skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other ethnicities like Hispanic/Latino reported just 7.1% compared to the national average of 17.8%

Disclosure. I am not in the United States, I am no expert. But the over-representation of some groups may be what is wrong with that data. It could be that those people that were missed by the survey feel more exploited?

Across the pond in the UK it is not drivers welfare that is driving me to think they should be employees, but tax. In the UK being employed means your boss pays national insurance (a kind of tax). Secondly VAT (sales tax) is only charged by entities with sales over £85k ie not one driver on their own (making them much cheaper). However if they were employees the sales would be by Uber and subject to 20%VAT. HMRC finally got around to demanding this from Uber this week.

https://goodlawproject.org/update/hmrc-to-collect-1-5bn-uber...
> Basically there is not need and motivation for humans to colonize anything outside the Earth. It's just too far, too expensive and too uncomfortable.

There is definitely motivation. Some people want to colonise Mars. Not everybody, but likely enough people to make it happen. Elon Musk wants to make it happen, and while there is no guarantee he'll get his wish, I think he has a decent chance of succeeding.

And establishing a permanent base on the Moon probably falls into a similar category. Moon has certain attractions over Mars – e.g. much more feasible target for space tourism, as a near-Earth testbed for developing technologies that may then be deployed to more distant parts of the solar system.

If the US (or a US-led multinational consortium excluding China) establishes a permanent base on the Moon and on Mars, that would increase the likelihood that China would do it too, in order to prove themselves equal to the US. (In principle other countries might feel the same urge, but China is possibly the only country who feels that urge strongly enough, and has sufficient resources, to actually pull it off; the US policy of excluding China from space ventures also gives China a motivation that does not apply to many other countries with which the US is willing to cooperate.)

Whether there is a "need" – the boundary between "wants" and "needs" is a value judgement. People who want to colonise Mars likely have different values from people like you who don't see it as worthwhile.
It's interesting how many Github counternotices (e.g., [1] [2]) seem completely justified yet link to repositories that are no longer on GitHub. I wonder what happened.

[1] in https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0... someone forked a permissively-licensed project; the original author made the project-closed source, then issued a DMCA takedown against the fork. That's clearly bogus: you can't revoke an open source license.

[2] in https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2019/11/2019-11-2... Microsoft DMCAd a project that did something with Windows local licensing keys. I can see how Microsoft would prefer that this project not exist, but I see no infringement. Not everything that a big company dislikes is an infringement of copyright.
> Without cross-platform social systems like this...

Perhaps I missed this in Mozilla's hub, spoke, and developer documentation but I'm not seeing how this would be cross-platform. I'm not saying that you're wrong, but maybe i missed this. Or, or, or...maybe I'm conflating cross-platform with federated...like this would be good concept if operated over established federation protocols like ActivityPub, though of course higher up the chain to incorporate the neat VR elements...? Don't get me wrong: if Mozilla's foray into this space can displace FB even a little, and empower users with more freedom, independence and decentralization, then I'm in favor!
> I wish people didn't believe everything others say about people.

The GP said, "I wish RMS didn't have the issues around women that he does"

He does have sexist problems and has as long as I've known him (late 70s). We have been on again / off again friends over the decades, but never enemies so no reason to fabricate anything.

As you say he has other issues both good and bad; this comment is specifically about the one issue.
Considering 432hz is not really wrong, just different, does it bother you when listening? Is it the same with microtonal music? Or performances in baroque pitch?
Understood, just waiting to see where the devs pop up. I imagine that someone will help them with a DMCA counterclaim also. RIAA has been beaten many times, they have a long history of creative interpretation that the courts do not always agree with, and US law is only valid in the United States and Australia (thats a joke, but do hope they get on the brick and road plan or stop acting like a US colony at some point).
Exploring 8chan's Hosting Infrastructure
Can confirm.

Back in India, my grandparents had a driver who later won the lottery. He used the winnings to buy two elephants, what he thought were a good investment (elephants are regularly rented out for expensive sums to temples for functions and celebrations).

Now he's a driver once more. But he has two elephants tho.
Have you seen gun ads? Firearm manufacturers basically do market their products as murder weapons.
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/china...

https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/2402.pdf
You are right but I mean it since jsonnet has also function as data type, which is not a trivial matter.
All: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That's what the More link at the bottom points to. Or click here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911&p=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911&p=5
There are a lot of arguments against this counter example, including the fact that the browser does not facilitate you getting access in any other way than originally intended (legal) and it honors the caching policy defined for the resource (technical)
The quest is really not a hassle. You put it on, trace a safe area out on the floor, and you're in another world within 30 seconds.

I think their biggest challenge for growth is that you really have to experience it to get it. People understand what "new Xbox" is all about, it's the same as the last one except improved in easily quantifiable ways, and they'll go spend $500 on it.

VR is still a new thing that people don't understand. But I think it'll get there.
It seems like the right process is to mosey on over to gitlab. If gitlab properly defends the developer, that will continue the gradual github exodus to more open platforms.
My 2 cents, YouTube Music's interface is awful.
> Compare what he wrote to what he was accused of writing.

Given that so few people do this (in general, not just in regards to RMS), A smear is just as bad for PR as a non-smear, so it makes sense that organizations would want to limit collateral damage ASAP.
Or VR could have been being relegated to a niche because of expensive computing requirements, difficulty to setup, lack of portability, and expensive headsets.

The direction the Oculus/Facebook have taken with the Quest line addresses many of these issues (sacrificing quality of the graphics). VR is possibly going to have its breakout moment.
Failing to enhance the operating life of the products (or failing to talk about it to a parliamentary commission) != designing such products to fail.
Have they countered the claim per DMCA? So much ink spilled on this but there’s a process to fight erroneous removals like this.
I imagine an easy/intuitive way to set up FIFOs for stdout/stderr with redirection, maybe? A way to say: for this following section, I want stderr to go trough "|sort -n|logger -t DEBUG -f -" and standard out to go through (... Other pipeline)?
> So, the banning worked. There is no opinions you don't like on the internet anymore?

The "exodus" events were never about silencing __opinions__. They were about destroying __actions__.

In the case of 4chan and Gamergate, the Gamergaters were constantly Doxxing people and Swatting people online. Because these doxxing events and swatting events have mostly stopped, I can absolutely say that it was a success.

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In the case of GameFAQs LUEsers, it was a matter of "mods are asleep, post pornography" on child-friendly sections of the site (Like Pokemon and whatnot). Large scale coordinated efforts to troll and harass.

That behavior largely stopped once LUE was silenced. Everyone agreed that free-speech was important, but not when that speech was used to disrupt and destroy the community. (IE: Coordinating widespread trolling efforts).

Twitter, Facebook, and other mainstream sites are finally coming to terms with this reality. Heck, even Reddit had its exodus events when it banned /r/TheFappening, /r/jailbait, /r/WatchPeopleDie, /r/CreepShots, and other groups.

Everyone is for freedom of speech, but the line is drawn at obviously abusive behavior. And guess what? Banning those communities works. People stopped making /r/CreepShots when the community was banned.

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Success? Yes. In every instance. Limited albeit: it forced the trolls and /r/CreepShot groups off the site and into worser corners of the internet. But it absolutely curtailed the growth of these communities.

Its a limited success, but one that has clearly worked. More so than naïve hopes of "engaging in debate" with these deplorables. Debate works on reasonable people. But when people decide to be unreasonable, you must enact stricter actions. An exodus event should never be taken lightly, and should only be used as a last resort.

The new webmasters would accept the nomadic group (ie: LUEsers went to Something Awful IIRC), but when their toxic behavior became apparent, the exodus continued (ie: to 4Chan, and then finally to 8chan today).

I'm no "internet historian": there are other people who have far better understanding of how these groups moved about. But from my casual perspective, the pattern of "harass -> banning -> exodus to new website -> harassment -> banning" is cyclical and almost predictable.

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Under no circumstances have I ever seen "debate" actually work to fix the poor behavior of a group. Absolutely never. Period. When a group has reached "critical trolling mass", its no longer about debate, but about harassment, and online intimidation. When you move in to try to engage in a friendly debate, they'll work to release your IP address, your phone number, your Facebook accounts... and harass you in the real world (and may even start Swatting you).
Right, I know that, I should maybe have been explicit but I was replying to a commenter who suggested this setup for stills.
It's not a DMCA Takedown Request. It's just a letter. Making a request to take a repo down. Anyone can write a letter.
The Betamax case was pre-DMCA. The law has changed. I'm not saying it's invalid, just that there's a different argument to be made.
Not for the electoral college. For that the House of Representatives picks the President and the Senate picks the VP. You should also note that in the House, normal voting rules don't apply: each state receives one vote, the reps from each state will need to caucus together to determine which candidate receives that vote.

Pretty crazy.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/10/21/what-happen...
This is one of the 2 things in the constitution that specifically would require unanimous consent of the states to change: equal apportionment of Senators per state.
Gone, reduced to atoms.
That's an example of strong typing specific to PHP, then, and not used in the rest of computer science. What you're describing there is usually known as static typing, which Python also supports.
Your budget is your priorities.
Best thing for it really, it wasn’t going anywhere
Thanks for the response and interesting site to have a browse of rather than just dropping a "That's not how law works."! Pedantic was the wrong word to hinge my comment on.
RPKI secure BGP routing Q&amp;A
More importantly: they are not the copyright owners of the content being removed.

The DMCA doesn't magically give you the right to file "takedown requests" for circumvention devices: as stated elsewhere in this thread, they must sue in an appropriate United States venue.

This filing is absolutely in bad faith and the preparing attorney should actually face professional censure.

Perjury?

> Under penalty of perjury, we submit that the RIAA is authorized to act on behalf of its member companies on matters involving the infringement of their sound recordings, audiovisual works and images, including enforcing their copyrights and common law rights on the Internet.

Absolutely none of these things are applicable to this case.
I remember back in 2008 I read a research paper on what to not do when publishing/advertising peer-to-peer networks in order to avoid stuff such as RIAA. Showing copyright-protected work in your website/screenshots/etc was a big thing. Sadly I cannot find the paper anymore and I don't remember all the advice :(

If someone here with a good research-paper-search-fu can find the paper, it would help help our community a lot. All I remember is that it was from some peer-to-peer conference, and I read it in 2008.
Right. We should be afraid of people who want to cut corners with nuclear power.

Also, building a reactor takes a long time when all the precautions are taken. Building hundreds simultaneously is begging for precautions to be dropped or mismanaged.
The least annoying thing about writing and working with Linux debuggers is that all of the communication layers (kernel<->debugger, debugger<->C library, debugger<->loader, debugger<->compiler [1]) is basically undocumented. I mean, it's annoying trying to track down where in the source code these things exist, but if you have experience working in large codebases, this kind of task is needed sufficiently frequently that it's not difficult.

The real issue with debuggers is that ptrace is a pretty broken API. Supporting things like spawning threads, forking processes, fork+exec, etc. is difficult, and full of race conditions that are difficult to code correctly. Attaching to running multithreaded processes is another challenge. Writing a debugger that can correctly handle multithreaded applications is challenging, the documentation gives you zero insight into what the potential pitfalls are, and almost all examples are similarly uninformative, being too complex for their use case.

[1] Yes, there's DWARF. But if you're dealing with GNU extensions to DWARF, the documentation ceases...
stop spamming this pro nuclear bullshit.
> clearly defined but longish residency requirements for voting probably wouldn't fall under the category of "voter suppression" (which I take to mean policies designed to indirectly disenfranchise certain kinds of voters for partisan political advantage).

Until The Great Migration happens (or something like it), and suddenly the long residency requirements look precisely like racism ... unless, of course, you've had the in place for 300 years already.

I think that voting is among the least significant of the acts of "new arrivals", particularly if they have money.
Great! Then they should have sued the responsible party. Circumvention devices are not something the quintessential "DMCA takedown" process allows for or covers: these claims need to go to court where an injunction may be granted.
Maybe it's trying to sign me in to some telemetry service and share my image with Cortana.
This is a great resource! Thanks for sharing it!
Apparently not, since people get away with sending fraudulent takedown requests all of the time. Now that I think of it, has anyone ever been punished for abusing the DMCA?
>So would using an adblocker, or any extension for that matter, also be a violation?

This hasn't been tested, but yes. This is a plausible argument. And it's why the CFAA is complete garbage.
Every shell that changes how quoting works is incompatible with bash
I think people really need to calm down about "politics" and "politicians" and worry more about issues. In the end both parties in the US will happily sell out their country to the highest bidder. Instead of supporting parties and candidates and donating to them we should support organizations that lobby for certain topics no matter who is in power.
So, are they going to also issue a takedown for YouTube Premium next? Premium allows you to watch/listen without ads and also allows you to download videos for offline use. If I pay for YouTube Premium, there should be no problem with me using youtube-dl to timeshift the content I've already paid for. It's no different than using a DVR to record a show off a cable channel I pay to subscribe to.
Years ago we moved back to central Paris and one of the great things was walking to the Louvre Tuesday evenings after work when the tourists were all at dinner. We would just spend an hour in one or two rooms, then go out to eat.

There's lots of amazing stuff that's not "on the list" and you can actually sit and enjoy it when the museum isn't chockablock.
Life expectancy at birth is quite different from life expectancy at say 50.

Back in Roman times, newborn life expectancy was about 25. But life expectancy of a 25 year old was beyond 50. The remaining time increased. That's not the case today anymore, especially in developed nations, but you get the idea. Your countdown ticks with less that one second per second.
Hi, I wrote the text.

> Yeah, I didn't understand what the author was trying to get at. Every point made against Firefox, Chrome itself offends to an exponential degree.

My decision to use ungoogled-chromium itsn't a recommendation, but just my way of avoiding the UI issues I have been having with Firefox.

> Legislation to break up the browser monopoly is likely our only hope.

Interesting idea, but I don't see how you can solve a technical issue by legal means.
Ethics of Starting an OnlyFans
Empty lot. Last time I looked the cheapest house for sale in MLS was just under $300k.
This should serve as an example to people who want (for example) the GNU project to relax their contributor copyright assignment practices. It only takes a single moment of complacency and the vultures will swoop in. In this case it was because of sloppiness around which urls were used in a demo. Yeah, all urls are the same to the guy who is building a url slurping service (which is why the take down will likely be defeated), but there is an entire profession dedicated to nothing but nit picking, loophole hunting, and general levels of pedantry that we have just come to call it lawyering. Layers are like cliffs or handguns. Stay as far away from them as possible, they are facts of life, but you really don't want to have anything to do with them unless you have no other option.
It seems mistaken to describe police and military contracts as inherently political. They are no more political than providing services to other government agencies.
Maybe especially for the exploratory cerebral introverts out there, remote steady programming jobs could really hit an existential sweet spot that history didn’t used to afford very often.
That sounds cool, trying to think how that works(looks like single camera so not stereo) also I guess assuming you have onboard speed and then trace frames... make the depth?

Oh I guess you could have known 3d shapes, drive a camera towards it/get measurements, train something maybe.

> After uploading video for the tile, the collector earns a financial reward and their username is displayed on the tile

Nice, could people use their phones through an app? That would probably be slow though walking.
It definitely was very sloppy of them to show examples on actual copyrighted material. Couldn't they have simply put examples of public domain content?
Git seems like a great candidate for hosting through TOR; it's super low bandwidth. I often find myself wondering why DMCA'd fan projects don't just switch to anonymous TOR hosting. Obviously it's not bulletproof, but if it's just copyright holders you have to worry about and not state actors then it seems like a great solution.
Elon Musk Reveals Best Place to Look for Aliens in the Solar System
>valid and complete repository as Github.

No you don't because its missing the issue tracker which is one of the most important bits of data.
I respectfully disagree with this. Assuming you have the right build system and tooling setup a monorepo is strictly better than the alternatives solely from the code reuse and cross-stack visibility gains you get.
To be fair to the Persian elephants, a large part of the Islamic victory against Persia was not because of any superior skill but because of severe infighting among the Persians. When the Arabs invaded, Persia was literally in the middle of a civil war. Soldiers and generals would betray their commanders midway during battles, and there was often zero coordination.

The Romans on the other hand... lots of hubris and underestimating. There were some brilliant strategies employed by the Arab generals that are even thought in military schools to this day. For example, the time when Khalid bin Walid conquered the walled city of Antioch - without siege weaponry, but by drawing the Romans out by cunning.
In this context I read it more as being excessively complicated to some unspecified end rather than engineered to withstand a load way larger than necessary.
That is how betting works when you hedge.
Thoughtful critique is welcome, but please don't post like this (whatever the topic).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is an interesting idea. Look at how religion explains the origin of life: A lifeform not from this planet, far more advanced than us, gave "the breath of life", and calls us their "children".

The vastness of this universe leads me to believe that it's impossible to dismiss the idea that there is an intelligence/lifeform sufficiently advanced as to appear to be a God to us.
Maybe there's a way that Hubs can make money? "Virtual office service" seems like the obvious answer in this growing remote work situation (see also: Immersed VR), but with Facebook's lower level hardware access they may be poised to eat that space too.
Why not?

If youtube-dl incorporates some generic HTTP library (which it presumably does), is that now "tainted" too? If it used the one from Chrome, does everybody have to stop using Chrome? That seems problematic. Also, if that's the case I foresee some epic trolling ahead as people incorporate "interesting" code into their overt piracy tools. I bet some of them even incorporate code built into Windows or macOS.

If not, what stops somebody from taking all of youtube-dl, changing the name and three lines of code, and saying that the removed lines were the ones promoted for infringement?
Except it doesn't give you the actual file, it's still only playable offline through the app (unless you have root I guess).
Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Political Ad Targeting
It would be interesting to see who added the testcase that has the copyrighted video. Maybe honest mistake, maybe it was intentional to kill the project.
Twitter does all the time, just with a different target. Someone even set up a satirical subreddit to take all the hateful messages posted on Twitter and replacing "white/men/etc" with "jews" just to prove the point.

https://old.reddit.com/r/menkampf
Stackoverflow always closes good questions. It's almost a sign of legitimacy at this point.
You can make what the walled garden owner has graciously allowed you to create. Now try making a video game on an iphone. That's how we used to learn to program, on Commodore-64s and such.