skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently see people say "Google should be broken up" and I want to hear more on that argument. Meaning Google and Youtube should be separated? but then we're no longer talking about just their search dominance right? How could search alone be broken up if a large part of the complaint is about the dominance of their search?

Moreover, it is pretty easy to not use google search? Why couldn't someone use DDG, Yahoo, Bing, etc.? despite it being defaulted to in browsers (you can change this), most people elect to use Google. If a company dominates a single sector through consumer choice, should they be broken up (esoecially when consumer could walk away)?

I'm not try to be facetious, I would just like counter arguments
Ostensibly this is what tenure is for.
What your looking for is called onion skin paper and it seems to be pricey, but I agree, great for certain uses
The movie mentioned in the report triggered a lot of discussions online. One question that troubled many Chinese was: Why Chinese need to smuggle cheap drugs instead of producing their own equivalent. The difference is obviously the IP cost of drugs owned by the big pharma because Chinese companies have the capability to produce the drugs. Then why China can not violate those IPs while India can? A popular explanation by some experts was: A US company had a disastrous accident in the 80's caused thousands of Indians death and blind. So US never put a pressure on India government to enforce the IP laws. But China is different. There's no way to have a scalable drug production without violate those drug IPs.

I don't know the explaination is accurate or not.
> As long as Coke's actions are not stopping competition in that larger market with the result of harming consumers, why should anyone care?

This makes sense as a theory, but in practice, monopolies never exist without abuse/harm. It's likely the only way to sell a single brand to wildly varying customers with different tastes.
Put simply: Pretty much most of what Trump stands for. In a way, he's even the "religious leader".
Actually it is block, not function. It makes it very difficult to read the code if you are looking for the scope of the variables, or investigating stack usage.
Why would it matter that the return-pointer write goes through memory? It's a handful of cycles. I'm curious what kind of function you envision that is so short-lived AND needs tricky error handling AND is extremely performance-sensitive.
Working on a novel now - gave it two thorough passes, then gave it to a beta reader who also happens to be an English teacher.

They found hundreds of little errors (and some big!) that I probably never would have caught or thought about. Definitely worth finding a few volunteers. Lots of people looking to swap novels for feedback.
Right, that would be an example of a "different problem."

I'd be hard pressed to let stupid things client/managers can do direct how this sort of tool should work. For example, it'd be silly to demand "score inflation" just because your client is unreasonable. Or rather, if a client is making your life hard, I don't think it's the world that needs to change.

What's your solution if your client measures your success by punching their website into https://www.worthofweb.com/calculator/? And doesn't take you seriously enough to listen to you in general?
This is all captured by civilian equipment on the ground. The stuff the ATCs themselves have access to is much better.
Since we don't usually get UFO threads on Hacker News, I may as well brush the dust off my tinfoil hat...

What's always puzzled me about UFO sightings is the preponderance of "bright lights" being what people report seeing. If some extraterrestrial being came to visit, why make itself known? And in such an obviously unnatural way, too?

One immediate counterargument I can think of is that it's good camouflage. Who needs difficult shit like invisibility when we can just pound the earthlings' pupils with light so they can't see us well! Nevertheless, has always made the skeptic in me raise my eyebrows recursively.
I've been developing and running this monitoring software for quite a while, and recently got around to making it ready for distribution.

You can run this yourself - the software is AGPLv3 and scripts are included to start the containers as necessary and run your own Bitcoin node.

A screenshot of an older version, on the off-chance that the demo site dies from the traffic;

https://electronrelocation.com/img/bitcoin-top.png
Title Alert: This article isn't about ending the rules "intellectual property" refers to. It's about ending use of the term "intellectual property" to refer to those rules.

The arguments are in the same class as those we've seen from RMS, who's invoked and quoted early on. Most generalize to Slippery Slope.

I agree that we are sliding, but not because IP maximalism is naturally downhill from where we are, or because the hill is all that slippery. Legal changes take push. They're being pushed. Strong incentives abound. Broad concepts like "tort" aren't the cause of, say, intentional infliction of emotional distress doctrines. First sale doctrines aren't developing under rhetorical sway of "intellectual property" like breach notification laws are developing under "privacy".

The best recent account of how IP rights form, expand, and strengthen that I've read recently is Rothman's The Right of Publicity. She cites and decries the "property syllogism", too. But also details the kinds of conflicts, competing interests, and finer doctrinal confusions that lead to such rules.

There is a strong point to be made on rhetoric. But I don't think playing into WIPO's branding importance makes it, or any substitute for it.
I'm curious, how do you see that critique as materially different? Seems to make the same two points, the influence on human language and its role in strengthening Google's data dominance.
Oh. Now I feel silly I didn't understand your comment. Anyway, I like Olivia Dunham too and still miss Fringe.
Google Internet Traffic Is Briefly Misdirected Through Russia, China
Plus it’s open source and welcomes contributions https://webhint.io/docs/contributor-guide/
I vehemently disagree with advertising in general, and go to efforts to make sure myself and my wife/kids see ads as little as possible (Pi-Hole, adblock plugins, no TV other than as a NAS screen, etc). I very much believe it is a form of malicious brainwashing.

But, I very much want to reward the people who create the things I use.

So I'll never whitelist any site or service, but I'll absolutely donate or make sure they get paid in other ways (and usually willingly donate more than they'd get from showing me ads).
Interesting Idea! , but i have a couple of feedback :

- Don't restrict meetup to only cities. (For example, i used to run a Javascript community in Bali, called BaliJS and limiting our presence to only 1 city is limiting our impact, since Bali is relatively small and we have initiate activity not only in Denpasar)

- Using Google Authenticator is a little bit annoying, i think you can offer some other auth method like using Github or FB OAuth for example

Cheers,
Interesting classes! To use the heuristic Andrew Ng proposed if a human could tell the difference between correct and incorrect proofs in 1 second then this problem is likely no harder than most image recognition problems. If, instead, we're talking about analysis that requires symbolic manipulation then we're pretty far outside of the current capabilities of convolutional/residual/fully connected nets for which the paper provides bounds.
Ah now I understand!
This is a perfectly honest way to describe and frame it. And you're right about the Salvation Army. A lot of people, myself included, avoid supporting them for this reason.
If YouTube has edge caches, which I would be very surprised if they didn't, I'd think their edge cache hit rate would still be pretty high. Not 100%, obviously, but still over 50%–most people watch the same set of popular videos, with a very long tail of unpopular ones that are occasionally watched.
Its Russia, and others too probably. No not that "They haxed our election!" but that they are stoking the fire. Right wing discussion is filled with cartoon-style representations of the left, and the left is vice-versa. I feel that I've seen communities of too high an overall intelligence become overtaken by the lowest quality stuff. People who attempt to discuss nuance get shouted at as being from the other side.

I guess it is possible that genuine consensus in these groups has lowered in quality, but I personally can't believe that, communities I've been in for awhile changed and got very intense within the last 3 years. It's unfortunate to see.
As someone who operated marine VHF ("bridge-to-bridge") professionally for years, I'll say that these recordings sound perfectly intelligible. I imagine ATCs and pilots have a similar culture of "get the point across as fast as possible, but not so fast that it is no longer unambiguous." Especially airband, where everyone in each area tends to guard and use a single frequency.
I worked with him on a HuBot clone a number of years back. Seems like a good guy.
Probably some sampling bias there. If there wasn't a bright light (whatever caused it), then chances are a person wouldn't have seen it at all.
I've already loved these guys, now my admiration just increased. Reading HN we start to think that life is to get bigger and richer. These guys spend their time spreading intelligence, art, and fun.
1. Tenure alone does not get one soft benefits. Even these guys want power and money. So, they wanna become deans, then vice provost, provost, eventually President of some wealthy college. This soft power can get tenure jobs for one's girl friends.

2. Even if one gets a tenure, your students' won't get any jobs if you don't toe the line of the dominant themes in social sciences--identity politics, political correctness, knowledge/power, etc.

3. Intellectual honesty and integrity, core virtues of being an intellectual, is missing in the picture.
USA's bombing list for the last 20 years alone speaks for itself:

Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Yemen 2002
Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
Iraq 2003-2015
Afghanistan 2001-2015
Pakistan 2007-2015
Somalia 2007-8, 2011
Yemen 2009, 2011
Libya 2011, 2015
Syria 2014-2016
AMD being destroyed would be bad for innovation in the long term but in the medium term it could create a pattern where Intel only stays barely ahead because going *too far ahead is actually detrimental. Regulations should perhaps be changed so that monopolies are incentivized to innovate and create good value instead of holding back. For a good while there browsers (IE6) were complete crap because MS feared regulations. You can think of the same thing happening to all MS windows software, from paint to windows movie maker. If MS were allowed to make good software for low cost the benefits to society could be pretty large.

However, because MS was close to a monopoly everything they do was suspect. On the other hand modern day apple seems to profit immensely from being NOT a monopoly. By not having a monopoly in a single area they're allowed to vertically expand as much as they want. Imagine if apple weren't allowed to offer siri, or icloud, or facetime, or imessages? The vertical expansion turns out to be more profitable than horizontal domination while at the same time being as abusive as MS ever was.
I hope to see more of this in the future, although from a different angle. As more and more business owners are retiring, it is a great time to give their business to their employees -- especially in the form of a worker cooperative.
"At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!"
Most of the videos perhaps. But I bet most of the views are for copyrighted material. For example, this supposedly pirated video of the Wilder vs Ortiz fight has garnered 3.5 million views in eight months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaBL_pmG_A The original content usually doesn't attract that kind of viewership.
Was Obama an authoritarian? What about Bush? What about Clinton (Bill)?

The previous few presidents got the US involved in lots of stupid wars. This president has expressly said he doesn't want to do that and has avoided it.
The overwhelming majority of the population are not members of one of those groups, though.
Looks like a buying opportunity coming up on GOOGL soon. Seems like most investors think the world is ending and GOOGL, AMZN, NVDA, FB are going to 0 by week's end.
Can't report the invisible ones if we can't see them
Doesn't Slack have an option for this?
yes, the people 50-100 years ago - like H.G Wells - would probably think we screwed it up.
Devil's advocate: the aliens may simply not care about being seen, or they may be aware that they can operate "in the open" with plausible deniability from a skeptical public and governments being unwilling to admit their existence.
Or what about the CIA picking a pop singer to disclose their top secrets? "Space invasion" might be the next big psyop!
You are making it seem like there is active acceptance of the posting of infringing material, when in fact it is very hard to prevent this material from being posted in the first place.
Most UFOs aren’t don’t turn out to be alien spacecraft, so it stands to reason that most UFO sightings won’t behave like alien spacecraft.
> Definitive proof that the Japanese had little knowledge of gunpowder. The artists obviously had seen a cannon, more likely a picture of one, but had absolutely no idea how it was actually fired.

This is a very incorrect conclusion.

By 1861 when this book was published, Japan had known about and seen cannons for hundreds of years, and since the 1850s the shogunate had been manufacturing cannons because of the threat from foreign ships.

Judging whether "the Japanese had little knowledge of gunpowder" at this time based on a random low-brow book aimed at a popular audience is like concluding that humans didn't know how electricity worked in the 1990s because you found a technical mistake in Jurassic Park.
Relevant portion of the audio is within the 18-21 minute range.
The Germans couldn't match the Allied expertise with biological weapons, and were warned that using chemical weapons would be responded to with far more effective biological weapons. I don't see anything "greater than nuclear" that would complete the analogy here.
Depends on your definition of "the Japanese". tl;dr while the general populace didn't see much of cannon or musket, that was more because of the two-hundred-year-long peace Japan had known since the Tokugawa unification. The weapons (obsolete by Western standards) existed in massive stockpiles and were continually manufactured.

When it came to infantry weapons, Japanese warfare in the Sengoku period was dominated by matchlock muskets (originally knockoffs of Portuguese models made in Tanegashima, which later caused all Japanese-made matchlocks to be called "Tanegashima"). Specifically, once individual firearms arrived in Japan the country quickly came up with a local version of the European pike-and-shot tactics of the same era (early 17th century).

Once the country had been unified (and had failed in its attempt to conquer Korea, which had less effective land-based weapons but more effective naval cannon), the large-scale conflicts that necessitated use of firearms ceased. Cannons and muskets were stockpiled in warehouses, and occasionally pulled out for military drills, but were unfamiliar to the general populace. From The Wiki, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_(gun):

> From the mid 17th century, Japan decided to close itself to interaction with the West (except for the Dutch) through its policy of Sakoku. Contrary to popular belief, this did not lead to Japan "giving up the gun." If anything, the gun was used less frequently because the Edo Period did not have many large-scale conflicts in which a gun would be of use. Often the sword was simply the more practical weapon in the average small-scale conflicts. It should also be noted that isolation did not decrease the production of guns in Japan—on the contrary, there is evidence of around 200 gunsmiths in Japan by the end of the Edo Period. But the social life of firearms had changed: as the historian David L. Howell has argued, for many in Japanese society, the gun had become less a weapon than a farm implement for scaring off animals. With no external enemies for over 200 years, tanegashima were mainly used by samurai for hunting and target practice, the majority were relegated to the arms store houses of the various feudal lords (daimyōs).

Similarly to the rest of Northeast Asia (Korea and China especially), Japan entered the colonial era not with an iron-age level of military technology - swords and spears - but with an early-modern level - matchlock muskets and muzzle-loading smoothbore cannons.
>authoritarian revisionist powers such as China and Russia

"Revisionist" in what sense?
Vulnerable to this particular exploit?

Your router is either vulnerable to this exploit, or it's not. Afaict from the article, the exploit relies on a UPnP-enabled router; if UPnP isn't enabled, I don't believe your router is vulnerable.
Millions of credit applicants that don’t exist. Who gives a damn?
Suddenly Banks are complaining and trying to get DMV’s around the country to link all of our accounts to our drivers licenses. Like sure I really want a link between the governement and my account but that aside. How can Wells Fargo or the bank that criminally defrauded me and slandered my credit possibly complain and have any government official help,to do something about it?

Which of the Wells Fargo bank management spent time in jail for creating millions of fraudulent accounts without clients knowledge or consent? How many forged documents? How many mortgages foreclosed on where the bank never had a mortagae at all but they went through counrt to get them approved? With what non-forged documents?

When i sued my former bank for slandering my credit and required discovery documents the bank supplied forged, falsified and manufactured documents (including forged checks and evidence of money laundering using my line of credit of over 600,000) to make it appear they never destroyed my credit and consequently my small woman owned business. No one went to jail. When did government step in to help? Never thats when. This bank offered their own proof of their corrupt actions in their own discovery. Virginia Chevaz Romano (head of the Financial Fraud Task Force) who reported directly to Loretta Lynch (then Attorney General) refused to do anything when she was informed with hard copy evidence of felonies being committed by this bank.

Other people on forums reported this same bank forging checks on their accounts also.

So how is it these banks should get any information from any government entity. I say they reap what they have sown.
For your second concern, did you know that you can change the colors and fonts on DDG from its settings? Once you do, it provides a couple of methods to sync it to each of your devices.
When can I buy a .dev domain?
I don't know that using railroads as a model of non-monopolistic business is the best idea, but I agree with you that investors are critical to business. It's the original crowdfunding.
People can object to auto-reply's contribution to the degradation of conversations, even if they, themselves, don't use it.

That was the topic of about half the article.
I have used these on LinkedIn, especially to respond to requests from people I don't know or am not actually connected to -- as the writer notes, it isn't really appropriate to actual email from friends and family. Though I suspect all of these are meant for people replying from a phone or watch who don't want to bother typing.
How Podcasts Became a Seductive – And Sometimes Slippery – Mode of Storytelling
Same for my Cloudflare-fronted Appengine site.
This makes the most sense to me. Do you get worried that the ants will see you and freak out when you're hiking through the woods?
It may not be as hard as you think. Doing a little homework, flashing the router with the OpenWRT firmware, and getting a basic config up and running should take most folks an afternoon. If you already understand concepts like CIDR addressing, DNS, DHCP, and NAT then it's an hour tops.

OpenWRT is not a pain to use -- it's not all that different than the web GUI that ships with most routers.
The first one does not have filter so it will count large particles, such as regular dust, too. This does not makes it useless but this should be taken into consideration.
We'll eventually build in image uploads, but for now, you need to upload them somewhere and then use a little Markdown to insert the image:

![the earth](https://i.snap.as/6NFG7Tj.jpg)

Here's a guide: https://guides.write.as/writing/#adding-images-to-posts
Maybe the alien version of anthropomorphism? If they and most galactic species eyesight was in the infra-red red range then the might not think of hiding light in our visible spectrum. Imagine if exhaust from our cars gave off visible light? We'd want to change that pretty quickly.
I don't personally give much thought to what ants think as I tromp around the lawn.

I tend to think a species advanced enough to get here may find us similarly unimportant.
YouTube's objection seems to be primarily a business model problem - they assume consent and then provide original content creators with a share of YouTube's profit from that work. It's no surprise that they wouldn't want to have to get permission first.

What stops YouTube from doing cursory scans and then relying on a user agreement to protect themselves from liabilities, like "you agree to pay to us sums sufficient to cover all legal costs including any copyright charges, fines, etc., arising as a result of uploading this work"??

However, the Wikipedia page on the Directive [1] mentions that Art.13 :

>"extends any licenses granted to content hosts to their users, as long as those users are not acting "on a commercial basis".

That would be massive as videos uploaded to YouTube would then be able to be downloaded, and even shared, as works for [personal] non-commercial use. This would be a huge change in favour of the people and against copyright rights holders -- perhaps Wikipedia editors misinterpreted?

The article mentions the "Fair Use Act", what's that a reference too? The para it's in is about EU, and the USA Fair Use Act never survived. We don't have a Fair Use in Europe.

It would really help to know which companies are trying to push this and what specifically they're trying to protect from??

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...
I miss the shape that Logitech incorporated into several models years ago: MX518, G400, and G500. It seems to accomplish much of what this mouse is trying to do, distribute the click along the entire finger and support the thumb. I still use my MX518 at work and my hand just naturally wraps around it like a glove. It makes full contact with my entire hand, every finger rests naturally in contact with the mouse and the only thing touching the mousepad is the base of my palm. Unfortunately Logitech seems to be focusing on looks and gizmos these days instead of solid products, they seem to have no interest in making another mouse in this shape...
I want to find the guy who wrote this documentation :

"H2O is a powerful web server used and developed by Fastly" - Ok.

"H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU utilization when compared to older generation of web servers" - Great

This is where it becomes cringy :
"H2O as a web server is very impressive and is seeing more and more use"

more

"I have used more web server frameworks than is reasonable. libh2o is by far the most impressive effort "

"The H2O maintainers are incredibly friendly and helpful."

I scrolled half the page and still doesn't provide any useful information.

If you happen to write or own any documentation. Please don't use filler use marketing language. Please.