skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were mandatory, everyone would be paying extra.

And I think it's pretty reasonable to be optional, since I wouldn't be worried about sitting next to a family member, for example.
Getting:

This video file cannot be played.
(Error Code: 224003)

On all the videos, tried Safari and Chrome.
Interesting that DNS look ups go to the Pi-hole in EC2, but the subsequent web requests come from the phone. This effectively nullifies the performance benefit of CDNs. Your phone is where ever it is, but your browser is being instructed to connect to edge servers that are geographically close to the AWS region where Pi-hole instance is running.

That said, the massive performance gains of blocking ads and intrusive 3PC probably more than makes up for it, but something to consider.
Just give it a few months; 2020 ain't over yet.
Yeah, let herd immunity kick in so it's harder for the virus to spread and then STRICTLY quarantine the old. As in much stricter than what they have now. I realize that's not great for grandma, but at some point, society has to make a reasonable tradeoff. If you're young, strong and healthy, your probability of dying from it is basically a rounding error.
But how are we going to effectively isolate people? More, if it is in a young community, do we care?

That is, we do not have data showing this is deadly for pretty much why identifiable group, other than elderly. Such that no matter where a flare up is, we need to isolate the elderly.

My fireworks quip was that if a spark gets in there, the whole thing blows. But, large parts of the city could likely take a flare up and not notice. That is, the whole city is not a firework store. Right?
Are you talking about the one that won't let you install apps on your own phone without telling it who you are? They're the same. If anything, Apple is worse.
Caviar Delivery Scam
A friend of mine works for a restaurant group in NYC and they like many they have had to respond by offering delivery to folks in order to keep some revenue flowing. He and I were chatting and he mentioned that lately, a large majority of high value ($500+) orders were fraudulent with the fraudster ordering things that can be resold such as high-value wine, liquor, etc that isn't necessarily perishable. He says that the scams work like this:

1. The order comes in via Caviar usually with a ridiculous amount of booze. It is usually a courier delivery but looking back some have been picked up by 'customers'.

2. There are some instances where the order gets canceled either by the scammer within the 2 min grace period post ordering of from the actual customer who had their account phished/received some sort of alert/and stopped the transaction.

Has anyone here in the HN community been impacted by such a scam on Caviar/DoorDash? I am intrigued by it because there is obviously someone on the receiving end that's ending up with a boatload of high-end booze and then offloading it somehow. Why wouldn't Caviar just require folks to enter their CVV again before checking out as a security precaution?
Plenty of remote therapists available.
Good. When you said manipulative, it suddenly brought back memories :)
I have his CD of Bach cello suites. Have you tried Idagio?
You’d think so, but not. This part of the DMCA has repeatedly been used with the specific intent of censorship. You force content offline for a potentially important period. For example, though I’m unaware of a case, you could issue a DMCA takedown for the last ten days leading up to an election and there is nothing the victim can do.
I work in Times Square, so I'd probably be one of the first to be exposed if anything came to the US early. I had a very weird flu back in late January. It wasn't serious, but I had a cough that wouldn't go away for a week afterwards.
So the question really boils down to "Does the DMCA let you submit takedown notices for tools which aid infringement, even if the code itself is original and not an unauthorized copy of something else." IANAL, can anyone comment on whether the DMCA lets you do this?

It's clear from the takedown notice submitted by the MPA that (a) they are alleging that PopCornTime aids copyright infringement, not that the code itself is a copy, however the counternotice from the devs just says that (b) the code itself is original, but doesn't address that it is used and configured to scrape torrent files.

In short, though, I wouldn't hold my breath for PopCornTime. Napster and Limewire got taken down back in the day too for the same rationale.
That's an interesting technique for eliminating FOMO, knowing what you need in advance to get to where you want to go so you don't have to worry about shinier things.

Point 2 reminds me of Peter Thiel's power law: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Thiel_on_power_law.
Right, 7-14 day incubation period. I'm sure there are people who decide to spend 2+ weeks in Vegas but mostly what I hear about are long weekends, or a two day stop as part of a bigger holiday.

But, if it became endemic in Vegas it would start to infect locals. The blackjack dealer and the waitress and the floor manager are still there after you come home.
If they thought .org as a domain would be tarnished by this, perhaps big money redid some revenue projections on the sale and found that numbers would no longer add up.
I don't know anyone who compiles their own Postgres at all.

AWS is a pretty common "distro" (of sorts). Postgres 12.2 was released 2020-02-13, and AWS RDS supported it on 2020-03-31. You don't have to wait very long to use this.
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Once upon a time, my company lawyers came to me and asked me if we had certain historical data that I could pull from a database and how long it would take to pull it. It only took me an hour or so, so I just pulled the data, stuck it in an excel file and sent it to them. They were not happy. Apparently they had already told the judge that the data was unduly burdensome to pull and would take too long.
I used OSX at my last job. I think if you try to use Linux as if it were a Mac, it will generally be a sufficient but worse experience. The experience I want out of my computer doesn't resemble the blessed path on Mac, so my experience on Linux is much better for me.
Are you perhaps confusing something?

> A "bad" daemon might not print anything to stdout when invoked (which goes to dmesg) but regardless, this whole comment just reeks of someone who hasn't actually dealt with systems before 2014.

The daemons never print to dmesg -- they may print to syslog, but not all do. The only daemon that I know of that prints to dmesg is systemd :)

To be specific, let's do a simple example. Here is an actual sysvinit file, /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh . It contains:

if /sbin/hwclock --rtc=/dev/$HCTOSYS_DEVICE --hctosys $HWCLOCKPARS $BADYEAR; then
# Announce the local time.
verbose_log_action_msg "System Clock set to: `date $UTC`"
else
log_warning_msg "Unable to set System Clock to: `date $UTC`"
fi

This version has been around since at least 1998 [0]. Old school enough for you?

So here is a simple question: let's say my hwclock chip/driver is unreliable and it did not work on startup for some reason, so that "hwclock" call is failing. My kernel timezone is not set right, the clock is off, and the system does log_warning_msg to warn you about it. How do I find out about this warning?

To make your job simpler, here is how the how this function is defined on my system:

if log_use_fancy_output; then
YELLOW=`$TPUT setaf 3`
NORMAL=`$TPUT op`
echo " $YELLOW*$NORMAL $@" || true
else
echo " * $@" || true
fi

Note no dmesg here, no syslog, no other loggers. You can say "bootlog", but it has been broken every time I tried to use it.

Now, nothing is impossible! I can hack this script so it writes to a temporary file. I can re-execute it again, and hope it fails again. But this gets old, you know? I can spend all day debugging early boot shell, but I did it for a long time already, so now I just want to type "systemctl show --failed", see all the failed services, fix it quickly, and move on to more interesting stuff.

[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.o...
For those of you curious - you can still download Popcorn time directly on https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop https://get.popcorntime.app/
I like this. A lot of people underestimate starting small because they want to maximize value generated from the start but really starting small and building up is the way to go.

Might find this: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Micro-rules_of_productivity about micro rules interesting.
This also reminds me of atomic habits.
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It seems very anachronistic to describe it like that. Like calling the Apple I a failure for selling a couple hundred and ridiculously underpowered for not even having a 1 GHz processor. People make comments like that now and then, and it's just odd.
Not rural, but suburban or smaller cities- dense enough to make financial sense, but without the costs of urban excavation.
Just checkin' the math:

>>> sun_output = 3.828e26 # watts
>>> sun_mass = 2e30 # kg
>>> coal_energy_density = 30e6 # W*s/kg
>>> year = 365*86400
>>> sun_mass * coal_energy_density / sun_output / year
4970.1868313110635

So (assuming a magical supply of oxygen) a lump of coal the mass of the sun could burn with the brightness of the sun for 4970 years

Numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
No. The maintainers of Popcorn Time might be able to be held accountable, but GitHub is a platform. As long as GitHub follows the take-down process laid out by the DMCA, they have what is called "safe harbor", which means that they are immunized from claims for copyright infringement.
I think I only did one edit to add the cases, won't edit that comment any more.

I did disclaim that those are broader than DMCA. I'm well aware of the distinctions.

You're looking only for final judgements? I have a handful where a judge ordered the DMCA notice to be retracted and ordered them not to refile it, and then the case settled, presumably on favorable terms.

I agree DMCA cases seem to be harder to win than trademark/patent abuse.
But that's not what Grokster said. It was to the effect that if you promote your service for piracy then you're liable even if it does have non-infringing uses.

The result has, ironically, been quite an inconvenience for copyright holders, because it meant that the developers of piracy-enabling services merely stopped promoting them as such even though nothing about the technology was any different, which made it harder to shut them down because of the optics. If you have someone producing a mixed-use technology but actively promoting it for infringement then it's easier to convince a judge that they're the bad guys. Now that any company with lawyers doesn't do that anymore, it's a lot harder to paint that picture.

Technology-wise there isn't much in Popcorn Time that wouldn't still be there in a legitimate YouTube competitor.

And this gets double complicated when it's software rather than a service because (presumably) the liability for promoting infringement would be on the people doing the promoting, but what does that mean for the software? What happens if somebody else who isn't promoting infringement starts distributing a version of the same code? Is it different than some independent code which does exactly the same thing?
This has happened before: https://lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/722

Looks like they're trying again since Github was acquired by a big corp (Microsoft).
I believe takedowns usually cause forks to be deleted as well.
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It should be law that airlines cannot seat people so closely, at least until Covid passes.

If they need to double or triple the airfare, so be it. I don't think increasing the price will alter demand that much, I don't see how people will rush back to travel unless it is absolutely necessary - thus price sensitivity will be fairly inelastic as a result.
Not once, no.
GitHub can decide a takedown notice is facially invalid. Of course if it's later found that they're wrong by a court of competent jurisdiction, they'd be in trouble, so they're likely to be extremely conservative in making this determination.
> Unlimited copies of a single point of failure remains a single point of failure.

There's no single point of failure if any single point can fail without destroying the private key. Cash is inferior in many ways, can't restore from backup if you've burned a $100 bill to ashes by accident.

> Traditional bank accounts are insured by the government which is also the sole issuer of the currency. To the extent the government remains functional your cash is secure, safe and insured.

Nice in theory, doesn't really work in practice. Look up how little the insurance funds actually have per every insured account. Where I live, accounts are insured up to 100 000 EUR and the insurance fund has 400 EUR per account. Should shit hit the fan with any bigger bank, the money printing press will go brrrrrr and everyone will get poorer through inflation, because the insurance fund has nowhere near the money to cover the promised amount. Crypto exchanges can't rob customers like that, their failures are more obvious.
Business Value Innovation
Git’s style of decentralization, still requires individual git servers no? Is there something like git, but based on magnet/torrent architecture?
Thank you for this viewpoint (and its underlying optimism). 100% agree with what you're saying here.
> Agreed, but who can you really get mad at? The lone, inevitably overworked SWE that was asked to shoulder the entire burden of the business he worked for? Or management, who most likely denied that SWE the support he wanted?

There are plenty of SWEs that just don't know any better. I know because I was one of them while writing a lot of software for a business.
Well, to move back from the abstraction, Visual Source Safe is truly awful, and you're never safe from it losing your code :)
Not sure anyone ever gets prosecuted for perjury. It's the norm in divorce cases, for example.
That's certainly possible. But it's important to note that it's not a direct precedent. You'd lose points in law school for that.
In terms of aptitude testing, going through some books like "How to Prove It" and working on rigorous proofs-based material (perhaps an introductory analysis book with lots of diagrams) will be helpful. As will brushing up on geometry-lots of people memorize a lot of geometry in middle school/high school, do well in their class, and forget it. Geometric concepts continue to appear throughout math and having a deep grasp of them is super helpful for your first "rigorous" math classes, where the secret to finishing a proof often lies in visualizing or drawing it correctly.
I want to point out how absurd it is that you're talking about "civil disobedience" which amounts to watching video content without paying for it. One would think you're some sort of freedom fighter, but you're just advocating for watching tv shows and movies.

Maybe walk back the rhetoric, calling people who disagree with you "bootlickers", etc.
next they will take down Reynolds Wrap because people can use it to smoke crack.
I often say that I think the greatest stroke of genius that Facebook had was calling it 'Friending' and 'Unfriending' instead of 'Add to your contacts' and 'Remove from your contacts'.
> Spending a few weeks in the ICU is a good way to bankrupt yourself on the path towards returning to regular work, let alone how hard a ventilator is on even survivors.

Ok, I'm willing to consider devil's argument, but this is just plain ridiculuous. The great bulk of infected people classsify this as "mild". If you're young, strong, and healthy, your chances of dying from this are basically zero in any common sense way. And far more people are going to "get bankrupt on the way to work" as you say using the current method. We're not trying to find a perfect solution, we are trying to find the better one.
Looks like there are still hundreds of popcorn time derivatives floating around: https://github.com/search?q=popcorn+time&ref=opensearch
by that token duckduckgo should be taken down : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=watch+movies+online+free&ia=news . This is literally the only thing I use ddg for.
Can you provide specific numbers?
We need to be driving test numbers up until only 3-5% are showing positive in order to be confident about low prevalence in an area. I don't see a problem with false positives encouraging asymptomatic people to get tested - it's as good of a sub-population as any.
Right, I should have added the implied "if they refuse to comply with the notice."
Nobody likes the DMCA, but this thread is about whether the content falls afoul of it assuming it exists and is enforced. In this case the done is gray but probably closer to black as the tool explicitly links to sources for pirated content.
Every torrent I've gotten off archive.org has just been links to the http seed file and no trackers.
> I'm surprised Jeff is offering his videos for free too though

I figured it would also offer people a distraction / way to learn something during the workday (or night, I guess, outside of US and most of Europe). I've considered doing a full-fledged course a few times (and have had offers to do it for a couple different platforms), but live streaming it kind of forces the issue, and has helped me get a little more structure on my YouTube channel, which has kind of been festering since 2006 :D

Now I'm considering moving on to a similar 'Kubernetes 101' at some point, maybe. It's _relatively_ fun for me, and if it opens up possibilities of another group like Device42 sponsoring portions of it, that would be a net benefit IMO—most of the free content I see is absolute-ground-level and doesn't really get far enough to make someone productive.

I know for myself, having really good intro-course-level content free would've helped my growth earlier in my career (before I was able to get my workplace to pay for decent training material and conference travel).
Its a skirmish in the campaign being waged by our intelligence services and others who insist the Russian government has been waging a secret campaign to attack our country and "sow division" by using sockpuppets and spam posts on a variety of platforms.

I don't have much of a problem with this ruling given that all commenters were warned:

"every commenter was provided with a privacy notice, stating that '[a]ll information submitted, including names and addresses, will be publicly available via the Web.'"
Actual title: "Bannon’s Worldview: Dissecting the Message of ‘The Fourth Turning’"
If I personally "watch video content" without paying for it, that doesn't amount to much. If everyone does, that amounts to a hell of a lot more. That's how civil disobedience works.
“Absurd Chinese Notions”
Here’s a good Medium post on why C++ is undecidable: https://medium.com/@mujjingun_23509/full-proof-that-c-gramma...
For the ppl complaining about the ESC key, real vi users use a separate racing wheel with haptic feedback to get back to normal mode.
Maybe they will be acquired by BestBuy, as well?
But there seems to be a lot of dark patterns used by the press, and in the recent years it has only seemed to increase: Click-baitism, Gellman-Amnesia, rudimentary fact checking fails, feelings-journalism, a general sense of self righteousness and superiority, act self-defesively, seeking power to act as gatekeepers of information (They seem to like to push a 'gatekeepers are good narrative'), and are often too trusting of government, police and armed forces.

Even recently when I watch the Trump briefings, I see journalists speaking as if in anger because the President is belittling them: especially when he played his compilation video: they where quick to dub it as a campaign video, and networks cut it from the broadcast: but mostly in contained clips of TV news downplaying the Covid-19 situation. No whatever the motivations of Trump are, the media seem to act self-defesively, even with anger and resentment around him. Trump may hate the press, but the feeling appears to mutual now: but really the press shouldn't love or hate anyone.

Also I see lot of journalists ask Trump a question and then constantly interrupt him while He is answering: this dose not look good on TV for the journalists credibility is my view.
orrrrr don't install it at all, or delete the app when Covid-19 is no longer a threat like I plan to do.
If you're aware of the distinctions, then why are you bringing up irrelevant trademark / patent / counterfeiting cases?

A required retraction is not much of a legal sanction.

I love having interesting discussions about this topic, but this discussion isn't one.
This is very cool stuff. Keno is a great rr contributor, and I'm grateful for his Pernosco shout-out :-).

This sort of capability has always been part of my vision for rr/Pernosco. I want to see more projects like this doing record-and-replay capture of bugs in the field. With more projects depending on this sort of infrastructure, we can get more attention from OS/hardware people to make the record-and-replay systems better, and then I think we can reach a tipping point where it becomes best practice. Eventually we should be looking back and wondering why, as an industry, we didn't go in this direction earlier.
To completely stop doing tech professionally, or to ignore everything, to build up thick skin, and say "it's up to other people how my inventions are used."

I'm curious to what you think is the fundamental nature of science and engineering. Is science only intellectual curiosity just for the sake of it?
The anti-vax movement challenges science itself; the anti-Google/Apple movement challenges corporate-level ethics and human control over identity. You can independently reproduce experiments demonstrating the efficacy of medicine. You can’t reproduce the faith that you place in your own corporation.
even better if they use some of the preliminary infection flow in small spaces research[0] to design a seating arrangement to minimize transmission, figure out which air vents should be open, etc.

you can be seated 60cm to the right of someone and not be infected, but 6 meters behind or infront and get infected

[0] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article
I’d do it. Everyone is going to catch this. I think I already had it (doesn’t everyone?) but in the event I didn’t, if I could volunteer to get infected I would do it.
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They already exist, i saw a video on hvac systems used in a moroccan pop-up hospital, air coming in or leaving the building goes through filtration and then through a désinfection machine. They didn't explain the method used though.
No, the MPAA is going to sue them now.

To file a counter notice, they must have a "good faith" reason for their dispute.

The MPAA's claim is that Popcorn is used for piracy. IANAL and don't know the case law, so I don't know if it has merit.

But a "good faith" dispute has to address the claim. Their dispute is arguing that they own the code. The MPAA never claimed they don't, that's simply not responding to the substance of their argument.

They should really get an attorney. FFS, at least read the counter notice guidelines; I think they believe they're dealing with Github customer support.
Quest labs now offers the antibody test to anyone for $120.
I think it's about the difference between being able to expect a certain level of service or not; regardless of what the actual average is.

And about the worst-case scenario and the perception for me of a point-to-point architecture.

If I email something, then if it's "largely" encrypted, that is no consolation if that doesn't hold. I'd feel it was on me for doing it.

On the other hand, if I fax something, and someone who shouldn't sees it, it's likely an insider at the destination location, and in any case, it's not my fault as long as faxing is regarded as reasonably secure.