skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This looks like a form-letter DMCA takedown thing

No, it doesn't. I mean, yes, it clearly is crammed to fit into a DMCA takedown template, but it's making a novel argument about the underlying infringement justifying the takedown being not direct or vicarious infringement of copyright under any usual theory by infringement by multiple-step-indirect sharing information about alleged circumvention technology (under a novel theory of what qualified as anti-circumvention technology) and providing vague inspiration for theft (which wouldn't be relevant to a DMCA takedown even if it was true and illegal to do; as the EFF notes, the basis of the charge here cited by Bird is false and, even if it wasn't, inspiring or even outright encouraging illegal conduct is Constitutionally protected outside of narrow circumstances that don't even arguably apply here.)

> so while Boing Boing isn't wrong to refuse to honor it, making a galactic big deal out of the shock-and-awe caliber of their legal response has a weird feeling to it

It's a technique to get attention for (1) the novel and legally indefensible way Bird is trying to suppress information they don't like, and (2) the fact that others who are targetted should be aware that it is indefensible so that similar intimidation directed at others will not succeed.
It even worked for me flawlessly in China, no extrw VPN software needed.
How to deal with racism and sexism in the workplace before the crisis
I don't even have a passport currently. If I did travel, I'm more likely to buy a throwaway cell with a different account and add the number to my google voice account dialing...
It’s complicated.
I wonder how many of these systems would really be sensitive to the clock overflowing to 1901. HVAC, kitchen applications, information signs, traffic lights... they all seem relatively low-risk to me. As long as things still happen in regular intervals, it's hard to imagine a crisis. (I would be surprised if many of these even have synced clocks in the first place, I can imagine them happily thinking it's somewhere in the 1980s and nobody is the wiser.)
> Majority usage outside the USA violate ToS.

I'm not seeing this listed here: https://fi.google.com/about/tos/. What are the guidelines behind this?
I'm really disappointed that Google has decided to do this. I've been using these all over my house for a couple of years now and, at least for Google Play Music and Tune-In Radio, they work really well. When the price dropped recently, and there was speculation they would be discontinued, I bought another four of them for my own use and for gifts.

They're not really comparable to Bluetooth receivers. The killer feature is synchronized multi-room audio without paying exorbitant prices for proprietary speakers (Sonos I'm looking at you...). I have them hooked up to powered speakers (PC 2.1 style) in the bedroom and bathroom, a mini-stereo on the deck, a ghetto blaster in my workshop and my media room AV amplifier. For parties it's fantastic to have seamless audio around the whole house.

I have to wonder why Google did this. It seems like a strategic move to push people towards their "smart" speakers. Personally I really don't want something with a microphone in it, just good quality sound at a good price. Very sad.

By the way, it's easy to cast audio only from YouTube or any other app - just go to the Google Home app and cast your phone's audio to the device or group.
Heh, I guess that's possible. I hold out hope that it isn't the intent of the C committee, and maybe they'll consider firming up the stack memory model for C2x.
Look at MOPS (well, I guess iMOPS or PowerMops these days). It was a Forth inspired object oriented language http://powermops.org/
Spent a lot of time with the Kinetis DMA. Luckily I had nothing to compare it with. Learned later it was not as other DMA:s.
The difference (and it makes all the difference in the world) is that as a consumer of Walmart, you can simply choose to shop elsewhere (Amazon, Target, CVS, mom and pop, etc). Wal-Mart cannot survive if it performs under consumer expectations for too long (see Sears, KMart, etc).

Governments are monopolies. The only incentive they have to be efficient is the leadership changes that possibly occur with each election cycle. Given the wide range of services and issues that governments must tackle, it's likely that voters have only a few key issues in mind when they go to the ballot box. With each change in leadership, a different set of priorities takes precedence. Sometimes long standing, mediocre services, continue unabated and unimproved for decades at a time with little to no innovation.
> The only suggestion of a solution we’ve been given is that he abandon both his email address and phone number of the past twenty years and start fresh."

I believe that being able to port your number is a legal requirement. It's unlikely a poorly designed billing system is a permanent exception to this.
i to the same whenever i travel abroad -- be it USA (i use t-mobile) or europe (went twice, used o2 twice). it's a lot less complicated.
Do you want to keep your photos and videos forever? You have to take your data in your own hands. At the very minimum keep an offline backup of things you care about.
NYT often has a bias for capital over labor.
My HP 28s calcultor from 1988 (still got it, still works excellently) is programmed in a stack based, Forth + Lisp inspired hybrid language, that was lightyears ahead of all the concepts, programming languages that I had seen back then (Basic, Pascal, C). It was stack based. I could put data onto the stack and get it from there if needed. It had an excellent REPL. It was working with all kinds of data structures: complex numbers, lists, arrays, matrices. Also, everything was an object. And code could generate code, just like in Lisp.

Only when I learned about Mathematica I found something more powerful in 1988.
It is... as is soy (allergic to legumes). More people should think about buying groceries and making their own food.
I imagine that most of those applications are very much tied to the calendar — traffic lights and HVAC systems need to behave differently on different days.

Trying to minimize the amount of broken code that's still running in 2038 is a big part of why people are working hard to fix the problem now.
i lowkey kinda feel that the pervasive gamer hype about half-life 3 (for example the "hl3 confirmed" meme was extremely pervasive) made valve feel like it would be impossible to match the hype, and any flaw would be hyper focused. maybe now that it's faded a bit there won't be as much pressure. or i could be wrong about that mattering.
The Sacred Harp: Let Everybody Sing
Phew look at the comments on this one google.
so you give two privacy ignoring companies all of your email (as well as portions of your email correspondents) instead of one? is control and some measure of privacy not worth the $50 or whatever to set up a paid account somewhere like https://www.protonmail.com/ ?
> but no one complains about the cars

No one in your neighborhood perhaps. This varies considerably.
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You're delving into sheer speculation. Exactly what went wrong at their meeting is not known, many stories about it have circulated, the NDA thing is just one of them.

Kildall was not some ignorant yokel from the backwoods. Besides, titans of the computer industry do deals with yokels all the time.

In fact, Kildall did later make a deal with IBM to sell an IBM branded CPM/86 for the PC. Consumers had a choice between IBM PC-DOS, and IBM CPM/86. The former was $40, the latter $240. People (like me) chose the cheaper one, because nobody could explain what was better about CPM/86. And the rest is history.
>>But why should the poor be punished more than the rich?

I just disagree with this sentence, vehemently. If someone is driving a car in a dangerous manner, they should lose the right to drive regardless of how much they need it, and definitely regardless of how rich/poor they are. What's the appropriate punishment for a poor person in your opinion?

Like, I genuinely don't understand? A "rich" person should lose their licence for 12 months, but a poor person should only get away with a warning because they need a car to make money?

So if the very next day they get behind the wheel and kill someone, the court process will look like this

"Dear Honour, the accused was stopped for dangerous driving yesterday"

"ok, why were they still driving today then?"

"They are poor, so they were allowed to keep the licence"

Like, that's literal insanity. Driving is a right, not a privilege. If getting too many points means you can't get to your job and lose said job - I'm really sorry, but that's tough shit. I'd rather they didn't have a job than continue driving and be a danger to others.
The relevant part of the article: "But it also has a big advantage: the fluid in the human eye is opaque to 1550nm light, so the light can't reach the retina at the back of the eye. This means lasers can operate at much higher power levels without posing an eye safety risk. AEye uses 1550nm lasers. And unfortunately for Chowdhury, cameras are not filled with fluid like human eyes are. That means that high-power 1550nm lasers can easily cause damage to camera sensors even if they don't pose a threat to human eyes."
This Reddit thread concluded that because a T-mobile account was suspended for non-payment and the number is unportable while suspended that the customer was out of luck.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/4wotw8/tmobile_won...

I don't see how that matters legally. The FCC requirement doesn't make portability conditional on some account status defined by the carrier. But IANAL.
I agree -- this single point of failure is incredibly scary. There must be a legal mechanism established to ensure consumers are protected. This is an inevitable technological cycle within markets:

1) a technology arises

2) usage spreads across consumers

3) consumers become deeply reliant on it

4) megacorps coalesce dominating market power over it

5) consumers demand protections from the government

We have to get to step 5.
I thought the quote was pithy, but it didn't quite sound like Orwell to me (who I have read a lot of, though not recently). "What someone else doesn't want printed" is a formulation that doesn't quite mean _truth_; Orwell felt seriously about the journalist's responsibility to be truthful and it seemed like he might have made a finer distinction. Quick search and lo.

Orwell is claimed by partisans of all kinds due to his great reputation as a moral thinker and his willingness to criticize political actors & ideologies across the spectrum. Consequently his writings are often misquoted, misattributed or taken out of context. The "rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf" one is a classic example.
Get your own domain and start using it for email. Auto-forward your existing emails to your new email provider. Over time your use of your primary email will asymptotically reach zero. After a few years you will realize that if the original email disappeared overnight, nothing of value would be lost. You have to start the switch TODAY.
Not with major U.S. Carriers. Verizon & ATT nickle and dime you whenever they can, international travel not excluded.
I'm not the parent commenter, but I usually use around 500 MB a month. Mostly, this means sticking to Hacker News+quick web searches (which should not take 60 MB!). Mail, weather, and some other built-in apps have background refresh enabled; everything else has cellular data disabled.
If your based in the US I'd encourage you to file a complaint with the FTC, this is considered "unfair or deceptive business practices."

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/identity-the...
No, it wouldn't.

It would be illegal to steal scooters for that (or any other, because theft) purpose, but a central part of the discussion and the original story is that they are available at police auction because they keep getting seized.
This is clever in that they evaded detection. But I've seen and been the victim of much more sophisticated DNS hijacks that didn't require any credentials.
It routinely cost me so much in data that it was cheaper to get a Verizon unlimited data plan. That was the end of it for me.
Ah, I didn't realize that the scooters can be legally obtained from an impound lot. Very clever!
The proposal would already accepti a performance tradeoff to initialize memory of uninitialized "trivial" variables. I'm not sure why you would want to draw a line in the sand at trivial variables only.

What makes non-trivial uninitialized object memory higher penalty or lower risk?
That trick worked perfectly. Thanks very much.
You know, I currently use my own domain for email.

Maybe I am paranoid, but I worry about that when I die, my domain will expire, and then someone will register that domain and set up email accounts with it.

They would be able to access so many services that I would have left open after my death. I still don't know how to handle this apart from leaving a fund to someone I trust to have my domain renewed for a few more decades after my death.
As strategic as it seems, they probably just didn’t sell well enough to justify continued effort.

Also purchasing a gift when it’s price is slashed due to it probably being discontinued is.. risky to say the least.
it's just a colloquialism...
Coca-Cola advising China how to fight obesity? Sounds like karma for all the theft of US IP.
That's how I feel. I misread the title as "1987" and conjured up ideas of Zelda and Mega Man... and then I see Qauke 2 in the screenshot and I immediately thought "A modern game engine?"

I suppose it's not really all that modern, but still... wow I'm old.
I had been using PIA [1] for several years and had been quite satisfied.

I have never liked Pure VPN - weird ports, and it seemed to disconnect when downloading larger files. But I had their account for almost free for two years. Not extended.

TunelBear is cute and easy to use but not configurable on client side.

I always appreciated the dedication and innovative approach of CryptoStorm [4].

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
[2] https://www.purevpn.com/
[3] https://www.tunnelbear.com/
[4] https://cryptostorm.is/
Even if the system isn't calendar aware, if all of a sudden you have negative timestamps you can have strange boundary conditions where loops might run forever, hanging the system.
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How many examples of pro-forma DMCA takedown notices based on anti-circumvention claims would I have to provide for you to concede that this, too, is a pro-forma DMCA claim?
I read your blog, so I am at least somewhat aware of this ;)
Good alternative to any soft drink --

Homemade ginger paste + sparkling water + honey + turmeric (optional) + lemon + a little bit of salt

Your taste buds will get a kick in the same way as any other soft drink. And of course it is healthy!
It's a false premise that taxation does not produce a good or service. E.g. USPS, defense contracts, farm subsidies, etc.

It's not clear that you're going to end up with lower economic growth. For example, taxing some level of income that would otherwise not be spent on economic activity (e.g. savings or equity investments) and spending it on things that do result in economic active results in higher economic growth.
A large amount of Louisiana's employment is in resource extraction. Petroleum refining, petroleum, and coal products are the LA's largest exports. As a result, the drop in oil prices since 2014 have had a large effect on Louisiana's economy.

That said, I agree that property tax is probably the least bad tax.
True. The demand letter you write prior to filing a lawsuit will usually be enough, though. At some point someone runs the calculation between giving you what you want and fighting a lawsuit in small claims, and decides to give you things instead.
Assume that everything he says is right. When Google, the data analytics company, openly admits that there is no correlation between interviewing and job performance, how do you identify that tiny fraction of amazing talent you want to let in?
> Comment content is governable in the site ToS,

Which is probably non-binding or invalid in most non-US jurisdictions and does not address the problem.

> Even if it wasn't, your performance in posting implies consent to provide at the very least a limited license to publish content you posted.

That is like claiming a random user uploading Star Wars movies on youtube is no problem because that user gave them a limited license. That "license" is obviously invalid and Disney can claim copyright infringement. The proposed law now discusses whether "random user" or youtube or both are liable for this.
The Pentax 645D, introduced in 2010, is a DSLR with a CCD sensor. But yes, it is extremely rare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_645D
Does your system need to connect to a service on the internet? Does that service use an SSL cert?

If so, it almost certainly has a not-before time, and overflowing back to January 1st, 1970 will be before that not-before time. And so any behavior relying on that IoT device connecting to a service will fail.
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Seems you have to be current on your account to port your number. They aren't, but they also are unable to use Google payments to become current.
Yeah when I was typing my reply I forgot that he had a prior conversation over the phone. Still, the ego comes off a little too strong for my taste. I'm curious about how he feels today with Microsoft starting to embrace the open source community more.
Full with tutorials/plugins to emulate artifacts caused by temporal anti-aliasing, old-school shadow maps and heavy usage of screen space reflection and ambient occlusion in modern engines
> My point is that, taken together, the effects of many of California's policy decisions (which includes tax [which exacerbates people's displeasure with other policies, when they don't go well], which has been bad for a lot longer than just the decade you show) are compounding.

I understand your point, I just don't think you've provided the evidence to back it up. From where I'm sitting, it looks like you started with the conclusion ("I don't like CA policy") and then rationalized it from some personal experiences ("people like me are moving out of state"). [1]

California's population is increasing at the same rate as the US as a whole—about 1% per year—even after people leaving is taken into account. To put it another way, CA's population increases about 1.35% per year total, and about 0.35% move to other states. There's nothing particularly interesting going on with the migration numbers that I can see.

[1] Not implying that's what you said or actually think, just that it's what your thought process looks like to me.
The concept of truth is notably absent from this quote though.

Printing what someone doesn't want printed is just as likely public relations.

I get that what it's (probably) going for is bringing truth to light but truth is exactly what seems to be so slippery these days.
FWIW re: cell carriers in the US, I've found prepaid has worked really well for me at a much lower price than even something like Google Fi. I've been using Mint, and I pay $25 a month for a 10GB plan and it's worked great so far.

I've heard their support isn't the best, but fortunately I've not had to deal with them yet.
The Russian strategy during WWII and the winter war only "worked" because they accepted an enormous loss of troops to compensate for all of their other shortcomings. During the Winter War especially, Russian troops lacked equipment such as white camouflage and a single Finnish sniper killed at least 500 Russian troops.

This strategy may have worked, but it's not acceptable.
And in the 1980s, it was pointed out that fundamental limitations on power density will likely keep any DT fusion reactor from being competitive.
Where did Google say this?
I don't particularly disagree with you, I was simply making an observation that the original claim of "thoroughness" didn't seem to me to imply any assertion of perceived validity.

Besides that, the perceived validity of religious interpretations is largely in the eye of the beholder and statistically varies with sociocultural context and many other factors. Personally, the farther away from literalism people get on the literalist-modern Unitarian scale, the happier I'd be.
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No that’s the opposite of what I was saying. It is OP who suggested this. I agree of course free health etc. does not make me do a startup. Otherwise many more would exist in the Nordics.
Maybe we could set them to 1907 and remain happy that near-future leap years and weekdays will align perfectly well. At least until 2100 needs to be skipped as a leap year ;)
That doesn't sound right, because Fi charges a metered flat rate per data used, there is no "Max 10GB".

You may be misunderstanding how Fi data works. Fi's "max" is mostly there because consumers have learned that behavior from other carriers who like to charge overages - Fi refunds the metered data you don't use if you paid for 10 GB, and bills you at the same rate if you go over.
I've had accounts with Verizon, Sprint and tMobile. On their worst day Google Fi is head and shoulders above them, it's not even close. I've used cell phones for thirty years and my time on Fi is the most stress free in all that time.

Having said that Google needs to do a better job at customer service. But so do Facebook and Amazon, both of which have caused me major problems.
Remember the other Intel ISA that could be described by this slightly elided text from TFA? "This model had many ramifications for the hardware, but it also introduced a dangerous dependency on software: the hardware was implicitly dependent on system software (namely, the compiler) for efficient management[...]. As it happened, the needed compiler work was not done, and the Ada compiler as delivered was pessimal[...]. [T]his software failing was the greatest single inhibitor to performance"
This is the fine example of infamous Russian "reverse cargo cult".

To console themselves, they decided to think that westerners' planes are built from sticks and dirt too, but 'The West' just pretends better.
This seems more of a do not compete attempt.
Reading this book (in 1984 or so) was one of the formative moments for me. Especially the idea that as software developers we should strive for the simplest most elegant solution and we could iterate our designs to get there.

The cartoons are brilliant - I often think of the universal processor (p82) "word, food, data" when designing something that doesn't have a clear purpose.
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That analogy makes no sense.
Having worked in embedded, I'm perfectly comfortable with horrible kludges that nonetheless solve the problem:

In 2036, factory reset to wipe all state, and keep using the same ancient kernel with a tiny hotpatch to assume 1/1/2035 as time base. If your kitchen appliance is still around by the time that is a problem, you'll get an award ;)

But don't tell anybody, I plan to hawk my consulting skills from 2030-2038 to pad my retirement income. Just like the good old Y2K days & COBOL.
Maybe I should put some more effort into the book. But statements such as this make me extremely wary:

> but note that the validity of the inference is conditional on the model being correctly specified

This strikes me as begging the question. The model is exactly what I don't trust unless it is rigorously justified, so anything conditional on the model being correctly specified I also don't trust.

It all feels like a house of cards.