skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people at Facebook who say the same thing, but at the end of the day, both companies only pay lip service to privacy in the way their products and services actually operate.
Thank you! Didn't have a tablet to test with but will fix
Even the music. They literally had to go and find left-wing music to give an award to. Beethoven could have been in the running and lost because he just never got down on his knees...

It's their award show, I get that, but damn they look mindless to anyone who doesn't automatically agree with all their nonsense.
The other reason to be skeptical is simply by looking at the positive test rate of jurisdictions with high levels of testing. I was also ill in February and then again in March, but the rate of positive tests for COVID-19 in my area has never made it above low single-digits, so just by the numbers, it's pretty unlikely I had it.
> In some cases studies have showed increased output from reduced working hours.

Surely the greedy capitalist swines introduced reduced shorter working hours when they realized that. And those who didn't, lost their best employees to those who did, right?

> In some kinds of jobs this may be true, but in others-- especially ones with substantial intellectual or creative components-- it isn't.

But they aren't calling for targeted reduction. Instead they want the least competent and most corrupt to make a blanket decision that applies to everyone.
MGM vs Grokster is different than Someone vs Github vs Popcorn time. There's an extra level of indirection in there.
When I came back from a California trip to my hometown in Mexico, I got something nasty with the typical symptoms: fever, shortness of breath, dry cough, etc etc. I went to the ER and got x-ray and blood samples.

When my doctor arrived, he was all cool. Then he asked me a bunch of questions and went to see the x-ray and blood work result in the labs. After taking some time, when he came back, he had a face mask and a can of Lysol. He said he had been delayed filling an epidemiological report.

That's the moment when I knew it was bad haha.
Sniffjoy is referring to static allocation of local variables on the stack (vs dynamically on the heap), not static allocation of the stack itself.
COVIDSafe will be using these new APIs.
It seems to me that your second paragraph directly and immediately contradicts your first.

I don’t think both of those can be true simultaneously, unless you somehow consider “having blood on your hands” to be ethical.
Without seeing the attachments, it looks like at bare minimum, examples of copyrighted content were shown in their screenshots. But the main issue is that links to piracy was built in, such that a user could immediately download this and begin pirating content.

Movie studios are most concerned that this could even lead to people pirating content without realizing that they're doing something illegal.

Ultimately, choosing a centralized provider versus elsewhere doesn't have a lot of impact. The MPAA can send notices to your hosting provider, your domain registrar, your internet service provider, or ultimately, get the police to raid your house/office and confiscate your personal machines.

The idea that the Internet exists outside of the real physical world, and you can just do whatever you want is a fantasy sold by science fiction, but exactly that: A fantasy.
False DMCA notices are, in theory, perjury, but in practice, yes.
Out of touch politicians coming up with tech policy in the 90s. Tada!
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> This is clear DMCA abuse

I’m generally skeptical of these claims as the legal system typically doesn’t look super fondly on technically-correct “I’m not touching you” arguments. So has this been litigated sufficiently to state this with such conviction? I’m not sufficiently familiar to know.
What an obscene abuse of power that ruling is. Are gun shops liable for the mass shootings that take place by people that bought guns there? Didn't think so. Going after the tool-makers is right out of the authoritarian playbook.
Note the dates: Event 201 was held on 10/18/2019; linked JHU report was published on 11/6/2019.
In your example, institutions built up trust and it was broken by some third party. Public health was compromised as a result.

In the case of privacy, the trust was broken by the institutions themselves (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, US gov obviously as well). Public privacy was eroded as a result.
Presumably, you'd have to succeed in that notice leading to a takedown. The 10 day waiting period only presumably kicked in when GitHub decided the DMCA was valid and actionable.
Another consideration that seems to have been obscured by the debate on privacy and the narrow focus on the particular client implementation of the app is the significant problem of false positives and negatives.

A lot of voices have spoken out about this issue overseas (particularly in the US) while many local tech voices have skipped considering this at all.

See:

* Previous FTC CTO / Obama Whitehouse senior adviser: https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/1248659875669798912

* Brookings Institute article: https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/inaccurate-and-insecure...

* Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University (pdf report): https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/sites/default/files/atoms/file...

* Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/me_on_covad-1...
FWIW - I worked on Google Fonts for the last 18 months. Happy to answer any questions.

In short: rather than having a single font file for every weight, variable fonts take in a variable (ie. weight, width, optical size, etc) and can render the fonts glyph at a specific design space. This means instead of having three files for thin, normal and bold, you can have one slightly large file that can render thin, bold, and everything better.
So the DMCA requires identification of "material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity". It seems pretty clear that the requested content is not by itself infringing. Is anybody aware of case law on how the "subject of infringing activity" is to be read?
Apple makes the news periodically for telling the gov't to piss off.
One of the best pieces of advice is to completely separate and isolate your work life from your social life. Build a wall around both and don't mix them, learned the lesson the hard way after a decade in the industry

It keeps your work life clean of any distractions and forces you to build and maintain a social network that isn't tied to your work. Also cuts out a lot of emotions from decision making.

Go to work, get your work done, and leave.
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Note that all new Firefox profiles have notable anti-tracking measures enabled by default for some weeks/months now. If you want to fingerprint users who are mucking with preferences, try filtering for DNT headers (Do Not Track) and evaluate that subset.
We already know that SARS-COV-1 IGG antibodies last ~3 years [1]. FWIW antibodies doesn't prevent you from getting sick- there's plenty of studies for the influenza vaccine that show it helps with severity of disease as well in some individuals [2]. I would much rather have a "really bad cold" again then get full COVID-19. Bigger questions around viral shedding after having immunity, but I would almost certainly imagine much less.

[1]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/
[2]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28525597
Could you tell me details about 'What is mathematics' book ? Which book specifically & Who's the author ?
Depends on what your criteria is. Google settled for 25k with someone who submitted fake notices to YouTube. Given that most litigation ends before a decision, it's likely there's been other private settlements.

More broadly than just DMCA, but here's a partial list of successful cases:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4226764/dynamic-designs... awarded declaratory judgement and 37k in attorney fees for a false claim made to eBay (see docket 38)
>On November 11, 2011, Mr. Nalin filed a “VeRO complaint with
eBay asserting that the Dynamic Designs speaker adapter
infringed Nalin’s trademark rights.”

https://courts.state.md.us/sites/default/files/import/appell... 150k jury award of punitive damages, reduced by appeals court to 75k, for a false Amazon complaint of counterfeiting

https://casetext.com/case/alexander-binzel-corporation-v-nu-... really old case not involving the Internet, but a $4 million jury award reduced by the district court to $2.34 million+interest for false claims of counterfeiting
What do you make of this HN-comment then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23060010

Part of the ongoing Psy-Op, "beliver", or what?

Made me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury :-)

Who knows?
What would forbid the Feds from doing it?
no. homeless people
The source code leaks are the real story. I believe this release is a proof of concept of the creator’s capabilities with access to the console source code.

‘According to various sources, over two terabytes of data was allegedly leaked onto the anonymous forum 4chan over the weekend, including the original source code for Nintendo 64, GameCube and Wii.

‘The data could, in theory, be used to create illegal clone hardware able to run software and operate exactly like the original systems.‘
While I'm not sure I'd describe that Makefile as cute - impressive work!
Here is an example where the DMCA notice was claimed fraudulent and some money was awarded to the party that was hit by it[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
Alternatively, you should expect hard-hitting journalism in the "Explanatory Reporting" and "National Reporting" categories, but should expect skewering in the category of "Editorial Cartooning".
I guess this is another nail in the coffin for the "economic argument" in favour of monopolistic copyright law. People will continue making good content even if it is freely available, and sales may even increase rather than decrease.
That is very different from saying that the source code of the device itself infringes copyright.
I misread, then. I assumed by "change" you meant what Palantir was doing.
ISTIO has been a good Kubernetes service mesh for a project I've been working on, and has been the hardest part to tie down though. So many obscure settings and hard-to-track-down information, especially in a sea of options and possible configurations.

Since our SSL is terminated in AWS our cluster was treating things as mostly "HTTP" internally and TLS-redirect HTTP->HTTPS wasn't working and other ISTIO redirects were returning HTTP when original context was HTTPS. It took lots of reading and digging through posts to find references to an "externalTrafficPolicy" setting that was crucial to fixing the problem. That was the most painful k8s/ISTIO thing that came up.
Notable that Netflix only joined the MPA a year ago and are part of this notice. Welcome to the club.
Given the large number of attempts at legal sanctions which have all failed, I'm not so sure that an out-of-court settlement is that interesting. So yes, that's what I think is important.

Edit: I'm having a hard time keeping up with your edits, can you stop editing at some point?

You've added 3 links about counterfitting. The DMCA only applies to copyrights, not trademarks or patents.
only tested it years ago, can't be arsed with the gobshite one gets mainly from US.. media junk, like the food. but min this is back up, I will give it a swirl.
The problem, of course, being that for most init systems the "end users" are the distro maintainers but for systemd, because it spreads itself into so many other things, it also impacts the sysadmins and the upstream third party package developers. Who then complain about it and are met with "it was good enough for Debian and Fedora" even though they aren't the ones complaining.
I had. :(

Users choose their distribution, ultimately. I don’t agree with the author’s conclusion there.
Have we ever seen a media company prosecuted for perjury, despite copious evidence that they constantly misuse DMCA takedowns to do exactly that?
I think there's a valid distinction between a product that can be misused but has a legitimate use, and a product solely built to enable illegal activity. If the business knows their product isn't useful for anything but crime, the only reason they're in business is the crime.

VLC Media Player is a multi-use video player sometimes used to play pirated videos. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol designed to transfer and distribute large files efficiently. Popcorn Time is explicitly built to find and play illegally shared content.
"default judgment"
Assume a spherical planet. OK an ablate spheroid. OK a ...

Now assume Lord Kelvin is talking bollocks. Just because you invent "really cold, bordering on quite nippy" doesn't mean you can overlook things like half lives and red shift. If Lord Kelvin lived now I suspect he might have other conclusions - he evaluated the evidence available at the time.

I was deliberately provocative and I'm glad I was. I've got far better responses as a result. I never thought to mention Kelvin and you have dived in and filled in that gap.

The article in SA was and is absolute bollocks. Bear in mind that your and my definition of bollocks may be dissimilar and I am not being disrespectful. The article is very short and does not provide working. It is of its time and I suspect the working is available somewhere else. It gives us a short glimpse of popular science writing 150 odd years ago.
They probably thought it was an inert atmosphere found on the Sun but having nothing to do with the operation of the Sun. Without nuclear physics, it wouldn't be an unreasonable conclusion.
Just a minor annoyance except of course for those not rich enough to own two phones, but I suppose if you didn't want to be oppressed you should have thought of that before you decided to be born poor, right?
> In western states such doctors get censored and threatened with being fired, in Russia they still fall out of windows. An old Russian custom. Thought those times were over.

Nope. Just recently they started censoring doctors on social media.
So far as I can tell, the legal instrument that sets the requirements for the app is the Biosecurity (Human Biosecurity Emergency) (Human Coronavirus with Pandemic Potential) (Emergency Requirements—Public Health Contact Information) Determination 2020:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EJWgZa...

Reading through its text, I can't find any clause having the effect that you describe.
It's going to be interesting to see how the mix of competence and luck plays out over the next nine months.

Evil dictator idea. App on peoples smartphones that collects the number of unique close contacts and rebroadcasts that. So then people get warned that someones a risk.
https://infra.app/ is a great way to view, understand and troubleshoot apps on Kubernetes

The distros are provided by different vendors in the market (Red Hat, Pivotal, Rancher, others). It's a way for them to bundle in additional features while staying compliant with the standard Kubernetes APIs
I worked with Tesla grid batteries (powerpack installations) at my last job, but I'm currently looking for work. I just got tired of "engineering" my personal projects, i just "program" them now!
With all respect, that's terrible analysis. The epidemiology is really clear that the start of the US epidemics was around January. It's not impossible that there were people with the disease early, but we know with absolute certainty that this number was very, very small. Because if it weren't, we'd see it in incontrovertible evidence like the death curves, and we don't.

People who were sick in December (I mean, be real: a lot of people were sick in December!) are overwhelmingly more likely to have had the flu than a disease that even in Wuhan was at just a few thousand cases at most.
> ...how do they compare in terms of UI/UX, app support, responsiveness and overall feel?

When you put it in terms of those requirements between macOS and any other Linux distro, there is no such comparison because of the level of UI/UX consistency that macOS has over any Linux distro is not even close.

For a Linux distro to achieve this macOS-like consistency, they must have some sort of unified SDK for GUI development or a standard desktop stack for developers to work against. The difficulty here is that the nature of the Linux ecosystem is that the users are free to swap-in/out alternative system components. That's a blessing of freedom for its power-users and a curse for some developers. To some extent, macOS does both but limits which parts of its system can be swapped.

This consistency even goes further into the hardware for MacBook users but that would be even more unfair as a comparison.
Asymtomatics exists, and in the early stages of the disease you may have mild or no symtomps yet, even if you develop them later. So you may be a carrier but their test won't spot you.

You should wear a mask at the very least, even if you feel healthy or not in a risk group, mostly because it will protect the people around from you.
The notice points out that they provide source / code functionality in the form of their scrapers and providers that take magnet/torrent links from the usualy suspects of sources

This goes back to the whole linking to infringing content is infringement, especially when the main purpose of the site / aggregator is to infringe

The popcorn time name, brand and project has been steadily dying in any case - I found out a few months ago that a friend purchased a $60 a year VPN because popcorn time told him he needed it (that's the revenue model for the developers). Turns out they charged his card for close to $180
darn. lost message on signup.. well, only tested popcorn years ago. Since it was mainly American rubbish, like the food, I couldn't be arsed with it. But minute this is back up, I am grabbing it,
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Sooo... you bring up something I could use some "learn me somes" on... golang. Recently, in my personal life when choosing a "next language" to learn I chose Rust over Go because it seemed to offer everything Go does, and then some (like them systems level programmings). However, at my current employer, Go has a solid following and I'm unlikely to sell Rust (or even want to[1]): could you please speak to that real-world efficacy or what things you think it does superbly well to enable software like this?

I tried briefly to find some guides on go over the weekend, but an awful amount of them are targeted to using "X web framework," which seems utterly worthless (or boring) to me. I guess, to your point, I could go read through the Caddy source code and see what I find since this seems like a nice and useful application using Go.

[1]: There's almost no reason to sell a team on any new technology if there isn't a substantial gain from it. For the org I am at, I don't believe, Rust offers much over Go for most of the use cases. Sure, it certainly can be _faster_ but who fucking cares? Most of what we do isn't bound by machine time, it's bound by developer time. Thus, I seek to learn me some golang and what virtues it offers.
It wouldn't work for all of your tasks but have you tried prioritized tasklist (tasklists assigned a value and a time and then sorted by that). I have ADHD meaning managing doing things is horrible but with prioritized tasklist I can just start at the top and go down during timeslots in the day assigned to finishing tasklist items. If I don't finish low priority things with the time I had it just means they're not important enough (though of course there will be conflict within tasklist if you have tasks that have deadlines or urgencies).
No, Github has no discretion in this process. Their only job is to follow the policy to the letter: provide the notice to the presumed offender and disable content, then forward the counter-notice to the original complainant and re-enable the content in 10 days.
Does this takedown affect anyone who forked the repo?
This happened ninety years ago.
This is suprising. I'm at the start of a data/ML engineering career and working at hedge funds that use technological methods seem very appealing to me. They are known for topping FAANG compensation offers and the work seems innovative and interesting tech-wise.
I've been using "rich" for last month and I love it. It makes nested progress bars easy. There is still a lot left to desire but it is amaze balls.
I know people in the US who thought they had COVID-19 in late December 2019. Until now the earliest proven cases were in February 2020. Are there any reports earlier than that now?
A stock trading platform is getting a spike in users during this time? That's so fascinating. Its interesting how "cyclical" and "countercyclical" industry breakdowns dont really make sense in this recession, which makes sense considering a lockdown like this is certainly not a cyclical event that would act like previous recessions. So strange.
You don't want Popcorn Time - you want Stremio
> The epidemiology is really clear that the start of the US epidemics was around January.

That's what they said in France too before this new study
Yeah, but strong young healthy won't die from it, but grandma will. Best to self-infect and quarantine so you don't accidentily infect grandma. It's the civil thing to do.
> What is PopCornTime?

b7861e52eda1961101b605593fd2b4e8c2210e41

> I haven't used PopCornTime for a long time, as I have Netflix+HBO subscriptions, but it's time to reinstall it as a way to disobay the takedown.

> only tested it years ago, can't be arsed with the gobshite one gets mainly from US.. media junk, like the food. but min this is back up, I will give it a swirl.

When will they learn a p2p system/network can never truly be taken down so long as Human's have personal agency. Furthermore, Github was always a central point of failure, made even more vulnerable due to its purchase from M$. This only further proves why that is.

> Out of touch politicians coming up with tech policy in the 90s. Tada!

This is mere optics and one motivated by self-praise as it doesn't really work. But I'm glad some carry on the spirit of Gene Kan.
> I feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust that now nothing good can actually emerge.

Good. That took almost 10 millenia of human development to achieve. Let's not regress.
I'm not convinced the courts will see much of a difference between "company (Grokster) that encourages easy p2p piracy through its software" and "company (GitHub) that publicly hosts software that promotes easy p2p piracy".
This is some bootlicking nonsense. Screw the MPAA. How can anyone seriously defend them? We've known they were the bad guy for decades.

The MPAA is a multi-billion dollar bully, that's the long and short of it. PopcornTime has never itself been guilty of copyright violation, even if its users have been, and the MPAA ought to know better. Even if they were going after it for showing copyrighted posters or frames in their screenshots, that's frivolous as hell and clearly covered by fair use. What they're really doing is bullying: they don't like what this application does, even though they know it's legal, so they'll utilize an broken law which is absolutely ripe for one-sided abuse by copyright holders to screw the little guy, knowing there's no oversight and will be no reprecussions for their behavior.

Copyright must be abolished. The fact that anything created today will never enter the public domain within any of our lifetimes proves that the system has failed. We have an obligation to exercise civil disobedience to protest the broken system. I will shed no tears for billionares caught up in the flack. They never shed a tear for the tens of thousands of people they screwed with expensive lawsuits, nor the billions they screwed out of their rightful inheritance of the collective works of humanity.
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