skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to steam I'm several thousand hours into my VR usage if I add up a few of my favorite 'games'.

I completely agree with you that it reminds me of the very early internet. Like the late 90s, when bbs's and prodigy and compuserve and aol and "the internet" were all a jumbled mix.

If you haven't yet make sure to check out Rec Room. Its in a very similar space to VRChat and FBHorizon, but their gimmick is they've invested heavily in "maker" tools so that users can build their own "rooms" (levels) including customized 'game' logic. Its really a VR IDE they just don't call it that.
c'mon mate, even a wisecrack that the lawyers made them do it can be enough to ruin flow and be a total buzzkill. Nobody wants to be the weird guy correcting banter.
Rust is bigger than C++?!

I mean i can hardly imagine any language being BIGGER (as in more language features) than C++ (except C++ 2030 standard ;)
Nobody can steal their own attention
Apparently Shel didn't negotiate "founder's stock." This excerpt is from [1]:

So, you are kind of the forgotten founder? Most people think of Jeff Bezos as the creator of the company. “In fact, to be completely technically true about it, he is the founder. But I was talking to him about joining him on the venture before the company was incorporated. He basically was just arriving from the East Coast and setting up his house when I moved up from California. All that existed of Amazon was on paper at that point. Jeff was working on it full-time already, and his wife, Mackenzie, was writing checks every once in a while. But that was it. I didn’t get founder’s stock. It didn’t seem worth the argument at the time, although I kind of felt like, well, you know, I mean I was there at the beginning. And it was all going to work out the same way, one way or the other, regardless of the technicalities. And it just didn’t seem like something that I wanted to make a big deal about at the time.”

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-emp...
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Horseshoe instance. These are two very different situations with similar hiring criteria.
How much is your time worth? Doing it manually is a pain in the ass and takes a lot of time. Deleteme is not perfect, but they do a pretty good job. Customer since 2010
The original paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2829-0

Published: 21 October 2020

Single-particle cryo-EM at atomic resolution

Takanori Nakane, Abhay Kotecha, Andrija Sente, Greg McMullan, Simonas Masiulis, Patricia M. G. E. Brown, Ioana T. Grigoras, Lina Malinauskaite, Tomas Malinauskas, Jonas Miehling, Tomasz Uchański, Lingbo Yu, Dimple Karia, Evgeniya V. Pechnikova, Erwin de Jong, Jeroen Keizer, Maarten Bischoff, Jamie McCormack, Peter Tiemeijer, Steven W. Hardwick, Dimitri Y. Chirgadze, Garib Murshudov, A. Radu Aricescu & Sjors H. W. Scheres

Nature (2020)
Fair use doesn't apply to DRM circumvention unfortunately. You can't even circumvent DRM for reasons completely unrelated to duplicating a copyrighted work.
The problem is FB microtargeting. Maybe microtargeting should be banned?
Your interest in creating content for profit might be diminished as a result but other people might be able to build on your work.
It’s the same as or worse than letting someone peer in your window all day while you’re in your home office. Surely you can understand why other people aren’t interested in that sort of setup.

If someone stood outside your window everyday pressed up against the glass quietly watching you, wouldn’t you be suspicious of their motives? You’re right in that the value of headshots aren’t particularly valuable, so what then are they hoping to gain from watching your every move?
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> a stream the user can view anyways

The true purpose of the DCMA is to control the distributors via the use of tools like DRM.

The fact that you can view music on YouTube at all is something of an anomaly. The recording industry would love to dispense with YouTube entirely if they could.
In no way did I claim the massacre was an unfortunate oversight.

In the case of the Interstate Highway System, it was legitimately the stated idea to go through Black neighborhoods because those were considered less desirable than white ones, and the land could be had for cheaper. It was absolutely malicious. In several documented cases, the routes were originally supposed to go through white neighborhoods until they complained, and the highways were rerouted through Black neighborhoods (who also complained, but were ignored.)

And the federal program became a model for state and local programs that did the same thing. Great example is NC 147, which destroyed the prosperous Hayti neighborhood of Durham, NC, and wiped out the city's own Black Wall Street. And it was absolutely done intentionally.
As I mentioned several days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837545 I would like to know mode
Congratulations, you're now being tracked by the government of whichever country your VPN is proxy'ing your data to.

And that government also certainly has much less legal restrictions on tracking you since you're probably not their citizen. Unless you VPN to a node in your own country, in which case, they're just tracking you at a different exit point.
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> but the various technological measures that Google uses to make it difficult to download a user copy

Which measures are those?

> to the point where the compilation and use of an external tool is the easiest option

Browser is the easiest way to do HTTP too, but one probably shouldn't claim HTTP is a technical measure to prevent using the Web (though some may be tempted to say so after a long day of debugging... ;)

> Like it or not, youtube-dl is popular in part because it does circumvent a lot of measures that youtube intentionally puts in place.

The only times I've used it was to download some lectures which were freely available to watch them over a long flight and a trip in places where network sucks. Surely, there are a lot of people who probably use it to download some RIAA-tainted crap, but it's not the only use, and the tool still would be useful if all RIAA stuff vanished from existence.
C++ has a ton of baggage and is a very difficult language to use. There are too many language features and they all have years of warts.

Imagine PHP, but not memory safe. Mistakes cause segfaults, memory leaks, and can enable attackers write memory they shouldn't be able to access. To top it off, a lot of libraries are still written in "PHP4 style" and you've got to make use of them. C++ is really hard.

Both C and C++ require consideration of memory semantics, and they are both "hard" in this sense. You have to allocate and free memory deliberately and be conscious about what memory you're passing around. C is much simpler in design than C++. It doesn't have as many features, so it's harder to trip over. It doesn't necessarily make it easier to program, though.

Rust targets the same domains that C and C++ do: systems programing (operating systems and drivers), real time programming (robotics and control software), graphics and games, etc. These are places where explicit memory management is important. Rust does so while being much easier to write. The language leverages new programming language theory and design to protect memory from being written incorrectly. The memory semantics are baked into the language design and checked at compile time. Bad code (in terms of memory and async) simply doesn't compile.

Rust does this while being just as fast as C and C++.

In addition, Rust has a ton of modern features that make it feel like Ruby. Functional idioms, zero-cost abstractions, a modern trait-based type system, generics, macros, and a beautiful package manager and package ecosystem that is better than Ruby and npm.

Rust is going to beat both of these languages.
This came up recently on HN regarding Facebook taking legal action against two Chrome extensions. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661891)

Scraping appears to violate the ToS. Tortious interference was brought up in the comments but I'm not convinced it applies.

Regardless of whether the scraping itself is legal, redistributing the content to a third party is likely to violate copyright in many cases.

The entire situation seems overly complicated.
Your phrasing here is unclear.

Being able to construct B such that hash(B) = hash(A) for some document A is Second Pre-image and there is no viable Second Pre-image attack for SHA-1 or even MD5.

What does exist is collision, where you construct documents C and C' such that hash(C) = hash(C').

This means bad guys can persuade humans (and more importantly in most cases, machines) to sign seemingly innocuous document C; and then apparently produce proof document C' was signed even though the human / machine has never seen C' and would not have signed it.
Or an array of arrays with a TOC containing the keys to index mapping. Keeps the column order and it's more compact because it omits the keys in the data.
You might be underestimating the number of folks that would be willing to install an extension for $10 and expose the private data of themselves and their friends and family in the process...
> On the other hand, seasoned pros are saying if the polls are wrong this year then it’s time to hang up the towel on the polling profession entirely-

I haven't heard anyone say that. Polls are always wrong, it's how wrong that is important.
and if i self host at home like many people do these days? to the ISP?
> browsing playlists is insanely slow,

This is so unforgivable. A playlist can be what? A hundred songs? A thousand? Ten thousand? This is a few kilobytes of data at most. Something has gone seriously wrong if the Google infrastructure and a mobile device with > 1gb of RAM cannot manipulate this small amount of data properly.
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List of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from many sources
Tangential note: In India, it's legal to copy books for personal purpose, but not to copy it for profit.
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What if I use youtube-dl like

mpv <(youtube-dl youtube.com/video-url)

or similar. Then no permanent copy is made. I agree that they could have been cleverer in their marketing.
Most of this seemed like feel-good fluff, but the last one was interesting to me. At AWS I often heard one phrase echoing around: “There’s no compression algorithm for experience”, and without unpacking† all the consequences and corollaries (for they are many) the idea of acquiring management experience by proxy through games, whether to build customer empathy or because it’s cheaper than an MBA, was not amongst them. Nevertheless if I look through all the games that’ve engaged me to completion, over the years, most of them are basically management games. Even ones that didn’t purport to be, like Shadows of Mordor or Fallout 4, in hindsight had something to teach on topics from organisational change management to implementation of strategy.

I’m still waiting for a AAA title that requires inferential analysis of financial statements. After all, as Ben Affleck demonstrates in The Accountant, there’s nothing quite so satisfying as explaining discrepancies in a receivables footnote via a thorough analysis of quarterly EBITDA reporting. The closest approach I’ve experienced in a game, both cognitively and emotionally speaking, is probably completing the Challenge in “The Witness”. I live in hope.

†(sorry)
Found this on reddit. Looks like an aggregator for multiple hosts file that block ads and malware.

Super useful and free alternative to nextdns, especially with software like adaway (android).
That's a wonderful example!

As a kid, it really blew my mind that these simple consoles -- even including something primitive like the Atari 2600 -- could nonetheless display a pretty good simulation of a pseudo-2D roadway or landscape. Why were they so good at that particular trick, yet clearly lacked the graphics horsepower to pull off other tricks?

As I got older it was fascinating to learn how it was done.
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Yeah, if you are building a rocket, you should take notice.

For anything more grounded, energy density makes no difference.
Biden will not win Texas.

If Biden were to win Texas, the GOP would be finished forever. Polls notwithstanding, Biden has as much chance of winning Texas as Trump has of winning California.
The thing I think the original commenter was trying to get at is that spacetime (the mathematical model) and quantum mechanics (the mathematical model) for the most part are in no way unified. Things that happen in quantum mechanics are not necessarily explainable using spacetime.

Although in general physicists believe a lot of things from spacetime for QM, like that information can't travel faster than light, it isn't actually baked into QM.

That's my understanding at least.
I agree that it looks like crank writing.
It's a difficult problem to solve, but it's worth pointing out that our copyright system was originally meant to protect initial works, then when they expire, create a rich public domain for citizens.
It's more likely that Biden wins Florida and had enough margin in PA for it to be callable than Texas gets counted enough and is competitive for Biden.

It would be astonishing statistically if Biden doesn't have a good margin in PA or FL but is competitive in TX.
> What if collaboration on opensource projects (i.e. hosting, issues and their comments) was decentralized instead of relying on a central entity like Github? That would keep the developer base active and make DMCA takedowns ineffective.

But decentralisation would also make it harder to verify the code is legitimate.

Would you trust a copy of something like this from an anonymous server?
Which ones? His earliest adolescent stories were buddy stories, eg Becalmed in Hell, Wait It Out. I can only think of inherited wealth in A Relic of the Empire (Rich Mann).
The beauty of `git clone` is that there are copies of the repository on many thousands of hard drives (including mine -- last pulled a few days back). The main loss at this point is the metadata stored in GitHub's proprietary addons, like issues.

We can hope this inspires a) greater suspicion toward proprietary players that are sitting atop open-source work like GitHub (they're not the only one by any stretch); and b) greater adoption of systems that distribute the software's entire history together, including documentation and bug reports, e.g. Fossil.
Oh so only potentially civilization altering changes within my and my children’s lifetime... yeah no reason to be worried.
I assume that YouTube's licenses with the RIAA covers the Youtube Premium features on their videos. If they didn't, they'd be in violation of RIAA's copyright (streaming licenses are not the same as downloading ones).
It seems that being employee #1 is a sucker of a deal with a lot of the same downsides as being a founder without the huge upside of being a founder.
I'm a contributor to gallery-dl and it occurs to me this exact same scenario can happen there. So I at least set up a cron job to backup the issues in case it gets trolled. Its the only really problematic part to get taken down from Github.
Duh! Yeah, I accidentally added an extra zero and cannot edit it. Thanks for pointing that out.
The maintainers should probably just run their own git server as a hidden service, change their git name/email/signing keys and be done with it.

Going after youtube-dl so publicly has a solid Streisand effect. Feel as though the lawyers aren't going to give up easily on this one and will hound them one way or another.

Regardless, there is some github alternatives available through tor:

Darktea: http://it7otdanqu7ktntxzm427cba6i53w6wlanlh23v5i3siqmos47pzh...

Rootgit: http://rootgit4rghbuenb.onion/explore/repos

And on I2P:

http://git.volatile.i2p/

http://git.psi.i2p
Does this work across the internet? I don't wanna VPN in every time I wanna listen to music :(
Are you proposing we censor and ban discussion of flat earth theories?
Placing the 6to4 endpoint at the home router assumes that the home router has a public, routable IPv4 address, which doesn't really do anything to solve the problem of address exhaustion. At best it might have been a slightly superior form of NAT, but not enough of an improvement to offset the reliability and performance issues or the lack of economic incentive for ISPs (or anyone, really) to operate 6to4 anycast gateways and potentially invite non-customer, and thus non-paying, traffic to route through their network. Considered as a transition mechanism, the fact that 6to4 works better for two 6to4 LANs communicating over IPv4 (where packets can be routed directly) than between 6to4 and native IPv6 (which requires anycast proxies) was a real deal-breaker. It encourages a dependency on tunnelling via IPv4 rather than a transition to a native IPv6 internet.

6rd, fortunately, has none of these drawbacks, though it does require support from the ISPs.
Before life got in the way, I wanted to be an urban planner. So I'm familiar with such patterns.

But the very fact that in several documented cases, the initial proposed route went through a white neighborhood disproves your position that it was intentionally done to destroy black wealth as some kind of malice aforethought master plan.

It happened because the white neighborhood was able to defend itself and the black neighborhood was not. There's absolutely an element of racism there, but that racism is not as blunt as "unbridled malice aforethought."

I want real solutions. You don't find them by inflating accusations because you are justifiably angry about the outcome.

I want real solutions and I think I know something about getting real results. Inflating the amount of active and intentional malice aforethought involved is generally counterproductive.
Yeah if I wanna self host, I don't wanna pay for anything haha
The people you're calling "prominent" are essentially pariahs in the Republican party. Literally almost no Republican cares what they have to say.
> What I've since discovered works much better for me is to separate studying and memorizing

Worth noting that the studying vs testing is exactly what's tested in the paper that repopularized the test effect:

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-08020-001

One complicating factor though, that might hit on what you mentioned is how complex the thing you're learning is. There's one group that claims (re)studying is better for complex material than testing.

https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect
Man shopify sounds like a really shitty place to work. Your first 6 months are about learning how to get people to say yes to things? Besides that I don't care at all about their business (and I don't take jobs in which I don't care about the business), no thank you.
now i'm super glad that i ran it when i did, as it must have been before it got pulled. it updated without issue. i also followed the Micah provided to download the source. you know, just in case.
I use SHA1 for duplicate detection on hard drives. It's more robust than MD5 and fast on modern processors. Nothing wrong with that. But I would not use it for crypto.
The point of the DMCA and US copyright is not to be reasonable, just, fair, or whatever. It exists to make large corporations money via regulatory capture.

There is no reform because reforming or fixing it is antithetical to the current intent - nigh unlimited power for a fortune 500 companies mob of lawyers (or affiliate) to take down and sue with impunity.

The moneyed interests here have a trillion dollar industry on the line. The people just have... freedom? and sanity? to gain in return. And those are nebulous, unfocused interests. If the collective citizenry cannot unanimously push for police to not crush windpipes on the street anymore its never going to voice disdain for a thousand page book of artificial made up scarcity built up over hundreds of years.
They're actually pretty different. C is a very simple language - it's probably possible to learn most of the important parts in a few days. C++ is a super-set of C, but it adds a ton of complexity. For instance, C++ templating itself is turing complete.
Youtube used to store original files without even checking that it was a video. This allowed some enterprising individuals to create a YouTube file system. I'm sure that has changed by now.
Yes, does that for me in Australia too.
Friendly nit: c++ isn't strictly a super set of c, thought it is fairly close.
Yeah, this should be marked as a dupe of that, given it was only two days ago and gained substantial traction.
Most people believe more Democrats are voting via mail (Trump had been criticizing mail voting).

We do know how many registered voters from each party are voting in some circumstances.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/early-voting-number... is a decent overview
No, the court looks to facts to establish intent. It's not possible to look into someone's brain, but courts are very, very comfortable with looking at facts to determine something about what's going on in there.

Crimes like first-degree murder have intent as a requirement. People are convicted of it all the time, and it's based on facts and evidence from before and after the killing.
They probably can't go after Github because part of the purpose of DMCA takedowns is that companies which honor takedowns avoid liability for copyright infringement.
Bear in mind some knives are designed for slicing vegetables and some knives are designed for stabbing humans, and whenever you design a tool, you are making a certain action easier to accomplish.
> I've learned French and Dutch to conversational level in the past

They are both neighbouring contries of the UK, with similar idioom. Finnish is another league. Congrats BTW, many English native speakers these days try but, in my experience, use English in business settings only.
This. I guess, considering the Google product graveyard, I should be glad they had another service to migrate my music to.

It's hardly a ringing endorsement for Google when the best I can say is "Well at least I'm not completely screwed".
Am I the only one surprised to see that the article thinks researchers are paid royalties for their articles? That's actually way better than the system now
This would be interesting test, playing Happy Birthday in a different key.
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We only do that on embedded platforms, meaning MCUs. Anything that runs Linux is better off with CBOR or MessagePack or even ProtoBuf. Dunno about FreeRTOS et all. I've only seen libraries for JSON. ESP32 and Cortex M4 are powerful enough for serialization formats but at the expense of wasting cycles, so you're probably better off with a custom binary protocol most of the time. But if you want to sell your product to integrators use a well supported serialization format. Nobody is going to write decoders for your custom binary format today.
> You say that my view is "painfully anthropocentric", but how?

I'm not OP but the idea of thinking in terms of "return on investment" strikes me as very 20th century humanity.

Who's to say a future society wouldn't consider finding another civilisation to be a massive ROI? Or that a post-scarcity society living under Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism would even care about a return, instead of just doing things because they care to do them?
Well, if it did show up in the late heavy bombardment, it could have also arrived from outer space.