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Brewster Kahle Named to Library of Congress Copyright Public Modernization Cmte
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Re: using the sidewalk as a toilet.

There is often no public restroom available for the homeless to use. They have no choice.
The not so distant past:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Equa...
It's explained in the article. She thinks there is a chance to win the case in India which would be a useful publicity stunt and therefore complies with the court order.
Copyright is the law of the land.
> Is the current lead candidate against police accountability/police reform?

Yes, he is a former cop and law and order candidate [1]. (It’s not cut and dry. He opposed stop and frisk in our Senate but wants to reinstate solitary confinement, for example.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams_(politician)
Isn't that most of the densely populated city in the US in general?

Fear, weapons and violence as soon as it gets dense. Every large/chain business comes with lots of armed protection.

I haven't travelled to all the cities in the entire US, but whenever you enter/exit such areas is seems very distinct.
Living inside an asteroid is a common scifi trope but very impracticle. They arent rocks. Most are more like sand dunes or rubble piles. You couldnt just dig a hole, slap a door on it and pump in air. You might bury your hab undrground to protect it against radiation but you would never have walls made of rock, not if you want air to breath.
> At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work, but if Alice is an admin user and gives Terminal Full Disk Access (FDA), then Alice can quite happily navigate to Bob’s Desktop and Downloads folders (and everyone else’s) regardless of what TCC settings Bob (or those other users) set.

How does this interact with regular Unix file permissions? Is the assumption that Alice is using sudo, or do modern macOS versions mark all user files world-readable?
Don't have much hope for the legal system on the subcontinent. Indian, Pakistani, Deshi courts are all legendary slow. It's nearly impossible to win against concerted, deliberate extension, and delay tactic against somebody who has more money to write legal letters than you.

Unlike the GB legal system, from which they branched out, they never got the reformation wave circa 1960-1970 when UK was trying to root out the most outrageous flaws of English law.

There was a now legendary legal dispute over land near either Multan, or Kohat, can't remember exactly, which began in 19th century, outlasted 6, or 7 generations, and ended just few years ago.
I think that only really applies if you're 'normal' though.

I'm what you might call an incel, though it's not so much the lack of sex as it is the lack of being able to bond emotionally. So unlike most people I've never been able to make friends beyond superficial politeness. Combined with the fact that 'family' has no happy connections for me; growing up time 'love' meant getting hit across the face because that's how you showed that you loved family. Wasn't until it was too late that I realized that might not be the case.

So friends has no meaning to me, and family has no happy meaning. I'm not good with hobbies; they just don't seem interesting to me.

So I'd say it's not misguided. Perhaps not applicable to you but to some of us, it's all we will ever have.
That's not what they found. The ones that are better at bullshitting are actually the ones that are less inclined to do so.

Here is the results and discussion of the first experiment almost in entirety. I only removed the actual numbers to make the paragraph more readable. You can find the full paragraph in the submitted article.

"Additionally, we find that participants’ bullshit ability was uncorrelated with their willingness to bullshit (i.e., feign knowledge of fake concepts) and their receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit (i.e., endorse meaningless pseudo-profound statements as profound). Furthermore, participants’ willingness to bullshit was negatively associated with scores on the Wordsum, suggesting that those scoring higher on our measures of cognitive ability were less willing to bullshit. Finally, we find that those more willing to bullshit were also more likely to be receptive to pseudo-profound bullshit (i.e., rate pseudo-profound bullshit items higher on profoundness), as well as were less likely to distinguish between meaningless pseudo-profound bullshit and meaningful motivational quotations (bullshit sensitivity: calculated as the difference between pseudo-profound bullshit ratings and ratings of motivational quotations for their profoundness)."
I think this is a pretty decent summary, but I do genuinely have one factual question here:

> Many homeless people defecate and urinate freely in public because the police have simply stopped issuing citations for such behavior.

What was a citation doing previously on this given that homeless people would simply ignore a citation? Has this actually increased in a way we can measure? I haven't been in SF since the pandemic, but none of my friends have complained about this in the area, and it seems to me like this assessment appears to be very much split on agreement by political lines.

I'm also skeptical of this because I've seen claims of this in my current city (NYC) yet have not seen and general increase save one neighborhood, Times Square. From what I gather, the business district of SF (SOMA) might also just be getting a slight increase here, expanding out from the tenderloin which has always had this as far as the past decade is concerned. Is there anything more widespread than that? It seems like that simply was due to the lack of people actually working in both areas now due to the pandemic, not any police enforcement.
TIC-80 isn't quite as refined as PICO-8 but its still pretty awesome. A few months ago I figured out how to setup TIC-80 so I could code on my mobile whilst on the move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxQpRoZI3kM
The full list of members serving with Brewster:

https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2021/898.html

Todd Carpenter - National Information Standards Organization

Wahaj Chaudhry - Amazon.com

Susan Chertkof - Recording Industry Association of America

Brewster Kahle - Internet Archive

Roy Kaufman - Copyright Clearance Center

Keith Kupferschmid - Copyright Alliance

Melissa Levine - University of Michigan Library

Pamela Malpas, co-chair - Association of American Literary Agents

Micah May - Digital Public Library of America

James Neal - Columbia University Librarian Emeritus, ALA, ACRL

Kathleen Rodriguez - Warner Media

Jeff Sedlik - Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) Coalition

Scott Weingart - Carnegie Mellon
San Francisco Target Stores Cutting Operating Hours Due to Retail Theft Surge
Both ffmpeg and Audacity can be used to convert sound data from one format to another.
I think you're being way too neutral. San Francisco is really sliding into chaos. There is an entire population that steals, sells and buys drugs, lives on the street and has a full time party. the church and the leftists even bring them food every day.

do I feel sorry for them? a little. are they making it difficult to live, work, and run a business in the city? absolutely.

have a drug dealer operating outside your bedroom window all night for months at time? cops don't care. tweakers start a big bonfire in the middle of the street? cops don't care. homeless persons dogs attacking anyone that tries to use the sidewalk? cops don't care.

before the pandemic, it was bad, but the cops would step in if this got too out of line. there was a bit of a detente.

if you were a homeless tweaker with nothing but contempt for the idiots that work at jobs and live in houses, and it was clear you could do anything you wanted without fear of repercussion. what would you do?
> Firstly, it would be wildly inefficient, just due to the unavoidable delay both ways

The point I was thinking about is a scenario where Starlink satellites communicate with each other via laser (already starting to happen), and then communicate with the end user via the satellite over them. Because we're talking about speed-of-light transmission between sats, data in the Starlink network can theoretically cover "ground" (aka miles/km) faster than ground-based ISPs.

Then it makes sense to deploy servers within that network so that two Starlink users can have extremely low latency from user to server to other user (the slowest part being the earth to sat latencies, one for each user).
It’s price discrimination turtles all the way down. At the edge, Business download speeds are even more expensive than consumer upload speeds.
The do data mine user information, if given permission, but they anonymise it first.
Of interest:

https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2021/898.html

> The first public meeting of the CPMC will take place virtually on July 22 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. eastern time

> This virtual public forum is free and open to the public. Participants must register in advance to attend

> Last July, the Library hosted a public forum that provided a detailed overview of Copyright Office IT modernization. Video from that event can be viewed here.[0]

[0] https://stream-media.loc.gov/webcasts/2020/200716cio1000/dat...
I agree. I don’t live in San Francisco. But assuming some self correction through economic ruin is, in my view, optimistic. The current situation can sustain itself for longer than those comparing San Francisco to Detroit might think.
Comcast wants me to do something unnatural and it's getting annoying
They are literally threatening to split Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google. Crime is up 1000% and people like you are dismissing it. It is a safe city if you never bother to walk into the city, and the problem is expanding. It won't be a safe city for much longer, or a rich city.
There are no restaurants in the world that can change that.
Use the Army Corps of Engineers, Navy Sea Bees, something like that. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel going between islands under the Japan Seas in an earthquake area.

Think BIGGRRRR! (Aggressively so, instead of sissying around!)

edit: also not to forget about 'Nuclear Tunnel Boring Machines/Subterrene' https://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2015/06/nuclear-power...

cf. "Trans-Planetary Subway Systems

A Burgeoning Capability

by Robert M. Salter

February 1978"

https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6092.html
> I don't know how to best support her. Any suggestions?

My guess would be to donate to her. Near the bottom of the page is a BTC address (please check it yourself):

https://sci-hub.do/
https://sci-hub.st/
https://sci-hub.se/

All the domains have the same address for me: 12PCbUDS4ho7vgSccmixKTHmq9qL2mdSns

Money (and Bitcoin is among the freest money) can be used on whatever she needs.
Earth Has a Heartbeat
There is a rescue mission to save Scihub papers, you can help seeding the torrents https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
You might find differing philosophies depending on where you look, but a recurring theme you'll find with Stripe's is that they try to make it as easy as possible to get an integration up and running. When you're building out a payment integration, you're already awash in non-trivial concepts that are probably new and novel to you, so things that can be abstracted away for the time being to make things easier generally are.

In the situation you describe, I think it would make more sense to just retry the call a couple times from the same pod so you don't have the sizable overhead of discarding it and creating a new one for every failure, in which case the automatic keys would work fine. And if there's a really good reason they're not, setting the keys manually is very easy. At some point if you're far enough off the beaten path, you have to expect to read some docs.
The "data" I found (https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Fra...) seems to suggest it's similar to Paris and London, but I can't find hard numbers like:

Sam Francisco Crime Rate (per 1,000 residents): Violent 6.91, property 56.73, total 63.64. (https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime)
I'm not sure what value you're suggesting rustc would be able to bring there. If you want that in LLVM you can try your luck with the "resurrected" C backend: https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llvm-cbe

I don't understand why I see so many requests for LLVM-based languages to change around their backend or IR, that seems to be a huge amount of work for comparatively little benefit. The correct thing to do there is to just add support for those to LLVM.
It's high in reality but the politicians deliberately re-classified a large class of crimes to be misdemeanor to skew the statistics, so they can say - look the violent crime stat is down under my watch.
In many countries delivery to doorsteps is not a thing (due to risk of theft). You either have to be home or need to pick it up from a post office or from a locker. I wonder why Amazon doesn't install lockers where one can pick up a parcel in cities like SF?
There is a law, it was broken and the person was sentenced. I'd rather live in a place that enforces laws rather than one where people run loose, but to each their own I suppose.

Yes I do not live there currently (as you have noticed by my previous comments) but that is where I consider myself "from".
Also, the Target across the street from us, one of the smaller Target Express concept stores on trial in San Francisco, just shut down permanently last week. The store manager cited crime and the cost of hiring off duty police as security (in addition to normal security personnel) as making the store too expensive to operate. Walgreens closing down smaller stores as well citing the same reason. Driving though our neighborhood and an adjacent neighborhood, during the past couple of weeks and I've seen no fewer than four businesses with glass doors or display windows smashed in.

I read about how this is a conspiracy in reporting, but the businesses are leaving and many storefronts in our neighborhood are empty. I also read how some citizens are trying to shame companies like Walgreens from leaving their neighborhoods... But the blame seems terribly misplaced. A more reflective, thoughtful population might make the connection between the policies they support in being against something and the negative outcomes that arise by not actually being for something that addresses these issues. San Francisco, collectively, is just not that smart
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/21/wifi_ssid_flaw/
Separation of church and state: Our country's foundation.
I’ve lived here for almost 15 years now and I can’t remember the cops ever responding to the shit people are now blaming the DA for.
Beg pardon. It's a made-up Greek word, comprised of "topos" and "lexis": "place" and "word" (or "saying") respectively.

It's actually very similar to "topology" as a construction - "lexis" comes from "logos".
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My cat only spills drinks and produces garbage when walking over the keyboard... :'(
They meant “genetic”
That's not really the point. A Ponzi scheme at some point blows up and everything falls apart. But their worst case is the suburbs have to fill <10% of their budget.
Why is your first reaction to any description or decrease in safety to go directly to the phrase "third world country"? Even forgetting the phrase, what you likely mean by it is also not true in all or even most aspects. It's incredibly reductive to use a single category classification of "how nice do I feel something is" for everyone to project on their own ideas how they will.

SF can be both having an increase in homelessness and petty crime at the same time as it maintains a top economy of the US, a big arts scene, many diverse cultures, and more. It's not as simple as "is this a country I would label a bad place".

With that said, SF's latter categories have also slowly eroded, but these symptoms needs to be examined individually. The tech industry did much itself to destabilize SF's arts and culture long before any crime issues. More of a tangent there, but the point is you can't forgo nuance here.
All that layer really needs to do is support caching objects. When response is returned, cache based on idempotent cache key, and on subsequent requests, lookup that value before making downstream requests.

Also, should extend the key’s value with an unguessable session id, so folks can’t can’t guess the key and read someone else’s data.
Losing weight while controlling one's blood sugar is not as easy (harhar) as losing weight while being otherwise healthy. Exercise and dieting still work but need a whole lot more of planning and monitoring. T2 diabetes has been successfully cured by a special diet and exercise — but inside a hospital due to these needs of constant micromanagement.

If you have e.g. a day job, it becomes much less realistic.
Well, it's still being used. Widely. Seems to be a quite lucrative niche as well, if you happen to know the language.
A lot of these things are easier to reason about when you look at the full picture: budget over your lifetime. You want to match your gear ratio to your situation.
In the response to bullying, most become angry and defensive or submissive and fearful, some clever assholes, and a rare few become very nice yet assertive people and even a rarer few become the next superstars. The response to trauma is varied.
I remember when Frogbot came out, it was pretty amazing.

You could train against it and improve very quickly.

However it also seemed to accelerate boredom with q1 multiplayer for me.
> this may entitle all GitHub users to receive a copy of GitHub’s source code under the terms of the AGPL

Given that GitHub’s code runs on their own servers, doesn’t that protect them from needing to provide source code to anybody? I’ve always assumed running GPL code in the data center is fine.
"For all their triumphs, AI systems can’t seem to generalize the concepts of “same” and “different.” Without that, researchers worry, the quest to create truly intelligent machines may be hopeless."
Not my experience at all with most cities in the US, as someone who has lived in many and visited far more. I wouldn't categorize NYC, Boston, Chicago, LA, Philly, or DC that way when you're not in literal capitol buildings. I live in one of the densest US cities, take transit all over the place and have felt unsafe maybe one time in the past 3 years. No weapon was involved.
> "Now, everything is much more discoverable" …

And yet despite all the massive improvements over the years, Blender managed to successfully keep all the stuff about it that made it great back in the beginning and simply improved everything around and over the top (and under the hood). Things like the utterly customizable interface, and the hotkeys available for everything (which are now also super configurable), just to name a couple of examples. And now we also have this nifty Eevee engine, too. Am really enjoying that one a whole lot.
According to their privacy policy, virtually anything you send them. The only promise they make is that they don't link it in an identifiable way with third party data.
Can't tell if it's intentional (some variation on Poe's law applies here), but this is a near-perfect illustration of the difference between a rivalrous (space in an intersection) and non-rivalrous (copies of a digital file) good.

I will allow that there may be some harms which can result from unlimited copying of anything you want— but they bear no resemblance to the collision of automobiles in the midst of a busy intersection.
If it came from the CEO, it actually might have run _past_ legal.
The police are never around when crimes are going on, though: showing up later is what always happens... Good forbid one should bring stats to an pity party though.
>> And further, latin nominative -us or -um has an -o- in some inflected forms. Example: bonorum, "of the good ones"

And also, famously, "Babaorum".

Edit: oh, which btw does what you say, it's pronounced more with an "o" sound in French. Like all the "-um"'s. Otherwise "Petibonum" wouldn't work.
Just to clarify: I was speaking specifically about the case where you have a series of DB calls (like: auth user, retrieve account record, insert idempotency key, do more stuff), and the first one succeeds and the next ones fail. It can happen where the DB suddenly drops out as the request is executing, but it's more likely that it's either available or it isn't, so either the request succeeds, or it can't start.

And this comment was just meant to talk about faults with your own database. Once you are reaching out to other systems you see all kinds of problems regularly, but those tend to be handled more robustly because you kind of have to.
>yet another country that wasn't a threat to it and had nothing to do with 9/11.

As the other poster said, Afghanistan's connection to 9/11 was clear, not even Afghanistan denied it.

But I'm curious why you say "yet another country." Between September eleventh and October seventh which other countries do you think the US attacked?
> Huh? Locking a machine to Windows is the manufacturer's choice, not Microsoft's.

Microsoft used to tax OEMs on all pcs with x86 sold as having windows pre-installed on them (otherwise OEMs wouldn't be allowed to sell windows at all). This got them into anti-trust issues. By the same mechanism they could have asked OEMs to lock machines to windows.

Anti-trust lawsuit could have lead to Microsoft being broken up into separate companies.

It would be funny if Microsoft avoided that only for Apple to be broken down into separate companies. (one for app store, one for iphone, etc)

> A better comparison is if MS banned installing apps not distributed by MS.

If they did this what would be the consequences?, are potential anti-trust lawsuits going to appear again?

Also see what happened with bundling internet explorer in europe.
Yeah, there's this stain of an empire that we just can't easily scrub off the planet. Just don't worry about it and keep feeding it.
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That may be, but it doesn’t jive with the VC monkey strapped to your back. It usually means there isn’t enough user interest/engagement.

Users always have problems they run into or novel usecases they’d like to use you for.
Some people (me included) consider "intellectual property" an oxymoron. But you do not need to go that far in the extreme to be supportive of scihub and similar entities: I am a scientist. I am paid from research grants, this is what makes it possible for me to write a paper. I am also involved in reviewing papers, but that I do for free. Then I pay a journal to store my paper (the journal did not pay the paper reviewers). Usually I even do most of the typesetting for the paper I write. Then I also pay the journal to get access to the paper.

In this story, I do not feel any guilt "stealing" from a journal that did not contribute anything but prestige to the creation of that paper (and was already paid twice for it, before I even tried to read the paper).
This trend has been going on for much longer than that. I've been hearing complaints all of that behavior for years.

About 20 years ago, I had an RV broken into in Austin, Texas. When I reported it, the police offered a case number for insurance purposes but no investigation.
> "privacy and security go hand-in-hand", which is plainly obvious and supported by history and data.

This doesn't seem to be true. Privacy here means "user privacy" whereas security means the security of the systems holding the user data.

Almost any system that hold large amounts of user data is a counter example. Such systems are typically highly secured but are antagonistic to user privacy.
The latter is not possible without some kind of strong AI. The compiler can’t know your intention.
> […] then movement implies travel at least twice a year in the US.

Under the current regime of 'cheap' travel in which the externalities of climate change are probably not taken into account.
Is this a printf injection I guess?