skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite butchering of a show due to external license rights is Beavis and Butthead. My guess is that during their original run on MTV, MTV possessed the rights to air the videos, and the show never acquired those rights. Given the sheer number of videos the series must have gone through, I don't hold out much hope for ever having a complete set, short of piracy.

Hilariously, or sadly, depending on your point of view, box sets of the series say things like "Complete Episodes!" which is technically true, if you consider the episode to be only the non-video content, but the episodes were also largely about B&B saying stupid things while sitting on the couch watching videos.
Noted, thanks.

Also, I believe you're right. I've experienced both sides.
Being mad about the past (and PG&E did bad things in the past) doesn't have any bearing on what they're doing now.

Their equipment is poorly maintained. Fire risk is high. What do you want them to do, keep running power in high risk areas, cause more fires, and go more bankrupt? CA taxpayers pay either way, either more disruption from power outages or more property destruction.

Note I'm talking operationally. Clawing back money from executives and dissolving the company are not operational changes that address the risky equipment and dangerous conditions. Neither of those will address this year's or next year's problems, and that $100 million would pay for burying at most about 50 miles of transmission lines.

As far as disabling the automatic reclosers, maybe they should, but I'm going to take a wild guess that that they don't do that for a reason, and not just that they are being stupid. Perhaps those breakers are tripped so frequently that not reclosing them automatically would lead to massive outages anyway, and those would be unplanned outages which would be more difficult for people to handle.

Nobody is talking about letting them off the hook. They're in bankruptcy court and judge Alsup is taking things seriously. But being mad and assigning penalties isn't going to fix the fires or the blackouts any time soon. It would have been good years ago to dig through PG&E's financials and get mad years about their misuse of maintenance funds, but nobody did that, or at least nobody got sufficiently mad if they did. It's too late to be mad about prior malfeasance once a disaster materializes.

Actual solutions would be to raise rates immediately by a lot, like 50-100%, and pay people starting now to go out and mitigate problems (clear vegetation) and start to coordinate repairs. Every $.01 (per kWh) rate increase generates $6 million per day assuming an average of 25,000 MW and no usage-based pricing (and completely inelastic demand). 25e6 kW times 24h times $.01/kWh
So EU companies are allowed to ignore GDPR, as it's just used to shoo away US companies?
If we are to trust Apple on the claim that they are a platform and not a publisher, removing for an editorial reason like this put their claim in doubt and I don't think they have the leeway you describe here as a platform.

If Apple is now a publisher with editorial control, why would anyone trust them as a middleman to their customer base? Seems risky.
Depends in what country they reside, for the designation at least.
The OpenStack project faced a similar problem a few years back, they produced Zuul[1] to solve the problem. I can't compare it to what Shopify produced, but Zuul is absolutely worth a look when it comes to solving large scale, high throughput, must always be green CI.

The linked page explains the speculative execution aspect, used to ensure every change is tested before merge, with the true state of master at the time of merge despite that state being different than it was when the CI run started ;)

[1]: https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/user/gating.html
Perhaps it is time for the citizens of the Western liberal democracies to stop doing business with Chinese interests.
Stealing resources? How do you steal that which is given away for free?
I think people are a little frustrated with your replies in this thread because it seems like you're pushing back hard against even relatively mild criticisms of Apple's behavior like "they should at least be clear about the reasons for the suspension." Assuming Rambo's describing what's happened here correctly, Apple isn't even being clear about whether the account is suspended at all, they're just saying "we'll look into it and get back to you," and then failing to do so.

When you had to take a moderation action against someone, you didn't just lock them out of their account with no explanation as to why and ignore any request for clarification, right?
Facebook pretends to be GDPR compliant because they have to.
Obviously, they're not. Try downloading your data. Try deleting your account. It's all really iffy.

Of course they'll say they're compliant. They have to to be able to operate. But they are not. They are operating illegally within the EU and they should be shut down.
Ugh. Some guys take that technique too far and destroy cabling. I had some teams do this with power cables we rented out and they could take a 50ft coil of 4/0 copper cable and turn it into a kinked, broken mess with that technique and it always messed with our coil process that worked much like other users mentioned.

A lot of teamsters, gaffers, and grips did not like having to carry a 50lb cable further than they had to so many loved they could lay the cable down, pick up one end, and walk with it to the junction in order to lay them. (Temporary power, I mean).

As the one responsible for the department looking after that gear, those figure-eight cables were a nightmare because we'd have the prime experience of re-wrapping them all so that we could store them. That caused a time-pinch when we had to handle intake and loadouts at the same time.

I don't do that work anymore, but it's personal hahaha
And it seems others were thinking the same way: 'After you won the Turing Award, a comment appeared online saying, “Why did she get this award? She didn’t do anything that we didn’t already know.”'

This is not only distasteful but false.

First, modules in Modula were primarily about scope not abstraction.

Liskov pioneered a core aspect of abstraction which, among other things, allows modules to rely on abstract interfaces rather than their implementations (or a type or class rather than its subtypes or subclasses).

Abstraction only works reliably if any provably true property of a type is also provably true about its subtype.

Want to learn more? You’ll find it referenced in the literature as the Liskov Substitution Principle.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=197320.197383
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Decades ago, I talked with someone close to the government side of the negotiations with Hollywood which resulted in the copyright term extension act of 1976. They were perhaps a bit defensive. But they claimed the act as a success. A success in damage control. Because, roughly, "you should have seen the crazy <bleep> Hollywood wanted". And in the decades since, year after incremental year, we have.
china already has her own internet ecosystem. Russia has VK,yandex,mail.ru etc. EU has nothing

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CN

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/RU

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/DE
I don't see anyone here that really knows anything about the situation. Just because a hundred people have speculations here doesn't make it fact; it's completely possible that he just failed to sign a Brazilian legal form or something.
Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Create “The World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”
The scientific side of economics is the description of the properties and behavior of economics systems. The political side is what we should do with this information. I think I and the sources I've cited have kept largely to the former, and I'm the only one in the comment chain to at least throw up a graph. Call it what you want, but we should be able to make observations on systems. At the very least it's a step up from say, pointing out that a source comes from libertarians.
Put your foot down and explain calmly you'll fire them (discontinue contract) if they don't deliver work as expected. No point arguing cultural differences of $country IMHO.
Your comment seems very anti-intellectual, which is surprising to find on HN. Academics do not need to live in a place in order to study it rigorously.

Not being blasé, but the rust-belt is the trade-off for globalization. The US asked the rest of the world to open up their markets for American goods and services and promised to do the same.
Anyone interested in this would do well to watch Burnt by the Sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_by_the_Sun
Where do you think the jobs in the rust belt came from?

The same thing happened to artisan economies with factories during modernization, yet people didn't decry the loss of the local blacksmith when the rust belt took over their jobs too.

The transition from local to city to regional to global specialization is a natural effect of economies of scale. Trying to freeze economic development and preserve the status quo is like trying to push water uphill.
Wouldn't blocking the tv's MAC from the router solve this problem along with blocking any data collection as well?
Slight typo there: "thousands of km per second", you probably meant "thousands of meters per second". Low orbit is on the order of 7-8 km/s. I did find the typo humorous.
Some people downvoting you may be lacking skills to detect that this, even if partly true, is a joke. For me it was good.
> Is it a vanishingly small number or is it one that you can't honestly track because you're not actually investigating on a per case basis?

The problem is this data is not tracked. Internally, an organization would say: Moderation was performed > Moderation was Investigated > $outcome, being either: Correct/Incorrect. But because of the he said/she said factor, if it was wrong, the person is reinstated, and they wouldn't be complaining about it. If it wasn't, that person would then, as is the case of the OP, be posting on their own blog or whatever complaining about it. The point being: those complaining about being kicked out are a self-selected group of people who were kicked out who believe Apple was incorrect in their decision. The others aren't talking about it because it's already resolved for them.

Who's right? Who knows. Even the GP comment we're all replying to conveys information, relevant, that the poster of the blog post decided to omit from their recounting of the events. Information which would prove Apple's actions correct. I don't know if Apple was right to ban him, but the fact that the first reply makes mention of documented instances of the developer breaking the ToS is interesting, since said developer made no mention of it themselves. It certainly dings their credibility as far as I'm concerned.

> The alternative is to... maybe not be super unfriendly and unhelpful when your account gets terminated? Maybe issue a warning first stating when and how you're violating a rule so you have a chance to correct it?

You do. Failing an app review, for example, does not lead to account termination. You're given explicit notes on what's wrong with the app, what you're doing that Apple doesn't like, and the only "consequence" of that is that your new code doesn't go live yet. You're given exactly that: time to fix it.

In the case of the GP though, if we assume this is correct and this person was using their developer access to publish information about upcoming Apple products ahead of their release curve, which is indeed against the ToS, then there's no way to have them "fix" that. They're abusing their privileged access in a way Apple doesn't want. Therefore, revoking that access is the logical next step.

Basically my thinking is this: If you agree to be bound by terms of use, and then do one of the things explicitly disallowed in those terms of use, you forfeit your right to whatever agreeing to those terms of use enabled you to do: in this case, developer account access.
Why is the military purchasing products that they aren't allowed to fix. They should make that a condition of sale. They are the military. They have financial leverage.

I wonder how many of our troops are being harmed or killed because the equipment paid for by our tax money is not in working order.

They NYT should ask those leading the military why they are signing contracts that don't absolutely require that the military be able to fix the equipment that they purchase.
Are you positive they aren't contributing anything upstream?
Not only are they not a monopoly, Apple doesn't even have the highest market share in the mobile space. (It's Samsung.)
So we're going to break the law instead, great defense for how Apple is evil when you are, in fact, pirating their software. Haha.....
Mostly she is known for the Liskov substitution principle (LSP), contravariance of argument types and covariance of the return type.
Many OO languages/designers still don't get that right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle

"FUNCTIONS THAT USE POINTERS OR REFERENCES TO BASE
CLASSES MUST BE ABLE TO USE OBJECTS OF DERIVED CLASSES
WITHOUT KNOWING IT." - https://web.archive.org/web/20151128004108/http://www.object...
Yes but by definition restricted to the web.
Will they be sticking with x86? They seem like one of the few companies that could get away with releasing a POWER line.
I have refused as well.

My users and I lose by buying Apple products.

I weep that Apple has entrenched themselves into the tech ecosystem. They take advantage of the least educated users fear and outright lie about security and product quality.

Is there anything we can do?
Exactly. Don't give them the budget but expect them to do it anyway.
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Especially as then Orwell's "1984" was around the corner.
I feel like you're confusing movie theatres with DVDs. DVD regions were _all_ about market segmentation and affordability as opposed to release dates.
Yeah, I know that, just wanted to point out that war between two comparable armies hasn’t changed that much between the 1980s and now, hell, hasn’t changed that much since WW2 and now (even though now I have the slight impression that tanks are not as well seen as during WW2, though I might be wrong on that). OP was suggesting going into battle War of Crimea-style, which would be a recipe for pointless slaughter.
"Piracy" has very little actual meaning, it's just a negative metaphor. Smuggling things across the border that you aren't meant to have works better with the metaphor than making copies for personal use.
What's stopping Ubuntu from just taking back the parts of Pop!_OS they want? Assuming they actually want anything from Pop!_OS to begin with.

To address your original point, I suspect it's more expensive and slower (at least, in the short term) to add features to someone else's distro than to fork it and keep building it out yourself.
i use firefox on android, mostly because of adblocking, and the number of broken websites on firefox is not small, the menu on the mobile website of my bank does not work in firefox.

it's shit and i consider changing banks because of that (and other things).
Porsche announces Taycan electric car production delays
Still, sharing cookies across subdomains is a pretty common workflow.
>I remember when the insistence was on number pads, and how dare they be removed from our laptops and desktop keyboards.

I remember when laptops didn't typically have number pads. I rue the day when almost everyone started putting them on laptops larger than 14". I feel "off center" with them on a laptop. With a desktop keyboard, I just shift the keyboard to the right a bit so the traditional keys are centered and the number keypad is off to the right.

16:9 ratio is another bugger for me. Between 16:9 and number pads on laptops, I'm an odd man out. It's tough when my preferences aren't mainstream. I'm also a lefty, so there's that.
What was the reason(s) the lines weren't buried in the first place?

PG&E was too busy spending its income on cash bonuses, dividends, and stock buybacks. It really is just a matter of money.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/pge-underground-power...
> The copy was notably worse than the original, and if you copied a copy and copied a copy pretty quickly the sync signals would b3e lost.

According to this video[1], it really only starts at around the 6th copy of a copy.

[1] https://www.snotr.com/video/16624/What_happens_when_you_copy...
The nice thing about the BOM is you can't get it accidentally in an ASCII file - all the bytes have the upper bit set but all ASCII characters have that bit as zero. It makes an excellent magic number for that reason. It's probably just as unlikely to come up in other encodings that use the upper bit.
Got it, you are right!
Perhaps you just need to wait longer?
I'm interested in learning leadership skills. Though, I've noticed it's hurting me a bit in my (entry level) job search as leadership skills are not seen as important since they just need you to code.
You make the money back by maintaining a monopoly - essentially the only reason they paid so much for WhatsApp.
Looking at Amazon reviews of it, one of the commenters says it's a rehashing of the 1896 book "Art of Controversy", available online free (public domain).

A quick search online shows an example of it here:

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controv...

Does it seem the same to you?
> Subtract California voters, and the competition's outcome makes perfect sense.

Ah yes. Subtract the most populous state in the union by far, which happens to lean democratic, and suddenly democrats aren't as popular.

Makes perfect sense.
Teaching Yourself to Make Music Software: Steve Duda in Conversation [video]
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Yeah, I bet they're all good boys and girls who couldn't have possibly imagined that all of the secretive ways they go about collecting data could be wrong.
See also: the 90-9-1 rule, aka the 1% Rule

"In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1–9–90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

Point is, there may be a lot of eyes that see that post and are influenced by it, but make no posts or generate no discussion of their own.
I liked how "The Expanse" handled this, portraying New York City as still intact, but surrounded by dikes to protect it from the risen sea level.
That's just the current payment model, but that is orthogonal to the underlying technology. I can imagine a Spotify Free version of Stadia (yes, with ads or other limits) and a Premium all-you-can-play version. Game demos can be replaced by "Play now" buttons on YouTube, literally dropping you into the game in seconds.

What the platform promises is to match the ease of use of YouTube or Netflix. If it can actually deliver on that, I'm sure we'll see a lot of different business takes on the same technology. As someone who started gaming on an Atari and still maintains a top-of-the-line PC, I see a streaming model as inevitable since games need to compete with the Netflixes of the world for your attention. As a new dad, the barrier (timewise) to actually playing something these days is prohibitive, so Netflix wins by default for me when I have an hour.
Yup, agreed.

IANAL, but my impression of the US legal system vs various (continental) Europe legal systems is the former is completely engrossed with the letter of the law while the latter is much more focused on the spirit of the law.

If FB gets shafted in the processs of discovering this fact of life, all the better.
Until people stop patronizing businesses that do that, and choose to patronizes businesses that don't do that, things will not change.
Context: You probably don't know who Steve Duda is unless you're into electronic music production, but you've likely heard music made with his software.
> One material difference I can see between rideshares and a cab is that rideshares are often cheaper

Taxis (at least in Melbourne) used to be uniquely awful for getting home after a night out. They'd make you "prepay" a ridiculous amount like $50 cash for a trip that should have cost $15 and then refuse to give any change at the end of the trip. For the specific set of customers I was in, taxis were more expensive than themselves because they were basically stealing from us.
> We're not going to invade them.

So, that is your opinion. The whole point of having a credible option to use violence, is that one is willing to use it. Otherwise, there is no credibility in the threat, which defeats the entire purpose of peace and security that is backed by the potential use of violence. In that sense, if one misses a court ordered appearance, one shouldn't be surprised to see law enforcement knocking on one's doorstep with the threat of violence for legal non-compliance.

Do black hat cyber attacks constitute an "invasion"? If you say no, then that's what Russia / China is banking on, because they're doing it, and betting that the US won't resort to conventional military use of force in retaliation. Since there's no real threat of painful retaliation, they can continue hacking away with no consequence then?

If you say yes, then you're saying that the US should respond to cyber attacks with conventional military use of force, tanks, planes, boots on ground, etc. because you see cyber attacks as no different than a conventional attack by those countries.

Regardless, the US needs more cyber security professionals and other technical professionals (e.g. machine learning etc.) to help with the defense against these actors, but that's hard to do with all this backlash from techies.
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I can’t. But it was substantial. Like for Tyler, it was life-changing for us.

In many ways.
> You don’t dictate how they run

Isn’t that what I did when my elected representatives pushed GDPR through though?

The reason there are so few successful services with sensible advertising is simple: it’s too easy to fool people to accepting terrible ads that pay more.

I don’t think users should be expected to know how to edit their hosts file to preserve their integrity. Nor do I think they can be expected to read the ToS (get real).

I want regulation to ensure that idiots cannot agree to ToS that endanger their information or integrity. The GDPR and similar laws, if properly enforced, goes a long way towards that. I especially like the idea that access to the service can’t be conditioned on data collection.
It appears that Apple TV is the most privacy focused out of the box option https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/product...

Also I think you might be surprised to learn that ROKU's market cap over $18B and most of that is likely due to their user profiling -- https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/20/17595384/roku-ceo-anthony...
Ask HN: Bio course suggestions for a CS grad in university?
I'm a Masters student in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning. I'm excited about the advances in the field of CS + Bio and want to take some bio courses to learn more. Some of the courses I can think of are - Computational Biology, Drug Discovery. Any other suggestions?

PS: I'm at Georgia Tech, if that helps.
To add to this, it’s important is to realize that even when people open up to you about their problems, that still does not mean that they are asking for advice! It’s very likely that what they primarily want and need from you is sympathy and validation. If you’re unsure, ask first.