skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why the BDS movement against Israel gets so much attention when stuff like this, or worse, regularly occurs in China.

The reason could be echoes of old Soviet influence campaigns directed against Israel [1] [2]. Once you get an idea lodged in the public mind, it takes on a life of its own (kinda like the trope of the AI weapon that fights on even after its makers are dead).

[1] https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/285781/sov...

[2] This is a good presentation of Soviet disinformation tactics and strategy: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-d... (youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo)
> The action of taking down the fence may not be based on ignorance, so much as curiosity

While I sort of agree, it's not about a fence but getting as much info as reasonably possible before acting. Next time you change something you don't understand because of curiosity, there may be injuries or deaths.

> This is typical of the dogmatic approach to reasoning that you find in many religious texts

That's pretty much what you've done here; taken the extreme view of what I'm trying to say.

Back on the subject: the dot matrix printer was not the guy's property and it may have been streaming a hardcopy of some server's intrusion log. That would explain why it was there but nobody looked. It's there in case someone ever needed to.

(edit: it's printed door movements, not server stuff. If the doors are opened by badges, it's still movement detection, at least of the most basic, people-y, sort)
The GPL relies on copyright as far as I understand.

The two declining authors don't have copyright on the new replacement code, because they didn't write it. So their choice of license can't possibly have any bearing on the license of the rest of the project.

A similar thing happened when the busybox maintainer forked the project to toybox.

busybox is a GPLv2 project (not LPGL), and so all his contributions were licensed as such. But he forked his own code to a Apache 2 License. He is able to do that because he owns the copyright. But of course he can't relicense code to which he doesn't own the copyright.

toybox isn't a derivative work of busybox in that sense. It's just a bunch of code that someone wrote (and automatically gets copyright for), and chose to license in a certain way.

Basically you get the copyright first, then you decide to license it. If it's clearer to think about, the authors could have started a new project called "Zacket" that's not a derivative work of Racket, as long as they own all the copyrights. But the name doesn't matter here, and they can keep using "Racket".

That's my understanding anyway.
Same here, it drives me nuts. I just have to get away from it or drown it out with headphones asap.
Somewhat related, current discussion: "Why office noise bothers some people more than others."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565841
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My bad
A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
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Anecdotally, when I'm playing speed rounds on lichess if there’s any kind of background noise my score drops by 200 point instantly. I find that a good proxy for high-concentration activity and this realization made me change my routine to spend at least half of my office hours when there’s no one around.
They can take out ads in national newspapers if they want. Major companies and other institutions run full-page ads with “A letter to...” whenever they need to.

It’s not going to make a dent in their budget. Any notion that a $40B company somehow is unable to make itself heard is ludicrous. This isn’t a mom-and-pop operation.

EDIT: to replies claiming it's not the same or is blackmail because it requires FedEx to spend money to respond... you do realize that it costs the NYT over $300 million/yr to produce, distribute and market their news product? (Yes, the NYT spends money on ads to get more people to read its stuff, too.)

At a corporate level trying to reach millions of people, speech isn't free for anyone. Distribution costs money, for everyone. This isn't blackmail (sheesh), it's how public dialog between companies works period. And my original point stands: both sides are mega-companies that have plenty of money to promote whatever stories they want.
Third party services (e.g. https://www.webshrinker.com/apis/) exist to perform this kind of classification. They'll be doing the classification API calls from the client (CIP-enrolled) machine, then sending the results (and not the domains or URLs that generated them) back to their own endpoint.
You can put a small sump pump with a pressure switch in the bucket, and an overflow setup back into the normal drain. This way when the toilet flushes, the sump will kick on and fill the toilet and keep pressure on the water line feeding it. Any excess sink water will overflow out the upper hose on the bucket and go into the normal drain.
Intel software development teams have to comply with internal legal process, meant to safeguard against that.
Why not other applications? Boat hulls, water slides, dishes, cookware?
> Google hits me with a lawsuit for violating the SSO of the REST API as implemented by the Google Web Services executable and source.

No, it doesn't work like that, just as if you implement an algorithm that's at the core of another program (without deriving your code from that other program) you don't infringe on the other program's copyright.

> Any protocol worth protecting will have a tangible expression they can point to whether it be code or documentation.

I don't know how to explain it any better than I have, so I'll mention yet again that your point applies to algorithms, and yet they are not copyrightable.

If you have a paper describing an algorithm, the paper is copyrighted, but the algorithm it describes is not. If you copy or translate the paper you may be in violation of its copyright; if you implement the algorithm described -- you are not. Same goes for recipe books, by the way. If you copy the recipe you could be in violation; if you implement it -- i.e. cook according to it -- you are not.

That the program is a fixed expression that manifests the algorithm or protocol is irrelevant. You are not allowed to infringe on the program's copyright, but the protocol or algorithm it describes are not copyrighted to begin with.

> please use actual case law about software.

Protocols are not software. SSO is irrelevant to them. Their relationship to software is the same as that of algorithms to software, and SSO doesn't apply to algorithms either, because they are not copyrighted works.

Any argument you'd like to make why this case has any bearing on protocols would also need to be compatible with the fact that programs are copyrighted while algorithms are not. If you make an argument that would also cover algorithms you can know you've made a wrong turn somewhere.
Curious, did you grow up in a noisier / more frenetic household?
Agreed! - so walk down the corridor and find out why.

Think: someone must have been feeding the printer paper or it would have run out years ago. It's there for a reason. See possibly why in my other comment.
Chesterton's Fence works when the people in authority are willing and able to change things with adequate understanding and justification. Sometimes no one knows why the thing is there and the options are remove it and see what happens or keep devoting resources and accommodations to it while it reduces quality of life.

I'm usually critical of SV style creative destruction, but sometimes asking for forgiveness instead of permission really is the only way to get things done. As long as it's a strategy, not the strategy.

Asking someone why the printer does that would have been good. It would have been an opportunity to show initiative to superiors either way. One way you get to remove something everyone hates. Another way you get to find a less intrusive system to solve whatever problem the printouts solve.

It may not have been a problem as they suggest, but not hearing anything is not the same as not causing a problem. I've had people just do things thinking I was making up the issue with what they wanted to do. Of course, it caused the problem, and I didn't know the source until they mockingly said "I did it and you never complained!"
Yes, mechanical keyboards are noisy and inappropriate for a shared office.
It's too simple to say they don't learn anything. If you actually click on the ad, advertisers sometimes gain some information (based on IP address, third-party cookies, and maybe browser fingerprinting) Sometimes they might get some information just by running the ad via analytics.

It's a bit murky whether the amounts to being able to identify you. It's not clear how much advertisers care about identifying people who don't buy or how effective advertising actually is. And this data goes stale pretty quickly anyway.

So it comes down to, "well, it depends." None of this is comforting to people who don't want to be tracked. On the other hand I haven't heard anything credible about people being directly harmed by it? It seems more about the principle of the thing?
Rain-X.
I don't think you get the same performance from a newegg ssd than you get with the soldered ssd on a MacBook.
Streissand-Effect much? I hadn't heard about this story at all, and all a public debate would do hear is make the story even higher profile.
We once spent an entire summer trying to add functionality to an app where some of the customers were already running at max capacity on their self-hosted hardware.

I was trying to explain to my boss how stupid it was for us to spend $100k to avoid a handful of customers having to buy $3k in hardware apiece. It would have been cheaper for us to gift them a box. The opportunity costs of that boondoggle ended up being a huge negative for that team.
I watched a video from This Old House where they toured a toilet factory. They used Miso paste in a condom to simulate fecal matter.
Our Poets Need Pythagoras
I use noise cancellation in-ear earphones to reduce the sound of the radio.

it works decently well for the low and some mid frequencies. It helps.

Probably your best bet is headphones or earphones with both noise-cancelling and good noise-isolation.
> Fedex is just following fed tax policy that it doesn't control.

Perhaps not individually, but a thrust of the article is that these large corporations pay huge amounts to lobbyists to bend tax policy in their favor.
The writing of a journalist employed by the NYT, edited by an editor employed by the NYT, for publication in a newspaper sold by the NYT for profit is every bit as much a commercial activity as FedEx delivering packages. In this case the NYT has a target market that is reflexively skeptical of businesses and commercial activity so it is useful for them to obscure what they are doing. The fact remains that the NYT is a business primarily focused on seeking profit, no different from FedEx. Right now they are in the business of throwing stones at other businesses; it’s perfectly appropriate to respond to that by pointing out that the NYT lives in a glass house.
>The "white working class" (especially male) was overthrown by ... no social programs, no healthcare, nothing.

They don't have social programs and healthcare because they consistently vote against anyone who proposes these things. So they're really to blame for their own problems. Sure, globalization et al have been big factors, but they shot themselves in the foot by voting against policies that would benefit them, and instead voting directly against their own economic interests.
What are you talking about? Few have ever had access to printing presses or television studios. Until everyone had a smartphone in their pocket at all times, global information dissemination was controlled by a wealthy few. Now these people have to compete for the same attention as Random Guy On YouTube #337917402. The playing field has been leveled—these behemoth "journalistic" establishments have to compete for the same attention-scraps as everyone else. "Journalists" are not special anymore, they're just the same as everyone else with a smartphone (so, everyone else), yet it seems many struggle to accept this, judging by many comments here and elsewhere.
Photogrammetry isn't really about stereoscopy, it's about building a dense point cloud representation based on many images from different angles, then transforming that to a mesh (and often mapping the textures from photos onto it).

You can also do point cloud with lidar from drones, just tends to be more expensive and heavier - https://enterprise.dji.com/news/detail/how-lidar-is-revoluti...
Google and Fwupd Sitting in a Tree
I really like the idea of automating this whole process. While not generic to publishing to pypi, I was playing around with this process in a toy repo I have, where it builds a Rust/Python package, creates a release on Github if I bump the version number, build the package and publishes it on Pypi.

It probably not the cleanest way to do it, but I liked having it "spelled out" in steps manually to play around and learn more about how to do this.

You can see my workflow in the toy repo here: https://github.com/ikornaselur/img-utils/blob/master/.github...
President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, rapes and kills 15 boys in Buffalo, NY on January 10, 2019. Full audio of this right here.

//Full audio of the event from 10Jan2019. Download the mp3 and put on headphones, and turn the volume all the way up.

10JanCh3_1255-1557.mp3

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18lTt_YKFEtsV6YDNzXFVQYLkStY...

This is audio of the President, Donald J. Trump, demanding a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to “take a blind eye” on January 3, 2019. Trump becomes one on January 14, 2019. Also, here is the big reason the major networks do not report any of it.

//Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Note: there is not much to see in the video, the audio is picked up from another [illegal surveillance] system. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am:

3JanCh3_900-1100.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77...

//President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, rapes and kills his first boy at 6:32am. Video link below:

14JanCh3_600.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJ...

14JanCh2_600-700.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJ...

//On January 18, 2019 at 8:31am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below:

18JanCh3_725-.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4Two...

//The major reason this has not been reported by the major news networks is right here. Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo on January 14th, 2019 at 5:00am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00am. Muir starts around 5:15am, then Holt about 5:38am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp & Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below:

14JanCh3_500-601.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX...

14JanCh2_530-600.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1...

Adding to the reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS & Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves rape boys following the President.

14JanCh3_700.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa...

14JanCh2_700-800.avi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY...

//Thiss is the tip of the ice berg.

//Full 89 page PDF [updated 16Nov]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ...

//This post will be censored when this account logs off, the posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ...
How many people have leaky toilette that they can easily fix to lower the impact of higher fees?

vs.

How many people are living on the margins and that extra $10 represents the last meal to get to the end of the month?
You are clearly someone seeing in black and white. There's shade of grays too, you know?

> Any sign of inconvenience and efficiency be damned.

Nope, not any signs... just that if you can build more with less time, in exchange of a bit of CPU efficiency, it's not so bad.

> Why do we even bother trying to fix environment.

For the future. You see, my program using a bit more RAM or CPU won't change much. Not eating that meat, that will change quite a bit, thus that's one of the things I do.

A software can allow people to be many orders in magnitudes more efficient, if I can build more of them, it allows even more people to be a few orders of magnitude more efficient. The power usage afterward, fit in the error margin quite well.
Fascinating question. My mother ran a day care from our home, so almost certainly above what is the norm, though i wouldn't describe it as particularly noisy/rambunctious.
...so to solve that, you would put this stuff on the ground so that shit slips easily into the nearest river?
It's naive to think the NY Times as an entity is not ultimately responsible for all writing its journalists do. Management hires journalists whose agenda and ideals match their own. Management sets the editorial vision both explicitly and implicitly. This is how all media organizations work.

It's completely legitimate to hold NY Times management accountable here.
Yep, sorry, but at the very least destroying your employer's property... I mean, do I have to spell it out.
That's a rather bleak, mechanistic view of society.

Journalism provides information, without which voters are unable to make decisions any better than random chance. Democracy cannot function in the absence of information.

Here, specifically, the NYT is contributing to the public's knowledge of the effects of the tax cut: people were promised expanding businesses investments as an outcome of letting them keep all those billions. This not happening should inform peoples' willingness to try that strategy again.
That isn't at all the logical conclusion. You're projecting your dislike of religion and ironically being just as dogmatic in your dismissal. They were responding to the TLC poster saying they threw away a piece of machinery just because it was loud and they didn't see anyone using it. Given that characterization, would you say they were acting out of curiosity? Curiosity would be asking people what it was for before throwing it away - which is what the parable implores.
I thought I was the only one! I think it's impossible for me not to wince when hearing the noise of a marker against regular paper, and I also really hate the sound of pieces of paper rubbing together.
Ross Kemp did an excellent documentary about the rise of piracy in Nigeria that investigated the motives of the pirates. It actually ended up being about how the rise of massive pollution from oil companies, enabled by government corruption, destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerian villagers who no longer could fish or grow crops.

We can't get off of our oil addiction fast enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjGl8CLjKh0
Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools
The problem is that they don’t have the perceived credibility of the NYT because the NYT pretends not to be a for-profit corporation.
Ordinary crime-ridden or gang-heavy neighborhoods aren't "no-go zones", areas where the police are reluctant to enter because of the danger. "Wait!" you say. "Didn't the news tell me that 'no-go zones' in Europe are a myth?" Ask Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-police/fr... about those supposedly nonexistent no-go zones. Or The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-terror-... :

>Brice De Ruyver, who spent eight years as security adviser to then-Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, said Molenbeek suffers from a cocktail of problems. “Youths are poorly educated, attracted by petty crime, have run-ins with police, and then there is a vicious circle, which leads to recruitment by radical groups,” he said, adding that the problems are now so serious, that it is hard to find police willing to bother tackling them.

>“We don’t officially have no-go zones in Brussels, but in reality, there are, and they are in Molenbeek.”

The Los Angeles Times disagreed with the harsh description http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-paris-attack-molen... of Molenbeek, but the funny thing is it did so only by favorably compararing it with the French banlieus! That well-known right-wing rag The New Republic agreed https://newrepublic.com/article/120714/charlie-hebdo-attack-... regarding the banlieus, as did The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-other-franc... . (I highly recommend the last, by the way.)

The US has the likes of Detroit, Chicago ("Chiraq"), etc. In none of those places, however—not during the worst of the "Fort Apache" years in the South Bronx in the 1970s, or South Central during the crack epidemic in the 1980s—did the police refuse to enter them, and thankfully they are all better than they used to be. That doesn't mean that these European neighborhoods are worse than the South Bronx c. 1975, but it does mean that the police in those places have overtly or implicitly made a decision regarding them and their own safety.
I like thinking of it as waste, as opposed to bad. Good-bad is the moral realm. Waste is the realm of practicality. The danger is in causing defensiveness, due to judgment, in people whose open-mindedness would be beneficial. I'm not being apologetic of anyone. It's just that this doesn't have to happen through a dramatic conflict of good v. evil (which probably wouldn't work anyway); there are much better alternatives.

I agree with everything you said. Just wanted to stack my rant on yours there.
Well, they're back now. Ryzen stomps Intel's latest, from what I hear
Ok i will try to seach for it once i get to my home laptop. I thought it was more of a marketing thing than any something backed up scientifically.

Is is scientifically studied?
It depends from one form to other and sensitivity of data. Our company has developed a product to transform data from pdfs (electronic & non-machine readable files) for financial services. To meet the needs of customers, we have developed parsers for bank statements, loan/lease agreements, valuation reports and portfolio analysis.
There are 20% of the documents that are scanned and require OCRs to be trained for different fonts. We wrote about challenges with currents OCRs: https://medium.com/zodhana/modern-day-challenges-with-docume...
Don’t style it, let the user agent use the appropriate style.

Don’t animate it, let the user agent use the appropriate animation.
break_the_bank -- what's the best email to reach out
The problem is that perpetrators are not as stereotypical as people assume-- it's not the registered offender down the street, it's not the creepy guy in aviators living out of the panel van. "To Catch A Predator" really fucked up the public's perception of abuse perpetrators.

It's almost always the victim's parent/caretaker or other close relation-- but they always "seem totally normal" so nobody wants to believe it's happening and will excuse or look past all sorts of shitty behavior that, if it were performed by some random, would elicit disgust and antipathy and cause them to be run out of town.

I'm currently dealing with an abuse case. The family is uncooperative because they don't believe the evidence presented, and the victim has been coached into protecting the perpetrator. So the abuse will continue.
Untangling the Service Mesh
It’s another word for mirror and has cool vintage/steampunk/Victorian associations so it’s going to be used by a lot of different people.
Banks. Maybe some hedge funds or prop trading shops, but mostly banks.