprint in the form of the websites you visit.
I'm not sure that you realize that the current monetary system is only about half a century old. Fiat currency, backed by nothing except the government, has only existed since the 1970s.
WeWork is going to acquire Meetup
Bwuh? Citation needed; I'm pretty sure it went the other way around in the previous downturn.
Yeah, get paid for your work!

The classic talk "Fuck You, Pay Me" that shows up on HN every once in a while: https://vimeo.com/22053820
Prioritizing traffic based on ISP preference isn't necessarily a bad thing in all cases; it's just particularly dangerous when ISPs have a monopoly.
A flat-Earther’s plan to launch himself in a homemade rocket hit a speed bump
I think we need a distributed alternative of Facebook. I wider adoption of https://mastodon.social/ could be a good start...
Why did the browsers drop connection to each other when he turned off wifi? Shouldn't they still be able to see each other? Do they need to talk to a 3rd party?
Not sure if the system is like that in the US, but the best way to make a company react fast without involving a lawyer where I live (Quebec, Canada) is to send them a formal notice (https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/your-disputes/sending-a-fo...).
Basically saying you will sue them if you don't get compensation. Most companies will contact you shortly after and it's way better than trying to go through the general help desk.
Absolutely.

Although 5 years old, /r/tumblrinaction didn't really start being used until 4 years ago.

For non-reddit users, it is a reactionary subreddit for crazy Tumblr nonsense that floats around the echo chambers of the site.

I think the decline in use was caused in part by the polarization of extreme feminism (think: all men are rapists) and red pill (think: feminism is cancer) nonsense. It became hard to have any reasonable conversation without posts being shared and brigaded by extremists.

Other platforms became better, IMHO.
The article admits that they modified it to get it to fit the aspect ratio of the DVD and added all the stickers on the outside of the VHS that were not present originally.

Edit: For clarification, I'm not saying it qualifies as fair use but just clarifying OP's claim that there was significant modification. That doesn't mean it's legit.
I'm a paying customer of Netflix in Sydney. I just called their support line and asked them to respond. The lady told me that she would escalate this.

Hopefully you will get a response soon!
Reading this, all I can think of is that South Park episode and "Theoretical Internet Dollars."
That bit sounds like some of the cleverer delusions in Eternal Darkness, which featured your character hallucinating that the console had crashed and restarted, a controller came unplugged, your save files got erased, etc.
The game industry has already been abusing the term AI beyond all recognition for a long time.

You have a point about how by that definition, half of everything written in JavaScript is AI. Have you taken a look at the source for jQuery? Good grief, it's like an expert system chock full of heuristics for sniffing and manipulating the DOM and handling and dispatching events in so many different incompatible browsers.

And then there's Gnu autoconf...
I had never seen him give a talk before - is this one of his first that's publicly available? He's a phenomenal storyteller.
I guess my question was more about why the effort of changing portions of it.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.

This is absolutely not fair use by the legal definition. There is a very difficult four-prong legal test that must be applied to any usage before it qualifies as a legal "fair use".

The term "fair use" really sets people at an undeserved ease around copyright because they make just such conclusions as you've made here: if it seems like the infringement wasn't a big deal, then it's "fair" enough, and everything's OK. The reality is that copyright is very draconian, so much so that were it uniformly enforced, most of the things you like about the internet would not exist.

Netflix is a big boy and should play by the same big boy rules that they love to impose on small creators. There is no reason they couldn't pay a license fee. If the photographer's demand was unreasonable, they could find another photo of a VHS tape that was priced according to their liking and license it legally. It's not like they're rare.

BigCorps lean on their hotshot $1000/hr law firms to bully and push around the little guy all the time. They'll threaten to sue you into the ground no matter what you do, whether they're trying to stop you from competing against them on dubious grounds that require a massive VC warchest to afford to fight, or whether they're trying to stop you from asserting your own legal rights when their conduct has violated them, again attempting, and almost always succeeding, at making the fight far more expensive than any possible damage award. (This discrepancy is where the concept of punitive damages comes from, a legal feature that is exclusively American).

I hate seeing companies play both sides of this. I love it when a little guy is able to get the gumption and cash together to teach them a lesson. I just wish it could happen more often, because small creators getting blatantly ripped off by giant companies is no rare thing.