skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The promises DCP LLC makes are very carefully laid out in the HDCP License Agreement and related documents. They primarily target content producers, not consumers.

Here is their mission for clarity. "Digital Content Protection LLC (DCP) is an organization that licenses technologies for protecting premium commercial entertainment content."

There is not a single word about protecting consumers in this.

I would be interested in seeing an agreement anyone reached with any DRM licensing entity that was geared towards protecting consumers. The entire thrust of DRM was not to protect consumer rights, and every agreement these groups have come up with under which they undertake to promise various things is in line with that desire for control as far as I am aware. I'd love see a counter-example - and if we found one I would encourage using that scheme, but I am not aware of any.

Apple and Amazon have both pushed in various ways for broader user rights which have paid off commercially (apple made digital music much more usable than earlier efforts and as a result I think that helped their success). Apple's music store (not Apple Music) also pushed relatively successfully for DRM free offerings.

I'm not on HN enough to be as timely as I'd like - apologies for delay in response.
It also depends on the gender. In my experience girl's are much harder as teenagers than boys. YMMV
Is there any evidence suggesting that it does?

Personally I have no idea whether or not this is a common practice, though I have to agree with xorcist that it's certainly not a given.
This doesn't work as well as you'd hope.

It requires among other things, a unique and toilsome coding style, constructor overloading (which isn't a first class citizen of python), and you only get late runtime validation (which means, for example, you can easily miss type validation on only one side of a conditional).

Something like pytype detects such errors without any code modifications.
To anyone who reads the above comments minimizing opioid addiction: heroin will eat you from the inside and kill you eventually. It is the most evil drug that has ever existed. Before it kills you it will ruin your mind irreversibly. Constipation is the least of the problems. Never use it, ever.
It is now apparent that Joi Ito was an opportunistic scumbag who elevated personal gain above ethics. Good riddance to him. And good riddance to the reputation of Nicolas Negroponte as well.
Rich, given how the land was acquired. Law and order.... when it’s convenient. In this case, so long as the law protects the profits of colonizers.

I recommend the book “settlers” by J Sakai. Or you could stick your head back up your ass.
Exactly. Spotify and Youtube links enable sharing music easily among friends. Friends send me messages "hey check out this" accompanied by a link directly to spotify. If we were still in the tape/CD age, this wouldn't be as easily possible.
That's only because of Trump and that will fail when he fails to be re-elected in 2020. I don't know why people think this is a trend rather than a local minimum (the Trump minimum?) .
The poster is not defending Epstein (is anyone?) but is instead defending (in the abstract) people who may have met him, heard that he had been convicted and served time for sociliting underage women, and, given no other information about him, decided that given he had served his time with no further convictions that he had been rehabilitated and should not be alienated.

For every Epstein, there are others who have been convicted of similar (or worse) crimes who, ten years later, have served their time, are reformed, and are no longer a threat to society. This doesn't mean you don't have the right to choose to avoid interacting with them (I personally wouldn't when it comes to underage solicitation as was Epstein's conviction), but I'm inclined to agree with the poster that I wouldn't morally judge those who do because they on good faith, and with no contrary evidence, assume the person has faced justice and has been rehabilitated. I think it's important that as a society we don't have a general rule that it's OK to discriminate against convicted felons -- it seems wise and just to, in general, try to forgive and be fair to those who have been convicted of a crime in the past and who have no other evidence to disprove the claim they have changed and are rehabilitated.

To me this has no bearing on the details of this specific case here, because based upon peoples' behavior it seems likely that everyone involved actually knew this guy was still an abuser after his conviction. It sounds like Epstein made a point of telling people about his behavior as a means of controlling them, so in general anyone who took money from this guy I think is guilty of at the very least a moral failure.
That's brilliant! And so true.
Not to mention they have two products named EBS: Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic Block Storage. Makes work conversations real fun.
> It's that it's the student's time, their future debt. If they want to waste it, that's on them.

I mean, it is pretty unfair to the kids who actually do honest work. if enough people cheat and get near perfect scores, it makes it hard for the instructor to understand what a reasonable two week project is. grades are also (unfortunately) pretty important for internships.

on the other hand, sometimes people who cheat are really bad at it. in one of the courses I TA'd, there were two groups of 3-4 students who would always sit together in labs. they would always turn in nearly identical labs and homeworks, including all the same mistakes! it looked like the only differences came from transcription errors. I never bothered to report them because they failed all the assignments anyway.
what is the point shkkmo is making?
So the only thing that can stop a hetero man is not a hetero man? No. Men who bought into his image were a certain type of person much more narrow in category than hetero man. And so you don't get the wrong idea, I'm absolutely not saying diversity isn't important. It is, for so many reasons, important to have people of diverse backgrounds and experiences around, in positions of authority, at all levels. Just not for this one particular reason of sniffing out predators.
Well you usually want to do trail braking where you smoothly let off on the brakes as you start to turn, and then slowly apply the throttle. At least if you are racing with relatively normal cars.
America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis
> Each of the nine-metre-high towers

Anyone who's not a child knows the OH&S on this in any developed country is a nightmare.

But then they would know all the issues that mean vertical farming doesn't work.

BUT if you want to push it forward, work on a cheaper medium. This is where it's at. Looks good, feels good, easy on the back, easy on the hands, easy to use AND really cheap.

All these attributes are done but not all together, there's no reason they all can't be done together.

LED's, designs, plant breeds, electronics are all going full speed ahead.

This is where it's stagnating... medium.
> Capitalism is also 100% merit-based and unauthoritarian.

Except for inherited wealth, government subsidies and large-business-friendly tax cuts, and regulatory capture (among many other examples)?

Even for people who believe in capitalism as a religion, that statement is a bit too much.
Arguably most on prem infrastructure is more susceptible to failure than cloud data centers
Bring the NYC subway fully under the control of the city: remove Albany from the decision making process so we can actually fund the system.

You trust City management more than I do. How did NYCHA work out? How about the endless proliferation of agencies being created, hand-outs to City employees and contractors?

Stop policing poverty. E.g. stop paying cops to arrest fare jumpers and fix shit instead.

Putting aside the debate about fare evasion and its relation to budget, being discussed here, how does not 'paying cops' and paying someone else (?) play a role?
If you are in tech and are considering moving to CA and the income tax difference is actually a deterrent then you shouldn’t move because you are already making a disproportionally huge salary for your region.

In my experience, talking to many many people considering moving to or from CA, the delta in salary coming to CA dwarfs any differences in income tax.
Yes, obviously it’s heavy. No, that doesn’t mean it feels like driving a bus.

A go cart is far lighter than a Lotus Elise. Would you expect the Elise to feel like a bus in comparison?
I could, but I don't need to. My work is super chill. I show up when I want to and leave when I want to. We are encouraged to use the fitness facilities every day, so I usually spend an hour or so working out midday as well.
I'm speaking from a California perspective, so yes, we have fair number of poor drivers. But I have NO concerns with Porsches on the Autobahn. In fact, I had a Porsche up to 270kph between Stuttgart and Karlsruhe once. Thrilling, but kind of terrifying (and I was a pretty well trained autocrosser back then).
It’s more of a reference but I’ve used https://learnxinyminutes.com/ many many times for picking up new languages when needed.

It cuts straight to the point, much simpler than wordy tutorials.
douban.com is much better than it.
The question isn't about legality. It's about morality. Is it morally wrong to judge people who decide to associate with criminals after they have served their sentence? That to me is the crux of the issue here.

What it sounds like is that criminals are not absolved by serving their sentence. Or maybe some are but it depends on the crime? And sometimes it's okay to ostracize those that believe that criminals are absolved by serving their sentence, depending on the crime?
Please do not downvote or flag me.

This is not supposed to be a flame post. I’m not one of those people saying “India shouldn’t explore the moon before they feed all their poor people.” Indeed, India should work on everything at the same time.

However, it is not healthy for communities like HN to remove every post where someone brings up the possibility that exploring the moon may not be in the interest of India’s poor population. It’s important to voice this point of view, because India’s poor do not have a voice on HN. If we want to be open to all opinions without bias, then we must consider that this disregarded viewpoint may conflict with our own.

Recognizing this is healthy for the HN community and others. It’s not always about labeling things as right and wrong. Sometimes acknowledging that there is space between right and wrong is valuable.

Thank you for reading this.
Are there non-malicious attacks? Doesn't the word "attack" imply maliciousness?
that is a in fact a big problem with some of the earlier reporting around stories about Epstein. Lots of headlines ran with "young women", but deeper in it explcitly says "as young as 14"
I suppose their recommendation quality only goes up the more you use the platform. It is a damn good recommender. From Discover Weekly to similar features like "Artist/Song/Playlist Radio" that continue playing similar music after your playlist/album ends... the Spotify recommendation systems are probably the most successful, enhancing implementation of ML I can recall seeing in the wild. Certainly much better than YouTube which for months has been begging me to watch this "Pete Davidson Got Stuck Paying for Kid Cudi's Birthday Dinner..." video (I'm not a fan of either of those guys).

Maybe you should give it a try. Certainly can't hurt.
Except they hid millions as an anonymous donor per the nymag article. That’s whats so damaging.
Plus that they are using API's nobody else are allowed to use, and that they generally don't seem to abide by the rules of the app store themselves.
Thank you, this is exactly the point I'm making.

And in this specific case, it sounds like the MIT director attempted to conceal donations from someone he knew was banned, so his resignation is just.
My own experience with dataclasses vs attrs:

`dataclass` primarily just provides a faster syntax for defining a simple struct-like class. For that alone I've found it tremendously useful.

At the same time, sometimes you do need more functionality around a "struct-like" class, that that's where attrs comes in (e.g. I use dataclasses/attrs to wrap configuration objects, which mostly just hold values but occasionally need a little more logic). Even then, I often end up extending the basic dataclass with some of my own common methods (e.g. serialization).
> but it's possible to pass the course with only a mediocre understanding of the material

probably this.

the most time-efficient strategy for studying that I found in college was simply retyping all the bullets from the powerpoints 2-3 times. I didn't understand what I was writing, but I basically trained myself to be a "chinese room" for test questions. I got As on all the tests for classes I didn't care about this way.
I've never had a problem determining what a reasonable project length or level of difficulty should be. I don't adjust it if I have a particularly apt group of students. Students who really shine are given direction to support that ability but that is case by case, not baked into the overall difficulty of the course. These things can be rubric driven based on what material should be learned and not just improvised based on perceived class characteristics.

There's no unfairness to an honest student who gets just as much out of a course with or without cheaters. Perhaps more if I'm not trying to put together complicated "gotcha" assignments and tests to catch potential cheaters.

Besides, I didn't say I ignored cheating. My fault if I gave that impression. I put in reasonable effort to look out for it, but don't obsess over it. if it went on without me finding out then by definition it wasn't something I could act on, and neither I nor the honest students were the ones losing time and money.
I mentioned this to a similar comment elsewhere in the thread, but this is a weird horse to hitch your wagon to. Even if these particular women weren’t trafficked, the Media Lab staff’s general suspicions about Epstein were obviously correct.
Yeah there are a lot of NIMBY's here. They don't want to make the sacrifices necessary to make the city better.
They made a huge deal over WiFi in the subway, great idea, some places cell service doesn’t work. It’s ok if your in a station and can’t get a cell signal, but every time you get to a new station you get pulled into a new captive portal and have to log in. By the time you do that you should be going on to the next station. By the time you get back on your return commute your login has expired and you get pulled into the captive portal again. Granted that doing it right is a much bigger technological problem, but a solved problem I’m sure - more or less the same challenge as wiring a stadium with a hundred thousand fans in it for WiFi.
Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity... and the Porsche is much more likely to be driving unsafely/like an ass than the truck, or in my experience, even a BMW...
I suspect that arguing on forums has done much more for my communication skills than writing a bunch of essays on topics I didn't care about. the feedback is a lot quicker, and the criticism much sharper.
In bug bounty programs you pay security researchers to attack your site so they can find and tell you about potential risks.
This is what cookies are for. No one will be using CSRF tokens once cookies are fixed (e.g. SameSite is widely supported). "Just passing a state-key around" is not mutually exclusive with "being an ugly hack".
In the article, there is a statement: "Empirically minded physicists have realized that the phenomenon of measurement can be directly probed by sufficiently subtle experiments."

Then please write about these probes, and not just the rant that "nobody understands."

The public doesn't have to worry (and we don't have to read) about the "interpretations" until there is a specific proposition of how to do such probe an the experiment can be constructed and performed.

He writes "students who demonstrate an interest in the topic are gently but firmly — maybe not so gently — steered away, sometimes with an admonishment to “Shut up and calculate!”."

My answer to this article would be, to theoretical physicists: "shut up and construct an experiment that can be performed." As long as there's no practical difference (in the sense that any experiment that can be imagined can demonstrate it) there's just no physics there.

So yes... "shut up and calculate."
maybe that dad and son would be making more money waiting for riots in europe and the united states. plenty of money to be made selling for the mobocracy that is coming to the united states. courtsey of leftists who want more control by the state.......count me in for a krate.
Many of these things weren't really effected by the Fall of the Roman empirical structure per se. Most of the things you mention didn't actually happen for a long while after the empire fell.

The first big plague happened in 541–542 AD and it effected people in the Eastern Empire more then in the former Western empire.

Italian urbanization was not actually significantly changed until the Justinian roman wars where Italy was invaded by different armies over and over again. But important to know is that Italy was already less urban by the time the empire fell, Rome had already far, far fewer people then at its peak and had gone down over the last 100 years before the actual Fall.

The point here is that many of the variables you describe had lots of variation within the imperial period and often didn't significantly change when the empire fell per see.

So we need to be really careful as these things are pretty complex and our data is incredibly bad. Often informed not by good data.
MacArthur Foundation @macfound

The MacArthur Foundation today accepted the resignation of Joi Ito as a member of our board and our affiliate
@LeverforChange , effective immediately. We thank Ito for his service.

https://twitter.com/macfound/status/1170443088055144448

Good god, did they really have to thank Joi Ito for his service?
Whenever I pull a crate, I invariably have to file a bug because I don't have the exact OS, OS version, Rust version, and crate version that the author develops on.

I rarely file bugs on Python packages no matter how obscure my setup is.
I think it's a somewhat legitimate comparison. The average person can use a smartphone but couldn't tell you much about why it works the way it does. They can accomplish all sorts of things with it but they have little insight of its internal structure. It's the same with Schroedinger's equation: I can use it just fine, and it's clearly a useful way of looking at the world, but I don't understand why reality is like that.
For reference, about 1.6% of Americans make $250K or more.

So your definition of "successful professional" isn't quite the proverbial 1%, but it's close enough for government work.
Idleness
Unfortunately, IP law doesn't really help when the platform owner can just say 'no' and cut off your entire revenue stream, perpetually. While you might have the law on your side regarding the IP, Apple seem to have the law on their regarding their right to cut you off. For small Apple only businesses, this is essentially a "license to kill", and you have no recourse but - possibly - to cause enough bad publicity.
there is a real need for a site that provides just the bare details of the news without need to editorialize, etc.
I should be able to filter content;
If I need to get more details, I can always google for that.
Why do you bring up North America? That boy lives in China.
do you have any idea about driving dynamics? this was not a straight line race. It looks easy but racing fast on a track takes a lot of practice.
Do you have evidence in favor of the idea that, say, there exists a finitely-axiomatized formal system which describes reality? We've been searching for a while, and evidence so far suggests that it's not going to be that easy. Tarski's Undefinability is a non-trivial barrier.

With mathematics, we can describe hypotheses of reality, but there may be details and nuances to reality which we're simply not able to observe and thus not able to empirically consider.
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Yes because an HN thread with 236 comments including people who know what they are doing is representative of anything.

Would it also be proof that React is an unusable framework just because I haven’t taken time to learn it even though millions of people use it everyday?

You can find “rebuttals” about the safety of vaccines on the Internet. Does that mean anything?
It’s a nice rule of thumb for CLs (changelists) that provide a bug fix or refactoring. But I think it’s a terribly useless rule of thumb when evaluating a CL that just implements a new feature.

Imagine some new features such as “support exporting to CSV” or “auto-generate avatars for new users”. Implementing them will necessarily add more code, and more complexity, to the codebase. And adding more complexity makes the code harder to work with – in other words, harms “the overall code health of the system”. Businesses develop new features because of the improvements to the product they bring and the reputational or monetary gains that come from that, in spite of the damage done to the codebase. The only way you could get a new-feature CL to pass by the standard you quoted (the standard of “improving the overall code health of the system being worked on”) is to refactor existing messy code written by someone else, and that would not be sustainable.

Does anyone see a way to interpret the rule, or have a preferred variation of the rule, that makes it useful for evaluating new-feature CLs?
But why bother with a DNA test for vandalism and protesting?

Especially if you haven't mandated DNA tests for Rape Kits and still have a backlog:

Rape, Murder, and Battery are one thing. Protesting and vandalism are quite another.

http://www.endthebacklog.org/north-dakota
Rome endured repeated leadership crises from the death of Commodus in 192 to the conquest by Odoacer in 476. Put another way, Rome spent more time “falling” than the US has even existed.
Most founders skew older. You've got time. Find the right problem and don't compare yourself.
I went to college in Arizona in the 90s, and got the impression a large number of people were annoyed by newcomers from CA.
I would upvote this +100 if I could!

What you said about growing up in poverty and experiencing it later are super different things. I grew up in Sri Lanka and while I have not lived in one, we have small villages in tea estates where 50-100 families have created small village, all of whom work in the same estate. Even today, they make about $3 a day, and they have totally different economics to compare with the outside world. Food exchange is quite common (someone grows one type of vegetables, and the other, a different type), and costs like transportation and utilities are not that extreme because they already have a store, a small school, and even a public water well for drinking, shower, toilets, etc. I am totally agreeing with your last paragraph saying there are different types of poverty.
People naively apply historical "patterns" like this, why? History doesn't always repeat itself. It used to be that the most similar countries would have wars with each other, like England and France for hundreds of years. Now it's the opposite. Territories used to rebel against governments, today the US has successfully managed numerous territories for over a hundred years. We largely don't have governments based on religion. The world has had paradigm shifts that make large scale political events of the past unlikely to happen again.
If Gladwell is communicating false or misleading information, then we need to know about it rather than give a collective shrug. People will believe whatever Gladwell wrote, and that wastes everyone's time.