skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP is talking about torrenting someone else's rip, not ripping from the CD that they bought.

That means they downloaded torrenting software, accessed a tracker and knowingly joined a swarm of peers sharing illegally distributed content.

If your convoy "crashes the gate doin' 98," you don't get dispensation just because you happened to be driving a Chartreuse microbus[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song)
Once you buy into the premise that mere words cause "harm", there's no limit to what you'll censor. It's important to take a hard line against speech restrictions in general: once you start, you can't stop.
And over 1 billion of that was pharmaceutical companies. Wonder if that has any side effects?
What an exuberantly generous take on the relationship that exists between your company and Microsoft.

'depends critically' vs 'we could probably get by [with alternative]' - which?

> So we're 'locked in', but it's not really Microsoft's fault.

It's conceivable that some of the wealthiest people on the planet have accidentally arrived at a situation whereby myriad users are 'locked in' to a situation whereby their on-going wealth is assured.
By wasting more money helping some wannabe dictator?
If sellers can disappear, that's a problem. Amazon should be liable for ensuring sellers can be tracked down and prosecuted. In cases where they do manage to do that, though, should they still be on the hook?
It's not really a default though. You have to always choose to do `using` instead of `import`. A lot of people choose `using`, because it's generally more safe than something like MATLAB or Python because of multiple dispatch, but there's nothing in the language that actually defaults to `using` other than the convention of some people.
> For example, Medicare being unable to negotiate drug prices, by law.

This isn't a very good example because the health insurance market is dysfunctional for reasons independent of this and Medicare is the government, so "negotiating prices" really just means dictating prices.

We already see this with Medicare in areas other than prescription drugs, where Medicare will set payouts below cost. Then many providers won't accept it (harming patients by reducing choice) and others, not wanting to turn away sick patients, will see them at a loss but then have to recover the money by charging more to patients with private insurance or paying out of pocket (harming them and reducing access to care due to higher prices).

> The latter is a regulation that does nothing to deter new companies from entering the pharmaceutical industry

Even if all it did was exactly what you expect it to (cause lower prescription drug prices), low margins are exactly what will deter new companies from entering a market. They can't recover their startup costs (which incumbents paid years ago), so they don't bother. With price controls that lower amount of competition may not raise prices, but you would certainly expect it to impact the amount of new R&D happening.
Oh, edited! Thanks Spencer :)
Oh, so the shareholders of the companies are the people itself? That sounds very communist :-)

But thats not true, retirement funds own only around the 37% (according to [1]), considering thats millons of americans, the pie is clearly awfully cut.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/who-actually-owns-the-stock-...
That is spectacular.
So what is next, productivity peak at maximum?
> So it’s possible that big companies are increasing their market power by using lobbying to capture politicians and regulators. If this is true, it’s very bad news for free markets and capitalism.

A market where companies engage in regulatory capture is not a free market. The word you're looking for is "corporatism", Noah Smith.
I have no idea if this is possible, but it would be awesome to see Spotify implement some kind of learning algorithm that would run your playlists like a professional DJ would, lining them up in progression by tone, tempo, sound, etc. That would be amazing.
> Bonus irony points will be conceded to correctly flagging a Google Project Zero video, or a YouTube security team video, as in violation of the terms of service as stated.

Without reading the ToS too carefully, I'm all but certain academic and industry-leading security work is deliberately carved out. Clearly this rule is designed to disallow liability concerns like a viral "how to see someone else's snapchats!" video, etc...

In the case of the linked tweet, it seems to have also hit a legitimate-seeming-if-not-industry-leading security source as a false positive. And that's bad, and a reason to oppose this policy in general.

But treating this as an "Ah hah! Hypocrisy!" kind of thing is missing the point and not going to help anyone. You know what they're trying to do.
I think you're missing the causal pathway. High property taxes curb NIMBY behavior by making people want to keep property values from rising, resulting in low housing construction and high functional regulation of housing.

In contrast, low property taxes (and especially Prop 13 which decouples taxes from property values) causes homeowners to focus on building wealth through the appreciation of home values, which encourages NIMBY behavior.
This is good for consumers, so I like it[1].Amazon has been able to exploit this asymmetry it enjoys compared to Wal*Mart, so I think this bring them to an even playing field with regard to that.

I’d be happy if they simply stopped commingling inventory.

[1]I guess they could argue the "Platform" angle, but I'm not sure that would hold water for them.
The downloads folder is a perfect target actually. Lots of documents end up downloaded as pdfs, I certainly have enough documents to dox me. Anyone who does their e-mailing through a browser will most likely have a bunch of exciting attachments in their downloads folder.

You'll probably also find a bunch of installers in the downloads folder, I could imagine a sophisticated attacker looking for installer .msi's or .exe's for software which is known to have vulnerability.
One of the biggest banks in Brazil (state owned) is currently having the same problem, bb.com.br
+ A large unnamed government contractor that has also been having some rare network outages throughout the week.
But still seems horrible to me.

If you're supposed to peer review the static web page designed by your coworker (the one who was hacked), it may steal things from your work folder.
My concern there is my understanding has always been that WhatsApp implements end to end encryption through the Signal protocol, how can images be stored and be considered end-to-end encrypted? So are only text messages end-to-end? Ignoring logs being uploaded to the cloud.

I wouldn't send any sensitive pictures over WhatsApp then.
I also don't agree with the assertion, but getting a virtualization environment set up for "normal" development is far more complicated, letting alone getting set up with USB, GPIO, or anything else that Raspberry Pi comes with out of the box.

Why would anybody care that they're being bought and put in drawers or shelves? The RPi isn't in finite supply, and buying more helps the project overall even if nothing is done with it.
I think you're probably right but I don't expect it to change. It's human nature to be afraid of the unknown and unfamiliar. Even if you had a mountain of statistical evidence to show it's actually safer (which doesn't actually exist yet), it's new to people, so they're going to fear it.
I'm not an expert myself, but I think you overestimate how much ML is used in these systems. From my understanding, it's mostly used in classifying objects, but the actual controls are not, and I would assume that the driving logic itself is written in a conservative way and a bad classification wouldn't cause an insane behavior.
>And publication-wise, it's a bit of a chicken and the egg problem: since most reviewers are also not well-versed in statistics, they are less likely to accept a paper that uses statistical methods to confirm or reject a hypothesis. Thus, there's no institutional pressure for a physicist to learn statistics.

Not to mention that if experimentalists actually used statistics, they would have to describe their experiment in more detail when publishing for their statistical analysis to make sense. And in my experience, they really prefer to list as little about their experimental setup as they can get away with.

>And a graduate course in statistical mechanics does not count, saying that as someone who used to use that excuse

Heh heh. Most physicists I know would invoke "But we use probability in quantum mechanics all the time!"
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The "No (regular) internet" thing is tough - the global public Internet is kinda the only game in town. But otherwise, there are so many cheap laptops that can run Linux. We're in a golden age.
It's not necessarily tiny but it's optional (besides main() ). Linux kernel, baremetal embedded does not use this.
That's the thing: it's super tempting to use nonstandard features. On our last SQL transition, we were most bitten by use of data types the new DBMS didn't support and by changes in the way "standard" text data types behaved between the two. (Just as GitLab was, on that last one.)

That's why I don't regret putting all of our SQL behind that DB layer: to port to the new DBMS, we just had to rewrite parts of that layer, rather than go on a hunt through the whole application for one-off SQL calls, as would probably occur if we didn't enforce this discipline.
Yes, I am always disappointed when the unexpected refunds for things I considered worthless don't account for inflation.
No, it is an economics term describing a type of market, as an opposution to regulated one, as often sugar industry is, for example.
Maybe you mean the fact that there are regulations and therefore no one has a free market? If that's so - c'mon, let's be a bit reasonable. It's as if you were saying that people are not free, cause they cannot do everything they want.
As someone else wrote here, the role of the government is to make sure that everything is working to benefit the society, and definitely to protect the people.

Free market without any regulations will work as long as people are simply decent. But we are human, poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king etc. So some regulations are needed. But not so many of the lobbied ones, as the corporate interests should not be the primary concern of the government. IMHO etc.
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> Free with ads!

Existing taxis are ad platforms and not free, so this is still an improvement.
Firefox on Linux: I get the redirect every time.
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The shield bot is a learning tool. I don’t think a reasonable interpretation of what I’m saying is anything other than that.

An atmega and C++ are absolutely NOT toys however. And in fact, arduinos are so cheap at this point that I have put many of them into many finished products.
Clearly this problem transcends party politics.
Yeah, and the problem is that it often does work to fix issues. It's the web equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"...
Purely competitive, purely monopolistic, monopolistic-competitive, and oligopolistic are terms to describe how a market behaves, not the regulatory environment the market exists within. A "free market" is a regulatory environment and not a market behavior.
Imagine how outraged we’d be if we found out Federal Judges were going out to dinner with lobbyists and then having those lobbyists draft their judicial opinions for the Judge to just sign their name on without even reading it first. I don’t understand why it’s not equally outrageous that Congress does this on a daily basis.

Equally nuts is the special interest group that Upcodes is battling. They draft regulations and then _charge_ the public to access the regulations that they’ve lobbied lawmakers to adopt claiming some sort of IP right over the law.
That is an awfully thin hair to split.

I challenge you on that last point. If you tried teaching bomb making in the United States, you would likely have be visited by a couple of ATF folks to have a talk.

They would advise you strongly not to teach that.

Anyways, best of luck. :)
I mean you could also just use any one of the other 500 different ESPs that don't require you to host your own mail server and who have different cost structures than MailChimp, but ok!
'Crime Pays but Botany doesn't' has a good working example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9I2YwmV8M
a lot of folks push their elbows out too wide on push ups. Ideally, they are in closer to the body, around 45 degrees out at the most. For many, especially folks newer to pushups, it is something they struggle with.
You are so off track it is frightening. First off the term " Campaign Finance Reform" is so loaded that it means different things to different people. Usually, shut down people they don't like. Far too many see Citizen United as an affront because they don't understand how bad it would be for everyone if the ruling had been the other way and they don't understand the 1st Amendment.

In the US, two political parties control nearly all activity down to the county and city level. If you are in politics already you pretty much have to have permission to seek higher offices. If you are not you have to get past both parties even the one you wish to be part of. There is a reason why at the Congressional level reelection is almost a sure thing with most people losing their seat from retirement!

So lets look at the national level, where CU and CFR bells are rung the most. Incumbent politicians have unlimited access to the media and to a point even use of the postal service. That is one hell of an advantage to an outsider to surmount. Then thrown in all the PACs they have friends and family in, all of which are protected by wonderfully named laws to protect the integrity of elections but really do only two things, protect incumbents and provide a legal means to make their friends and families rich.

So lets drop back to CU and the 1A. The 1A says nothing about whose speech rights may not be infringed, it says speech may not be infringed. The CU ruling made it clear that it wasn't some fictional body having freedom of speech, it was the right of the people in any organizational form they choose will always have the right to free speech wherever they go.

That is why you must resist all attempts to reform campaign financing. The established parties already have it all wrapped up and are merely feeding you nice market tested lies to prevent anyone from breaking their duopoly.

Open the door to silencing one voluntary grouping of the public from entering politics by any means and you allow for any future grouping which is a threat to the established parties to be blocked as well.
Good question and a difficult one for me to answer as I am no expert here. I believe it was the discovery that trees were using pheromones during an acute external event, with or without "intent" as we understand it, to alter neighboring trees, that was surprising to the researchers as we typically associate pheromones with animals.

If a single tree under duress is using its resources and energy to signal to other trees that have no way of directly helping the tree in question, what evolutionary advantage is being provided to the tree releasing the pheromones?

Not sure I am able to expand on this but it seems that the trees may have an awareness of your last line: "since the trees with the response would fare better, thus reproduce more successfully", and that awareness may be a form of consciousness different than our own.
I don't see your email in your profile. Can you reach out to me? eric@f9teams.com
Sometimes the opposite is true. Jaywalking is a great example. Rich assholes didn’t like their new cars having dents because they wouldn’t stop for pedestrians. So they made it illegal to be a pedestrian by enacting jaywalking laws.
> One of my biggest complaints is that they changed the CarPlay interface and made all the targets smaller!

Do you mind elaborating? I'm also running CarPlay with iOS 13, and the apps all seem to have the same usual button sizes/target areas.

I suspect you're thinking of the new "dashboard" view (pictured at https://www.macworld.com/article/3403343/everything-new-in-c...), but even in that case I haven't run into a scenario where the buttons/targets seem smaller.
Yes, the Democrat party resisted the outcome of the civil war for decades. Republicans enacted the anti-slavery and equality amendments. Republicans integrated the federal civil service and military. Democrats created the KKK, Jim Crow, and resegregated the federal government first chance they got (Woodrow Wilson).

There has been a heck of a fight, but thankfully, both parties have moved past that, and one of the reasons is the aspirational words in the Declaration, which has inspired generation after generation to live up to what it says, and make a more perfect union.
That's not really a distinction. Kin selection is a phenomena by which genes can propagate despite them not benefiting (or even harming) the individual that possesses them if it increases the probability of reproduction for other individuals possessing the gene (eg. if they are likely to be related).

It's evolutionarily plausible and explains a massive range of traits and behaviors up through full altruism. See eg. "gay uncle" hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_sexual_orientation...

I would describe kin selection as a phenomena that is caused by natural selection because natural selection is a phenomena describing propagation of genes and not propagation of individuals. This is a subtle point and often not taught unless taking specific relevant coursework (I learned about it in an animal behavior class).

I am likely using slightly incorrect phrasing and evolutionary science experts may phrase things differently, though I am confident in the essence of this argument.
In many instances spending on PR campaigns does not necessarily need to be disclosed as a lobbying expense. Money spent on influencing policy greatly exceeds what’s reported on lobbying disclosure reports.
Sure but you can get much more if you use a more exploitable file type in the first place. Why would you willing jump back into a browser's sandbox when you've just persuaded the user to bypass it entirely?
How is the solution not clear? Clamp down on lobbying. Kill the revolving door between government and board rooms.
> > At this point I think "free market" is mostly a term of propaganda.

> No, it is an economics term describing a type of market.

It's both; it's an economics term describing an idealized abstraction which does not (and arguably cannot) exist in the real world, and a propaganda term applied to real markets which, without exception, diverge radically from the idealized abstraction.
I'm working on something that could be applicable to this! There seem to be many areas that would benefit from a pluggable JIT engine, so I started building one: https://github.com/nitrousjit/nitrous/

It's designed to analyze and optimize existing codebases. So far it's produced some pretty decent speedups on the Python interpreter, though with a big drawback of very high compilation times due to using LLVM.

Let me know what you think or if you have performance-sensitive programs that you think would benefit from a low-investment JIT.
If you slow down construction, you are inherently making it more expensive.
It does seem like a thin op-ed piece for economists from Mercatus Center at GMU.
Have to agree. Moreover the cruise control reactions are petty fast.

Also switch radio station is possible with the wheel on the stick behind the steering wheel.
All of my VPS servers have been slammed in the last 5 days with bruteforce SSH attacks. I've never seen anything this aggressive. One of my servers got PWNed, which has never happened to me before. There's definitely some wild, shady shit going on.
> view these incidents in context

I view them in the context "software can kill people, and can do so at scale." Same way I view the recent Boeing 737 incidents.
http://highscalability.com/ is one of my favorite sites.
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Except replace "the color blue" with one very specific shade of blue among millions of possible shades.
The key distinguisher there is static typing. Which is how Facebook manages to make do with PHP, and Dropbox with Python. By adding top annotations for a static type-checker...
That's pretty much my point, yes.
And countries.
Yeah, the question isn't whether stricter building regulations increase costs but by how much. And in the context of the housing crisis, how much does it increase the price of pre-existing housing. The costs are attenuated down market. And the benefits are shifted across time--the expensive single-family home sprinkler system today that seems like overkill is intended to prevent deaths when it becomes a multi-generational, multi-family home 20 years from now. Just like anti-lock breaks and crumple zones increased the price of cars but substantially increased the safety of used cars years later, and much if not most of the premium in costs was borne by the first buyer.

As you say, labor seems like a much more significant factor. And restrictive zoning and NIMBYism even more so. But restrictive zoning is a sensitive topic for conservatives. Conservatives seem to be against regulation except when it's used to preserve the "character" of existing neighborhoods--not to be confused with historic preservation, which is bad restrictive zoning. Direct regulation is a more convenient target, ideologically. Likewise, I often hear conservatives lament the cost of labor but they're walking on glass by suggesting that working-class voters should be paid less.

To be fair, progressives make the same mistake of assuming new housing should be built for the poor and working class. And NIMBYism knows no bounds. Indeed, it was progressive efforts to "empower" communities that opened the doors for NIMBY obstructionism. It's difficult to devise a political mechanism that won't ultimately benefit the rich and powerful more than the poor.
I think a good example of lobbying that we should avoid is that done by TransparentBusiness and those they hired. They sponsored similarly written legislation in almost half the state legislatures of the US this year. The legislation was written in such a way that the only software that could fulfill the requirements was the companies' own.

https://statescoop.com/nationwide-lobbying-push-for-contract...
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Free speech has become a meaningless slogan since it's now used as if there was a wide consensus against all property rights. But nobody is against property rights, just property rights of other people, maybe.

I support your right to perform necessary bodily functions, just not on my living room carpet. I wouldn't say that's "tribalistic", more like "territorial".