skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope there's more than what we've seen so far. The videos I've seen have basically been debunked as visual artifacts, namely parallax which exaggerates the apparent speed, and artifacts from triangular apertures commonly used in night vision. You can look on YouTube for videos demonstrating these effects.
I don't know if this has gone to court yet - but I'd assume that if Dropbox does a thing to delete a bunch of data that causes you a great loss of value when you're paying them specifically to store a bunch of data - then there would be enough of an implied contract in place that you could extract a bunch of pain from them regardless of what their TOS tries to say.

The law is complicated and the details are extremely important - but intent is a pretty big factor.

Also - I'd strongly advise someone who is deciding between buying an external hard drive or using a third party for backup to use the third party. There are definitely risks that remain, but their SLA is likely going to end up being a lot stronger than your hard drive's reliability.
Yes!

P.S. It was not Business Insider (as the URL implied), it was Reuters.
That is ironic. I visit Wired so rarely now I guess I got my one free article.

Better link? https://www.theregister.com/2007/12/07/western_digital_drm_c...
>Spotify and YouTube

That's entertainment or otherwise nonessential, no?
>[...] relating to your use of the Service

That seems... pretty reasonable? I'm not sure what kind of developer would want to foot the legal bills caused by one of their users.
... and you notice the file corruption/deletion before the 30/180 day recovery period has ticked over...
Walmart employees make so little they are often eligible for food stamps.

Walmart knows and teaches employees how to apply.

What kind of free market is that? You shouldn’t be allowed to pay your employees so little that they are eligible for government benefits.

To me this issue seems like something that both political parties would take issue with.
Open source binaries?
“ ARRs tend to be ignored because they give a much less impressive effect size than RRR”

This is an odd statement. Why would that be the reason to ignore it? ARR is extremely specific to a time frame and location.

Without wide deployment of vaccines, almost everyone would eventually naturally catch the coronavirus at some point in the next several years. As vaccines are deployed, the risk reduces since vaccines reduce the R0 of the virus in that population. Any calculation of ARR would be highly speculative and have to include models about how widely the vaccine would be deployed, the transmissibility and mutation of the virus, and the RRR of the vaccine itself, as well as being stated only for a specific timeframe and location.

Given all this it’s obvious why RRR is the typically reported number and the one that makes sense to use in discussions.
It's just bugs in instrumentation.
> It also saves you, at least in the case of Paris, Europes most ghastly airport experience, which is CDG.

Has it become noticeably worse recently? I flew into and out of CDG with my family in 2015 and I can't say it seemed any worse than most (admittedly not very many) airports I've been through.
That's not how I read the article at all. Honestly how I read it shows how he was able to abuse the system in ways that weren't intended. It also lays out clear and simple solutions:

- Only let publicly traded stocks/investments be part of an IRA

- Stock grants should be included in the maximal income to determine if someone should be able to contribute to an IRA

Honestly with just these two factors he couldn't have done what he did (implicitly nor anyone else with mega IRAs). The intent of the IRA was for a retirement vehicle for the average person, not as an investment vehicle where you could dodge taxes. You're right that he didn't commit any crimes. But that also doesn't make the thing right. When we find people using edge cases and breaking the intent of the system we say "well played" then patch the framework.

This is a tax dodge, just a legal one.
> The huge question: how to lift populations / cultures from their natural state of deep poverty. This effort by necessity involves radical changes in culture, which may take decades if not longer.

Imagine aliens from Alpha Centauri arriving on earth and say your words, but referring to the entirety of human culture, and a need to forcefully "uplift" humans, without asking us humans what we think.

...I now understand why someone said History is the sci-fi's author secret weapon - I'm sure a half-decent author could make most readers empathize with the poor, subjugated humans who may be a little unenthusiastic about being uplifted (into a hive-mind, perhaps), and having their children shipped off to a different star system as wards of a "Galactic College" to cure them of their humanity.
This page (https://ltse.com/platform/equity/) says "Trusted by 32,000 companies". What does that mean?
Sounds intriguing - do you have any links for further reading. I’m into “weird” paradigms like array based languages, lisps, prolog etc, but I’ve not heard of 2D
Restaurants Are Adding Equity Charges to Customers Checks to Fight Oppression
Right. Voice assistants are a much harder format for Google, because you can’t just display a list of links. I ask my tube a question, I expect one (1) correct answer.
I used Google Forms + Google Sheets to track electricity consumption. Every once in a while when I was coming back home, I stopped by the meter and entered its readings. Worth noting is that Google Forms did not handle decimals with a "number" field properly, at least not with comma separator.
I'm not expecting lots of records to exist from schools that operated decades ago in very rural parts of Canada. Remember that while some of these schools ran until only a few decades ago, these deaths date back to the 1800's.
Hah, yes, perhaps I should say that I would need to spend $1,000/month to have a good time. For context, I had never camped a day in my life before setting out on my hike (I didn't even camp out a single night as a test run with my gear before flying out). So I was pretty green, and definitely not a tough lad. :)

I have seen others recommend a budget of $500/month as a reasonable amount.
Bad Apple:

> If people getting paid over six-figures at a two-trillion-dollar company refuse to come into work at the spectacular billion-dollar headquarters where every luxury is provided, then those employees have lost all grasp on reality and have no right to petition anyone about anything.

Petitioners:

> Without the inclusivity that flexibility brings, many of us feel we have to choose between either a combination of our families, our well-being, and being empowered to do our best work, or being a part of Apple

Sounds reasonable to me. Apple Park, as I understand it, is an open plan office - good for management surveillance and face-to-face meetings, but bad for people who need to concentrate in order to get their work done.

Many companies (including Apple I presume) offer some sort of child care, but often it's hard to get because demand vastly exceeds supply. Working at home can help with that to some extent.

On the other hand I think Tim Cook was asking for M/Tu/Th as office days, which doesn't sound completely terrible for productivity since you'd still have W/F/Sat/Sun for working at home and actually getting things done.
I started my carreer with no debt for education. My family isn't rich but they aren't poor - just somewhere in the middle - above median income but not in the top tax bracket. They were able to provide help and I worked a bit to make up the difference. It's a pretty good leg-up for me, and I'm glad for it - it has made my adulthood much better than if I had to pay for loans and such.

This can directly be traced to the fact that my under-qualified father had a good job and worked hard. How did he have a good job if he was under-qualified? Well the labor pool was artificially kept small by disallowing women and people of color, and he went to college without debt. Why did he get to go to college without debt? Well his dad was able to own properties in neighborhoods where he could charge good rent, and he kept those properties nice. He was allowed to do this because he wasn't black and thus could legally own those properties, again artificially reducing his competition. He worked hard at keeping those properties nice, but he also hired a lot of people of color for low wages - they also worked hard.

So did my position happen in life because of economic privilege that my family built? Did my position in life happen because I'm white? The answer to both is the same: In part.

They worked hard. They spent wisely. They also didn't have to worry about a lot of potential competition because they weren't limited by racist rules and laws. Would they have done as well if they didn't get those protections? I doubt it though - they are good people but not top tier at thier chosen professions.

My point is, these things are really mixed together - my story here is pretty common - there's no denying that economic privilege I've enjoyed is in part because I come from a family with a bit of economic privilege - privilege gained in part due to their race.

It's better today, but it's not "fixed" by any stretch. There are still realtors that get in trouble for redlining or rejecting rental applicants for their race. There's plenty of examples, from this year even, of the same home being appraised at different values depending on if the photos around the house were of black or white families.

When something as fundamental to economic privilege as "ability to purchase things I can afford" and "ability to sell at market rates" are affected by race like that, is it really possible to say race isn't relevant to economic privilege?
How did you point that out though?

First you tried stating that "Most often" it meant that "we" thought my position was stupid. Who is we and how often is often though?

Then you quoted some words that I had used and made your opinion about them known. Not a great argument...

I'm left wondering what's so absurd? Feel free to go through my comment history, pick out something random and tell me how stupid my position is. I'll wait.
I know these guys. Very smart and very good technology.
Love this concept. I would suggest showing at least 3 highlighted projects for sale directly on the home page.
> “It is very scary and devastating that someone can do factory restore on my drive without any permission granted from the end user,” one user wrote.

I'll say again: backup drives must have a physical write enable switch on them. To all the people who argue against this - just you wait till it happens to you!

Not having multiple backups is also a very bad idea. One day my 8T drive slipped out of my hand and smacked on the floor. That was the end of it. But I wasn't out my data, just out the cost of another drive.

Cloud backup is a stupid idea. At any moment it could go dark, for any reason, and you have no recourse. Might as well bare your throat and hand some random stranger a razor.
I've never use another product like this again after my experience with Parse.
Works fine with JS turned off (via NoScript).
Or third or any-th world country. Big corps are big business, big money, big power. Germany is 6th on this list, Norway is 1st. Japan is 15th [0] and Hong Kong is 16th [1] the US is not in the top 20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Justice_Project#WJP_Rule...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRn4xzaugbk
[1] nor for long :(
To be congruent: Better throw away all hip-hop music and anything that's ever been resampled. It's piracy, after all! Don't copy that floppy!
The problem is that this precedent applies not just to DNS operators, but to literally _any_ unrelated bystander. Sony make very clear in their complaint that Quad9 has no relationship with any party to the alleged infringement. That's why their so excited about this, it's a step further than they've ever taken before.
"Cowessess First Nation is 'optimistic' that the church will work with them in investigating further, he said."

"It has not yet been determined if all the unmarked graves belong to children"

It's best to wait for a full joint investigation before jumping to conclusions, especially in an atmosphere when accusations are made very lightly and emotion run hot and tensions are high. Justice presupposes truth; it would be unjust and irresponsible otherwise. We don't yet know the reasons for these graves. Recall that child mortality, disease, lack of money or means to transport remains, etc, etc, all played a role historically. They could have played a role here as well. Let's wait for the investigative reports.

Also, beware of Trudeau's feigned outrage. The man is as smarmy of an opportunist as they get.
I wish we’d have footage of an actual thing rather than just a grainy black and white video of a black dot.

Something that looked like something you know? A floating black dot doesn’t look like anything and probably isn’t anything.

https://images.app.goo.gl/NH5j1UEcfiU5T9ti9
I think the unveiling here is the difference between "it's known a lot of kids died" and "we have literally found a mass grave, in this location, using ground penetrating radar".
Nothing about this website tells me why I would want to use NixOS. It's very odd.
Not our military, not foreign country, and not aliens. That leaves…ourselves in a different time/dimension?
What I think is more interesting is that the box displays that the serial killer is 65 years of age, even though they were executed in 1980.
About this last point from the article:

> Why have I never seen...

> ...a Lisp that can drop nested parentheses when the meaning is clear from context?

I once wrote a Lisp that dropped closing parentheses for one and zero-argument functions. This was done by introducing simple syntax sugar:

foo | bar

would be equivalent to

foo[bar]

in my Lisp -- this would be equivalent to the S-exp:

(foo bar)

My implementation used a syntax inbetween S- and M- expressions with brackets instead of parens and the first list element placed before the opening bracket, i.e. `f[x y z]` would mean `(f x y z)`.

For zero-arg functions the syntax was:

foo!

same as:

foo[]

same as:

(foo)

This worked pretty well and in combination with currying would substantially reduce the overall amount of parens in the code.

The `f[x]` syntax by itself also has the advantage of removing nesting for curried functions, i.e `(((f x) y) z)` becomes `f[x][y][z]`. In fact in this syntax two consecutive brackets `[[` were illegal.

So it both eliminated consecutive opening parens and substantially reduced consecutive closing parens. This was an effort to fix the major readability problems for people coming into Lisp.

For the curious, both the syntax and the language overall is described here (my master's thesis): https://djedr.github.io/masters_thesis.pdf (Chapter 2 in particular).
Thing-in-Itself
I don't see anything. The site isn't DRMed either; I'll demonstrate by pasting the text of the article:

> It doesn't matter what the files are: If you try to share these formats over a network, Western Digital assumes not just that you're a criminal, but that it is its job to police users. You see, MP3, DivX, AVI, WMV and Quicktime files are copy-protected formats.

> The list of banned filetypes includes more than thirty extensions. Some of them are bizarre: .IT files are banned — these are Amiga-style music modules composed with Impulse Tracker, a particularly well-loved tracking sequencer that hasn't been updated in almost a decade. I composed with IT myself, back in the day, and still have all my shitty compositions, none of which Western Digital would have me share. (Try MOD vs. Speak&Spell masterpiece Eddie Dreams of Women, if you dare: IT, MP3)

> Isn't it cute how the only data it views as worthy of policing are music and movies? These are the only copyrights that matter under corporate monkey law.

> It's the most astonishing example of crippled equipment I've ever seen. A DRM'd hard drive! Whatever next?
Dreaming meat?

> *UPDATE: The manual's appendix and online support site provide setup instructions for SAMBA, allowing access over IP instead of with the DRM-infested and poorly-reviewed client app, elsewhere claimed to be "required."
*

> *MOAR! Samba not enough? Gut the firmware and install made-to-measure Linux: An entire community of folks is here to help you hack your MyBook: mybookworld.wikidot.com.

Internal formatting was stripped in the copy-and-paste process. I could add it back, but that would detract from the purity of the approach. ;D
I think I might know what this is, and I haven't seen this anywhere else - a person's hands might cover up both corners when using a laptop. Mine certainly do from certain angles. This might be a usability for laptops (and selling laptops) where the Start icons is now visible for more users.
People will throw money at a company that has done nothing solely based on the people behind it.

I mean, people throw their money at companies that actively burn money with unlikely prospects of overcoming their death spiral. One that hasn’t even started should at least be worth much much more than those.
The (self directed) Roth IRA was "designed" to let people invest their money into assets that they choose.
Any balance in excess of ten million dollars at end-of-year should be a mandatory distribution. That’s a simple and very fair way to address the Romney-Thiel issue.
> When did being virtuous become an insult?

Because pretending to be virtuous for personal gain is not in fact virtuous. Companies will push social issues while its in vogue and convenient and when its not they will abruptly stop - or at least that's what many seem to believe.
A telegraph key: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key
On Mint, automatic updates started failing for me recently with an obscure error because the /boot partition had too many old kernels. I doubt my parents could have figured out that one.
> Cloud backup is a stupid idea. At any moment it could go dark, for any reason, and you have no recourse. Might as well bare your throat and hand some random stranger a razor.

I really disagree - physical storage in your home is the common alternative for a lot of consumer users - and that physical storage will involve maybe unplugging your external hard drive between backups - but otherwise never checking for the consistency and accuracy of the data nor the hardware. If you're working in a data center then it's your job to do these things and it doesn't take very much time... for normal folks cloud backups are likely going to be more reliable.
There is definitely some ground for solidarity between trans and diabetic people when it comes to access to healthcare - however, and I don't mean it to downplay the struggles of diabetics - discrimination against trans people has a social component that as far as I know doesn't apply for diabetics.
People can be rejected by their family, struggle to find employment, be beaten and killed by their dates, harassed in the street, etc... Based solely on the fact that they are transgender.
It’s hard to make the claim that public markets overly prioritise the short term with the last weeks’ string of EV start-ups IPOs / SPAC mergers and ExxonMobile Board manoeuvre.

At the same time, founder supervoting is falling out of favor. This neatly backdoors to the same result—founders (and institutional investors, who can invest through a long-holding front end and then allocate exposure to that on the back end) gaining outsized influence over individual investors (who aren’t coördinated) and hedge funds. Seems like a lot of collateral damage.
This is why we picked Switzerland as our domicile.

https://www.reuters.com/article/swisscom-court-idUSFWN20M0KT

The problem is that we're the only ones with standing to challenge the Hamburg injunction, so if we don't, they can use it against anyone in the EU.
What will it take to finally destroy CNN’s credibility?

I feel like the “MSM” has an inherent advantage by being first in line to receive info from government officials. Social media offers the illusion of influence – it feels like you’ve got the MSM beat - until you realize that the only stories anyone discusses are those that fit within the narrative established by the MSM.

As long as we allow these corporate news orgs to define the bounds of discussion, we’ll never escape this rage-maximizing cycle of Overton window shifting that we all collectively subject ourselves to.
There is some truth to what you are saying however I think one could easily be just as "astounded and disamyed" at your comment's lack of social conscience. There is a legtimate legal question over the valuation of some of the shares held in Thiel's Roth IRA. If they were sold to Thiel at less than FMV then there is a potential legal issue. Even if we put that aside, if everything Thiel has done is "legal" then how can a "hit piece"1 recounting inculpable actions succeed in swaying public opinion toward a negative view of the subject. No one should care. The truth however is that legality and morality are two different things. If we live our lives doing only what is "legal" and ignore doing what is "right", then what sort of behaviour does that allow for, what sort of "character" does that build. The question readers are implicitly presented with is not only whether what he has done is "legal", it is whether what he has done is "right". Thiel can do whatever he wants with his money, including "legally" avoiding taxes, but by the same token, ProPublica can opine on that in any way they see fit. If there are factual inaccuracies in the article, then that is a different matter; they should be corrected. However, your comment does not appear to contest the facts presented, it only contests the author's apparent opinion on them.

1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_piece
According to this definition, the ProPublica is not a "hit piece" because it neither presents false information nor tries to appear objective. The bias is very clear.
NixOS probably helps with this, but it isn't a requirement - some devices already have a dual-root-type setup where they update the inactive root, boot into it, and the boot sequence doesn't mark it permanently active until it boots properly, reverting to the original root if something goes wrong.

I think if more devices aren't doing this kind of thing then the cost might not make sense to them at all. Perhaps they aren't bricking devices often, or perhaps their support load is low.

But I'm only speculating. I'm all for more NixOS if it helps people.
FYI for next time - a search for “Hummer MSRP” would have helped you out here.
Well that’s two. Some people think the rotation in the gimbal video might be caused by image stabilization but that doesn’t explain the object itself or the commentary about there being a fleet of them. The cockpit photos are also unexplained. The video of the object that was supposedly one of dozens swarming a navy group is unexplained. The events surrounding the tic tac are also unexplained. Not saying it’s aliens but there’s a lot of weird shit happening around military assets that needs serious explaining.
It's more nuanced than that. Many of those things you mention are backups, just not necessarily that reliable for certain threats. By your standards, you'd probably say tapes, removed from their drive, are a backup. Yet, buildings burn down, taking the tapes with them. If restoring backups from off-line, off-site storage is going to take days or weeks, then for some organisations, you may as well not have a backup. Cloud sync, duplication, connected devices are fine for a backup, but probably not as the only backup. But they still reduce the likelihood of total data loss compared to not having them.

Diversity and risk analysis are what's important here.
That really angry guy with the offices under a volcano. They've got lots of security in slick looking outfits.

Might also be a couple of mice, you know, the one with the gigantic head.
Has the LTSE considered paying dividends based on holding time?