skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are correct that an image derived from a program with no human input is not copyrightable in the US. Relevant sections from the copyright.gov compendium, 3rd edition

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# 306 The Human Authorship Requirement

The U.S. Copyright Office will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work
was created by a human being.
The copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative
powers of the mind.” Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U.S. 82, 94 (1879). Because copyright law is limited
to “original intellectual conceptions of the author,” the Office will refuse to register a claim if it
determines that a human being did not create the work. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony,
111 U.S. 53, 58 (1884). For representative examples of works that do not satisfy this requirement,
see Section 313.2 below.

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# 313.2 Works That Lack Human Authorship

The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants. Likewise, the Office
cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings....

...

Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process
that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human
author... Example: A claim based on a mechanical weaving process that randomly produces irregular
shapes in the fabric...

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/docs/compendium.pdf (Warning, approx 1200 pages)
If the case is the pi-hole was an open resolver, then a simple firewall rule should have been enabled to block port 53 from the WAN...
Ultimately, this is going to end badly for advertisers. All ISPs block port 25. In < 5 years, all ISPs will provide PiHole functionality on their networks. "Net Neutrality" is gone. This is going to be glorious. Thank goodness for the FCC making this protection available to the masses.
In this case, a tutorial from Facebook carries more informative weight than a Medium thought piece (and Facebook legitimately is a leader in ML).
> I don't really understand the motivation trying to keep one's phone number or address secret.

Random people/companies calling you at home, harassment, generally people on the internet being less than civil especially if you are a woman.
It comes from a very explicit reading of Ayn Rand, who frequently likens law and regulation to the explicit use of force. To be fair, it's true but the literal statement of the fact misses a lot of the nuance of living in a civil society.
> The mechanical skills of wielding a pencil or mixing paint are almost trivial; the hard part is being able to see what's actually there.

Cool, now draw a picture of a hand wielding a pencil. :-)
Making systems less accessible is the defining characteristic of computer security. Steve Yegge addresses this very point cogently in one of his old rants.
Morgan Stanley Increases Waymo Valuation to $175B
Why do we think Apple is good for privacy?

There was a terrorist attack and apple 'didnt help' but the government cracked the phone anyway.

Seeing how aggressive Apple is with proprietary hardware, intentional slowdowns, and insane app fees... They are self interested just like every other fortune 500 company.
That's just more incentive for companies to stop doing insecure 2FA over mobile networks.
Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley
> I hope we can agree that de facto serfdom is a bad thing.

There is actually some evidence that what we currently have is already worse than serfdom [0] in many ways. I don't think this is a crisis which is about to occur, but one which has already started, is currently ongoing, and will probably get much worse.

[0] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
That would enable people to prove what they have voted, which in turn enables vote-selling and/or for the head of the family to force other family members to vote a certain way.
Yes, my echo is purely a voice activated Spotify speaker. Works great for this though, and worth the price.
Trump, in his infinite wisdom, said that if asbestos had not been banned, the World Trade Center would never have burned down.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/25865556945865113...
yay mazal tov
How Networking Can Help You with Job Search
No, it is more than five.
> I'm going to get penalised for this but I have to say it because I presume no-one else will: Why the hell is this on HN?

Others may not say it because HN practice is to use the flag button, not post that kind of question.
Reading the NSA's codebase – Lemongraph code review
A tale of cloud, containers and kubernetes
Ah, just let him giggle.
That's a great idea! As of now there are already 460 responses :)
> I want to give special thanks to Mike McQuaid for his quick and professional handling of my report while on his paternity leave.

Kudos on that. Specially when the all team make only around $700-800 per month. [1]

[1] https://www.patreon.com/homebrew
Facebook's guide comes a couple weeks after (EDIT: FB's guide was originally published on May 7th, so it's actually a few months old) Google published their ML guides (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17595611).

That's not a bad thing; the more guides from reputable sources, the better. Just don't read them and say you're an ML expert afterwards.
> 1. https://www.httpvshttps.com

To be fair, this is in conjunction with HTTP/2.
The way you handled this does not speak well of your character. You should have: 1. Preserved the articles in a safe place. 2. Resigned. 3. Given the articles to another publication and state what happened. What I see here is that you were concerned first about your own finances. That is what makes you look bad. Ethics first, finances second.
First, it’s getting data about your data on your behalf —what you end up doing with your own data is kinda up to you. It’s yours. This is a great tool to shine a light on what FB knows about you.

W:re CA. FB was touting and selling this service to any and all intetested parties. It’s only retroactively that FB and others are crying foul. I mean sure, FB should not have sold thet data or made it available to any interested party, but that’s their actual business model.
Oh. I never said that was a good thing. Institutionalized peer review as its done today is a relatively new thing, introduced post-WWII. Ie, that statement was descriptive, not normative.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/peer-review-no...
At least in Finland (Nordic country) almost all people in prisons have reduced impulse control in one way or another. Severe alcohol dependency or drug addiction, personality disorders, often combined, attention deficit disorders or other neurological abnormalities.

People get into trouble with law mainly because they have reduced judgment. Idea that longer sentence makes them think twice simply can't work with them. It might work for white collar crime, but that's not usually what is suggested.
CNN just put this on their front page. Did they ask you for comment?

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/07/media/jared-kushner-new-yor...
What if the models just can't be distilled beyond a certain point down to an explanation in English words that makes sense to you and has "explanatory power"?

Clearly reducing the problem from the brain to an ANN is valuable because if we want to predict build or fix the brain, having approximations to pieces of it as an ANN let us get closer to doing that in the same way that more compact models or explanations help us get closer to doing those things.
I hold a copyright on my DNA.
Motion is hiring full stack engineers in SF to beat pain
pihole has a CLI to block/unblock URLs, so it should be pretty straightforward
In fairness it was a pretty old phone, without a secure enclave iirc.
People talk about the heat-death of the universe like its on par with other existential threats... but the heat death is literally trillions of years away. We're only at 0.5% of the universe's lifespan.

A universe devoid of us for 99.5% of its existence is not as good!
When GE went to $6/share, I knew it was massively undervalued. I thought about borrowing money to buy shares. I would have easily tripled my money in the next year or two, but I lacked the courage to do it in that economic climate.

Buffet's maxim: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful." But I was too fearful to be greedy...
> None of that is relevant. What is relevant is that there are known mitigations, which are simply a matter of engineering.

No they are not. They're also a matter of economics and political will. For the world to embark on such an engineering feat a lot of people would have to give up a lot of money to fund the engineering required. Meanwhile, I don't know if you've noticed, but political systems around the world are becoming less stable and more prone to fringe and populist ideas.

Any kind of climate disaster will only make things worse politically. If the Syrian refugee crisis was bad, imagine what happens when millions in India become displaced because their place of residence is too hot to live in. Or when the first global food shortage happens. This is the kind of stuff that starts desperate wars for resources and brings populist dictators to power.

> Humanity has a bright future. The only things standing in the way are stupidity, defeatism and negativity.

No, what's standing in the way is a sociopolitical climate focused on extreme individualism. The kind of engineering solutions you describe require some form of collectivism - even if it's just drastically raising taxes to pay for all this stuff. Western governments have been so weakened over the last 20 years that they will have a hard time doing what's necessary. The US is withdrawing from even the modest commitments in the Paris Accords.
Sending the pihole admin password in a non-https url query string seems like a bad idea. You might argue that your network is 'trusted', but then I'd remind you that this pihole device is designed to intercept all dns on your network, and would be used quite maliciously if compromised.
Someone else said the same thing and got downvoted to hell, but let’s be clear: while it’s very obvious that Russia assisted the Trump campaign and bought ads for Trump, there has never been any evidence or even suspicion that they were involved in direct vote manipulation regardless of what clickbait headlines may imply.
They’ll have to wait in line. My time is far too valuable to give it away. I have tremendous things to accomplish.

Actually, I would be surprised if a vuln creeps its way into a builtin. Most of the runtime should be stateless, and regex exec was the only one I could think of that might do some fancy memoization. But I hear it’s fun to collect a paycheck at pwn2own.
Large tech companies seriously do not care. They say they do, and they point to all these heuristics and optimizations, they point to Chrome's dev tools where you can simulate slow connections, etc. Great.

The problem is, they're taking an experience that is fundamentally ridiculously heavy, and then spending thousands of man-hours trying to optimize it. No one even considers that maybe its the experience itself that is too heavy, and no optimizations can help that.

Youtube Home Page. Load it up, and you'll find its making over 200 requests, transferring megabytes of data. Google's most obvious solution: Lets speed up TLS, make each request go faster, lets invent new image and video compression algorithms to lower the size of each response, lets batch requests to reduce latency, technology, complexity, more code, more code.

No one actually takes a step back and asks if the Youtube home page should make 200 requests. What if it only made 20 requests? We gotta load some thumbnails, so there's bound to be a lot of requests there, but otherwise what the heck is all this JS?

TLS on one request isn't the problem. The problem is the hundreds of requests a typical website leans on.

Uncomfortable opinion: The only reason the internet has survived for so long is because of Moores Law. We've developed all of this technology and SDLC process in an era where another 20% jump in performance is just around the corner, so who cares if it's slow today. Yeah, that era is done. And we, as an industry, are completely fucked. Its not an understatement to say its a "back to the fundamentals" moment, and its going to cost us billions of collective dollars engineering for it.
Tech sector as the solution to the looming automation crisis? It's the cause of the looming automation crisis.
hmm you're right. what could it be then.
so full text search is payed again. i love that feature, but it's not worth 30 bucks a year to me.
...a former employer (based in the EU, exports perhaps 2/3 of production outside the EU) took a major financial hit when it was found that a valve sourced from a cheaper supplier than the ones originally used contained an (undeclared) asbestos gasket.

Cost of replacement gasket? Less than $1/system.

Cost of getting to gasket? ~$70-80k/system. We had deployed a few hundred.

On the upside, after this incident, noone in purchasing tried to source cheaper, same-same but different replacements for parts specified by engineering for years thereafter...
Growing a Business Selling City Maps to $60k/month in One Year
Yes, but it makes possible to generate them for most popular SSIDs
I'm interested in seeing a whole new world of wasm exploits. I have a strong suspicion we're going to see the same types of bugs we're seeing with C and C++ in browsers which sounds a bit scary to be honest.
Earlier you argued that Apple et al were justified in banning Jones because he was using the platform to conduct illegal activity (albeit for which he has not yet been convicted). I agreed this would be a plausible justification, it's just not the one they actually cite. But now it sounds like you're saying they are justified in banning him because, although it may actually increases the spread of his message (thereby, presumably, increasing his ability to lead harassment in the short-term), it deprives him of the ability to profit from it. However, my understanding is that, at least with regard to first-amendment government constraints, speech doesn't become less protected just because it's intertwined with profit-making activity. (Of course, for-profit activities may introduce additional considerations that must be balanced against free speech, but the mere existence of profit does not reduce protection.) I don't see why that should be different when considering the free-speech duties of private individuals and companies vs. the government.
IoT Plant Irrigation System with Raspberry Pi and PubNub
Getting Started with CSS Layout
With Google’s history of abandoning efforts like this, I wouldn’t spend too much effort using any language developed by them.
> Gaia theory suggests that the world is full of these stabilizing systems.

Or stable feedback loops exist longer (because they are stable) and that's all there is to it. Life managed to almost kill itself a couple of times during Huronian glaciation.
I'm not talking about a theoretical world where the whole country could be hacked, monitored, and adjusted as results come in. Every state has a different system, and very few states have the worst case of digital machines with no paper trail: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

We can all imagine that computers can be hacked the way you describe, but such computers don't exist everywhere a hacker would need them. Take Michigan as an example, since it was key to Trump's victory and only a handful of counties swayed the results. The entire state uses paper ballots. How can this system be hacked without a massive social engineering conspiracy involving hundreds of people?
This may have been true in the past, but times are changing, at least in Texas.

In fact, I teach a class every week to 33 prisoners, inside the prison itself. Rehabilitation is absolutely the goal.
Does anyone know the last Thunderbird nightly build that's okay to use if you don't want all your extensions to be disabled?
>They're all made up numbers

All numbers are made up.
I am not sure things are quite that linear. Sure, few US cities are on the coasts, but the ones that are happen to be some of the most important pieces of the freight distribution network and economy of North America. If the frequency of catastrophic storms increases by a relatively small amount, we will cross an inflection point and there will be a rapid cascading failure across the entire continent.
This looks like like a great project, I'm excited to see where this goes. Could you elaborate on how the trait system works? I read through the manual and the documentation for traits seems sparse. On a related note, could you explain this from the FAQ?
No. Traits remove the need for sum types and enums.
> The 'valuation' of a company is basically the present value of all it's estimated future cash flows.

?? A company could have huge future cash flows yet operate with zero profit, or with a loss.

Maybe you're referring to the Dividend Discount Model of valuation. In that case the only flows that are discounted to present value are the future dividends paid to shareholders, which are tiny subset of a company's future cash flows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_discount_model

There's so much loose and confused use of terminology in threads like this generally, that I tend to think they're unhelpful to the majority of people who read them.
Sure, if that happened that would be bad, but in this case only the user of the app could see their own PYMK data - the tool did not send data to the journalists.
Yeah. It's amazing how much good you can do for someone just listening to them. It's "rubber duck debugging" in our industry, but the principle can be applied to your general life too.

It's also amazing how much good you can do for someone by just listening to them for a bit, and then deploying the correct platitude. No originality, no great wisdom, just the right thing said at the right time, from someone whom the listener doesn't have years of emotional callouses, defenses, and preconceptions built up to prevent them from hearing the simplest of words without hearing the echos of years past.

With a bit more effort you can do even better, of course; I'm not trying to oversell the goodness. I'm saying the bang for the buck can be surprisingly good for people.
Which blocklists are you using? Could you share?
It’s pretty easy to use TLS for caching. I do it with Varnish via Fastly. It just costs a bit more.
> 6 months of sobriety to reflect on where her life was going.

https://anaheimlighthouse.com/blog/drug-use-in-us-prisons/
Would "should be considered" be more appropriate wording and less hyperbolic? I'm being serious.

I think cash contributions for legislation fundamentally subvert our democracy, and my comment was intended to raise that point for discussion. I don't see discussion of the perversion of democracy as unsubstantive.
Facebook closed up a lot of API endpoints after the CA incident became big (including public page post data, to my annoyance).
> Why the hell is this on HN?

If I had to guess, it's because HN users are primarily in the 'tech' industry, which itself (in the US) is made up of a relatively large number of legal immigrants. So it's very likely this stupid direction from donald and his friends will impact a few HN users and/or their friends/family.
I like this dream, but think you need to pair it with a dream of cows the size of elephants as each day the eagle will need to eat a 1000 pounds of meat.
Especially when GPG signing is so easy: https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-using-gpg/
I've always looked at money's influence in politics as a sort of balanced system, like the house and senate. We need both equal access to politics and proportional access to politics based on resources. Otherwise, democracy devolves into two me's and a Jeff Bezos voting on who pays for my stuff.
One would think that Apple would be a prime candidate for contributing to Homebrew security funding, since in practice it is a project with security implications for so very many OSX developer workstations.
Some of the diagrams don't fit on the screen on my phone. Since the diagrams are fixed in place and don't scroll, there are parts that I literally can't read.
> A traveler that goes through these things 200 times a year for short flights really does have a significant increased risk of cancer.

You are describing someone who travels on a plane four days a week, every week, and never takes vacation days. This person also must be checked using the full-body scanner on every single one of their trips (because the magnetic walk-through arches don't use x-rays and thus doesn't have any radiation to speak of -- they use magnets). I think it is more than fair to say that your example is ludicrously cherry-picked -- even if enough people traveled that often to be important enough to bring up in this discussion (the only example I can think of is airplane staff and crew) they almost certainly would not go through a full-body scanner every time they fly.

There was also a study in 2013[1] (which tested the actual scanners in LAX rather than some mocked up scanners), and it claims that a full-body scan only imparts ~11 nSv -- which is almost two orders of magnitude smaller than your ~0.9 μSv figure. I'm not sure which is correct, but I do have a source for my figure.

[1]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130627151642.h...
I love WebAssembly and I don't agree with GP at all here, but this prevailing holier-than-thou attitude of "You shouldn't complain or poke holes in things unless you're willing to fix them yourself" is just silly, so I down-voted you.

Trying to poke holes in things, or raising concerns about them, is contributing. I would rather hear other people's arguments (even if I don't agree with them) than silence them on the grounds of "let's see you do better n00b".
About .2 bits/sec. Not usable unless parallelized millions of times.
That analysis commits a variety of errors. For example, they rank Warm Springs as the most reliable with “only” 5 days of downtime in the last two years. Unfortunately at that time the station had only been open for 60 days.
This line would have more impact if Facebook themselves observed any ethical or legal limitations on their own data scraping that they don't think they can get away with.
I don't think my neighbors are sniffing my wifi traffic, I wouldn't think the password to be at risk
Which means what in context of this conversation?
As someone trying to make his first mobile app, I just ran through the Flutter getting started guide and it was a much better experience than getting a React-Native hello world going.

Just a couple pros I see:

* flutter doctor - what a helpful tool!
* hot reload without losing state!?

If Dart can use my existing TypeScript code, I'll definitely use it.
Not everyone who has a mobile or is online grew up in that time period so the perspective is foreign.
You can also pump CO2 into deep coal seams, displacing CH4 which is then burned in a closed capture system. The CO2 released from burning the CH4 is also sequestered resulting in a net gain since CO2 preferentially adsorbs to coal at a roughly 3:1 ratio to CH4. Economically viable coal seams are widespread globally, and exist within 50 km of most coal burning power plants in the United States.
Does Your Company Need a Chief Storyteller?
Could we please drop this "if you see a problem just contribute" and switch to "if you can contribute then please do"?

I have a feeling that this is a common way in the OSS community to dismiss suggestions, ideas and criticism instead of taking them into account, feel free to correct me if this isn't the case.

EDIT: Seems I'm not the only one that's annoyed by this.
You sound like a man of refined tastes. Big "Rick and Morty" fan I assume?
I used one called Mince, I believe, on CP/M machines - I think on a Compucolor or Cromemco or something. There was another I can't remember the name of.
Ah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINCE
And found this - Lynx friendly as well! http://www.texteditors.org