skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> youtube-dl does not circumvent any protection measures, so hosting it should not be illegal in any country, including Switzerland.

That's a different argument to "Swiss law is different to the US and permits this" though. Bluntly the international treaty wording that is integrated into all national laws is vague enough that I just don't know if what youtube-dl does would be found to trigger it. I certainly wouldn't gamble my own freedom on it. I also wouldn't instruct on it if I were the RIAA tbh.

Honestly I suspect if you put it to courts in various territories a hundred times you'd probably find it came out about fifty fifty. It's a badly drafted law, but unfortunately many laws are badly drafted and only clarify themselves through precedent and we don't have enough of that here.

> The only problem here is the absurdity of how the DMCA and similar works in the US, which allows companies to easily spam invalid claims and require content removed unless the victim puts in the work to prove the claim invalid. And, of course, that legal cases tend to be settled not moral and innocence, but by the lawyers paychecks.

Not especially. Ultimately if you have a free hosting service you shouldn't be especially surprised they're not willing to gamble the literal freedom of their staff for you to go to bat on legal cases. You get what you pay for. The DCMA doesn't have a takedown regime in these circumvention cases, it's just that Github becomes jointly liable when it becomes aware, and have obviously looked at it themselves and decided they are not willing to take the risk.

In that regard, the law is pretty similar in the US to pretty much every member country in the world that belongs to WIPO.
I've lost about the same amount but have since regained about 12kg and have been sitting about 7kg more than I would like for some time.

I've been asked what I did to lose weight but I really don't have a good answer for it. At a couple points in my life I've decided to take dieting very seriously. "ZERO cheating" works when you are serious. Other times I've started "seriously" and the eventual work party, birthday, vacation, etc throws me off and I lose motivation.

I wish I could tell someone what I did to make the mindset change necessary to diet seriously, but I can't figure it out myself.
The argument would be that we have social antibodies to typical politician lies, but we've not developed the same antibodies to deepfakes. Since political deepfakes are inevitable IMO, the question is how can we accelerate the development of these needed social antibodies.
Good lord, it's stories like this that make me absolutely afraid to take their cloud offerings seriously. Yes I know it's a separate business arm, but it's the same people calling the shots and trying to stick an algorithm in where Customer Service should be.

AWS / DigitalOcean / Linode all the way.
I think it's all fucked until we can get humans out of the loop entirely. The sooner we can develop benevolent AI overlords the better.
I think that's a valid result in its own way, though. It's not the poor C64's fault that we insist on chewing through megabytes and gigabytes just to run a chat app.
I understand the sentiment, but you know that Raspian, Ubuntu, etc. have all had the equivalent of a start menu for years now, right? =)
That's easy. Tell them to stop watching CNN, Foxnews, BBC, MSNBC, etc.

> Are they quoting a fringe YouTube video (which may have been fact-checked and debunked), or people in the echo chamber of a conspiracy-minded Facebook group?

Yes. Youtube algorithm favors establishment media and these poor conspiracy minded souls are being bombarded by establishment conspiracy theories 24/7.

> Specialist disinformation reporter, BBC News

There you have it folks. BBC News specializes in disinformation reporting. :) That title is orwellian but then again, orwell based the ministry of truth after the bbc and his time working as a bbc propagandist in india during ww2.

The biggest conspiracy theorists are upset at the little conspiracy theorists. Nobody likes competition it seems.
I work in the higher ed space and this article infuriates me.

Were you asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement prior to taking the course?

I would reach out to the Dean of Students Dr. Zelon Crawford if you have not already. You might also speak to the Office of the Ombudsman.

The Adjunct Professor in question has only been at CBS since March. This is likely her first or second class and my guess is her fellow partners are pissed that she is bragging to her class about things they think are important. That is between her and the rest of the "investing partners" at Durable and should have nothing to do with you.

The class she offers is called "Compounders" and as you rightly point out, that is not a proprietary or even novel concept in investing. The rules of 70 and 72 can be traced back more than 500 years. She clearly cannot teach this topic then say oh by the way everything in this class in retroactively confidential despite there being a wikipedia page on it.

The CBS faculty (the real ones), the school as a whole and the university should clearly stand behind you (legally if needed) and politely ask "One of Canada's Most Powerful Women" to go back to her "day" job. It is shameful that the University has not already clearly protected its students from an ADJUCT for god's sake who is threatening her students because they want to independently explore the topic of a class she co-teaches.

No one should be fooled into thinking that this professor is a benign victim here. She is one of the two founding partners at Durable. It looks to me that the other partners are pissed now and as is always the case, the efforts to cover up a potential mistake are resulting in a Streisand Effect.
Snowden immediately fled to US adversaries and Assange was knowingly working with Russian intelligence agencies.
It depends on your local bike culture I guess. In the US scooters go 15mph and bikes go like 12mph if you are in street clothes, ~20mph if you are in spandex.
Is there a games/app market like Steam available for non-iOS/Android ARM-based devices? I would love to be able to set this device up for my younger kids, allowing them to play Minecraft and Oregon Trail-style edu-tainment type games while leaving the device open for exploration and tinkering. The walled gardens from the major players are blocked off, and distro-based package managers aren't really suitable. IMHO, one of the best solutions to the fragility of storage would be cloud install/save. Maybe the ecosystem is too fragmented, but hopefully something pops up.
While there is truth in your statement, can you be sure it applies to the GP's story?
So far I haven’t seen a comment point this out or suggest similar, so let’s say that instead of trying to maintain an application level list of email addresses that is used in a breach (or for other reasons), rely on the exercising service (email) which by formerly sending a verification email, has a record of the destination at least in a log, and maybe during registration placed in a “verified member” list, all more or less managed within the mail service.
Until you make a completely artificial persona that gets famous.
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I have seen some designs, not sure how much to fruition they've been brought (afair they were still in crowdfunding stages). You'll still never own the baseband though, but would have some degree of freedom and/or learning experience.
Pitops exist for laptops and there's also some peli case style solutions iirc
Wait til you get banned from your Android phone. That will suck.
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Seems like this only affects UEFI bootloaders.
There are a lot of different common cold viruses, so catching one doesn't give you immunity for the rest.
You can use native code to stream to Jitsi using UV4L[1]. At least I think you could, at some point. It's a bit odd, certainly not as plug and play as using the browser.

[1] http://www.linux-projects.org/uv4l/
Why should people have to pay money for a product to expect fair treatment? Is an exchange of services without money not subject to rules and regulations? Google chooses not to charge people because they've found it more beneficial to offer many of them for free. It's a model many tech companies have followed to great success. That doesn't mean they should have free reign to do whatever they please.
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If I actually end up filing suit I'm sure I'll post about it here and I can get press coverage. Although I'd prefer to do it pro se and keep costs down, I've always wanted to do a pro se case but never had the opportunity yet (all my cases have been big enough it would be dumb not to hire a lawyer.)

Still remains to be seen if others that have already been taken down will start filing cases. There's at least one case that I linked above, although it's not directly related to youtube-dl.
That's what I did at my last gig, where I owned the codebase. At my current gig, I share it with 10 people and the decision to move to hooks was made before I joined.
>facebook, by the way, is by far the worst about this. They can and will cause a thundering herd.

From a marketer's perspective, (as long as the site doesn't go down), this is actually facebook doing their job.
The failure of a computer you didn't even know existed
Challenge to crack homomorphic encryption of genotypes and phenotypes
I think that's more of a comparison of different pieces of software rather than BYO or not. Jenkins is quite the beast no matter what size your projects. There are other fully self-hosted CI solutions, but Jenkins is the biggest one... the hardest one... usually the most fragile one... and for some reason the most popular one...
> It's a good thing dd-wrt and similar exist.

It depends on the hardware, for example, mine D-Link DIR-320 (A) has 32MB of RAM and 4MB of ROM (3801599 bytes, to be precise). It's not enough to fit last kernel (IIRC 4.8 for OpenWRT) even without GUI, I had compile it with some hacks.

Edit. It has 256MB of RAM, 128MB of ROM. There is no excuse for this.

https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/r7000
imo that intention was clear, but atrocious
Counter-counterpoint: Photosynthesis is only 2-4% efficient (measuring solar input to biomatter). Solar panels are ~20% efficient. Making fuel directly from electricity and CO2 is probably (I didn't do the math) more efficient per acre than making fuel from plants. You can of course supplement this with Ethanol made from waste that you get as a byproduct of food production.
But at least there is a human being behind each statement. You can question, you can examine their motives, you can challenge. A video is just a video. An anonymous accuser. You can't ask a video any questions.
It's absolutely bonkers.
In some states the 2016 primary was strongly against (maybe even 70%+?) the establishment candidate. Using superdelegates to steamroll that primary cost them the election.
> porting them to the browser would theoretically be possible

Even then I don't see it working in practice due to the bandwidth and storage requirements.
For those interested in Segment, this is a talk of Peter Reinhardt about Product Market Fit and a bit of the history behind Segment.

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I like this talk really much.
I guess this is why I was down-voted at first, but it really isn't a laptop if it doesn't have a screen and I don't need one. I think we will see hacks with the pi 400 soon that will have a battery anyway, or one can just disassemble it and attach a power bank to it anyway so I guess the solution is already there.
> Do you have any data on the form their mind is creating to hold these theories "true"

I can't address the rest of the comment, but I can address this

True and truth are what the collective believes it is true, you can see this from the Desert Storm invasion based on the "truth" that the Iraqi army was taking babies out of incubators, to the modern idea of Genders being exclusively binary when we have literal Roman emperors writing how much they love their teenage male lovers or South East Asian transexual and cross dressing.

Truth is what the group "deludes" itself to be, which will always be clashing with materialism and material reality
The Bill Gates ones are just the weirdest. I watched someone try to dig in to this a bit with someone pushing the idea that Bill Gates was trying to control us with vaccines/5g.

"Why would he do that?"

"Oh, there's money! There's lot of money in controlling people with vaccines. I know if I had that kind of power, I'd want to make money like that". (paraphrasing, but only just).

I think people have a difficult time comprehending the level of wealth/power someone like Gates or Bezos already have. Having wealth north of $100B is something only a handful of people will ever experience. To think someone has worked their whole life to get that sort of money, then... someone, would decide to say "I want to control people with vaccines because I can make a lot of money that way!" is ... off-the-radar silly. For a time, Gates had a lot more potential control over the information itself, and likely could have enriched himself even more directly, without needing to resort to medical intervention.

People are scared. The world is changing around us faster than many are able to keep up. Focusing your fears on a few outsized larger than life names to try to make sense of things is... I guess understandable to a point, but... these 'theories' can't seem to stand up to much basic logic.
Remember all those nerd types that told you not to use Facebook, not to take everything serious and not to post personal information?

Yeah, they are still not popular.

There is a lot to critique at professionalism. In a good working environment you don't really need it. But otherwise you are correct. It allows for distance.

But social media companies have other goals in this regard.
Is there a gift shop in the real one?
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People commit perjury all the time
I am going to say the machine-gun of 2020 is any number of new technologies. Maybe drones and loitering munitions. The footage coming out of Nagorny-Karabah makes any vehicle or fixed object without air cover look like a death trap.
The wealthy people I work for strive towards giving their wealth away as best as they can to maximise their impact. They are also susceptible to health crises and family tragedy like everyone else. All the money in the world can't bring back family members or magically solve incurable health issues. While there must be some bad apples, my experience has led me to believe that it's unfair to categorize all wealthy people as uncaring, greedy and selfish.

My big takeaway from watching how 'the other side' lives, is that money is like a magnifying glass of who you really are. If you're genuinely virtuous--for example generous and caring--the wealth allows you to express that. I'm sure if you're greedy or have an addictive personality, you'll be even more destructive to yourself, those around you, and wider society. I'm extremely lucky to have the ability to not have to work with people like that.
I'd imagine the average googler isn't going to be easily bribed compared to the alternative of finding some darknet service to figure out how to trigger an automatic ban by uploading malware to the site.
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Why do we need to sign the video then? Isn't it enough for me to ensure that I have a secure TLS connection to https://cnn.com? Maybe for external platforms? But then the challenge is just proving that https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/ is controlled by CNN. Much simpler than involving the cameras.
What about it? I do it all the time. Faster than taking surface streets in a car during rush hour for sure.
And my point is that discussion of hypothetical ability is not what I am talking about. I can show you why there are good reasons to doubt the programmer's ability to reason about a large program in light of computational complexity results accumulated in the last twenty years (and you are simply wrong about the bearings of model checking to the situation), but instead of trying to argue over hypotheticals, I'm merely pointing out that the ability you believe exists has never, to the best of my knowledge, actually been realised in a scalable, repeatable, affordable way in the field. If you claim you could achieve it, please try.

> And I have been for over a decade.

What exactly have you done for over a decade?

I am quite familiar with predicate transformers, but the distance between using Hoare logic and the like on code units -- which is relatively easy and pretty widely done (e.g. with SPARK) -- and formally (which means mechanically checkable, even if it is human directed) deriving a large program from a specification is gargantuan. Proving/deriving code units from contracts and the like is not the problem I'm talking about. Neither Dijkstra nor anyone else has come remotely close to achieving it, and achieving it is a guaranteed Turing award.
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