skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assertion is that a new organization should have been formed that owns the books and performs the lending

Wouldn't be legally recognized as a library, which was something the IA spent years clawing to be recognized as.

but has no access to the rest of the IA's assets

This would be incredibly stupid and would require a complete restructuring of how the IA works (despite the belief of seemingly many people in this thread, the IA is significantly more than the Wayback Machine).

Then, in the event of a lawsuit, the only thing the publishers could seize would be the actual books.

Which would still be bad and morally wrong, and is more likely to happen when it's its own, non-library entity.

As it is, the entire IA infrastructure could be torn apart overnight.

No, it couldn't. Not a bit more than it could be five months ago.
I live close to a small town in the Bay Area, called Los Gatos. Quaint, expensive, beautiful place.

It was Big Truck Day at the library and a lot of government employees were showing their vehicles. Fire trucks, trash compactors, a huge bulldozer, and there was a police car and a handful of officers around.

A little girl came and pointed at a rifle and asked the officer, “what is this for?”

He said, “to protect myself”, paused and caught his breath and said “and to protect you”.

This happened a couple years ago. I still think about his pause, the afterthought on why he needs the truck, the rifle and the gear.
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I like the idea to rank GitHub comments by reaction. Really helps with very active issues - especially when you're just looking for a bugfix.
> Understood. Now what will you do with that information?

Hopefully I educated you on a problem you were patently lacking facts and relied on personal misconceptions. Now the ball is in your side.
Aye, that's it! The huge and wonderful mass of a Starship plonking down three spindle-thin legs onto and into luna incognita.

I'm sure smarter people than I have thought about this, but it was a thought that struck me when I saw the mockups in the NASA lunar bid vid a wee while back.
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> So days were 4 hours shorter 2500 years ago?

No. The cumulative clock difference between two clocks, one of which is adding leap seconds due to the slowing of Earth's rotation, the other of which is not, is not the same as the rate of slowing of the Earth's rotation.

The current rate of slowing is about 1.4 milliseconds per 100 years. That means that, 100 years ago, the length of 1 day was 1.4 milliseconds shorter than it is today. So let's suppose that 100 years ago, the day was exactly 86,400,000.0 milliseconds long. Then today would be 86,400,001.4 milliseconds long.

Now add up all those days over the last 100 years, i.e., 36,525 of them, and suppose the rate of increase in the day is linear. Then the average extra milliseconds per day is half of 1.4, or 0.7 milliseconds, and the total number of milliseconds in those 36,525 days is

3,155,760,025,567.5

instead of the

3,155,760,000,000.0

that it would have been if the length of the day had been constant. That's an extra 25,567.5 millliseconds over 100 years, which is a lot bigger than 1.4. That's the difference between the cumulative clock difference and the rate of slowing.
We are in the middle of a pandemic in which the disease attacks the lungs and is primarily spread through water droplets expelled from a person's nose or mouth. Due to the number of factors involved, it will be incredibly difficult to link tear gas and pepper spray directly to deaths in comparison to rubber bullets. However it seems obvious that the overreliance police forces have on these chemicals is much more dangerous today that it would be traditionally.
I work for a company that develops audio software. The market itself isn’t that huge so our products triggered even on Windows 7.
Once we got the first reports, we’ve bought a code sign certificate.

But still... if your software isn’t common... you’ll trigger the SmartScreen.

Even if your app managed to pass SametScreen, you’ll soon discover that many users got Anti-Viruses that with the same assumption about non-common app is bad.

I’ve ended up contacting a lot of Anti-Virus companies and I whitelist our installers also on their end.

While the process itself is much simpler than notarizing with Apple. On Windows you need to contact much more parties to make your app “just work” for the non-tech-savvy user.
If you're looking for simple but deep games, highly recommend most things made by Oink games, especially "Startups".
In a monolithic application they're pretty close. In a microservices architecture, suppose you have 100 services and schedule 6 service containers per host. That is 94 services worth of secrets that don't need to be there, expanding the blast radius of single host compromise. There may be a credential on that host that can be exchanged for more secrets, but audit logs can tell you whether it actually was, and you can revoke it.

Secrets may still need to go to config files for third party stuff, but you can write your in-house applications to fetch secrets at runtime and hold them only in memory. That's less opportunity for compromise vs. both memory and disk. Also have heard that Linux's process address space isolation is less prone to vulnerabilities than user account separation or filesystem permissions. Not really sure how true that is.
What is the role of a CTS engineer?
Check out the (sadly inactive) Node9 operating system [0].

> Node9 is a hosted 64-bit operating system based on Bell Lab's Inferno OS, but using the Lua scripting language instead of Limbo and the LuaJIT high performance virtual machine instead of the Dis virtual machine. It also uses the libuv I/O library for maximum portability, efficient event processing and thread management.

[0]: https://github.com/jvburnes/node9
I agree in general with what SmartScreen tries to do. There are a lot of non-technical folks clicking on stuff willy-nilly so adding barriers to prevent spyware / virus infections for totally unknown binaries is a good thing.
A "Let's Encrypt" for code signing may be a good idea, but the cost of a certificate is itself a barrier for spyware distributors, so i'm conflicted on that... not sure what the right fix is.
Microsoft just charges you for math. Historically speaking what they make are contracts with hardware manufacturers and lawsuits over patents on that math.

Mainstream publishers lend authors money to write books as advances, edit their writing (don't knock editing until you see the difference a good editor can make to your writing), produce and distribute the resulting work across media and platforms (don't knock book layout until you've tried to do it), promote the books, manage book-keeping on the resulting revenue, and various other tasks that I've forgotten about.

Your friend was targeted by a vanity press. Vanity presses don't do any of that. As you saw, they just gouge you to exploit your desire to see your name on a book. So they are not a good model for actual mainstream publishing houses.

(None of this has anything to do with my support for the Internet Archive.)
The interesting thing from Microsoft's point of view is if they make it increasingly difficult to install applications then Windows will have little value beyond offering a web browser.
> And they trot it out for peaceful protests. The police did not come equipped to protect, they came equipped to escalate and occupy.

"What's the point of having all this cool shit if we never get to use it?!"
That's a good point. If your Java code compiles with the Eclipse compiler, you can be pretty confident it will compile with the javac compiler. If it doesn't, it's likely to be a compiler bug somewhere. Not so for C.

Put another way, C doesn't let you get away with the try it and see approach the way many other languages do.
It's nice but, for the service, per-node pricing is frustrating. Maybe our workload is unusual, but I'm running something at a reasonably small scale, with about 30 nodes.

The cluster autoscaler has been so good that we've optimised for more, smaller nodes, on spot instance pricing. At $79/node, that's about 4x the cost of the actual instance itself...

And yet the actual cost of the services provided, don't _really_ seem to scale with number of nodes? But then, I can't think of another metric to tie it to easily
How would that be enforceable on parties outside the US?
Not the case at all. It's about the fact that they build reputation off installation data from all Windows users, and the catch-22 that can create for new developers just starting out with their first app.
Yes and HN users are the first to want more government regulation over tech.

The current administration is already trying to “shut down Twitter”.

Edit Citation:

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/trump-twitter-f...
I don't know how true it is and I don't remember the source, but I recall hearing somewhere that you also get a lot of hydration through food sources. So it's not necessarily that you need to drink a lot of water to stay hydrated.

I guess that might also be why people say to drink more water when you have diarrhea. The absorption of water that usually happens during digestion is not occurring.
Cool project, congratulations on the launch!

How does this project relate to other tools in the same space, such as kube-score [1] and popeye [2]?

From my point of view, the approach taken by for example kube-score where resources are matched with each other to give a better overview is extremely powerful, for example it will notice if a Service is misconfigured and wouldn't match any Pods.

1: https://github.com/zegl/kube-score

2: https://github.com/derailed/popeye.
and he probably got a backyard with it too. In CA, you don't even get that. Why pay 1 to 2 million dollars in CA for a house when you can't even have a backyard?
Outside of my area as well, but, IIRC Kevin Mitnick wrote about using a radio set to encrypted frequencies. When he was out and about, if he heard traffic on those frequencies, then he knew the FBI etc. must be nearby.
Walmart pushing innovation? Citation needed.
It would be unreasonable to assume that they aren't. It's a cheap, easy, and low-risk way to soak up lots of interesting traffic.
The equipment issue isn't going to solve anything, this is just lip service to the real problem. Police Unions have effectively created a system by which officers are nearly immune from prosecution and even if successfully prosecuted their record cannot travel with them in many cases.

Now one fix that removing some of the equipment will do will reduce the amount of psychological impact it has on those wielding it, as in reduce the Rambo effect. The idea of attaching military style equipment to the current problems is only for political purposes, they needed to blame Trump for the violence.

However in the end, there are few alternatives to fixing the police and their application and misapplication of force

1) Restrict conditions that can be placed in union negotiated contracts regarding officer behavior, culpability, and indemnification.

2) If not 1) then make it illegal for the unions to exist with regards to any public servant who is armed

3) civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor. Not only would they review incidents which are questionable they would have to involved in any use of concentrated force to include no knock warrants; something which should be illegal except in the most incredible cases.

4) holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces.
From the moment that I tried my hand at making a queryable summarizer (https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/CX_DB8) I've been obsessed with the field and love to see innovation like this happening.

They found a way to get grammatically correct, queryable sentence based summarization out of any article. That's very impressive to me.
That is the question. If the dollar amount is too low then big companies could afford to abuse the process but if the dollar amount is too high it would be difficult for individual content owners to assert their rights. I was thinking $100 to file an initial claim and $50 to file a counter-claim but I really don't know.

Or perhaps a mechanism where the cost to file an initial claim goes up to $1000 after a person/entity has filed a certain number of claims for the year?
How so? The functional paradigm of data -> view model -> events -> mutation is the same in every framework and state management library but there are lots of differences in other features. Vue has a lot that sets it apart.
I wonder how much demand there would be for a dedicated board on boardgamegeek for homebrew "rule progressions" like these
Not on purpose. I didn't mean to provide a full list, but only a few examples that I feel I can speak about. To be fair, there is a stereotype about French police being more violent than others. But still, I wouldn't expect that they would shoot rubber bullets into people's faces on purpose and hunt down press like in the US.
1. Every client (i.e. developer) has their own copy of shh but interacts with a shared .shh file in the project root. Secrets can be decrypted locally in memory then streamed to the remote servers over ssh. You could in theory run this on a server to help address your third point.

2. Exchanging public user keys is done via email when an employee starts, then added to the .shh file and committed in the repo.

3. You'd need to write a script for this, which probably involves `shh rm-user {email}`. There is no silver bullet here for changing secrets; since developers have access to secrets, any secret they had would need to be regenerated. `shh` makes no assumptions about how you deploy, what secrets you keep, or their formats.
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> Microsoft actually makes something in crude terms. Software companies create value with the product they build. The IP is the product.

Software companies create and sell products out of the labour of software developers. Publishing companies create and sell products out of the labour of book authors. Both are tangible products. Windows is no better stream of bytes than Harry Potter. The IP is the product for "Harry Potter" also.

Also, you are trying to convey as if authors have no harm in books being distributed for free. They receive royalty from book sales. Giving their books for free is like saying a FU to them. I doubt any software developer is going to work for free, so why expect the same from authors.
Very cool, dude. Thanks for the tip. Looks like a lovely town.
A lot of the comments claim that publishers could collect $150k per work in statutory damages. However, that usually only works if the book was registered timely with the USCO. I don't know the rate among book authors, but most photographers don't register, so they don't qualify.

If the IA was clever to only choose books without registration, then the maximum they can be trialed for is the financial damages that publishers can prove. Given that everyone is trying to save money nowadays, it's very hard to convincingly argue that everyone would have bought the book if there had been a waiting list for renting it.

I also see the possibility that the IA is just trolling publishers. Maybe they did keep track of the numbers internally and never lent out to more people than they had licenses available through their partners. In that case, the publishers would incur large legal costs only to later be told by the court that nothing illegal had happened.

EDIT: There's also the claim by the IA that the average user only looks at the book for 30 minutes. That, in turn, would mean that what the publishers call "borrowing" here is more akin to me browsing an in-person library without actually checking out anything. So there's a good chance that 2-3 copies of each book are enough to make it difficult to prove this illegal, meaning maybe this is clever trolling after all.

https://blog.archive.org/2020/04/07/the-national-emergency-l...
There is a lot of space, which is why you anchor with the opening salvo and then find middle ground. Keep in mind, the Internet Archive only opened the “National Emergency Library” during a global pandemic. Under business as usual, they put limits on access to scanned works.

Copyright isn’t an inalienable right. It was established for the public good, and up for renegotiation at any time. Now is one of those times.
Sure, that’s a hard failure, I was talking about the average speed to install an update.
It's because the companies or developers buying them can afford them, because they're usually selling software.
Even if this was true, it should not change anyone’s behavior; a malicious exit node should be assumed when using Tor.

I.e. either always use HTTPS sites, or .onion sites. No HTTP unencrypted sites.
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Well, then look at how other countries are doing it. The US is really bad with policing.
How typical that you get downvoted when you're one of the few here to actually cite a source for your claim.

I do wonder though if this is an important caveat though:

> among healthy participants.

.. since the rest of the discussion resolves around adding supplements to fight shortages. If "healthy" implies not have said vitamin D shortage then that is still a useful study but doesn't disprove the thesis that taking supplements is probably a good idea.
I’m in Minneapolis. There are already suspicions that posts post-curfew to Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are being blocked or are seeing significant post delays. It’s unconfirmed, but local news is started to dig into it a bit. I have acquaintances who believe they have been censored.
Hong Kong bans Tiananmen vigil for first time, in new challenge to protests
The cure is worse than the disease. We will just end up with a handful of companies holding our data to ransom.
I think it's worth discussing as I also had slight misgivings about the perceived disparity you mention.

I'm not sure that it's relevant, as the pay scale for LPNs/CNs/CNAs are all over the place... and overtime and retirement benefits can make law enforcement extremely lucrative careers. But I just don't have the numbers for it either way.
My mother tongue is Malagasy, the official language of Madagascar alongside French.

Discussing CS or any other scientific matters in that language at least in my opinion is theoretically possible as there is a book on the Java programming language written in Malagasy. I have made some attempts myself trying to explain Python on the Malagasy Wikibooks [1] and on the Malagasy Wikipedia as well [2].

So yes, formally it _is_ possible. There is quite an extensive vocabulary pertaining to mathematics [3] as well, most of which having been crafted in the 70s and 80s as part of a nationwide effort to use Malagasy academically. The beauty of it is that they consist of native words as well as "malagasized" words.

In practice, sadly, it never happens. All university courses are taught in French, if not in English for the most advanced ones. And no company that I've heard of use Malagasy as a formal working language :(

[1] https://mg.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python

[2] https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solosaina

[3] http://kajy.blogspot.com/2011/04/ireo-voambolana-matematika-...
Thanks for the link -- I tried searching the web but couldn't find a canonical source, and my amateur radio guide book is at my office. :~)
Why should the police get a discount? They should have to buy their MRAPs through the auction systems the same way that someone running a logging company has to buy surplus LMTVs. I'm sympathetic to the cause of saving money but if the military won't auction something to a random US citizen I don't see why they should be auctioning that thing to a random US civilian police force. They can sell that stuff to other nations if they can't sell it domestically.

I don't particularly care what the standard is for disposing of unwanted military hardware is so long as it's not a double one. A civilian police force should get no special treatment above any other civilian entity.
> The digital signature racket

> The price range is wide but a certificate only valid for a year will typically go for about $100.

This is hypocrisy, smells like Apple-fanboy trolling. MS stimulates competition on the code signing certificates and it is free to deploy through their appstore. And you can bypass Smartscreen right from the warning.

Certificates cost $59.00 at codesigncert[0], not "about $100.00". Established developers with reputation don't need certificates.

Now compare that with Apple's (much more walled) approach: only Apple sells the certificate at the price of $99,00, even to deploy on their Mac store (where they'll also take a cut) and it is not trivial to bypass their screen.

[0] https://codesigncert.com/comodo-individual-code-signing

Edit: I don't like MS codesigning implementation, but they are not the worst on this game.
I think you're misusing the term "straw man." A straw man is an argument that nobody ever uses, brought forward purely to discredit. I am pretty sure I have heard that argument before, so it's not a straw man.

In any case, it doesn't even matter whether that example has happened in a debate before. It's simply meant to illustrate the error in failing to distinguish between liberality and restrictivism.
I don't see any information about how many books were actually "borrowed". Somehow I have the feeling it might be fewer than sitting in the shelves of all the physical libraries.

Has this emergency library been popular? I read about it on HN, not anywhere else. The world is not full of HN readers.

I'm considering writing to those publishers that I will stop buying books published by them and borrow them from a (physical) library instead, copying pages I want to keep. Be the letter of the law whatever it is, this was a exceptional situation and it was not done for personal benefit.
And you are lynching Negroes
Something that I think goes somewhat in the opposite direction is the Piecepack[0], which tries to maximize the number of games you can play with the minimum components.

"Piecepack is to board games what a Standard Deck of Playing Cards is to card games"

Since it is a common denominator, it enforces some economy in games that are designed for it or adapted to it. I recall a Catan adaptation that had several simplifications in the spirit of the OP.

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2860/piecepack
Spoken like someone who doesn’t make that kind of money and never had to make that decision.

Facebook will not lose employees at their pay rate, they’ll just get different ones.

You are definitely correct in that soft revolting is a waste.
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They always called each other out, but this was usually done privately, not publically.

If it's done publically, it's usually not a message to a foreign entity but rather a message targeted for domestic consumption. The NSA got a bad reputation with the release of the Snowden files and I guess what we're seeing today is the result of that. Hiring talented people got more difficult for them. So they are releasing ghidra and doing PR stunts like this one to convince potential employees that the NSA isn't that bad.

I'm not making a judgement of what the NSA did or does is bad or what Snowden did was good or bad. Not even whether this PR move was warranted to show they are doing positive things. All I'm saying it's a PR move.
I am an author and I support the IA in this decision.
Ironic that nowadays the US government is the one promoting conspiracy theories about a pandemic. Even the theory is almost exactly the same: that the virus comes from a lab.