skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There must be more to your story.

The RIAA generally doesn't have any involvement in video games, other than where its members license music to games (i.e., GTA), and they generally wouldn't have any grounds for being part of the proceedings you've described if their involvement was just the music licensing.

I can see the ESA being a huge dick in these proceedings, because it's their job to do that, but the RIAA literally wouldn't care as long as somebody paid the music licensing fee (for that low volume of users the licensing fee would generally be less than $100 annually, all inclusive).

I've been on the other side of an RIAA negotiation, and they were very easy to work with. We theoretically owed them millions of dollars for several years of unlicensed music streaming, and they waived the statutory penalties they were legally entitled to in exchange for us agreeing to pay a few hundred dollars of royalties a year to stream their members' music. All told, we paid less than $2500/year for streaming licenses for all of the Big 3 labels and a dozen or more smaller labels.
I don't think so for youtube-dl. I think it's dead now. There was already hundreds of PRs to be merged - so many videos already weren't able to be downloaded on various sites.

The codebase was not the useful thing about this project: it was the constant upkeep and whack-a-mole-ing of the various site changes over the 1000+ supported sites.

This event may spark renewed interest and help, but my money is on "slow death" as support for sites and videos decays.
Baron Cohen, Rudy Giuliani, and the Death of 'Disinformation' as a Useful Term
Some differences:

AFAIK Apple will never lock me out of my App Store purchases and demand to see my passport

Microsoft won't take away the Xbox games I purchased if I use a pseudonym on LinkedIn or post Hacktoberfest spam on github

Steam won't ban me if I have separate accounts for work and personal use

etc

If having a Facebook account was less onerous and didn't come with as much overhead (for example, FB has banned people for making an account and not using the social features) I think people would be less up in arms
That's been disproven.
Why add a circumvention method in the first place.

If record labels want to stop users from downloading their content, that's more than fine. It's a giant attack vector for such a small net benefit.
For interactive queries / surgery, you do have an option with a transaction (begin/commit/abort).

If it is Postgres (don't know about other dbs), you can go a way long way using "savepoints" and "rollbacks" to truly have a trial-and-error safe surgery on db. Still dangerous, but quite helpful. I hate working on any other db without those features. Postgres also allows schema changes to be within a txn envelope.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback will give it a thought :)
jdownloader.org

It's open source but they use SVN so you need an SVN client to actually see the code because they have no browsable repo tool.

You can find some mirrors of the code on GitHub, for example: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader
Thank you for the hint with the service workers, quickly checked my settings and figured out that thankfully Cookie Autodelete [0] can take care of those too. Down from ~200+ service workers to a few with my existing configuration.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
I'll believe self driving truck are around the corner when I see all the "manned" yard dogs show up for cheap on Craigslist.

We can't even solve for "slowly put that trailer over there" with highly constrained environmental variables. There's no way we get commercially useful highway driving until after that.
I do not understand how you can still think that after my explanation and after looking at the graph I sent you. One very last try - though I assume in the best case it's for potential other readers.

Go to https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09/samsung-980-pro-ssd-test.... look at the graph. You see that a bunch of them go to the 80C line or hover above. All of them throttle (what you said does not happen). In that graph are shown, going above the limit:

1. FireCuda 520 1TB

2. Patriot Viper VP4100 1TB

3. Samsung 970 Evo 1TB

4. WD Black SN750 1TB (+ the same one with a cooler)

This is only a small part of the market of course, but it goes to show that the throttling is a real thing that happens with multiple models.

Then you had a moving goalpost there, that those SSDs do not throttle under realistic workloads. However, this is a sequential read that's only 5 minutes long. Hardly unrealistic. The hour long constant load benchmark is a different graph, however, constant load is also realistic if it's longer than 5 minutes.

If you activate the other chart modes you see the measured performance, which shows the drops linked to the too high temperature, and that they did the same thing for write performance.

You can counteract this with a lot of targeted airflow and/or a heatsink, the heatsink will at least help move the throttling to a later moment. Gamersnexus had a very impressive demonstration of this, one where they did get this wrong: They had an article about a MSI SSD heatsink where they claimed it did not help (so the SSD did throttle! Again something you said does never happen), where it then turned out that it did not work only because their applied temperature sensors (glued them to the heatsink), and IIRC they also missed the higher performance they got regardless. GN often gets it right, stuff like that happens, but it made this one memorable and highlighted the positive effect of these heatsink coolers.

I'm into this topic professionally for years now. I'm not wrong here. If you can't take my word for it, look at professional SSD reviews, they have covered this also for years now.

And sure: There are scenarios where this does not matter. Gaming. Browsing. But: In those workloads there is no significant difference to a SATA SSD anyway. These NVMe SSDs are only interesting if you have large (and thus: long) file transfers. This is what they have to get right (and some do, but not all of them).
The option is to write your T&Cs accordingly. Of course that won't prevent anything but may help you act against someone that has somehow been found to breach those T&Cs.

There is no magical solution here.
The point is that CA's data harvesting looked like it was transparent to users at the time they were doing it — which is precisely the appearance you'd expect a malicious app to try to convey.

The NYU project is probably on the level, but "they're probably on the level" isn't a very good security model at Facebook's scale.

More to the point, the FTC's 2019 Consent Decree [1] makes it fairly clear that FB is responsible for third parties' access to its users' data — and it would be prudent (from FB's point of view) to interpret this responsibility as also covering browser extensions.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/c4365facebo...
I'm resubmitting this because I see people complaining about paywalls every day in the comments. Also, this works on both Firefox and Chrome
The aliens will be displeased with all the scattered debris
So it's not just me that has to reload basically every time I try to view a Twitter page?
If the "fun" is consistently had by one group of employees at the expense of another, you don't have a "fun culture", you have an "impunity culture".
There is actually _less_ legal protection for speech in Germany than the US.

For instance, it's against the law to insult a government official like a cop (Beamtenbeleidigung). This could mean saying something like "damn cops" in earshot of the police - it doesn't take much.

You could argue that courts aren't as accessible in the US as they should be without deep pockets (rightfully so), but fundamentally free speech _is_ much better protected in the US.
Has anybody tried this sort break stuff experiments in financial institutions(large banks). Does the chaos you caused has it affected any customers and made them report
I also do not understand the downvote for a fair criticism.
Frankly... Fck Facebook and their alien overlord.
> because we don’t have a 2nd person plural tense.

Case, not tense, technically. "Tense" is for verbs.

English does have a variety of ways of indicating second person plural: "ya'll", "y'ins", "you all", and "you guys" are the most common. It's a shame English discarded "ye".

I like your alternate suggestions. In my family, we started using "bro" as gender neutral, at first ironically and now it's just stuck. I call my daughters "bro" all the time.
One of the largest AWS outages to date was caused by a scenario like this. [1] A mistyped commanded removed too many servers from an S3 subsystem, overloading the remaining servers and crashing the subsystem. The failure snowballed until the entire S3 region was down, which then caused issues with dependent services like EBS, ALB, and Lambda. They couldn't even update the status page because that also depended on S3.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
I agree with the sentiment, but the numbers are off. It's about 10x the power worst case (maybe 5x for some dsp heavy apps) and also around 5 to 10x for speed. An FPGA can easily run at 100s of MHz, up to 500 with good design pipelining, so suggesting an ASIC could do 500x20 times the speed is 10Ghz, so definitely beyond most ASICs, so I think 5x is more reasonable.
> How is QR any different than NFC from a user perspective?

Back when AliPay and others were scaling up not too many phones had NFC.

However, more importantly, QR is way better from merchant's stand point. A static QR code is a thing of beauty. A tiny mom-and-shop merchant could take a printout and stick it up on their physical store front. It allowed AliPay to onboard of hundreds of thousands of merchants with minimal or no operations team on the ground. This strategy was almost 100% replicated in India by Paytm and their ilk. It was incredible to see even the smallest of shops with a printed QR codes stuck to their push carts, rickety shops etc.,
Estonia has less population than the city I currently live in (1.4 million people). That makes a big difference in adopting innovative ways compared to a country with say 100 million people. Estonia also had a bit of a problem with their "ID card"(weak key vulnerability) in 2017, which affected 750.000 ID cards. Half of the ID cards had that problem. So it's not all fun and games, I wonder why that's not mentioned in the article.
We need UBI yesterday.
Well obviously. I’m saying there is little evidence for even this level of immunity.

You can get the disease, recover, and then catch it again.

There are other factors such as frequency of exposure and viral load.

It’s not like the flu where you catch it and you develop a resistance.
Apple’s Eroding Partnership with Foxconn
Let's say you get a request to delete users #s 1, 17, 152, and 43.

Now you can have the request and database administration tool open and point and call at the numbers and any queries and make sure you are deleting the right users.
Transactions and rollback is the dry run. The problem is that if you keep the transaction open for too long, you will block other updates to the same data.
I have never owned an iPhone. Can someone comment on the article's assertion that iPhones apparently uncontrollably automatically play music -- U2 or not -- when you get in your car? This sounds beyond annoying.
What exactly do you need here?
>I'm not a lawyer but afaik the DMCA takedown process is prescribed by statute, and platforms must comply to qualify for the legal protections that make hosting user-generated content possible.

Correct, that's why I said they should deliberately open themselves to liability, and the fight this in court.

Moreover, technically they already have, anyway. The anti-circumvention law (17 § 1201) does not even offer safe harbor protections; these are meant for copyright infringement only (17 § 512).

>Friedman would certainly be removed by Microsoft if he jeopardized GitHub's legal protections by defying the mandated process, to say nothing of the potential of creating personal legal liability, both criminal and civil.

Certainly? There is a risk of that happening, sure. But that is counter to the risk that MS faces from backlash within tech over a decision to fire him for taking on the RIAA.

But yeah, I know, Github and Microsoft standing up here is wishful thinking. One may dream :D

>youtube-dl remains freely available off-GitHub (not to mention on the local disk of anyone who ran `git clone`). I just used it 10 minutes ago. There is no public good served by defying the law here, and there is no reason to put the whole kit and kaboodle on the line over it.

It is less accessible. And the RIAA will not stop coming for them. Getting them thrown out of search results by sending the same legal bullshitery to google, bing, duckduckgo etc. Going after the hosters of the website (like they apparently already tried)

Moreover, they "lost" a large chunk of the community they had on github, incl issues and discussions etc (maybe Friedman at least has the stones to let them have their data?). People will also now think twice before getting involved in the project.

>tl;dr, ignoring the DMCA process isn't just a "somewhat risky move".

That's exactly what it is. The RIAA would have to respond by suing them (or stopping their campaign). Github isn't automatically liable, they just lost protection from liability, but can still win in courts.
New AI Inferencing Records
I think that article wants to compete with "List of People Killed By Dog Attacks in the United States" for longest Wikipedia article.
Yes, and FPGAs can be better than GPUs for some applications, even more power efficient, and cost effective.
Since Truecrypt is mentioned, I am going to use this place to highly recommend the book Mastermind. The that Truecrypt was based on named E4M was written by a man with quite an insane life story. He created a massive criminal enterprise.
Does the desktop app work with the cloud or can you keep everything local? I have tons of pdf files that are local and don't want to put them online.
Is this an img to ascii app that happens to use a Braille font rather than a more conventional font?
They did?

I don't think it'd be ironic, but it's also not true. It's obviously not a free speech issue, and Germany has laws regarding copyright and circumvention of constraints. I doubt a large company would have taken the same route, uberspace is just generally pretty cool and user friendly.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.6 Is Now Available
Quiet down negro, you're being too uppity
"The end result is always back to code."

Yes, and: you understate the downside.

While No Code (nee Visual Programming, CASE Tools, whatever) may handle 90% of the use cases, the remaining 10% become dramatically harder. Because now you're fighting the framework. Which is an angry 800lb gorilla sitting between you and your work.

Faced with the same challenge, I went in the opposite direction.

Typical strategy of BizTalk, Talend, SeeBeyond, many many others is some kind of patch cord flow chart style programming, with Access VBA style event hooks for script extensions.

I created a stupid simple framework and API optimized for our domain (medical records). Think serverless computing and awesome DOMs for HL7 and adjacent data formats.

Onboarding for our SeeBeyond-based projects was 3 to 6 months. Using my stack was 1 to 2 weeks. (One of the weeks was teaching healthcare domain experts some Java, Eclipse IDE, and version control.)

Further, in my experience, none of these No Code solutions have useful exception handling, logging, fault/error recovery, and other misc devops type stuff. So are an absolute nightmare to support in production.
works great until some asshole puts

alias harikb_script='harikb_script --do-it'

in their .bashrc to eliminate this annoying step.
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Europe also has copyright anti-circumvention laws...
I think a better mental model is to realize markets are a Keynesian beauty contest [1]. You don't make money in a market by correctly observing the ground truth, you do so by correctly predicting the behavior of other market participants.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
Twitter restrict free speech using their selective outrage. It is morally reprehensible, but allowed.

They are free to have their selective outrage, but they are a publisher, not a platform.

And therefore cannot claim protections under 47.230
This is like claiming tax exceptions of a non-profit charity, while being a for profit business

>" ... (c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]

..."

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Cannot wait to see how no-code is able to communicate, gather actionable data from, process said data and send a signal back to this bespoke piece of hardware sitting on my desk. All within the require amount (ahem, very tiny) of time!
This mirrors how ships worked historically, as well. You have ocean navigators, who are great at getting reliably from one continent to another (even without knowing their longitude reliably), and then pilots who know every rock in a particular harbor for the last mile.
Germany only revoked their lèse-majesté law in 2017.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-revokes-lese-majeste-law/a-390...

Famously, games in the Wolfenstein series are pretty heavily censored in Germany:

https://kotaku.com/wolfenstein-2-has-a-strange-workaround-fo...
I remember that. The AWS dashboard was all green checkmarks... because the red checkmarks icons the dashboard was supposed to display were stored inside the crashed servers.
if you look carefully it's a picture of a disk and the page says it's just a joke which made me unreasonably sad.
Looks like Elixir to me. Not hugely mainstream but I think it's shed its niche status. Which folders have Euphoria in them?
Ok, I read it. At no point does it say Alibaba is owned by the Chinese government. Jack Ma's not even the CEO anymore so dunno what you think this proves.
> My understanding of the Tesla approach is: In order to truly 'solve' self-driving (situations on the road that have never been seen before to drive safely - think unannounced construction, collision or road closures due to protests), you MUST solve 'vision' with a very, very complicated and well trained neural net (re: ridiculous intelligence in the form of a human brain as you state). In addition, the existing road infrastructure (re: signs) is all built around human vision - and so being able to identify and interpret all of that is a requirement.

Yeah this is dubious. You need to solve situational awareness. Vision is one way of doing this. Lidar is another, and lidar avoids many of the drawbacks of vision (having to do accurate world modeling based on cameras).

Tesla doesn't (and would be stupid to) feed camera data directly into a neural network. They feed multiple cameras into a complex system that involves both classical object positioning and neural networks to build a model of their surroundings. Then a downstream system consumes that model and makes decisions.

Its not a single end to end black box. Such an approach would be computationally infeasible, not to mention over-parameterized to all hell. No one does this, not Waymo and not Tesla.

While cameras are good at certain tasks (like detecting traffic lights), they are not good at all tasks, and using more specialized hardware for object detection and world modeling means that lidar based systems are strictly better. They have more information than camera based ones.

Tesla is betting on, somehow, making some breakthrough in computer vision that no one else can replicate, and further that lidar can't do what cameras can.

Your argument appears to be that since Tesla has more data, they'll achieve some eventual success, but the point is that they'd achieve more success faster with lidar, and everyone in CV seems to agree that we'd need pretty fundamental improvements in CV (and perhaps in cameras) before you get the same performance out of CV that you get out of lidar. That means that Tesla's betting on a less accurate world model being good enough. Maybe they're right, but so far we have some evidence to suggest that cameras alone have some pretty fatal shortcomings, and no evidence that Tesla has solved them.
iPython notebook and code for automatically anonymizing CSVs and Dataframes- https://github.com/gretelai/gretel-blueprints/tree/master/gr...
HughesNet is geostationary, though, with a painful latency.

Starlink should beat e.g. HughesNet, even with the same bandwidth and data budget, because the satellites are in low-earth orbit.
New limits on the NOAA would undercut action against global warming
See also: https://razorpay.com/x/
And google runs street view cameras everywhere with lidar now I believe, so their HD maps are getting pretty darn HD.

They are going to be in a great position when this all shakes out.
He isn't an "alt-right symbol", that was a smear used by people to discredit him who had no actual arguments. He has a massive following, the vast majority of whom have very moderate politics.
thanks for the link, it's been a lovely rabbit hole :)
This is fascinating and sad to hear. Do you have any theory why people won't get together and do something against these organisations? It is hard to see how they are working in the interests of the authors, but rather they seem to care about institutions that exploit them.
Step 1: Computer vision.

Step 2: Theory of mind.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit.
It's great to see alternatives popping up everywhere, keep it coming
Yep, I always write any update queries as a rollback transaction with some selects inside it to verify what the data looks like after it's done now, before I switch it to commit. I primarily use Microsoft SQL Server right now, so I also use WITH (NOLOCK) to prevent issues running my query will have with other updates.
That's the more likely explanation. Altera vs Xilinx isn't just the hardware, it's an entirely different toolchain. It would be insane of Intel to demand third parties to move all their technology over to Altera's.
Are animals as intelligent as human? What language does to us is to be able to pass on knowledge to generations, knowledge can be accumulated. Animals may be able to pass on simple concept to next generation, they won't be able to accumulate knowledge without language and writing.
The number blew me away. But does she mean in one location or VMs?

One million is a lot no matter how you slice it.
Trucks already have slower speed limits. A truck going 50 can stop as fast as a car doing 75. Run them all night. No rest breaks.
Someone using the same ip (Your wifi router?) googled those terms or went to a product page.
well, except for the zero-sum aspect (i.e. investing is not necessarily a zero-sum game while poker is)