skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another way to look at it: if you own a music video, do you have a license for the song that the music video is a music video of? I would argue you do—you have to have that license, to be able to have a license for the MV, just like you have to own licenses to all the tracks on an album, to be able to claim to have a license for listening to the album.

This analogy isn't going to clarify things. First of all, I don't think it's necessary to bring opinion and speculation into this, e.g. "I would argue you do", if there is actual law here.

So with music videos and songs, I would be very surprised if owning a music video automatically and simply granted you a license to the song. Ignoring the fact that videos frequently feature tracks specifically cut and rearranged for video (Michael Jackson is an obvious example), I think the main issue is that songs and videos have multiple copyright holders, and it's too complicated to be a relevant analogy.

IANAL, but if I were to record a high-quality video of a live band performance, the video recording is my property. I can take it home, rewatch it, etc. But I think it's obvious that I don't in any way "own" the copyright to the song I filmed. I can't extract the audio, burn it a CD, and sell it. And I'm pretty sure I would have very few commercial rights to distribute the video itself, if the band members never signed modeling contracts.

> I assume, if they did, this argument went about as well as arguing you can’t record music off the radio...

OK, I don't think this is terribly important to debate, but are you implying that settled law says people have the right to record off the radio? That's definitely not my (amateur) understanding.

> In the case of a text book, it’s not one that’s literally there in bits; but since it can be extracted with 100% fidelity, the information that component is made up of is clearly there, in the thing you bought.

This will sound like a quibble but I think it's fundamentally important to point out: text from an audiobook cannot be "extracted with 100% fidelity". Whether it's 100% fidelity or much worse isn't even the point. What you assert simply isn't so. But I'll be happy to admit I'm wrong if you find an audiobook from which you've extracted all the text content, perfectly, as well as supplementary text like footnotes, indices, headers, illustrations, and captions, and of course, page numbers. It goes without saying that visual data like layout and typography are also components of book with value, but I think you get my point.
I flag all articles from the Atlantic. Everything is biased drivel.
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Content ID is designed for flexibility as well: it has to catch a lot of transformative that might be applied to try to bypass it. Perhaps you've noticed that actually evasive material has increasingly terrible effects layered in as the years go on... (I remember recently finding a cartoon that looked like it was a zoomed in camcorder recording from a CRT... But emulated in effects layers.) I've also seen things subtly slowed down or sped up, strangely cropped, bordered, then given animated borders once that stopped working.

Between an incessant evasion arms race and a content generation industry all to happy to profit from false claims, I just think to myself, "this is why we can't have nice things."
Great blog. I haven't used PEG and have learned a lot from this post. However, handling left-recursive in PEG seems complex.

I've recently written a Java parser by hand (https://github.com/tanin47/javaparser.rs) and aimed to emulate a bottom-up parsing as much as possible.

The hand-written bottom-up parsing approach seems more intuitive because it enables us to construct`left` + `right` immediately before looking further.

For the same problem, the hand-written bottom-up parsing approach would look like below:

def expr1(input):
left, input = expr2(input)
return expr1_tail(left, input)

def expr1_tail(left, input):
if input[0] == '+':
right, input = expr2(s[1..]);

new_expr = BinaryOp(left, input[0], right);

return expr1_tail(new_expr, input);
else:
return left, input

def term(s):
if input[0] == '(':
new_expr, input = expr1(input[1..])
assert input[0] == ')'
return new_expr, input[1..]
else
# parsing numbers here
return number, the_rest_of_input

(Please excuse my python... I'm a bit rusty)
His views on Libertarianism, as espoused by Chomsky are interesting
Sorry, but this was the dominant computing model equivalent to renting servers at AWS. I'm not even talking about "website hosting at $5 per month". If a business wanted powerful machines, you rented them.

Companies didn't own mainframes, generally. Your understanding of "exceedingly rare" is incorrect. The statement that AWS invented the rented server model is also incorrect.
Yeah, weightlifting is the problem- it makes me hungry. I now do a four-day split: two days weights; two days core-conditioning. I've been pretty good about regular exercise all my life- with large (months) excepted for big change-of-life things like moving, having a kid, and so on. At the time if felt like I was falling behind if I wasn't exercising, but looking back it was only a small perturbation to my overall habits.

So if you find yourself likewise falling off the wagon, cut yourself some slack. You're playing the long game.

Now if I would just cut my serving sizes in half! :D
> electrical stoves, ovens, and even house heating are more common

My point is that it's still more common than other countries, especially south and east of Germany, as I made very clear above (that even was there to help make the point). And in this comment I didn't forget to mention electric stoves and ovens which are very much a common thing. According to the spec my stove (radiant) and oven together top up at 9.6KW usable, not just adding numbers for each burner. That's double or triple what you'd get out of any regular 240V wiring (usually ~2.5KW/10A, sometimes ~3.6KW/15A, haven't seen 4KW 240V sockets so far). With an induction stove you could go lower overall but almost all electric ovens out there are in the 3-3.5KW range. I imagine it's the reason every single house I lived in had 380V.
Google results are influenced by your search history.
My problem with Base (evaluated last year) was pricing for advanced features (eg. predictive AI). Also, and very subjective (I apologize in advance) I felt the UI was stale and inaccessible to older users. There are lots of things to like about Base though, and it's a heck of lot better IMHO than MSFT dynamics. But I cannot recommend unless things have changed since my last evaluation.
One of my co-workers made this astronomy-themed one and I'm really fond of it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/telescope/mcbkdemj...
Funny how the same informal-isms crop up in disparate teams -- I've heard/used the same thing.
Vienna is a very famous and touristed European city.

If you start trying random less prominent (or non-European) cities, you’ll find Britannica’s coverege to often be quite limited.

For example, compare (just picked at random)

https://www.britannica.com/place/Al-Raqqah vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa

https://www.britannica.com/place/Zhongshan vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongshan

https://www.britannica.com/place/Wichita-Kansas vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita,_Kansas

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ulaanbaatar vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulaanbaatar

https://www.britannica.com/place/Lagos-Nigeria vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos

https://www.britannica.com/place/Colombo vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo

https://www.britannica.com/place/Reykjavik vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk

https://www.britannica.com/place/Tampico-Mexico vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampico

https://www.britannica.com/place/Belem-Brazil vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m
It was amazing how fast "the Amazon is burning" news meme spread everywhere. It seemed like everyone I knew was fired up and outraged about it, posting about it, arguing about it, seemingly out of nowhere. It is honestly disturbing to see everyone collectively pivot on a dime to a new cause.

And I would bet most of them have no idea of its connection to the massive EU-Mercosur trade deal that is only just now coming to the forefront after 20 years.
This is a poorly thought feature.

You always want to have the image loaded before you actually use it. You don't want to wait until you actually use the image. For instance in a carousel, you'll want to load the next and previous image, not just the current displayed one.

I'd much rather have a "loading order" than lazy loading. Sure, I don't want to load first the big images that I'll want to display later, but I definitely don't want them to appear while I scroll down...
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Youtube seems to have gone to a ridiculous extreme on filtering copyright material. They blocked a non-public video of my daughter's Irish step dance recital, because the live band played three traditional tunes in the same order as found on some commercial recording. It took months to get the "copyright holder" to grant us permission; ridiculous.

YT doesn't, and can't, have enough resources to correct every such situation, so they err on the side of the copyright holders. When they're receiving a billion submissions a day, the innocent ones caught in the net are just a rounding error.

I'm wondering whether Bitchute might take up the slack here.
I'm a Suarepspace guy myself, have been for 9 years in November.
I don't like this system so much, but there are other systems for hexadecimal pronouncing. I like the hex intuitor system, which uses "tex" for 0x10 and "ten" for 0xA.

I have also seen other systems of representing the digits for hexadecimal, such as Nystrom's system (which also includes pronounciation).

And now, looking at Wikipedia, there are more. (The hex intuitor system I mentioned above is also called the Rogers system.)
The DMCA is for publishers, not creators. If Rousseau would just conform to the system and give a publisher a cut everything would be fine. Independent creators have always been the enemy.

Edit: I am being completely sarcastic w/ respect to the second sentence. I believe that there are people (those who are enriched by the current copyright system) who do believe that, though.
There is, https://lib.rs/derive_more
The demo on the page clearly shows a delay between the start of the load and the actual display of the image. So "soon to be in the viewport" should be quite sooner.
They're not reselling it nor redistributing it. The captions are derived from the AI and presented to the user. It may need some court precedent for this sort of thing, but I believe this would fall under "Fair Use".

Fair Use
Within copyright law there is a doctrine of law known as fair use. Although fair use does not actually give permission to make copies of a work or otherwise use a work without consent, the doctrine provides a defense to copyright infringement. The factors considered when applying the doctrine of fair use include: the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of the work used, and the effect the use has upon the market for the copyrighted work.
These cars aren't even remotely comparable when you look at performance.
And the worst part is this negligence _undermines_ a generally good cause.

Why do they knowingly do this? Do they think they won’t be found out?
Because most programs don't do anything if no changes were made between the current state and the last save. VS Code shows which files have changes made since the last save, for example.
Gloeocapsa magma is the species that blackens roofs. I have it and it's ugly and annoying.
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Sure. We may talk like it is a binary issue, affordable or unaffordable, for simplicity, but reality is a spectrum. There are people who can easily afford to live somewhere, there are also people who can afford to live there but are on the cusp of it being unaffordable, and there are those who truly cannot afford it. Colloquially we may refer to those who are only the cusp of unaffordable as being among those who are actually in an unaffordable situation.

Nevertheless, no matter how you want to categorize things, it remains that some simply could not afford to live in rural areas. Along with the urbanization movement came the growth of farms. If you have a parcel of land that an actual farmer wants to grow his farming business with, how are you going to compete if all you have a lowly job in town with no particular need for that land beyond wanting to live there? He wants and needs it a lot more than you do.

It's not a whole lot different today. A single plot of farmland will sell for well over a million dollars these days. Unless you have significant wealth behind your name, how would you ever begin to afford that, unless you actually have plans to farm it and can roll the cost as a cost of doing business? To simply buy the property to live on? Not going to happen.
I'd argue dotcom domain squatting has a big part in the lack of names available. Eventually, most startups that could use them will go bust and sell the domain 5-10 years down the line anyway, it's outliers like google.com that are always going to be taken.

New namespaces like .app should help with the problem, but at the end of the day, the culture itself has a limited namespace.

I've always gotten fairly lucky with .coms for my projects (managed to snag feedsub.com recently, had minfolio.com at one point, etc..), though the ones I've let slip ended up being squatted upon for thousands of dollars because of their potential (I think) branding value, which is a shame because it could've been put to better use since I couldn't follow through with a project.
My point was that we aren't stuck with with Intel for laptops, because Ryzen laptops are being shipped for a while now.
I'm also a fan of the 'email me your comments' approach. The extra effort required acts as an extra filter that is often welcome.
Depends on your country, but I suppose it has to do with theoretical computer science at the master level, you can see a lot of academic content around this (in Paris, France for example): https://wikimpri.dptinfo.ens-cachan.fr/doku.php (yes, HTTPS is broken…)
Meanwhile, book publishers are suing Amazon because they added a captioning feature to make audiobooks accessbile for copyright infringement: https://gizmodo.com/is-captioning-an-audiobook-illegal-major...

Reply All also has an interesting story about how impossible is it to have ANYONE accountable AT ALL for DMCA takedown machinery that harasses people: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/76h5ro
A person got strikes on his internet connection due to previous owner and there was noone in the insane chain of IP strike machinery that could be appealed to or own up to the mistake.

The current state of copyright is so broken that it's downright evil.
I agree that MPLS would be used for transport through the Infineras, but the article specifically states that this was caused by management traffic.

MPLS doesn't have a concept of a broadcast address and wouldn't have been used for management traffic (except maybe during transit). MPLS is really just used to get IP packets to their destination with less L3 overhead. Full disclosure I work in the DC space, not the provider space so I'm far from an expert on MPLS.

Ethernet famously doesn't have a TTL, so maybe this was just a typical Ethernet broadcast storm. In that case I don't know why TTL would've even been brought up.

They keep throwing around the word packet, which implies layer 3. Of course lots of people say packet when they mean frame.

Edit: There is a comment above saying they have an RFO stating this was a broadcast storm. So it was probably Ethernet and CenturyLink brought up TTL as a way to blame the protocol.
More generally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death
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If anyone is unfamiliar with the author, she was one of the first mainstream media authors to be critical on Enron and eventually wrote a book on Enron as well.
Agree that screenshots are key. Also not a huge fan of hosting critical data where ultimate control is overseas (eg. Estonia). Its not so much a trust issue as speed to remedy (eg. injunctive relief) if needed.
The whole article is based on one supposed expert (Nepstad) calling out the supposed "bullshit" reporting and political activism, but he himself sounds like a political activist who at the end of the article is asking for 2M$ for his own conservation network.

I'm getting a bit of a bullshit vs bullshit impression.
Replying to a reply of this. What copyright exhaustion? They just keep changing the rules to make it longer without the consent of anyone act we have no say in it. The average person in the US thinks the copyright length is insanely long. Legally if someone keeps changing the contract without the consent of all parties shouldn't that contract be null and void?
Some problems you want to have. A huge firm signing up is definitely a problem you want to have.

I was first introduced to this concept by a colleague who was going to serve customers manually instead of us programmers automating it. I said he was going to have a major issue when lots of people sign up. He replied "That is definitely a problem I want to have, I hope I get completely overloaded, because then we have the money to automate it".

I guess it is related to Paul Grahams "do things that don't scale", but "problem I want to have" is broader.

Since then I always evaluate if certain problems are the ones I want to have, because then I know I can postpone them.
Typically the place to worry about space junk is in Geostationary orbit. It's a tight band with a lot of satellites trying to use the same space. Also is it is about 0.120 light seconds away introducing 240ms of packet latency. This makes for slow internet communications. However a lot of broadcast satellites are found in GSO in addition to GPS satellites. These orbits are tightly regulated by government organizations.

The innovation behind Starlink is the satellites are disposable so you can stick them in very low orbits and not be too hurt by them de-orbiting when they run out of fuel for stationkeeping. In addition they keep a reserver to intentionally de-orbit at the end of their lifetime. This eliminates the danger of Kessler syndrome because the thin atmosphere slowly drags everything down even if the satellites are rendered non-operable. In addition you have insanely low latency at 440 km (Only about 2.8 ms) which is faster than fiber lines because they don't have to worry about re-transmission every 2 km. Satellites at 440km can maintain communications using line of sight laser links up to a theoretical 5400 km. (Although usually it's only going to be under 1000km)
The sockets are however not recessed making them less safe than type E and F as it now becomes possible touch the the live conductor if the insulation at the base is damaged (or is completely absent for some cheaper cables).
>And while fires in Brazil have increased, there is no evidence that Amazon forest fires have.

i see. let's read on.

>What increased by 7% in 2019 are the fires of dry scrub and trees cut down for cattle ranching as a strategy to gain ownership of land.

so it appears that fires in the Amazon have indeed increased as a result of intentional deforestation efforts using fire. this undermines the author's prior statement.

>Against the picture painted of an Amazon forest on the verge of disappearing, a full 80% remains standing.

put differently, we've lost 20% of it. we should be battling as fiercely as possible to prevent any further losses and doing whatever we can to reseed the areas which can be recovered.

i'm not a fan of this kind of "debunkery" because it's counterproductive and doesn't debunk much of anything. this crisis is real, whether or not the media has cared about it in prior years. our planet is dying because of our actions. the details are less relevant than the big picture.

finally, i suggest that you look at the titles of the author's other published articles. he appears to be repeatedly arguing heavily in favor for nuclear power while often trying to undermine the prospect of renewable energy sources. i am pro-nuclear power, and agree that many renewables are imperfect. but consider that he has an agenda of some sort which makes him vastly less trustworthy regarding these matters of climate change, because his agenda is in favor of a specific industry (nuclear power) rather than the planet.
You missed:

3) Bribe and capture legal system so everyone is forced to pay to the big copyright owners and you can't vote with your feet anymore.
Maybe its a little different when some celebrity does it, and when the potus does it? Don't we have even a tiny bit higher bar? Or are we just captitulating, admitting we just have a celebrity dope for president, and you have to excuse him for every wrong thing he does?
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How do you know that, though? Are you a citizen of Russia? Because if you are not, I'm suspicious.

I live in an undemocratic country but even then, we have a fairly good opposition and kind of a free media thanks to the journalists taking the risk of prison and social media so I was really surprised to find out there is no powerful opposition in my country, all of the media belongs to him and we citizens are just dumb people who wouldn't know our country better than outsiders.

The thing is, a leader can't hold that much power. If he lost the election, s/he can play dirty, fight etc. but wouldn't be able to do as s/he pleases with the results. There is always a balance they need to be careful about and not everything is black and white.
Can you please point me towards some legit data that shows Millenials are crushing it and are not, in fact, having worse financial outcomes than previous generations?
I like paper book references because when I use them, there’s not a permanent record made, belonging to some unknown group of companies, of the exact time and manner of how I used them.
Good ressources for founding a startup with network effects
I was often wondering how companies that rely on network effects manage to attract their initital customers. I would be looking for a list of best practices of how to attract customers in the beginning. This could be either an article, book etc.

Thanks!
This post overtly political and Hacker News does not approve of that.
That seems plausible, although it rules out almost all commercial meat. Since the feed will have gone through the same tillage.

I certainly wouldn’t argue against anyone who is buying meat from someone like Joel Salatin.

I wonder if there’s a word for this... “either stop eating beef or start paying a lot for it” diet?
And also one hundred zillions, and even one zillion zillions.
Do you by chance have a link to the NYT article that you could share?