skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stealing implies deprivation, not duplication. Digital copying is entirely the latter. And very few physical goods are part and parcel to culture - which should be free in any event. We are losing our ability to create mythology, because it's all being crafted for money and shoved out from corporations. Consider the case of Don Quixote - the author felt he had to write a sequel and a "closing" of the story because so many others wrote their own stories of the Man of La Mancha. Bacon pirated from Goethe, Shakespeare from a score of others. Without free duplication and access to media, there is no common conversation - we'd each be trapped in our paywalls. I refuse to accept that; and I believe that culture is more important than money ever will be. A person who creates a seminal work that gets pirated far and wide would be better off accepting it and creating another work to make something off. Either that or having a real living while he creates. The idea of "artist" as a career, especially a prestigious and high-paying career, is one of many missteps of our modern world.
> Assange let himself be used by the Russians

Which Russians?

Is it the Russians that ran "Jesus can help you beat masturbation" and "Support BLM" ads on Facebook as part of their ad farm site scam?

Or perhaps you mean the "Russians" who was a disgruntled DNC employee that handed DNC emails on a thumb drive to Craig Murray in Washington DC, who then flew to England and delivered the thumb drive to Julian Assange?

Which Russians?
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> But you can’t choose not to treat sepsis.

You can't choose not to eat food either.

> So why does our literature usually assume that both are the same?

What literature assumes they're the same?
I'm not talking about morality but legitimacy, why are you bound to follow laws that were not voted for representatives you chose on a country you never been?
You seem to be having a different discussion than most of the rest of us. You're claiming that it's fine for its layer, and the rest of us are saying that we don't want to work at that layer.

Yes, jmp is useful at the assembly layer. Yes, everything eventually gets run on assembly (on the way to microcode, and then transistors, and then quantum mechanics). That doesn't mean most of us want to work there, though.

And goto is the same. Having seen that we don't have to work in that way, we don't want to work in that way. We can work with larger abstractions so that we don't have to deal with that kind of detail.
I believe you are correct in that the spirit is SOME official watchdog should exist within the government. Even better some department for EACH BRANCH.

However it is also commonly said that a "fourth estate" (or branch) exists, and the top search result that I get for that phrase is:

"What is the role of the Fourth Estate?

In the United States, the term fourth estate is sometimes used to place the press alongside the three branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial. The fourth estate refers to the watchdog role of the press, one that is important to a functioning democracy.Jan 3, 2019

What is the Fourth Estate? - ThoughtCo
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-fourth-estate-3368058"

The press should also watch the government, and the oversight branches, and all of them should have oversight over the others as a completely closed system that roots out any actions that are may represent impropriety, immoral, OR illegal actions.
An office with doors? I wish...
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Thanks for the rephrasing.

I should rephrase as well. The language I am proposing offers much stronger control over ambiguity.

Take the 8th amendment: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

What is an "excessive fine" mean? In the language I am proposing it could be defined as is, or in something like:

...
cellType dollarAmount number
cellType fine dollarAmount
cellType adjustedGrossIncome dollarAmount
cellType universalExcessiveFineThreshold
description As a percentage of adjustedGrossIncome
constant .1
nodeType isExcessiveFine
cells adjustedGrossIncome fine
trueIf fine / adjustedGrossIncome > universalExcessiveFineThreshold
...

So you have more control over ambiguity.
Yes. That's exactly what I'm talking about. The bill would extend the program that's already in place and has been since 2001. Right now it's currently set to expire in 2020. The specific language is “to not enter the tax preparation software and e-filing marketplace.” which doesn't prevent them from developing their own solution--only launching it while the non-compete is in place.

I'd love for the IRS to offer their own solution. I just don't see it happening under this Congress and I think it would be difficult even if Democrats took control of both houses. Congress has starved the IRS funding for years and the US government hasn't been particularly good at developing web services.

I'm not sure if this is a permanent ban because I haven't read the bill, but I think it was exaggerated in the news. I don't see why it couldn't be reversed as part of a serious effort to roll something out.

The bill was HR 1957 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1957...
The program is called Free File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File
and the tax prep companies are part of the Free File Alliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File_Alliance
i used three gmail addresses for one month trials of google play music before keeping it properly, and more recently answering dumb personal questions on the google rewards app has paid half of the monthly fee for it. i think the nicest thing about the youtube premium (if wanting to pay a bit extra than just google play music) is being able to have youtube play in the background on the phone.
I don’t agree. Personally I don’t feel that the government is entitled to have secrets from the governed, as the government derives its power from the consent of the governed, and you cannot consent unless you are informed. A government with secrets from those it requires the consent of to govern is illegitimate and corrupt.

The fact that some claim that it is or should be illegal to tell someone to collect evidence of uninvestigated and unpunished war crimes for publication for the edification of the public shows you just how far down we’ve slipped down the slope.
I have a checklist app on my phone where I just have all the stuff I want to do daily/weekly. Then I check it off as I do it
Another thing that is advertised as privacy protecting but will inevitably be abused as usual. And then, when inquired, abusers will say: ops, sorry, by bad. And now that Apple already made it remotely possible, even if Apple don't produce it, some other privacy protecting company will. And because governments all around the world have dreamed with all this privacy abusing devices for years, and ordinary people are shamelessly being misleading, nothing will truly change and business will go as usually.
Wait, like the constitution requires? That’s crazy!
> changes should be approached with extreme caution.

It's good to make updates carefully, with full testing and a rollback plan. It is also important to actually push updates.
I would absolutely rather pay $100/month for a legal version of What.cd than use Spotify :/

The worst part isn't that What is gone, it's that What is gone and nothing can replace it. Like with older games that can't be purchased legally online, the rightsholders have kept us from consuming that content at all. In order to preserve their absolute right to distribute it for money!

The number of people here suggesting Apple Music would have killed it anyway or that Tidal etc is an adequate replacement shows just how effectively the rightsholders have deluded us all again. The currently available streaming services are almost entirely incomparable to the collection once available at What, it's like comparing your local library to the statewide database.
I’d say it’s virtually sure that if this case goes to trial it will eventually end up at SCOTUS based on the profound 1st amendment issues involved.
See basic example code: https://github.com/breck7/jefferson

There will be some ambiguity introduced via the English language (not a problem since you'd still have judges), but the whole thing can be defined, from concepts like true/false all the way to very complicated concepts, in the same universal syntax/language.
lua does the same thing. It's not crazy.
Ecuador didn't exactly "[go] back on its promise of asylum". Assange violated the terms of his asylum. Whether that's justification for handing him over to the U.S. is a separate argument, but Ecuador was justified in terminating the asylum.
> No, but he did make a million times more risky bet than the typical minimum wage worker.

He took a risk in absolute monetary terms perhaps, but not risk in terms of consequence. Having spent a few years being relatively high up in DE Shaw, the worst that might have happened to him if his business failed is that he'd move to a smaller house.

Contrast that situation with someone who might struggle to make rent if their business failed, and tell me who's really taking the bigger risk.
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What are the use cases? I can see companies like Buzzfeed getting a kick out of it as they produce so many videos with the same branded outros. Presuming they don't have an internal tool for adding their logo/outro to all their videos in batches, this would come in handy?
A couple of control freak things. I despise the junk mail folder that can't be hidden or removed and requires an extra "are you sure" click to delete messages. It refuses to copy files from my external hard drive. I have to disable SIP to do some fairly normal stuff. Siri, though I have it turned off. Location on photos.
Thanks a lot, dang. I was hoping a mod would see my edit.
As an inveterate and unrepentant pirate, I can tell you that I would not. It is depriving someone else who deserves a thing just as much as I do. I am not paying my grocer for today's goods that I buy, I'm paying him to keep bringing goods in and having stocked shelves for myself and others. I have no such compunction toward any particular artist in any medium. If they keep creating stuff I like, good on them. If they do not, I'm totally unconcerned; because there will be others along to create something new.
Not since what.cd was killed.
The Constitution applies to the government; it says what the government must, may, and mustn't. do. The government mustn't interfere with anyone's free speech.
EU didn't reduce anything. The just shifted a significant part of their emissions to china. Just like they shifted a ton of their plastic and garbage to china.

Most of china's emissions, pollution, environment damage has been to manufacture goods for EU and the US. Europe and the US are responsible for most of the pollution and emissions. It's the price for a high standard of living in a consumer economy. It's why chinese cities and rivers are polluted and why american and european cities and rivers are clean.

But going forward, as china shifts from a manufacturing to a consumer economy, they are going to be responsible for a tremendous amount of emissions themselves. And the manufacturing will shift to poorer/cheaper ASEAN countries or India and eventually africa. What happens after that, I haven't a clue. The global economic system has been to exploit cheaper labor. What happens when the last cheap labor source has been exploited?

If the chinese want to live like an american or a european, then the environment is going to suffer. Then India, ASEAN and africa would want to live like the chinese. Then the environment is going to suffer even more.

It's a hard sell to get the west to lower our standard of living. It's an even harder sell to tell the developing world to accept their lower standard of living.
I saw that and wondered what was going on; it was a cool audio/visual experience. Never thought I would see or hear formations of warbirds over Manhattan
Somebody's voting them in.
Sounds like you may not have chopped up the larger goal into smaller achievable goals.

Like the old saying goes... "How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time."

Make sure you have sub goals nested at least three levels deep from your main end goal. Keep track of that stuff, gamify it for yourself. Keep a schedule, but keep it flexible and be understanding with yourself.

Discipline is a very difficult thing (the personality aspect of conscientiousness, look into it). The very definition of non-trivial and has plagued humans since time immemorial.
> rising empires build roads, and declining empires build walls

The first half is true, because roads are a key instrument of military invasions, and that's how empires rise.

The second half is true in that all empires of any scale build walls regardless of whether they're rising or declining. An empire with no walls is an empire that belongs to someone else.

But neither of those seems like an especially deep or compelling point.

> "Good fences make good neighbors" experienced early retirement. In its place came the untested phrase, "Build bridges, not walls." If nothing else, the new slogan seemed designed to give military historians fits. Throughout history, bridge building had been recognized as an act of aggression.

( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501172700/ )
Cool, thanks for the info. I think I'll try out virtualbox with Whonix.
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You pretrigger the cameras while accounting for the delay.
I am fairly certain that Julian Assange is doing or attempting literally everything theoretically or practically possible to avoid traveling to the United States.
!!!

That's a very nasty response to an incredibly polite email.
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Perhaps it would be better to build something that the original designers would build if they had our technology. https://www.designboom.com/architecture/vincent-callebaut-no... looks like a good direction to me (needs to use more coloured glass and mosaics).
The vectors I fear are the potentially malicious brains behind every pair of eyes. Why do you want to see my OS (or really any of my software)? The only reason I can think of is to have access to my files, or to hijack my machine and install customized ransomware as part of the OS. Therefore, any individual who sees any part of my OS that could grant them any access whatsoever to any part of my PC is an extreme and real danger.
In the modern era?
The Vienna Convention certainly does not mean that any state can demand that any other state not prosecute any person of their choice, which is what you seem to be implying.

You never define what "persons enjoying privileges and immunities" means. I doubt very much that it is "any random citizen of a country who happens to be inside their embassy".
I remember reading an article years ago (wired?) where someone developed a system to maintain a good body temperature in hot or cold.

I think the end result was a boot that lowered the pressure of the foot, then circulated warm water against it. The person could stay in 32F water indefinitely.

But the article also talked about core body temperature and exercise. High core temperature was a limit on endurance. With a device to keep your core body temperature even, you could basically exercise at high levels for long periods of time.

I don't know why batman doesn't have something like this on his utility belt, especially when he runs around in heavy black clothing on hot sunny days.
Lobbying is legal. There's plenty of good reasons for it, for example some tech companies lobbied against net neutrality, which I certainly wouldn't call corruption.
> recent legal trouble she finds herself in is entirely of her own creation, no?

Only in a sense of "Stop hitting yourself!".
Isn’t touring how they make most of their money? Hasn’t that always been the case?
> I have yet to see a camera with a color filter array which looks "sharp" at 1:1 pixels

This is why I was absolutely blown away when I got my first high-DPI screen: a MBP in 2013.

At the time I was a pro photographer. Because the pixels were half the size as before, a true 1:1 viewing looked so much sharper. I found I could tune my sharpening (almost always required) for print based on screen viewing alone, and no longer had to run as many test prints.

In addition, in the grid/filmstrip views of photos I could set the thumbnails to just slightly bigger than the old 35mm slides, and found I could quickly edit down my photos often just based on that alone.

Excuse the rant... for some reason it triggered a moment of nostalgia about how amazed I was with that screen.
> the good Uber is doing

(Edit: seems I'm a victim of Poe's Law. Oh well. In case anyone is sincerely wondering, I've left the below. Not sure I agree w/ such unmarked sarcasm though; I think there are a good number of people in SV trying to act ethically w/ consumer data.)

You're kidding me, right? I have nearly an opposite impression of Uber as a company:

Uber's self-driving car killed a woman while the human was not paying attention at the wheel[1]; IDK what the end result of this was, but at the time it was scandalous for a. the driver not paying attention and b. the car not noticing the human basically at all, until it was basically about to make impact. (Whatever sensors/sensor processing was happening failed entirely. IIRC, the Lidar company basically stated their stuff would have seen the human, and it was Uber's software that ignored that signal. The NTSB investigated it, but IDK what the resolution was.)

There was a long history of sexual workplace harassment scandals ("In August 2018, Uber agreed to pay a total of $7 million to 480 workers to settle claims of gender discrimination, harassment and hostile work environment."[3]; the former CEO resigned over similar allegations).

There's been numerous reports of them skirting or flat out ignoring the law in many jurisdictions.

The incident where a driver refused to service someone with a service animal.

Allegations over their treatment of drivers (that they're mislead in how much they can earn; that they're banned for even the slightest of transgressions; their classification as contractors and not employees, but they're not allowed to set their own rates by logging when the price isn't worth their while[2]).

The Greyball thing[3]:

> Uber developed an internal software tool called Greyball, which uses data collected from the Uber mobile app other means, to avoid giving rides to certain individuals. The tool was used starting in 2014. By showing "ghost cars" driven by fake drivers to the targeted individuals in the Uber mobile app, and by giving real drivers a means to cancel rides requested by those individuals, Uber was able to avoid giving rides to known law enforcement officers in areas where its service is illegal.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/uber-self...

[2]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/20/lyft_uber_surge_pri... (not sure if this is the best source)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber#Criticism

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
How does FreeBSD handles it?
Effort != value.

A single person could discover the cure to cancer tomorrow, and he would save billions of lives, even though he has the human labor of one.
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It wasn't deportation, because Sweden didn't go through their deportation process. It was Swedish police watching while CIA agents black bagged Swedish residents in the middle of the night.
I find it rather cute he knows of gopher, but doesn’t seem to know about running multiple consoles on separate ttys at once and using the function keys to toggle between them. Sure, tmux arguably is better, but still ironic to me.
Not really. The double-slit experiment is only interesting when done with single photons, and this camera can't capture that (no camera can).
> Also, int foo(void) is illegal in c++.

Uh, citation needed. It would make compatibility with C libraries harder for no good reason. I believe it is valid as both declaration and definition.

Both g++ and clang++ accept it without even a warning.
> It's like an old recipe, an old painting, or an old piece of music. Nobody who is seriously engaged with those things believes in improving them by substituting modern high-tech elements in the course of recreating/restoring an original.

Once knew a talented artist who painted in the style of the old masters and took pride in it. Substitution, or improvement, certainly exists in that school of thought, and in practice.
> In an application, you have a canonical representation that you pass through your business logic.

Not if your code works with arbitrary inputs.

I have some collation sequences that I’ll need to tweak.
> You're claiming that it's fine for its layer, and the rest of us are saying that we don't want to work at that layer.

Correct. This is what I said all along. Glad to see you're up to speed.

Meanwhile, every time you write an if statement ... May you think, acknowledge, appreciate: "I'm adding a goto!" Or possibly several of them. [I am pretty sure I have had discussions with people who say they are also against if statements, but I don't think that's quite as common.]
> Why do we continue to trade convenience for privacy?

I think there's a big misconception about privacy rights in America. I think a lot of people believe the government is actually allowed to collect otherwise private information, and that it's important they do so. I think this causes people to become complicit in giving away their information because they don't feel they have any choice, which allows people to become willfully ignorant, which makes it easy for the private sector to do the same.

Tldr, the government is setting a precedent where we shouldn't care about our privacy.
I'm not sure that not being armed is that much different. Even if armed, if the principles behind the force are well set and you trust (based on facts and experiences) that that weapon will not leave the holster without need, it makes very little difference.

Just to give an example, I live in Serbia and policemen are armed. Police is far from clean, corruption is present as everywhere and there are obvious ties between crime and police. However, when it comes to the small guy, on the streets, on public events or encounters with an officer I can't say you should be cocerned with your own safety. Sometimes they are armed with rifles, when riskier events take place. Sometimes they are not the most pleasant. But I don't remember the last time I heard an officer discharge a weapon. Funny as it may seem, nobody wants dead bodies in his career. Pieceful de-escalation is a usual crisis outcome. There are a lot of veterans, PTSD sufferers and desperate people around here. Just think of the madness if police charges everywhere guns blazing... This went off topic...
Is this really helpful or intellectually stimulating?
I urge you to check the rules before catching a shadow ban, my friend.
Yes, the diseases are still there. They always will be.

We don't have such a big problem with them as we used to, because of responses like single-use packaging.

Moving back to reusable food containers is the same basic impulse that tells people they should stop getting vaccines because, after all, nobody catches measles in the modern day.
Don't most people making minimum wage qualify for Medicaid?