skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copyright has the force of law internationally. Which means that courts, police, and armies back it up.

I would agree that copyright has many problems. But "rule of law" also matters.

Perhaps more importantly, the Internet Archive has chosen to take actions that are likely illegal, and do that in ways that threaten its very existence. Any court in the world might rule against the IA with a financial punishment that would permanently shut it down AND hand all its resources to its enemies. And those rules will be enforced by trained policemen with guns, tear gas, and bulletproof vests.

The IA is very important, and in general I really like the IA. The Wayback machine is a critical resource today. The IA's decision to risk the existence of itself and all its archives, by taking this step, was extremely unwise. I'm disappointed in the IA, I expected smarter decisions.

I hope they get some excellent lawyers that might salvage them so they can at least exist in some form. Right now, the IA and all it archived is at risk of being destroyed, with nothing good to come from it. If they stay in existence, I hope that they get some good lawyers to keep them away from such horrendously bad legal decisions in the future.
If the criticisms are valid and fact-based, they should be made. IMO, there's been an awful lot of chaff around the wheat. That actually often works in favor of the target, but more importantly, it's part of how we evaluate the source. Credibility is easy to lose and takes a long time to get back.
YouTube commits $100M to ‘amplify’ black creators
I cancelled mine in 2016. when they had biased reporting against Bernie Sanders. to me, a person from a 3rd world country staying in the states. was a shock. one of the biggest papers in the world, being politically biased. I was mad and sad.
Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations
FYI: it takes 1.9ms for light to travel 570km.
Given a situation where people are just streaming Netflix, then the latency should not be an issue, but if you are browsing a webpage that hits 50 domains downloading random javascript stuff, it will result in a summation of a bunch of 1.9ms*2 events occurring. Plus, if people are at an angle to the satellite, or your data hops between satellites, then you will be seeing additional latency. It would seem like the optimal approach to web browsing for example would be similar to the Amazon Silk browser, where you communicate your "intent" of what you want to do like which webpage you want. Then it renders that webpage in a local instance on the cloud, then transmits the fully rendered webpage to you in a streaming sense. That process would likely cause additional latency before you start to see something show up, but the result is actually a shorter total time to get your page in front of you.
Not sure why IA thought it was smart to do unlimited lending and risk the organization.

Did they just get caught up wanting to do something during virus stuff?
This would make Aron Swartz proud
I agree. Healthcare must no longer be tied to employment.
SpaceX tests twisting technique to make Starlink satellites less visible
Are you saying that burning yourself during Arab Spring has better hope for success than in the US?
I used MermaidJS for some diagram I wanted to add to some of my notes in Markdown, and it was simple enough and Joplin (markdown-based note-taking tool) added support not too long ago.

And you can also add Mermaid preview support to VSCode if that's something you want.

https://github.com/mjbvz/vscode-markdown-mermaid

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner....
"Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke" by Vladimir Arnold (would literally recommend any of his books).
How do you have a machine download updates and install them without tracking that it is downloading updates and installing them successfully?
I think there are two ways to approach thinking about dramatic acts like self-immolation, rioting, looting, stealing, etc.

One way is to think "wow, those people have had very different experiences from me, to drive them to do that." I'd put your reply in that category and I prefer this. It recognizes shared commonality among people, which is a good place to start for constructive change.

The other way is to think "wow, those people are nothing like me, to want to do something like that." This treats differences as inherent and implies there are different "types" of people. It creates a sense of "us vs them," which makes it harder to build the empathy necessary for constructive change.
And of course this insanity started with gnome: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
Visual Complex Analysis. I’d hesitate to call it casual, but it’s extremely accessible to someone with some basic mathematical knowledge.
Common Core because my kids are in school. I've heard a lot of parents complain, but I actually love it. I've always had a knack for doing arithmetic in my head and common core is teaching all the stuff I do intuitively.
Herb Gross (1929 – 2020)
Before I switched to MacOS, Gimp was my goto photo editor and I still have much love for this most excellent piece of software. Even though the interface was a bit clunky in some ways, it was one of the early/ best great apps for desktop Linux.

A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp, it is arguably the foundation of much of modern Linux GUI.

This makes me want to take a swing at desktop Linux again.
How many books written today would not be written at all if copyright lasted, say, 20 years? 10? "life of the author" is far too long; all culture is built atop other culture.

Copyright is a limited exclusive grant in exchange for the expectation of having more works written/created/painted/drawn/designed. We should not just ratchet up the duration or scope of that exclusive grant without the expectation that we'll get more value out of it (more works) in the trade.
>That's always happened, but it seems to have become much more common.

That seems like one of those things that has always been extremely common, but is difficult to see when reading history rather than news. People always justify their own thoughts and goals over trying to understand another point of view.
Life of the author seems potentially too short. What if an author is struck down early? Shouldn't their family left behind be able to enjoy some of the profits for a period of time?
Wearing masks being 100% effective is utterly impossible. The most positive studies show them being more like 85% effective.

There simply are no infected people on Japan's transit, due to the country's intensive, early quarantining procedures. (same with Korea and Taiwan)
Not for me. This is a paving slab.
Some people think null might be a candidate:

https://medium.com/@hinchman_amanda/null-pointer-references-...

https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mis...
"...to have an organisation that helps them get their fair share of the work they put into the books is certainly necessary in the internet age..."

The publishers?
Long ago the World Solar Challenge competitors noticed that their cars had peak power output not on clear days but on overcast days. They explained it as having something to do with what frequencies get bounced back rather than radiating out into space.

Later on while discussing a solar power result that sounded like Maxwell's Demon, someone pointed out to me that solar cell performance is affected by the temperature of the cell. Either or both could be in play here.

Did you plot temperature versus output by any chance?
Yes but not legally available for free for everyone.
If you are from Europe check out Tuxedo Computers from Germany. They sell the same Clevo laptops like System 76.
NASA awards Pittsburgh startup Astrobotic to send water-hunting rover to moon
From the point of view of the law, the intent (malicious or benevolent) is often as important as the action itself.
Don't you feel The Man in the High Castle could be so much better? The premise was great and the context was great, but I could never relate to the main story.
RTFA it's literally in there. Admittedly it says 'freeze the money'. Though I'm really not sure how that's different than 'lose their ability to access banking'. Come to think of it, freeze their money is worse, since that implies losing access to existing funds and the system, not just losing access to the banking system.
They did. But this could set a new precedent.
Famous for https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW18-jILJ66t9KZvoPpN6...
OpenAI started off wide-eyed and idealistic but it made the mistake of taking on investors for a non-profit mission. A non-profit requires sponsors, not investors. Investors have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits, not achieve social missions of open AI for all.
Make sure you file a bug - there are a myriad of sources internally, but we can often hunt it down easily enough (assuming it gets triaged to eng). Important info is the host of the urls being crawled, and the User Agent attached to the requests (headers are also good too). A timeseries graph of the hits (with date & timezone specified) can also help.
This is interesting and clever - thank you for sharing it. However, it seems like the hash table would work on either the address or the shape of the code, and in either case you could build a pathological case which would break it. It's probably a really nice solution for the common/realistic case though.
Roger Penrose' book _The Road to Reality_ is pretty good in this respect. It's a little skewed towards geometry (instead of, e.g., Hilbert spaces and operator algebra), but hey, what do you expect from Penrose.
First off I'm sorry you're going through that, it sounds really tough. We sometimes have families use us for this (https://trysaga.com) as a way to collect voice recordings of loved ones, to record and share a large number of memories and stories in their voice and have them saved forever. You can download all the recordings to keep. It's free right now and I'd be happy to help out and make sure it got you what you needed, let me know.
If JK Rowling gave away Harry Potter ebooks because of COVID-19, you can't just take those books and replace all instances of "Wand" with "Penis" and distribute it because she made it available for no money. It's not all about money but also about moral rights; The right to the integrity of the work.
> This notion of immunity came into being, because coercion( sold in the guise of "social contract") is the heart of any state.

Immunity came about because if prosecutors were Personably liable for charges where there were no convictions no one would take those positions. Similarly if police were personally liable for arrests where there were no convictions no one would be a cop.

But the same is true to a degree for all government, for example if I were to get hit by a county/city bus, generally the driver won’t be liable and worse my damages against the government are capped (I believe at $200k In FL, unless the government waived the cap and good luck with that).
And that’s just one of the ways to experience what other people experience with mental disorders. Another is how they simulate schizophrenia. They give you headphones to wear connected to a recording. The recording has several different voices telling you all sorts of nasty things. Like bullying you and worse.

Empathy and humility are needed in all walks of life.
That thing is an absolute unit.
They didn't fail, they were sued out of business. They had a good, innovative product that people wanted, and they got killed by a lawsuit. This is the tradeoff we're making when we grant more exclusive privileges over works: we kill innovations like these, and we get...probably not any more creative works than we would have gotten otherwise.
Depending on which model you are interested in, you might find some European company offering the same chassis (usually Clevo or Tongfang).

For example, the Lemur Pro 14 looks like a Clevo L141CU which is also sold by Schenker (or Tuxedo for a Linux version). You can probably find a brand that retails in your area/country/continent.
There are likely more now than there were in the 1930s. The US officer corps has expanded greatly since then, and computers and better information likely makes creating war plans much easier. Planning a campaign is much easier when you have a database containing a topographical map of the entire planet and the suspected arsenal and troop distributions of every nation, instead of having to dig deep through archives for the right atlas and hoping a military mapmaker has happened across that beach before. Fun fact: the Allied forces lacked military maps of the beaches of Northern France, so had to enlist civilians to send them copies of any vacation photos they happened to take there, and tried to re-assemble them to figure out which beaches they could land at.

EDIT: In terms of war plans the pentagon most likely has, there's the obvious war plans against North Korea, Russia, China, and Iran. I'd expect there to be several variations of each of those: like one for rebuffing a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, another for a naval conflict in the South China sea, the North Korean war plans probably have different variants depending on whether or not China supports North Korea, etc. Probably some for interventions in various world hot spots: Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Somalia, Venezuela, Yemen, Sudan, the DRC, maybe the Gaza strip. And those plans would likely also have several variations based on the scale, from a couple special forces operations and an airstrike to a few peacekeeping troops to a full invasion involving multiple carrier groups and multiple divisions. In terms of far-fetched ones, I'd expect at least one preparing involving the breakup of NATO, like two NATO members going to war. One case where it's a NATO member attacking the US, another where two other NATO states go to war and the US tries to negotiate a peace, and maybe one where it's an all out civil war where each NATO member picks a side. Invasion plans for any of the US allies where the relationship is complicated or strained: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Turkey off the top of my head. Oh, and invasion plans for anywhere that control major sea lanes: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Panama, Egypt
Lenovo ThinkPad T490 and Lenovo ThinkPad P90 is the endgame.

Install whichever Just Works distro. I recommend Linux Mint because it just works.
So build a Pihole. Now you get the best of both worlds: Use the Samsung integrated features but no ads.
I would like to know some more X for engineers like:

- Cooking for engineers
- painting for engineers. Etc.
Hilariously, around like the third sentence of this I thought to myself "I bet this guy would like Steve Ramsey". He really is head-and-shoulders above anyone else making content in the hobby.
It's always been pretty common to see a lot of empty seats at NBA games depending on the home team.
I think there may be a miscommunication here. I read "The same absurd comparisons also come up when entitled people people try to talk about poverty when it’s clear they have never seen poverty in the US, much less in an economy where people earn less than $5 per day working 5x harder." as meaning you have no sympathy for the plight of poor people in America because people in other countries experience even more severe poverty. Seeing poverty in America is as easy as going outside and opening your eyes.
Just finished Dune last month, that book was on another level. Ahead of its time.
I just got one of their Thelio workstations in March, been really happy with it so far. Pop!_OS is neat, but I installed Fedora KDE within a week and it was seamless. That the choice for "default installed OS" didn't include my preferred flavor didn't really bother me so much.
And a follow-up post is "GTL is a LISP 2 implementation" https://mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2018/06/04/1001/ . Which I note only because it's easily overlooked if one doesn't scroll down far enough.
> Controlled digital lending is a legal framework, developed by copyright experts, where one reader at a time can read a digitized copy of a legally owned library book.

And digital downloading is a communication framework, developed by technology experts, where an unlimited number of readers can read the same digital library book at the same time.
Ah! I read your comment as "optional was a mistake", not "required was a mistake". We are indeed on the same page.
How to Earn a Full-Time Income Writing What You Want, When You Want
I think the article author is mixing up HLS tools and HDLs. HLS tools convert some subset of C to a hardware implementation, and thought that Chisel/SpinalHDL were converting Scala to hardware. But they are really just HDLs implemented as a DSL within Scala, much like Migen uses Python but does not execute Python code on the FPGA.
Apotheosis
10M is nothing to Pepsi with a market cap of 178B. If they're going to put something out as a token, they could have easily 10-20x'd that and had a much more meaningful payout.
Content Distribution Networking and Privacy Discrimination [pdf]
I was made the harbinger of death but I realize that nobody wins at war. We need to change our ways for the future digital society.

I humbly ask you to give this whitepaper a look and let me know what your views on this matter are.

We need a fresh discussion about net neutrality in times of proprietary traffic solutions controlling vast amounts of global bandwidth.

We need to consider policy management in automated decision making systems. This is just the start - the problem is everywhere.
The next level would be for the server to see who is requesting content. Facebook IP? "Here's some harmless HTML!". Browser IP? "Here's an executable pretending to be a harmless page!"
Hmm, this kind of snarky response doesn't really add to the discussion. Why slam humanities programs now, when it's those very skills that will be needed to address many of the societal issues we face today?

Do you disagree that social workers, therapists, child care advocates, educators, economists, and yes - even historians, writers, and artists - will be arguably more important than scientists, engineers, and mathematicians when it comes to issues like stemming racism?

Maybe you don't like the word "systemic." How would you describe fundamental issues that cross economic, social, political, and legal lines?
This is what you're thinking of: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-p...
Weeeeeellll, GIMP is based on an image processing engine that is built around direct acyclic graphs. We are still not sure how much of that we will expose to users when the time comes to work on non-destructive editing. But it's a possibility.
Indeed. A fixed duration would be preferable for that and many other reasons.
I take comfort in knowing that people with common sense are still the majority on this planet, even if social media is suggesting the opposite.
The archive is closer to 60PB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485594

So, more like 300,000 people storing 200GB, which is quite a tall order to fill.
> it should imho involve a willingness to do favors for other agents.

Absolutely. Because it is agent centric it can do this completely transparently. Since the individual agent is only the starting point, what you describe will definitely be developed on top of it, as I would agree that this is a common use case.

The real groundbreaking breakthrough with this project is that they are putting the individual user back in the middle, enabling peer-to-peer networks organized into a beautiful symphony sometimes referred to as Protocol Cooperativism. It is in contrast to Platform Capitalism - what we have today, and which takes humongous rents through corporate middlemen and third parties.

Building out from the individual agent allows, for example, cooperative Open Value Networks to be built (Sensorica is working on this), where users have complete agency/autonomy over the protocols and agreements they use, as well as users being able to temporarily hand off decision-making to others if they trust them, to act on their behalf, reflecting how they work together in the real world.

Basically this project is allowing everybody to carry a copy of the rules. This allows the protocols to rapidly evolve and change to meet the shifting needs of individuals and their communities.

There is a project building on the work of Ceptr called Holo-REA (developed out of http://valueflo.ws), which is doing exactly what you describe above.

Here is a story to quickly explain their work:

http://mikorizal.org/ValueFlows-Story.pdf

If you read my comment, I'd be grateful to know if it helped clarify some things. Does it help you see how what you described above is possible?
FDGT: The Missing Test API for Twitch Development
Why does it matter? No company is going to do nothing if someone else distributes a modified versions of their software -- regardless of the modification. The fact that it's cracked or not is inconsequential to the discussion.
>Or those companies that would set up 1000 TV antennas in a datacenter and then stream the signal.

Aereo lost their case at the SCOTUS level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo

IANAL, but I have trouble believing that the number of antennas matters. (And I assume Aereo tried every workaround they could think of. Although I believe there's another case at the moment with another organization trying a non-profit loophole.)

But, yes, at the moment it seems as if the IA has let the genie out of the bottle and may well force a ruling on something that the publishers were willing to let slide given the limited impact.
Generally when you get pulled over on a highway the officer comes up from behind...not a guarantee by any means you know the drivers race.

How can you conclude the officer knew the drivers race and that’s the reason for the stop?
John Baez's blogs (Azimuth, This Weeks Finds) are pretty accessible.
"These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher." - https://gdpr.eu/fines/

Definitely revenue. The point of the GDPR is to have some teeth when dealing with companies that are large enough to shrug off lesser fines.
Previously in life I would be completely on the side of the ends not justifying the means, especially with respect to Tails of all things; precisely because it is billed as a tool for whistleblowers and others trying to extend/preserve democracy.

However, recent episodes of Sam Harris' podcast, Making Sense, especially those with Paul Bloom, have changed my mind. The thrust of the argument is that exploiting (especially sexually!) minors is so outrageously heinous that arguments to protect bad actors in situations like this (as a subset of protecting all actors in all situations which is what Tails aims to do) ring hollow.

I have almost zero goodwill for Facebook, so with a half-trillion market cap, this is something I would expect from such a company in light of the ethical consideration above:

> other companies would not be willing to “[spend] the amount of time and resources to try to limit damage caused by one evil guy.”

The takeaway from this for me was what Senator Wyden is quoted as saying to Vice later down:

> Did it [the FBI] submit the zero-day for review by the inter-agency Vulnerabilities Equity Processes?

If the answer is no, which is how it sounds based on the way he responded, then I agree with you that the FBI-Facebook in cahoots, with the latter's resistance to going after political advertising AT ALL, is worrying.