skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the government announces loudly that they will fine companies more than their losses if they pay.

No, they do it to enforce sanctions, not to break out of the prisoner's dilemma. Criminals not connected with sanctioned subjects will happily continue their ransom attacks, now that the government has crippled their most capable rivals.
saying they are working on the disclosure system is good especially because it seems unprompted.
"Facebook's experts say Facebook not evil, Facebook says."
With the release of 4.6, there was a change in the way LXD handles its dqlite dependency that should mean the long effort to have it packaged for Debian will be coming to a close.
You can get an LG (https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-65-class-un7000-series-led-4...) for $500, which has HDR. Did not compare these two side-by-side but generally HDR is what sells 4K TV: a small (<80") TV does not benefit from higher resolution, IMHO. HDR on the other hand, is a huge difference (and even on a regular SD signal a "smart" TV can usually blow up dynamic range with some image processing).
I think you're underestimating the exponential blowup of testing you need when you add more components.
Seems unnecessarily harsh... like insulting someone begging for change on streets...

Personally, I would never discourage contributions to Open-Source, no matter how trivial or if it was done with selfish intentions...

But yes I do understand the backlash, this would be super annoying for maintainers. I wonder what Digital Ocean imagined would happen?
Unpopular Opinion: I think that if you're a store owner and you want people to go to literal prison for stealing from your store, then you're a piece of trash.. In all honesty, I wouldn't trust anyone that disagrees with this even if they told me the sky was blue. Man capitalism has made people so heartless.
RAM failures are fun. Maybe 15 years ago, I had one box reboot itself and come back up with only ~ 16 MB out of an expected 1 GB or so; it was pretty overprovisioned and was able to sort of keep up working from swap but was sending alarms on a system that was always quiet (near idle cpu normally, important but low throughput system). More recently, I've had a couple systems with so high a rate of correctable ECC errors that machine check processing ate nearly all the cpu; but it still had enough to pass healthchecks, but not handle requests in a timely fashion, but didn't manage to get an uncorrectable error that would have paniced the machine so failover could work.
The film explains that when they say “you are the product” they mean Facebook is selling a chance to influence your behavior. It’s an interesting perspective, but this PR piece from Facebook seems to willingly misinterpret this
Considering I have written import numpy as np probably thousands of times I would be quite okay with import np.
I think the person is confused about prices settling at the same level with collusion. And the history as you point out.

By their logic, all the supermarkets in my neighborhood are colluding on the price of tomatoes.
Repos were being tagged as hacktoberfest-friendly by maintainers long before it was mandatory.
Same, though the giant ad on the home screen was almost a dealbreaker. Can't reclaim that screen real estate either - I blocked all the ad domains on my router and the ad disappeared, leaving a giant hole taking 40% of the screen.
True, but "potential deaths" leads you down some pretty weird rabbit holes.

Also, you have to answer the question what's the right timeline to optimize for then?

For example, centralizing power makes the federal government a more tempting target for authoritarians in the long term (next 100 years). Given the death statistics of previous authoritarian (from both internal violence and wars), you're probably looking at millions of deaths.

Centralizing power is also what makes the modern social safety net and regulatory regime possible. Are the thousands of lives saved by those systems every year worth a low chance at a much larger number of deaths? (rhetorical question, there probably isn't an objective answer to that)
proof wise, there is a difference.

Blackmail wise, there is an even bigger difference. "I know you use grindr" vs "this is your last conversation on grindr". These have very different credibility and impact when leaked.
I think Oracle v Google concerning Java still hasn't been resolved...
The starting point is that scanning a book and making it available to somebody else involves copying the book, and therefore infringes copyright unless you have the copyright holder’s permission or a fair use justification. In contrast, lending a physical book does not result in a copy being created. The e-lending system you have proposed is essentially what the Internet Archive calls “controlled digital lending.” The publishers say it is copyright infringement [1]; the Internet Archive says it is analogous to traditional library lending and falls under fair use [2]. The case hasn’t gone to trial yet.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900...

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900...
I asked you to google a quote which take a minute to find at most. In this topic you consistently require folks to spend much more time to even come close to interpreting your links.

Axe to grind? Yes. I do notice patterns that I don't really fancy, reactionary ones in particular. Aristocrats defending monarchy get little sympathy from me.
There's a difference between circumvention for region-free playback (which is not necessary any more, as this generation of consoles is region free) and format-shifting (which makes sense for audiovisual media, but not games, at least not until emulators catch up, since you need to play games on the original hardware) and circumvention for piracy, or, as it is most commonly euphemized, "backups".

While backing up your games is a legitimate use case, it's not terribly useful with cartridge-based consoles like the Switch (cartridges don't get scratched), and it's much harder to argue for that usage. The reality is that the vast, vast majority of people claiming they're "backing up games" are just pirating games. I've seen this first hand as a major public face in the Wii homebrew community, trying to steer the community away from piracy.

Game modding is often brought up as another use case, but straight piracy often requires additional effort over just modding games for technical reasons (you need to bypass game authentication and/or redirect all file access, not just the modded bits), so I don't buy that argument. Typical piracy tools are very obviously targeted at such, not at modding, and legitimate modding teams who do not support piracy have in the past developed approaches that are a lot less intrusive to doing so (see: Project M).

So it's going to be a lot harder to argue before a court for mechanisms that allow you to copy games, because legitimate uses are much fewer and far in between, and the tools are all, realistically, aimed at piracy, whether they drape a thin veil over it or not. The courts are not stupid, they can see through thin veils.
To draw out a hypothesis: existing accounts with real names and projects may value their reputation enough to not spam. Perhaps a reasonable line of thinking is spam accounts are newly created “anonymous” accounts.
I haven’t looked, so I don’t know if there is any correlation. It’s an imperfect filter for spammers since of course anonymous accounts already exist.
A while back I went to the hospital because of a potentially nasty infection. The doctor was pretty surprised and excited when I opened up the Health app with temperature logs (from a smart thermometer), but they were even more intrigued by the consistently elevated heart rate (from my watch) that had started a few days before the fever. I believe it helped guide the treatment, but I can’t be entirely sure.

For more general health/fitness, the rings can be motivating in a bit of a gamification way. The easier availability of stats from workouts also points out things for me to improve on, or to make changes during the activity. For example, it’s easier for me to see if my pace is slipping while I’m hiking and pick it up, or notice if I’m pushing harder than I should and slow it down so I have the energy for the end (the watch can also be really helpful with navigating as well).
Ask HN: Which hardware should Software Freedom Conservancy liberate?
Software Freedom Conservancy recently announced their intention to use litigation against hardware vendors in order to bring about GPL compliance and to use the resulting code to implement open source solutions for the hardware.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/oct/01/new-copyleft-strategy-launched-with-ARDC-grant/
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html

Many areas of the hardware industry have GPL compliance issues and many of these also have lockdown, security and or privacy issues. Conservancy has seen Linux-based firmware in refrigerators, baby monitors, virtual assistants, soundbars, doorbells, home security cameras, police body cameras, cars, AV receivers, and televisions. Presumably there are more such as robot vacuum cleaners, mowers, drones or tractors.

Which area of the hardware industry would you like to see Software Freedom Conservancy help to liberate?
1. I don't watch that much TV.

2. I mostly watch Netflix, very rarely Hulu, and in general resolution hasn't been an issue for my usage patterns.
And you can view some outdoors in the sun of high noon
If I can add an additional requirement to the question, what are good dumb-TVs/monitors that have acceptable integrated speakers (driven from HDMI)?

(To avoid "smart TVs", I got a nice Sony Bravia TV, from circa 2009, and even that has more "smart" than I'd like (e.g., linked to online services that were discontinued), but it doesn't try to get onto the Internet, it has a great 1080p picture, the remote worked easily with my airgapped Blu-ray player, and the integrated speakers are good enough for my needs.)

(Before that, I used a series of monitors, usually hooked up to PC 2.1 external amp&speaker systems, since PC monitor integrated speakers I tried were awful, and using kludges like a smart power strip to power on/off monitor and amp/speakers from PS3/whatever controller. I decided to go to a vintage Sony TV, just to simplify that mess.)

I'm not 100% happy with the vintage TV approach, and would like to move to 4K+ someday, while keeping decent integrated speakers/soundbar and be able to plug video&audio&limitedcontrol right into my PS4 (PS5?) and random other HDMI-spitting devices.
tic is the TermInfo Compiler

The command on the left side of the pipe dumps the terminfo for "xterm-kitty" to stdout

The command on the right side launches ssh to "myserver" and executes tic to compile from stdin and output to the ~/.terminfo directory (which nurses/terminfo will search by default).

So basically it takes a local terminfo entry and copies it to the user-local terminfo path on the remote host.

The command will work for any other terminal too; just replace xterm-kitty with whichever entry you'd like copied.
I also just switched away from Android this summer, which I've been using since the very first days of smartphones. I had an iPhone 4S mixed in there for ~6mo when I broke my android and a friend let me have their old iPhone.

Now I'm on the new iPhone SE, entirely because I lost trust in Google. I had been worried about Google for a while, but it all kicked off when a new job last year gave me a MacBook, and I realized that Apple things weren't actually as bad as I thought they were. The laptop was a little more expensive than a comparable linux laptop, but I liked a lot of things about it too.

Ended up cutting out Google entirely, and couldn't be happier. Definitely makes me excited to talk about how I took back my privacy, even though it's still a bit weird paying the "actual cost" of web services rather than getting them for "free".
Trading systems are generally regarded to be some of the most challenging and simultaneously unrewarding type of engineering out there. I don't think there is anyone, even on HN, who will look at the NYSE platform and go "I could build that in a weekend".
Try with a new account. Authenticator app option is not there until you add number. Prompt never succeeds until you add number.
I'm saying vertical integration has obvious competitive advantages. Historically this has led to anti trust regulation.

The analogy here could be something along the lines of "device manufacturers cannot be in the business of content creation or distribution" or even "content distributors cannot be in the business of content creation".

I don't have a strong opinion on this, I'm just providing some historical context. I'm sure there are many more examples and interpretations.
Collabora Online moves out of The Document Foundation
> I feel you're being too negative towards DO.

Don't get me wrong. I am not saying DO is a terrible brand. I am just saying this was not very well thought out for such a wide reaching event. It just makes me question their motivation.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this.

This is what Hacktoberfest should have been from the start. A company incentivizing pull requests against your repo should require your consent. A maintainer needs to affirmatively sign up for this sort of work; they can't have it thrust upon them. As a maintainer, all the other half-measures people have suggested (e.g., accepted PRs only; account age measurements; filtering out README changes) do not actually reduce the unasked-for burden on me.

That said, I'm not sure this year can be salvaged. It's not clear whether all the existing spammers will get the message. I hope DigitalOcean emails all folks signed up to notify them of this change. (They haven't communicated any of their changes so far in such a way.) Notably, a day ago, the DigitalOcean staff thought this wouldn't make a difference. [1] And it's even possible this will just result in issue spam begging maintainers to add the Hacktoberfest topic.

But it's also possible that this will work out. The best version of this is that low-quality contributors looking for a t-shirt get directed toward honeypot repositories, and folks interested in making substantial contributions will continue using issue labels like GitHub's own "good first issue", or the Hacktoberfest repository topic, to find places to contribute.

We'll see in a day or two whether this is enough.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24648285
You made an arithmetic error and are off by an order of magnitude. NASA's 2020 budget is $22 billion.
> I wonder if it really actually makes things easier to improve yourself

Yes, significantly, at least for me. I tried repeatedly to use a calorie counting app where you enter every food you ate. It had all kinds of conveniences for scanning barcodes, and saving meals you regularly ate, and had every chain restaurant's data. It was such a pain in the ass to use. Manually entering everything, even with the ability to scan barcodes, was too tedious. And it was always inaccurate. How many grams of potatoes did I have when I cooked dinner tonight? I have no idea!

With the watch, I just click a button to say I'm going for a walk or a run, and it tracks my heart rate and knows my weight and height and does a fairly accurate calculation of my calories burned.

It also was a lot more fun than entering calories into an app. I would get little badges for making progress and rewards for reaching a goal. It wasn't much, but it was a reminder that I was moving forward. I ended up "closing my rings" every day for 2 years straight (minus one week where I had the flu). That's the most exercise I've ever done and the most consistently I've ever done it.
DoD IG to Investigate the ‘Bioweaponization’ of Ticks
I’m surprised they bother to make a response at all. The popularity of the the documentary must be making someone at FB a little nervous
Working for an American company from Australia, I've noticed a tendency for Americans to work overtime to meet a deadline, and Australians to vigorously oppose their peers from doing so. I've even seen people set up alerting if anyone makes commits outside of work hours.

There's an unspoken agreement that if someone puts in overtime and others don't, it makes the non-overtimers look bad and that that the overtimer should be _cut down_.

Probably not quite tall poppy syndrome, but maybe an adjacent phenomenon.
The market itself collects a transaction fee on every trade, so that is something they are not getting back.
1) Epic is gobsmackingly cashed up. Fortnite brought in almost $2 billion in revenue last year, and they raised almost $2 billion in equity this year. If anyone is positioned to have a drawn-out legal fight with Apple, it's Epic.

2) Epic's endgame isn't Fortnite, it's the Epic Games Store. Tim Sweeney is a smart businessman, he knows that Fortnite's shelf-life is limited. He's seen Steam make an order of magnitude more money for Valve than its games. EGS would not only diversify Epic away from Fortnite, it would bring in far, far more revenue (not to mention tying up nicely with licensing the Unreal Engine to developers).

3) With EGS on the App/Play Stores, Epic would be positioned to capture literally billions of revenue. The potential reward is so large, it's worth throwing almost everything you have into the Apple/Google lawsuit.
> Despite its successes, Einstein's robust theory remains mathematically irreconcilable with quantum mechanics, the scientific understanding of the subatomic world. Testing general relativity is important because the ultimate theory of the universe must encompass both gravity and quantum mechanics.

Maybe the universe just has a giant if statement.
Not calling cops because the mass media is trying to convince everyone that all cops are stone cold killers is ridiculous. You are far more likely to die on your way to the grocery than you are to get death by cop
Yes it reminded me of a similar story about snakes in India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Now I am curious of how most microwaves are modulating power.
I personally wouldn't participate in Hacktoberfest after this. I'd never want to be seen wearing the t-shirt they'd give out after all the spam and drama. At this point wearing it would probably give the wrong impression to the people who are actually invested in OSS.
Switching to opt-in is the right call here to limit any further damage. Meanwhile, it's painfully obvious that the whole thing is aimed to be a "low-touch" / "fully automated" campaign where the participation rules are designed around that goal. Makes sense -- it's easy to scale, etc. However now it's clear that the outcome is the polar opposite of GSoC, where participating in GSoC has prestige and produces high quality oss contributions, and it's facing an unwinnable battle against an internet army looking for the minimum effort end-run around the rules to extract a tshirt...

So, my take is that DO should take a longer view and try to raise the profile of Hacktoberfest by making it more exclusive -- eg take a step toward GSoC. For ex, there are a handful of oss-bounty sites (bountysource, issuehunt, etc) where people post bounties for things they want implemented. Could DO partner here in some fashion? Such as matching bounties in a certain range ($10<x<$50?) with a tshirt? Or matching bounties? Make it a year-round promo instead of one month?
Freetube Rewrite released (Local API, no invidious): degoogle
"Influence your behavior" seems like an over dramatic description of "show me ads".
Sugar content is often far more relevant. Sugar is not good for humans.
If you stick with that logic, you’ll think every mistake is a backdoor !
Because it's also his entire family and chickens. It is creepy unless you're a professional photographer. Social boundaries are there for a reason.
"Wow! 50M hours a day of time saved seems like a lot. How could they be evil if they're getting people to spend less time on FB?"

50M hours / 1.5B DAU is about .03 hours, or about <2 minutes per person. The average person spends 1h15m on FB, this is less than a 3% drop in overall time, but likely a larger proportion of that time is spent scrolling and seeing more ads than it is fixed on a single video.
We all start as unemployed 16 year olds living in someone's basement (I was 16 when the Wii was released, hi!). Then one of three things happens:

- You have morals, grow up and shift into a related career (infosec whitehat or some other computer engineering thing), and optionally stay part of the community, staying well away from piracy stuff.

- You end up as a government-side black hat, i.e. NSA, NSO, and its ilk. Whether this is moral, that's for you to decide.

- You have no morals, embrace piracy, see the money in the business (especially if you also don't care for your users and just want to extract as money from them as possible), and join or start a commercial piracy-focused operation, i.e. modchips and such. This is the Xecuter guys (re not caring for their users, they wrote bricking code for people who tried to mess with their devices, and it had false positives).

The Xecuter guys aren't the good guys. Look for the open not for profit homebrew communities if you want legitimate effort to have control over your own hardware. Xecuter just caters to pirates.
Just a little h/t to Warren Zevon, RIP. Enjoy every sandwich.
https://youtu.be/SO1QUy-HTHQ
>> Instead we want to make sure we offer value to people, not just drive usage.

How are you providing value to people when you show articles from the same perspective to the same person. I would value a product, if it gave me different perspectives on the same issue. I guess their definition of value is distorted. And therein, lies the problem and the reason for filter bubbles.

Try logging out of facebook and then login after a week. You will see a significant increase in the rate of notifications. How is this not driving usage?

>> We provide advertisers with reports about the kinds of people who are seeing their ads and how their ads are performing

Well, technically you are not the product. But when you combine hundreds of data points from millions of people and give access to advertisers to that data, you are a part of the product. So I guess, it should say, "You are a tiny part of the product". There, I fixed it.

>> Facebook uses algorithms to improve the experience for people using our apps—just like any dating app, Amazon, Uber, and countless other consumer-facing apps that people interact with every day. That also includes Netflix, which uses an algorithm to determine who it thinks should watch ‘The Social Dilemma’ film, and then recommends it to them.

The key difference between Facebook and other services is that facebook is a "social network". Things I post on facebook are viewed by my friends, family, colleagues which has an impact on how others perceive me and my social status. Facebook has the potential to literally shape my perception in public and my relationships. They completely fail to address this. I definitely don't get to choose the articles spewed by their algorithm and the articles I read/are shown to me definitely influence my thinking.

>> The overwhelming majority of content that people see on Facebook is not polarizing or even political

True, but there are certain topics which are "hot" topics. People usually have strong opinions on topics like religion, politics, sexual orientation etc. I wouldn't care that my friend is a cat person but I am a dog person. However, it would matter to me if my friend supports a candidate that I vehemently oppose. People usually lose their senses when it comes to the "hot" topics. So a post on these topics has a disproportionate amount of effect than a post on a vacation my friend is taking.
If Apple's business model and hardware is predicated on security, privacy, ensuring quality, making your phone not misbehave, making things simple and reliable, why should they be forced to open that up to others who will not operate as they want?