skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative was to lock down properly for a few weeks early on and prevent it from becoming endemic, but that cat is out of the solar system at this point.
Yes. A single service, with a single bill, that makes available every movie, TV show, or album ever produced. That's it. If you can provide this you can have my money.

This is not a technical problem anymore. It's a business problem. The company who can make these nebulous "licensing problems" and "distribution rights issues" go away can make a fortune. I don't care that Company A can't distribute the digital version of Company B's product because Company C has the exclusive rights to it and Company D only has a license with Company A to distribute optical discs. That shouldn't be something the end user has to worry about or be limited by. These media execs are so smart, why can't they untangle this problem?

I'm not going to subscribe to a dozen different services each with their own bill, their own account, their own password, their own rules and terms. Easier to hoist the Jolly Roger and move on with my life.
Don't be daft. His comparison to wood is legitimate as trees are a natural resource and their conservation has a similar effect on climate change compared to reducing the burning of fossil fuels.

> Burning fossil fuels is bad.

Why is it bad? Becuase the temperature will go up a couple degrees. Who cares! We're engineers and we build solutions to adapt to an ever-changing world. We don't make progress by stifling productivity.

> Shell needs to leave that business in the very long term.

No, they don't NEED to do that. Well, not until the government mandates it anyway. And that's the problem. Perhaps they will leave the business, but they shouldn't until renewable energy becomes more economical than producing fossil fuels. In the meantime, it makes more sense to move production to developing countries so they have the same opportunity we had here to benefit from cheap energy.
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Would you rather a business such as Google and Facebook not be able to do what they want with their computers and bandwidth?

No one is entitled to someone else’s computing resources. But unless the ISP is blocking access to your computers or from you to the network, then the point is the barrier to distribution is at its lowest in any point in history.

Ideally, we’d have ipv6 and fiber connections to home so Google/Facebook would be irrelevant. But that is a governance issue, not a Google/Facebook issue.
I figured, I wasn't assuming you were trying to be deceptive just the comment made me curious if someone had completely wiped reference to freenode from the wiki.
It was because in the beginning they wanted to put the idea that belters were different in people's head, but to do it the entire series would be too expensive. They got rid of the issue in-universe with the bone-growth meds (?) that Miller and probably others took (in the books this didn't exist, and all belters are tall).
Only if detection requires solving the halting problem. It does not. You just look for certain instructions that normal code shouldn't use. JIT isn't allowed (which means all instructions the program uses can be checked statically), so it should be easy enough.
What wording is similar? Interfaces also look different and their homepages look completely different. Using your logic, Mailmeteor looks as much like YAMM as this one does to Mailmeteor. Like I said, they all kinda look similar and do the same thing.
OpenLDAP Freenode channels have been hijacked (openldap.org)
I recently finished a rewatch of it. It has held up far better than it has any right to. One thing that’s really stood out to me is the insane amount of technology change that happened over SG-1 — the show ran from 1996 to 2004. It went from laughable 3D CG on a Showtime budget, CRTs and landlines to heavy CG on a SciFi Channel budget, flatscreens and tiny cell phones.

It does have its dumb moments though. Basically anything involving real-world weapons or explosives. There were also a few weak seasons in the middle, and it’s pretty obvious the main cast started phoning it in around season 5. But on the whole I agree, it’s one of the best Sci Fi shows ever made and absolutely belongs with the best of Trek.
This, in my opinion really depends on the content you consume, where you consume it and how you pay for it. Some types of content in competitive ecosystems, are thriving and flourishing. Other types, in large vertically organized systems, are languishing. Only time will tell, but for instance, it has been a really long time since I have seen a memorable film or tv show that truly stands out in my mind as something that will stand the test of time. And the best stuff can be found in obscure distribution channels while the worst stuff gets over financed and over promoted. But that has always been the story hasn’t it, so it’s tricky to make assessments as we only remember the best examples from the past. Certainly, more people than ever can make some thing and then rapidly deliver it to their audience and this is a good thing, even if there are fewer Stanley Kubricks around.
It's true, I haven't factored in smartphones. That still doesn't invalidate the argument. I still believe it's quite narrow-minded to choose typefaces based on a 270+ ppi device. It still excludes a quite significant amount of users, and probably most desktop users.
I'm sorry, but comparing this issue to IKEA shelving makes me incredibly cynical towards your comment.

A closer analogy might be if IKEA were painting their shelving with cheap, toxic substances, and ordered to stop that and to use non-harmful substances which may be more expensive.

The regulation may cause IKEA's costs to increase, in which case I would expect IKEA to innovate to overcome this regulation.

People love burning regulations, but maybe, just maybe, some are actually a "good thing".

Shell can innovate big or go home.
China creates more CO2 than the rest of the world combined. Destroying a company like this while giving China a free pass is essentially killing competition on China’s behalf.

Also, there is no live experiment showing CO2 is the source of global warming. All the models are in silica and the IPCC has been hit with a major email breach showing major manipulation of the data to hide the decline of temperature data.
Of course the tricky thing about traditions is that they change... which is also the best thing about them, as infanticide, slavery, stoning people to death etc. are 'traditional' but humans have mostly moved on from them now, luckily. Generally I'd say when people appeal to tradition in an argument it is an attempt to derail the discussion - "it goes without saying..."
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We are currently running the first edition of our free massive online open course "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown" on EdX:

https://www.edx.org/course/self-driving-cars-with-duckietown

It's a "grand tour" of vehicle autonomy with hands-on activities (in simulation and on real hardware) tailored to the autonomous vehicles application.

It brings together from kinematics modeling and PID control to machine learning, passing through computer vision, planning and Bayesian filtering. The objective is having a model self-driving car driving safely while avoiding pedestrians.. in your living room.

Might be of interest to some here.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the instructors)
The channels being taken over were ones wherein the community either was considering, or had decided, to move to a different comms platform.

The self-proclaimed "Owner and Guardian of Freenode" has not yet put in the effort to earn himself a seat at that discussion table for a single one of those communities, much less all of them.

The hardest thing for someone with NPD to hear is that they don't always get to be The Most Important Person In The Room, final decider of all things, and petty frustration at that lack of control over other fellow humans drove this power grab.
I don't know anymore what the latest is (it changes from yourself, others, both, none in the newspapers here), but doesn't the person wearing the mask protect others, not themselves by wearing it?
Ok, now I'm done with this "controversy". There is no longer even the slightest doubt in my mind who has the higher ground now.
Hi HN,

I want to show you the virtual personal office (VPO) my team made. It's like a personal Zoom meeting but looks and feels like an office which you can also decorate with pictures/gifs.

The link above is the link to my personal office, so come in, don't be startled and say hi. You can also create your own VPO for free on our website at https://convync.com/. I would love to hear what you think and how this can be improved.

As companies shift to hybrid work, remote workers may be at a disadvantage compared to their in-office counterparts. The VPO would give those remote employees an "in-office" presence by making them more accessible to others. Workers will be able to say impromptu, “I’ll be in my office” without the hassle of having to schedule a call.

Convync was built using Twilio's video SDK. We also have an alternate version using our self built webRTC infrastructure, but that one's super janky and can't scale to more than 6 people concurrently, and screensharing doesn't work properly across browsers.

So don't be shy, come on by my office and let me know what you think!

Kevin Z
Incorrect. It comes from an IPCC report:
"In model pathways with no or limited overshoot of 1.5°C, global net anthropogenic CO2 emissions decline by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 (40–60% interquartile range), reaching net zero around 2050 (2045–2055 interquartile range)." Excerpt from paragraph 2.3.5.2 of the court sentence: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:...
It was a good way of appeasing people who prefer IRC/XMPP and getting them to accept the walled garden.

A good trick because once slack is adopted it's very difficult to get rid of it for most companies.
> If I was starting a new chat channel for a project, I'd use Matrix, not IRC. Matrix is more decentralized than IRC due to federation, and Element offers a user experience that should be familiar and comfortable to users of Slack and Discord.

I've been trying Matrix on-and-off, and found it ridiculously complicated to figure out bridging (which is probably Matrix's top selling point, and was important for my communities) on the "official" servers.
PIA is an independent operation from Andrew Lee now? Interesting.
"The North prosecuted the war to preserve the Union."

This is known as the Lost Cause myth, and it's investigated in an Atlantic article titled "Why Does the Myth of the Confederate Lost Cause Persist?"

From the article:

It was then, in the late 1800s, that the myth of the Lost Cause began to take hold. The myth was an attempt to recast the Confederacy as something predicated on family and
heritage rather than what it was: a traitorous effort to extend the bondage of millions of Black people. The myth asserts that the Civil War was fought by honorable men
protecting their communities, and not about slavery at all.

We know this is a lie, because the people who fought in the Civil War told us so. "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery--the greatest
material interest of the world," Mississippi lawmakers declared during their 1861 secession convention. Slavery was "the immediate cause of the late rupture and present
revolution," the Confederate vice president, Alexander Stephens, said, adding that the Confederacy was founded on "the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white
man."

The Lost Cause asks us to ignore this evidence. Besides, it argues, slavery wasn't even that bad...

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/06/confede...
To be, or not to be?
I honestly don't think we need to be so pessimistic about this issue, since we can all do something to enact change, no matter how small! This past year with the pandemic, I think we've all learned the importance and value of nature and how we need to take care - what takes care of us! I also go by the motto that we don't need to change the world necessarily, start with creating the change in yourself by noticing where you can be more environmentally friendly, maybe pick up a scrap/junk on the sidewalk wherever you can, and it doesn't have to be a mandatory thing that weighs you down, more like a change of lifestyle! Once we start changing one by one, then collectively others may notice and follow along
We never paid for networks, we paid for a handful of shows that were worth watching, which happened to be on different channels because physics.

Now they are on different platforms, because no good reason at all.

A copyright holder of a creative work should be able to set the price, but should not be able to use their monopolistic powers to control who pays the price. Let each channel decide if they want to buy a given show at a given price.
It's the University definition of "Intro to"

AKA Waste your time and money for a semester talking about the history and background of a topic a student should be able to pick up while actually learning it, and "motivating" a topic students are already motivated to learn.

I'm happy they're releasing this for free, because free is the right price for it.
They use an incredible number of off the shelf shower grab bars I recognize from Home Depot in the interior of pretty much every ship. I find things like that a bit distracting.
And the “evil mega-Corp” will gladly sell you that sci-fi in whichever medium you prefer. Hell, they’ll even recommend it to you.
And indeed it appears the thing they wanted ownership of wasn't a thing you can own, which is doubtless very disappointing but too bad.

Communities consist of people, and you aren't allowed to own people, so you cannot own a community.
This short was written and directed by Ian Hubert, who is an amazing 3d artist. I'm not affiliated in any way, but I'm just blown away by the sheer talent on display here.

If you're interested, a few years ago he did a very interesting presentation[] that goes into a bit more detail on his way of working.

[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPWKecazgM
Court orders Shell to slash CO2 emissions in landmark climate ruling
> You've seen teslas burn so you know that side too.

How often do Teslas burn compared to ICE cars?

> At this moment the only thing we gain by converting conventional vehicles to electric or hydrogen is less local NOx and particulate emissions and offsetting them with more emissions elsewhere.

Using an EV with today's grid is still significantly more efficient in terms of energy use and CO2 emissions even with some fossil fuels being used to power the grid.

Source: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?year=2020&vehicleId=...

A few large heat engines (power plants) running at a constant peak-efficiency load is much more efficient than thousands of smaller heat engines running at variable loads.
Depends on the virus.

Coronavirus is an "easy" one to create a vaccine against. HIV would be the toughest one, regular approaches don't work, which is why we don't have a vaccine despite 30 years of trying.

For HIV you need a different approach, called "germ-line targetting", where instead of presenting the virus, you are trying to direct the evolution of antibody producing cells towards a specific kind which is able to produce working antibodies. If you just present the virus, you get useless antibodies.

So if we are hit by a "hard" virus like HIV, mRNA vaccines will be useless, since it takes years to figure out that germ line targeting.
if he wanted to destroy freenode he would turn off the servers
Valve has the same problem Google has: no new venture will ever have the same margins as their primary cash cow and therefore won't be worth maintaining.
A company is allowed to iterate on products, and yes that sometimes includes discontinuing a specific product, but that's not necessarily the same as abandoning a market.

Nintendo has discontinued the GameBoy / DS line. Because they now sell the Switch Lite, which is their new way to solve that problem. You can argue "Nintendo sucks, they discontinued their handhelds, we can't trust them on hardware", and they sort-of have. But they gave that product line 10 years of support, and they haven't abandoned those folks, the Switch Lite exists for them now to bridge over to the new mobile gaming market. Not all "discontinuings" are of equivilant weight as Google's product-killings.

Steam doesn't sell a Steam Controller, true. Because much of the Steam Controller stuff now supports nearly any controller (Switch Pro / DualShock 4 / Xbox One XINPUT, including the full accessibility controller / etc). Yeah, it's not quite the same as the Steam Controller (no touchpad joysticks), but they didn't abandon that market. And every Steam Controller ever sold is still fully supported in software, even in new games made this year (6 years after launch).

Steam doesn't sell a Steam Link. But they didn't abandon it, they upgraded it. Steam Link now works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Apple iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android TV + Android Phones, Samsung Smart TVs, and such. They don't sell you their own box anymore, because that would be super redundant, most of the TV boxes people already own can run Steam Link already, and they continue to support Steam Link on many different clients to this day. Last time I checked, even original v1 Steam Links are still fully supported in all software + service (6+ years after launch).

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In comparison, Google often just hard up kills stuff. Google Reader died, replaced by nothing. Android Things died, replaced by nothing. Google Cloud Print died, replaced by nothing. There's an entire website dedicated to just listing random stuff Google's killed - https://killedbygoogle.com/ . At least half of those products or services have no graceful fallover or upgrade path to anything else.

I get that it's a fair comparison. But I strongly believe it's not an equivalent one. As someone who has bought plenty of Google and Valve hardware over the years, I'd be a lot happier with Google as a company if they put even just half the effort on the support and maintenance lifecycle for their products, that Valve already does for nearly everything they touch.
OpenLDAP team have also changed new server and FreeNode is no longer used.
The media's lab leak fiasco
Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
This is actually kinda of scary. It honestly makes me want to hoard Linux iso's aside from 2.2TB of Linux Iso's I already have.
> if you think orders such as these are the way forward, that is very literally going to happen.

No, that's hyperbole. Rulings like this will cause damage, disruption, harm, etc. but nowhere near the amount of damage, disruption, harm, etc. as a 'business as usual'. The former is a short-term blow to the economy, which will rebound by transitioning to renewables (and perhaps even be stronger). The latter is less immediate, but will flood coastal cities, cause droughts and famines, and lead to mass migration, civil unrest and international conflict. We've arguably seen this already, with historic droughts in Syria contributing to its civil war, the resulting migrants causing a political crisis in Europe, culminating in the UK leaving the EU.

The short-term pain of having to wean ourselves off fossil fuels is far better than the alternative (at least, for those who plan to live another few decades and/or care about others). Still, it does not have to happen overnight.
I was going to say Portal 2 but realized that it is from 2011 ...

Dota 2 is atleast barely in a decade from 2013. But ye, it is underwelming.
Is it though? They refer to themselves as domainers quite often. (I work with them indirectly)
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> But still people insist that they must pirate because the "studios" for some amorphous reason related to preexisting hatred of corporations or whatever.

This is not a good faith reading or interpretation. The frustration is in the fragmentation; having to subscribe to multiple services to get the content you want because it's otherwise siloed.

Hitting that point - having to subscribe to 3 or more services to get a small subset of that service's offerings is driving people back to piracy.
Surely by now Mr Lee can see that he's made a mistake, right? Like, how bad do things have to get before he can say "Maybe it's me and the actions I've taken?". What kind of goals could he even have where this is the outcome that was desired or expected?

At this point, to not recognize an error has been made would take a level of narcissism and sociopathy that I cannot imagine.
Telegram has exactly that.
> "Chrome is the new IE"

Safari is the new IE. It's stagnated in the same way IE did, which has slowed the progression of web standards. How long did it take to get input type="date"?

Apple's attack on PWAs also shows they wish to neuter the web to encourage use of their app store (where they take a 30% cut) instead.

> "or that they recently revoked API keys..."

The code is open-source, but they aren't obligated to grant access to their services.
Apple hosted and used its own IRC for decades and sadly I saw the last of it die off ~ 2010 for any support uses.

iChat internally at a site was not a replacement.
Is it a good time to move chat to a federated setup? Something like Matrix.
Plex and Sonarr is a great place to start.
Are these epidemic problems?
Context: Atheme is an implementation of ChanServ, NickServ, and some other bots on freenode and other networks.
MGM itself was formed from a merger: MGM was formed in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
I'm not sure what the exact numbers are, but case counts are down to like ~20 per day so it seems like the vaccinations were enough to stop it entirely. Also, I live in Tel Aviv, which was never the hardest hit area.
It does not make any sense. What will Lee actually own and how would he make money from it?
Amazon allows this too.
Thanks, it should! Will try it out!
To add to this... the government killed the alternative which was nuclear. If the government were serious about ending CO2 emissions they should start building a massive number of nuclear. Hitting Shell like this is a disaster of policy.
> Coal, oil and gas need to stay in the ground. People around the world are demanding climate justice

I look forward to seeing an EV battery manufactured entirely using renewable energy, instead of the current situation where developing countries burn huge amounts of brown coal to power their manufacture.

In my opinion, this is just mandated destruction of Western industry, and completely meaningless until we demand that all of the energy-intensive products we import from developing countries are also not made using fossil fuels.

Edit: Strange response. Where am I incorrect?
Don't speak in riddles, use plain language and explain your position.
And this is why you separate your business units so that your hardware peeps can manage their own P/L.
All masks provide some protection for the user from air born droplets produced by coughing and sneezing. N95 masks or the equivalent provide significant protection from catching the disease. Though eye protection is still very important when treating patients with COVID.

Also, it’s important to realize that initial viral load makes a significant difference in how sick people get. Simply reducing exposure can therefore reduce how sick someone becomes.
Matrix requires registration with some server. These servers are federated, but the biggest and most commonly used one is matrix.org. So if that's down, most users lose access.
Does Amazon charge for Video today? I don't think they do. Maybe they plan too.

I know Bezos has stated in the past (can't find it though) that he believe Video will be the next growth engine, much like how AWS has been said engine over the last few years.