skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flipside of this is that the utter and flippant disregard for the basic principles of copyright are also responsible for one of the biggest expansions of freedom of speech in human history. The legal liability for copyright infringement itself, imposed upon every "link in the chain", was enough to deter people from running "content" pipes; and there was no distinguishing factor between a "publisher" that actively decides what content to publish, and a "platform" which does not. CDA 230 and DMCA 512 invented this new legal category of platforms that facilitate speech but do not editorialize it, and gave them broad immunity from basically every legal challenge.

There's an argument that came out of the Copyright Office a few years ago that DMCA 512 has been grossly misinterpreted by the courts. You see, because 512 immunity only applies to things done "at the direction of the user", the courts have decided that social media recommendation engines can be immunized from suit through the 512 safe harbor. However, if that same curation is done by a human instead of an automated system, then it's no longer "at the direction of the user"[0], and the site is a publisher rather than a platform. This is absolutely bananas and I can think of no other part of law where deliberately ignoring the crime or tort makes it less criminal or tortious.

If the Copyright Office had its way, both of these activities - automated and manual curation - would take you out of your safe harbor. YouTube could host your videos, like Vimeo's pro tier, but it couldn't put them in search or on the home page unless it was willing to take on your copyright risk. Shopify could run your online store but you couldn't sell your products on Amazon.

There's been other proposals to change the process by which companies get their safe harbor, too. The EU got rid of notice-and-takedown and replaced it with license[1]-and-notice-and-filtering. The criteria for who has to abide by the new system is very roughly the same "do they curate" standard the US Copyright Office wanted put into DMCA 512, with online marketplaces - among other things - explicitly exempted from the requirements. So now our dichotomy becomes a trichotomy of "host" (no liability), "platform" (must license and filter), and "publisher" (full liability).

I'm not sure if the EU will ultimately be able to thread the needle on this. We haven't seen the full effects of EUCD Article 17 yet, but my gut instinct is that it both goes too far (targeted platforms will be overregulated) and not far enough (copyright holders will still have horrific piracy problems).

[0] See Mavrix v. LiveJournal

[1] This is technically a "best effort" standard - you are not required to actually obtain a license, since copyright holders could otherwise just refuse you one. However, unlike IETF standards, those words do not mean "lowest effort" in law. Serving EU regulators a water sandwich will likely not go well with them.
There's a lot of things Elon is not, but he definitely is a smart business man and he can manage hype.
On that thread I started typing out a comment to people generalizing Miami to all of Florida, but I didn't make it far enough to post it. We'll see if my thoughts are well formed enough to post it this time:

Miami is its own world.

Florida has several distinct cultures within it. The "pure florida essence" is central Florida around Tampa and Orlando. Miami is a separate and distinct culture as are northern Florida (southern Georgia) and the panhandle.

These sorts of cultural distinctions exist in several states. Seattle is different than Spokane. The cultures of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fresno, and Mendocino are all noticeably different. Texas has at least 6 subcultures represented within its borders. But Miami is different from the rest of the state (and country) to a degree that can be hard to appreciate unless you've lived there and have a good base of experience to compare it to.

It's a scammer's paradise. The general feeling seems to be that rules and laws are for suckers. The less you follow the rules, the better of a job you're doing. Silicon Valley often gets criticized for its disregard for the rules, but I've always found that disregard to be for rules they feel (fairly or not) are poorly formed, inefficient, or standing in the way of progress. In Miami you break rules as a form of virtual signaling.

Conspicuously consuming isn't just accepted, it's expected.

I would love to see a historian or anthropologist do a deep dive on how that culture got that way. I know that a lot of people will point to the cocaine trade but I think it goes deeper than that.
This could mean that information literacy is on the rise.
Is that video being financed by the MICROS~1 advertising department. From the title to the weird presentation, it's almost as if it was designed to drive people away. Linux OK for the geeks but not your average user /s

"ubuntu 3D Desktop"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE

Unreal Engine 4 Demos on Linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd90ZkCCgKY
MOND – Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Not joking?
Why not get a piano and practice scales?
I remember seeing that in a riddle book about 20 years ago.
┌[ATTENTION!]────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ DISK WIPE INITIATED - PRESS HERE TO CANCEL --> [X] │
│ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Then tell them what you want them to know when they press the X.

Edit: No box drawings allowed ... :(
Vagrant has a few advantages compared to Rancher (and Lima[1] which I believe Rancher uses under the hood).

Because of its popularity, there are so many open source Ruby provisioning scripts you can use as a reference when provisioning your own VMs. You can also package up a provisioned VM as what they call a "box" that can be shared with other developers. It also natively integrates with tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet which make it a lot easier to manage the provisioning process.

And finally, many of the books and tutorials I've read use Vagrant, so it's much easier to follow along if you have Vagrant installed. For example I was recently reading the book Ansible for Devops by Jeff Geerling, and Vagrant and Virtualbox were used pretty extensively throughout the book.

Also, if you decide to package VMs to use in production it's pretty easy to integrate with Packer, which is another Hashicorp product.

[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Hmm, interesting. I've always printed the return label myself, because I didn't know there was any other way.

This sounds... abusable. Why should I take the risk of porch piracy, for example, if the FedEx driver will do it for me?
That one looks not too bad, seems like you can fix it with a firmware update after it fails. A lot of disk failures due to firmware bugs end up with the disk not responding to the bus, so it becomes somewhere between impossible and impractical to update the firmware.
Elon vs. Twitter: The updated flow chart
Nowadays when everything is just circus is hard to say when things start and when they end. One thing is clear to me - Elon didn't learn anything from his previous episodes ("funding secure", calling people names, crypto scams, etc).
therefore of course he will buy it
Published without description useless.
Sounds a lot like America.

Anybody can pay for redundant services in multiple data centers and networks. But almost nobody does. And corruption? Heh, here we just call them "donations".
@IronWolve: "Linux desktop experience does suck .."

Same ole same ole FUD .. it even does phones better than MICROS~1

PureOS – a pure Linux phone experience
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/pureos-mobile/
Einstein-Bohr debate settled once and for all
search of nopad++ better than word and excel...
Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range
https://isbn.nu/ is what I use to find the lowest price for a book. I saw it on Aaron Swartz's weblog I think.
My spouse is a division chief in a surgical subspecialty - hospital is mandating anyone on-call to not leave the premises. People are sleeping in their offices.
It supports MIDI pianos if you've got one

And the program helps you memorize & practice scales, fifths and chords

I'm also using it as a reference sheet
You don't want to be on that train anyway. It only goes one way. And it will likely result in a premature death.
I get that, it just seems to me like a distinction without a difference.
I totally agree with everything you're saying, there's definitely a long way to go. I am certainly not advocating for going all-in on them any time soon.

I don't see any harm in trying though, or continuing to try and improve them. If we had said that a boom-box sized car phone wasn't useful enough, so why bother trying, where would phones be now?

Besides, you can probably point to any number of people in history that said that humans would never fly, that computers were unwieldy room-sized devices that consumers would never use, that the internet would never be anything more than communication between universities.

It's also just fun to think about the possibilities! :)
Do you have a source you could use to convince readers why you believe this? As written, your source is "trust me, bro"
I usually go with GSuite.
At least of late NZ seem to have pretty good governance. That may help ameliorate the more agregious harms.
Genius is not an absolute that applies across everything one done. In fact most geniuses are very very good across one dimension + they benefit from the halo effect.

Musk can be a "genius" when it comes to electric cars and space exploration while at the same time being total wrong about almost everything else.
They still have the hard-coded "slur" filter?
Called it a day and went to sleep.
Which genocides has Abe done? He was a nationalist PM once and then a (relatively) liberal PM a second much longer time. It's very silly to compare modern Japan to a dictatorship.

Taiwan is not "like the rest of Asia"; it's only China and Korea that are mad about Japan. And in his second premiership Abe stopped Yasukuni Shrine visits, apologized to Korea, started a fund for descendants of comfort women and quietly suppressed anti-Korean hate groups at home.
Microsoft 3D Movie Maker:

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsoft-open-sources-1995s-...

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker
Looking at the sponsors, there are some big players in the old Flash world supporting this (Newsground, ArmorGames... even NYT?). What I can't understand is why Kongregate isn't among them.

They would benefit greatly from a new Flash player, yet it seems they are content with having their users figure it out themselves ( https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/193280... ).

Maybe I'm overestimating the money a site like Kongregate pulls in. I've assumed they'd have cash to throw at something that could resuscitate their catalog, so it's odd to see them not doing anything in the WASM space.
It's built using Tauri + React and uses midir to handle the MIDI so it's completely cross-platform. Hope y'all find it useful
In Canada, the entire public apparatus (federal and provincial at least) is geared toward keeping big businesses alive and happy, no matter the costs, because that means keeping jobs, because people with jobs paying taxes is the only meaningful source of revenue for governments since corporations can evade most taxation.

So, the various Canadian governments will do whatever they can to maintain corporate status quo and keep the money flowing. That's how it works. Just please big players and the rest follows.

Then, don't expect too much. Canada has never been a real country, its people never decided to take over and govern themselves, it's just an ex-British colonial body from a bygone era (one of many), and has always been acting as such.

Because of that, it's also one of the few places in the world where true personal and community freedom can be achieved, probably because it's so harsh and so vast and so highly dysfunctional and so challenging and so unimportant. Whatever it is, it's nice to be a Canadian for the most part. I'm not proud of being one, but I don't have to be, and that works pretty well for me.
Looks interesting! Might be nice to have some basic songs to learn.
This is not historically the reality of 1a jurisprudence. Before the Internet, the ruling was that private companies cannot restrict your speech in public view. See Marsh v. Alabama for this -- a company town was prohibited from barring picketing and pamphleting on private sidewalks.

The exceptions to this were carved out in a court case regarding Compuserve, which was a subscription-only service. The stare decisis in this instance is on far shakier ground than Roe was.
Understanding the things people are actually telling you without getting distracted by anger is also part of communications. You don't have to engage with the rude users but their problems are just as real.
Having used both languages at work my opinion is that Java has a better developer experience due to the strong type system allowing you to use third party libraries much more easily even when their documentation is not quite up to par.

In Python on the other hand it's all resting on good documentation and in the absence of it your work becomes a long journey of sleuthing the input parameters and the return values every step of the way, sometimes forcing you to read the original sources.

When it's already written I like Python code more but when it comes to writing it Java type system coupled with its tooling has no equal.
You misrepresent the scenario to the point of fabrication; while each event you describe did individually (sort of) happen, the narrative is all scrambled. And your "source" is just a link to another article, which 404s.

Wikipedia link, for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt
Good luck with that. He tweeted, early on: "If our Twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!"

Then, when you conclude a definitive agreement without any provision for an "out" based on an issue that you've already acknowledged knowing about (and hoping to fix post-acq)-- you're kinda stuck with it.

I think the big issue is that with the movement in equities, it requires him to overpay for Twitter with Tesla stock that is much less valuable. Financing the deal got much harder for him.
Yes, basically no matter what, if for some reason the deal cannot close (eg the government blocks it) he has to pay $1b. He still must try to close the deal.
If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
What was up with that? Was it server failure? Did HN move from old vps provider to AWS? Also, does HN run on one EC2 instance?
If you're going to be partially or fully on the Microsoft ecosystem (Office most obviously, especially if you're going to be doing document exchange), just go ahead and get M365 Business Premium - along with Office it gets you Azure AD for signins, Onedrive for per user storage, SharePoint for shared storage, email, etc. Premium adds email encryption, plus Intune as a somewhat replacement for domain Group Policy, Windows Defender for Business and IIRC some level of mobile device management. I think BP also includes some level of the data loss prevention tools as well.

If you're on Chromebooks instead, Google's offering obviously makes sense there.

If you're on Macs or pure Linux not sure, but you may end up using web interfaces a fair amount anyway.
Elon Musk officially tries to bail on buying Twitter
Your second sentence makes no sense. If the board and shareholders sell the company, "they" aren't owned by anyone. The board is no longer the board and the shareholders are no longer the shareholders. They're just a bunch of regular people holding big bags of money.

It's like if you sell your car to a dangerous driver: you have no financial stake in whether they go on to crash it.
While this isn't the forum for casual conversations, I do wonder if HN could use a general forum. It could be self-moderating, where if it gets a cumulative 25% downvote traffic (> 25 downvotes per 100 upvotes), it automatically shuts down for 24 hours, thus possibly promoting a simple form of group-governance.
Grabbing my popcorn now
Do you have a “reasonable” bill in mind? I can’t really see much of anything getting 60 votes in the senate.
I kept wanting to talk about the outage on HN.
Note that memorizing the Quran is a cultural feature that depends on writing; oral works are not memorized word-for-word but produced improvisationally on demand.
According to this theory, he never intended to buy Twitter. He just used the offer to liquidate stock without raising too many eyebrows and now he's backing out, with a few billion extra in cash and, if everything works out for him, not even a termination fee.
I recently moved to a newly built condo in Toronto and there was a special resident onboarding email, which happened to include a promotional offer from Rogers, advertising a rock bottom deal on internet that I couldn't refuse. I later asked the Rogers representative on the phone how they managed to score the deal with the building developer, and he basically told me that they have an ongoing relationship. They basically have the deal made as soon as the project gets off the ground.
Which is why I said, "just above the poverty line."
Well, are the recent layoffs at both companies completely unrelated to that? How far do the rippling effects of billions "lost" from the rich person economy go? I'm 100% some people who were just scraping by have been hurt by this. If only because there are 10 less good tippers / day at the coffee shop down the street from the twitter offices.
Ah! See what I’m saying? Humans are poor commenters, can’t escape it.
> I guess he can afford a $1B penalty,

The $1B is if there's some outside reason why the deal cannot get done, e.g. because of regulatory concerns.

It's not a "pay a $1B break-up fee at your discretion to get out of the deal" clause.

> Accordingly, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the parties hereto shall be entitled to an injunction, specific performance and other equitable relief to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity. Each of the parties hereto agrees that it will not oppose the granting of an injunction, specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that any other party has an adequate remedy at law or that any award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at law or in equity.

...

> (b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, including the availability of the Parent Termination Fee or other monetary damages, remedy or award, it is hereby acknowledged and agreed that the Company shall be entitled to specific performance or other equitable remedy to enforce Parent and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to cause the Equity Investor to fund the Equity Financing, or to enforce the Equity Investor’s obligation to fund the Equity Financing directly, and to consummate the Closing ....
"if you're rude to me I'm going to publicly lambast you"

If it were really "take it or leave it," I'm sorry but that's just not a great attitude. I don't think that's what he was saying.
I don’t buy it. Musk compulsively creates huge and innovative companies. To liquidate stock, he could just as easily have just waited until his next big thing and sold off his stock then, once again, in order to pay for a non-Tesla venture; and then either used the money for the company, or bailed on the new company. Involving Twitter doesn’t make sense and is unnecessary
I am still paying $1 today!

[And I actually feel very bad lying to my kids about this whole tooth fairy business.Tooth fairy wasn't a thing in my family when I was growing up.]
You compared a tangible item being divided amoung people to an achievement for humanity as a species. They are two different things.

That's my issue
I have had similar employees and sometimes they just aren't a good fit. But first, are you following all of the Scrum/Agile methodologies? Are you doing DAILY STAND UPS so the TEAM can help hold individuals accountable? Are you performing RETROSPECTIVES at the end of each SPRINT... you are doing short sprints right :) Is the team making the assignments (as they should) or are you? Also, get away from estimating in days and go with generic units, the Fibonacci Sequence would be my suggestion. Make sure the team is defining the tasks and voting on the effort required for each task. I would do this for a couple of months to let the team get into a flow and begin to learn how to estimate things. Then observer how your problem employee votes to see if they are particularly high or low and see how many tasks they complete compared to the rest of the team.

If after all of that there is still a problem, setup an End-of-Day meeting each day with the individual to go over what they accomplished that day... actually having them show you code, interface, documentation, something that they had accomplished that day. In collaboration with the employee setup reasonable expectations and goals that you (hopefully) can both agree on. If the goals are not met, write them up, rinse and repeat. After a couple of write ups suggest that they are not a good fit and should think about moving on, after three or so you should let them go.
What a New Kind of Environmentalism Could Look Like
Paywall / regwall / JSwall: https://scribe.rip/climate-conscious/the-book-about-nature-e...
From my understanding, US law is based on King George III, which inherently requires intent to be proven.

In other words, US law judges by intent vs actual action/damage.

One example of this is: Credit Card Fraud is prosecuted based on max possible theft vs money stolen.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/intent
Spack – A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions
Nice, played around the app it was super interesting and fun
Hey bud do you believe in numbers?

• In 2021, far-right terrorism accounted for 38 of the 77 (49%) domestic terrorism events in the US meaning far-right attacks remained the most frequent type of domestic terrorism[0]

• The far-left accounted for 40% of those. However, of the 30 actual fatalities from these events 28 of them were due to far-right attacks (93.3%). Only 1 of the remaining 2 fatalities was due to the far-left[0]

• This brings up another issue. One of the core beliefs of the far-left is that categorizing damage against property as "violence" and equivalent with violence against humans is a result of the elite class controlling our language and cultural categories. Previously this dataset even counted things like vegans freeing farm animals as "terrorism" and still includes attacks against pipelines as "far-left terrorism"

• Since 2015, right-wing extremists have been involved in 267 plots or attacks and 91 fatalities, the data shows. At the same time, attacks and plots ascribed to far-left views accounted for 66 incidents leading to 19 deaths.[1]

• In the past 6 years, at least 15 far-right attacks were against Black churches (e.g. New Shiloh Christian Center in Melbourne, Fla), 16 against mosques, and 13 against synagogues (e.g. Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel in Chicago).[1]

• 15 anti-immigrant-related incidents since 2015, resulting in 27 fatalities and dozens of injuries[1]

• Police officers, government officials and politicians also were targets in 2020 in at least 15 right-wing[1]

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/pushed-extremes-domestic-terro...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
Good find, had never heard of that (discovered by Darlene Hoffman of Los Alamos in some CA phosphate). Guess the word didn't get around very fast, the 'man-made element' claim was around for a long time.

Here's some more, from Sci.American Mar 1998: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-transuranic-el...]
Title substituted from the original, "The Book About Nature Everyone Should Read" based on a line from the essay as more descriptive and less clickbaity.

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