skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your assessment, that makes sense to me and I’ll probably use it going forward.

Some NB though:

- Muse is asking Xmader to delete his GitHub repository.

- The pirated materials do not exist in the GitHub repository, that is separately and independently stored on IPFS (his GitHub repository is the source code for essentially a qBittorrent app or a torrent tracker).

- Xmader may be legally required to not share copyrighted materials on IPFS. But that’s not what Muse asked him.

- It’s definitely not clear that he lacks the legal right to abstain from deleting the GitHub repository which does not contain copyrighted materials.

- The NY law you cited doesn’t seem to have anything about “intent” so it’s not obvious that you’d have to show MuseGroup believed there was no piracy. It may be strict liability instead? At least as worded. I don’t know; I haven’t looked at any cases.

Also, I think you may have some of the characters mixed up. Marcan is not the alleged violator, he is an uninvolved third party observer who, in an unrelated tangent, happened to have ported Linux to PS4 and is currently porting Linux to M1 MacBooks. More relevantly he did survive a lawsuit from Sony related to hacking the PS3 and was involved in lengthy proceedings accused of CFAA and DMCA violations so he likely has some first-hand knowledge of the nuances of relevant federal laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héctor_Mart%C3%ADn_Cantero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_Am...
Just about every company mentioned in the article increased in value near and/or after the time of those reports. Pretty interesting.

Great work!
Shameless plug, I did something similar, albeit for pyautogui instead of playwright/puppeteer, and for the whole system instead of just the browser.
https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp
Sure if you want to be pedantic. My response to the parent comment was more around trying to provide a possible answer to a natural question of "Why spend so much money on anything new while there are several million problems to be solved on Earth?".

And I don't think 50-70 miles is going to be the norm. This is more of a "test" flight, which is pretty normal. Everything has to start somewhere with a baby step.
The US taxpayers, thru their government, could just do a
buy out of Intuit/TurboTax for under $4 billion, and make
the software free to use as part of a transition process.

Any Intuit employees who at competent at tax preparation
could be employed by the IRS, which takes in 4-6 dollars
for every 1 dollar it costs. Win/win. Would never happen.
Why is SMS used as a way of verifying a user's mobile, when it is not encrypted?
We're a community of temporarily embarrassed CEOs after all.
"I think someone is robbing my house, I'm currently hiding in the attic"

"Great, let me send you a calendar invite for a Microsoft Teams meeting. Can you do 13:30? Oh no wait, my supervisor has a clash then... how about 14:45?"
I’m no Bezos fanboy, but the man did build a spaceship company. Let him fly a damn spaceship.
Note that Germany generally has a loser pays system (there are some caveats), so this will definitely not be true, because they can recover the legal costs from Chessbase.
and this is a preview of what UBI would cause too.
> Maybe police should default to assume swatting and develop techniques to evaluate actual risk prior to storming in based on an anonymous phone call?

You read about a few false positives and decide the police need to start assuming by default that every call is a false positive. You have no data on the number of calls where sending a SWAT team is the correct response (true positives), the number of calls where the responder correctly decides not to send SWAT (true negatives) or where the responder incorrectly decides not to send SWAT (false negatives).

No, you have no data, just a handful of anecdotes and on that basis you want to completely change how first responders work. You talk about “Bayesian” but you couldn’t possibly calculate how many lives could be saved or lost by this change.

Please, let’s stop acting like we’re experts at everything because we know a bit about software. Maybe other people are competent too. Maybe they know shit we don’t.

Oh and by the way, like someone else pointed out, the article doesn’t even say SWAT was deployed or that any law enforcement entered his home.
> "Another class of hybrid architecture is one that is often
referred to as tile-based immediate-mode rendering. As
dissected in this article, this hybrid architecture is used since NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPUs."

Yes, they do mention it, but I feel that the relevance of this technique would warrant a more in-depth discussion.

> "There’s a long-standing myth (that luckily slowly
disappears) that deferred rendering techniques are not
suitable for TBR GPUs. "

This has nothing to do with TBDR. "Deferred rendering" is a "software" rendering technique used to optimize lighting computation, "tile based deferred rendering" describes a hardware GPU architecture that delays fragment shading to the latest possible moment to optimize shader unit efficiency.
Out of curiosity, how well do you think fighting climate change through reducing consumption and waste is going? Well enough to discount alternatives?
The billionaire class are destroying our planet and exploiting us. If people spent as much time hating them as others do brown-nosing them we’d live in a better world.
This is somewhat of a tangent but I think hoarding zerodays should be illegal for an individual, company, or state. It would be seen as highly irresponsible if someone held back critical information about a vulnerability in a dam, I don't see how a zeroday is any different.

What is especially stupid is that the US does this as well, while they're the ones who are the most vulnerable. Just look at the debacle with WannaCry. These attacks come from countries who have a lot less to lose than the US, yet the US insists on throwing stones from their glass house.
> Swatting however generally provokes an over reaction.

How can you know this. My guess would be it's like hacking any other system. You hear about the few times they succeed. Especially if turns into a horrible incident the news media can use to fit one of their favorite narratives.
Netflix to include mobile games for subscribers
First off, there's hardly anyone other than europeans in East European countries. And I don't see why Gitlab engineers wouldn't be involved in the protests. They're probably well-educated and therefore statistically more likely to care about the political situation.
> I believe that the moment you hold valuable assets (i.e. any value of crypto currency) in any wallet, then you should report that (even now).

First I hear of that. In Germany, you have to report gains you got from trading/selling (both crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto), but not simply buying any. Do you have a source?
>I think some businesses are going out of businesses because they stubbornly refuse to raise their wages.

That would mean the people running those businesses were in need of psychological help, it is pretty much crazy to close your business because you refuse to raise wages.

I propose a counter explanation - your business has a very tight margin - if you raise wages you cannot afford to continue in business unless you raise prices. If there is a competing business nearby and you raise prices you lose customers to competitor and you will have to go out of business - unless of course competitor also raises prices.

You and competitor(s) sit around waiting to see who will raise prices first, probably one of you closes up because they don't have enough workers.

The one who remains open gets customers, because of extra income from customers they might be able to raise wages. At any rate they can probably raise wages because competitor that closed can't just reopen without any down time.
Look at the graph, and project is forwards
Oh, so this is paradise that I'm living in? Well that's wildly underwhelming.
They will spend a lot of time to make sure you are not a US citizen. At least the big Swiss banks. And frankly any bank that wants to do business with/in the US/EU, or wants to process bankcards.

If you want to launder money there are people for that, they will take your money, set uou5 up with legitimate businesses, put your money into other businesses and over some time those businesses will order a ton of shit from your ones, so you'll end up with a lot of clear after-tax income.
Great news for Monero!
It's 100% social tenable.

You could never walk into a private bar and demand the right to hand out Nazi propaganda, solely on the merits that "well, that's where all the people are!!"

As for neutrality, there are plenty of actively neutral companies, in action, today. They're just not very popular. Because they're filled with horrible people who demand the right to say horrible things. And no one wants to hang out with those people.

Now that the market has decided horrible beings aren't entitled to anyone else's space, the horrible human beings are insisting that the big mean bullies be forced, through threat of violence, to tolerate them.

It's nonsense all the way down.
Sure, I agree with that completely. I’m no free market purist, more an old school liberal. I just don’t think most of the criticisms of capitalism are in any way specific to it. In fact non capitalist societies seem to suffer far more from these flaws than free market economies. Rent seeking, labour abuses, corruption. These are human flaws and therefore seen in any economic system and must be constantly rooted out.
Arguments over taxation have always led to war, if history is any example… right now people bullish the decentralization narrative are willing to pay taxes to miners/validators/protocols and less so governments.

Eventually this will lead to decentralized warfare with dao's fighting asymmetrically and not playing by the old rules.
> Once the body is starving for carbohydrates it begins a process to break down fats and even protein into an energy source. This produces toxins, ketones.

You may want to read some (hopefully) unbiased information on that subject :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenesis

For example:

> Both [two of the three types of ketone bodies] are 4-carbon molecules that can readily be converted back into acetyl-CoA [which can directly fuel the krebs cycle] by most tissues of the body, with the notable exception of the liver.

Which is not really matching the definition of 'toxins'.

In my mind, saying that ketone bodies are toxins could be suggested in the fact that ketoacidosis is a real threat when a metabolism is affected by T1. But, again, T1 is not T2, and it's not the condition of a healthy metabolism, which is fully capable of handling ketone bodies, even thriving on it (glucose is fine, too, I'm not trying to sell that line).
That's fine and all if you're talking about people in your immediate social circle. Why waste time worrying about what someone else has?

But then there's this overall trend of stagnating wages for everyone except owners of capital. Industries become more and more concentrated. Billionaires get richer. We have trillion dollar companies, while inflation is increasing.

We're told "Don't be a hater, let billionaires do their thing!" But then they don't pay taxes and they spend their money on space bullshit. The world they are trying to create is not a better one. They are a hog on resources and the human race is right to be sick of it.

Fuck them, they should pay taxes and everyone should stop worshipping them like some kind of golden calf. It's not about being a hater, it's about stopping an economic tumor from getting any bigger.
I don't get what is so depressing from the article? Because the rich can afford it, and the poor can't? How do they imagine it should work instead?
> You still need a BMP editor to put anything meaningful in there. The same is true for a PowerPoint presentation, and an Access database. Although, creating an empty Access database and then opening it will presumably get you the Access program. But if I want to create a new PowerPoint presentation, I will… um… open PowerPoint

I think that really highlights the paradigm-shift that happened in UX in the last decade - what you could call "documents-centric" vs "application-centric".

Until recently, UI was centered around files. You used programs to edit and manage those files, but the programs didn't "own" the files: A file was generally independent of the programs that are used to open them. On the other side, a program does not "know" about a file until you explicitly prompt the program to open the file.

Compare that to the "application-centric" paradigm that dominates on the web, in mobile OSes and recently in desktop OSes as well: Here a program "owns" its data and you are supposed to interact with the data only through the program. It's an implementation detail how the data is physically stored - but from the user's PoV, there is no unified file system. Instead, the assets managed by each program are living in separate universes.
Not to mention they're making women into a diversity token. Race/gender quotas lead nowhere good.
> It’s interesting because copy and pasting a class gives you something humans love: a template!

That’s exactly what the OS/2 workplace shell did back in the early 90s: You had a “templates” folder where you would drag one of the many notebook-like icons and drop a brand new and empty file of the corresponding type.

When installing OS/2 programs they would register new file types and create a template in this special purpose folder. Man, that were exciting times!

Didn’t Ubuntu also support templates up to a point?
I believe it's a result of social media that has (falsely) taught us that anger and resentment are valuable contributions to society.

Anger and resentment are highly charged emotions, and so they make people click, like, retweet and subscribe. So it's unsurprising that those takes are highlighted and encouraged by the social networks.

Not to say that we shouldn't fight for a better world, but we lost our way when we started attempting to do so through anger.

I've started to think the most dangerous parts of social media are the things which we agree with the most, whatever side of politics you're on.

In the case of Bezos, Musk and Branson, I think it's a case of hate the game, not the player. There are plenty more low-profile billionaires exploiting workers and using their gains for worse things than going to space (like lobbying), but we rarely talk about them because they're not in the news. Instead of hating on specific people as if their disappearance would solve the problem, we could be channeling that energy into changing the system to be fairer for all.
> As our world quite literally burns and crumbles around us

You could say that statement on any year ever. That's not valid criticism. For one thing , branson and bezos are apparently boomer-era entrepreneurs obsessed with largesse.

For another, humans are not ready for space, we ve been there, and lost interest in going back. The next humans to go there should be genetically modified and technologically supplanted so they can make use of space, not just "go there". The world has a lot of tourism already, too much of it. Would be nice if these people spent their money on genetic/longevity research and brain-computer interfaces instead.
Rick Doblin just on Lex Fridman’s podcast: https://youtu.be/2tUiLxtrLxk
I thought the crypto was born as the ALTERNATIVE to regular fiat money. Therefore it should not be regulated, says the supporters.
Why don't we have a `~/.config/bash.d/` directory whose files are automatically sourced? That they there is no need for installers to step on the toes of a central profile, they would just add a file to the directory which also is easily and safely undone.
> I would argue with "society has clearly chosen" statement.

Agreed. IMO, what a society is/does/allows is always up for grabs…

Man made rules aren't laws of physics, and even those are bounded by our understanding/awareness of such.
> But I think their puerile vanity hobbies are also not bad for technological advancements. The engineers working on this are going to develop more skills and knowledge, and that will not be lost.

Maybe they made some useful advancements (any examples?), but overall this feels like saying a complicated tax code shouldn't be hated on, because it keeps accountants sharp and full of new knowledge.
How is that working out in terms of actual dollars spent? Who’s more efficient at spending $1 including profit in that?

Your theory doesn’t hold up to actual numbers
If you have an example basic implementation, why not just implement the method? (but keep it virtual so that it can be overridden)
Exactly! Thanks for sharing this. Currently the demand for higher wages is suddenly slightly more weighted towards the employee and yet McDonalds can pull out a three year timeline to get to $15 an hour, by which time inflation will make the increase insufficient
> Also, I think you may have some of the characters mixed up.

You're right. Fixed.
> Food is a basic necessity that people will consume in as many varied forms as budget and tastes allow.

Food has supply and demand like anything else. People have to eat, but they don't have to eat at the delhi.

For example, if they charged $50 a sandwich it would probably not work. Maybe the business owner is just being stupid, but its also not impossible that they ran the numbers and they just didn't add up. That happens sometimes in business. I havent seen their books, i dont know what the numbers on their business look like.
> Absolutely poverty has collapsed over the last few decades and will be non existent in about 15-20 years.

Did you mean to use some completely different word in place of "poverty" there? Because I'm flabbergasted at this statement.
I read recently a pretty good take on this. It goes something like, in order of most risky to least risky:

- Government funding is for super high risk, high reward long shots that may never work or prove useful.

- Then, VC funding when it's high risk, but within a few years horizon of working or proving useful.

- Last, public funding for stuff that's obviously going to work.

NASA is in the business of de-risking the edge. Then VC-backed stuff like SpaceX/Rocket Lab/Relativity Space can come and do the still-risky-but-still-less-risky bets. Public companies like Boeing/Lockheed Martin can be in the business of launching rockets as is well known and done for decades now.
Well, transparency works both ways doesn't it? Governments are largely not transparent. If they were, you wouldn't have something like the CIA, Guantanamo bay and the entire surveillance enterprise. I am just quoting the US government as an example but most governments are more or less the same.

Expecting others to be transparent, while governments go on about their private secret activities is very unfair.

Case in point - why hasn't any government adopted any open blockchain till date ? I mean, there are gazillions of operations that the government can use a blockchain for. OK, forget about a blockchain, at least an open distributed ledger ? For instance, all public RFPs and contracts can go on a queryable open distributed ledger. Why hasn't this happened yet ?

Let the governments show a spend log of every tax penny collected and then we'll talk about transparency.
fwiw, this simple page does not load without javascript. Instead, it only shows the banner and ablank page. *sigh*
I don’t disagree, but the "side-effects" of the things that SpaceX are doing for profit are much more substantial than any "side-effects" from any 'space tourism' company.

Like with Dragon - SpaceX returned NASA/Americas ability to fly NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station for the first time since 2011.

SpaceX developed the first NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft system in history.

Indeed SpaceX is a commercial entity working for profit, Just like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, but I'd much rather throw my support behind the companies where the scientific benefits will flow much quicker into the public arena vs "rich dudes competing to get to the edge of space so they can call themselves astronauts"
AFAIR, they do hire Chinese and Russians; they just don't hire anyone residing in China or Russia. That's something the relocation policy is supposed to help with.
It felt a bit cringe to me, the whole vibe of it just seemed off. The presenter's adoration/reaction was very cringe/over the top for me.. even the engineer guy's face kept falling.. watch it again.. imagine you put your efforts into something, building the rocket, then not being the one to fly it. And when they landed and all the camera men gathering around.. I thought "Is this it? Some guy just go to space for a few minutes and then have his pictures taken like it's some epic moment?" Meanwhile, we are in the middle of a pandemic, people suffering around the world, never mind amazon employee's issues, climate changing slowly starting to wreak havoc.. but hey, lets celebrate that guy going to space. Felt hollow in my stomach and not in a good way. When SpaceX landed those two rockets at the same time next to each other, I shed a tear of how insignificant my own career is, where with this event I felt nothing but hollowness.
That may be your opinion. I doubt the police officers who respond to active shooters would share your disregard for their lives though. Even if you think their deaths are acceptable, they likely won't, and will still go in ready to kill - or won't go in at all if they aren't permitted to defend themselves.

Again, the question is really which option is worse. On the one hand we have a zealous police response that will sometimes kill innocent people as a result of things like swatting, being
unintentionally misinformed, or even just tragic accidents. On the other hand we have a cautious police response which might minimize the people injured or killed by the causes just discussed but increase the injuries or deaths that result from delays in police response. Which of the two causes the most harm?

As I've said before, my intuition is that a rapid response is the least harmful. I think the policing experts in charge of current policing strategy share that opinion based on current protocols. I understand that you prefer the cautious strategy, but I haven't seen you explain why you think there will be less harm from that strategy.
In Europe typically there are unlimited sick days, but the company has insurance to cover your salary after a certain number of days per year. You typically need a doctor's note after 3 consecutive days, and if you are abusing the system the insurance company (who is a pro at this) will quickly investigate and terminate / claw back their coverage.
In addition to second-hand book shops I enjoy visiting book villages like Hay-on-Wye: http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk
I would guess that people "waste this time" because the riches gained by the greed and immorality of these obscenely rich folk is directly proportional to the misery that people experience in their daily lives from the impact of the income inequality. The Bozos of this world are the most visible targets in a cruel system that is not functional, that is destroying people and this planet.
is there such a thing as 'general opinion of hn'?
I was shocked in the US to see an American colleague get really angry with a waitress over the quality of a steak. It's ok to complain but to think you can dump anger on someone who is on minimum wage and who had nothing to do with the problem is beyond me. I lost any respect I had for him.