skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A sculptor who created a replica of the Statue of Liberty for a Las Vegas casino was awarded $3.5 million in damages last week after the US Postal Service (USPS) accidentally used a photo of his statue

Wouldn't that imply that the copyright owner is actually the Casino, and not the sculptor?

And if the USPS purchased a license to use a photograph, and Getty sold them the rights to use the photograph, wouldn't Getty bare some responsibility?

EDIT:

From Getty EULA, you are responsible:

Unless specifically warranted above, Getty Images does not grant any right or make any warranty with regard to the use of names, people, trademarks, trade dress, logos, registered, unregistered or copyrighted audio, designs, works of art or architecture depicted or contained in the content. In such cases, you are solely responsible for determining whether release(s) is/are required in connection with your proposed use of the content, and you are solely responsible for obtaining such release(s). You acknowledge that no releases are generally obtained for content identified as “editorial,” and that some jurisdictions provide legal protection against a person’s image, likeness or property being used for commercial purposes when they have not provided a release. You are also solely responsible for payment of any amounts that may be due under, and compliance with any other terms of, any applicable collective bargaining agreements as a result of your use of the licensed content.
How much critical thinking does it take to realize that living in a society which purposely takes advantage of the poor and downtrodden to ensure that they live a life eternally in debt might be a bad thing?

We're not talking about people running up credit cards buying useless crap. We're talking about a system designed to push people through college and towards the 'American Dream' while pushing them into the deepest depths of debt.

Now consider the following: Over 50% of the US Govt's financial assets are in student loans [1]. I think the advice of 'just don't go that far into debt, dummy' falls flat when we can see how absolutely huge the student loan business is.

[1] https://community.finimize.com/t/graphic-of-the-week/1044/25...
That link is just a description of empathy. My problem-solving tendencies come from my understanding the other person’s feelings, how does one demonstrate that understanding in only an “emotional support” way?
A guy who was homeless for 25 years in Australia (and who recently wrote a book about his experiences) agrees very strongly with what you're saying:

> I was recently asked by someone what they should do when they come across a homeless person. My response to this question is quite simple. Maybe you cannot make a difference to that person’s circumstance, but you can make a difference to how you see them. Many are hurting with the shame and stigma of being homeless. Don’t pretend they don’t exist: they are people too. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/25/after-25-years...
Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash
If your culture lives in a hot desert then not eating shell fish makes a lot of sense.

Pork was full of parasites until the advent of some relatively modern farming practices.
Apple said during WWDC that the change was made to support a wider variety of display technologies and scaling modes. It’s an odd choice considering they still sell the non-retina MacBook Air.
I'm basing it on eight years of experience in Bitcoin.

"Bitcoin for coffee" and the like is a waste of the tech, imo. Buying network services such as you described is a better use as intercountry payments with debit cards isn't always feasible.

Bitcoin's use is better as a transnational currency when traditional payment channels are cumbersome. To be frank, Bitcoin still has some work to do in the payment channel dept but Lightning Network is getting there.

In the US, there are more than a few places where you can trade out btc for gold/silver and sell the metal for fiat. It's preferable to selling on an exchange, imo.

If you can't spend now, hang onto your btc until you can. Saving is always a good idea.
> Are there any PC cases available today for home build PCs where the PC and the keyboard are one unit?

Laptops are like that :) You could just remove the screen off a laptop and connect with the video out.

More seriously there are things like that:
https://www.cybernetman.com/en/keyboard-pc
True. Could you elaborate on why you believe that?
I think many people believe that Kubernetes has won and this where the money is. Big Co’s will be looking for contract support for anything they run on kubernetes.
Darrell Huff is hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Huff
But more importantly: who gives a damn? And what source do you have, if someone did give a damn? The linked site only shows several open source products and services.
There are more real blogs today than there were in the 90ies, you just stopped visiting them.
Implementation requires specialized skills for the hardware, software, and logistics, as well as lots of time, money, and patience. A stalker isn't going to deploy many pi zeros with cameras in many places on his own, and I'm not concerned that they will be able to round up many assistants.

Amazon's product takes care of all that nitty-gritty, thanks to the work of their many bright employees.
I am honestly very surprised at how comfortable people are with them. I think the smartphone paved the way and normalized it. I remember friends and family being terrified that their SMS messages were being read. Now people often don't give it a second thought.
I think SecureDrop is the gold standard in this area - does GlobaLeaks offer anything over SecureDrop?
Why is it revolutionary? Who really cares that much about not requiring a trusted intermediary, besides anarchists? Our civilized world is built on trust.

It was a Bitcoin advocate who said "nothing is cheaper than proof of work", given the precondition that you don't trust anyone. Curiously, they saw that as an argument in favor of proof of work. Bitcoin detractors see that as an argument in favor of trusting someone, because proof of work is insanely expensive and an ecological disaster.
IANAL...and this is specific to US Copyright law.

Yes, it does, but doesn't necessarily grant copyright for the content of the photograph.

I can sell a photograph of that statue, and be protected from copyright claims IF my work meets the Fair Use standard. I can also give you permission to use my photograph commercially. However you may not use it yourself commercially without permission of the statues copyright owner. The copyright owner can restrict it's usage outside of those covered by the Fair Use doctrine.

Two examples:

If I take a picture of of a person, I own the copyright for that image. I can sell it to you, but what you can do with that image is limited. You can use it privately, but to publish it in say a magazine, you would need a model release form. You have the rights to use the image, but not to the subjects likeness. There are cases where no release is needed, such as the case for photojournalism, or when the figure's likeness is already in the public domain (i.e. a politician, or another type of celebrity).

The lightshow & fireworks show at the Eiffel Tower in Paris is a copyrighted work. Pictures of it can be used for personal use, but commercial use is prohibited. In order to use a picture of the light show commercially, you must obtain permission (aka a license) from the Eiffel Tower Society. They have explicitly restricted the use of lightshow pictures. [1]

As an aside, this is one of my beefs with Getty Images. It allows people to upload photographs to which they do not actually have all the rights to, and Getty then sells a license to use it.

1: https://alj.orangenius.com/night-photos-eiffel-tower-violate...
It'd also be useful for someone farting around with machine learning who isn't anywhere close to being at a point of shipping anything to anyone else.

This is the only use I can see for this data under those license terms. And even then, you are still technically granting Microsoft a super-license to do whatever they want with whatever you come up with, and probably also not allowed to upload it to Github.
First step in trying it out requires inputting my full name and email address :/
I'm willing to listen.

It just seems odd to have so many who scratched and saved and schemed and clawed their way to near the top of their professions, with a great deal of wealth, now telling me how easy it is if we just hand out free cash to people...?
Who can break it with HKPK enabled?
The Mayan languages stopped being written, but not spoken, by their language community as a result of the Spanish conquest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages#Writing_system...

In particular, this was an effort to suppress Maya religion that led to an almost complete loss of knowledge of the original writing system. Later on Maya started being written with Latin characters, but there are still lots of native speakers who are functionally literate in Spanish but not in Maya.
thank you for writing this up.

> I have spent the last two months implementing automation for deploying a cluster on AWS, with auto-scaling, auto-healing, the works, automatically deployed through Jenkins. It is NOT easy, it is not simple, and it is not focusing on my end application, unless you are ignoring all the technical debt you are incurring.

yes, i can appreciate that having a system automatically handle even some of this necessary plumbing in a reasonable and standardised way is attractive.
If I had to develop software like that, I'd quit and dig ditches for a living.
Yep. My tools for handling negative emotion are those of problem solving. If someone wants me to give any emotional thought to their issues -- that is, anything more than an expressionless "that sucks" -- then it's going to involve me thinking of solutions for the problem at hand. To deny me that is to force me to struggle with a difficult emotion I can't process for hours or days.

(To be clear -- I am glad to do that, when the problem doesn't have a solution! Death of a loved one, annoying co-workers, etc.)
This comment seems to be unnecessarily inflammatory. Your link points to nothing that appears to be political or "affiliated with the GamerGate crowd".

And why would you even bring up the philosophical leanings of the group running this GitLab instance (assuming you are correct). It has no bearing on the discussion at hand. Why try and run the conversation off the rails?
I didn't even realize that Git Gud was a real thing when I was playing Cards Against Downtime at the Perl Conference. I just thought it was a weird card.
> and then release the key to select parties.

Don't do this; it has all the same problems of just giving the data to select parties directly.

Instead use http://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting-files and post that to the blockchain. This ensures that anyone can access the data without depending on a trusted third party, but the data will already be irrevocably committed by the time anyone realizes that they want to censor it. Then publish the decryption key for convenience; if that get censored, it's merely mildly annoying.
As a shapeless enthusiast I agree with you that the Peano examples (which seem to be the go-to for any dependent types demo; not just for Scala... they must think it's helpful!) is terrible for people who don't already get dependent typing and logic programming. Which are the people you're supposed to be reaching with a demo.

I have a talk to intro typelevel proofs in Scala (with shapeless as the example target), that uses the kind of geometric proofs we all did in high school as an analogy. I think that's more of an accessible metaphor, but it also seems like precisely what Odersky is trying to eliminate in Dotty - the use of inductive implicit derivation to form "proofs" of invariants that are also implementations. Admittedly, it's an approach that seems rather difficult for a lot of engineers to grasp, which means it's of questionable utility. But it always seemed really elegant to me - type systems are about proving invariants, and Scala's just gives you powerful ways to prove things by unifying that concept into implicits.
I support this alternative address. Additionally, the url preview clarifies that Ars Technica is the source, as opposed to “ampproject”.
It seems really incredible to me that this is, and perhaps taste(closely related), we have been unable to tame. Sight, sound, psychology- no problem for the technologically literate to impose on another...but we can't recreate or manipulate smell? fascinating.
OR allow student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy - that would give the schools a hell of an incentive to not ship overtly-debt-addled peeps into the workforce.
Never write anything in an email/SMS/etc that you wouldn’t feel comfortable reading on the Jumbotron in Times Square. If you follow that simple rule you'll do fine.
The article suggests using nonviolent communication to clarify which sort of support is needed:

> Beyond that, ask for what you want, and check with your partner about what they want. If you want your partner’s support about something, let them know whether you’re looking for understanding or advice. Don’t make them guess. Don’t wait to see what they do. Tell them what you want.

I can see that the "Default to emotional support" can seem to suggest that you must provide emotional support whenever asked, but if you can't provide emotional support (whether from low EQ or from being drained), you can't. The suggested strategy of making the request for support unambiguous allows a response along the lines of (but probably not worded this way) "I'd like to provide support, but I can't."

The distinction between "stop giving X" and "stop asking for X" is important — in the latter case, someone is asking for what they need, whether or not the need can be fulfilled, while in the former case, someone is providing X, regardless of whether it is desired.
> The linked site only shows several open source products and services.

Clicking on the "Projects" link brings me to a page that includes racist epithets against Jews and Blacks.

That's why I give a damn. Seeking out any service that aims particularly to shelter that kind of language speaks volumes to me about the author's character and state of mind.
Official video summary: https://youtu.be/GRrUxi6d7so
The worse case I’ve seen is Amazon’s credit card site — Amazon.mycreditcard.mobi. I realize that it’s run by a third party, but I am sure they could have given it a better domain name.
or the hardware
On a developer forum devoted to software companies, the main argument is that physical products are by nature more valuable than non-physical products. (As opposed to the argument that non-physical products are easier to take and use without permission, regardless of effort put into it or value extracted).
"Personally" (professionally), neither am I. This kind of conservatism was formed after decades of sysadmin/ops experience.

However, having acquired a strong affinity for startups, I also accept that risk (even complete, betting-the-farm risk) is totally OK, so long as that risk is taken in an informed manner. Startups, especially early ones, are a risky proposition from the get-go, and VC money tends to amplify that.

The market doesn't much punish a web startup that grew like crazy but lost some user-generated content by using some "NoSQL" database when it first came out. It does, however, punish the one that failed to grow by being too conservative.

That's obviously a false dichotomy, but I believe that's essentially the perception that's created, partly by characterizing new technologies as dangerous because they're new and "shiny".

Ultimately, I consider mine to be a service profession and an engineering one. As such, if I think a new tech is too undesirable, it's up to me to provide an alternative that actually addresses the original problems (without offloading the burden onto my users/customers).
I think "infinite" is just sloppy language. If every possible universe exists in some sense, that is a large number, but not infinite - because nothing about a universe has infinite precision. Thus, "half" would still mean something.
IDA has a ton of hacks in it that arent exactly common or public knowledge. There are hundreds of anti-debugger/dissasembler instruction sequences that will crash or stall or corrupt analysis tools. To even identify all the instructions which can be used for control flow, which alter which flags and how, for multiple architectures, is a royal man hour grunt work marathon. And as we see with the latest round of speculative load exploits, a lot of branches cannot even be predicted appropriately because they could be using exploits relying on undefined behavior..side channels. So the whole issue of perfect control flow analysis is a more mechanical one than a pure abstraction based one. When OllyDbg was first built it was the same way. Oleg put thousands od hours into whack a moling every issue. Most people like elegant endeavors based on some core principles. In static analysis of complex ISAs, the core principle is documenting 10000 species of moths, not finding that they all have wings..
So what do you exactly pay for when you license an image from Getty?
Its origins are in gaming. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/git-gud
When you order food at a restaurant, there's no contract either. Just an implicit understanding by the restaurant owner and society that you'll pay at the end.
> remove citizenship from naturalized citizens that they believe lied on their applications

If the individual was given citizenship on the basis of those lies, then it makes total sense to revoke citizenship.

That would be like hiring a developer who says he is an amazing programmer who can solve any problem. Turns out after he got the job, not only is he terrible at programming, but he's also a liar. So you fire him.

If you lie on an application for something, and you are awarded, generally speaking it makes sense to revoke the award if it is discovered that you lied.
Yes, if your job is to track that analyze it and report on it.

But U3 is fine for year-to-year readings of employment temperature for lay people like most of us.
The state doesn't need to grow the money supply if it takes from the people the same amount that it distributes to the people.

Even then the prices of various products will likely be affected, but the nature and extent of those effects are not obvious.
I am not so sure; there's rarely a strong incentive to misrepresent a paper on e.g. number theory, but that is not the case when it comes to issues in politics or business.
We already see this to some extent with Wikipedia-- the pages on math and hard science are generally accurate and well-written.
Biographies are much more a mixed-bag, even aside from the fact that the subject themselves can edit their page, I know there are companies that offer to create or manage wiki pages for PR purposes.

It might be better to take an approach similar to "open science".
Have the reporters publish their raw footage and interview transcripts to address misrepresentation/cherry-picking, and get them to commit to answering follow-up questions from readers to allow the readers to get additional information.
Having more of a back-and-forth could improve the quality of the reporting, allow for spurious objections to be debunked, or ensure that the author gets taken to task if their bias taints the story.

This seems time/capital intensive and therefore impractical in the age of listicles, but on further consideration I realize that many "name brand" bloggers popular on HN essentially follow this model-- for example, Matt Levine and Brian Krebs.
However it's not clear whether their model can be applied to all areas of journalistic interest instead of specific niches, or if it requires a rare kind of individual to make it work.
I don't even understand how the frequentist view is a valid alternative. It always seemed to me like either you are honest about your priors, and use Bayesian logic to take them into account, or you sweep it under the rug. Lying to yourself always produces bad results, is my overriding heuristic. But I'm not good at math.
Subpixel AA only works when you know exactly what the output pixel layout is, when you aren't being scaled by some other technology and when you aren't showing the same thing on disparate displays, and it requires you to adapt whenever the screen rotates, which is common on tablet-style devices. Also, some people (like me) can see the discoloration it imbues. So I'll be glad to see it go.

(Attempts to disable it tended to get various results in various operating systems, but rarely consistently disabled it)
We've tamed smell just fine in food and toiletries. It's just that we haven't invented matter replicators yet, so you can't just push electrons into a box and get arbitrary chemicals out.
Wow, on a side note, when I saw it I almost thought it was the scammy Israel company that used to thrust adware/malware through its toolbars back then.

[1] http://malware.wikia.com/wiki/Conduit_Search
Three people if you watch the whole video!

There's an interesting code-switching thing for two of them (especially the last speaker) where Spanish "este" ('this') is used apparently at the beginning or end of new thoughts or to relate ideas to each other, including "para este"/"para" ('for this') when describing a reason for something and "pero este" ('but this') when drawing a contrast. I don't think this is quite idiomatic in Spanish when used this way, and I wonder if these are translations of particular Nahuatl words or phrases.

I thought the situations where these were used were mostly ones where we might say "so" or "well" in English (I might expect something like "entonces" or "bien" in Spanish).

The stories that the people tell in the video involve some maltreatment from other people on account of the use of Nahuatl. I really liked the first speaker's intuition, something like: "If we use our language, people are going to be curious and want to learn it!"
This seems certain to be related to integration of UIKit-on-macOS ("Marzipan") apps. (UIKit has never had subpixel antialiasing.)
Which is pronounced with /β/, a sound closer to /v/ than /b/.
Yes, sorry, I should have made that clear. I'm the "informational" type and learned long ago to just listen to complaints, especially from casual acquaintances. But I've also met my fair share of people who willingly dump some pretty serious issues on me -- issues that are within their power, if not their will, to fix -- and my inability to be the emotional sponge these individuals seek is emphatically not a problem with me, or with anyone else in that situation.
Things happen, I get it. That's why I talk to people to get the full story.

A few notes:

> "I'm looking for exciting new projects and to learn new things!"

Because literally everyone says this, this is a meaningless sentence. After all, no one is saying, "I want to be a maintenance programmer." Demonstrated desire to learn new things is what sets apart the doers from the talkers.

> Instead of judging based on the time spent at places, ask why they're bored and what they would enjoy working on.

I do, of course. I could write 1000 words on this topic but it's late and so I will just say that every developer wants to work on these projects, there are never enough openings on them to go around, and someone needs to write the code that keeps the lights on. A wise developer would 1) initially work hard on their own time to gain the skills necessary to be given these kinds of tasks at work, and 2) propose interesting projects with a direct business relevance at their current company before looking for new jobs elsewhere.
I don't like ads either, but you can argue that ads benefit the user by paying for the service that they want to use. Until we have some viable micropayment system that allows me to pay the fraction of a cent that the website would otherwise receive by showing me an ad it's hard to finance popular services.