skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> actual oligarchies

> some voter disenfranchisement

> denied access to elections

> legitimate election fraud

> serious voter intimidation

I don’t completely disagree with you: people do have agency at the end of the day in the US. That said, let’s be careful not to fall into Scotsman fallacies where we don’t accept more subtle forms of oligarchy because they don’t fit our “1984”-esque imagination. Southern states have long histories of subtle voter disenfranchisement (requiring licenses or certificates that Black Americans have in lower percentages, placing polling stations in strategic locations, requiring money to discourage the poor from voting (who lean left), etc.) and it’s short-sighted to “No true Scotsman” that and say “well, it’s not an actual oligarchy because technically people still can vote.” One, in the vein of Niemoller’s “First they came...”, it ignores warning signs or red flags difficult to reverse until it’s too late. Second, it puts the focus on the individual. Sure, people can still vote. They can take off their $#!@ job for a few hours even though their boss is an @$$#@!€ and they need every dollar they can get, take the bus to the voting station 30 minutes away, wait in the line for potentially hours (I waited in just the primary line for 8 hours and I lived in West LA (Democrat, richer, etc.) at the time), only to be told they need a driver’s license which they’ve never had because they’ve never been able to afford a car. Or they actually do have, but this is just one person and most of their friends aren’t voting. Sure, this is possible. But then I ask you to reflect on the purpose of a democratic government if not to enable fair, free, and accessible elections? Especially now that the incumbent president is sueing and refusing to accept the results in a - I don’t way to say decisive, but clear perhaps - election, I guess I would like to know what it takes to consider that “legitimate election fraud”? Is it simply missing the f@$cist aesthetic of red, black, echo-y microphones over a rabid crowd, tanks and semi-automatics down the streets? Once again, once things progress to that level, it might be too late, but that doesn’t mean our current circumstances are any “less” of an “actual oligarchy” just because theyre not as obvious. IMO
What's the bigger threat - a theoretical unknown vulnerability in Excel or very real consequence of the entire economy and government grinding to a halt when their Excel macros and Word 97 VBA don't work with the rewritten codebase?
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I have no idea if this happens in practice, but if I was put in this situation, I’d employ my staff. Give each person 50 pages and regroup in an hour.

Since most of the bill is presumably the same as earlier drafts, we’d be mostly just looking for red flags. Heck, in theory you could even run it through a diff tool!
> mutually tolerable compromise

This is just politispeak for quid-pro-quo. If conglomerate bills are outlawed then maybe we can vote on issues instead of on whether everyone's back is sufficiently scratched.
Who exactly are the appointees you are upset about? Also Trump grifted the whole thing.. I am surprised "drain the swamp" is still an effective slogan and believed.
every smart phone has a pretty-good-camera. Shouldn't there be an easy way to use an iPhone or Android phone as a webcam?
The amazing thing is, once we had a working technology where bittorrent was hooked up to a video player. It was called Acestreams.

It went away for reasons, one of which was the fact that people want to monetize ads and they can't do that if they can't control the stream.

As a technology however, it worked perfectly.
I agree with everything you wrote, and struggle with how to come to grips with my own privilege that allows me to take more risks than others because of a safety net (I do not have a trust fund and could definitely be wiped out if things went downhill, but I trust that my family could help me with a roof over my head and food in my belly).

That said, I think the quote was taken somewhat out of context. Here’s the original paragraph from Altman:

> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US, but this is certainly not the case in other parts of the world—the amount of energy and drive exhibited by entrepreneurs outside of the US is quickly becoming the new benchmark.

The preceding paragraph talks about finding your joy/purpose and working hard at it as well. He also has an entire section about how to make it easy to take risks (cover your basics first) so you can take advantage of any lucky breaks where you could work hard and reap the potential gains. I agree that it is presumptuous to assume that everyone can “cover the basics” and still not have time to work hard on other things and I do think that our society and culture of individualism are to blame.

At the end of the article there’s an HN comment amended that advocates for universal basic income and laments the fact that opportunity is “unevenly distributed.” So there is an acknowledgment of the true problem, even though it’s almost negated by the assertion that since Altman has seen people go from rags to riches it’s definitely “possible.” I hope for more than the “possibility” of success for anyone when they are working hard, and I would hope that everyone else shares that sentiment.

Anyway, it’s a slightly more nuanced take than what was quoted for this article, and it’s probably worth a read in its entirety:

https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful
If I were to share a Plex server with some friends, and that Plex server were to primarily include pirated content (say, whatever we couldn’t get through other streaming services), I’m sure an argument could be made that it’s public and is therefore subject to these laws.

Would a reasonable person with technical knowledge agree that such a scenario falls under this law? No. But do you really think the RIAA isn’t going to put pressure on prosecutors to go after individuals? Do you really think they’ll allow technically-competent jurors?

I don’t trust anyone involved here. There’s no way this won’t be abused to go after average people.
Free speech is important, but seeing the horrible content on the Voat frontpage (anti-vaccine and US presidential election hate speech and silliness, "the Holocaust didn't happen, but it should have happened", "how the Yids stole Christmas"...) the only reaction I can think of is GOOD RIDDANCE.

I hope losing an online echo chamber causes Voat ex-users to be accidentally exposed to different points of view as they settle elsewhere online or (I know I'm being optimistic) have a civil conversation with real people.
You will very much see the difference between high quality and low quality optics/sensors, even at fairly low resolution.
I'd like to try a version of this outside of Ruby/Rails.
That's a really good point. `Working hard` is a privileged position.
> if a junior enlisted solider did something like this

Exactly like this, I donno.

But in spirit isn't the academy kind of officers basic training? And anyone who went thru basic knows that the recruits do the dumbest imaginable things and the drill sgts slowly and laboriously socialize them into being competent military personnel.

Fresh off the bus recruits at basic can get away with the dumbest things imaginable, things that would instantly chapter a MOSQ soldier out of a line unit. Think of the stupidest thing you ever saw a recruit do with a rifle WRT common sense safety or maintenance requirements. Dumb lapses of discipline, incredible lack of foresight, etc.

Frankly not much is expected of new 2nd LTs other than shut up, stay out of the way, and listen carefully to your platoon Sgt. Officers have a VERY slow and long maturation period compared to enlisted. Enlisted experience is here's a couple months to get MOSQ and then sink or swim.

Not that basic trainees get away with being dumb, that's kinda the point. The officer cadets have just earned the most epic extra duty imaginable for a long time.
AT&T you had no choice on your carrier or what you could even plug into the phone line. There are multiple app stores for android devices and you don’t even need an App Store to install an app on an Android device.

Using at&t is a very bad example to use against google because under at&t consumers had 0 choice. AT&T used this monopoly to raise prices and limit choice. Google doesn’t even charge for android.
I'm planning to dabble in quantum computing.

I doubt I'll be any good or do anything with that knowledge though.
That speaks to the country, not the website.
Every third bill in congress is like that. They all have teams of lawyers at their behest to explain and go through all aspects of it.

It was hurried, yes. But hardly unusual.
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In practice what will this do to streams provided by commercial services like Twitch, where someone has copyrighted music playing in the background. Or the more political streams that play other videos and even share news articles. Will that kind of stuff be shut down?

Also, It will be interesting to see how “THEY” go about picking away at Section 230.
It's proved technology

.NET's Blazor (server based) uses this.
Me: “there isn’t enough done to protect dissenting voices”

You: “so we should do nothing and give them up to the lynch mob, laws don’t work anyway, this is what I call freedom of speech but not from consequences”
There will be a very hot wire when I have to ask the server to render a component on the server after I asked to increment a single counter
Healthcare market is really big as well. Why is it easy to build a monopoly there?
Raiden has many issues, but funding is not one of them. Part of the hiring pitch from Brainbot was that the ICO got them funds to finance their operation for a decade at least.

Speaking as someone who worked on Raiden's core team last year and spent a reasonable part of this year working on a project received a grant from the Raiden Trust [0], the last release is workable, but still requires a lot of elbow grease and knowledge of the protocol to get it running. End users will certainly have a better shot when the light client gets parity to the reference implementation and gets a mainnet release.

In any case, I just wanted to point out that Raiden is a project that is related to what OP asked about and that is still alive and kicking.

[0]: https://hub20.io, a self-hosted payment gateway that integrates with Raiden and abstracts all its complexity from the users and node operators to enable fast and near-instant transactions.
I'm not justifying unethical or immoral means, but was the perception of being in a mortal struggle against Communists incorrect?
Hi, does this have the capability of a smart TV?
Hi @dhh!

Loving the tech and the website (and Rails, and Basecamp, etc). However it looks very similar to StimulusReflex (https://stimulusreflex.com), which has already attracted a few users.

Can you highlight the biggest differences between the two?

Thanks!
"Criminalising people isn't going to turn back this fundamental sea change"

- Making private information available as a common activity is not inevitable.

- Staling private information is a crime by any account.

- The underlying economics are against your logic: it takes many workers, doing real work, to make those things. If they don't get paid, it doesn't get made.

- The 'yacht' analogy wrong - the entertainment industry is full of money losing projects, and zillions of people working really hard on stuff because they care and not earning a lot of money. There surely probably more arbitrarily rich people in tech than in entertainment.
Law and medicine always seem to be growing.
that's a really good point too!
> Have you ever violated a software license, or streamed something with someone else's account? Those should technically be honor violations

They make a HUGE deal about this in lifestyle polygraphs. It's completely asinine and drives significant attrition of strong candidates for selective jobs in the IC/SOF world.

We need a complete overhaul of the puritanical mindset with which the powers-that-be judge prior behavior. Downloading porn from Limewire when you were a 19-year-old college sophomore should not be stopping people from advancing in selective processes; nor should a history of having used hard drugs, hallucinogens, or marijuana >10x (on the latter I gather they're evolving given current state laws).
For what it's worth. I ignore private company equity offers of all stages as it's impossible to fairly value the equity which inevitably leads to an undervalued total compensation package - even on successful exit. I'd expect that the market would work out the generosity component if the terms were fair - but right now great startups are competing for employees with their second scarcest resource (cash) with companies that have effectively unlimited cash and great liquid equity. This is a recipe to burn the startups first scarcest resource (time) as projects run slower due to weaker execution, and for later stage companies leadership.
Shared storage being a particular head-f to get solved. Everything else is a reasonably approachable problem you can tackle as it comes.
I don't think we should overlook the fact that a larger part of the issue may be that there simply was much less to sweep under the carpet in previous eras. Society today is much, much larger and more complex than society in George Washington's day. (Much more complex than in any time in history in fact.)

This is not to imply that George Washington is no better than the corrupt politicians, judges and police we have today. George Washington was, by all accounts, a very good man.

My only point was that it was far easier to actually be a good man in the time of George Washington than it is to be a good man or woman today. Not even a tenth of the opportunities to get yourself in trouble back then.
If it were electric vehicles only, the more traffic, the more air flow from vehicles stirring it up. They might end up asking people to drive through it more in order to keep the air from getting stagnate. That'd be an interesting turn of events.
I think that piracy overall isn't a simple issue: trying to put every pirates in the same bag isn't going to work, because not everyone has the same set of motivations: some have issues with packaging, some with price, and perhaps there are other kinds of issues?

What can be done on the other hand, is to figure out what are the main reasons for piracy (ie, on average, what are the driving factors), and what can be done to remove them.

Packaging in the music industry took a while to adjust: they first fought really hard against Napster and the like, when the customers were quite ready to accept digital content, but the DRM solutions were mostly in the way, or the network technology wasn't quite ready. Nowadays, everyone takes for granted that music is bandwidth cheap, and content owners realized that removing the packaging issue did remove a large part of the piracy, because those who pirated for lack of good delivery didn't have to anymore, and with this market share acquired, the revenues increased, which meant that prices could go down, and thus another chunk of the piracy crowd became customers as well.

I guess that my point is that price isn't a completely solvable problem, but it's not entirely orthogonal to the other issues.

Clearly, price cannot be reduced down to zero, there will always be people finding this or that to be too expensive for what it is. Note that ads do not reduce cost to zero for the consumer in the case of digital streaming: they still have to pay in ad view time, which leads to ad blockers, yet another form of piracy.

> If Netflix was working so well, all those other services wouldn't exist, because they'd have no customers.

Even if Netflix is working perfectly well, they can't have the monopoly of creativity. They might produce good content (something you seem to disagree with, I personally don't have an opinion on that), but they cannot prevent other distributors to do the same. The main reasons for this are that:

- again people cannot be put all in the same bag: what one will be interested in might bore the next,

- "topics" can be exclusive (GP alluded to that): For instance, Disney owns "Star Wars", and if you want to watch some of that stuff, you'll have to go to them.
Historically an invasion force? Afghanistan is the only place where NATO has been involved in anything like an invasion. Unlike the Warsaw Pact which helped subjugate Chechoslovakia and Hungary.
For a minute I thought it was the html version of vanilla-js http://vanilla-js.com/
Buying a device is currently the only legal option considering that Microsoft is only licensing Windows on ARM to OEMs. That being said you can find older Snapdragon 835 laptops on eBay and such for pretty cheap. I was able to buy one for $260 USD.
In case anyone is curious like me, here is the current car trip of 1hr right now (article says it's usually 1h:15m): https://goo.gl/maps/dUJocTubPfqkr5Zr5

Cutting that drive to 15m seems like it's worth it, especially given the weather there. It's probably a huge increase in safety and reliability too.
Games include two types of music:

Original music is created by the game creators and streaming rights are included in the software EULA.

Licensed music is created by third party artists and is usually not included in the software EULA because the music artist/publisher does not grant that type of license to the game creator/publisher. A gamer streaming gameplay that includes the copyrighted song will trigger automatic copyright protection on the streaming service they use and is subject to DMCA takedowns.

Modern games often include a "streamer mode" which replaces or mutes the licensed music.
Simple, I like to be solidaristic and find the _need_ per se to discuss those topics antagonistic to solidarity. I'm not signalling my virtue, but then again, you're free to call my attitude whatever you want, it just demonstrates our values are entirely distinct.
That seems pretty outdated information, given that the OOTH default Retina scaling in MacBooks have been non-2x fractional since 2016 (1400x900 for the 13-inch's 2560×1600, 1680×1050 for the 15-inch 2800x1800).
That ship has long sailed.
In Germany that is already the case. Streaming is "ok" here for the consumer whereas torrenting is illegal and practically dead by now. The legal argument is that you are distributor when using peer to peer. Under German law it doesn't matter if that is done for profit or not.
> You're conflating copyright and privacy.

No, this has nothing to do with privacy. The context was "When you buy a DVD, you don't expect hundreds of hours of unedited footage to come along with the film so you can cut together your own version." [1] jcelerier argued that consumers of a movie should have the right to receive all unpublished footage, I argued against that. In my analogy, the "buying a DVD" part is viewing the albatros-video, and the unedited, unpublished footage is the unedited, unpublished footage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25505851
Google absolutely wasn't broken up, it was reorganized under a new parent.

AT&T was split into entirely different companies... for instance, today's Verizon is a descendent of that breakup.
Oh yeah. I remember that ViewState could reach 100s of KBs on a page if you weren't careful. It was a huge juggling act between keeping state in your input fields vs ViewState.
I'm 99% with this, except that when you work so hard on the challenging deep work and there's no energy left to be able enjoy the glory of the success.
-In the subsea tunnels a bit further east, in Norway, large fans mounted at regular intervals help maintain a draft through the tunnel.

I don't think much forced ventilation is needed for normal operation - the blades spin very leisurely, if at all - but in case of fire they can direct the smoke and heat away from the bulk of the people trapped inside.

The fans look like good ol' jet engines.[0]

[0] https://www.systemair.com/fileadmin/_processed_/c/7/csm_Syst...
> For me HN is an invaluable resource since it has allowed me to take a peek into some realities that were hitherto unimaginable.

Just wanted to say - that's awesome.

> This sort of reality clash will only become more poignant in the future as the gap between highly skilled workers and the rest deepens to become a canyon. It's already the case that you find my perspective weird, so imagine how weird it will be to future HN posters when the inequality has reached even higher levels and they can't even conceive of someone having to apply for jobs to get one.

I think the chasm is not as wide as you think - at least for me. It's easy for me to relate to the difficulty of a job search, and at least intellectually to connect to the difficulty of scraping by in a low skill/low wage situation. I grew up poor so it's not that hard to see it actually.

The reason I reacted to your post is that the attitude it espouses is poison to those who embrace it. Here's what I mean - if one believes that all employers are abusers out there to fleece you like a feudal lord (from your analogy) then one doesn't actually try to find working dynamics that are better than that so they pass up opportunities. Small example - my in-laws run a small business that treats employees very well (like, health insurance for unskilled workers type well) - but if someone believes all employers are evil then folks don't go and seek out their type.
a) They are selected for a variety of qualities, and mathematical competence weighs only so much, I suppose. b) They have many duties that eat up time and energy, and no doubt make it harder to study than it would be at a standard university.
This one is actually linked from TFA and is very short and readable as a pdf.
I’ve re-read that Altman quote a dozen times now and I can’t figure out what are these “certain parts of the US” he thinks believe working hard is bad? From rural Missouri to Manhattan to New England where I live now, I’ve never along the way encountered a (dominant) culture that thinks it’s bad to work hard.
> So yes, small things are important, but BIG things are even more important.

Totally agree.

> Let's fix those before thinking that cars need UI/UX designers more than safety engineers.

"Let's fix big things before we even think about fixing small things". Which is silly. We can try to improve multiple things at once. We can improve easy small hanging fruit before we improve harder things. This is a false dichotomy I think.

Anyway, all tesla vehicles already have automatic emergency braking, so I don't really understand why you went on such a long rant to argue for adding that instead of voice commands. The car under discussion has both, which seems better than having just one or the other.
Sounds like if I, e.g. have a podcast where I play and review songs (without permission), I can be charged with a felony if I, say, take paid ads on the podcast.

Perhaps simply a monetized streaming channel where I dance to the current hits is enough to put me in jail... it’s certainly seems enough to at least put me on trial.

I think you have to wonder: what’s insufficient about the civil and criminal laws? What is the current serious problem with streaming that this very strong law is needed to stamp it out?

To me it seems inevitable that it will be applied much more strongly than what you are thinking. “Purpose”, “intentionally”, “significant”, “primarily” can be, and therefore probably will be, argued to have wide meanings.
License is Non commercial use only. https://polyformproject.org/licenses/strict/1.0.0/
I'm am engineer working in both spaces for 20 years. They do carry over. The principles are the same - much of it came out of the aerospace programs of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Yes, my 5100 (which is basically a more compact and software-limited 6000) also not included, but it seems to be a hardware limitation -- e.g. live view over USB is also ont supported on these cameras, and live view over wifi is rather crappy.