skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone seems to jump to conclusions a bit, though there's still some reason to be wary as I already see 2 ways that this would make it harder for someone to build a new streaming service.

Firstly it becomes very difficult to argue your streaming service has no 'commercially significant purpose' other than piracy when you're not making much money.

Secondly it gives the copyright enforcing industry a big amount of leverage to pressure you into doing things as failure to cooperate could easily be argued to make your platform intended for piracy.
> So, all the times you’ve said this before, did you ever pitch a solution?

The solution is to attract small communities off reddit. There are countless decent communities on reddit that have issues with the vast majority of the website outside their niche interest. If each of these small communities will have their own little place to discuss and share ideas without having the Damocles sword of the larger reddit assholery and bad design over their heads, I feel like there's a chance they'll move to a different platform.

I am planning such an alternative to reddit that targets these small communities. I hope it will actually be useful to people.
> When your management chain 3 levels deep are Indian males and most English on the team is spoken in broken Chinese accents you know white males are totally overrepresented. /s

Just because they are overrepresented doesn't mean that they are the only, or proportionately most, overrepresented (though I do think you point out an important factor in toxic white attitudes in tech; the fact that there are non-Whites that are also, and possibly more , overrepresented in tech, including tech leadership, than Whites makes those Whites who are inculturated to be prone to racial insecurity particularly insecure.)
Why do you feel the need to continue this conversation a day after the thread has died?
On page 2487 is a repeal of Section 711 of USC Title 18, which provided six months in jail for misuse of the "Smokey Bear" character or name

https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1341163388559306752
Yeah, I think people in this thread are really underestimating the ability for courts to over-apply laws that talk about commercial activity. If growing food on your own property for personal consumption can be "interstate commerce", then really any human activity can be justified as "commercial advantage or private financial gain".
I wonder how much they will charge for the charging port.
From the previous sentence:

> The Librem 5 features high quality, free games that respect you.
Coercion is simply an economic system too?

I tell you to do work, and if you don't I shoot you. It's just economics; I'm trading not shooting you for your labour and everyone comes out happy
The main problem with this is that the streaming platforms don't offer any way for streamers to do it legally.

For instance, Jack Danger is a pinball streamer who does the newest games, and Stern just released a Led Zeppelin game, and his stream was cut off mid-way through because the fully licensed game plays LZ tunes.

Not only does this fall under fair use, he is more than willing to pay a fee to legally stream these games and the music they play. But Twitch doesn't offer this option. Neither does YouTube, or Facebook.
your horse is pretty high
Honestly, in that price range, Dell is probably "good enough"

Grab something like the i1Display Studio to calibrate and it'll be golden for anyone who doesn't need a hardware LUT or built-in calibration.
Shouldn't that drop happen around 2016 when people who hated major institutions and wanted them destroyed were put in charge of them?
I've been very happy with this model: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c930e-busine...

It has excellent optics, and a piezo zoom. Worth every cent.
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It's just circular logic to fallaciously justify itself. "criminal organization" == "Any group of >1 person who breaks this law".
The term isn't in the text of the law itself.
The device you posted this on has a plastic shell, plastic coated silicon chips, a plastic PCB, uses wiring covered in plastic.

The paint on your walls is plastic, as are your sewer pipes, probably water pipes, the insulation in your walls, the glue such makes up structural members of your house...
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I never said they were incapable of learning new things. But they're usually not applying for junior level roles where we expect to make these investments. They are typically applying for senior roles where the applicant is expected to possess these soft skills.
You quoted the preamble but didn't quote the rest of the text: [...]transmission service that:

(1) is _primarily _ designed or provided for the purpose of publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law;

(2) has _no commercially significant purpose or use other than_ to publicly perform works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law; or

(3) is _intentionally marketed by_ or at the direction of that person to promote its use in publicly performing works protected under title 17 by means of a digital transmission without the authority of the copyright owner or the law.

Emphasis are mine. It's clear to me through reading this that a service/platform that specifically aims and is marketed as streaming pirating content will suffer the consequences here.
US plans major expansion of facial recognition authority at airports
... with the solution being an externalized centralized government with centralized accountability, justice, and enforcement organizations - also left to deal with the bad actors who will freely use the system without the centralized (hopefully in place via democratically elected government with integrity) tools of things like Magnitsky Act to dissuade bad actions of bad actors.
For me it's hard to believe that 4k on 27" is not enough, I use 1440p 27" 144Hz display as daily driver and barely see any pixels(usually with badly hinted fonts, and still not pixels, but uneven forms of letters), because I sit around one meter apart from it, and sitting closer makes me turn my head around too much, except when watching movies.
If the representatives were better, the pork mechanism could be used to escrow deals between parties with different interests. "I will pass this if you pass that" becomes a lot easier to organize when you can combine them together in a way that makes defection impossible. Unfortunately, this nice theoretical property is damaged in practice by the not-so-great behavior of the participants.
I suspect a meteorological explanation. The weather might be so bad sometimes that crossing the bridge is not possible. Or the lifetime of a bridge exposed to such conditions might be extremely low, or maintenance costs extremely high.
I had originally written "world", but I have no idea what sort of international rep US military academies have. They are undeniably good engineering schools, but less accessible to int'l students.
Netflix is draining of quality content and people still pirate memberships. Not a good example.

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

You undermine your own argument by saying

> Piracy is not a price problem, it's a service problem

and then say

> for free.
It's all about dust to dust product design. What is made of what is not clearly marked, not able to be collected as the necessary waste streams to enable proper disposal and recycling.
This is a problem I have with how a LOT of legal topics are covered, Bills, lawsuits and court cases are discussed, the merits opined, but nary a complaint, brief, motion or court opinion gets linked so I can read for my damn self what the actual law as voted on says.

It’s more of a surprise when it IS linked or embedded to read than not
Love the code rabbit hole, but alternatively you can just use an online whiteboard that doesn't try to be too clever, such as https://awwapp.com/
They may not be buying them, but I've done some research on this in the past and IP law is widely supported by content creators, even those who make little money. I personally also think that copyright laws as they exist right now are not optimal, but I think that pretending that "rich people yacht money" is all they are good for is also not a good thing.
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When people talk about “bare metal” k8s they mean on-prem without the support of integrated cloud infrastructure. All the external stuff like load balancers, ingress controllers, routing, bgp, public ip pools, shared storage, vm creation for scaling, are all things the cluster can’t do for itself and have to be implemented and integrated.
That sounds super nice, I'll have to look into it.

Thanks!
Precisely. Some dozens of citizens performing relatively harmless individual acts of illegal stream will go to prison and have their lives ruined over twitch activities.

It will be both chilling and pointless and sad, all at the hands of pro-corporate legislators who can't see the people for the dollars in the way.

The law doesn't set a threshold of gain by the perpetrators and that will make it broadly abused: 16-year-olds tried as adults for terrorism and streaming due to videogame habits; security researchers revealing vulnerabilities; the poor trying to share an MMA fight with their friends.

Streaming companies seem to be doing just fine.
> I really wish more activist types helped around the world today vs shouting about the past.

I don't really even see the need for activists. This seems like something that could be fairly easily handled by the world's governments, either through economic leverage, supporting insurgents or direct military intervention. If we can drone strike terrorists, I don't see why we can't drone strike slave owners. Let them live in the fear they have fostered among others. Or if we don't want to get that involved, start leaving AKs laying around conspicuously. The South was terrified of slaves having guns, and it generally ended poorly for them when slaves did get guns.

The countries will complain, but I don't see them getting much sympathy on the world stage with a "you can't kill our slave owners" tack.
Virtually everyone involved in the production of media is already paid by the time the media goes on sale.
The UK and France already have considerable military budgets and capabilities to add to the EU pool.

A shame one of them had to fuck everything up.
I'm hardly an expert, but isn't NATO also about exercises, standardization and command structure?

It's doubtful that international coalitions like we saw in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libia, Kosovo would be possible without NATO command structure.

Am I wrong?

Getting military branches from various countries to collaborate can't be easy -- certainly not without prior training and trust.
I knew Eric. We worked together on his work with 3x3 and our last conversation in September was an hour talking about drones.

He was abrasive to most, but if you clicked, you clicked. We clicked.

RIP Big guy.
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That was my reaction as well. That's the point where I decided to stop wasting my time with the article, which is a real pity given that it's the second sentence.

I used to respect Popular Mechanics as the more technical and less overtly pro–military-industrial–complex cousin of Popular Science, but evidently they've fallen victim to the dumbing down of science too - not to mention the sensationalism, as evidenced by the headline.
Either way, this is bullshit forced through into "must pass" legislation because they know this shit wouldn't pass otherwise.

This is fundamentally evil. Our senators are a pile of shit-enabling shit.
Would ask the same.
The headline is misleading because it misstates the status this legislation is in. Any senator or congressperson can release proposed legislation like this. The vast, vast majority of it never gets further -- Especially ones released right before the end of the term. Senator Tillis can introduce this legislation again next year, but nothing is going to happen with this bill before it dies an unceremonial death on Jan 3.

It's good to keep abreast of what congress is considering in this regard, but this is nothing more than a wish by the Senator and the handful of lawmakers that are co-sponsoring it.

A useful headline would be `Senator introduces bill to make illegal streaming a felony` but to say "it will happen soon" is misleading.
Populace gives them votes. Corporates give money. Loads of money. And influence. And power.
But is the text of that PDF the same as the text in the monster bill?
From a technical perspective you're correct. I can't think of any holes in your argument.

From a non-technical perspective I would say convenience. A link is a click or a tap that would open a new window and walk me through the reset process. A password-in-email I would have to highlight it, copy it, open (or move to) another window/tab, then paste it then go through the "change password" process.

A link is a much smoother user experience.
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Why the focus exclusively on streaming? That seems arbitrary. There are other distribution platforms for copyright material such as torrenting, p2p, BBS... I could go on.

If these are already covered by existing law, then we don't need a new law just for prosecuting streamers.
Here: https://youtu.be/8fcbP7lEdzY
There is a massive industry, sets of standards, and infrastructure relying upon barcodes. For example, anyone who does ships product to their partners as part of an EDI/X12 workflow utilizing advances shipping notifications, will need to be able to generate a UCC compliant shipping label.

Warehouse management systems, same story. In fact, in supply chain, QRCodes are extremely rare. All the portable "brick on a stick" wireless terminals rely upon barcodes.

Production workflow, where jobs move from station to station often rely on barcodes to identify jobs and components.

Not to mention the most obvious one: shopping. Cash register scanners don't do QRCode. They follow the UPC standard along with the entire retail industry. That's likely never going to change.
Without meaning to offend, that is not a good argument. If you rob a store and the employees have to quit their job, saying "I will spend the money somewhere else and that is where they will be working in the future" would not absolve you of the responsibility that you have indirectly damaged their livelihood.
oh, sorry I misunderstood.
If pointing colleagues to a "Gk1 User Guide" feels self-centered or weird for any reason, call it "Operating Principles" and keep it internal.

Then adhere to these principles strictly and consistently. Others will notice and change the way they interact with you accordingly.

For example, with a few exceptions, I don't answer emails on weekends. It only takes one or two weekends for someone to realize this, and either stop emailing me on weekends or learn to not expect an answer until Monday.

As another example, if an important request, decision, or question is sent to me on Slack or text, I kindly ask them to send it to me by email. A few instances of this and people figure it out. This is, I think, a much more friendly way of changing people's behavior than pointing them to a user guide.
Yeah, same - 27" 1440p as a daily monitor for work and I have no issues with it. I have had a 27" 4K monitor for a while but it was just too small at 100% scaling, and at 150% scaling some things looked naff. Prefer the 1440p at that resolution.
> Why do so many people insist on doing video chats?

Control. They want to make sure the silent people in the meeting aren't doing something else or not actually present.

It's probably why it's particularly common with managers who run meetings that are neither effectively timeboxed, limited to the essential personnel as required, nor planned well to handle an agenda that requires a meeting rather than an email or exchange of emails to handle effectively.
You’re completely right. I’m talking about Technical debt arising from organizational flaws and issues and your statement made me realize this concept doesn’t exist. Nobody has ever dealt with this form of technical debt ever in the history of existence.

You’re right, everything I said is completely wrong. I’m not a biased person so I admit when I’m wrong.

Also note that this post is not sarcastic. I am 100% serious and being honest here. You are completely right. This is not a joke. It’s rare for people to do a 180 flip so I can see how this post can come off as sarcasm. I am not most people and this post is earnest.
I have been watching this for 6 months. The evidence is now clear as anything. Multiple gold standard studies are done. Cholecalciferol bolus dose eliminates a covid infection (with your body's help). IGa immune response eliminates covid.

The AMA should have adopted this long ago. I only see India carrying out widespread treatment options.
There’s an app called EpocCam that lets you turn the iPhone into a webcam. I was disappointed with the results. The colors get washed out easily, especially in strong direct light. It’s nothing like the image quality you get when taking a video (which was what I expected).
Related: Saudi Arabia uses NSO tools against journalists:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/20/citizen-lab-ns...
Except you can, through effort and organization (none of this "trustless" mantra non-sense/propaganda), get in place a competent democratically elected government with integrity via accountability and oversight - perhaps even running for elected positions yourself if you're passionate and strong enough.

Or you can ignore the nuances and complexes, say fuck it, and support a system that disables power that good organizations do need to manage bad actors - instead of turning the clock back and making the world a "free for all" - making tools like the Magnisky Act unenforceable, along with other unavoidable pitfalls that pro-Bitcoiners ignore, scoff at without rebuttal, or glance over without serious thought. Regulatory capture is real and it needs to be addressed always - and if you work from founding principles and are honest with yourself you'll come to the conclusion that centralized organizations are a necessity to fighting "evil"/bad behaviour with good, responsible, trustworthy people

The argument then goes into nuance of where the debate continues as to how conservative or liberal you are - how "small" or "big" the government is, e.g. what decision making power or function does or should government have, e.g. Universal Basic Income/UBI - the Freedom Dividend as Andrew Yang calls it - would arguably be more of traditional Conservative/Republican leaning - giving $1,000/month to individuals for THEM TO DECIDE what to do with the money vs. some bureaucratic government agency spending that money themselves making broad-vague decisions, almost always influenced by regulatory capture and industrial complexes manipulating the system via influencing politicians and the population via propaganda of various forms: "tobacco is good for you" - says your doctor, "fat is bad for you" says the sugar and health industry, "MDMA/mushrooms are bad for you" - says big pharma industry who can't patent those medicines, etc.

Edit: LUL - imagine a person actually had to put the effort into writing a qualitative response instead of getting a dopamine hit from a single click to ignore/avoid engaging.
I hear your sound loud and clear. It is noise.
While the peacetime ROI is shit, it's still stimulus of after a fashion. Hopefully the EU is somewhat over it's bad austerity ideas from 2008.

NATO absolutely should go.

> It's the same reason US has a hard time bringing back manufacturing once it has become reliant on China.

I don't really think so, because in that case there is/was wage arbitrage. Yes the US is subsidizing on an ongoing basis, but that doesn't quite feel the same for reasons I cannot articulate.
unfortunately, none of this is convincing enough for a scientific skeptic to say that there is actually a true human health impact from microplastics.
Yeah, I was wondering how much questionable pop-sci crap that was when I was writing it. Thanks, I'll have to read more into it.
According to Eric when he told me about this, it was HIS idea to name it that. When he said this, it made sense because it followed his sense of humor (this was literally in September he told me this story).
I'm not so sure. If you get the word out people act. If you don't then legislation you don't want is more likely to go through. See the icann and .org issues last year.
How about negative value, e.g. wasted time reading/consuming worthless content? Is this never talked about because it generates too much funny money?
> Technology is making anonymity nearly impossible in all facets of life and I don't think that's healthy for human development.

This sentiment is dying at an alarming rate. Even here, after reading some of these comments I am taken aback at how normalized the idea of total surveillance has become. It doesn't matter where it comes from, big corp or big gov, taking away personal privacy takes away a fundamental part of what makes us human. It's not healthy. It's not right.

Fight this.
I might be able to agree with your extremely forgiving view of the military's actions if they didn't cover the incident up for years. Instead, they intentionally shot unarmed civilians who had done nothing wrong merely for being close to people carrying weapons and reported killing insurgents.
Even if you beef up budgets on around Europe, which many countries do.

We still need standardization, exercises, and common command structures.

If you build that outside the NATO framework collaboration with the US in future minor peace keeping deployments will likely be harder.
I went to West Point almost two decades ago.

It's important to remember that almost every cadet here was a plebe (1st year student). Plebes are under enormous pressure, and they are only just beginning the inculcation of the honor code (they've all only been there about 6 months now).

Traditionally, they are given by far the most leeway. The expectation is that going through this process will only hasten and harden their understanding of the importance of the honor code.

I recall reading stories in the news about happenings when I was cadet, and there's always invariably some nuances and details that are either incorrect, missing, or misunderstood by people not familiar with West Point.

Some cadets are also still going to go before an honor board, which may very well lead to their separation.

Without knowing more details, I trust the administration (including cadet-led) to take actions in the best interest of our country, the institution, and the Corps.
I think for Sweden and those nations with Russia on their border it might seem less a relic.
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A military alliance of liberal democracies certainly makes sense. Mainly to counter China and Russia.

Whether Turkey should be in NATO is hard to say without having a deep understanding of the situation. Turkey staying in NATO has pros and cons.
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>It's mortal political enemies coming together to elbow-bump over ... pork-barrel end-of-term politics.

"Let's fix this rotten system by replacing it with our new system (which just so happens to be a dictatorship, but don't mind that...)," is a pretty common way for democratic governments to fail. It even happened to Rome.
I built it by stacking up all the things I didn't steal.
Any system powerful enough to give you everything you want (perfect security) is also powerful enough to take everything away.