skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author argues that it would be okay to object to what Warhol has done if it were already well established that what he did was a violation of fair use, but that it can't already be considered well established because otherwise there wouldn't be a lawsuit about it.

But there are plenty of instances where clearly established precedents nevertheless require lawsuits for their enforcement.
"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." - Kendi

Kendi is a key promoter of "anti-racism", which is described in the above quote.

Many institutions are signing on to this agenda, which requires people to view everything through this ideological (social justice) lens and to participate in discriminatory activity as described above. This lens ensures that instead of seeking truth, you will just find more social injustice. A demon under every rock, if you will.
No need to apologize. Thank you for your investigation so far.

> Edit: upon some further investigation, the CSS is inverting the elements correctly, except the html (or maybe body) background from white to black. Chromium seems to not want to do that. Now I'm curious and gonna find out why tomorrow

I think this is an implementation mistake by Chromium? Body is a subset of HTML, and body sets the background colour? This is probably related: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61265706/2847743

EDIT: Maybe try switching `html` for `body` in the CSS?

UPDATE: I pushed some new CSS:

html{filter:invert(.9);font:2em monospace;width:9in;margin:auto}

As a workaround it inverts at 90%, so should leave the text at least readable if the inversion fails.

I also realized it no longer was within the 64 bytes I claimed, so I did some work on reduction too.
I'm all for changing copyright to allow the stuff Warhol did, but I don't think this is substantially different at all. It's a direct copy of a picture with a coloured background. The angle, lighting, position, and expression, all probably directed by the photographer, are identical. This is the manual equivalent of an Instagram filter.

The two images don't compete in the same market, but that's not relevant for copyright. I think it perhaps should be, but as it stands, the law shouldn't be interpreted like this.

Imagine another type of copyrighted work, such as open source software, being reproduced against the terms of its license but with all names (variables etc.) changed, perhaps translated into another language or capitalised. The style of the work has definitely been changed, much like Warhol's style is very different from a photograph, but the product is very much a derivative that should be used in the terms set forth by the original author.

Also consider the effect this would have on the internet: if Google/Facebook/Bytedance were to be allowed to just scrape images online and sell them as their own after applying a black-and-white filter, any photographer would probably be up in arms.
How was the illustration actually created?
The site seems to have lots of eclectic collections of photos - I've enjoyed their curation.
> As a gamer, I think Stadia failed because the system they created doesn't make sense. You had to buy games at real $40-$60 prices but you could only play them through this limited service. I don't think anyone wants that.

That’s where the market is moving towards however. A lot of the game you "purchased" on the other platforms refuse to work if you can’t connect to their weird anti-piracy scheme.

I agree with the article. Stadia was an interesting offer. The revolving free games coming with the pro subscription was a good deal and the idea of being able to keep playing games at their rendering best without having to fuss and constantly upgrade a PC - by far the worst platform to game for occasional players like me - sounded great.

Stadia issue was for most it wasn’t offering what it claimed to offer. Games didn’t look that good on the free tier for exemple and as pointed no one trusts Google so I didn’t want to invest more than the strict minimum. Apparently I have played Cyberpunk for free so that’s nice.
Here's your first essential realization: the thing that you do for money does not define you as a person.

Imagine that tomorrow your job changes. All your old projects are cancelled, and your new project requires you to remotely supervise an automated sawmill. You have a dozen camera views, five ways to unjam the machine, and something that needs a little bit of attention from you once every five minutes or so. Your pay and benefits remain the same. The hours are fixed: if you do the job competently, you get a five minute break once an hour, an hour for lunch, and a 15 minute break in mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

After a day or two, there is nothing of intellectual interest here. Nothing will change. Your work is necessary, but it does not march towards any goal other than the total wood sawn at the end of the day.

How does this change you?

You are definitely without useful autonomy. You are a cog in a machine. You don't work with anyone, really. It is not going to be fulfilling.

But this is so different, because you don't have the expectation that somehow, this remote wood-cutting work is supposed to fulfill you. You will need to define yourself in other terms: as a person who is part of their community, who has interests and hobbies outside of work.

The hard part is the deep understanding that work is not life, and that your feeling that work is supposed to address your non-material needs is orthogonal to the reality of work.

There are jobs that connect you more deeply to your community, or try to fix the world as a whole. But on a daily basis, they still involve tasks that are not intrinsically fulfilling.

The meaning is what you put into it.
I think both sides are right, and that this is another example of why copyright is not a good abstraction. It ultimately doesn't make sense because the way we learn how to do things is by imperfectly copying each other. Being successful means to successfully produce a stylish, architectural variation of combinations of fragments of things that you've seen before.

Part of the quality judgement on a work is in the nature of its comment on what has come before. This is whether you're putting on a play, designing a skyscraper, or designing the API to a website that keeps track of people's coin collections. If you fail to stylishly or profoundly reference things that have come before, your art is probably bad.

edit: and by "I think both sides are right" I mean that I think the pieces of art are completely different to the point of barely resembling one another, just the shape has been retained. I also think that the photographer contributed as much to the work's construction as the artist, and deserves as much of the profit and say in the decision-making about how it is used. And I should use collective pronouns for the artist, because Andy Warhol likely just told somebody to paint on the photograph, and suggested colors, then approved the best of 10.
A good decision, because everyone can have an opinion. But it's the decision of the artists/organizers how much a ticket costs. If they want to make money, they can charge it, if they want equal opportunities for their fans, they decided it that way. You have no say in that and neither do scalpers or resellers.

edit: fix wording
Thank you.

Haidt is peeved that his professional org (SPSP) has a new anti-racism stance, and he finds one articulation of anti-racism (from Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Antiracist) problematic, so he’s bailing on SPSP.

And you would think, from reading all his many many words that SPSP understands anti-racism to be exactly as Kendi does, hence his action. But no, tucked away at the very bottom in footnote 4, he acknowledges that Kendi’s definition is not determinative for SPSP, according to the SPSP itself. But then he says basically “we’ll that’s not how I read it”.

The contrarian dude is not completely intellectually honest about his motivation. And he needs a better editor.
The NHS posesses the largest, most-complete collection of national medical and health data in the world. Certain senior managers have been trying to share that collection with private firms for years.

There have been various contortions along the road; initially, the plan was that all GP surgeries would be required to upload patient data to the (shareable) national collection. The government partially backed down, allowing patients to opt out of that kind of sharing. A separate opt-out was required for data concerning hospital treatment. Both required patients to acquire and submit a paper form; there was no opt-out website.

Then they changed the structure of the sharing system a little, rendering prior opt-outs moot; you had to opt-out again.

You'd think the government would be able to make a lot of money out of this data; but one of the scandalous early deals they made was to sell the data of a million patients to the Society of Actuaries. For £3,000. Actuaries work for insurance companies; and insurance companies would dearly love to get their hands on people's health data. But £3,000?

Now Palantir's core business is collecting data. It isn't a medical company. Corellating "anonymised" data is what they do. They are hostile to privacy, and they are famously secretive.

There are people in government who want to privatize the NHS completely. Unfortunately for them, the NHS is probably the most popular institution in the UK; so they salami-slice. Various NHS services are privatized by stealth; the last CT scan I had was conducted in a van in the hospital carpark, run by some US health conglomerate. Various testing services have been fully privatized, with the original NHS services shut down.

So there are two threads behind this story: the creeping privatisation of NHS services, and the involvement of this creepy company in handling patient data.
> make sure that these essays cover main life lessons, right?

interesting approach :)

I'm Hungarian, we had to "study" a few of the classics (some Russians included too). I never read any of them. We were supposed to read them during the summer break. I fell for that in the first year. Fuck that. Still managed to pass the tests, but there was no requirement of writing essays, or distilling great conclusions, or life lessons from the books.

But spent my youth glued to other books. And as the years went by I just noticed I don't really want to read about other people's misery in so much detail thank you, at least add some interesting details, like in crime thrillers.
That’s not actually true either but good try.
Solve Problems Worth Solving
I worked on an eye tracking project that compared the difference between the way artists and non artists look at images. Very interesting. Non artists tends to dwell on faces, hands and other evidently interesting things. Artists find interest in less obvious thing… odd angular protrusions, unexpected colors etc.

It also showed me how active and (frankly) jittery all human vision is: never resting, scanning. Also... unexpectedly, we seem to evaluate objects according to their features (points, blobs, angles).
Everything is not For You: Focus on What’s for you
Fove [0] built a headset with eye tracking features. I had a senior project trying to use it for visual field testing in 2017.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fove/fove-the-worlds-fi...
I think you misunderstand Shadow. It’s just a cloud PC. Any games you buy are unrelated to Shadow. You can stop paying whenever you want, and the games are still yours. You just reinstall them when you start up you Shadow subscription again. This is what I do. If you buy a physical gaming PC at any point, you just install your games into it, rather than Shadow.

And, there hasn’t been a waitlist for some time now. At least in California. I was up and running within 30 minutes of starting my subscription, and can cancel any time.

And, regardless of the exact implementation, the Shadow approach is infinitely more desirable to me than the complete lock in, and limited selection, of Stadia.
Blender is not a library or component. It's a thing you install and use. A "leaf" software.
Not sure I can offer advice, just an anecdotal observation from a fellow hacker.
I used to care _a lot_ about work which netted me several startups CTO gigs, since people want caring people working as their leads, generally.

But at some point I was thrown into a situation where I lost a 10 year old relationship, and had to rebuild my life from scratch, and realized that for me, caring for my work environment was mostly because I had a stable and nice environment at home, and needed to take on challenges and risks somewhere, so naturally the workplace provided such an outlet.

Once I was “alone” I suddenly could take much more risks and excitement from my personal life, so work became not that important - got a sailing license, a motorbike license, traveled the world, started latin dances, stuff like that - things that I always wanted to do, but dismissed as “too risky to even attempt”.

I guess I will always have a “risk appetite” where I express it though is up to me. So far I like where my life is going :)
Haha, awesome. Welcome to Hacker News!
My small vps has been hit with thousands of attacks for the last decade or so and I always liked going through the logs and looking at what's going on from time to time.
It gets even weirder when you consider blind spots. The hardware has a pretty big design flaw, that the signal wires are routed in front of the active sensors instead of behind. As a result, there's a big bundle that needs to pass through the sensor array, resulting in a blind spot. This is fixed in software, by interpolating nearby inputs before presenting it to the user (i.e. your conscious mind).

Saccades also present a hardware limitation. During rapid movements, the eye can't focus correctly. To improve the overall UX, we throw away those frames entirely, reconstruct them with a linear interpolation of the next few frames, and call it a day. It does introduce some lag, but the user-level process is usually lagging behind anyways, and doesn't notice the input lag so long as we backdate the timestamps.
> Instead of staying and pursuing collective change they take care of themselves and leave.

Extending this to majority of Iranian women/men is wrong, as evidenced by what is happening in Iran right now. Most of them are in Iran, in the forefront of this "collective change". Only 4M out of 88M [1] are out for various reasons.

I think this is a kind of survival bias, where you talked to the ones, who wanted to "get the hell out of Iran". Even many of those who live outside, dream about coming back sooner or later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_diaspora
I'd encourage you to check out EndeavorOS. While they did have a breaking update of their own, I have much higher confidence in them delivering a consistent experience than Manjaro.
This sounds like a job for my guru Self-help Singh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxwY3Fz2gU

Seriously, though. I don't know how to stop caring because I've never cared. I only care about things outside of work. My friends, family, myself, our health, our society, the world, my hobbies and interests. Work is a thing I only do because I must in order to survive in this capitalist system that I would prefer to be overthrown. I am so brazen that I have openly expressed this attitude to my employers.

If I had cared and tried harder I probably could have had much more money, but I have plenty. More than most. If the company I work for fails, who cares? Not my responsibility or problem. I work according to what is written in my job description, and that's it. Work is a purely transactional relationship.
I can think of only three or four times in the last 5 years I've encountered sites that only offer third party SSO, and all of them I decided as not being worth my time. It's about as many as have decided that magic links are a sign in option they want. Sites are thankfully hesitant to play around too much with sign up options that might exclude some users
Inconveniences with Conventional REST APIs
Think of it as refactoring your brain. There are belief systems that depend on one another and you can't easily swap one out for another without it spilling into dependent systems.

The big bang rewrite of your brain isn't a possibility just like it isn't one for codebases. Viewing the riddle this way will let you put the fun part of your profession in the driver's seat. What will you change to make the 'impossible' possible?
Google is known for launching and then soon killing its projects, and game platforms are built on long term trust and momentum. That's why Stadia never got the momentum it needed.
People have bills to pay, and programming is one of the more acceptable ways to do it.
Debian votes for non-free firmware in the installer
The key quote is this: "most academic work has nothing to do with diversity, so these mandatory statements force many academics to betray their quasi-fiduciary duty to the truth by spinning, twisting, or otherwise inventing some tenuous connection to diversity."

In other words a researcher studying a topic unrelated to diversity will need to lie by claiming that there is a link.
I have never realized the similarity between VR and lucid dreams is because of missing depth. Thank you for this. :)
A computer script made me redecorate my office
My feeling was Go was a project that came out of the idea of making a language to reflect the ethos of their C++ style guide from years ago. The focus on reducing complexity felt like a way to make it easy for them to hire/onboard grads etc.
Titles like Dr. are protected by law in many countries, so the answer probably still is "it depends", considering regional differences
You need to diagnose something on your laptop that has stopped accepting input or with a blank screen. plug in your Android phone, enable USB tethering, ssh in.

You are on holidays, your need to help someone (or yourself) with some server issues. Use your teminal to ping them, ssh, etc. Later, no Internet at your rental house. No computers. Fire up the terminal,diagnose the issue. nmap the network if you need to find the IP of something (also, to check for cameras? IDK).

It's just a huge toolbox, batteries included. You might not need it. It can certainly come handy, especially if you have no Internet to download the corresponding app.

I don't use it often, but when I do, it's much better to have it than not having it.
"it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder"
(Lennon/McCartney)

> How can I just stop caring?

Don't. Your ability to care is the only thing that separates you from
a dumb machine. In the future that skill will be a most valuable asset
if you want work in a world of "AI".

Don't confuse stress with caring. Use your care to fight the machine
and the idiots, and if you can't win then kill the shitty job, not
your precious capacity to care. Take your care somewhere more
deserving.
> I hope we can agree that's bad

No we can't agree on that. There is no obligation to be polite.
You can use NNW with a Feedly account. Then you can still use the web UI or other clients on non-Mac platforms, and your feeds are kept in sync everywhere.
It's very common on HN to forget that Macs have only a 10% share of the laptop market for sure
2019 is a long time ago in this space.

I would be more interested in a recent comparison that uses WASI instead of Browsix-Wasm.
It isn't complicated it's just one push button - but it isn't the default and so you're going to need to persuade somebody they should turn it on.
The EV to drawing another card is going to be tied to the probabilities of continued random walks eventually landing on higher scores than you currently have. You stop as soon as the EV is negative (or 0 if you’re not a gambler).

That calculation is presumably the tricky part… integrating over Pascal’s Triangle or something. But it must be positive to start: If the first card is red we have already gained, and if it’s black we’re at worst back where we started.
I agree that Warhol has done something different, but it's entirely derivative to the original image, I can't see how there would ever be a question of whether he copied the image, he did.

For Fair Use one asks if the copy is transformative, ie for a different purpose to the original, but it clearly shares the purpose of representing Prince.

[Outside the USA, where we don't have Fair Use, this presumably would be tortuous infringement.]
How is that transformative? It's just a copy of the photo with some level adjustments and background colors. Takes about a couple of seconds to reproduce in your favorite photo editor.
Show HN: mvSQLite v0.2
Hello HN! Today I published the v0.2 release of mvSQLite, the open-source SQLite-compatible distributed database built on FoundationDB. This release has gone through a few months of testing, benchmarking and dogfooding since v0.1 and is the first stable and performant production-ready version.
I think this is exactly what they’re talking about. In no way did the grandparent endorse or glorify Wallace; his implication was that Wallace would have been less popular had he and therefore his opponents been heard. But in this environment, merely suggesting a person should be heard is taken as a strident endorsement.

Another more extreme example would be the Nazis. They went through early political suppression and existed in an environment where organized political street violence was already common. Who knows what the counterfactual was, but censoring and punching Nazis did not stop their rise. The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans is a good book on this. It certainly seems that extremism is fostered by such environments.
How Realistic CGI Works (and How to Do It Way Faster)
No, he is right with the hard workout or whatever hard one wants to do. The important part is the "hard" part because it is what generates meaning & self-esteem.
People then at least have something in their life (especially if they are stuck in their workplace) which bring them forward.
The source doesn't actually say whether submissions not advancing "SPSP's goal of promoting equity, inclusion and anti-racism" would be accepted though.

They would pass the reviewing process where they would receive the lowest score on the "3-point rating scale".

It would also mean by negation that the submission did not employ "diverse research participants", "diverse research methods (e.g., methodology that promotes equity)", or "diverse members of the research team", which basically would be viewed as a self-indictment in our political climate. Nobody with an interest to succeed would willingly arrive at this conclusion, they would view it as necessary to avoid it (like by making up reasons as to why the submission advances anti-racism).

In other words, the requirement to include the statement is a way of enforcing the stated goals and policing the researchers' conformity.
That isn’t true and we both know it

https://scholarshare.temple.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.1261...
All they see is ciphertext unless they’re terminating TLS and forwarding your traffic on to the target website.
We all have different definitions of cosy software, but mine would be software that feels right, and slightly magical.

I remember trying out Python and getting butterflies in my stomach. MacOS gave me the same feeling back in 2012.

The most recent one for me is Procreate. It manages to both work as a simple sketch book replacement, and a Photoshop equivalent. It's a treat to use.