skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is incorrect. The amount of material used is the third factor in a fair use test. There are other ways it comes up as well (e.g. damage calculations).

The 3rd factor of the fair use test deals with how substantial the copied material is in relation to the entire work. You can make a copy of 100% of the original work and have it still be fair use while in another situation copying 0.002% of an original work would not be fair use. The measurable amount (bytes, seconds, square inches) you are copying does not matter here. Instead the "importance" of what you are copying to your criticism is being defined in this prong.

For instance:

I am a movie buff and:

1. Make a copy of the entire movie of Citizen Kane
2. Remove the audio and replace it with a commentary track going over every framing/camera trick through the movie
3. Upload this to an educational youtube channel that teaches viewers how to shoot a movie

I would likely be allowed to use fair use as a defense to a copyright claim. Here, if an expert could say all 100% of Citizen Kane's film, contained relevant film techniques that I was actively commenting on, I would have copied the correct amount for my usage.

If I instead owned a movie review channel and I said "Citizen Kane is my favorite movie" and I displayed the entire movie after that I would likely not be using an appropriate amount of the film.

It's also important to note that fair use is a very narrow defense that covers a very limited subset of uses. It is not a generally applicable, or even a guideline, for how to skirt around copyrights.
Damn. I did not realise we had to discuss the colour of the sky. If you want anyone to believe that the average temperature of the Earth is not actually increasing, then you'd better have very solid references. As it is there really is no point discussing.

Also, are your fantastically accurate American satellites affected by the sub-par, inaccurate technology the rest of the world uses when they look outside the borders of the US? Because these also show a global warming.
There is a recall campaign underway for the San Francisco district attorney.[1] Needs 51,325 valid signatures by August 11th, 2021.

[1] https://www.recallchesaboudin.org/
I work for a large foreign (but global retailer) with locations in the Bay Area including San Francisco. The bill for our monthly necessary armed security exceeds $20,000 a month.

My foreign coworker’s minds were blown that even every starbucks location needs security.
I am pessimistic about this coming upload utopia. Here in Houston suburb of Sienna, entouch (now grande) cut fiber upload speeds from gigabit to 30mb for reasons. Makes me suspect the cable modem asymmetry is also bs, (more about price discrimination and less about technology).
I'm very confused, why would she ever have to comply with orders of an Indian (or indeed, US) court if she resides in Europe?
Have folks here used customer.io for emails? What are the reviews?
Have folks here used customer.io for emails? What are the reviews?
To be clear, "tagging" is vandalism. Also, your source says 5 months, not the 1 year that you claimed.
Courageous, I would say. More important than genius.
DIY IoT Fan
I don't see why a high-energy particle strike would confine itself to a single bit. The paper I posted elsewhere in this thread says that "the most likely cause of the higher single-bit, single-column, and single-bank transient fault rates in Cielo is particle strikes from high-energy neutrons". In the paper, both single-bit and multi-bit errors are sensitive to altitude.
Harold Bloom in "How to Read and Why" cautions us against bullshit thinking (cant)

Bloom quotes Samuel Johnson pg 23:
“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.”

pg 159
There is no misandry in Jane Austen or George Eliot or Emily Dickinson. Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse are not concerned either with upholding or undermining patriarchy. Being vastly intelligent persons, like Rosalind, they do not think ideologically. To read their stories well, you need to acquire a touch of Austen's own wisdom, because she was as wise as Dr. Samuel John-son. Like Johnson, though far more implicitly, Austen urges us to clear our mind of "cant." "Cant," in the Johnsonian sense, means platitudes, pious expressions, group-think. Austen has no use for it, and neither should we. Those who now read Austen "politically" are not reading her at all.
Apple gives your emails to the US Government (PRISM) then runs ads for Privacy.

Apple products are exploited near weekly, then run ads for Security.

Apple makes everyone use the same app store and web browser, then run ads saying "Think Different"

Apple runs on doublethink, merging the latest psychology tricks with their marketing department so their product departments can cut corners. Accounting and Finance departments love it.
Planets are protective, you're going to have a tough time dealing with radiation poisoning spending a lifetime in space without them.
I wonder how fast the approach shifts after the people in charge find themselves in a sticky situation with not a single LEO willing to respond.
I don't have the link handy, but I remember seeing something on Twitter a couple weeks back where a news site published something like, "The video of a man looting a store while police watch in San Francisco has gone viral, but is it really a problem?"

The comments basically pointed out that if people aren't being punished for a crime, then police reports don't get written because why bother, and then some politician can point out "Hey, fewer police reports. Crime is down!"

There's a huge element of "Believe what you're told, not what you see" in politics lately. (Probably always, but the past year has really brought it into focus)
Interesting, but would not really use it unless it could auto group by url. I don't want to have to set things up. Like if I have more than X tabs for a site, group them automatically. This would be great when debugging/learning and I have 20-30 tabs open and more than half might be to one new site that contains the docs for x thing I'm doing/learning.
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre on reMarkable e-ink tablet
MagnaVolt. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtqRir7dco
Why? Building a community, grass roots style, on the net...fight the right. Righten the flight. Show where to go with flow. Make it glow...
In the US, the police more than anyone decide who is a criminal and when, and it has always been that way.
Linking to your own website is fine and all, but not exactly a reference.

And it’s hilariously short sighted. Without patent and copywrite protections, you’ll instantly see innovation come out of places where people are paid for their work. US offloading it’s manufacturing in a short sighted move to cheap labor and head-in-sand environmental outlook - sure, let’s kill the design industries too now too.

There is a problem with how papers are shared and the orgs that control archiving and release. That doesn’t mean all patents must be thrown out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27732073
You can just select-all on the entire text and that seems to work too (but I have EFF privacy badger so I might be cheating).
They think it's location based? I just can't work for a company that bends to the Chinese Dictatorship and suppresses Democratic ideas.
Here is a really broad, and hopefully neutral, take on the subject. There is now a popular movement in America that believes the Justice System is too harsh, especially on minor crimes. This is also coupled with the perception that police officers are prone to using force when it is unnecessary, and, that they use deadly force way too often and haphazardly. There is also a huge racial component to all of this, which I'm sure you're probably aware of and I don't want to wade into.

The result is that a lot of cities have begun to avoid sending police offers for petty theft and other reported misdemeanors. This is not to say the police don't show up at all, but when they do its so that the victims can file a police report. It's usually not to stop the theft or vandalism in-progress. Criminals have gotten wise to this, and often steal brazenly knowing that the police won't put serious effort into apprehending them as long as each theft is relatively minor. Many homeless people defecate and urinate freely in public because the police have simply stopped issuing citations for such behavior. The cumulative effect is that many areas feel lawless and that only enables more lawbreaking to take place.
Show HN: KeenWrite, edit with variables
"This whole experience served to reinforce my confidence in the power of the modern web as a flexible and fully-featured application platform." !! Yes, congrats to author for taking the considerable time and dedication necessary for the exercise at hand.
I think what people don't get is that once you establish a human colony outside of earth ... why would you do that at the bottom of a gravity well ? Why dive into another big gravity well?

There are abundant resources in free space, from hydrogen gas to metals, carbon, oxygen that can be mined from passing asteroids (you could easily live in those asteroids while mining them) ... Energy is plentiful, the more complained about problem really is that energy is far too plentiful.

Maybe you'd want a base on the moon, but free-floating in space would work even better.
This honestly blows my mind. So SF is basically a third world country now?
There's a difference between "everybody jay-walks so the police always have an excuse to pick you up" and violent crimes that the community as a whole notices go unpunished by repeat offenders.
> one of which has no real meaning anymore because it doesn't exist anywhere else.

What do you mean? That's the feature branch, what's the issue?
This is counter intuitive. I expected the coming (here?) surveillance state would lower crime in cheaper real estate neighborhoods. Here the opposite is happening, the priciest real estate in the world is becoming more crimeful. I suspect it’s all just theater.
I live nearby and I'm pretty sure I've never eaten at one, despite being able to afford to. I don't think most people select the place they live based on the number of literally Michelin-rated restaurants.

I imagine it's more like, do they have reasonable quality international food with say a dozen national varieties, and if they do, that's probably a checkmark on the food option.

Personally, I'd rather have low crime, clean streets, cheap housing, and a good environment for family formation. Anything else can be found on the weekend, even if that means a car ride or a plane trip.
Doing it and claiming to have done it in a professional setting are quite different though. I am perfectly willing to believe that a lot of researchers use Sci-Hub (though from my experience they tend to use Researchgate more); I am certain that the number of people who would shout about doing it on the rooftops is nowhere near even a small minority.
So what's the status of the legal case in India? It's been nearly a year, right?

It's weird that the reporter did not find that interesting enough to discuss.
Yes, that would fit better.
Maybe Chesa is playing the long game and trying to drive down real estate values to be able to buy at lower prices.
> It was a way of allowing the application not to lock up

not just the application. with cooperative multitasking (eg windows 3.1) the whole computer would be unresponsive if you didn't give the event loop a chance to run.
KeenWrite is my free and open-source cross-platform desktop text editor that allows users to write pose using variables defined in a separate file. A few highlights:

* Uses flexmark-java[1] to render Markdown as HTML.

* Extends flexmark-java to support Pandoc’s ::: fenced div syntax.

* Supports plain text diagrams via Kroki[2].

* Computes statistics (word count, word frequencies).

* Performs real-time spell checking.

* Integrates the R programming language.

* Includes a subset of TeX for math.

* Exports to XHTML with TeX as either SVG or inline markup.

* Exports to PDF using the ConTeXt[3] typesetting software and a variety of starter themes[4].

* Converts straight quotes to curly quotes using KeenQuotes, automagically.

See the screenshots[5] for details.

[1]: https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java/

[2]: https://kroki.io/

[3]: https://www.contextgarden.net/

[4]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

[5]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...
Why Haven’t More People Seen ‘The Chosen’?
> To be clear, "tagging" is vandalism.

In NYC we call that art. I just went to a museum exhibit in Boston about graffiti art on public transit in the 80's. Point being, something so benign being that strongly and violently punished does indeed sound crazy to me.
> when product runs out of ideas

Could this mean that the product is "finished" and you can put it in support mode and slowly reduce the number of people working on it?
In what way is that also not selective enforcement?
I would think the timeline of the far future would be different in an infinite universe vs. a finite universe. Namely there would be no heat death in an infinite or closed universe.
If you use a laptop my experience with Vivaldi is that under both Windows and Linux it is a giant battery drain. Also if you use a touchpad gestures for your browser navigation it currently doesn't support doing so.
"hand-wavey" refers to (in this context) an understanding that is missing a lot of detail. The term refers to the notion that if someone asks you to explain a specific piece of the theory, you'd have to respond with "enhhhhh...." and a wave of your hand
Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings
The problem is that if you are rich, there is very little that SF has that you can't find in any large city or that you can't visit/travel to. But sidewalks filled with feces, public spaces soaked in urine and covered with disposed needles are truly unique. People lying around naked in the streets or walking around without pants or underwear, screaming at the air, dragging blankets around them right in the middle of Columbus avenue by the transamerica building -- that's something that truly distinguishes san francisco and is now what the city is known for. I was in Pabu and saw a man take off his pants and defecate in the flower pots in the public space on california and market. While some wealthy people may not care, I would assume many more want a different dining experience.
This is not that scary for folks not vandalizing stuff
eh, iirc fused-effects is used in production, along with haskell (obviously)
I had a snarky remark about Galileo and Copernicus, but it’s probably not relevant.
I interpreted the part you quoted to mean avoid rebase once you push into a public stream other people are using.

Otherwise I totally agree with you; git was designed with rebase use in mind. There’s a misleading meme about rebase being a “lie” that just can’t die soon enough. It’s done more damage than good. The problem is that it’s specious - tempting, persuasive, and easy to believe, even if it’s wrong and/or misguided - and the narrative of rebase being bad is supported and spread by respectable people like SQLite’s author. What some people don’t consider is that the story about rebase being harmful is frequently a sales pitch for a different DVCS entirely - the message isn’t to not rebase, it’s to not use git.

Don’t rebase public/main branches (except in emergencies).
Do rebase your local work before push.
If using rebase in feature branches, use it (along with communication) in inverse proportion to how many other people are using it, because they have to force pull and so nobody stomps on anyone’s work.

The idea that the exact order of every character typed is sacrosanct and should be immutable is strange. But there is a valid point behind some of the rebase criticism, which is that git does not have the best facilities for controlling how history is presented, and if it did, rebase might not be needed to the same degree that it is now. Some DVCSs are designing ways to have a plumbing history, and a separate porcelain history, to use git terminology. That seems like a genuinely good idea, and maybe in the future git can incorporate something like it.
> The sandbox is extremely limited protection.

There's no reason that the OS can't implement sandboxes and protections for user data like that, either.

> There's no recourse against misuse of data you grant permission to use, but in the main App Store Apple can kill a deceptive app

Apple can also distribute malware via the App Store, like it did with 500 million copies of Xcodeghost[1].

Other mobile app distribution methods can be more secure than the App Store, as well. Users can enjoy the increased efficiency and lower costs that free markets and competition in app distribution, security, and payments can bring.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bbmz/the-fortnite-trial-is...
I'd personally say "are lawless" rather than "feel lawless."
It's explained in the original article.
That metaphor backfirews pretty hard IMO, is that intentional?
Many Amazon packages are stolen from SF doorsteps each day.
Not letting New York become San Francisco is not mutually exclusive with police reform. Is the current lead candidate against police accountability/police reform?
Is it a genetic algorithm?
The situation is closer to the people who pay for AOL dial-up in 2021 because they don’t know that they don’t need it for the broadband.

Definitely some effort goes to running these companies just like keeping the dial-up lines operational. Totally not cool to steal the dial-up, what we should do is to cancel it.
Yes, I use them all the time. Did you see the part where I was talking about my customers?
She doesn’t have to comply with the Indian court order. She chose to because she thinks she has a chance of winning the case. To her, a court ruling that SciHub is legal under Indian law would be a huge win. Obeying the court order increases the odds the court will rule in her favour. It is a calculated risk on her part.
Help saving Scihub article collection (85M papers, 77TB) https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
Thanks, I had seen this one too (had even tried sharing it with HN in a parallel submission). It is made with a lot of care and tactfulness, and is one of the best documentaries about Steve Jobs I know.

Little warning: It totally brought me to tears. I knew he liked Japanese aesthetics, but wasn't aware it meant so much for him.
That's because police don't even bother to report these crimes anymore. See: the article posted recently with the video of shoplifters straight up clearing out an entire Walgreens and no police in sight.
Yep. The reason why San Francisco has to be seen failing is because of the national implications of success. It's been a punching bag for decades, it just had a brief respite for a while.
I wonder how much of it revolves around the fact that fat upload pipes probably mainly matter when you are serving out content, and at that point probably the ISP would prefer you had a business account?

I have 50/50 symmetrical, so I guess I can't complain. Nowhere close to gigabit, but always more than enough for my needs.
Never mind the fricatives. From a modern Greek point of view it's the pronounciation of ἑταίρῳ as "eta-eroy" that is the hardest to stomach.

That's the Erasmain pronounciation, if I remember correctly: saying vowel dipthongs as two separate vowels. That really sounds awful and very much not like Greek.
If you can't read it, try reader mode.
It’s not really viable to take a few facts like this and extrapolate a lack of hardship or trauma.

I think you’ve stepped pretty far outside of reasonable discourse about the post, and into the realm of intense speculation about somebody else’s personal life.

Maybe don’t do that.
Many 1970/80s 8-bit basics allowed GOTO X rather than GOTO 10000.

In Sinclair Basic though replacing the constant with the variable was potentially a significant efficiency win as the 10000 wasn't just stored as five bytes but rather 5 bytes plus six further bytes containing a floating point or integer representation of 10000.

Using GOTO X thus saved ten bytes in this case - less the assignment to X. If there were lots of GOTOs (or more likely GOSUBs) to a particular point in the code this was worth doing. On a machine with less than 10k of free memory (16k Spectrum) this was a worthwhile saving and so was used quite a bit in practice.
> IMHO, though, stripe should abstract away faults in banks, and figure out how to work around faults in bank's systems using e.g. automated refunds when a duplicate charge is detected, and not just bubble up a 500 to stripe's customers and leave it to them to figure out.

Yeah, this is what Stripe tries to do. Most problems during calls to foreign systems are handled in a ways that try hard not to send back an internal error. 500s are tracked carefully because they're painful to the user, but also because they leave behind potentially bad state that'll eventually cause problems internally and externally.

If they can be reconciled, a webhook will be fired to give the caller a more determinate answer (obviously less convenient for them to handle, but at least some sort of message makes its way back). More documentation on that here:

https://stripe.com/docs/error-handling#server-errors

> Transactions are not necessary if one can do an insert conditional on the key not yet existing, but then it is required to have the idempotency key from the client enter into the primary key.

This is how the implementation works more or less — an insert on a unique index that will error on a duplicate so you know it happened already. You'd probably implement it similarly in basically any major database whether Mongo, Postgres, MySQL, etc.

This is only a very small part of what transactions get you though — if a transaction-based request makes it midway through its lifecycle and then fails, it can roll back to a fresh slate. In a transaction-less system, you need to come up with some other answer for what to do what the partial state that was left behind.
awesome, thanks! :D
Snake-like robot can destroy radioactive objects with a laser
Well dude, information wants to be free.
So to OP’s and my point, are you saying “everybody steals cars in WI” or are you saying that their DA doesn’t prosecute anyone for auto theft?
She did not have to, but she voluntarily chose to, in order to have a shot of winning this case. If she didn't comply with the court's orders, I assume the chances of winning would plummet. From the article:

> One reason is that Elbakyan believes she has a shot at winning the case, and her odds might improve if she plays by the rules. “I want the Indian court to finally support free access to science,” she said. If that happened, it would mark a significant victory for Sci-Hub, with reverberations likely beyond India. Victory remains a longshot, but Elbakyan thinks it’s worth the hassle and expense. She didn’t even bother to contest the two lawsuits in the United States.
Your links are also off by a decade or two.
> I definitely agree that the optimizations here are overkill for the actual application itself. However, it served as a great learning experience for me personally and allowed me to write this blog post as well!

While this might be a bit overkill, I wish more developers spent at least 10% as much effort as here, the modern world of software really feels bloated often. The core engines are getting faster and the cpus are getting faster but the web feels slower.

And another important factor is that more and more software runs on battery powered portable devices in some form. Instructions saved is battery saved = happier users :)
Run before he knows about Yishun. Still, a difficult feat to match.