skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think appropriate values would be whatever it costs to file a lawsuit in the relevant court, plus a transaction fee for the escrow service.

DMCA takedown notices were sold as a way to get quicker action than filing for an injunction, but they should not be usable as an alternative to a real lawsuit. If you're sending a takedown notice, you should be prepared to follow up with a lawsuit, including being on the hook for the fees.

I think it would also be nice for abandoned takedown notices (ie. where the counter-notice isn't contested with a lawsuit) to be public record entered on a court docket. That way, abusers of the system can be more readily identified and tracked.
I wonder if you could sue the website or police officer for libel?
User are generally not tech savy to bypass Smartscreen warning by themselves.
Second instance on the front page today of false positives / false negatives, the other being the walmart shoplifting story.

Edit: possibly also the MLK one and police v journalists one...
Good luck. Two other suggestions for that age group that we found worked: Animal upon Animal (kinda expensive for the simple pieces you get but it felt so much fun, the wife joined in me and the daughter play!) and S.O.S Dino (gorgeous pieces and educational concept; my kid lost interest for some reason I could not understand; game was super interesting and simple)
I hate intellectual property, but I don't despise the publishers, they're just playing by the (broken) rules of the game.

I blame the politicians that do nothing to change the rules of the game in the first place, and the people that elect them.
I have been playing Hero Kids[0] with my 4yo son since he was 3.5 and we have a blast every session. the best part of it, is how flexible are the rules and you can relax them as much as you want for smaller kids. I can def see how the approach in the article could make complex games more accesible to kids. As soon as my son is a bit bigger I’ll try this for sure.

[0]: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/106605
"The police" were on the scene watching a fellow officer murder a man in plain daylight with crowds watching and did nothing.
This is the reason that many breakfast cereals are fortified with vitamins and minerals.

It actually causes me to select otherwise "lower-grade" cereals than I might otherwise purchase. Fancier/healthier, more "natural", choices are not fortified.

Alternatively, a multivitamin intrinsically yields the same results.
Those particular ones? Sure. In general? That’s laughable. I’ve lived in places like that. The crime rate is sky high. Hell, the city I was born in was once the murder capital of the world.

Only people I’ve ever seen say things like this are people who have never seen what they’re talking about.
Hong Kong Police Ban Tiananmen Massacre Vigil
I was working on this at my previous employer. We started with Elasticsearch and were planning to move to Timescale (https://www.timescale.com). Another project used Cassandra which had some issues but they were happy with overall.

You might also want to look into Thingsboard (https://thingsboard.io) which supports both Timescale/Postgres and Cassandra.
Their new kiosks are so infernally slow that I like to imagine they're electron apps running on a raspberry pi, which would make them the very peak of innovation.
I bet they do. "Home Office Associate" means office worker or manager. A programmer falls under this. It isn't a minimum wage "store associate". Of course they won't refer to themselves as store associate when casually chatting to a shopper.
I would like them to provide and require body cams for all officers at the federal level and require all deaths and injuries occurring in police custody to be reviewed by the FBI/justice dept.
Have you tried Dixit? It is beautifully made game with very simple rules that lead to a very complex game play. Dixit is the only game that I know in which I think a computer would not be able to beat humans unless it is able to pass the Turing test.
Possibly useful advice at

https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer

especially the chapters "How to Find Out Information"
and "How to Utilize People as Information Sources"
Sounds helpful from the marketing text but pretty expensive.

If they could get that cheaper you could get people signing up out of curiosity. But when you see they want $200-$600 for this you start to get suspicious: what are you actually getting? Is it vetted by somebody? Etc.
There was a big push for more community policing and less "tacticool" policing the last time these protests happened. That seemed to have petered out after a few years.
Maybe you can try googling ACAB yourself. Try not to seek out the message you want to receive about it, because it will be available there as well. Now cross-reference this with accounts of police violence from the civil war onward, especially in black communities, but ultimately in any community in which those in power have motive to enact violence, fear, and intimidation. The story is long and is storied and is ongoing and is real and is simply information.

The phrase, "All Cops are Bastards" is the short form of "militarized police who view their citizenship as the enemy and protect the property of the ruling class will most often result in a culture among the police which is self-reinforcing through flak, violence, retribution." It is anti-fascist.

It is the direct opposite of "boogaloo," the boogeymen that fell flat on their faces and tried to start the second civil war through race riots and the disinformation that there were race riots. I personally, have never seen the races more united, united against a common enemy: the US police force.
$59 if you pay for 3 years, so actually $177 up front or $75 for one year, and again, this doesn't actually help bec after x years your app will need to build a reputation again.

This is ridiculous and as others have said is meant to funnel devs to using the broken Microsoft Store.
My point was to compare MS approach to Apple's. Please don't nitpick.
I don't understand how so many people here are commenting as if giving out books for free was a good idea. Considering that a large part of HN makes fat salaries writing software which is either sold for high price(MSFT types), or mining user data and advertising (GOOG types). If their work was being distributed for free (SQL server, Windows), software developers would make much less money and would be up in arms here. Why should authors be deprived of the value of their labour. If not, will you be happy if all software was made free in "National Emergency Software Library", and you were being paid peanuts? After all , people also need a good OS and Database apart from books.
Where are police officers being paid Minimum Wage?

In my city a 1st year officer makes about 15-20% more than the median HOUSEHOLD income for the city. (most Households are 2 income at least).

That is base income not factoring in Shift Premiums, Overtime, and various other income they earn

So I would love to know what city you are referring to where cops are being paid the minimum wage
There is also this general wisdom that Fruit because of Vitamins (in particular Vitamin C) is supposed to be good against the common cold. Numerous studies show that there is no effect. I bet this wisdom doesn't come out of nowhere, but is rather an indicator how bad the average Vitamin (C) supply is.

FWIW older people are usually more often indoors and have both higher likelihoods of becoming hospitalized because of Covid and are more often indoors, thus prone to Vitamin D insufficiency.
walled gardens ever increasing assault on independent developers never stops. seems microsoft is following Apple's trend of shitting on indies. my take is folks develop your apps to be browser based, if you can. if we can have a browser app, like Figma. a lot of apps, could do. the ones that need to deal with os n files etc, might be non-starter. take your talents to open platforms.
Given the keys never leave the KMS hardware encryption module, are you at all concerned that all your data will be destroyed if you lose access to KMS for any reason? That's what has always given me pause when I consider KMS. Or do KMS users just take on faith that AWS will always be there?

Why do you like their auto-rotation? The keys that are rotated out are not never disabled, so I don't really understand the benefit. In what scenario would their auto-rotation improve security?
You know what would be interesting?

Someone should do the following:

1) Get all of the source code for Exim, and other codebases, codebases for which vulnerabilities have been discovered -- but before the vulnerability has been removed from source code.

2) Run machine learning on the code, with the understanding that different parts of code may have been written by different authors.

3) Use those ML models to see if other codebases, codebases which are as-of-yet unknown if they contain vulnerablilties, to see if those might have the same coding patterns in certain areas as the affected software above, indicating potential tampering.

In other words, via ML, software which has been tampered with -- might be able to be detected preemptively...

Disclaimer: I am not a ML expert, and this might be a somewhat futuristic idea, due to various constraints...
When I have played new games with people, what I try to do is just launch ourselves into it, play a few rounds haphazardly and maybe sort of by the actual rules, figuring things out as we go, then start over and play the game for real.

It takes a little more time to replay the start of the game, but if people are in the spirit of it, the exploration phase of it can move quickly. You don't have to try to make the right play. Just try something. If there's a thing in the rules that can happen, do it and see what happens, even if you think it's probably not the right way to do it.
People complain, I don't think it means much. If you want to know what is really going on then look at the sales figures. Apple's market share of desktops and laptops has been broadly consistent for a long time.
I really like counternotices being free. You shouldn't have to pay for standing up for your rights.

I'm open to payments for DMCA notices, but it shouldn't be forfeited just because someone filed a counternotice.

I think a better system would involve the escrowed money going to the other party, and allow some sort of small claims court to adjudicate those matters. Although it still feels extraneous. If there's strict liability for false claims and automatic lawyer fee awards then we'll get an industry of contingency lawyers taking such cases in hopes of an award.
I wasn't in the team that gathered those events, so I don't remember the details (and it's probably covered by NDA, as you say), but I guess Google would be gathering these data if there was a reasonable(?) way for them to get it.
> What if you learn from the counternotice that they're not going to be able to be able to pay a judgement?

You would still want the copyright-infringing material removed regardless of their ability to pay.

> you should have the opportunity to defend yourself in court, not automatically pay money just for standing up for your rights

In the US you are almost always required to automatically pay money in order to assert your rights. Filing a lawsuit means paying filing fees.
Ask HN: Why does the Windows Snip tool generate little endian PNG files?
I was looking into an issue where a system would accept some PNG files and not others. For the rejected PNG files, the "official" solution was to slightly resize them with the Windows Snip tool and save them again which would then make the system happily accept the file.

I looked at one rejected file and one "snipped" file, and the difference was that the "snipped" file had turned little endian, when the original "problematic" file was big endian.

If I understand the spec correctly, PNG files should be in network byte order: https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#7Integers-and-byte-order

So why does the Windows Snip tool generate PNG files that aren't following the standard, and how does it even get any software at all to read its PNG (invalid) files?
I’ve only worked in tech for six years but I started as a sysadmin and managed a network of ~50 windows computers for two years, and then worked in a windows dev shop for three years, and I’ve never once seen an update brick Windows.

I’ve bricked windows by being dumb but I’ve also bricked Linux by being dumb. Sometimes I feel like it’s cool to hate Windows, like it’s cool to hate Java.
Podcast link - https://anchor.fm/talking-money-stuff/episodes/Gambling-Is-N...
Changing the inventory will reduce the appeal of police work for psycho assholes who fantasize about shooting protesters. Special weapons and vehicles should be reserved for centralized, specialized police forces who are called out when needed, if ever. Most cops should be issued a radio and a bicycle, so you attract people who want to look like [1] instead of [2].

1: https://files.kstatecollegian.com/2014/08/08.27.14.BikeCop.G...

2: https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/c1200x675-w1200-q8...
Agreed, the update experience for anything used occasionally or when someone else controls the update cycle is going to be miserable.

I've experienced the same with work-issued laptops, and also have an iMac I boot once every few months to be met with 20 software update nags from the OS and various apps. Probably means I should sell the iMac.
What's the correct way to control a violent crowd? Anything besides "solve all the world's problems so no one is angry"?
I'll take the last line first, because my response flows better if I tackle it reverse-chronologically.

Why do you feel entitled to the product of that work for free?

I buy physical copies of all of my books; I used to be in a vastly different situation. When I was growing up, my town's library didn't have a non-fiction section worth its salt, and had a fiction section that rarely had every book in a series, and that was including ILL programs.

My household couldn't always afford food, let alone non-essentials like books. Copying bits isn't stealing, and it'd have to be snowing in Hell if some of the people in this thread are right: if impoverished kids are stealing from the mouth of authors every single time they copy a book on the Internet, and it's somehow unethical for them to do so, who has a chance in the world of being moral?

But now, let me tackle the first line:

Authors sometimes spend years of their lives and plenty of their own money to write a book. They often have no idea if it will even sell, so it can be a huge risk.

So there are two ways to approach this. First, we can go the capitalist route, which you're advocating for:

"Risk. Keyword risk. You are not guaranteed a return on your investment for anything. Someone steals your physical copies of your book, sure, that's stealing. Someone copies your book, you lose literally nothing. Free market. Economics. Woo!"

"That line is completely and utterly ridiculous if you substitute 'Authors' and 'book' with any other occupation."

Alternatively, here's a more realistic, less hyper-capitalistic, less dystopian view:

Instead of getting mad at the people participating in the system, get mad at the system and the people orchestrating it. Try as much as you like, blaming people trying to better their lives in a way that's objectively not harmful, which is always what you're doing if you're reading a book and didn't rip the copy from someone's hands, and you'll always come off as the villain. You'll lose in the long run, and you'll be looked at as the villain in all of the history books when you do.

Drew DeVault (a person who both publishes software under free licenses & who has written a book and licensed it under the CC) has written a bunch of great stuff on this.
I think your repo is private, I get a 404
> but the cost of a certificate is itself a barrier for spyware distributors

Is it? If spyware and malware wasn't profitable, people wouldn't take the risks to create and distribute it. An up front cost of a few hundred dollars could be made back with a single successful ransomware attack, and the certificate would last years.

This "smart screen" thing, as well as Google's endless warnings when you try to install an app outside of their store on Android are not for protecting the user; they're there to prevent competition.
I'm not sure what the point of owning a digital copy of a book is if I can, at any time, "loan" one from the IA in <15 seconds. In a way it's even more convenient than owning a copy, your basically using IA as cloud storage.

>"I'm an author" or "Think of the publishers!" is no excuse for supporting unjust laws.

Authors want to get paid, this stops them from getting paid...
The problem is exactly something Trump complained about.

Big tech companies are using a law made to protect ISPs to avoid getting sued for whatever people say on their platforms, including stuff their own employees say.

Other forms of media can be sued.

This is a huge difference.
Jump into Chrome's walled garden? Ask browser extension devs how it went for them and it'll tell what happens/will happen with web apps.
> And the second is also too harsh - you should have the opportunity to defend yourself in court, not automatically pay money just for standing up for your rights.

If a lawsuit is filed, then you do have that chance to defend yourself, and win a judgment that includes expenses like filing fees.
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I'm pretty sure that the medical professionals will not be happy if you made this the new normal, so I'm not sure it's wise to bring this out as an argument for "so it should be okay for the police to do this normally".

Also, fewer surgeons and nurses get shot on the job, I assume.
Seems wise not to give that information to competitors (e.g., many people have @gmail.com addresses).
It's interesting trolling that side of the youtube algorithm. It's abundantly clear that we've shifted from cops just being a mix of individuals who want to help and a substantial number of not-so-ex-high-school-bullies to full on military LARPers.

The DHS funding being pumped into the forces have resulted in police being better battle-equipped than the average country's military and this has become a recruiting tool. Don't want to sign many years of your life away and probably get shipped out to a -stan where you have to deal with constant misery just to live out a military fantasy? Just go to a police academy for a couple months and you can cosplay all you want while with all the same toys in a "target rich environment".

The end result is we've created a recruiting pull that only finds the worst possible people for the job. It would be like HR only hiring people for a software company who picked computer science entirely because they heard it was high paying but somehow far far deadlier.
I've also seen user experience reports in the wild that say, “I tried those settings but I still had a forced update halfway through my Big Important Presentation”.

I haven't had that myself so far. Hate to say it works on my machine but that's been my experience to date.
>The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing. [1]

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Somehow a billionaire who shits in gold toilets in a palace in NYC convinced a bunch of working people that he was on their side. Hilarious and sad.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37824/did-josep...
Sega has patented touch screen controls
How am I nitpicking? I am just highlighting the fact that when I signed my app using Apple provided certs and notarization, there is no additional warning for the user while on MS land unless I get an EV cert I will not be able to remove it.
Yeah. I just deleted it. I shouldn’t have. But it was a bit snarky. Yet and still when I responded to another comment about HN’s hypocrisy about criticizing big tech’s monopolist ability to - not saying they have - censor information that is critical about the government, they still want the same government to “regulate tech”. Of course that got flagged.

This is the same government that threatened to “shut down Twitter”.

Too many people here show more concern about side loading apps on their phone than the treatment that minorities get by the police and justice system.
This is the same thought I had on a recent article about "treating" ADHD with exercise. lol
Ha.

That reminds me.. in college, I was employed by a "Class Notes" service to write the notes that other people in class bought so they didn't have to take notes.

I got great market for my notes, and when the class was over, students were encouraged to report back to the Class Notes company what score they got in the class. Again, by correlation, my notes were well regarded.

I scored very poorly in the class. I spent a lot of time taking notes in class, and then refining the notes to be turned in. Surely, I did less additional homework/studying than I should have. But I also had very little recall of the material.

I definitely wasn't optimizing my own effort along with my class notes effort -- but I stopped doing that as I was already pretty busy and the money was mostly a lift. I did better attending and being the kind of student I already know how to be.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten suggests the vast majority of posts are recent, and the older ones received far less traction.
I’m curious if this is applicable to fiber optics? If so it could vastly decrease the width of our undersea cables and allow for more redundancy in a non-complete cable cut scenario.
If it were off the UI designers would have to add it to the configuration system of the printer for that 0.1% of (corporate VIP) users who need it. That's something that seems to be a big ask for printer manufacturers. Even something like a SNMP MIB you can write to is a bridge too far.
They are kept on Keybase >_<

Sadly now forced to figure out what to move to. We're considering 1Password with it's CLI as a short term option, but will be wanting to move to Hashicorp Vault or similar on the mid-term
I completely agree, though I assume it's because the federal government only pulls federal levers without new legislation. I bet they have more federal programs for military gear redistribution than they do to subsidize training.
Is this a site that attaches code examples to state of the art research papers? This is excellent, if it's extensive.
Since I'm neither of the types you mentioned, do I get to say such things in your opinion?
> From a privacy point of view, couldn't you use multiple VPNs?

I don't see what could be gained from nesting VPNs because you're identifying yourself to the innermost VPN. Tor is designed so that exit nodes don't know who you are.
If you can run youtube-dl (hint: written in python), you only need a video decoder and player. If pygame doesn't give you that, though, you're in for trouble big time, because video codecs are hard. :)
This is so true. When you renew, you get back to square one with reputation.