skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the US is by far the worst at this because it allows lobbying and political influence through donations.

In most other democratic countries this is illegal.

It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that lobbying just means "reaching out to politicians about an issue and educating them about it."

Lobbying wouldn't be such a problem and corporations wouldn't have such unshaken influence on politicians compared to the People, if that was all there was to it.

But it's not just that - it's about those companies making "donations" to politicians that will then be much easier to "convince" to vote their way.

Watch this video if you aren't convinced, which is just a nice visual presentation of a study that was done and found out that what People want doesn't matter, but what corporations want has a direct correlation to how politicians vote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

Also, I remember when one Congressman said post-SOPA that the anti-SOPA petitions made by people and all the calls were nice and all, but it wasn't until Google and other big companies got involved that politicians started really listening and many changed their minds on the vote.
Easy to say. But I'd be hesitant to invite a lawsuit from a company with infinite money, a predatory attitude to their users, and a proven willingness to spend arbitrary sums of money to maintain their quasi-monopoly.
hehe tower defense was the reason i wanted this!

Can you dropbox just those recommendations to me?
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IANAL. I'm also assuming this was an HTTP client library.

How could this possibly be a violation of copyright, if it's just a client that accesses their API? Their API is not truly "private," just undocumented. If you distribute a free app that calls a remote API over users' networks, you can't make the case that it's private, because it's clearly accessible from every network/connection/device. Something exposed to the public cannot simultaneously be private.

At least, maybe the author's lawyer could argue the above in court.

Among many things I hate about the DMCA, it's that hosts have basically no option other than to respond to takedown requests by actually taking down the content in question, for fear of litigation. It just rubs me the wrong way.
>This is how evolution works on genomes, and basically rules out genetic engineering, since researchers would perform specific localized changes to specific proteins, or contiguous insertions of genetic material from evolutionarily distant sources.

Honest question: if this is common knowledge of people in the field, why wouldn't people genetically engineering a virus (and trying to hide it) do so in a fashion to make it look more like evolution in the genomes? Is that not possible to do?
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Generally speaking no I do not believe they should, however we would need to agree on what the right to privacy actually is.

For example I support the 5th amendment of the US Constitution and would even expand up on it to bar the government from forcing anyone to testify on any manner not just from self incrimination.

I also reject the current jurisprudence around the 3rd party doctrine.
So the new engagement ring diamond will be a piece of glass with a bitcoin wallet containing 1+ BTC microetched on it?
Some sites make you turn off every ad partner individually!

And it’s not individual sites going rogue. It’s clearly a box from an ad network. Not sure how you haven’t come across these.
Maybe the last part should also be included? The last reply is "yes, but I will write a pm about it". This is the answer to the statement about there being two interigations if she creates a new one.

Maybe we can request that PM?
Love it. Good job.
I actually felt more emotions than while playing some AAA games.
You obviously never wrote TypeScript with strict flag turned on. It does control flow analysis, not just typo checking.
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People actually carry large sums in many places where credit cards aren't prevalent. Like Japan.
Yes but it still happens all the time!

Some of them are inactive consent too. ‘By continuing to use the site, we own your soul’ etc
The syntax nostalgically reminds me of CoffeeScript, one of my favorite languages.
There are only 2 sane strategies:

- Ignore them and despise people arguing on the web while you build yourself a better life.

- Laugh at them and possibly feed the troll for more fun, but it gets boring and youll get back to strategy 1.

We live in a clown world where too many people spend 90 percent on their screens receiving information from strangers instead of living a normal life. Plus the more opinionated people are on the web, the more they have nothing actually going on in their life.. its like the same fact that all psychologist are people whith poor mental healt who went into this branch hoping they would understand themselves. The louders someone is about a subject......

Do you really want to invest time into policing this clown world ?

If you are not convinced just go in flat earth group on facebook. Youll understand that "dont argue with pigs, youll get dirty and the pig loves it"
Exactly, DAs and prosecutors in this country have WAY to much leeway to:

1. Make a huge mistake (failing to immediately drop the charge)

2. Brush it under the rug (do nothing)

3. When caught pressing a nonsense charge with no good explanation, change the charges to something else unilaterally (!!)

4. When finally pressured enough by the public, drop the charges entirely.

This case should result in D.A. / prosecutor review. The cops have an excuse but this person does not. There is no room for ego like this when people’s lives are on the line. Being charged with a crime would ruin most anyone’s life for anywhere between a few days and many years, they need to be much more careful than this.
The problem is in the details.

When openssl has a bug, who notices, decides, installs the new package and restarts all the dependent services?

That person or group has the actual control over your personal cloud server. And it's more efficient, and thus cheaper, if they are a large scale organization. Once again it will be more attractive to most people to centralize.
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>On the flip side, I've seen lots of "experts" chime in and say things that prove to be wrong.

If you go back and read about any newsworthy event there are experts getting it wrong.
Sure, but money shouldn't be exchanged throughout this process. That should be explicitly illegal. As would any other way to influence the politician (offering jobs, etc).

Do hearings, have technical staff to consult you on issues, etc, instead.
Now facebook developers' app approval is so hard. I submit 6 times to review and every time reviewer point a mistake. I'm building for a tool that sets up a third party API gateway for your 3rd party applications APIs. https://nocodeapi.com
Is this legally a legitimate reason for a DMCA request? That it's a tool that could be used to bypass copyright controls?

It's been a long time since I read it, but my understanding of the DMCA is that you need to claim an actual copyright violation on the thing being taken down. This sounds like a claim of contributory copyright infringement, which a) I don't remember being covered by DMCA, and b) there's a reasonable claim here for substantial non-infringing use, so I'm not sure contributory copyright infringement really applies.
What a beautiful website.
You do not need 100% automation. What you need is a systematic approach to handling problems followed by fixing the root cause.

Runbooks came from techops in broadcasting, power plant operations, etc where there was a clear division between operators who pushed buttons, ran cables, etc and those that made decisions about buttons to push and cables to run. Dumb hands + runbooks created "smart hands".

If your SRE runs like that it is not SRE.

Look at the incident handling:

1. Identify the issue

2. Implement a workaround to restore the service

3. Identify the root cause

4. Implement a fix for the root cause

5. Remove the workaround

Runbooks cover 1. and 2.
Oh, yep I guess it is there. Seems like it could be a little more prominent, since this is basically just their dataset, with some filtering and ads (and a more confusing representation of the score).
India is predicted to be #3 by 2050, almost equaling the US:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/the-wor...
I used this playing with a Lapis project years ago. It very much fit the zeitgeist in the wake CoffeeScript's popularity. Although usable, it feels a bit dated now and a product of its time. The zeitgeist now requires static typing.
That's a nice way to get legal problems with one of the biggest companies in the world.
When I first landed on this web page, I could read exactly 1 line of the article before closing all the popups:

https://imgur.com/a/HcKD7cX
>For more recent, though more vague, evidence that China may not share the same views on handling extremely dangerous pathogens as the rest of the world, we have this story from July 2019, wherein a Chinese researcher working in one of Canada's BS-4 labs, along with her husband who was a SARS researcher, as well as several students she brought over from China to work with her, were all given the boot over unspecified "administrative matters".

She (and her husband) are both Canadian researchers who happens to be Chinese. She shipped Ebola and henipavirus samples with "all appropriate precautions" as part of "routine" sharing program according to National Microbiology Laboratory. They suspended her non-salaried appointments during current investigation, her students, some of whom were Chinese nationals, were reassigned. The IP concern was a Chinese Mabworks company was developing the experimental and patented ebola drug ZMapp which she worked on without authorization.
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Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption
There's TypedLua for this I suppose.
Transparency, I guess.

(feels like sarcasm just experienced an integer overflow, or perhaps not)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1129381/ here's a research paper on them. They were in really rough shape for a hit but did survive. It's a fascinating read.
>And if you’ve been watching closely, this is a very well funded campaign, that has been very active for the past 3 years.

I would love to hear more about this "well funded" campaign to smear China's reputation. Are conspiracies only "far-fetched" when the don't align with your beliefs?
Inferior to what? The only other hardware wallet with large market share?

Have a look at this:
https://saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/breaking-ledger-security...
taking full advantage of ADTs
What? There is no clean way to switch on the types of an ADT on typescript, I believe.
The good thing about playing to fashion is that you just have to wait for things to cycle.
I love moonscript, it makes lua feel so much more usable for me. Admittedly, I'm mostly only using it for convenience in configuring apps(such as my WM¹/video player²/etc).

If you want to see a large-ish example of what you can do with moonscript the howl editor³ is a great example. It is also a nice extensible editor in its own right, including a very usable vi mode.

1. https://awesomewm.org/

2. https://mpv.io/

3. https://howl.io/
There was a post on here a couple of weeks ago that spoke about this. Essential reading for indiehackers imo http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html
You haven’t explained why lobbyists are necessary, or even a good thing. Why is a system allowing lobbying better than one that bans it in favor of politicians independently making decisions based on the will expressed by and likely benefits for their constituents? And please don’t say it’s hard for them to understand all the issues. That’s literally their job and the reason they have a staff.
That would be wrong battle to fight first. Pick one special-purpose market it can win and take that. Rinse, repeat.

Dog knows IoT needs something a lot better than Linux to run on; fat flabby old-school hacker-culture footguns are absolutely not an option when smart tech is being built into everything and everyone. That tech must be small, hard, absolutely focused, and take ZERO shit from NO-ONE; starting with itself.

Remember, the only code which can be 100% guaranteed impossible to compromise is code that isn’t there. Today’s Linux kernel is around 20 MILLION LOC, and counting. No prizes for figuring what any competing product’s USP must be.

..

“General-purposeness” designed into the product at the start enables it to adapt to each new market quicker and easier, but it shouldn’t be a public selling point in itself. Because the moment you start pitching it as being “everything to everyone”, everyone wants to throw their own crap into it as well—and you’re back to building ”another Linux”, in a market that already has a resident Linux and no room or need for another. Think smart. Don’t covet all the things that Linux does well and try to replicate those. Instead, identify the things Linux doesn’t do well (and CAN’T ever do well because of why and how it’s built) and knock those balls clean out of the park.

Think about how Steve Jobs finally beat Microsoft at its own game. Not by building a better PC, but by fundamentally redefining what “Personal Computing” means; and then being first to market with the perfect product for that.
This is why many music apps use ASIO drivers that skip Windows audio. ASIO is awful in many ways, but latency is not one of them.
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It can be a large economy, in part because there are 1.3bn inhabitants, but my point is that people consume services provided by Indian companies largely because they are cheap.
>The actual work felt like it provided no real value to society

A sign of a broken system that needs urgent repair. Most financial jobs, hft, adtech jobs... We have our best minds working on things that do not provide any useful value to society. This is not a good state of affairs.
“Squawkzilla”: world's largest parrot, now extinct, stood up to 1m tall
Awesome! I love this tool. What were you doing all these days.
> And CloudFront costs pennies compared to Dynamo and Lambda...

The website actually is fronted by CloudFront.
Nope, ualberta
I don't have a MBP 16, but a late 2015 MBP and an iMac of the same age. My MBP can be completely silent or annoyingly noisy, depending on a lot of factors. Generally, it seems to get noisy even when being relatively idle, if the room temperature goes beyond approx. 23C. Below that it stays silent unless loaded, above that, even small loads create constant fain noise.
Interestingly, my iMac has roughly the same behavior, hinting to a common design parameter of the cooling systems.

With load, of course the activity monitor is the friend. Far too often, web pages manage to put load on the machine, even if they appear to be idle. In firefox, use the task manager to find the biggest offenders. Sometimes just reloading them reduces the load.

One big influence factor unfortunately not shown in the activity monitor is the GPU load. Just plugging an external 4k screen into my MBP causes the fans to spin up. This is also a good reason for web pages to create fan noise
I use OpenWRT on a Linksys WRT3200ACM. It has a dual core ARMv7 cpu running at 1.8GHz, with 512MB of memory. It does very well, in my opinion.

My PC with an Intel Wireless-AC 9260 has the following network connection, reported by the OpenWRT interface: "400.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 2, Short GI 400.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 2, Short GI"

My work 2018 Macbook Pro gets the following: "540.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 3 600.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 3, Short GI"

Mine and my wife's LG V40 Android phones get this reported speed: "400.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz, VHT-MCS 9, VHT-NSS 2, Short GI 6.0 Mbit/s, 40MHz"

Not sure if there's any extra information I can provide. I'm not affiliated with Linksys.
This is about Section 1201, one of the most interesting parts of the DMCA, which is about banning circumvention devices. What is confusing me is that I am under the impression that the DMCA "takedown" process (which I know quite little about, to be fair) was unrelated to the anti-trafficking provisions (which I do stare at a lot), so I don't think this is a valid request (even if it were a valid lawsuit... though I frankly doubt that either as I don't think an "access token" can be considered an "effective TPM").

(I am not a lawyer, but I spend an unreasonable amount of my time staring at Section 1201 issues; if anyone needs legal advice they should contact a lawyer: nothing I say should possibly be construed as legal advice.)
May I ask why you find yourself semi-unemployable? I'm in kind of a similar position as the OP in that I have a significant nest egg so that even if I spend a few years derping around and failing at a bunch of things, I figure that I just need to stop before that nest egg gets anywhere near dangerously low and go back to looking for freelance or consulting work, even at lower rates, should that become necessary to survive. I'm asking about your situation in case there are other pitfalls I need to be wary of.
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Laravel Spark[0]. It costs $99 to get a license for a site/$299 for unlimited sites, but then you are pretty much set.

0: https://spark.laravel.com
You don't need to use groups since ACLs:

setfacl -R \
-m d:u:user1:rwx -m u:user1:rwx \
-m d:u:user2:rwx -m u:user2:rwx \
/home/shared

d:u: sets the default user ACL for future directory entries

u: sets the current user ACL for existing directory entries

-R sets the ACLs recursively on existing files
Thats exactly what people said of China 15 years ago. Just a bunch of factories good for cheap knockoffs, not a place for high quality stuff. Now they have Tencent, Baidu, Huawei etc and a #2 spot in the global economy.
First rule of hacking ...

Learn about your context.
I‘m not surprised at all. I remember countless discussions on Hacker News about the disappearance of the file system and how younger generations simply don‘t understand the concepts of files, folders and their hierarchy. I’d put URLs in the very same category of slowly fading and disappearing concepts, which is unfortunate and worrying in my opinion.
There's going to be constraints to this approach. There are limits to how many individuals a politician can meet with.

Also, without know the specific details of the policy change we can't know how to value this approach.
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I have no idea about Apple specifically but I've heard similar tales about other large tech companies. It seems endemic to our industry for some reason (maybe its also endemic to other industries, but I wouldn't know).
> when you actually try to present the new solution to the organisation, you will face resistance. People don't like change.

This struggle is real. People also don't understand that software development is a process of continuous optimisation, learning and improvement. They won't accept a good solution only a perfect one.
Might it be "living by the code"?: https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/living-by-the-code
It's not first case, Popcorn Times was taken down from Github because it "is designed to allow an unlimited number of users to fulfill the unlawful purpose".

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2016/2016-03-16-M...
Thanks for the feedback. I will fix it based on your suggestions.
Use a different data source?

Shouldn’t have Saudi listed as anything other than “Do not travel” or you are giving people dangerously bad info!
So this is like CoffeeScript that transpiles to JavaScipt?

Does anyone know if I can use the generated Lua in Redis?
Thanks, I'm adding lot's of applications and here are the list you can find them https://nocodeapi.com/marketplace
BCI wire that lets you replay a stream of thoughts and emotions the poster had while they were writing the post or recording the video.
You'd still need to file taxes in India right?
Oof. Well I hope that this episode has a positive outcome in that OpenWRT improve their install and packaging security.
> So we end up with chemicals for things like aphids when ants will eat them all up for you.

The ants species I know of "milk" aphids for their sugary excretion, and as a counter service, protect aphids from their predators (such as ladybugs). It's... complicated. I agree with you that chemicals shouldn't be the first thing to reach for. It's interesting to try to find out how we got into this situation in the first place. The book Seeing like a State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State) has some interesting (but opiniated, in my opinion) notes on disastrous (on many axes - socially, economically, ecologically, ...) modernist agricultural reform programs that took place in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia in the second half of the 20th century — a region much affected by these locust clouds.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I built it as there was no such tool to look up any countries gay travel laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...

It's probably one of the adjacent buildings.
So... One superbowl ad?
Coronavirus Contains “HIV Insertions”: Claims of Artificially Created Bioweapon
It feels like it calculates area inside line vs outside line, with some arbitrary bounds to set it to 0. But not sure
It misidentifies Macau as a "developing" region, despite having one of the highest HDI in the world.
This is based on 2019 report. I will update it on my site. Thanks mate!
I love everything about MoonScript except for that damn backslash. I think it's much nicer to use than Lua, but it still bugs me, bikeshedding be damned. The asymmetry, the fact that no other language (that I know of) uses it for a similar purpose, just the look of it in between text...

I once came close to trying to create a near-identical fork of the project which changed the backslash to something else, but I figured it'd be pretty pointless. I know I'm definitely not the only one who dislikes it, at least.
Internet wasn't made for this, it was a resilient serious information distributed system. WWW added hypertext convenience on top of it. Only post web2.0 shifted toward business first approach
Mathematicians Solve Long-Standing 42 Problem
A couple possible issues, mostly inherent to magnetic connectors like this:

* attracts everything magnetic and mettalic, not just the connector - need to be careful no to attract to many metal turnings, washers, etc.
* the number of contact points & the quality of contact might not be enough for high speed communication
* the contact pads/pins might be more exposed than normal connectors, so more likely to be damaged or accumulate dirt
The 'Green Book' is back? Useful if accurate, but a sad commentary as well.
Thanks for pointing it out, I have updated it.