skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany it is quite common to get a fine for that (an adhortatory letter or Abmahnung in German).

Media companies monitor torrents, and as soon as they see a new German ip address seeding, they send a letter to the ISP with the IP address and timestamp. The ISPs send the law firm the real user address and then they send you a letter demanding a fine for illegally uploading copyrighted material often between 1000-3000€. If you don't pay up, they take you to court.

This is quite common and many people see letters even if they only seed for a few seconds. Apparently the easiest way is to just ignore the letters and pretend you don't live there but I wouldn't be so sure (a friend told me that's what he did and it allegedly worked but I have no experience with either).

So this is a lot less drastic but still quite as effective. And it even makes VPNs risky because disconnecting and exposing your real IP for even one second is enough to receive that letter (though not all torrents are monitored and private torrents are usually safe because the German RIAA doesnt have access to it).

I recommend you take a look at the Wikipedia about "Abmahnung" how that is even possible when the copyright holders don't sue themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abmahnung
How does this answer bzb6's question?
I love how that last line of the highlight is line 1337.
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Are you running it on macOS or something non-Linux?
>If a certain customer's behaviour is alienating or obstructing other customers

This is not a random cancellation.

There is zero incentive for your phone company to cancel an account in good standing otherwise.

The OP said "they'd love to [cancel my account] if they could". Why would a phone company "love" to cancel accounts?
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Unless I'm missing something, it appears to be going out on the customer-side Ethernet. So there's really nothing to keep alive on that side.
The only way GitLab would escape DMCA would be to host in China or Russia (which also would get it banned by many of their customers). The US has many IP agreements with European countries and even some Asian countries, good luck escaping from it.
I've been living in Vilnius for 9 months. Scooters see a great deal of use within the city. I use a sharing service daily for my commute where 3km cost about 1.2eur. Steep inclines well if the total load is under 100kg.
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A huge caveat should be given that as this guy is currently applying for political asylum in the Netherlands, he has every motivation to severely exaggerate the experience. Outlandish claims such as forced abortion and even organ harvesting (a classic propaganda tactic by the Falun Gong cult against CCP) are being thrown around in the article with absolutely no evidence whatsoever. I think it's totally plausible that he suffered some of what he described in a secret prison during some periods of his ordeal, but it would be absurd and nonsensical if all the guards do all the time in every camp is to torture the inmates non-stop, as he described.

Also, there were indeed several terrorist attacks committed by Uyghur extremists throughout the years, each with dozens of civilian deaths (e.g. hacking people down indiscriminately in a train station, or detonating a bomb in the downtown), which the article conveniently totally ignored. If such attacks occurred in the West, they would garner a very strong response and an outpouring of support, as what happened in France. Instead, whenever the western media mention them (in passing), they needed to even add quotes around the word "terrorist attack", which is simply absurd and is double standards at its finest.

Of course the CCP's description of camps where "people can leave at any time" (if they ever claimed that) would also be a vast stretch. The camps are not nice and are most likely forced. But the truth is, as always, most likely somewhere in between. Cultural integration is a very hard problem, also for Muslims living in western Europe as we all have seen. Of course a western government could not force everybody into a camp, learn the national language well (just as many Muslims in western countries don't even speak the national language well, so do many Uyghurs not speak Mandarin, and this is related to their economic plight and ease of radicalization), and ask them to renounce extremist/jihadist thoughts, so it is understandable that the camps are an aberration in western eyes. But to describe it as some sort of Nazi-style concentration/extermination camp is also wildly inaccurate. Many people seem to fail to/refuse to recognize that. To see such a clearly distorted and sensationalized account getting so many upvotes here (many more than an Economist article a few days ago which still fiercely criticizes the camps but is at least more up to journalistic standards and objective) is quite disappointing, I have to say. I guess people like to see what they want to believe, so that the world can easily make sense to them (i.e. CCP is the embodiment of "evil", no matter what that word even means and, the reality that the world is never black-and-white), and HN is unfortunately not that different.
They did not react well the first time they saw it. This project has been around for awhile. So maybe they just have not seen it yet? If I remember correctly that game was the one that morphed into giana sisters? Which is a cool game in its own right. The remake from a few years ago is decent.

Have to mess with this emu later. eXeDOS the project this thing is based on uses 6 different dosbox branches to get its compat with all the games working. This seems to be using 1? Which gets you most of them but about 200 or so will act oddly.
Sure you would. It's a matter of masses. If I were a brick wall, you could hit me at 30 and you would probably take the worst of the exchange.

If we are both of equal size and mass, the damage will be approximately shared.
This is good. It makes no sense at all to do electric car incentives for thousands of dollars but not incentivize far cheaper and greener options like they've done in Canada and US.
Here's a doctor's tweet from today about a young male that got reinfected after 7 months. EcMO machine, full bipass and 3 heart restarts.

NSFW link to twitter:

Not much scares me in this life.
But just saw my first COVID reinfection this full moon Halloween & I am fucking shook.

20-something yo w/ massive PE, coded, TPA, ECMO in ED, hemorrhage, 3 code carts, methylene blue, PRBCs.

Praying for them and their family
And for all of us. https://t.co/T0YqmVxLx8
The suggestions to use UTC are good, but that doesn't completely immunize you from all the weirdness of time.

e.g. UTC still has leap seconds kludged in from time to time "because the Earth's rotation speed varies in response to climatic and geological events" [1]. There's been talk of redefining it at some point to remove them.

GPS Time or Precision Time Protocol may be suitable when you need to measure events on a continuous scale.

Leap smeared time used by Google and AWS is also an interesting topic [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

[2] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
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There are a lot of different strains causing the common cold.
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In the current day and age it might be helpful to explicitly mention the non-electric nature of the scooters you are talking about. I had to re-read everything from the point where you start talking about carrying the thing inside.

How about revising law enforcement to a point where property rights don't have a de-facto exception for bicycles? Somehow, enforcement of property rights works quite well (not perfect, but well enough) for just about any property that can be legally stored on public ground, just bicycles are an exception. Thought experiment: steal a bike and steal the equivalent value of that bike in cash and imagine the reactions of executive, judicative when the theft gets noticed. It would almost be as if legislatives had added an "except bikes" paragraph to all laws about property ownership.
It wouldn't imply anything of the sort. It's rare for a single viral infection to cause life long sterilizing immunity. Reinfections are possible with most viruses, including other coronaviruses. As long as your immune system is otherwise healthy the memory T cells will kick in and symptoms will usually be less severe.

The only reason that other coronaviruses like OC43 don't kill a lot of people is that almost everyone catches it first as a youth, and builds up a level of immunity. But it can be quite deadly to someone who first catches it later in life, or to immunocompromised patients.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
>It was nothing, just a woman in bikini.

Do you think Google really cares about this, or do they get pressure from "outside" forces to impose such rules?

I seriously doubt Google cares one wink about people posting bikini photos. These rules exist because activists put pressure on the company to enforce such rules, for better or worse.
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Ohh... Thought it was about death.
That’s pretty interesting. So is Ruby’s behavior - calling the date invalid - is that bad behavior, or a totally reasonable choice to assume the DateTime is Gregorian? It would be neat if the exception said why the date was invalid, but I guess for any dates going back in history globally we should try to use a more sophisticated time lib that takes calendar and locale into account whenever they exist.
At least they're not being litigious about small shops using hackentosh VMs for CI because sticking a bunch of Mac Minis in a rack technically works but seems super silly.
Thank you for the info.
I got carried away mistaking “in house” for running a business (and hardware) from home!
Dutch law has two classes of 'moped'- both were originally conceived as motor-assisted pedal cycles, but in practice both are now mostly Vespa-type scooters with no option to pedal.

Both require insurance and an 'insurance plate' which is a different format from the standard licence plate seen on motorcycles. The rider must be licensed, but this can be either a car or a motorcycle licence (or a moped-specific licence which can be obtained from the age of 16, compared to 18 for cars and motorcycles).

The 'snorfiets' scooters have blue number plates, and are legally supposed to be limited to 25 km/h. The rider does not need to wear a helmet.

The 'bromfiets' scooters, with yellow number plates, are legally supposed to be limited to 45 km/h, but the rider must wear a helmet.

(In practice most scooters seem to routinely go much faster than they are supposed to be capable of)

In general, both types of scooter can use some, but not all, bike paths. A snorfiets is allowed on more bike paths than a bromfiets is- bromfietsen must ride on the main road in built-up areas.
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> Mileva made the rational decision to boost her husband's career at the expense of her own career

This is a good explanation for her actions while they were married. But it doesn’t explain why she continued to be withdrawn following their divorce. It could have simply been inertia. But there was likely an element of exhaustion from the sexism referenced elsewhere at play.

I don’t think the article’s humility argument sways me. But a combination of your hypothesis for her choice and Doreen’s sexism hypothesis for her sticking with it makes sense.
There's a way to make Chrome OS run on Pi's, but it's insecure. Uses the Fyde version of Chromium OS.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=227281
IANAD, immunity is complicated, and long term immunity after having recovered from CoVID-19 infection is not likely.

This is bad news because it means that herd-immunity is not naturally achivable. It means you most get a vaccine at regular intervals to be protected against this strain of the virus.

It also means that lockdown is best strategy to reduce strain on health services until vaccine is ready and freely distributed to all.
> that your city's utilities company did not serve you while Protonmail did.

That's fair- that's a better way of saying it. Every time I've had to email them (which admittedly has only been a handful of times) with proof of something, I always end up calling them up and they'll say "but protonmail isn't on the blacklist that IT posted, so you're lying or you sent it to the wrong place," then I'll send screenshots from a different email provider proving that I sent the protonmail email(s) to the right place, then they'll say "oh, I promise to talk to IT to get this straightened out."

It's pretty obnoxious.
I enjoy the theory that microtubules contain mini quantum computers that derive consciousness.
If it's plugged in before your trip, cold has little impact on your range. You use electricity from the plug to pre-heat your battery and your interior.

Both Tesla & Petro-Canada now have coast-to-coast coverage for fast charging on the Trans-Canada now. That doesn't cover all of Canada, but for us we do have our potential trips covered now.
Yeah, looking at more of his tweets, that guy seems like a Covid fear monger.
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From parent's linked article:

> Contrary to popular belief, McCulloch was not under the impression that he was purchasing the Tower Bridge of London.
Interesting! It’s written in a way that makes us all relate to it.
2 micro-HDMI ports.
well said. Its a problem like world hunger. Its not that we can't solve it, its that we dont.
Again, there's no evidence that paying for service results in better customer service. There are many, many stories of Google arbitrarily killing paid and/or B2B accounts, including Gsuite, Adsense, Play Store consumer (paid apps), Play Store publisher accounts, and so on. If you use Google accounts at all, you're putting yourself at undue risk of getting screwed and paying for the privilege.
As an atheist growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, I learned a long time ago that maintaining relationships required tact and self-restraint. That practice makes it easy to also maintain friendships across political divides.

But some of my deepest regrets are the times when I was timidly silent while bigotry was voiced.

In addition to the intrinsic value of family and community, I think we can catalyze change in our communities if we refuse to dehumanize the people we disagree with and engage them with empathy. But it's also easy to lapse into mere complicity.
We have been running a "natural" trial on millions of people. From that, we can already tell that reinfection, although possible, is very rare.
So that raises the question: Why do they keep making Pis with USB power? One could argue that it's because USB power supplies are cheap and ubiquitous, but that's not really true if only 1% of power supplies are actually capable of properly powering a Pi.

They could use a different power connector that doesn't cause this confusion, or they could design Pis to use less power and therefore work properly with more USB power supplies.
> The issue seems to me that it's a global ban.

Global bans "seem" to be new. I've read many stories of shell scripts randomly permanently banning android developers for life from their platform, but those stories always involved being banned from the play console and so forth, not being banned from search / maps / gmail / youtube / etc.

It seems to be news that if you tell people in public youtube comments that you vote for Trump, or whatever it is they're enforcing today, google will fight back by disabling your thermostat or whatever.
In the US there used to be "ticket quotas" in some police departments. Near the end of a period, there could be cops everywhere checking for speeders if they were under quota.

The Dutch police could make a good revenue just from targeting food delivery guys. Excluding the newer e-bike delivery people, they are almost always speeding and driving like they just robbed a bank.
It doesn't. It's fear mongering.
That's pretty important. Has Canada been working towards more updated-technical laws since then, forgive the ignorance.
Gates has been talking up a storm around MSR(s) lately.

It's hard for me to believe, however, that they're going to get a prototype reactor in the 2024-2028 time frame if they haven't decided which halogen to use in their fuel salt.

MSRs have many good points but there is a lot of development left to do. For instance, a thermal reactor using thorium/uranium and fluoride salts will probably have a graphite moderator, but the lifetime of that moderator is limited by exposure to neutrons. This material can stand the chemical environment

https://www.steelforge.com/hastelloy-n/

but it does not hold up as well under neutrons as we'd like.

It's a complicated problem because the question of "what happens to the fission products" is a complicated one. Some fission products will stay in the salt, where you hope they won't absorb neutrons and 'poison' the reaction. Others will condense on the colder parts of the system. Others are released in gas form, especially the noble gases Xe-131 and Kr-85. The reactor vessel has to not just hold up to the molten salt, but it has to hold up to a molten salt which contains random fission products from across the periodic table.

A group of enthusiasts took up the cause of the thorium/uranium cycle 15 years ago. There has been a lot of research on it since, certainly people are much more aware of the challenges there.

People were less interested in Chloride salts and the uranium/plutonium cycle back in the day but that interest is increasing now for quite a few reasons. One of them is that the materials challenges seem less severe (no moderator, more neutrons to start with, less neutron loss to reactor materials.)

The other advanced technology to make that work is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-cycle_gas_turbine

which is necessary for any kind of economically competitive nuclear energy because the cost of a steam turbine is outrageous.
> You're right....but this is not everything

That's the point :)

Unless you add every single resource it's not exhaustive. It's possible to have exhaustive lists for lots of things, but for this? Maybe not.
Why would some brunching lawyer know what yt-dl even was unless someone who hired them was making a political play against it?

Given youtube-dl is not copyrighted material the RIAA would have in its mandate, that it replicates functionality that every browser already has, and GitHub is a property of MSFT - this is basically a legal harassment play that implies we're going to need more than decentralized repositories. I'm thinking something like Kali Linux but one that tags certain code repositories as politically exposed and then mirrors them into a distribution via torrents.
As someone who does lots of constructive math, intuitionistic math can't reproduce a large number of results on the reals and this is a kind of well-known thing. Even basic notions of continuity can't be reproduced in the same way and as a result there are multiple competing formalisms. It is possible that there are alternative ways to reproduce results of interest to physics but that's far from obvious.
I had a great blog that started getting me over $2000 per month from Google Ads (several million views), then suddenly after 3 months it dropped to $300 with the same amount of views and never gone up. No matter how much promo I did I would never get past $300. It seems like Google somehow put restriction on my account without any explanation. Eventually my blog died (also because Facebook capped organic reach of my posts after I stopped buying ads. I had tens of thousands of followers but content they shared would never reach their friends after I was no longer a paying customer. Pretty shady stuff).
I decided to not contact neither Google nor Facebook about this, because I was worried they will ban me and I needed access to GMail and Facebook (to talk with family).
I really hope these companies get properly investigated, because they have unregulated power of altering the markets to their favour. This power should only be reserved to governments and if Google or Facebook are so big, they need to be divided and their business space heavily regulated.
I don't think I've ever seen the 45km/h version on bicycle paths though. The 25km/h versions have similar problems as described, so I'm guessing they were what was referred to, but they definitely don't go that fast.
Many (startup) SaaS companies (except metrics collectors e.g) have very low traffic from logged in users.

When I moved from an ecommerce company with 1000 logins/sec to a SaaS company I could not believe the low traffic :-)
So, we tried it this last sunday and we did trip the breakers. The garage only had 1 circuit for the outlets (the other powered ceiling lights and the garage door.

New plan for next time: electrically heated blankets!
>They embrace open-source community to gain advantage. Is there a way to host code without being dependent on big corporation?

No. This is you and others being completely oblivious to law. DMCA is US law AND the US has trade agreements with other countries to similarly enforce US IP law.

It does not matter if it's Microsoft or a small startup. Either they comply with DMCA or the RIAA (and others) can sue for millions in damages.

Take issue with the law and push your elected officials to change them.
> I recently deleted my last Gmail account (that I had since 2001).

Wow, was GMail already being used internally in 2001?
State committees, bureaucracies and advisory boards (it varies by state) that set school curriculum are ultimately accountable to politicians. They will never include strong education against indoctrination or how to balance a budget because that would be biting the hand that feeds them.

Look at the incentives and the outcome is obvious. Nobody wants to do things that might draw the ire of their boss's boss's boss.
IANAD:

Reinfected! and the reinfection becoming a bad case! No immunity... Article hints that you can expect to be relatively protected for up to 6mo after infection.. But there are no guarantees.

From the article: "There is still a lot for us learn before we have a full understanding of how immunity to COVID-19 works. (..) we all should still follow Government guidelines on social distancing to ensure we play our part in minimising the spread of COVID-19 within our communities." -Professor Paul Moss
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I’d rather have a miniPC-sized Raspberry Pi computer like an Intel NUC or Mac Mini* mounted on the back of a monitor instead of an all-in-one. Monitors have a much longer useful life so all-in-ones (e.g. iMac) eventually become paperweights or e-waste.

If they go the all-in-one route they should include an external HDMI port and a switch to choose between it and the internal Raspberry Pi.

*: But upgradeable and repairable.
Mesos was exciting when it came out - the ideas weren't new, but it offered a level of polish and cohesion for those ideas that wasn't readily available beforehand. I'm glad it existed, and glad I got to implement a few projects using it.

But, I'm not surprised. K8s is easier to work with if you're a startup and really working from a greenfield perspective, and most enterprises still have a lot "Pet" style servers around. It seems like they never found the great fit they would need to survive in the face of stiff competition and a quickly evolving marketplace.

I wish them the best of luck with this shift and anything else they might pursue in the future. Focusing where they did at that point in time was a gamble, and the type of gamble that pushes innovation in tech forward.