skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s OK as long as they don’t attempt to damage the democratic process.

I don’t think it’s inherently good or bad to have people with large monetary power. What it counts is what they do with it.

Money is just one kind of a power. Other people can have great charisma, fame, information, access or any other kind of a power that is disproportionately stronger and influential than the average person.
> and most societies at most times in most places in history seem to have done just fine managing “the commons” as a shared resource through social compact and peer pressure.

What? Clean water, clean air, deforestation, overfishing, noise pollution. There are infinite externalities that have been shifted onto the commons that social compact and peer pressure haven’t (and arguably won’t) solve.
Oh wow. This is the first time I've heard of this being possible. Fascinating.

I'm curious, how did re-copyrighting impact the legal status of (possibly hypothetical) works derived from _It's a Wonderful Life_ during its in the public domain?
Ethical Hacking: NMAP in Depth
> The denizens of the investor forum would be wrong; it isn't trying to time the market. This strategy is simply valuing the stocks.

trying to pick the stocks that are least overvalued is great and everyone should be doing it all the time. (assuming you are investing in individual stocks and not index funds)

the problem comes when you say "everything is overvalued so i'll sit in cash until the market is less overvalued" and yes that's timing the market.

> The problem with the plan is that holding piles of cash is a game for losers; you need the money to be in some sort of asset - it matters not what - to avoid the printers of the central banks. There is a real chance that stock prices never come down as much as everything else goes up.

yes, you've identified the central problem with timing the market, this is precisely why it's a bad idea in general.

As others are saying: if you accept the efficient market hypothesis then your guesses are inherently no better than random chance, unless you somehow have unique insight that nobody else in the market has. Otherwise if you've successfully identified a trading strategy that worked, it would be exploited until there was no longer any value there, and the market returns to "no better than random chance".

(there's the old joke: an economist and his friend are walking down the sidewalk. The friend spots a bill laying on the ground and says "look, a hundred dollar bill!" and bends down to pick it up. But the economist keeps walking, saying "of course it can't be, if it was then somebody would have picked it up already." It's a meme but in a macro sense it's true, there are small pockets of alpha that can be exploited on a small scale but in the macro sense the market is as efficient as it can be and everybody else is just as aware as you that "the market seems overvalued right now" too.)

Therefore the best strategy is to dollar-cost-average across some span of time and accept that you may have missed a percent here or there but that the market is generally going up by more than you missed - and that you also may have timed it poorly and cost yourself a percent or two as well.
which will accomplish exactly nothing same way as taking out Cartel leaders does not reduce the flow of drugs.
> Lets take the claim of "marginalized the core team"?

You mean, "let's take an acillary claim, not one of the core three" that are stated to be "undefinable(sp). they're just facts."?

My point, which I thought was clear, but apparently not, is that if you have a problem with the statement you brought up, sure, mention that's problematic. But is that a reason to ignore the things mentioned immediately prior, that Amazon is the lead on multiple teams, and chose not elect a new executive directory while letting the prior one go? I think not. Those are specific claims that can be assessed individually. What bearing does the "they've marginalized the core team" statement have on them that renders them being unworthy to assess?

> What other points? Specifically? The only verifiable point, that anyone has mentioned, is that amazon has a board seat somewhere, on some organization.

That exact same tweet you reference notes they've decided not to have an Executive Director. Maybe if people weren't ignoring that because of some later statement that might get some attention.
I am not a native English speaker. I am a Greek speaker, and there is no equivalent to the gender-neutral "they", you have to choose "he" or "she" and "he" is the most usual choice. So, here I let my native-tongued thinking interfere with the ideal English interpretation of what I had to say. And, I did not read your username :)
Thanks, I'll revisit BB.

Going by your explanation, I understand you like serialized TV shows - vs. episodic ones. I'm not sure if BB was the turning point there - there's been a steady change in preferences from episodic to serialized over the decades now, probably starting with invention of VCR, and reaching full speed when Netflix introduced their streaming service.

PoI is somewhere in the middle. In S1, most episodes stand on their own, but they do spin out story arcs, that start to dominate later on. By S4, it's almost entirely serialized - but in a good way. It's definitely binge-friendly (I've done it multiple times, and didn't get bored yet).
Great! I'll take a closer look at the API soon
Thanks
Exactly. Remember also that VC are rich and powerful therefore much of what you read and think about investing and startups is written for their benefit. Avoid drinking the kool aid.
Think about the scale we're dealing with here - not just of the number of YT videos being put out per day but also the amount of copyrighted work to enforce. There's simply no way even an army of staff can accurately enforce anything but a small subset of what comes out.

Instead of playing favorites, YT chose to use automation to its greatest potential and let the citizenry put pressure on lawmakers to reform the system. I think what they're doing is smart, although perhaps lawmakers are more resistant to reform than YT originally anticipated.
I would agree completely. There are documented instances of this entity being called out by the parties who actually own the rights to the music. I described them as fraudulent for a reason: what they are doing is fraud.
The press release has much more information: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210913005806/en/Int...
I think the focus on sentience is misplaced. Rather, the value should be rationality, meaning here the ability use one's mind to survive and to live by reason alone. This is valuable to any other rational living creature because rationality allows one to eschew violence and live cooperatively, so it is in the best interest of every rational creature to, at least on a basic level, value and respect the life of any other rational creature. The reason we don't apply and respect rights to animals and plants is because they are incapable of doing the same to us, or even being aware of the concept of 'rights'. You should interact with other forms of life on the highest level it is capable of interacting with you.
Yeah! If we completely stopped eating meat then plant based food would account for 100% of all greenhouse gases from food production!
The control over healthcare supply is pretty obvious given how limited the seats are each year for residency and matching process. It is entirely controlled by a system that has a cap on how many can go through to the next stage of mandatory post-med school training...
It should be mandatory to notify people if they've been exploited when updating, also give better info on this incident no?

A normal smaller tech company is expected to create an advanced description of what happened. Apple doesn't give any info at all to regular users, no one i know has heard about this, not even seen a "very important to update" message, just a silent "update 11.6".

In my mind everyone with an Apple device should get a huge warning pop up on their screen with the text "everything on your computer has been potentially compromised - update now to remedy (for now at least)" in all caps.
Generally speaking, newer kernels are bigger.

Back in the day, Damn Small Linux (DSL) made the controversial decision to stake themselves to Linux 2.4 because 2.6 was just too big and bloated, they said.
it's not clearly a completely stupid idea on its face

It wasn't a stupid idea to provide some protection to dealerships from the manufacturers they represent, but it is stupid to use it to block manufacturers that have no dealers.
Well crap, there goes Mailchimp. Time to start exploring SendGrid I guess. Why, Intuit, why?
Seriously ill Covid-19 patients double in vaccine pace-setter Singapore
The host is netcup in Germany. I use regular KVMs.

Yes, the amount of storage can be an issue, but I want to stay below 500GB of hot-data. One bottleneck is network traffic to copy updated files after each weather model update.

My binary files are just plain Float16 files without an meta data. Logically they similar to 3D Zarr files. I know exactly which bytes I have to read and the kernel cache helps a look to keep it fast.

In theory this data does not have to be a file on SSD. I could also use a block storage directly or request data from S3 via range requests.

One hopelessly over-engineered approach would be to use an `AWS EBS io2 Block Express Volume` use `Multi-Attach` and spawn up to 16 API instances to serve data from it.
Umm... ACH is apparently private, even if it took serious inspiration from initiatives used by federal government.

I think a better question is why, for all supposed innovation that is brought by private enterprise, the country with seemingly most privatised financial sector has some of the most backwards, arse-end-of-nowhere, the devil has said goodnight few stations before payments situation?

One hypothesis is that in such situation, the vendors are not interested in cooperation if they can operate nationwide, and instead try to get as much lock-in in spite of what's better for customer, and thus aren't interested in faster general payments system.

I mean, seriously, Poland despite all the crap we had to sort out in 1990s managed to build a faster and more reliable system by using file transfer (mostly by FTPS, but used to be X.25 and optionally floppies!), scheduled jobs (essentially cron) and these days basic PKI file signing.

It worked well enough that cheques were phased out by I think 2002 (as in "no, there are no cheques supported anywhere").

And the capability floor it set means that any private alternative has to figure something that adds value - for example, instant online settlement (ever paid for pizza by wire? I do, often), shortcode-plus-phone quick transfers (essentially a common enough variant of the previous that even works at POS).
Same feeling. Additionally, the author stands he felt used by social media, but you find a properly newsletter subscription at the end of the article. Of course, if you create a writing piece which implied some time to produce, you're looking for something in return.. same than social media. The difference is that usually behind the last ones there is a corporate logic.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516219
It's hard to imagine now, but at the end of the 20th century, if you weren't employed by a Newspaper or a TV network, about the only way you could let the world know your views was to write a letter to the editor of your local paper. And even if you could somehow make a friend in a far-away land, phone calls and postal mail were expensive. (I'm still sad I lost touch with students I met in Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia in the 80's)

The internet, and social media in particular, changed all that. First only nerds could make a web pages. Some, like me, published our thoughts there using raw HTML. Then Moveable Type allowed anyone with an FTP site to publish. Then Blogger allowed anyone with a browser to publish. Then Flickr and Facebook and Twitter and all the rest. It was an exciting time.

I hope this help explains why we thought this would "level the playing field." What we read and what we watched was no longer dictated by TV Network bosses or editorial boards. Governments could no longer demonize people in other lands, because we were all free to (for example) be Facebook friends with those people. At least that was the theory. As I mentioned in another comment, it sure hasn't worked out that way.
And yet I don't see any real backlash against Grover Norquist's "no new taxes" pledge being applied to "making filing easier / automatic" - which is in my mind a prerequisite to any real improvement on the filing process since essentially half of the government at any given time has only been allowed to be elected because they promised not to improve things.
Agreed. I don't think everyone can be great at everything. There are some basic levels of competencies that are required though and, most importantly, people need to be able to respect the strengths of others that don't align with their own. My own examples were driven by working with developers who were actively disdainful for people and ideas that were not on their single axis of focus, which was bad for the team and for the product.
Their high-confidence attribution to NSO Group is described as being based on two factors:

1. Incomplete deletion of evidence from a SQLite database, in the exact same manner observed in a previous Pegasus sample;

2. The presence of a new process with the same name as a process observed in a previous Pegasus sample.

But isn't it likely that someone with the skills needed to discover and weaponize a chain of 0-day exploits, is incentivized and able to detect these quirks in Pegasus samples and imitate them, with the goal of misattribution?

Of course, there may be more factors involved in the attribution that aren't being shared publicly.
Thankfully said EU law includes a part that it's forbidden to block content for copyright reasons if the copyright claim is invalid. It includes ways for NGOs and users to go after companies that overblock. How this will actually work in practice is unclear since it's obviously an impossible requirement but some NGOs like the German GFF are already collecting cases and are looking to take legal action (see e.g. https://freiheitsrechte.org/aufruf-illegale-sperrungen/ (in German))
I get the impression that Álvaro has issues with the governance of the core team and PGCAC and thus wanted trademarks to protect his consultancy that were under the control of his non-profit which he believes has stricter governance. He also seems to be interested in leveraging the trademarks to force governance changes on the core team and PGCAC.
"Fait accompli"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fait%20accompli

There's probably a better term but English isn't my first language.
Tangentially related, but I recently spun up a Windows VM and used Edge to search Bing for "Firefox" and this is result I got[1].

It's a giant banner that says, "You're already browsing in Microsoft Edge. Keep using to get world class performance with more privacy, more productivity, and more value."

That banner is followed by another giant banner image telling me to get "Get Robux using Microsoft Edge. Join Microsoft Rewards and use Microsoft Edge. Get a 100 Robux eGift Card on us when you search with Microsoft Bing on Microsoft Edge for 5 days after you join."

I had to scroll to even see the relevant search results for my search term. I'm assuming most non-power users won't scroll because they were just assured that they were "already browsing in Microsoft Edge", which is apparently more private, productive and valuable than what they intended to search for.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/blHGMgX.png
"Not wittingly."
Integrating with third-party vendors – what can go wrong
And if we stopped all greenhouse emissions from food eventually all of the emissions from any industry would reach 0!
I am not actually saying it should be 10k or 1m. I am saying your numbers appear to be arbitrary and am asking you why you didn't pick the numbers I listed.

Also, society has not really drawn the line. Politicians and unelected bureaucrats have chosen for us.
I am a bit disappointed that this wasn't about sending emails with a single sentence - I would have found that useful, as it's often enough but can be awkward not to sound rude
We kinda need an answer to that before we abolish the police... err I mean intellectual property.
If you're interested in embedded there must be things you want to build with it. So build something you want to build.

What kind of project do you mean, anyway? Embedded is partly about software and partly about hardware. I'm a programmer who dabbles in hardware. For many of the embedded ideas I think about, the software challenges are not too bad, but the hardware issues are above my pay grade. Do you want to build interesting hardware, or only write code? Do you want to only develop programming chops, or also domain skills that will require a fair amount of study, such as DSP algorithms? Do you only want to program microprocessors, or also FPGA's?

It would be nice if you could say more about your interests and goals. That would make it easier to suggest projects.

I'm not that big on the concept of trying to learn a topic by doing a project anyway. Better to have the low level pieces together first, and put them together into a project afterwards.
What were you eating before?
Why not reply to me directly?

All intellectual digital work boils down to discovering a number. A file in a computer. The path to this discovery is valuable labor. The number itself is not.

The only way you can own a number is to keep it to yourself. Like a private key in cryptography. Nobody can guess it. Nobody can discover it.

As soon as you publish it, there's nothing you can do anymore. It can be copied, transferred, modified, stored, used... You're not in control anymore. This will happen regardless of any rights you're entitled to.

It's the 21st century. People look up songs on YouTube. They upload it there if it's missing. There's no way to go back to the old record selling world.

> Maybe I should go back to painting, where I'm making an object at least, and maybe not so delusional in the eyes of the GP, not just numbers?

You're correct. Physical objects are naturally scarce and paintings in particular have properties that make them valuable beyond just the image projected. It's possible to make digital reproductions but those are generally worthless compared to the original work. As they should be.
Germany claims they only used it on terrorists and organized crime members... I feel like one of the main issues is people still remember that thing Germany did way back when when they considered all Jews to be terrorists...
Ah, CC and Red Alert, the joy of LAN party. We played so many hours on company's dime on the office network. The controller from finance was actually a pretty good player. One day he brought his teenage son to the office to play with us, and that's the time I introduced the uneven pincer movement to his awareness with a crushing defeat. Good time.
There is as much validity to your argument as there is to the argument that copyright should terminate upon the death of the creator (or after a reasonable time) to enrich the public domain and allow others to freely build upon those public domain works to create new works of economic and cultural value.

Neither scenario is testable. It ends up being a question of the kind of world you want to live in-- one where the estates of the dead lock up artifacts of culture and don't allow them to be used to create new works or one where new works based on older works can be more freely created.

Have you seen "Wicked" (or read the novels upon which it is based, or listened to the soundtrack, or purchased branded merch)? Have you read "The Last Ringbearer"? One of those works exists commercially and as a broad cultural phenomenon because expiration of copyright allowed it to. The other won't see a commercial release until at least 2043 because the estate of a dead man says it can't.

The success of Disney in "monetizing" and influencing culture with public domain stories makes me think there's significant validity in the argument of allowing old works to enter the public domain more quickly so they can be freely built-upon. It seems like both an economic and cultural good.

"Wicked" has probably done a lot more business than the estate of L. Frank Baum was going to in the early 2000s using the "The Wizard of Oz" properties.
It's to a large degree the fault of unsustainable farming techniques.

Chicken eating worms that eat grass being eaten by humans exhaling CO2 that grass uses to grow is a closed carbon cycle.

Beef belching methane changes the equation a bit, but there's research into ways to decrease that.
And since they already screwed all their free users and early adopters you don't have to worry about it happening again (for a while).
Giving early employees equity is often a form of incentive.

If giving an employee 1% of equity improves acquisition valuation by 2%, then it was probably a good move, as the remaining shareholders got 1% more than they would have otherwise.

It gets less intuitive with multiple people: what to do if one founder owning a valuable small business adds a salesperson and a UI guru, each of whom adds 10x the valuation to the company?

The main problem with equity is that it is extremely difficult to value how much a person will increase a future valuation by (ignoring complications with voting rights etcetera).
I don't know why so many people don't understand that educational outcomes are due to quality of life at home.
Android 10 also introduced similar mitigations: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/queue-hard...

Though it's worth noting that the cost of Stagefright was surprisingly low - it took a long time for a good ASLR bypass to come out for it and by that time most devices were updated or replaced. Additionally, the sheer variance between Android devices means developing worm-level exploits becomes extremely difficult compared to something where everyone's running the exact same binary like Windows, so it likely only saw targeted use.
> Used car prices for Teslas are awesome, I could sell it to Carvana for more than I paid for it I think right now.

That's true for most used cars right now.
>Maybe a better system would penalize reporters that are found to have reported content that do NOT violent content policies?

This might work if the response to a report wasn't so arbitrary. I've been given bans for using heated language, yet had comments that were just as heated AND making direct threats at people marked as not violating any rules when I made the report.
Thanks for the feedback - I created a special issue tracker that gets higher priority, can you submit your proposal there? https://is.gd/WVZvnI
It is sacracstic coment depicting the general state of things.

Normalization of surveillance and acceptance of this "new world" from the genereal public trough manufactured consent by the corporations, media and governments is staggeringly fast.

There is not subsitution for privacy, whatever the percieved motivation for "common good" is bringing to the table.

My personal decision is to avoid the surrveilance state by using FOSS solutions and abandon smartphone habbits.

There must be a place for design and software solutions outside the "status quo". Started this year by removing Apple from my business and moving along to educate my customers of incomming dangers for their businesess and personal life.
Definitely, most web programmers don’t code directly in the language though. Core library devs will but most others use a framework of some kind that abstracts the developer away from the raw code. This helps speed things up in terms of developing, helps other programmers quickly begin to assist with pre existing projects and also provides standard prebuilt methods for handling authentication, sanitization