skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't suggest we immediately transition to a copyright free world.

True, you didn't say that - but that's kind of what the Internet Archive is doing. I'm definitely in agreement with the position that we should work towards a world where a lending library like they're running is both ethical and legal. I don't think the Internet Archive unilaterally running such a library is a measurable step towards that world, and it also seems to have made a bunch of people who previously only cared about their copyrights in theory (because piracy wasn't significant and so they didn't actually ever think about suits or lawyers) start caring about them in practice, which seems strategically like it gets us farther fro that world.

Re crowdsourced funding - yes, it's very promising and I'm excited about it, but I'm a little hesitant of extrapolating to it making copyright irrelevant. A number of people who produce creative works under Patreon-style models still rely on copyright: they produce works that are available only to paying subscribers, and people who say "this is a zero-marginal-cost product, so I can duplicate it" undermine their ability to get subscribers. Or, in other words, there are some creators who are funded by enthusiastic supporters who would pay either way, and there are some creators who are funded by customers who are still paying to get access to zero-marginal-cost products (except that the mechanics of how they pay is a little different), and these look very similar from the outside.

I'm genuinely glad and excited that the model of enthusiasts funding free software development is working for many people (including you), but free software has historically worked on models different from how book/music/article/video/etc. production has worked. For instance, it's already pretty well established (by Red Hat) that you can make a successful free software company by charging for support. I don't think we've figured out what the equivalent of "charge for support" is for, say, books.
Great submission,I had no idea about the genesis of this physical discipline. Well written and enlightening story.
SD-WAN isn't magic, colud infra is operated by an army of admins and engineers. I knew of plenty traditional admins that moved to work for aws for example. Even on the client end, network consultants become sd-wan optimization consultants, cloud engineers,architects,security,etc...

Things still break and need fixing. Hackers still hack in the cloud and via sd-wan, you still need people to manage and troubleshoot remote sd-wan connectivity or enable devops for your cloud app.

People that won't adopt and move to newer tech and new fields get removed but anyone good at their trade who is willing to learn new tricks will remain in IT. I can tell you that with my limited exposure, it is a big pain to troubleshoot issues with a sd-wan or cloud provider compares to on-prem systems and network, you will need someone on your end that knows your setup, needs and issues to work out projects and problems with them. Before you troubleshot why the latency to your onprem website server was bad and you looked at onprem network gear and local ISP, now you trouboeshoot why your SD-wan access to your site hosted on Azure has high latency and you look at some on prem gear, mostly sdwan infra with their people and cloud infra in the cloud consoe/api and/or with cloud support.
Let's break this down.

What I'm proposing is:

Website A wants only SecurCA to issue certs. SecurCA uses Certificate Transparency (CT) and OCSP.

Website A uses Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) to declare SecurCA as the only CA for that website and the Expect-CT header for enforcing Certificate Transparency checks.

We're assuming another mechanism to secure DNS here (DNSSEC? DoH? DoT? &c) -- more on that later.

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- Government forces state-issued certificate on all computers.

If government MITMs all access, this is hard to detect except by shipping pre-pinned certificates with the OS (Microsoft). In that case, I'm not sure how to proceed. However, if the government only selectively MITMs, the CA not matching the site's CAA pinning would probably violate it.

- Government forces third-party CA to MITM.

The CA likely wouldn't add this to the CT logs. Expect-CT + strict browser CT checks would prevent the site from loading. If the CA does add it to the CT logs, the website owner can detect that the CA issued a bad cert on its behalf and this CA would be publicly shamed and removed from browser trust stores, (unless they revoked it via OCSP). And, with CAA, the CA the government would have to go to would have to be the same as the one in the CAA authorization records. Other CA's wouldn't work.

- A stolen certificate MITM.

This is the harder case. You have to trust that the website owner doesn't release their certificate. That's a harder problem that isn't currently solved. I'd argue it is nearly impossible. Things like HSMs help mitigate the risk to the highest profile targets but that leaves the wide middle at risk. There's no solution that will work for every website. That's not a TLS/PKI design flaw, but likely a fundamental cryptographic limitation.

But if the website operator did know that it was leaked, they could use OCSP to revoke it quickly.

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All of TLS/PKI/... relies on DNS. Trust on first use + OS certificate stores is probably the best we can reasonably do when coupled with DNSSEC's questionable security and DoH/DoT. That, IMO, is a bigger problem than any HTTPS flaws.

Note that most of what you've argued in the blog post would happen to any protocol: when a great enough percentage X of traffic goes over it, either it'll be blocked (VPN/SSH/...) or there'll be mechanisms in place to enable Enterprises/... to access this data (TLS).

I think where we're getting to is a lot more secure than it was even 7 years ago when Snowden made his leaks.
Watercolor was my favorite XP theme! I would never have remembered it if not for seeing it mentioned here. I used to find it elegant compared to other themes.

On the Linux side, my favorite theme was Red Hat's Bluecurve. People still port it to modern DEs, and it still looks good. I think it was ahead of its time, but it never really caught on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluecurve

https://cn.pling.com/img/hive/content-pre1/148927-1.png
There is common trick in designing reliable systems out of unreliable components: replicating the unreliable component 3 times. When one of the three behaves differently from the other two, it's declared faulty and replaced. This wouldn't work with 2 copies as it wouldn't be possible to say which copy is faulty. So roughly speaking, for an outsider, the HN website appears as a single entity, but under the hood it's 3 replicas. This is an analogy to a proton that consist of 3 quarks.
This sounds quite similar to GoTenna, which was founded back in 2013 and has had multiple successful kickstarters.

https://gotenna.com/
Your entire central point was addressing - "Japanese technique of Tangzhong", wasn't it?
Very productive. My home equipment is better than office equipment. Without a 3 hour commute and more rest time, I have a lot more energy.

But a lot of it is because my wife who stopped her cooking job to help me take care of the kids. We get some gov aid to keep people at home, but I've funneled all of it to my wife.
>That's not how copyright works in the US. Maybe it should be, but it's not. The owner of a copyright gets to say how it's used, they don't merely have a right to refuse to uses if they're aware of them.

I'm not sure how Youtube et al.'s situation is different in these regards. In both cases, the takedown process is covered under the DMCA, no?

>Copyright doesn't protect data, it protects the creative expression of ideas. Data itself isn't copyrightable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... Therefore, nobody is infringing any copyright I have by tracking my behavior via ads.

As an artist, I'd hold that much of my expression is tied up in my data. Likewise, my data is part of the creative expression that I use to market my works. For example, the websites that I choose to visit are part of my subcultural identity and intentionally signal to others that identity, an expression of my personal creativity; the works that I post are dissected and sold as data to market to me. This is an integral aspect of the interaction model of so-called Web 2.0 platforms.

...I'm sure this hasn't been argued before, but should we decide to open the can of worms of whether or not libraries should "be"...

Ultimately, these issues seem to be unexamined, to some extent. I wonder if there's some hesitation to invite a floodgate-opening should a decision go sideways.
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Here is an earlier blog we published on comparison's to Pachyderm: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-06-so-you-want-git-for-...

We got a blog on the storage system coming on Wednesday. It's a mashup of a Merkle DAG and a B-tree called a Prolly Tree. It comes from an open source package called Noms (https://github.com/attic-labs/noms).

I'm not familiar with CRDT. Will read up on that.
Pilates will not help you in an event that requires you to be at your physical best. Strength and speed will. Powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, bodybuilding, and gymnastics/calisthenics/bodyweight training for strength. Running, swimming, rowing, and cycling for speed. CrossFit for both. You want a strong core? Do overhead squats with a 61-kg/135-lb barbell. Do strict toes-to-bar. Do an L-sit for 60 seconds.
I was full time remote before covid and have been remote for a long time before that. My productivity has tanked.

It’s not remote vs the office for me. It’s all the crap that is going with the quarantine. Child care, stress, close quarters, shopping confusion, etc.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to compare productivity right now.
That isn't what Scott is saying.

His default was to listen to those in authority and responsible. Instead he wishes that he listened to those who did independent thinking and their own projections with verifiable reasoning from the data.

This doesn't mean don't listen to epidemiologists. There were plenty of epidemiologists who were plenty concerned in early February. It means do not pay particular heed to epidemiologists who were selected to be listened to via a politically motivated process.

And my own editorial. Go read the book Superforecasting. The people that Scott is recommending listening to are exactly the kind of people who do better at making short term forecasts than the majority of recognized experts. And the reason why their forecasts are better is exactly the same as why they got it right this time.

Quantitative thinking is something we as a society are still learning to trust. We've come to trust it in baseball. (Go read Moneyball.) We've come to respect it in politics. (Nate Silver established a following for a reason.) But we have yet to internalize as second nature the idea that we should sanity check everything with people who clearly think in a quantitative way. And that we should attempt that kind of thought ourselves.

In the long run I believe we will. And perhaps reflecting on who got COVID right and who got it wrong will help us get there sooner.
I encourage everyone here to read the book Science-mart by Mirowski. It reveals a lot of limitations of adding markets and the search for "efficiency" in science.
This is typical game theory: epidemiologists and other authorities care about the collective outcome (reducing the # of deaths, the economy, PPE for medical workers etc) while individuals mostly care about their own safety, and those goals aren't always aligned. This is why it’s not necessarily wise to listen to their “advice” of not wearing masks or keep going to work, because they’re optimizing for different things than you should do for yourself. For example, look at the disastrous “herd immunity” experiments that countries like the UK and the Netherlands are trying to conduct at the cost of many lives.
Having never used it, I didn't realize Windows 1.0 had "responsive" menu bars!
It's like living in a country. If you disagree with the democratic government and actively oppose it's efforts are you traitor? That's a question of morals. No definitive answer.
Dat is more of a distributed data sharing protocol. It does not do branch/merge which Dolt does.
I haven't played in a while but I was happily playing it on an i7 4770k which is way under what both Intel and AMD sell now.
Is this really that bad? A little creepy I guess. But with remote work, you do want to have at least some system in place to make sure people are actually working.

At my business we all track our hours (me included) and the app takes screenshots of the screen every 15 minutes. It's really in case there is a problem. Not like I have time to check it / watch my employees work. It's more of an invisible system that keeps people honest. Plus it gives me peace of mind so I don't have to worry if people are working or not. I think it helps me micromanage less.
Inside a Brooklyn hospital that is overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients and deaths
FBI Warns of 'Zoom-Bombing,' Where Hackers Hijack Video Conferences After Two S
Ah! I thought it was a typo. Thanks for the link to the video btw, my chest has been congested for over a month with a bog standard cold, going to give them a try.
Good point on the the mystery of testing standard, let me update my comment.
Allow competing voices to coexist without presuming to act as an arbiter of 'truth'. Politics would remain, but the end user could choose.
You are correct. It is an homage to Git. We needed a word that meant "idiot" or similar, that started with D for data that was short enough to type on the command line.
Healthcare and first responders shouldn’t have to pay more to get the server resources they need to respond to Covid 19
The problem is that for game ROMs specifically, opening them to the public domain devalues potential opportunities for re-releases and remasters. The Nintendo virtual console service and S/NES classic are prominent examples. So it isn't so simple that there is "no harm done" by forcing game ROMs to fall into public domain.

That all being said, I still agree with you. I really don't care how much money Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony wants to make on decades-old games, at a certain point it becomes a cultural artifact. Snow White and other century-old movie properties should be public domain nowadays as well. At this point we're debating about the core values of trademark law though, and I'm not sure you wanted to do that.

A similar debate revolves around what the law should say about "dead" games. These are games that, for example, rely on a central server that has been shut down. Many of these games were incredibly popular in their day, and some "radicals" (like myself, lol) argue that game companies should be compelled to release the server source code in an effort to preserve the game. Here's a great overview/rant on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
Indeed, the last time when the answer was 'definitely AMD' (for home use at least) was when the Athlon 64 crushed the Pentium 4.
I prefer the Malkolm over Markus. But mine is falling apart after 4 years. Great chair, though.
We think this is the assumption (that data does not change) but we don't think it holds and data diffs help show you when something you did not expect did change.
I worry about this in software development. There are so many “experts” posting blogs about whatever is on their mind, and the tide of common wisdom gets caught up in it.

Eg, everybody, everywhere said that NodeJS has amazing performance for high io workloads. If you look at benchmarks however, the nodejs systems cannot keep up with older tech, so now the argument is “we use it because it’s a nice environment, not for performance.”

I am trying to focus on textbooks now, but with so much self publishing I think that it is only a temporary strategy
Chinese speaking people are stubborn(from my point of view) about reading Hanzi/Kanji in their sounds, so landmarks in Chinese pronunciation aren't really loanwords. It's like someone sees "хорошо" and pronounce it "soppovo" because that has to be correct to them, but that's their thing(both ways) and it's not practical for single person to keep up with every pronunciations of Hanzi derivatives anyways so people just read the way they perceive.

Which, I think, also means a Japanese word in a Chinese dictionary is not an implication of acceptance as a loanword since that process is very deterministic.
OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Update: It's never indicated on whether the marks were tested under KN95 or FFP2; saying they used the wrong specs and blamed on China was probably too early or wrong.
"Internet Archive's actions are almost certainly not lawful<...>"

This raises an even more important point: what do citizens do when laws are enacted that do not have acceptance or are not considered as legitimate by a majority of citizens?

This is why enacting treaties such as the Berne Conventions (WIPO etc) are so damned dangerous. By their intrinsic nature, it's quite possible for small non-representative groups to have an international treaty enacted/agreed to by all 'member' states without all states even knowing the full ramifications of the said treaty are—they're forced to sign for some other 'quid pro quo' or special trade-off deal etc. Let's face it, this is how Victor Hugo and his cronies 'won' the copyright war (one must concede they played a masterful game and won outright).

As their champions know full well, once a treaty such as the Berne Convention is up and running then it is almost impossible to change it let alone have it abolished. Savvy operators such as Victor Hugo knew this from the very beginning before even entering the campaign (as that's how international politics works). This is especially the case when treaties are about matters that are not considered truly high stakes such as nuclear disarmament.

It depends on one's political stance how one views treaties that have little or no legitimacy among a majority of citizens. Some would argue that they are technically lawful and should be obeyed, others would say they're morally corrupt and thus should be disobeyed or ignored.

It's this dichotomy that's at the center of Copyright Law/Treaties today. The very fact that the 'Big Boys' consider this treaty little more than a nuisance—just noise in the grand scheme of things—is why disputes over Copyright won't end anytime soon.

The fact that such flaky and unrepresentative international treaties can exist says more about the unhealthy state of the laws in each member state. In recent decades we've all witnessed citizens' growing disrespect for institutions such as democracy and its democratic processes. It doesn't take much imagination to realize that all these problems are interrelated.

When systems of law break down or lose their legitimacy what does one do? Again, this depends on one's politics and worldview. At one end there's disorder and anarchy, at the other one becomes subservient to a corrupt state.

Take your choice. What I know is that I certainly don't want anarchy or revolution as many people die and in the long run they end up benefiting no one. Nor do I want to be subservient to law that's been 'legitimized' by corrupt non-repetitiveness processes.
A lot of terrible things have been done by people who went too far in pursuit of what they thought was the public good.

One potential proportionate response, in my opinion, would have been to lean harder on the existing model of Controlled Digital Lending (where each lent e-book is backed by a physical book), and instead of saying they're going to move to uncontrolled lending, put out a call for people to buy more backing copies for the duration of the pandemic, specifically identifying the books that were in more demand. Then they could have gotten those books into the hands of more people while also paying authors more.
You should apply your best judgement given all data available. Take neither common-sense nor study results as gospel.
U.S. Prepares for Prolonged Shutdowns as Coronavirus Strains Hospitals
You can spin up a MySQL compatible server using `dolt sql-server`. It does not implement everything right now but we'll get there.
The single-100%-owner scenario seems like a meaningfully different case here.

But: no, I wouldn't lobby that I should be exempt from sales tax just becaues it's "double taxation." I certainly don't think tax is something to always be avoided when possible, I think it's a tool of government, and that eliminating variou taxes is rarely discussed for truly useful reasons vs just individual selfishness. (On that note: if I were going to argue against sales tax it would be on grounds of regressiveness. It's not something that has much of a noticable impact on my own lifestyle, though.)
...Are you saying that if you own shares of company A, the value of those shares is extracted from the company's bank account?

That...doesn't sound right. I mean, I know I'm not really much of an investor, but my understanding is it works more like this:

If I own 100% of the shares of company A, and the company makes a profit of $100, the company pays a tax on that profit, then has $75 in its bank account.

Separately, when the company reports those earnings, its stock price rises 5%. Now, if I want to realize the value of my stock appreciation, I have to sell shares of stock, which is a completely separate, taxed, transaction.

I can only transfer money from company A's bank account to my own because I own 100% of the shares, and control the entire company. I also know that treating the company like my own personal piggy bank is frowned upon (at least by people with scruples and sense), and the much more reasonable thing to do is have the company pay me a salary out of its profits. Which is another, separate, taxed, transaction. Which also makes perfect sense, because in the general case where I am not the only employee, payroll taxes are a perfectly reasonable thing, and in the more specific case where I am, I'm paying for the protection of having the corporation to take liability.
This blog compares us to Quilt and others: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-06-so-you-want-git-for-...
>True, you didn't say that - but that's kind of what the Internet Archive is doing.

First: that's not what they're doing - they're taking emergency measures during a national crisis to ensure that people still have access to books. They have made explicit their plans to return to business as usual once the nation returns to normalcy.

Second: the first step to change is often civil disobedience. I look forward to seeing how this plays out in court, and I commend their bravery in taking a stand for what's right. What "measurable steps" towards this world would you suggest they take?

>A number of people who produce creative works under Patreon-style models still rely on copyright: they produce works that are available only to paying subscribers, and people who say "this is a zero-marginal-cost product, so I can duplicate it" undermine their ability to get subscribers.

I think I'm qualified to tell you simply that you are wrong. This is not how it works. You can give away your products for free and rely on the voluntary generosity of your audience. Many, many people do. In fact, most people do. Those publishing exclusive content for paid supporters are in the minority in this group.
I highly recommend this video from Korea (Professor Kim Woo-joo from Korea University Guro Hospital) that gives a Korean perspective on the disease and the western response to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU

A few points of interest: (He is a very respectful fellow so apologies if the summary seems a bit to the point)

- Masks help and he is slightly puzzled why the west hasn't adopted that culture

- Their testing and tracing helps and they doubt the US would allow their level of privacy invasion

- Korea is doing well because they have had to respond to pandemics and were prepared (as are Taiwan, Singapore etc)