skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those on mobile:

> This is Mr. Eddie Vedder, from Accounting. I just had a power surge here at home that wiped out a file I was working on. Listen, I'm in big trouble, do you know anything about computers?

> Right, well my BLT drive on my computer just went AWOL, and I've got this big project due tomorrow for Mr. Kawasaki, and if I don't get it in, he's gonna ask me to commit Hari Kari...

> Yeah, well, you know these Japanese management techniques. Could you, uh, read me the number on the modem?
The question isn't whether you honestly suggest it; the question is whether they believe you when you express sincerity.
> It's not illegal to build knives. It's not illegal to sell knives either. Using a knife to stab someone on the other hand is. No sane jusge could claim that the knife-builder was in fact involved in the killing, nor should popcorntime face any reprecussions for developing a program.

Popcorn Time is ostensibly built to access and watch copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. No-one is pretending they’re using it only to watch Big Buck Bunny. It isn’t like a general-purpose BitTorrent client either because those generally don’t market themselves as tools for copyright infringement and torrents are widely used legitimately for free-software distribution. You’d have a point if it was uncalled “Popcorn-and-Slackware Time” - but it isn’t.

Disregarding the inevitable 2A analogy (“knife” -> “gun”), the concept of dual-use is recognised by legal precedent: the maker of a knife intends for it to be used in culinary or outdoors survival scenarios. If I sold my own line of knives with a TV and billboard campaign emphasising about how my knives are specifically designed to shank people with - and someone inevitably does get shanked by one of my knives I fully expect to be at the receiving-end of at least a civil liability suit - but most likely some criminal charges for recklessness.

I recognise that Popcorn Time itself isn’t violating copyright and so cannot be the subject of a DMCA takedown notice, Popcorn Time might be viewed as falling under the DMCA’s Anti-circumvention clauses or something similar. And if the courts somehow find it to be completely in the clear, I guarantee that within a few years the MPAA will get a new copyright law on the books that specifically considers the intent of the creator or distributor of a tool involved in copyright infringement.
Is anyone other than Spirit doing this? My recollection was other airlines were capping sales to ensure sufficient space.
The idea that cabin air is recirculated is a widely held myth.

The plane is pressurized from the engines, and the cabin air is entirely replaced with new, fresh, outside pressurized air every few minutes.

There’s a bleed valve in the tail area where it blows out.
IANAL, but I think your interpretation goes beyond what they're after.

The determination is clearly aimed at data usage and prevents people from trying to decrypt the reports from other users. The whole fragment of the interview is about the data produced by the app and how it should be protected as sensitive information. I can't see anything there that would prevent you from reverse engineering "to see how any of the app is running."

It's not even obfuscated or protected from decompilation in any way, so it's trivial to look at with static analysis tools. (i.e. without trying to run it)

Even the headings don't mention the code: "Collection, use or disclosure of COVID app data", "Treatment of COVID app data", "Decrypting COVID app data", "Coercing the use of COVIDSafe".
Exactly. If you label it as a "problem", you will continue seeking and believing that, if only you had the right knowledge, you'd be able to have a "solution". Or. if you had an answer that was at least convincing enough to yourself, then that's sufficient. Unfortunately, I don't believe it's that simple. You can dismiss this as a problem, find a valid solution, and move along. Or you can become familiar with what it is like to be with this unease and let it speak for itself. I'm not saying this will work for you, but I want to make present the falsity that pure rationality will be able to solve problems like these.
I realize now I could have googled that myself, but it is nice sometimes for the things you thought of to be validated by others. Thank you! Adding this to my yearly donations list.
> When you make a comment you are acknowledging that you are entering information to form part of the public record. I've not examined the specific FCC form

I have since I actually submitted a comment on this very rulemaking. Your description is correct.
> From my experience, Filipino's speaking English

Hey there - this seems like unnecessary ethnic stereotyping.

Also, no apostrophe is used in this situation.
What is up with Elon Musk
Yes, both blacklist and whitelist.
So, what do you recommend calling what used to be called fake news? And how we ensure that the its replacement isn't co-opted for malicious purposes again?
I made a few YouTube videos showing how I get Rancher and a K8s cluster running in the DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes offering (DOKS)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcdHMZkfm5ujt60AwNh1E...

Also available in text but it’s not as detailed as the videos, basically my cheat sheets published:

https://avencera.com/learn
One person's "abuse of power" is another's judicial activism [1].

MGM v. Grokster [2] effectively held that distribution for the purpose of encouraging illegal activity can create liability for that illegal activity. See MGM v. Grokster at 919.

Applied to your gun shop example, do gun shops distribute guns for the purpose of encouraging illegal activity? Proponents of MGM v. Grokster would say no and that this may be the very distinction that the court was trying to highlight. I.e., distribution for the purpose of illegal activity versus distribution for legal activity.

From this perspective, it seems Popcorn Time may not have learned from MGM v. Grokster. Specifically, highlighting and promoting the illegal uses of a product may incur liability for those illegal uses. It may not be a silver bullet, but highlighting only the legal uses of a product may reduce the chance of MGM v. Grokster from being used to create liability for a product that has both legal and illegal uses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_activism

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=864795647667642...

This is not legal advice and I am not your lawyer.
That's the point of armies, to be as lethal and effective as possible. A protracted war benefits no one, and a powerful army acts as a deterrent. I think that if you think your country has the right to self-defense, you have a moral obligation to make it as lethal as possible. Ethics is not an excuse for inaction or abandonment of responsibility.
Often times government contractors aren't authorized to work overtime. It's illegal to do unpaid work.
> • America will still be a strong player, but not completely dominant anymore.

I suspect we'll still be the only dominant global power in 2040.

> • China will successfully assert itself in East Asia, OR force Japan, Taiwan, Phillipines, Vietnam, etc into a strong anti-China alliance.

The largest trading partner of every nation you listed is China. The idea of an Japan, Tawian, Philippines, Vietnam, etc forming an anti-China alliance is as absurd as mexico and canada forming an anti-US alliance. It makes no economic, political or historical sense. But anything can happen. It's more likely they'll form an anti-US alliance considering Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, etc was invaded by the US at one point or another. But the likelihood of that is 0.

> • India and Europe will act more and more independently of the US.

India has always acted independently of the US. They were one of the major non-aligned nations during the cold war.

> • Turkey will seek to assert itself in former Ottoman territories, possibly leading to a period of peace in the Middle East if successful.

What? You think Turkey will be able to push out the US/EU/Russia/etc from the middle east? Even if the US/EU/Russia/etc left, you think Turkey will be able to challenge Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc for dominance in the middle east?

I couldn't disagree with you more on the geopolitics. As for your technology predictions, I unfortunately disagree with you on everything. We'll have self-driving cars, there will be groudbreaking developments in computer hardware technology ( quantum computers, VR, GPU, memory, etc ) and real meat consumption will rise as more of the underdeveloped nations get wealthy enough to afford real meat.

I have no issues with the rest of your predictions as they seem more likely than your previous predictions.
But not a security conscious user who knows once the USB cable is plugged in the device is compromised.
Read the fine specification.
> A lot of people do want that because they view prohibiting it as a government take over of the internet. I personally think that is absurd, but it's a very popular opinion.

Can you point to some places where this opinion is expressed? I've never encountered it.
> You can only take down popcorn time if you can claim to own it thus its just the kind of crime we allow rich people to perpetrate upon poor people.

In the US, the DMCA makes a criminal offense to circumvent access control.

As with many matters, the law isn't necessarily black and white (coincidentally, today was the first time the SCOTUS heard a arguments via teleconference--that audio was streamed live, and the subject was whether or not the PTO could block a trademark on Booking.com), and it would be up to challenge in court.

I suspect that whether an open source repository that allows anyone with technical know-how to build software to partake in copyright infringement--is subject to DMCA, would be a matter for the courts to decide.

I could see one argument--plans to create a 3d printed gun are controlled, and a federal court has ruled those plans cannot be put online.
Handwashing machine that kills 99.9% of germs in 12 seconds
Sometimes even human drivers can't figure out what gesturing police and paramedics and construction workers want us to do. They will need a way to mass override "follow the normal rules", or owner or mturk takeover.
A lot (most?) of the responses in this thread are "learn to leave work at work, fuck greedy capitalism, enjoy your family and hobbies". And most of those responses sound to me like they come from people with a lot of unresolved resentment and cynicism. I know that I can't do that.

But my god, the integration is hard. No one really prepares you for it. The old role models don't work because they're unwittingly or deliberately blind to this. (For example, I've never heard pg talk about this, even though ycombinator is practically a factory that inputs idealistic people and outputs people with experiences like mine) Biographies cover this quite superficially; you basically never hear from the person in their darkest hour.

I'm sure many people have gone through this, but to me it really feels like uncharted waters.
Sure, but the latter is completely resonable when the person scheduling the meeting is a pointer-haired twit who would respond to the former with "sure, sure, sounds good" <later> "okay, we rescheduled for 2:00-3:00", which from what I've seen/heard seems to be typical of government work.
Here are some lock picking tools on Amazon[0], should they be made illegal for sell? Can you see the magical grey zone?

[0]: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Z1V1LBQ?tag=duc12-20&linkCode=os...
Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer
Well, urban centers had a choice of over-the-air (OTA) TV and FM broadcast signals. So suburban areas may have adopted cable faster because they had less choices.

For those too young to have experienced OTA, the TV signal was crisper (no bleed) than cable. FM is actually CD-quality if you're in a major city and have a $1000 receiver.
>So the worst case scenario is that you get eaten by vultures and lose friends. And the best case scenario is that you're in a soulless machine that turns everyone into an automaton.

If you're going for the gold, yes, that's what you may have to deal with.

If you're content working for yourself and not selling out to venture capitalists, life can be pretty sweet.
Will you test the efficiency of the block list.

For example, given a block list of 60,000 how many hosts on the list did your computer actually try to access. Have you ever read through one of those massive blocklists.

I use a whitelist rather than a blocklist. Similar to a firewall, I block everything by default. Then carefully choose what I allow.

This way I can see exactly what hosts I actually need to access. Makes it easy to see attempts to access ad servers, trackers, phone home, etc.
Organising skilled workers and incentivising them to work towards providing sustenance and protection for teams I would coordinate. Arranging transport mechanisms to gathering teams, who would scout local areas for useful items and retrieve them. Disciplining rogue workers who fall out of line with a wooden apparatus wrapped in some form of sharp metal wire, of which I may give a cute name to make it even scarier.
> I know a software engineer who is very much against net neutrality. He also happens to be very much pro free market (in the “no regulation at all” approach).

Is he also in favor of ending the monopolies that ISPs have over Internet access in most places in the US? I'm also pro free market, and if ISPs were a free market I would also be against net neutrality as a government regulation. But ISPs are not a free market; they are huge beneficiaries of government regulation. So net neutrality is one of those unfortunate cases where we need government regulation to offset the effects of other government regulation. That's the bet we can do if having a truly free market is not an option.
There are probably apps out there exploiting this already since this seems to have been known about for a long time and only recently patched.
This.

Even if you are emailing an old friend for a favor, put your request up front then put the cordial stuff after, its much more sincere that way.

> Joe, we are looking for advisors to sit on our board. This is a non-paying position so I'm emailing all my old friends and asking for favors. Hey, how are you? How is your wife and son? Either way lets get together soon! --Aaron
The world is focusing on tradition and pinning people down to basic identities. It's terribly boring and true conceptual freshness is dying.
> I don't believe in fighting "bad ideas" by suppressing them

What is a "bad idea" is also hard to know sometimes. If I was there in the time of Galileo I would probably be fighting his "the earth goes round the sun" argument as well.

Many times great ideas first appear seemingly as "bad ideas". Which then are the good "bad ideas" and the bad "bad ideas"? It is unclear if corporates can answer that better than the world as a whole.

Maybe they should just explicitly mark the content with "this may be a bad idea" and leave it online - trusting the users?
Iloveyou
Ablate is exclusively a verb, and I am providing its definition as an aside, not as a definition that would make it fit into the context.
As i understand it people mistake two different phenomena for the same. The geomagnetic storm induced by coronal mass ejection of our Sun is dangerous for the power grid because it could fry its transformers, because basically the long distance transmission lines work like an antenna, amplifying that. But it is a slow and weak thing, so anything disconnected at the time should be ok.

The fear about disconnected electronics becoming fried comes from the Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse(NEMP). Which is a fast thing, inducing large spikes in a short amount of time, thereby frying transistors on-chip, if unshielded, even when disconnected.
Pseudo-Science Behind the Assault on Hydroxychloroquine
OP is simply 'disillusioned' with corporations and business. And 'disillusioned' is the wrong word; he has simply learned 1st hand what they are like [a load of bullshit].
The HN title piqued my interest, but this article seems like a vague and impulsive take:

> Each time we face a systems level event is a time for rethinking and envisioning something new, and a better way.

Why does it have to be a fundamental re-envisioning? Why not just incremental patching or modifications? Is there even a major problem right now? All things said, we're weathering this pandemic pretty well and I don't see any strong evidence or need for major change.
Sounds more like fascism with the alignment of political and corporate power.

But the label is irrelevant, Thiel and Palantir's actions are anti-democratic and their involvement in any government activities immediately raise privacy and safety concerns.
> "And when you yourself are cynical, everyone else's excitement rings hollow and you think they are pretending and are actually checked out.."

This resonates with me a lot. When people are excited, I sometimes become critical/jealous and think they're possibly doing it for attention.

It takes a shift in perspective and humility to appreciate other people's point of view and share their excitement...
Realistically, those APIs will be analysed soon after they're available in the same way COVIDSafe was. If they do something different than what's in the design, we'll know pretty quickly.
The Australian app is reportedly based on an open source app from Singapore. The Australian government said it would release the source for its own version in a couple of weeks. The code is GPL, if it's this one: https://github.com/OpenTrace-community.
This appears to be a syntax error. I get a different error if I add JoinDate to the SELECT clause without adding the other columns it wants.
> I think it ignores the suffering of millions to say the state should never be used to help the less privileged.

If the state actually did help the less privileged, that would be one thing. But the state programs that claim to help the less privileged, mostly don't. And even when they do, the hoops the less privileged have to jump through to get the help are ridiculous. My wife and I have a friend who is on food stamps; he's disabled and unable to work, has been for years. Every year when his food stamps come up for renewal, even though not a single thing has changed with his situation, the county finds a way to screw it up and we have to call them and get it straightened out. Imagine what happens to people who don't have friends that can help them navigate the system.

The root of the problem is not that helping the less privileged is a bad thing; it's that the state is the worst possible tool for the job.

> I get really frustrated with libertarian types that would dismantle useful state programs before we've got something to replace them.

We do have something to replace them: private charity. Anyone can found a nonprofit charity organization to help the less privileged. And they would do a much better job of it than the state does. The fact that the state is doing it at all hurts the actual ability to help people, because the people who would actually do a good job at it are thinking that the state is already taking care of it so they don't have to. Which means that there are actually more people who need help that are not getting it, than there would be if the state were simply out of the business altogether and everybody knew that it was up to them, as private individuals and private charities, to do it.
The cabin air is about half recirculated, half fresh air from the engines. But the recirculated air is filtered. An N95 mask can filter >95% of .3 micron particles, this cabin air filter can capture 99.9%.

https://www.ptitechnologies.com/news-event/pti-announces-the...
Talk about doubling down with nonsense when you've patently spelled it the wrong way. SMH.
Your personal belief about medium-to-long-term immunity is contradicted by research on same with SARS; see “Lack of Peripheral Memory B Cell Responses in Recovered Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: A Six-Year Follow-Up Study"
[pdf] https://www.jimmunol.org/content/jimmunol/186/12/7264.full.p...
Not the OP but I've been using various Thinkpads running Ubuntu since 2010. Been using Linux for many years prior to that on desktops. Also have my family kitted out with them (again on Ubuntu). It is possible to use just fine from a default install with none to very minor tinkering required. However if you do put in a few hours of tinkering you'll reap the rewards in having the laptop behave exactly how you want it to. Here's a hint, install tlp along with the thinkpad kernel access source ("sudo apt-get install tlp tp-smapi-dkms" on Ubuntu) and set the battery charge thresholds. This will help with runtime on battery and also extend the life of the battery itself. is set to start charge at 88% and stop at 95%. In the past five years my battery has only depleted by a few percent in capacity.

I have used Macs (had 2 Mac Book Pros and a Mac Mini) and Windows but its Linux all the way now, specifically Ubuntu LTS. Not sure how people put up with Windows 10's constant forced updates. If it has to be Windows give me Windows 10 LTSC.

Ideal next laptop? Probably a Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 7 or Dell XPS 2020.
Why would you bundle all OS's binary in the demo download?
Also, please sign the macOS binary.
Proving intent is the most difficult part of criminal law. If intent was all that mattered, why does Google remove copyrighted links from its search results? The intent for Google clearly isn't to distribute illegal content, but to provide links to as much as possible on the web (or at least, it used to be). But even DDG compiles with DMCA. A generic search engine is still required by law to take down links, even if the intent isn't there. Which proves that the mere act of "handing over a phone number" is enough.
My TV made me accept a terms of service agreement on first boot.
https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+15+hr+minimum+wage
Ashby’s work on self-organisation [0] is a must read. I think it was he that defined the concept.

http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS396x/Computing/Ashby.pdf
They're already fogging disinfectant between flights with most carriers
Web Apps Using Couchdb on the Client Side Only
There was an interesting contact tracing case study where two busses took the same trip, one with a coronavirus carrier: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/24/what-you-need-know-ab... (about halfway down the page)
The level of UVC required to kill viruses would also cause sunburn and arc flash[1] in minutes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis

You could run it when the plane was empty, but if you're going to do that, you might as well just put the lights on a cart and push it through the plane.
> In the US, the DMCA makes a criminal offense to circumvent access control.

Correct. However:

1) The DMCA takedown process only applies to direct copyright violations, not to circumvention tools. Part of a properly formed takedown request is an affadavit that the content infringes upon the requester's copyright; the request in the OP is technically deficient, and GitHub made an error by honoring it.

2) PopcornTime is not a circumvention tool. It does not itself bypass any forms of rights protection; it merely distributes content (which might have been obtained through the use of circumvention tools, but that's besides the point).
Agreed. Remember, though, this also applies to those other agencies, even the ones defended dogmatically.
I mean, I left?

I’m not saying it’s perfect, but scapegoating the company is avoiding the real issue, which is the government policies or the enactment thereof.