skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This an interesting addition to my line of thought which was, basically, "giving them away free is good PR" which, of course, drives attention and sales.

If every book publisher (say, in the tech industry) announced free books at the same time, would this person's sales have increased by the same amount? Almost certainly not. Would they have increased at all? .. probably?

But your comment adds a new twist, which is the timing/price discrimination side, where, to run an experiment, we'd also have to control for works that were already out vs not, by running this experiment on new releases as well as works already available for sale for some amount of time.
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And this right here is why I've been working remotely with american companies while living in Asia. I can go, take advantage of the beautiful weather in the afternoon and hike or feel refreshed, then get to work until the middle of the night.
Doesn’t Google deny DMCA requests sometimes?
Oh come on, you can say that for any flu epidemic.
Unfortunately the law does not see it that way. Your or my insistence that this is ridiculous doesn’t change the fact that this probably isn’t abuse of the DMCA.
The Pulitzer Prize was created by the founder of yellow journalism ( AKA 1800s fake news ) - Joseph Pulitzer. Is this a prize that journalists or journalism should be supporting? It would be a like a physics award created by a flat earther.

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

But I guess congratulations are in order.
And the amount of times I've seen a cop perjure themselves is unreal.

We know that our former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper perjured himself before congress with impunity as well. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/19/james-clap...
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[taste] It would be cool if this were a blog post or something so I could refer to it someplace more canonical than this post. I would like to try and use it in my own projects.
How much do monoclonal antibody treatments cost, per patient, usually?

For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570079/

Also, how much of the high cost is research cost, and how much of that is per-unit production cost?
I have been dealing with the computers for a long time, and I know they fail. The hardware breaks, my computer gets malware, vendor's computer gets malware, I get nothing, I get wrong item and vendor is unresponsive, software makes errors, I type the wrong thing and click the wrong button.

I think it is a terrible idea to keep any significant amount of money in any place where it is easy to lose, like a cryptocurrency. And if you are recommending cryptocurrency as a safe storage to someone who is not an expert, you should feel bad, because you are lying to them.

And the worst part of all, is cryptcoiners _never_ _listen_. In fact, directly in the message you are replying to, I wrote: "No one wants to lose their money because they lost some token or paper, and their computer broke." And what was your response? You point me to hardware wallet.

The hardware wallets are great if you are a crypto expert. If you are a regular person, you are going to be lose your recovery words and forget your password after vacation, and then you'll (almost) lose $30K like Mark Frauenfelder did [0]

Telling people to use crypto for significant amounts of money is like encouraging them to juggle live grenades. Yes, it looks cool and pretty safe if you know the trick. But if everyone starts doing this, someone will get killed.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-...

https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-...
Hosting this kind of software on a US based server is just plain daft.
Depending on who you ask, they are or aren’t.
You forgot about education falling apart, except perhaps for the Ivy League where it's more about connections than learning.

I see the lower ends of education almost completely being disrupted into commodity online learning programs and people abandoning the school systems to get ahead by focusing and learning only what they actually need for certain jobs/careers.
Hi all, I'm pretty excited to get this out there for you. I had published this this morning, so I could be around through the day to answer any questions, but things were a bit delayed by the HN algorithm gods (- thanks dang for rescuing it ;) ). That said, I'll check in periodically for the next hour or two if there's any questions I can answer.
No, it doesn’t. They can do the exact thing Apple is doing which is to accept or reject each app on an individual basis instead of blanket refusing every app that is even related to Covid.

What they’re effectively doing is creating a monopoly in the private sector. No other private company is allowed.
No but they do have liability to perform background checks as per law before selling the firearm. If they do so, they are ok. If not, the law will go after them. This is not dis-similar to how GitHub has safe harbor as long as it follows the DCMA process

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Preve...
> 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.

This reminds me of a semi-relevant experiment that happened in the underground UK bass music community; most labels are privately owned and self-releasing albums are the norm.

So, somewhere in 2009ish Vinyl was coming back within the consumer Market, it was always strong within the DJ and producer community as dubplates were a form of currency to show exclusiveness and clout to get people to come out to the raves to hear a certain 'sound.'

But, it occurred to the label owners and producers that they were losing a lot of money to the downloads, so instead they started to offer free digital DLs with the purchase of any vinyl pressing from these labels/producers. This was a direct response to customers voicing their opinions on forums and radio show chats/comments that made an effective feedback system possible.

I used to have to wait 2-5 weeks for a vinyl to arrive, and the USD-GBP exchange rate was horrible, so I often resorted just getting the digital version, but after having lost my collections due to failed HDDs twice I knew I had to change.

And once they offered this option the community responded and an influx of vinyl purchases started to come in from everywhere creating 2-3rd pressings just to fulfill demand Soon after that low-cost vinyl players were starting to gain traction and it really took off, as it was seen as somewhat of a status symbol.

Now, every bandcamp artist worth it's salt has limited pressings with exclusive deals that offer this as the model proved successful--many of the artists I follow are often sold out within a week.

The Freemium model can be pretty effective, I used it in my startup to some success: but 60x is beyond anyone's expectations, congrats!

Sidenote: the aforementioned music community had its humble beginnings as a Pirate Radio station and being a platform to highlight local talent in an emerging scene. Years later Red Bull Music Academy would come around and invest tons of money in PR and events for those same artists.
The law agrees with me in former case, and disagrees with me in the latter. In the case of PopcornTime, this is an abuse of the DMCA, plain and square. I'm also pointing out that in clear-cut cases of the DMCA, I think the law is wrong, and I side with the defendant, in spite of the law. The law is not the arbiter of my personal code of ethics.
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As someone who took three years off once to backpack, came back, and who is disillusioned again, I guess my one piece of advice is to not have kids while you're working in tech.

If you do, you immediately get used to the income, and then you get addicted. Not in a "high" sense, but you start expecting the best things for your kids. And then you're stuck for the next 20 years.

I'd say spend the first five years with kids in a lower-income role (assuming that's where you are now). Get used to that. Then if you're tempted by tech career again you can try it out and jump back out if you want.
The problem with that statement is that in the eyes of the media consumer, nothing was stolen because it was duplicated and thus nobody 'lost' anything. With money, that wouldn't be the case because it can only exist in one place at a time. Media, however, is not taken from one place and put in another place, but is copied.

On the other hand, the 'stealing' isn't as much the media, as it is the 'consuming' of it. I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but a lot of people don't think of it as accessing information that isn't public and has a price to access it (be it books, movies, games), but the lawyers (and probably the 'legal owners') do look at it that way. Of course a lot of PR happens during wording and publication and it's much easier to say 'this bad person stole this movie' instead of 'this person gained access and consumed this information while not being allowed to do that'.
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In theory, hosting code that runs any part of the internet could be construed to aid in such infringement.

Napster was centralized, that was a different set of facts. I don't know what happened to Limewire.

I watched the Mega Upload saga closely when it all played out. The government's case was pretty flimsy (even without accounting for obvious problems with jurisdiction). They argued that employees of Mega Upload were aware of infringing content, maintained lists of infringing content, made infringing content easy to find, and were generally just an illegal file sharing site. It's quite a fascinating case, it's been ongoing for over 7 years now.

Ultimately, why is it any business of the government to safeguard the precious movies? They should have to run their own security and settle matters civilly. There should be absolutely no criminal penalties for copyright infringement.
I don't have any drugs, but I can give you coordinates of where some are buried if you pay me. Am I a drug dealer?
I wrote nearly this exact message in my mood journal today. I haven't had it quite as bad as the author, but I'm extremely, and it feels like permanently, burned out of working for a business/corporation. I fundamentally hate it. I walked out of my first corporate job after a month and now that I'm on my second, all I can think about is walking out. I hate it. I hate it so much. Every single day feels like I'm ruining my life and disappointing every teacher, family member, and friend I've ever had. On the way to work I fantasize about getting in a car accident. Like the author, I can't think about intellectual things anymore - I was in a grocery store this weekend trying to decide between a $3.99 and $4.98 item and I couldn't figure out which was the lower number.

I've been thinking about quitting and going to work at a grocery store for a while. It's not going to pay well but it'll pay more than being dead if you know what I mean.
True - I think there should not be an option to sit adjacent to someone if you are not booking together.
Why do people say never? It has happened, albeit extremely rarely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
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> I suspect we'll never know the true story of what happened with Dean Allen; looking back, there were definite signs even from as far removed as I am of him battling with depression, but of course, I'm writing this now with hindsight.

Or he just liked to drink. Have you seen this piece from Om Malik?

https://om.co/2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/

There's a story in there about Dean Allen getting drunk and locking Om Malik out of the apartment. ;)
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In this hypothetical situation, you would personally be giving me the drugs, albiet indirectly. It's not much different from if you set them down on the table next to me. How about this: if you want to get some drugs in Philadelphia, I'll give you directions to Kensington. You hop on the Market-Frankford line, get off at the Kensington stop, and take a walk up Frankford Avenue. There are lots of dealers hanging around there who would be happy to get you your fix.

Did I just commit a crime? I don't think so. Call the cops if you disagree, I'll stand in court for it.
I think it's worth noting that's a US law and the way things are going with GDPR etc, it wouldn't surprise me if another country viewed things differently.
When I was a child, my father had a 'Scientific American' monthly magazine subscription for our household.

I always got a kick out of the regular features, "50 years ago" and "100 years ago", where they excerpted their own actual articles from exactly that long ago. Definitely gave me a sense of perspective on the march of scientific understanding.

(By 1995, they were able to add "150 years ago", as they'd been in existence since 1845.)
Yes, a good example was the use of pre-taped matches like "Ultimate Deletion" and the recent "Boneyard Match", if not overused will be a good solution for some matches. It would be give us nice Dream Matches like Undertaker Vs Stinger, even Foley posted on Twitter he could wrestle on this type of match.
It's all about "primary purpose". The getpopcorntime website clearly shows that its primary purpose is to link to torrents to be able to watch free copyrighted movies. On the contrary, Google goes to great lengths now to make it harder to find free copyrighted content, and in any case Google has an easy case for its legal use.
I thank Seth Godin for his advice on writing.

Blogging has become a daily ritual in my life for sometime.

wake up > make coffee > write a post.
My town has never fixed a stop sign that’s angled toward the wrong road. Humans just assume it’s for the smaller road. I’m not sure how a self driving car will ever figure it out.
But your logic, my project should also be DMCA'd?

https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim
No, thank you for all your work on this :). Building something like rr is only possible with some really solid engineering and I think you managed to accomplish that. I think we're aligned on the vision here. I bring up rr every time I speak to hardware people, but of course the first question they ask is "how many people need this right now?". With this I'm hoping to be able to increase the answer to that by an order of magnitude or so ;).
A company that can sell $700 wheels for a desktop case deserves to be worth $1 trillion. A truly remarkable brand.
Who else could pull that off?
Download a pleasant language distribution with a capable base library and documentation, like Racket.

You might not need to do everything in the fastest or most scalable way. Like how a writer in a cabin will produce something that later needs editing and typesetting for mass distribution. So, like, if you forgot how to use an SQL database or didn’t bring Postgres, just serialize a big hash table and do your queries in your programming language.

So you can build the program out of parts that you might need to replace once you’re back online.

You can also do a lot of work with a specification language like TLA+ where you don’t need to actually implement every algorithm. If you need a hash function you can just postulate a function from your domain type to the naturals.
With see-through it is possible to increase density without it being obvious coffins. Instead - behold the cozy aquariums. So, yes it stays.

Anybody thinking/celebrating that we'll get less density because of covid are dreaming a nice dream:)
> I was deliberately provocative and I'm glad I was. I've got far better responses as a result.

I would tend to argue that this isn’t something we need on Hacker News. (Also, it’s “oblate”. To “ablate” is to erode.)
There's a CLI named k9s[0] but it works like a GUI. It's pretty slick IMO.

[0]: https://github.com/derailed/k9s
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You seem to have a balance, good for you.
I'm going with it was an excuse to make a unnamed dig at Microsoft owning Github.
Mean age on Diamond Princess was 62, and the paper doesn't break lung damage up by subpopulations like "younger people" so it's hard to generalize. But I'm not blase.

Plenty of comments implying that we're "all going to get it", which may be pretty much true in some areas in the US and Europe. I'm still holding out hope that being in Australia we may get a handle on it (although we just saw a huge cluster in a meatpacking plant). It's interesting to think that we might be heading for a world where some countries have had 60% prevalence and others have had 0.6% prevalence - what does that do for travel, trade, migration, tourism - all that stuff?
Tech books are not all in competition with each other, seems to me. Free or not, something has to be of interest to me and good enough to cover opportunity costs.
I don’t follow your logic.

Without copyright, someone else could take the author’s books and give them away or sell them without attribution. How would he benefit from that?
Well, the DMCA is supposedly only for taking down things you actually have the copyright to. I don't think that most DMCA abuse ever gets litigated and a lot of it consists of spam letters claiming that X is infringing on their copyright of Y, even when this is absurd. Alas, the law only has perjury when their claim to own Y is false, not when their claim to own X is wrong, however absurd that claim my be.

They may have other legal claims against PopcornTime for facilitating piracy on whatever basis, but I sincerely doubt they actually own any of the copyrights to the code itself, which is ostensibly what they claim when filing a DMCA claim. But hosts generally respond even to defective DMCA notices, so they've learned just to demand takedowns first and sort anything else out after the fact. There's no reason to expend any effort if they can get what they want with a simple letter and that's something I've learned holds true across most legal endeavors. It seems like a lawyer's first action is almost always to draft a letter demanding whatever they want on whatever basis, oftentimes getting results for a single, rather expensive piece of legal letterhead.
Locals avoid Casinos unless they work there. I lived there only for a year but avoiding tourists was primary #1.
> Look I think we're talking past eachother here

No, we're not talking past each other. At this point, you're arguing with your own source whether Ripple is centralized or not.
>If the code were an ATM pin code cracker, would that be any different?

No. Lots of pen testing stuff exists in the open source realm. A society that allows exploits to be "free speech" is anti-fragile.
user namespaces are supposed to do this, but they're disabled (or root-setup-only) on a lot of distros as a security precaution.
Your (2) ignores the dependency of civilian air traffic on working radios, AND GPS.

Your (3) ignores the TIME it takes to manufacture AND deliver/deploy grid-level/substation grade transformers.

There aren't many spares around, and it's not like you could buy them at the Home Depot/Lowes, etc.

Actually, if you're so inclined, you could gather that from various press releases of the involved parties, which i happened to come across because of idly watching various youtube videos of said heavy transports, which linked back to those. It's often a very complicated and slow multimodal operation, by ship, rail, and street, involving large detours to avoid bridges and other obstacles.
Only if you have no legitimate reason to retain it, under the gdpr. Which isn’t relevant here anyway as the US (outside California) doesn’t have anything similar. In this case, the rules require a period of public comment. You could argue whether the IP address is relevant to this public comment, but there’s at least an argument that it is (in this case the concern is that a lot of the public comment may be fake).

Even in countries implementing the gdpr, I’d expect that metadata is retained in this sort of usecase.
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Will projects like this switch to using Gitlab? Is there a reason they don’t?
They get 42 million visitors per year and 20% are international

https://www.lvcva.com/stats-and-facts/visitor-statistics/faq...
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Vegas in winter is pretty cold. I was there for CES this year and the weather was nothing like I'd imagined.
What a brilliant idea!

Cloud support for open/save would be excellent. Google Drive, GitHub and S3.

Also a general API.
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The patient presented with the exact symptoms of the virus, tested negative for other diseases that cause similar symptoms, and had two separate labs report the sample as positive for Covid. I'd say it's far more likely than not that this patient actually did have the virus. December 27th is not even a farfetched date to get the virus given that it was reportedly spreading in China in late November.

> Clearly they wanted the result as well.

Based on what? If anything, I'd say it's clear you don't want the result.
I don't think many people in amazon agree with Tim Bray. The pragmatic ones know that these kind of stories have a heavy political overtone , but more importantly amazon probably have better conditions than all other retailers in the world. Granted it is not perfect but a more meaningful way to change the condition of minimum wage or low wage laborers is through legislative changes or basic income schemes.
> In theory, hosting code that runs any part of the internet could be construed to aid in such infringement.

These kinds of theories have been roundly thrown out in court. What really matters is whether the primary purpose of your app is copyright infringement. It's clear from any "average" person that the getpopcorntime website is promoting the ability to watch copyrighted movies for free. Contrast that with bitorrent itself, which is clearly used for tons of infringement, but it also has a clear legitimate purpose WRT large file distribution, and importantly it doesn't promote itself by shouting "watch free movies" from the rooftops.
is the private data PRISM safe?
There is also dgit which is git with Tupelo for the distributed hash tables and Sia's skynet for the storage layer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22684945
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Alaska airlines has already taken measures of blocking off middle seats and aisles on smaller planes. If you try and purchase a seat right now, the airline tells you:

- All middle seats on large aircraft are blocked for purchase through 5/31/20.

- All aisle seats on small aircraft are blocked for purchase through 5/31/20.

I do wonder if this will continue base the end of may though.