skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, tail is such a trivially easy program to use. There's like 2 switches that matter to me, one of which requires a value as well. Keeping things super simple is a really important thing, and I guess I had taken it for granted that everyone using gnu-style tools would be on the same wavelength - for the most part, at any rate. FWIW, I can't bear to read the awk or sed man pages either.

I fundamentally agree with you; learning something new is not necessarily a bad thing. Forcing you to learn something when you're actively trying to figure something utterly unrelated out is where it gets dicey. Not everyone wants to do the "Malcom in the Middle Hal Changing a Lightbulb" routine when there's already a Very Important Thing to Fix.

The problem with systemd is that it took something that already worked perfectly fine for my needs and said "let's overengineer the everloving pants out of this! get in the car grandpa, it's time to roll!" I didn't ask for it, I have WAY more important (to me!) things to do, and it's actively running interference with that. Surely you can see that level of frustration, right?

Put another way, I'm sure it's a LOVELY bikeshed for some. Some people have wanted a bikeshed this fantastic and wonderful for a long time, and they will use this bikeshed with great joy daily.

Meanwhile, every time I'm trying to get something I actually care about done, it's like pulling teeth. Maybe I'm using it wrong, and I'll be the first to admit I have the patience of a toddler when it comes to reading the man pages. What I can DEFINITELY say, though, is that if systemd never existed my quality of life would be doubtless better than it does with it existing. That's really the only metric I need.

Like I said: definitely in old man yells at cloud territory, maybe crossed with a dash of lazy man commits to further laziness and myopic man can't see the forest for the trees. I'm not saying you are bad to like systemd, I'm saying that it made changes I didn't ask for, it didn't do it in a way that was painless and approachable without a time commitment, and I've yet to be satisfactorily convinced that the value proposition is worth it - not for my uses, at any rate.
Yes you can[1], which is exactly why you don't really want to roll the dice even if you appear okay after the initial infection.

[1] https://epmonthly.com/article/neuropsych-complications-flu-v...
God must’ve been a hadron shot out of a particle accelerator then, because He’s going pretty fast…
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The little guy can get a Netflix or Hulu subscription. It isn’t like someone has locked away a Van Gogh painting and has ordered all prints destroyed. Don’t like Hulu or Netflix? Start your own company and negotiate your own deals with the content owners.
> misbehave

That spin does kinda trivialize the conduct of hooligans - things like simple assault or battery won't be enough, it's more like if you're involved in a specific football hooligan gang, and conspire to do grevious bodily harm and/or arrange organized fights between gangs, and you must have a prior conviction too: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Practically I agree with you, but I'm not sure there actually is a distinction in a legal sense. Technically Popcorn Time can be used to watch legal/non-pirated content, so they have some form of plausible deniability.

I could go down the street to the smoke shop and buy myself a bong right now, because technically I could use it to smoke tobacco, even though everyone knows that's not what 99% of people are doing with them. You don't see the ATF or DEA shutting them down.
Either something is illegal or it isn't.

There isn't some magical gray zone where someone can feel like something should be illegal and therefore the actions of someone else are illegal.
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Why aren’t we looking into uv lamps in the air handlers? Or could a plane have a way to continually flush out old air and bring in new air?

It’s 2020 we should use more technology.
> You can measure and verify that the Sun can't be keeping the Earth this warm, if it was just down to the Sun this place would be uninhabitable.

This is somewhat misleading because the Sun is pretty much the sole energy source for keeping the surface of the Earth warm:

> Despite its geological significance, this heat energy coming from Earth's interior is actually only 0.03% of Earth's total energy budget at the surface, which is dominated by 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation. [1]

The problem posed by Kelvin was the the interior of the Earth was too warm, which may affect long-term habitability because plate tectonics plays a role in regulating the atmosphere's CO2 levels (or so I've heard), but of course nobody at Kelvin's time knew that. Kelvin wasn't asking "Why isn't the Earth a dead planet?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget
I'm not so sure about it being DMCA abuse. You're likely to be convicted of murder if your wife ends up dead and you recently published something that said, "I'm not paying anyone to murder my wife, but if my wife ends up dead, I'll bet someone will randomly find $10k in a duffel bag." Judges and juries are people, not robots, and they can read between the lines. Talking around a crime by saying stuff like, "I'm not a pirate, I only published detailed instructions and make it really easy for other people to be a pirate" is not going to hold up in court. It's pretty clear that even if PopCornTime wasn't committing crimes themselves, they bore some responsibility by enabling other people to commit crimes.

The discussion about whether digital piracy should be illegal is a separate discussion, for now it is illegal and PopCornTime's number finally came up. They the aren't the first piracy enabling tool (UseNet, Napster, BitTorrent, etc.) and they won't be the last. But it is true that the systems that survive are decentralized. PopCornTime was/is pretty decentralized overall, they just took a hit at one of their centralized points. I'm sure there will be several new repositories that appear in other places around the web very soon.
> concatenation is associative while subtraction is left-associative

Yes, exactly my point: `sum ::= term '-' sum` is right-associative, and therefore not a correct syntax for subtraction. Similarly, place-value notation[0] is left-associative, so `nat ::= digit | digit nat`, which is right-associative, is not a valid grammer for a place-value-notation natural number.

0: well, big-endian place-value notation, which is what we're talking about here
No. That implies that I have any respect for content owners or any willingness to play by their rules - and I don't, and I won't.

>It isn’t like someone has locked away a Van Gogh painting

It is exactly like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
"Perfect 10" is famous for filing obviously invalid DMCA takedowns and then suing. They've even won, e.g. Perfect 10 vs Yandex.
I remember the mobile subscriber numbers, but it doesn't look like any other data points have corroborated that story (no changes in electric bills, other utilites, etc.)

Plus the China numbers match Italy and elsewhere. I doubt their real numbers are that much off from their official released numbers. If they were, we'd see it around the world by now.
isn’t popcorn time nothing more than a BitTorrent client with a video player?

https://superuser.com/questions/617264/difference-between-bi...
But very hard for everyone else. The e-passport chip needs to be signed with the government's private key. Also, governments publish lists of all the e-passports they've created, so they could slip a few by but if they started creating large amounts of passports it would be noticed.
There is no such thing as a DMCA notice for contributory copyright infringement. A DMCA take down notice describes a particular resource that the claimant claims to be their intellectual property.

It is a straightforward I own foo. Using it to take down a tool that helps people access foo is perjury. It's just that we will actually jail people for committing the kind of crimes poor people commit but we refuse to prosecute the crimes rich people commit.

It's entirely possible that in the scope of another legal action the parties behind popcorn time might lose out THAT unlike this is the actually complex question.

This is pretty straightforward. 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.
Interesting to read. The Sun is referred to as 'he' and people were just beginning to understand how heat energy and mechanical energy could be transformed into one another.

"He has enlightened our globe from one generation to another without any apparent diminution of strength, and we have formed the instinctive belief that no limit in the past or any in the future can be assigned to his functions. No proof of progress or decay has been detected ; and it has been thought that nothing but the fiat of the Almighty can quench his rays. Principles have now been recognized, however, which enable us to assign limits, and to show that he has not shone from a past eternity, and that he has a limited existence as an incandescent body. This limit assigned to the solar system forces us to recognize the hand of a Creator."

"The meteoric stones that sometimes fall to our earth may be regarded as balls, but moving with much greater velocity. They strike against our atmosphere with so much force that the force is converted into heat, so intense that they glow or become incandescent. .... Assuming that the heat of the sun has been kept up by meteoric bodies falling into it, and proof has been given of such fall, it is possible from the mass of the solar system to determine approximately the period during which the sun has shone as a luminary"

"Limits can be set to the fuel of the solar system, and therefore limits can also be assigned to the existence of the sun as our luminary. The limits lie between 100 millions and 400 millions of years. These are enormous periods, but still they are definite. The mass is so great,and the cooling is so slow, that, even on the supposition that no fuel was added, it might be five or six thousand years before the sun cooled down a single degree."
I think big pharma companies are corrupt and charge too much, but I wouldn't rob a drug store because of it. Similarly, just because copyright terms are horrifically overextended doesn't mean I think it's okay to steal movies.
Let this sink in:

NYT hired the founding editor of BuzzFeed News, whose nearly first article at NYT was investigating NYT's cover-up of Reade's allegations and exposing NYT's collusion with the Biden campaign, in the form of an interview with an NYT executive editor who freely admits it all and can't understand what all the fuss is about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-...

BuzzFeed News is the team bringing integrity to the NYT.
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Remember all those articles about cats and dogs getting this? And even tigers. What ever happened with that?
The DMCA law says nothing about contributory copyright infringement, only direct.
I am not opposed to copyright law that makes it illegal to sell somebody else's work for profit. But what's the difference between me giving you a copy of the book for free (with attribution) and the author giving you a copy of the book?

I am opposed to copyright that stops people from copying works they have purchased (or obtained elsewhere) and distributing them. And my argument was that, as shown by the post, giving copies away for free can actually increase overall sales rather than decrease them.
The passport RFID chip contains the expiration date, so you can eliminate expired passports.
Copyrights on movies should not last longer than ‘copyrights’ of new drugs and technologies.

20 years?
This stat is pretty much always just a direct comparison between grads, right? I wonder how different it would be if you took into account confounders like economic class. I assume much of the widening is college becoming standard, and therefore the only people who don't attend are those who either can't and are disadvantaged in general or those who don't feel particularly ambitious about their career
Robbing drug stores is different. You're hurting someone who isn't at fault - your local pharmacist - and stealing something of material value.

Now, if you want to talk about synthesising "copyrighted" drugs and giving them away, or even selling them for a fraction of the price, I'm with you 100%.
My limited understanding is that the DMCA does forbid circumvention: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

However, the section involving takedown notices doesn't seem to be related: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

So as best as my non-lawyer brain can figure, one shouldn't use the DMCA to take down anything other that content that infringes the copyright of the person sending the DMCA notice. Since the attachments to the DMCA notice were redacted, we can't see what they're claiming as direct infringement.

However, I'm not sure it's Github's job to decide that. In theory PopcornTime can file a counternotice saying the do indeed own everything in the repo.
Las Vegas residents go to stores, restaurants, gyms, etc just like everyone else. Other than the casinos it's an average urban areas.
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Hm, it would be a closer analogy to Popcorn Time if you made a autonomous vehicle which drives to Frankford Avenue, buys the drugs with a robotic arm, and then carries them back to the car's owner.

I'll admit, I'm not actually sure where the law would fall in that situation, but I think the police would have a lot of questions for the car manufacturer, and I'd be on their side.
But it's not the first time popcorn time gets shut down because of a DMCA request. Yet it has been re-enabled every time, that's a clear indication of a DMCA abuse IMHO.
Makes sense, but they should allow middle seats it if they're buying three seats and one or more of them is for children.
> I'm sorry to burst your bubble

Thank god for free speech which allows people to burst bubbles.

> but the best protection is not free speech and studies have shown cognitive bias enables people to effectively ignore what disrupts their beliefs.

I know, that's why free speech is important. If people are shown to be cognitively biased, then censorship is the worst thing for society since it keeps people in their bias. Yes, people can ignore whatever they want. It's life. How is censorship an answer here?

> And very likely you yourself are also affected, in this case by your very belief in free speech.

My belief in free speech comes from getting an education and actually thinking about it.

> You hold it so intimately that it has become a core of your own self.

Oh god. This is so obvious and pathetic projecting.

Using your logic, you should be against censorship as it fosters cognitive biases and enables people to live in their bubbles. Without free speech, abolition movement, civil rights movement, lgbt movement, etc can't happen. Without free speech, countries and cultures can't discuss ideas and progress.

Once again, ask yourself why nazi germany, soviet union, north korea, etc love censorship? And ask yourself why you love censorship. It's for the same exact reason. Control and wanting to protect your bubble.

The difference between you and me is that I don't mind my bubble being challenged or bursted. My bubble didn't become a "core of myself". But you, obviously have an agenda and beliefs that you don't want challenged and you want to hold onto your pathetic bubble as long as you can.

You want people think exactly like you, believe things that you believe in and don't want anything challenging it. Just like nazi germany, islamic extremists, communist china, etc.
Syntax is fine, it's complaining because you didn't include `JoinDate` column in your query.
CMS, as a regulatory agency, does have a high priority in making sure it’s got the legal right to make regulations pertaining to a thing. Because otherwise those regs are illegal, which causes lawsuits and chaos.

You make it sound like they spent months trying to finagle a way out of working.
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> More than 200,000 centenarians will inhabit the United States in 2020— why shouldn't you be one of them?

Because I wasn't 80 when you wrote that?
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Who is the little guy here?
I mean, if EZTV is something you've explicitly built support for, yeah... But if you aren't wildly popular and easy to use (see: Popcorn Time) it's unlikely anyone will actually care.
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What does in-plane 'slightly further sitting apart' accomplish when the air is recirculated and coughs travel at 50 MPH and sneezes at 100 MPH?

I know they will screen for symptoms but this has to be "health theatre"
Yeah but this didn’t go through a court to decide whether they contributed to piracy happening, this was a DMCA takedown which is supposed to target a specific case of piracy itself. The DMCA is about “you pirated THIS” not “you are involved in pirating stuff”.

So yes, this is an abuse of the DMCA, but also yes, PopCornTime contributes to piracy.
> You would make a request to a centralized url and then that would return a url that connected you directly to a server that had that file.

Heh, kinda like how FTP worked. That's funny to see again.
It's pretty high quality! I wish it was a bit more user friendly / lay-person friendly, but still good info.
If the cracker were being marketed by their creators as “the easiest way to steal money” would it be any different? Intent does matter. In fact for a crime to have been committed one has to prove intent. If the intent is to facilitate the robbing of banks, that’s different than “pen-testing” as a means to help/protect.
Yes, pretty much. It's more likely we'll find a drug or surgery to prevent people from dying (if feels like we're literally throwing every compound that's already FDA approved at it in the massive amounts of emergency clinical trials).

But there's no telling if or when one of those drugs will pan out (and it would certainly be before a vaccine). There is no talk of reconstruction now, which really needs to happen.
They have:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...
Perhaps it was a reference to nature vs. nurture, and how they can both play a part in outcomes.
All your data stays on your device. You only upload your random identifier if you test positive, as confirmed by a trusted health provider. I would worry much more about them if I were you. Personally I'm far more concerned about dying from COVID-19 than the government who already knows much about me abuses my health status of this virus.
So if you came into my shoestore, and you asked me for some good walking shoes, and where to find drugs - then you used those shoes to get there - have I committed a crime?

How easy do I have to make it to commit crimes before I've made it too easy? The answer is it doesn't matter. There is no scenario in which I am legally at fault if you commit a crime with tools you got from me.
Absolutely. Defense in depth; Pi-hole will cover devices that you can't install an ad-blocker on while the ad-blocker will cover some edge cases where Pi-hole can't do it.

It should never be considered an "or" situation; you want "both" as much as possible.
Humanity learned only in the last century that time is truly relative. After enough inflation, the earth will be alone.
Or maybe she's just really, really massive.
well said. well said. boss, you seem like the only one who understands the dynamics of capitalism in this thread. political power is determined by money. & political power also determines money. seems a lot of people miss the historical context with these issues etc.
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> However, I'm not sure it's Github's job to decide that. In theory PopcornTime can file a counternotice saying the do indeed own everything in the repo.

They'll probably do so, as it's not the first time this happen to them, I guess now they know pretty well how to deal with that kind of harassment.
If I were to WFH "permanently", for years and years, I'd like my employer to share some of the savings from not having an office with me.

I would spend it on renting a bigger apartment with an extra room to use as my office.

Don't get me wrong: I love my wife and kids dearly. But having anything done requires concentration and some moderate insulation from distractions. Achieving this from a coach in the living room is hard. Grabbing my kid's room only works as long as the school day isn't over, and not at all during a recess, like, say, the whole summer. My wife already works from home, so our bedroom doubles as her office.

I didn't need a proper workplace as long as my employers provided me with (a piece of) an office. Now that they stopped due to the quarantine, its lack becomes a significant problem.

Obviously, some would say: leave your expensive city, move to somewhere really cheap, in the middle of (almost) nowhere! Two problems. (1) What about schools there? (2) When enough people move into a cheap and convenient place, it quickly ceases to be as cheap.
I think the problem in the current US political system is that a tiny majority of votes wins you everything. If this won you the 49% you deserve, then things would be different.
I’m assuming because you are sure having it once will give you some immunity? It’s really unclear if that is true and I respectfully disagree with those who same it is more likely than not.
The business model of virtually every web property in existence is to sell you crap you don't need and would probably be better off without. It's an attempt to hack your brain into confusing familiarity with value.

Your friend is easily manipulated and is a prime candidate for an ad blocker. As silly as it is to sign up to pay multiple years in advance if he is actually using a site where he pirates movies he actually DOES need a VPN and 180 dollars for 3 years is only 5 usd a month which is relatively standard.
Same with my Sony Android TV. That thing trying to phone god knows what home made up almost a third of all DNS requests on my home network, even with 2 adults working from home.

Since you can't buy dumb TVs anymore, you best leave the "smart" ones offline.