skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope nobody actually believes this had anything to do with what it is made out to be in public (i.e. DMCA violation).

Google owns a LOT of videos on YouTube. The fact that people are able to easily get them out and put it somewhere else threatens them. So, they used their friends to cook up this lawsuit.

Unfortunately for them, this upset a lot of GitHub users and Microsoft didn't want to help Google while taking a hit themselves... so they found a way around it.

Corporations use their legal prowess to advance their bottom line all the time... and many a times, how it's framed in public is very different from what is actually going on.
For climate the simulations can at least back tested against the past climate.

It's unclear how that can be done for for Covid. There's nothing to test against because both the virus and the society's reaction is very different.
What virtualization are you using to swipe like that between Linux and Mac?
You do have a say, after the negotiations are complete. If you don't like it, call your representatives, vote, etc. If they have to go back and renegotiate, then that is what it is.
We actually moved to TripAdvisor a few months ago.
Books? https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/shopping-guide/boo...

Other things? Browse the rest of that site.
Class-Action lawsuits were created by lawyers who changed careers into politics and got funding for their campaign from the trial lawyers association in order to increase the amount of money trial lawyers can make
Google is fundmentally broken, and has fundamentally broken the web.

SEO means that people are effectively buying the top Google spots, and niche, non commercial, and smaller sites consistently lose out.

For example an SaaS company might have 50 employees, with 10 people dedicated to SEO, generating backlinks (i.e. spamming other companies asking for reciprocated links) and writing landing pages and blog posts to target specific keywords. The fact that this works means that only well funded companies can succeed by bleeding money at the alter of page rank.

In the old days we had paid search engines. Google promised to replace that by surfacing what you really want. But now we have a search engine that ranks results based on how much money you can spend on silly SEO rituals. Is that really any better?
I heard a core business case for Starlink was for arbitragers seeking faster inter-market communications. Can anyone confirm?
Microsoft won't square off with the RIAA since they're part of it.
> We have to win every little battle, but all they have to do is win once.

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

-Provisional IRA after almost assassinating Thatcher in a bombing
In response to 3, many rational people are. And I agree with them. We have mandatory vaccinations for MMR and for dTAP. Have you ever heard of anyone catching diphtheria? A reasonable risk profile puts COVID-19 at higher risk than whooping cough, as the chances of getting it are so much higher, even if the fatality rate is lower.
CEO of DoltHub here. Thanks for the shout out. The key here is that we also built an open source SQL database you can branch and merge. It's the Git in the GitHub.
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Almost every single laptop I’ve owned has had an issue at one point or another. I’ve had more windows laptops with weirder issues than my Macs. The Mac hardware last longer but I’ve had a 2011 MBP finally die after 6 years.

No chance I’m rolling my dice with Linux on a laptop. Touchpad support is funky. I run FreeNAS, Linux, and raspberrypi boxes at my house.
> No one would even care if the Hunter Biden related emails passed DKIM except for the widespread allegation that they were fake, and no one still cares because conversation about them passing DKIM is widely suppressed (including on HN, unfortunately, where a post about it was immediately flagged).

Uh... no RFC822 headers from the Hunter Biden emails were ever released, certainly none with a passing DKIM signature. I read that Post article with a microscope. This never happened.

And in fact, the transparent truth that these appeared to LACK the trivially producible authentication layer is one of the big reasons that the more right-leaning entities among the tech community stayed far away from this subject.
Being outside of control of any government on Earth would be a strong enough magnet for some.

Remember how people on Mayflower were not going for more daily comfort.
It's easy to see why there are divided opinions on this. When someone sends an email, the recipient often wants to be able to prove that they did so. We think of email as something capable of leaving a paper trail, proof that certain people sent certain emails. It's reasonable for secure messaging to want to fill a different niche, more like private conversation. I've seen messaging apps advertised on the basis that they will delete all messages after a certain time, making them basically equivalent to talking to someone, in terms of non-repudiation and being ephemeral by default. But people frequently want email to be more like letter writing than private conversation. The tradition with letters was to sign your letters to prove that you sent them. People talk about having a certain thing "in writing", so that they can use it in litigation. Insofar as email is supposed to fill that niche, its reasonable to expect it to provide repudiable messaging.
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I’ve gone to using cables wherever I can. Depending on the wiring a power line network adaptor might speed up things substantially.

That being said, setting up WiFi is a pain, I frequently set up raspberry pis with Ubuntu and just can’t get it right without needing to connect a screen.
> How is it dysfunction to keep your devs focused on the tasks you've already identified as the most important?

Because software is never that cut and dried. There's what supporters think is important, what PMs think is important, what front-line engineers think is important and what leadership thinks is important.

These priorities are frequently different and their actual impact is quite often disjoint from their position in the organization.
Sorry for the late response - not yet! But soon we will :-)
> The only workaround is to login with a browser and copy the cookies from it to youtube-dl.

That's really easy to do with postman.
If you read the blog post, it goes over several good changes:

- What we’re changing

- Developer defense fund

- How we’re working to improve the law
Well, no.

If you look at the official source[0]:

78.647 recorded deaths from 1. jan 2020 to 6. nov 2020.

Same period in 2019 has 72.615 deaths.

Also keep in mind that the 2020 numbers are not final (they are likely to increase due to late death notifications).

[0] [XLS] https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...
There are more people involved here than the gig workers and the advantaged, The grocery store employees are at a decreased risk if one person does the shopping of. The managers may have a pretty comfortable salary but the bag 'boys' or the workers stacking pallets behind the scenes could also be disadvantaged.
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Also found this : https://www.samotech.co.uk/product-category/samotech-adapter...

Made for UK wall switches.
It's only worthy of seeing pictures of food to gauge portion sizes imo. Sometimes I want to know if the restaurant is one to leave me hungry after spending $14 or feed me lunch twice.
I guess because I've always used Professional, I have never been surprised or forced by an update.
> Updates brick device across many platforms all the times.

A few weeks ago, I fired up Adobe Photoshop from their CC platform. No go, something, something about an intel compatibility.

Do online and start googling the error I was getting.

Seems the newest version determined that my quad core Xeon processors didn't support SSE 4.2 or later. A LOT of people were fuming online that in order to run the latest version, they would have to get a new PC or laptop with a new processor that was now required for the newest version.

The current solution for many is to now install an earlier version until they figure out what they want to do. Ironically, I still run a lot of stuff on my old Mac Mini so I found out that I can run the most recent version of Photoshop on there instead.

I haven't checked into the issue for a week or so. I'm still not sure if anybody came up with a solid solution without having to buy new equipment.
The success of the "trojan defense" is encouraging on this point, I guess:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_defense#Cases_inv...

I'm sure defense lawyers would love it :)
Mods? Users flagged that one. No mod even saw it. (Edit: I've restored the post now.)

Edit: would you please stop using HN for political and ideological battle? It turns out you've been doing that a ton, and basically exclusively. That's not what this site is for, and we ban such accounts. Please view https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.
Their case is accurate to the graph, the graph is showing the distribution of wealth of the top 1% vs the general population, and in the last fifty years the top 1% does in fact have a wider share (the graph actually shows we are at our worst in nearly 70 years - since 1940, early WW2).

The graph is inverted than initially assumed, the smallest share is at the top (15%), the largest share is at the bottom (55%). So in 1960 the share was ~28% and now it is ~40%.
We've seen some of this already, for example with Microsoft's SQ1/SQ2 SoC manufactured with Qualcomm for the Surface Pro X series of laptops. They already emulate x86 well enough to run apps compiled for 32bit x86, and they should be coming out with 64bit support soon.

Once Microsoft is shipping these layers within Windows, it's only a matter of time before the use of ARM CPUs in more laptops takes off.
Not a candidate for CRISPR or targeted gene therapies?
Ok, my GPG example was wrong. And yes, you got me, I'm not a professional cryptographer. But can you address the point? You said "once counterparties have authenticated each other's messages, the legitimate need for authentication is gone". I provided a counter-example to demonstrate that your statement was an exaggeration. You clearly dispute some part of this, but it's unclear to me what the disputed part is.

Edit: Hacker News doesn't allow me to post replies to the posts under this post, so I will answer by editing this comment. I'm addressing the following comment:

> Which counterexample is that exactly? Your counterexample involving a store is incorrect -- the store's email would still be authenticated for a smaller amount of time which would allow your server to verify that it is a valid email that came from the store's servers.

If you actually read my counter example, you will see that I wrote: "if a third party (like a court) can authenticate the message".

Yes, my email server can authenticate the email when it arrives, but that will be of little help later when I try to dispute claims in court. If the court can authenticate the email, that will be helpful to the honest party in the dispute.
Yep- versioning is definitely important, and not what Gretel focuses on. You could connect a Gretel project stream up to a Dat backend for versioning/lineage.

So you could use Gretel to anonymize or build a synthetic version of a dataset for sharing, and then use Dat for versioning
Technically it makes sense. I don't know how that would work economically, especially in China. In theory, the org/company/gov that wants to do high electrical consumption activities that are location agnostic would move to the low cost areas because that would be most attractive to their profit margins. The part that gets more tricky would be who is generating the bitcoin and how are they using it to send values to the big cities? You could have the government mining the coins and then selling the coins to others and using that money to offset the higher costs in the cities. But there are other questions, such as why do this when you could incentivize companies to move the the cheaper electric area or let the economics for companies into those areas?
do puzzles, blitztactics.com, play longer games and think deep, memorize 15+ moves into your favorite openings, you really only need 3-5 to be a decent player, e4, d4, c4, e.g. london, queen's gambit, king pawn, sicilian.
I think you're confused. Very few Clinton emails were ever leaked or released. The major leak people like to talk about was of John Podesta's emails. Podesta was a private employee of the Clinton campaign, he never worked at the state department. And of course being the campaign manager, having his email be provided by a government agency would have been a huge campaign finance violation to begin with.
Even as a programmer I write my thinking-notes on paper. Research notes are digital. I find that the input mechanism for digital notetaking (line by line unless you use your stylus for a bit and then you fiddle with it afterwards) constrains my ability to structure thoughts on paper. Mind map tools have the same problem: the tools constrain the way I think.

Of course your mileage may vary, but even with an abundance of digital tools I personally find that I prefer to always keep a notepad and pen handy. Leaving the screen helps too.
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Possibly VMWare Fusion Pro, since I do the same on my mac.

Fullscreen the Linux VM, it becomes another desktop. Just swipe into it and continue working.
I meant more in the sense of “all I need to continue using this is my files and the app itself”. Figma doesn’t even support working offline.

You’re right about the other services storing critical data (except Google — I only use them for their search analytics, which is data they already have anyway). But I would like to move away from Notion and Trello at some point for those reasons.

As for Cloudflare — I need a DNS provider and a CDN anyway. If I had to make a change there, I'd probably cut Netlify out and either host the website manually with nginx or using Cloudflare Workers.
Of course we don't need panic. People should go to their family doctor first (and before going there just call, mine now only works with appointments for flu like symptoms). Here in Germany doctors can also give out a sick leave over the phone. The hospitals should only be visited in severe cases.
For the most beginner of beginners - I would say that the best advice is to control the center of the board, play aggressively / make an attacking move whenever possible, and DON'T be afraid to trade pieces.

If you don't have a move that attacks your opponent and forces them to play defense, develop your least active piece.

Also, learn the King's Indian opening. You can use it as black or white, and it's one of the easiest openings. I also think it's a good opening against beginners, because they make a lot of mistakes against this. So, 1) you'll be able to beat beginners - and winning is always more fun than losing; and 2) you'll learn to watch for your opponents to make mistakes - and that will help you learn to avoid making common mistakes.

[1] Controlling the center of the board and making attacking moves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5jTMqdYXWM&t=1100s

[2] King's Indian opening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0cq6UBt1Y

These two videos got me from ~700 to ~1000 in about a week. And they got me to the point where Chess was actually fun instead of a being a frustrating minefield I tried to navigate until I inevitably made a blunder and self-imploded.
> the fact that tree populations will evolve to adapt to increased CO2

Many climate models only aim to predict the next century or two because that's what's relevant for humans. Trees have long generation cycles and evolution tends to take many generations to show significant effects. So on geological timescales they will probably adapt, but considering the speed at which AGW is happening that adaption will be too late to be of interest.
I believe it's the wider SV business model of 'platformization' that eventually gives rise to these types of mafia tactics as you say.

It was never going to be enough for Yelp's investors for them to simply replace the physical Yellow Pages. To monetize (sell ads), they had to be the start and end point for every customer in their search for a local business. That's why they started harassing you to download the app or set up an account if you opened a page on your phone; to build a base of users who'd open the app first, and not a search engine or something to look up a location.

Now that the restaurant and personal services industry is dependent on having a positive Yelp presence, Yelp appears to be pressing their advantage further by becoming a middleman, taking a cut of every deal made on 'their' platform.
Earlier this year, Strava removed many of their free features. Previously, free users weren't really limited by the platform. Predictably, not many people subscribed.

Forcing users to pay for popular features received a lot of public backlash at the time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228426 ) but in retrospect it appears to be the right choice.

People never like losing access to free features, but losing part of your non-paying customer base isn't such a bad thing after a company has reached scale anyway.
I don't mind the plastic lenses I use on my D5600, but I know they wouldn't survive bumping into something. People who do it professionally bump into stuff and won't always be where they can replace it, so they need sturdier material.
From the blog post:

> Twitter is full of interesting and influential people sharing
> thoughts and having public conversations. And they’re all
> accessible - just 280 characters away.

Yes! Yes! Marketing has changed 1000% since the Dark ages! People forget that you can now marketing your product effortlessly and completely for free to everyone in the world. No more complaining that "my awesome product failed because no one knows about it" -- just press that Tweet button and you're on!
I'm not going to present a moral argument (what is a moral argument in this context?), only two direct rebuttals of your objections:

1. DKIM provides neither truthfulness nor objectivity. It's a signature mechanism used between mail servers to reduce spam. For implementation reasons, most DKIM users sign with RSA keys that are either currently crackable or will be crackable in a matter of years. Consequently, "signed" emails that are leaked years after their alleged transmission provide a false sense of non-repudiation.

2. Per 1, these emails are already impossible to authenticate after a period of time. This just makes the expectation more explicit. More generally, however, this just isn't a fruitful (or intended) application of DKIM: if the government wants to obtain evidence of a crime, they're going to subpoena the email provider and retrieve the originals. If the suspected criminal is sufficiently important, they'll use pointier methods. The outcomes of our criminal justice system intentionally doesn't hinge on the validity of a few DNS-published RSA keys.
The irony of complaining about "racist <racial slur>" is amazing.

If you actually went and talked to these people instead of declaring they're evil, stupid and vile from far away, you might find they're actually decent humans and not the scary racist enemies you imagine them to be.
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Just for the sheer heck of it (and because my father got me some polar coordinate graph paper) I spent part of a summer in the early 70s making a circular hexadecimal slide rule.
Back in the day people used printed log tables. Attach your protractor to the graph paper appropriately centered and mark off 360 * log(x) for your base of choice for a lot of values of x.
Ya but $1MM for a generic legal defense fund created and thus owned by GitHub (read: Microsoft) is pretty neutered. I’m sure their lawyers charge between $200-750/hr (pretty standard for a decent lawyer), so $1MM isn’t going to go very far. If they employ lawyers full time for this at 200-500k/yr, there won’t be many working on this team for very long.

Defending a medium complexity case against a deep picker (RIAA) will easy surpass that, and that’s just a single case.

The question is how can this be sustainable and not a trivial token?
That being said, there is a renaissance in third party lenses, and their quality as well as their autofocus performance is increasing, fast.

While I agree with you, the third-party lenses that have gotten notably better are Sigma’s, which are no longer cheaper, and are also just big ol’ chonkers now.

https://www.dpreview.com/products/Sigma/lenses/sigma_85_1p4_...
> There is one standard library--the one that ships with OCaml. You can use replacement libraries if you really need them--I haven't yet needed to, but for heavy-duty production use maybe one day I will.

You're mistaken (or you're making an unrelated semantic argument because you don't want to argue the actual point; not sure which); there are multiple "standard" libraries used across the ecosystem (because the ecosystem has deemed "the one that ships with OCaml" to be inadequate) which makes integrating libraries throughout the ecosystem tedious and painful, especially to new OCaml developers.

> Is the emphasis on 'building' here, as in 'build tool'?

No, I expect an abundance of tutorials that explain how to build production-grade applications, soup to nuts. E.g., for a generic CRUD app, what are the best frameworks, ORMs, etc to use, how to integrate them, etc?

> The older Merlin tooling has been used for a long time.

Yes, but it's incredibly difficult to configure properly, or at least that was my experience when I got started. I'm actually not sure if I ever got it working with vim.

> Syntax can be learned, but for those who don't want to try, there is always ReasonML syntax that uses semicolons and curly braces to make OCaml look like JavaScript.

It can, but it's a burden with no advantage. Last I checked, ReasonML's support was pretty abysmal--it seemed like native compilation was neglected altogether in favor of something called "bucklescript" (presumably compilation to JS) and the integrations with the rest of the ecosystem (e.g., how to build native programs, link against ocaml dependencies, integrate with editor tools, etc) were either poorly documented or inadequate/incomplete or both. No doubt some of that has improved in the intervening years, but I'm doubtful that it has significantly improved.

> It's easy to make assertions without actually knowing anything, but it's better to do the research first to back them up, instead of asking a bunch of questions ;-)

You've provided the same unhelpful, pat answers that the OCaml community provides. For example, "Just use ReasonML!" as though setting up or using Reason is trivial or well documented or otherwise comparable to using Rust or Go out of the box. For another example, you altogether dodged the issues associated with multiple "standard" libraries. It would be great if the OCaml community were as committed to making their language useful for production applications as they were on convincing everyone else that it already was.
I think GP is trying to ask, why do we ever see these dumps at all? Why don't the attackers keep them to themselves?
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Disabling swap in Linux has helped me in better handling of memory in low memory environments, especially lock-ups even when the code is memory optimised.