skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a shame, but if you're in a big coastal US city take a look for them. They're around, sometimes!

They have effectively zero presence in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, or Philadelphia

> But there are some Pirates holding offices like town council seats

Where? How many?

> And on a practical level, they seem to be way better at recognizing their position and making an impact than much bigger factions like the Libertarian Party.

As someone who's pretty tuned in to US politics, including local politics, I can't identify any impact that the Pirate Party has had. In fact, it's almost impossible to tell that they even exist, in 2019.
As a society, we have generally agreed that the author has certain rights of control, and as a society (i.e. using taxpayers' money) we will enforce those rights on behalf of the author.

How is that different from society agreeing that it'll use taxpayers' money - through the police force, courts, etc - to uphold my right to keep control of my wallet, my car and my house, in the face of someone who might want to take them from me? My possession of these things is personal, yet society supports/enforces it when challenged.
But not because of anything Congress did.
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Their stock price has recovered a lot of the losses they experienced after the hack.

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/EFX#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6ImRheSIs...
Generic ads don't require surveillance
Thank you for suggestion, I will check config options listed in this post when will have a chance: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/226654/how-can-i-dis...
I think this is it? https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/137096/my-empl...
I don't use Arch, btw
Grabbed the wrong rant

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.htm...
> Anything less than the current "infinite" would be a pleasant change.

It's a long time, but it's not infinite. New works started entering the public domain again on January 1, 2019.
Unfortunately that won't work for everyone. There are some places, where 90% humidity is a regular occurrence.
> Whether the government now launches an architectural competition or decides to rely on the highly professional bodies in charge of French monuments (in particular, the Compagnie des Architects en Chef, to which Philippe Villeneuve, the architect in charge of Notre Dame, belongs), it should demand an integrated project for the entire structure and not allow the design and implementation processes to be fragmented.

It seems to me like the author is concerned about not "updating" the building (as was done several times in the past, like the 1860 spire). It's hard to separate those concerns about his attitude about preservation from the true needs of the project.
Maybe the Pirate Party could organise themselves around being factions in the Democratic and Republican parties, trying to ensure those parties elect Pirate-friendly candidates.

Has this been tried?
Coincidentally, I've been thinking a bit about what it would take to create censorship-resistant websites. I concluded that you need trusted people to host the site, a database cluster and a bunch of workers to connect to the DB (with local caches). Then you could use Tor and publish a list of worker addresses/hidden sites for people to use.

Taking this setup down would require someone to take every single person/node down, although it might have more issues with availability.
A friend had a problem with theirs. They pulled over and pressed a button to connect to techs. The tech ran a series of remote diagnostics and cycled potentially faulty actuators (e.g. brakes in this case). They were on their merry way in half an hour with a full report of health.
Housing Supply Became the Most Controversial Issue in Urbanism
To compare China to the Soviet Union seems to me very erroneous. The communist party has survived communism itself, which the Soviet Union did not manage, it has survived Deng's reforms towards a more market based economy, and now it apparently evolves into something else again, whatever that is.

So to characterise a system as rigid that has shown the ability to absorb more shocks than just about any other political system on earth and still come out intact and relatively, if not highly functional is probably a huge mistake.

And it's true that all this thought control stuff and the Xi smartphone apps aren't serious long term politics, but they're also not really evidence for the opposite. Politically China has still a lot of old cadre who thinks they can brainwash the population with Soviet era propaganda, but in contrast to the USSR I'm not sure how seriously the leadership itself takes this or merely runs with it because it's the motions you go through in these authoritarian systems.

And concerning the last part about stagnation, how often have we heard this now? China is always five years away from being five years away of succumbing to its politics. It's almost an unfalsifiable belief at this point. You say that it'll take many years to find out, but is there a point in time at which you're open to change your outlook? The issue I have with this view is that it almost feels like the roles have reversed. People in liberal democracies want to exercise foreign pressure and maintain the system solely on belief in the system itself, rather than admit that we're in a phase of competition between political systems (which ironically was supposed to be the arena where liberalism wins on merits)
> Why are they still in business?

Lawsuits are progressing. It's possible legal costs (plus the accompanying reputational damage) will eventually force Equifax into bankruptcy. (I, for example, refuse to open credit lines if they require an Equifax credit check.)

At the end of the day, you can't just kill companies because you don't like them. We don't have general data protection laws with heavy penalties in the United States. The only way to extract a pound of flesh is to show damages, which has been difficult given how little we know about who stole the data and what they did with it. Nevertheless, the lawsuits progress.
Which is exactly what we do when we buy movie tickets, etc. And those who aren't interested don't have to pay for it. I'm not sure what your point is?
Is it not possible for the energy of a photon to to disrupt EM fields enough to be detectable, without the photon actually being incident on a sensor?
True enough, but those lack the virtue of timeliness.

Absent an organizing effort, it’s unlikely you’ll catch someone who has read, say, Dracula for the first time recently just like you have and can share that initial enthusiasm for the material.
Cool, the lack of a living wage _under all of those definitions_ means the lack of ability to save.
And they almost literally cannot go out of business. The incentives aren’t there.

I don’t know. I sincerely hope someone figures it out. We could improve so so so many things
1500 / 5 per week is still 6 years. The tesla home pack is made from refurbed car packs, so perhaps they'll have a generous buyback in place.
An endless firehose of art will have a bunch of weird shit in it yup, we've known that about the internet since like 2001.

But then again, this is nothing new: (nsfw) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art#/media/File:Shuvalo...
Julian Assange charged with violating Espionage Act
You can buy a lense adapter, and go looking for some cheap old lenses. I just bought two old Zenit lenses: Helios-44 (58mm) and Jupyter 37A (135mm) + single adaptor, all for ~100 eur, and I'm pretty happy with them!

I'm not sure if these exact lenses available where you live, but for sure there should be some options of nice old lenses you can buy for little money.

UPD: I have x-t20
You can't ever overcome synth GAS... I have a music studio full of latest greatest toys and it's never enough... Better excise it right in the beginning or you are lost forever ;-)
I would have liked Congress to do more too, but is this relevant here?
did you post about this on /g/? I could’ve sworn i’ve seen something like this posted in a dpt or something in the past few months
I think it's a gray area, but researchers often just do it. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission I guess. You could never collect datasets like ImageNet if you had to obtain individual permissions.
Ah I see, so if I understand correctly, it's more that you feel there is ill-intent behind Gihtub's move and their plan is to undercut existing players, and then to increase prices?

That feels to me, like one interpretation for sure, but there are others.

MS (like some other large tech. companies) make their money these days more from subscription services to cloud hosted systems.

Github feels, to me, like a play to provide a compelling ecosystem for developers, in the hopes that it translates to revenue from cloud.

Doing as you describe (upping charges on a service after getting rid of the competition) seems like it would backfire horribly on them from a PR perspective and the amount of money involved (a small percentage of the donations provided) would be a rounding error on Microsoft's income.

I think there's an ulterior motive, for sure, but the one I see as more likely is providing more stickiness to the MS developer ecosystem in efforts to translate to more ammunition in the cloud war with Google and Amazon...
Comparing copyright to these situations probably turns more people away from your cause than it attracts.
Ever checked out electrochemical heat pumps?
> We need to keep China down at all costs

really?

china is a nuclear armed power, i’m not sure we want to see the result of “at all costs” type of thinking
Interesting for a large and heavy company how fast they've adapted on some of the tech decisions in some cases
I think it varies from tracker to tracker. The "cabal" ones probably match that, but a lot of the smaller niche private trackers have been very welcoming and a great place to get content in my experience. They are still very strict in terms of uploading requirements, but that is to be expected in order to maintain quality.
I was just responding to the proposal put forward upstream with a number of points enumerated. Things can be dictatorial but fair. And realistically I think most western countries can maintain their current standard of living while reducing emmisssions, as I too believe we are capable of solutions. It doesn't mean sacrifice if carbon became part of the economy. Honestly it could be the unit of exchange if we chose to make it so.
The original design was so beautiful that it inspired pilgrims for hundreds

The original design is not the cathedral that stood there before the fire. People have been adding modern touches to the cathedral for centuries, why not continue that tradition?
This English-language article gets a lot mixed-up, Cathédrale durable was the report, it's from 2016, it correctly predicted the danger of fire in the roof, it was largely ignored by the people that mattered in France, it contained the details about wind, Vannucci recently spoke with an Italian journalist and highlighted this plus provided some additional context: https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/05/20/news/paolo_vannu...
I also find the white noise from a fan helps me sleep...ymmv.
Do you steal things from shops if the asking price is higher than you're willing to pay? Is "media" special, such that the producer/distributor isn't entitled to set their price in the way vendors of other things do?
But GH in this space will mean OSS developers will start to get paid for real, the phenomenon will grow and become standard and expected, and if GH stops doing it, the need for it will be so clear and people's expectation of having such a product so strong, that any drop in replacement service will instantly convert most users to their platform.

GH right now is growing the market by bringing millions of eyes onto this problem. The same as Patreon did. And if Patreon dies today, do you think no one will bring up an alternative? And that supporters won't transition with creators to that platform?

It's the same idea as Paypal creating and growing the e-payment system. Down the line, the market of e-payment has grown enough and is legitimized enough that if Paypal was to stop service, there'd be plenty of alternatives, and people are already using plenty of alternatives.

OpenCollective and the likes haven't been growing this market the way GH will be doing, and the result is only a net positive for OSS and developers.
It's not about rebuilding if your website is defaced. It's the possibility of someone (for example) adding a client side exploit / throttled miner to your existing website. Without more monitoring, you won't know it happened, and neither will most of your visitors.
nobody's forcing anyone to use private trackers. There's a good reason they exist though.
Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
It's interesting that the even the footer of piratebay recommends an adblocker:

>By entering TPB you agree to XMR being mined using your CPU. If you don't agree please leave now or install an adBlocker
Capital gains taxes are income taxes, not wealth taxes.
>A billion is a million millions in Britain //

Not really. I think you'll struggle to find anyone who uses that now.
Why is this not run by PG or SAMA?
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Charged with Violating Espionage Act
In a recent newsletter from Robin Sloan (sci-fi writer), he shares what he's heard from a few engineers that work in China:

"The Chinese government is building an OS and, in the not-too-distant future, the world will be split: those nations that adopt it, and those that don’t. This OS isn’t just software – it’s also access to Chinese capital, investments in infrastructure, and more – but it is ALSO software, a very capable suite, and it includes the world’s best facial recognition software. The sales force is out there now, signing up clients. This is happening."

Anyone else heard more details on this?
Terrific info, thanks! Looking forward to using it.
lol, you guys made me laugh so spit water all over my monitor :)
Wasn't it 14 with the option to renew once for an extra 14? That seems pretty reasonable to me.
That's just a custom "fuck you" page for the military. Its the same process for every taxpayer.
Well...you sort of “pay for what you use”. I believe the extremely simplified version is you pay for the peak CPU usage (excluding specialty processors like ZIIP) in a moving 4 hour average window.

Context:
I work for a large organization that used to run several physical Z13 mainframes, all of them containing several sysplexes. If we had issues, an IBM consultant would fly in within the day. We were definitely not IBM’s biggest customer but we were not insignificant for them either.

We had a lot of mainframe support staff (so not people programming for mainframe but people maintaining storage, DB2, z/OS upgrades etc.) and I think even for them, the IBM bill was more or less: we see a large number, no idea why it’s this amount, but we cannot prove it is not right, so I guess we’ll just pay it.

Mainframe billing is really complicated.
Good point, I was thinking mostly about Las Vegas when I typed that (have to go there every year mid summer).

Well then, another contribution: a few years ago I have found that several months of strenuous cargo exercise made me not care about heat, even the wet heat. I would still sweat and all, but it wouldn't be nearly as bothersome as it was earlier.
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> I am getting actively recruited from both large and small companies. I am not interested as a enjoy my job alot.

If your employer is aware that you enjoy your job and are not interested switching companies, that might lead them to not give you much of a raise -- since you're already happy and not going to leave. (Not everyone would think this way, but it's a fairly obvious line of reasoning).

Suppose your yearly review does not produce a result you are happy with. What are you going to do?

Are you cultivating alternative options for employment that you could tolerate and would give you the raise you desire? I.e. are you turning the inbound interest into actual offers for jobs and packages you'd be willing to accept?
The real disruptive techs for govt will be advances in things like fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), data tokenization, identity (happening today), privacy enhancing AI and other privacy enhancing technologies that facilitate data sharing that is impossible today due to jurisdictional and legal issues.

One of the biggest things that is going to hit government that people haven't articulated is the effect of Agile development on service economics.

Short version is, iterative development was designed for things that grow revenue, so the cost of maintaining them using devops is minor when you are a growth SaaS business. Waterfall methods were designed to be built by expensive developers and passed on to cheaper operations groups for long term maintenance lifetimes of a decade or more.

Keeping developers on staff to patch libraries, iterate on features and maintain solutions that have fixed revenue/funding allotments is much more expensive than most agencies understand they are signing up for.

Going to a cloud subscription model creates massive procurement problems with vendor lock-in and competitiveness issues, and it also takes PII and sensitive data out of their custody and control.

I think to understand government, you need to understand public sector economics, which are centrally planned and do not reflect the reality of the outside economic world.
No, I actually discovered them by watching by watching videos of ads done by the Harmon Brothers [0].

[0] https://harmonbrothers.com/home
Does the same reasoning apply to the Plank length or is that one discreet?
It failed because those countries didn't had Citizenship-based taxation, and guess what USA has it.
> Pretending that it's always acceptable to pirate any movie you want to see is akin to saying that you don't want the movie studios to make movies anymore.

It is always acceptable not to watch a movie. Does that mean one doesn't want studios to make movies? No, they can still keep making movies if others care enough to keep them going.

This is just saying that movies will be produced in proportion to the amount of people who want to watch movies bad enough to actually subsidise their production.

The same exact mechanism is in play in music (fans who go to gigs & buy swag etc. subsidise music for the masses who hardly put a penny in it), and many other parts of the economy. Enthusiasts, companies with deep pockets, everyone who pours big money into research & bleeding edge tech subsidise the things that will ripple down to the rest of us with lower and lower margins, often in such a way that the original inventor/researcher/producer gets cut out of the loop in that market.

The market will correct itself so it's kinda pointless to hypothesize about a world where nobody wants to pay for a movie yet somehow everyone wants movies real bad.

I think fireworks are a good analogy. On New Year's eve, many people buy them and fire them, but others just go for a walk or watch the show from their window or roof.
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their support is (was?) also complete garbage

I tried a single .uk domain away from them, after a week it still hadn't happened

their support kept making excuses: .uk domain transfers are different and normally slow, it's in the queue... except transfer has been instant at every other registrar I've ever used

thankfully .uk has an automatic system you can use as a domain owner to bypass shitty registrars (but it does cost money). after another week or so of excuses I bit the bullet and used it

after that I transferred my remaining domains

(separately: there's also the time they repeatedly chased me up for $1 they over-refunded me after another set of their mistakes)
The spire that collapsed had been inaugurated in 1859, so it's relatively recent compared to the age of the cathedral. I don't really have a strong opinion on the subject but dismissing modern architecture as a whole before we've even seen the first proposals doesn't seem very... constructive.
Most folks who like complaining about perl5 are doing so because they've worked with some terrible old codebase written in it. Terrible code is terrible code. But well-written perl5 code can be fun to work with.
>Yeah, you don't torrent hollywood shit, that's well known.

Yet that's the content which is always in the top downloads section. Well, that and porn. Lots of porn.
That's such a hassle. I only do that with movies I can't find good torrents for. (My local library has a pretty good DVD collection.)
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Kinda, no. By observing a photon you perturb the system, you wouldn't get a result for what that photon would have done had it not been perturbed. AIUI if you detect the photon then it interacted with some part of your sensing apparatus, so it didn't then go on to do what it should have. Thus we're left to look at the aftermath and impute the situation that produced it.
My experience of TF is very much the opposite. It looks fantastic on paper (well, in the browser) and I was excited to start using it. But the shine quickly wore off. It claims to be multi-cloud but it's not as if you can take some TF from AWS and run it on Azure - it's a rewrite. And it claims to be able to import existing, running cloud configurations so migrating to it should be easy, but it doesn't work, so that's a rewrite. And it is terrible at modifying existing things, the developers of TF seem to be believe that destroying everything and rebuilding from scratch is the way to, say, add another node. Of course by the time you figure all this out you have invested so much political capital in persuading the organisation and your peers to adopt it that you're stuck with it. But the lesson is really, use whatever is native to each cloud, such as CF on AWS, beyond any trivial deployment you're locked in anyway, might as well enjoy it.
Please, no. I am sick and tired of this international-style glass and steel business. We have plenty of buildings painted from this rather dismal palette. I'd like to see Notre Dame restored using traditional materials.
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Those firms make most of their profit most years from fees, not trading for their own accounts.
Any day now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yi...

https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/buying/are-austr...

https://www.odi.org/blogs/10682-record-debt-levels-suggest-w...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/economy/trade-war-economy/ind...
The cgi module doesn't actually contain anything CGI-specific. It dates from a time when "CGI" was a sensible shorthand for "handling http requests".

What's actually in the module is a rather clunky, but serviceable, system for processing html form data.
> Maybe we could wait a bit for cool movies when technology advances to the point where they can be made by few dedicated people with off the shelf hardware instead hundred million budget that needs to be propped up with additional millions to trump up the hype so it can be earned back?

We aren't far away from that, but it's important to remember that creators now have the option to create without attaching copyright to a work. Copyright isn't mandatory. Creators tend to choose copyright because it is in their best interest.

Also, it isn't mandatory to consume copyrighted media. Just find something else that isn't encumbered by it if you wish.
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Intuit is one of the largest players in San Diego's tech scene, but I will never, ever work there for precisely this reason, despite the fact that they are almost always hiring/recruiting and offer competitive compensation packages.

The problem for me is that they appear to be total scumbags.