skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could just stream unencrypted movies in the browser, but that would make it trivial for people to save copies of the stream, and no big film distributer would go for that.

Even moves you buy from the iTunes Store have DRM so they only play on authorized devices (to keep one person from buying it, and giving all of their friends a copy).
You're right; I went looking for the plan, and it's not there: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...

That said, it only seems to apply to marketplaces and platforms, not to regular retailers. I'm not sure what a LAR/VAR counts as, though.
The ransomware doesn't do what I as owner of the computer want and nothing which serves me a purpose. The comparison doesn't work.

If you look for a comparison: DRM is like a book publisher printing books on special paper which prevents copying and which can only be read in a specific angle so I can't easily take notes containing quotes from the book. All to protect those rights. (Edit: actually that example is missing a piece - you need special reading glasses to be able to read it, that's what DRM is doing on my machine)

And yes - Napster was an issue for the music industry. Suddenly their content was there for free and easily accessible. But then there was Apple, giving music away DRM-free with even better usability and for an acceptable fee.
My problem with Warren is she thinks that a plan or law can solve everything. If there were only a law that said, 'It's illegal to be evil,' then there wouldn't be any evil left in the world.
Honestly, I want an address that follows me as I move, so I don't need to keep updating every service that sends me mail.
Calling the fight for "free software" as defined by the FSF a matter of human rights is a bit of a stretch, eh?
I think that’s often true, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here. The authorities saw something suspicious, they investigated, and ultimately it went nowhere. That’s exactly how it’s supposed to go.
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Traditionally when we have a situation where the masses don’t have the means, equipment or knowledge to make sure for themselves, the law & regulation steps in. This is why you can buy food at a supermarket and be reasonably certain that it’s not toxic without needing biology & chemistry degrees and an expensive lab to analyse the food.
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I'd like to recommend the friendly people at Oregon State University Open Source Labs [0] who host POWER resources for open source projects. If you're looking to see what the ISA can do on P8 or P9 system, I'd definitely contact them and see if you can get a VM.

There's also a cool vector library [1] that bridges the gap between different versions of the ISA and different compiler versions.

[0]: https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/
[1]: https://github.com/open-power-sdk/pveclib
Everyone I visit has an internet connection and a quiet place I can work. I spend much of the day working, and then walk out and spend time with family. And yes, I am blurring those lines. That was kind of my point - that working remote can be far more than just locking yourself to an office in your home and working the same as you would in an office.

Sure, if you take business days off to fly across the country, that could go badly. But I tend to travel on weekends. And my family understands that I might get a message and go hop onto work for an hour or two.

Most of the remote workers I know would turn down a job that expected 8 hour shifts of "butt-in-seat"-style working environments. The whole concept of "on the clock" is alien to how my teams work.
I discovered that this is the titular concept behind a popular self-help/philosophy book.
they do not move fast and break (your) things
And I'd imagine that auditing high net-worth individuals and large companies takes a lot more people than smaller businesses. Larger companies will be able spend more on expensive legal advice fighting audits, and it will make business sense.
Nuclear Peace as the Mock Version of the Gospel
Good example. It's amazing how quickly you leave the rationals, even with a square, you almost immediately need numbers that can't be expressed as the ratio of two integers... historically, was that the first encounter with an "irrational" number (Pythagorean theorem applied to a right isosceles triangle)? I do remember the proof from number theory about 20 years ago, though I could never recreate it now from memory.
On my ancient MacBookPro circa 2012 running Windows 8.1, it just pops up very fast, where as Chrome takes several seconds to start.
Nature paper referred to in article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11357-9
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I am horrified by an idea that eventually, I will have to vote for Donald Trump.
Casting the vast majority of tech workers as immoral is a great way to win people over. Pragmatism wins over purity, and the FSF is far, far, far from pragmatic.
The tax is levied on the businesses who collect it on behalf of the government, it is a direct function of the amount of the invoice. So if you charge your customer less for your goods or services the tax paid goes down. VAT is short for 'Value Added Tax', in other words that which a business produces. But if your business provides no value then magically you still have to charge VAT, so clearly there is a relationship with turnover.

By your logic you could reason that eventually all tax is paid by consumers because they pay the companies for the products and that includes corporate income tax and so on but whenever sales tax is low you will find that companies are more than happy to absorb the surplus as profits.

VAT is the closest governments get to taxing businesses directly on their revenue streams.
The DRM stance is ambiguous IMO. Property rights of content creators are generally considered worth protecting in a good society. The issue is with locked down software which 1) abuses this privacy to violate user privacy, and 2) takes the creative freedoms that the software publishers enjoyed when they wrote their software and creates a contract which denies those freedoms to their users.
I feel like we would better highlight the core complaint by calling the issue Digital Rights Reciprocity.
If an attacker can (for whatever reason, be it rate limiting or cost) only brute force 100 guesses per time period (say, 30s), they'll expect to be able to 'win' the challenge in about 58 hours.

The probability of guessing the challenge _wrong_ once is (1 - (100 / 1000000)). Every 30 seconds you get another chance. The probability of guessing the challenge wrong N times in a row is (1 - (100/1000000)) ^ N. Around chance number 7000, the probability that you've guessed it wrong all N times goes lower than 50/50. ~7000 * 30s in hours is around 58 hours.
'Matrix 4' officially a go with Keanu Reeves
> Updated: $Date: 2019/08/17 09:55:24 $

Are those $ signs an Emacs limitation?
I'm not an audiophile but I have a pair of speakers that is probably 70 or so laptops of volume and something nice to hook them to. I stream lots of music through the YouTube app in my smart TV, and last night some of that was written by Grieg[0]. Remember this Qwest commercial [1]? Streaming music has its pleasures and undistorted sound should be one of them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNIon17o5kQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAxtxPAUcwQ
Police Torture Protestors in Hong Kong
This comment feels like nitpicking. Distracting from the actual conversation and focusing on something else.
How about an Amazon text field that takes your credit card number before you submit the form?

There's no warning that a text field autocompletes, and no reason to assume all users are tech savvy enough to realize that google has to see every character typed to send back recommendations.
I suspect it's because it takes time to remove references to Red Hat in packages (licenses, any proprietary bits, etc).
OLKB Planck keyboards [0] (presumably Preonics as well) also come with a Plover layout included in the default firmware.

[0] https://olkb.com/planck
very small, or arbitrarily small? ;)
It doesn’t matter what should happen. Your manager controls your ability to get promoted, raises, etc. If your desire is to get ahead by whatever definition of “getting ahead” appeals to you, you have to learn how to communicate on your manager's level.

Not only is it important to manage up, you also need to learn how to communicate with your peers to get things done.

I completely take responsibility for my 8 year career stagnation from my late 20s to mid 30s because I completely ignored trying to improve my social skills. I’m still slower on the uptake at 45, but I improved well enough to get to where I want to be.

I also realize that it’s going to take a lot of improvements and learning how to talk the talk and learning how to maneuver in large bureaucratic organizations to get to the next step - consulting (not staff augmentation). I’ve only worked in one large company for three out of 20+ years and hated every minute of it.
Great point. I did find the selection of words odd. They said "will not be connected to your account" and not "deleted". I wonder if it's because they have no way to stop the collection of such data as any of my connections could be pushing that data to facebook.
With regards to your dog, you should look into chaotic systems and the butterfly effect. Chaos here doesn't mean that anything is possible or that each outcome is equally likely. It refers to that the outcome changes greatly for even minimal changes of the inputs. Since we don't know everything at one point in time, we can only make limited predictions about a future state. No matter how precise we measure the system it will still behave chaotically.

To some extent this is also true for the economy which contains many feedback loops and meta-stable states. Even if we have the perfect theory it might still behave chaotically and might be as unpredictable as the weather.
> A town is more open to competition, anytime a third player can open up a store with relatively small investment. Meanwhile to take on a dominant player like Amazon is extremely hard.

You think it's easier to open a physical store to compete with Walmart than to spin up an ecommerce site to compete with Amazon?
You’re missing it. Check your textually-adept privilege.

Seriously. I’ve always been a very good writer but people in STEM often aren’t.
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650 calories a day is easily the difference for a lot of people's freedom of diet choices/ eating what they want. And this is a very moderate level of activity/exercise. Why are you so intent on discounting it?
I know a rep who leases freezer space from our local big chain grocery store and is responsible for that area. Ive heard of quality issues from this specific ice cream before, and it always reminded me of getting poor quality items from non-amazon sellers.
I guess, but how often are you really sitting there waiting for the update? It downloads in the background.
People who are working out their ideas far outside the mainstream have no one to cite but them selves. Some are quacks, to be sure, but sometimes a field is just not ready for their work because the utility of the idea is not easily apparent, or because it's perceived to be too risky. A field needs a healthy mix of the the curmudgeonly stubborn thinkers going their way no matter the cost, and those making steady progress on solvable problems.
No more Kirkland brand?! No!!!
A CentOS major release takes a lot of planning and changes in tooling as it is based on a much newer version of Fedora than previous versions. This means that everything from the installer, packages, packaging, and build systems need major overhauls to work with the newer OS. This means that there is always a ramp up period depending on the changes needed to make a rebuild work. The differences between EL-8 and EL-7 are no exception as the kernel has changed drastically, the repository format has added 'modules' and RPMS have grown many features that EL7 and before do not have. About the only item which has not drastically changed between EL7 and EL8 is the init system which is still systemd. [This is a first as EL5 had SysV, EL6 had Upstart, and EL7 had Systemd].

https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8
No... the 10th century was 901-1000. A thousand years after means > 2000. So it happened in the past 19 years.
DuckDuckGo's Illusion of Privacy
Only if the depots have gravity drops, if their pumps are electric and the reservoirs underground then you're not going to be able to pump it out to the surface.

Fortunately most depots are aboveground and only need a tap to be opened to drop their fuel into a truck.

A person looking up their car would not even be allowed on the grounds. Besides that the volume dispensed is way too high to deal with in a normal vehicle, you're looking at 1000's of liters / minute.
Even the ability to up or downvote I think takes away from the incentive to provide good discourse. Some people are content just down voting a perfectly reasonable argument rather than contributing to the conversation and having to reason out their opinions. You even see it here, where posts are greyed out but no one has given any reason why.

I don't have a better way mind you. Unmoderated discourse tends to end up bad, and voting is a form of self moderation. The alternative of fully staffed moderation also has it's issues. Community building online is just a hard problem to solve.

Just removing downvotes I think is a good step. Because if someone just agrees you aren't losing much by them upvoting instead of posting "me too!". But if someone feels like they disagree and want to downvote, that could be an interesting conversation that never happened.
No, I don't think thats an appropriate conclusion to make.

Tick embedded >24 hours: not necessarily true per my medical examiners - two independent specialists, as I live in an area with high Lyme rates and wanted a second opinion - as should anyone with doubts about it, and as to the second point, maybe its more correct that I didn't observe the bullseye rash until the next days, but either way multiple tests confirmed Lyme antibodies in the days and weeks following, whereas prior test (wasn't my first attack) didn't ..

Either way, don't lay down in a field where deers and rabbits live, in the middle of a warm, sweaty summer.
Thank you for putting some perspective on this! It's a huge aggregate in the long run.
Lots of people invest in open source without supporting or investing in Linux. There's a whole universe of open source.
> There's history of acting, if not ethically, at least not totally unethically, even without government regulations.

I do not believe that this is a thing that is true. There is no well-known history of ethical unregulated banks.
There is one significant problem with how Open Location Codes are being used and promoted by Google.

Try to find the following place on Bing or OpenStreetMap without using Google's services:
9MHR+PW Retkowy, Poland

The 9MHR+PW part is readily decodable, and could denote any of thousands of places around the globe. But the most significant part of the code is routinely omitted by Google, and replaced by a place name that one needs Google Maps to look up.

The question is, do we really need another way to link to Google Maps?
There are lots of things we don't have specific laws about because they haven't become a problem to everyday people - online retailers absolutely have abused market control to enrich themselves - but if a brick and mortar store ever managed to Amazon things up then I'd be happy to see this law expanded to include them... to my knowledge, as terrible as Walmart is, it isn't quite up to Amazon's level of terrible.
What about breaking free from “Native American Heritage” ?
It's also a deterrent to people trying to evade taxes.

It's not fair to raise taxes on other people who are honest and pay because it's a pain to collect from some people.

I realize that's simplifying things some, and not all people who don't pay do so because they're sneaky or dishonest or whatever, but I think the broader point stands.
I found this situation regularly when going down the rabbithole of the anti-vaxx or anti-5g people.
One "scientist" makes a highly dubious claim, thousands of nutjobs cite this one scientist, "scientist" then goes on to cite articles that cites their work.
I'm basically waiting to find Alex Jones cited in a serious article at this point.
Thank you for sharing this added information, but calling what parent said "cute" is unnecessarily condescending.
You may feel in control and may believe using a closed source 3rd party to tweak few Windows settings gets you somewhere, but research as well as Microsoft own words shows that you were fooled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556095
This is a big factor. Also, when traveling as a family, it's really nice to rent a two bedroom AirBNB over a hotel, or even over two adjoining rooms in a hotel (which will nearly always be more expensive than an AirBNB). Having the living room space allows adults to stay up in the evening after the kids are in bed, and/or lets the kids get up early and watch TV/have breakfast while the parents sleep in. AirBNBs often also have a dining room space or a backyard/patio, where families can play games, hang out, or otherwise spend time together after a long day of sightseeing.

If you're just renting a bedroom in someone's house, that's a little different, and it's more often price-based, although having a full kitchen to use can be nice, and you can also often find AirBNBs in neighborhoods where hotels are few and far between.
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Thanks! Let us know if you have any feedback as you play with it!
Systemd still breaks everything.
Yes!!!!!
These attacks on tech companies are extremely disappointing. Candidates are too cowardly to go after true evil, such as the Chinese government torturing protestors. https://joelx.com/torture-in-hong-kong/15239/
> The one that found success with the Laffer Curve

Care to explain? The most recent tax cuts that were supposed to pay for themselves haven't. So where are we on the Laffer Curve right now?
Do you have any good examples, historical or otherwise?
It's more compelling because a number of research groups and companies are investing in designing and releasing hardware based on it. It has mindshare in the space that Power does not and is not likely to have.

Just opening the ISA doesn't mean that new players can start spitting out processors based on it tomorrow or even next year. And why would they want to? Power was never in remotely the same position that x86 is/was re: binary compatibility so being able to say 'Power compatible' doesn't carry much weight. An ISA which has been a minority player but around for a long time is more likely a liability than an asset.
"Good" is in the eye of the beholder, surely.

A TV dinner is extremely usable compared to say, cooking from scratch.

It has its' benefits. Not for me, though.
I think a strong case can be made that breaking up Ma Bell has provided all sorts of benefits that have lasted since then. If nothing else, at least we have two behemoths in AT&T and Verizon rather than one.
Well, none of this applies to me personally, since I'm not working at all, and would never work for one of the big tech companies. Most people I see making six figures aren't actually all that productive. I don't believe in the 10X engineer, but I may believe in the -10X engineer.
Working part-time is also a game changer.
This comes up with predatory pricing antitrust claims, which are complex in themselves, but you shouldn't punish someone or an organization for behavior that they only have the potential to do, but have not done.
In New Facebook Effort, Humans Will Help Curate Your News Stories
In SoCal it doesnt look like WeWork leases the entire building, just a few floors. I can't imagine there is a huge cost differential between leasing one floor of a building and leasing 3 floors (assuming the building is at least double that size). For the landlord there may be some advantages to not filling your building with one client.
Yeah, Intel is ahead of everyone in SIMD width (until someone makes a chip with like 2048-bit ARM SVE :D).

But still, that didn't prevent POWER9 from being in one of the largest supercomputers. And super wide SIMD has its disadvantages (hello AVX Offset downclocking)
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is pushing a tax credit for employers who allow employees to work remotely as a strategy for reducing transportation congestion. I'm not sure I agree with the technique but it is an interesting idea to create financial incentives that encourage remote work.

https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2019/07/25/governor-baker-wo...
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Mostly because the SEC has been asleep at the wheel when it comes to breaking up telco merges - and the FCC has been happily steered to help reinforce anti-competitive practices... like, for instance, blocking municipality internet build-outs.
There is no case of a human contracting CWD. While CWD can be an issue for the local deer population, it is not something to be worried about. Avoid eating brains, spinal cords, and lymph nodes of deer as a precaution.
Who is going to see this that isn't a nerd checking out places like HN like all of us? This doesn't seem like a real effort to aid user privacy, if it was it should be something that pops up in every facebook user's face, not an article you have to search for.

Facebooks attempts at making up for their mistakes almost always leave me feeling worse about the company
Is that the kind of thing that would show up in an audit? That is, if you're hiding millions of dollars, you're not just fudging the numbers. You've got a web of places to stash money that aren't directly connected to you. It would take a deep investigation of your finances, not just an audit.
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Get the tests. My practitioners (get multiple opinions always) indicated to me that its not always obvious, and often times people associate the bite with other insects - i.e. spiders and therefore don't bother to screen for Lyme.

Best thing is to screen for the antibodies... but do get multiple tests from different labs.
The prospect of Warren alone could crash the market as we draw closer to 2020. The first leg will be health care then the rest. I am actually not against her ideas but deeply concerned about implementation.
Something interesting is when Warren came to Silicon Valley (well technically the East Bay), people cheered when she talked about breaking up big tech. I can't imagine what would have happened if a candidate went to West Virginia and talked about regulating coal, went to Iowa and talked about removig corn subsidies or went to Detroit and talked about phasing out ICE vehicles. I think a lot of people here see the problems that the FAANGs are creating and want to fix it.
The general steps are in the article, which seem like little work but this is a community effort, so it takes a while. Basically its rebranding, setting up build systems and doing QA on the changes.
Related, fully using the power of simple text file system to keep track of my stuff

Adding command and corresponding script:

logadd whatever

echo %date% %time% %* >> log.txt
tail -n1 log.txt

Retrieval command and corresponding script:

loglist whatever

grep -i %st% log.txt

This allows me to save thoughts, notes, stuff I am doing and want it noted, a phone number, whatever, and can retrieve it down to minute and second or to type of entry etc. Very helpful when sometimes you need to recall around when you were doing X thing. Works as a to do list as well. The tail in there is to verify that my entry was written.