skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... they already succeeded in screwing some hardware and software this way.

When Windows Vista was about to launch, MPAA pushed hard for DVD copy protection, this resulted in a sudden push against CRT monitors, in favor of then lower quality LCD, to force the usage of HDMI cables (because they have DRM), they also pushed hard for Microsoft to change what soundcards were allowed to do, again because of DRM.

This contributed to a sudden death of CRTs right when some companies were about to have breakthrough in lightweight CRT, and also basically killed the soundcard market... they still exist, but nowhere near important as they were, and nowhere near awesome, the changes that were pushed to support DRM killed 3D Audio, back then you had people buying sound cards as if they were like GPUs but for audio, some games used this to great effect (Thief for example), where the game would raytrace the audio, calculating it reflecting, refracting and difracting around the 3D models, allowing for sound simulations that let players to figure out the environment by audio alone...

Vista came and changed drastically how the driver stack for video and audio worked, MS back then blamed "stability" but they killed hard anything that could be used to circunvent DVD, HDMI and related DRM.
Any plans for supporting BAA/HIPAA companies? Congrats on the launch!
Isn't Heroku serverless? It is a PaaS offering similar to Lambda and Google's various PaaS offerings that generally get branded as serverless.
We probably lack a big chunk of the whole picture. Phylogeny is based in fossils, but as most fungi are typically soft, lack of characteristic fruits or wood only a few were fossilized. Even worse, most micelia are indistinguishable from other fungi unless you pick a microscope, thus much less fossil diversity and branching is expected.
It's like a template for getting clicks to their site
> If people had called one another to prepare this, would we say that the phone was responsible for the attack? And would we try to ban phones?

That's a moot point, because an attack like this can't realistically be organized via one-to-one communication. It needs a broadcast medium, which the phone network isn't.
"Facebook gets a free pass..."

No, Facebook devotes significant resources to moderation and makes good faith attempts to uphold their policies. Parler did not. That is the difference.

"If the negative externalities are the same in both cases, then this isn't an excuse."

No one is trying to rid the world of all negative externalities, only to make reasonable efforts to mitigate them. There may never be a perfectly moderated social media platform, just as there may never be a perfectly safe highway, and that is fine.
do you still needing someone?
>The rules ofthe game here are that we can trick the victim in to accessing an attacker-controlled website, causing hisdevice to execute malicious JavaScript code.

>To make the browser generate many DNS queries, we used AJAX requests (viaXMLHttpRequest).

So they used JS code execution on the browser to achieve JS code execution?

There are ways of triggering dozens of sustained DNS requests without JS in your browser, but this is just lazy alarmist research.

To the researchers: Please explain your cute logo and name at the bottom of your website, not at the very top.
If waiting outside, just make sure someone around can see you and get help if you get a serious allergic reaction or something though.
Yes, the terrorists who caused 1-2 billion in damage this summer and destroyed peoples livelihoods with a dozen deaths over a false narrative according to public and easily accessible FBI statistics, and also the terrorists who stormed the capital. Both sets of terrorists who are coordinating on all of the platforms.
i hacked this up one day just for that purpose:
https://github.com/bketelsen/godeck
I don't use it for streaming on Linux, but for all sorts of other things.
People like you keep thinking its wrong information thats causing people to act this way. Ever consider that theres fundamental problems in American society that extend beyond the media? That make rushing the capital rational?
AWS_PROFILE=broken aws s3 ls s3://deltars/simple/

14kb in your bucket and you pay for outgoing traffic. means, while you're sleeping, I can ruin your aws bill.

In any case, committing credentials is always wrong and you cannot justify it.

Depending on your ci tool (e.g. gitlab-runner, drone-ci ... ) there are other and better ways to provide credentials for a git project in CI/CD pipeline.
To be fair, reading

> The identified files and code are preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content to Nyaa.si users in violation of copyright law.

could easily be interpreted as "oh MPA took it down because sharing files = bad", not necessarily "their code is very specificlaly designed to analyze and collect pirated media". The companies behind this are very loose with their wording so it looks terrible.
Microsoft invests in Cruise in new $2B round
This is not academic writing though. This is an interesting story posted on somebody's blog. If I tell my friends a cool story, I would need to walk them through the story and drop the punch line/conclusion at the end. I also enjoy it very much when somebody tell me a story that way. Not everything, even technical teardown, needs more efficient allocation of effort.

Interestingly, this is the second time I see this kind of comment recently and turns out it's from the same person. Maybe I'm on HN too much.
Interesting, how many there are such 3rd party's products that AWS offers as a service?
Who will be the next for license changing, Redis?
Phones do in fact allow this, the difference is that it doesn't scale up in a 1:many relationship, and the phone users are not incentivized to use the phone more for this purpose over, say, calling their mom.
Are you referring to Antifa and BLM, who also organized on FB and Twitter during 2020, too?
I could see this kind of tech being very useful for the second-hand retail market, lego or otherwise.
If it ends up being ruled that Amazon infringed on Elastic's trademark (their case here is pretty flimsy) or copied Elastic's proprietary code then Amazon deserves to get raked over the coals for copyright infringement.

But Amazon offering hosted Elasticsearch and forking the project is something that I think is okay. It sucks for Elastic but it's good for customers. Amazon is driving the cost of hosted Elasticsearch down closer to its real costs which will always out-compete Elastic who's trying to use their margin to fund development as well. So many businesses fall into the trap of not charging for their actual value and get eaten when someone else is better at their paid complementary services. Elastic's value is the software, not their hosting abilities.
My friend who is immunocompromised is getting his first dose tomorrow. They will be drawing blood for anti body test and then give the vaccine. Waiting period of 15 mins to see if any side effects. If there is something serious you go to the ER. It would be best not to be alone if there is that risk
W+K (not sure if they were part of this) is pretty good.
Thanks for introducing me to that, it was enjoyable to listen to Allen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50
Has there been even a single move away from ever more draconian copyright? Just the last budget bill had provisions for more criminal enforcement of copyright and with bipartisan support. If this is a slippery slope it's a steady and worryingly unstoppable one so far.

Civil disobedience through distributed systems seems like the only answer right now.

Your legislators can't hear you over the sound of millions of dollars from Hollywood getting deposited in their campaign accounts.
Is it possible that people licensing things as MIT don't mind that a multi-billion company makes money off their work?

I don't mean to make generalities about "open source", but a serious chunk of the community genuinely don't care.
I very much doubt the Trump administrations cares about Uighur Muslims any more than the CCP. Also funny how they need to wait until Trump's last day in office before lobbying any real criticism.
If government uses this as another 911 to push another Patriot Act, then we should suspect our government was not only aware of what was happening but they also participated in it.
I think the parent is referring to how phones are Title II common carriers.
The dictionary.
He he. I came within a hair's bredth of doing exactly that.

Saw this article, installed htop, ran it - all in pre coffee morning fog

OMG A dozen firefox threads each using 10%! ....

Even in my 10% early morning function I realised, but I get your point.
>by virtue of the operation and further development of the Bittorrent website Nyaa.si’s “nyaa” repository (the “Project”)

Basically the fact that the world's most predominant installation of the site (Nyaa.si) is serving a whole bunch of copyrighted materials through torrents makes the code itself violate DMCA.
Pathetic!
Why are vaccination places making you wait 15 minutes in a small space close to others?

I know there's actual medical professionals that won't get vaccinated and refuse to even give it to others, but those clowns don't run the facility.

So you'd think the waiting areas would be following CDC distancing guidelines.
It's also worth noting that the rules included protection for the murderer: in fact, that's where the term 'sanctuary city' came from, I think. If the murderer made it to a predefined sanctuary city, the "Avenger of Blood" wasn't allowed to touch them.
I'm confused, are you arguing that if I host a popular website, the government should be able to compel to promote ideas I disagree with? How is that not worse than the current situation?
From this I would conclude that it is utilitarian-bad to revenge, but utilitarian good to murder
It’s certainly easier with social media, but before that people used phones and in person meetings.
A British hospital is using DAG blockchain to track Covid-19 vaccines
The point wouldn't be to sell laptops.
Well, fuck King Maha Shitgibbon Vajiralongkorn, I suppose.
The downside is that the safe harbor protections apply to the entire site. Even if this content is fine, there is certainly some content on GitHub that violates copyright and Microsoft would want safe harbor protections in those instances. They therefore can't completely abandon the DMCA.

My understanding is that in order to continue participating in the DMCA the recipient needs to act on all requests. That doesn't necessarily mean they need to take down the content, just that they need to respond to requests.

There is also no penalty setup within the DMCA for sending a request in which the response is that the content is not in violation. The only part of the DMCA that sets up penalties for the requester is if the requests are made in bad faith. That basically would require Microsoft to show the MPA is malicious in their requests rather than incompetent. That can be difficult to prove.
Good old

Right to Read (Stallman, 1997)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

and

The Coming War On General Purpose Computing (Doctorow, 2011)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Com...

warning us that entities really are going to try exactly that bullshit. And, as usual, sounding paranoid at the time and "oh, yeah, of course that happened" later.
If there wasn't before there probably is now - at least around DC.
Agreed, that's what I just commented before reading this reply. They are very loose with their words in takedowns. I bet it's probably not as bad as they say, though. Maybe it has a movie/TV API that it uses, thus is "preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content".
Here's what I got:

ifconfig | ?{$_ -like "eth0 *"} | %{($_ -Split " ")[-1]}

In other words, find the line that starts with "eth0 ", then return the last column using " " as a delimiter.
What's the point of "open sourcing" if you get annoyed at people redistributing your work? Honest question here.

I'm really not interested to know who's in the "right" or in the "wrong". I want to know, what's the motivation for opensource if not "reuse my code please"
> should not be compelled to carry content they find objectionable, but they should also not be allowed to dominate the channel

How do you do that though? The network effect almost always chooses a single winner in the social media market. YouTube is a perfect example. The content creators go where the market is. How do you make sure YouTube doesn't dominate the channel?

My (imperfect) solution is that once you get to the channel domination point, you should be treated as a utility - e.g. you can't kick people off your service unless they've broken the law.
I recently found out that on May 30th, there were numerous Secret Service members injured in a BLM/antifa attack (oh, scratch that, "peaceful protest") on the White House. I briefly wondered why I hadn't heard about that, then I chuckled at my own naivete. Of course, one might ask how that was coordinated, but then it was a peaceful protest, so who cares?
You know what’s also chilling? Major tech platforms choosing to publish, amplify, and normalize: white supremacy, antisemitism, serious calls to violently overthrow democracy, conspiracies about the deep state cabal of satan-worshiping pedophiles, the health benefits of drinking bleach, denial of well understood scientific facts, etc.

These things are fine for the town square, since people have free speech, but nobody should be handing them a megaphone that reaches 7 billion people.

Free speech does not mean you are entitled to have your speech broadcast to a global audience.
Weird, I distinctly remember Twitter, Facebook and Google removing Islamic religious content under the guise of stopping terrorism a decade ago. What I don't remember is the current free speech absolutist crowd objecting to such censorship. In fact, I remember them cheering those companies on.
Part of it might be preference for plain text files with no vendor lock-in.

Or it might be preference for explicitness, we've all fought with rich editors bleeding format from one word into another and struggling to un-format the text at the right location.
Wrong, Microsoft’s internal incentives are aligned with GitHub remaining independent and building developer mindshare. The, relatively, minuscule business they get from MPA (No Azure, Office subs, Windows subs) is extremely fringe in comparison to losing long term developer mindshare. Even if you thought of representative companies in the MPA,e.g., Netflix, Warner, etc., which are only loosely coupled to the MPA itself, this is still tiny in contrast to overall developer mindshare. This is why they reinstated popcorntime etc etc.
Encountering SIGILLs is not super uncommon on heterogeneous academic computer clusters (since -march=native).

But yeah, typically binaries built for redistribution use a reasonably crusty minimum architecture. Reminds me of this discussion for Fedora: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
I believe you've described something akin to the existing infrastructure for issuing radio broadcast licenses via the FCC.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr...

There is likely some guidance to be had on this topic from studying the way the FCC has navigated the Scylla and Charybdis of authorizing broadcast licenses vs. trampling the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
"All sides" is not a valid argument when we're talking about a specific group that specifically planned and tried to overthrow the government.

This is not a "both sides are the same" world.
I think that was just for section 1201 claims, not all claims.

> "Going forward, we are overhauling our 1201 claim review process..."

https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-yo...
You're right, Facebook won't get a free pass. Congress will drag Zuckerberg back into Congress, give him a scolding, and then largely things will remain the same. Whether or not they moderate enough is certainly a gray question.

All sorts of industries have negative externalities (e.g., fossil fuels). But are Facebook's worth it if they destabilize the democracy in which allowed Facebook to grow and exist?
Is Facebook actually moderating in good faith though?

Consider that divisive, offensive and false content is guaranteed to generate engagement and thus contribute to their bottom-line, while content that doesn't have these traits is less likely to do so. So they're already starting off the wrong way here, when their profits directly correlate with their negative impact on society.

Consider that there is plenty of bad content that violates their community standards on Facebook and such content doesn't even try to hide itself and is thus trivially detectable with automation: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/a-year-later-cybercrime-...

Consider that Instagram doesn't remove accounts with openly racist & anti-Semitic usernames even when reported: https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/kz10nw/i_mean_if_...

Is Facebook truly moderating in good faith, or are they only moderating when the potential PR backlash from the bad content getting media attention greater than the revenue from the engagement around said content? I strongly suspect the latter.

Keep in mind that moderating a public forum is mostly a solved problem, people have done so (often benevolently) for decades. The social media companies' pleas about moderation being impossible at scale is bullshit - it's only impossible because they're trying to eat the cake and have it too. When the incentives are aligned, moderation is a solved problem.
Yep, Facebook, Twitter and friends are trying conveniently blame their only competition that's already predisposed to vilification on account of the political prejudices of liberals.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
Where is this $20B number coming from? It doesn't appear to reflect reality.

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...
I had a major spike of anxiety during the winter break when I took 10 days off. Work is stressful and tiring but if I don't work, somehow my anxiety is triggered and I worry about work anyway.

Being indoors in a one bedroom apartment makes you crazy.

I admire people who took vacation alone and enjoyed themselves. I had many plans for which I completely lost motivation.
I wonder if they could do that onboard with a jetson nano.
Parler did have plans for generating revenue.

I'm not sure what your point is. Facebook and Google were operating at a loss initially as well. It seems like you are arguing that deplatforming Parler is more ok, because they never got to the point of being entrenched tech hegemonies? Or are you arguing that Parler is somehow more quilty because they weren't making money yet, so their intentions are bad?
Is CNN, a broadcast television network, considered a broadcast medium for attacks and terrorism for promoting and defending violent riots, and for giving reach to similar statements of support and justification from congress members such as AOC and Nancy Pelosi?
Why not? What are all the American companies afraid of?
This is much worse than Spain, where rappers Pablo Hasel and Valtònyc are facing only 4 years for singing that the king is a thief. Valtònyc managed to escape his home island of Majorca (dozens of fans bought many plane tickets to Brussels in his name, and he took just one). Unfortunately, Hasel is facing prison and has said he is not willing to go into exile as Valtònyc.
> The thing that people who don't really know Lua don't get is that Lua doesn't give a shit whether you start at 1 or at 0.

I don't really understand why this claim comes up all every time in these discussions, it's obviously not true. Like one of the most important operations with an dynamic array is figuring out it's length (and not by iterating over all of it). This breaks if you don't use 1-based.
This is whitepaper, it is not implementation of closed source application.

Let me explain how this works in PR world. You publish (with all the bells and whistles) that you have end to end encryption and explain protocol that uses asymmetric cryptography (just for the sake of simplicity I will simplify - you have public and private key, you send public key to all chatters with you, they will encrypt randomly generated symmetric key with it (asymmetric crypto is slow, you don't want to use it directly) and send it back (where you decrypt it) and vice versa. Then you use symmetric key that you have safely exchanged for use in block cypher, lets say Rijndael 265635238 bits (as big numbers mean more safety(tm) /s).

You publish white papers of protocol, get all the cryptographers on your side. Fanboys are screaming, public is applauding, girls wants to sleep with you and president is thankful. What you don't tell is that you also encrypt symmetric key with YOUR public key that is embedded into application and send it along as a "status_check" field.

And everyone is happy forever after. /s

> Your speculation is not interesting to me.

This works in both directions. But bottom line, whitepaper is not the application (and even if it would be, have fun reading http://www.underhanded-c.org/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG and who has more motive as the corporation that profits from spying on everyone and everything). It is just as the name says. Whitepaper.

"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes"

or maybe you will like this one more:

"Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets"

And you dont trust someone as Facebook or Google any more. They have lost trust in ship containers not buckets.
> Fortunately our tests just needed to retrieve objects from a bucket to confirm that an S3 bucket is presenting itself as a Delta table properly.

It seems the test is about the data within the bucket assuming the correct format, not the connection to S3. Perhaps we can trust the author to have considered other ways to test this more properly that either wouldn't work for reasons or weren't nearly as fun.
I've worked from home for the past 5 years, so no, it hasn't made anything worse. I hate commuting, sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day doesn't improve your life.
I'm not sure Facebook is acting like an editor here. Those approve every post. Facebook can't practically do they. I'm critical of this case because it's a large group and thus Facebook should have been aware, but it seems like it's a tall order to ask Facebook to migrate everything. Isn't this what section 230 is about? Before you either migrate all our not at all. 230 let's you at least try to moderate (because let's be real, you can't moderate a billion people)
Solar2D Game Engine
> benefit from moving the ball around but never actually winning the game.

This is exactly how you win elections. If you gain enough single-issue voters you never need to debate the complex issues that might split your base.

It's important to portray the situation as if they are losing. Pro-Choice is a great example. Abortion-right are frequently portrayed as "under attack and imminently about to be destroyed" despite almost every SCOTUS judge publicly saying it's "settled law".

It is a political form of George Orwell's endless war, and the ultimate distraction.

Corporations don't need to fund them directly as politicians are happy to play this game so that corporations can fund THEM directly since the political attention is placed elsewhere.
Based on the centralization of hosting and cloud services, it is about time that we re-evaluate ISPs and cloud providers.