skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe? I don't know.

FWIW, macOS is my daily driver, and the last security-related hassle I can remember was related to installing an iSCSI kernel extension. IIRC it added 5-10 minutes to the task.

> (Also, MacOS is really BSD, isn't it? So there's not a million miles between that and Linux, security-wise.)

I wouldn't think so, but my Linux knowledge is shallow enough that I wish there were a secure-by-default Linux distribution that I could safely recommend to neophytes.
The original story in that is just a metafictional narrative device - the original "The Princess Bride" is the one written by William Goldman
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Ballmer was as bad as Gates (and seemed completely unhinged at times to boot), Nadella only looks good next to Ballmer but has done plenty of stuff that should have never ever happened.

All of them were present at MS when they pulled their 'millions of lines of code' bullshit in an attempt to kill Linux and harm FOSS.
Another factor is the consumers. They settle on a brand and refuse to try alternatives. Often for good reasons, but it still reduces competition.
Without vc, cheap and ad supported is reasonable. Vc pumping in millions and expecting returns that requires building a company is the problem

Does reddit really need, hr, middle managers, sales, marketing, design teams. It wouldn't if it had a focused goal. Now it has all sorts of crap and extra features to try be profitable.
It's not a full dataset per say, but you might be interested in Sebastian Starke's DeepPhase work [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/wAbLsRymXe4

[2] https://github.com/sebastianstarke/AI4Animation
I think this (non-market housing) [1] used to be a more prominent thing in Canada. Basically we used to have a parallel system that was based on fair value instead of price gouging. Once that was lobbied out of existence things started going down hill.

1. https://vancouversun.com/homes/government-support-crucial-to...
You probably misremember. Java was indeed installed on effectively all browser-capable machines from 1997-200x. All you needed was an <applet> tag, not an <object> or <embed> like other plugins like Flash. Speaking of Flash, it came preloaded for a time, but mostly rode the ActiveX wave for installs. You could not count on it being installed though. I vividly remember the fallback markup when it was unavailable.

Internet Explorer had 90% marketshare in the years around 2004. Netscape was dead. Mozilla/Phoenix/Firefox was a hopeful, not a contender. VBScript was everywhere IE was, and folks still preferred JS, even if their sites proudly proclaimed "Best viewed with Internet Explorer". In the late 1990s/early 2000s, MSDN was full of examples pushing VBScript. It became second nature to myself and coworkers to just reason out what the equivalent JS looked like on the fly. Microsoft absolutely tried its best to replace JS, but devs wouldn't have it, and the number of JS-powered sites was just too large for Microsoft to simply drop compatibility.

It was around that time that Microsoft stopped making updates of any kind to Internet Explorer for years. Folks today really don't comprehend the debt we hold to Mozilla for breaking out of the notion that the web was feature complete.
I hate the word “greedflation”. Greed is always there, reduction in competition and price fixing is not.
It's not the same because a patent is a time-limited monopoly on a technology. This means that patents can be used to block the progress of other companies.

E.g. if A patents X and some large company B wants to use X and A refuses, then B cannot use X even if they offer millions.
See the FAQ for an official answer - https://slashdot.org/faq

I probably got the telephone part mixed up but was right about being confusing to read aloud.

Can’t get a better source that /. itself!
That’s a great point. I didn’t know the patent office was _entirely_ funded by fees but that does indeed appear to be the case.

https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/performance-and-planning/budg...

> With full access to the fee collection estimate to offset total spending, the USPTO will use $32 million (net) from the combined operating reserves (ORs) in FY 2024, resulting in a net appropriation of $0.
I could glibly say the same about programming but it’s just not true. Anyone can learn to write a script to do some simple task, but they are not a programmer. The ability to go from a vision to a high quality output that accurately represents your vision requires years of work for most people, in any field.
>In theory, the data was provided willingly when collected.

That's spot on, and your analogy is a good one, except that in the realm of personal information, no warrant is required in the US.

There is quite a bit of law and numerous court decisions around this process in the US.

That jurisprudence is more generally called the Third-Party Doctrine[0]:

The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that
people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone
companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have "no
reasonable expectation of privacy" in that information. A lack of privacy
protection allows the United States government to obtain information from
third parties without a legal warrant and without otherwise complying with
the Fourth Amendment prohibition against search and seizure without probable
cause and a judicial search warrant.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

Edit: To clarify, I disagree with this doctrine and would love to see limitations on data retention periods as well as warrant requirements for access to such data.
Agreed. His first position on lockdowns is a GBD talking point that is strongly opposed by Sweden vs Norway through mid-2021 (the end of major vaccine rollout) when they had different positions on lockdown but shared many other characteristics. Sweden had 10x more deaths during that time period, about 1200 extra deaths per million people. It also completely ignores the morbidity introduced by all the extra cases while focusing on non-COVID morbidity.

That vaccines never did anything to prevent transmission is a pretty ridiculous contention for the initial wave.

That vaccines posed more of a danger to most of the population compared to COVID-19 itself is also ridiculous. The US had the largest vaccination drive in its history in early 2021, peaking at 3.5 million jabs per day in April. Excess death dropped dramatically throughout the rollout and kept falling past mid-2021.
In the US, Director's have a fiduciary duty to the company, and in particular a duty of loyalty. The duty of loyalty largely means that you must act in the interests of the company and its shareholders- this is where I think most people get to the 'maximizing shareholder value'.

However, afaik, as long as you act in good faith, and take due care, then I don't think there is any case law saying that if you decided that a lower profit margin (for instance), would be better for the company long term, even if some shareholders disagree, that you'd have any issues.

(ie, I think you're correct, it is totally overblown on the net that they MUST MAKE MONEY)
Having lived and worked in Montréal and Toronto before, I can totally understand that sentiment. People are priced out of Toronto making 110k$/year if they wanted to live in an urban city. So people just aren’t attached to it. They probably lived further near or into the GTA where it’s less urban, or were paying a 1900$/month rent for a small bachelor apartment and were constantly comparing their experience with the bill.

Montréal on the other hand, people will fight for. You can live here for (relative to Toronto) cheap, get the whole urban dream, and live around some very nice people that are equally proud of their city.
Run this thought experiment. In one world, every banker disappears overnight and banking becomes illegal, in the other, every social worker disappears overnight and social work becomes illegal. Which scenario leads to a worse world to live in? Which scenario causes more human suffering?
You obviously have not been around non-profit, government run entities. The waste they create, the inefficiency inherent in such enterprises is terrifying.

Yesterday I looked at a huge box full of perfectly fine laptops and monitors we will scrape because selling them or even giving them away would be inconvenient.

At the same time, I have to pay parts of a business trip out of my own pocket because I chose not to fly but to take the train. The best part: My trip was CHEAPER than flying. But it was out of regulation, so tough luck.
At this rate we're a couple of quarters away from her sending out an "our incredible journey" email announcing that Automattic is acquiring the remnants of the company for spare change and a promise never to release any internal emails.
I don’t think that’s fair. Presumably this wouldn’t apply to public figures - making “the president is a shithead” shirts illegal is the quintessential speech we need to protect.

From there, I really don’t see how one could draw a line with any meaningful efficacy. if I make a “coastal elites are shitheads” can any individual one of them sue me? If I make a “Steve is a shithead because he eats meat/scams people/[insert immoral-but-legal behavior]” shirt could he sue me? If a comedian makes a joke about somebody being a shithead, should they be liable?

All of this is besides the point though. I honestly was super shocked by your comment, because I didn’t know there were people out there who thought “being mean” should be _illegal_. Like, why isn’t it pro-social? Is it the governments place to enforce social etiquette?? Would be curious to hear an elaboration. Maybe your concern is specifically the profit part?
And do you realize that’s by taking the displays off of your desk you can have more of them? Oh, at any size and any location you want. You can continue using the input devices you like but now have as many displays as you want and you can take it with you easily.

You assume you will hate it, maybe you will. But maybe the future won’t involve dedicated furniture to put things on and cables connecting them. Maybe you’ll be able to work wherever you want and with the same amount of productivity. Or maybe even better productivity!

But you’re probably right, the future will never get any better, this device is pointless and will never lead to better versions of itself or point to other ways of working. Thank you, there’s no telling where we might end up without true believers of the status quo like yourself.
I'm pretty sure that Reddit doesn't have enough paid employees to undertake that sort of vetting at the scale required, even if they wanted to. I think they're probably just hoping and praying that this all blows over, that most mods are more addicted to their communities than anything else.

It's a very cynical move, but you've laid out in exquisite detail why it's their ONLY move, other than walking back their policy. While the company as a whole would benefit from that walkback, I think Mr. Huffman himself would probably lose his job.
Moral relativism aside, there’s a taboo against “punching down” in humor and comedy. It’s obviously a fuzzy heuristic but in general, people from Western imperial powers making fun of the people they’ve exploited is pretty far in the unacceptable column.

A caricature of a French, British, or German person in American media, for example, is much more acceptable than a caricature of a Chinese person.
As an Italian-American I find comments in this thread very very distasteful.

I am not a Berlusconi fan, and am disgusted by politics in general, but this guy was basically a JFK who got to live till 86 years old.

Corruption and ties with the organized crime? Those were the bread and butter for the Kennedy family, that's how he stole Illinois , how his dad made money with the contraband etc. and yet given that he took the bullet in Dallas and signed off the Apollo program everybody should get on their knees and genuflect and pay respects to the big man.

Airports and roads and everything entitled to the memory of the dude, but hey Berlusconi is an olive oil drinking devil and so we ought to celebrate his death, right?

The American melting-pot is an extraordinary feat but as long as Americans will keep treating other countries who made up the same melting pot with a different set of standards there will always be tensions. It is a melting pot but most people don't like insults to their country of origin and double standards for 2 identical political leaders just because one was born within the limits of the invisible border and has the Bald Eagle on the Passport.
This is an idea I've been toying around with; this hard part is just coming up with and/or validating ideas. On top of just cranking things out to keep you sharp, I particularly enjoy just being in contact of people in different industries.
My first thought is that there should be something like a star system, so I could also upvote something simple, without having to be afraid of lowering the value I gave to a complex, interesting, high-effort post I upvoted.
Shared space interaction was notably missing from the keynote. I'm very curious what the vision for the platform for it will be. Meta has put a lot of focus on it so there are a bunch of Quest apps and games where people inhabit the same phyiscal space and all the virtual objects are shared. I feel like it's essential for a platform like this to ultimately succeed, and curious that Apple appears behind Meta on this front.
It was significantly less useful — answers were behind a paywall.
Well thankfully shrinkflation is helping curb this. They now sell those mini-cans for as much as the regular sized one.
I moved to the usa from mexico around 10 years ago, I eat mostly the same as I did back then (mostly home made food) with around the same activity level and I still gained like 15 kilos
Copyright is supposed to protect and promote cultural works. When a copyright holder stops doing that, and instead actively makes a work harder to find in its original form, their rights to that work should be revoked.
And this option disabled by default of course
Ah, Black Hole Sun.
Possibly useful in the context of

Second Order Cybernetics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36301749 - 25 minutes ago (0 comments)
> The tyrannical behaviors are most often found in the former camp where being a moderator is synonymous with “internet power”.

What's old is new again, I suppose!

Similar happened on IRC back in the day. All the big channel wars and drama were over the big popular channels for internet points. I certainly participated in my fair share.

Then you had the small channels of folks who were just pretty chill chatting about whatever random topic of interest.

Might be nostalgia, but I still think the best balance of this was the phpbb/vbulletin era. The amount of "reference material" lost behind the walled gardens is crazy.
Yah the main feature I'm looking for on your site is to be able to create my own subs for different topics like I have on Reddit. I like the pay to vote feature, but missing subs is really a deal breaker.
> that's a hostile work environment lawsuit waiting to happen

If it could be won. It takes extremes for an effective lawsuit. Now they have a religious discrimination lawsuit. What is more likely is that this promotes a work environment that drives certain people away, which is something else his boss wouldn't want, and would have reason to fire him over.

As someone with OCD the fact that others tolerate my continuing use of a mask still doesn't make me comfortable when they refrain from using masks around me.
Key word here is that HE changed his mind and updated the chapter.

If someone else changes the text on a book from a dead author... how do you know the author would have liked that?

I remember a while ago I was reading on a stage play that's supposed to be only 4~5 men (no women on the play), and the - now dead writer - specified that this should never be changed. And some ppl try to do women-only, or mixed cast, and then the writer's estate sues and tries to intervene...
The headline leaves out a lot of details that are specified in the article:

- The guy works as a researcher for a state university, is paid $800k a year (how is this not a gross waste of taxpayer money!?)

- He sues the NYT and some other guy for libel / defamation

- The lawyer charges him over $1 million for the suits (how is a libel / defamation lawsuit that expensive!?)

- He doesn't pay his lawyers

- Judge orders his property to be seized, he files a motion saying "please don't take my super expensive artwork"..The lawyer that filed that motion would have to be dumb as rocks not to ask for payment up front, seeing how his client got into his current legal situation by not paying two other sets of lawyers
https://github.com/github-drama/github-drama/pull/46
best bet is privacy focused browsers, brave,
It is historical revisionism, and making superficial changes to it is overall harmful.

If a work is written by a racist author, changing a few words isn't magically going to make the author not racist. Their opinions will have influenced the entire story. The article clearly demonstrates this with the Death on the Nile example: the entire work is based on the framework of British colonialism, removing a few racist stereotypes isn't going to change anything about that! At best, you end up pretending that racism never existed - which isn't exactly a great thing to teach children either.

Works like that should be provided as-is, with the required context as to why the work is the way it is. If we want to provide children with works that are more up-to-date with today's society, then start providing newer works. It's not as if nobody has written a book in the last few decades!
I’m from Europe and had a similar experience on the first visit to the US. It’s like the sugar level is set to max for everything lol.
This is how trade secrets work, not patents. The main point of a patent is to encourage inventors to divulge their secrets, by promising them temporary exclusive rights to control their tech in exchange for a public, detailed description of how it works. Eventually, the patent will expire and the technology will enter the public domain for the good of society. Without something like patents, technology would be much more secretive.
>Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted.

I trust Microsoft far more than I trust Google.
I don't see this sentiment for the George Floyd riots that plagued the whole country for longer and did significantly more damage, instead of caring for corrupt politicians why not persecute those who robbed and stole from the common citizen.

If a protest doesn't make the news what's the point?
New York City Sets New Minimum Wage for Food Delivery Workers
I don't think anyone doubts that Reddit could pretty easily unlock those subs, but without mods there to run them it would be a legal nightmare. How long before illegal material was flooding the site beyond the capacity of the admins alone to manage?

I'd also worry that if Reddit moved in that direction, the mods would feel like they didn't have control over their own subs and bail. I don't believe that Reddit can afford that, especially given how many subs and what %age of the user base we're talking about here.
This is an underrated solution.

It's not cheap (especially with how badly people are gouging on the right eras of hardware), but there's nothing like period hardware for compatibility with that early 3D era.
I understand what you're saying, but that simply will not happen with something as widespread as Roald Dahl. Newspapers have always been ephemeral - books have not been. What would happen in Dahl's case is the price on the used book market would start trending upwards for the 20th century version, and at some point someone would decide to do another version to cash in and satisfy the demand.
There needs to be a limit on things you can upvote each month based on how much you give as a subscription. Each upvote should be worth at least 1 penny. If you agree to subscribe for $2 a month, that gives you a max of 100 upvotes (1 for each penny over the dollar server costs).

The more you donate, the more upvotes you get ($5 per month would give you 400 votes).
That's a strawman, though. Nobody made him yield anything.
Yes. It's something that could happen, but I don't think it already has. The CEO is usually more exposed to their own company than any other.
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Hey, if my money and property is “a necessary sacrifice” then who am I to argue? Come, live in my house; take some of my food. Do you need clothing? A car? I am at your disposal. Together, we can build a better economy (for you).
The even bigger reality is that people chase money and follow orders, even going against their better judgement or the interests of those they are charged to care for.

Anybody who believes there is an almighty assembly of "experts" out there with super-human integrity, incorruptibility, and infallibility, is sadly deluded.
"the statement "all Teslas are EVs" because of the one ICE conversion from Rich Rebuilds."

You can actually buy these CSS DC chargers online and have them installed. Comparing to something one-off rather unreasonable.
Burning Man is another village that is repeatedly ruined by strangers:

https://journal.burningman.org/2016/10/philosophical-center/...
Cool feature. But the blog post neglects to mention how to find and use it.
To be blunt, this had enough bugs out of the gate that I nearly didn't even finish registering! It feels like you rushed this out to capitalize on the reddit collapse, which I understand, but it may flop entirely because of these problems.

The registration kept failing with no indication as to why, just a red X on the button. I finally figured out that it simply didn't like my email address, trying a different one worked.

Then I tried to change my profile picture. That was failing completely silently; I guess .PNG files aren't excepted? I tried the same avatars that I use on every other site without issue. I did try a random .JPG, and that worked.

Opening the videos tab, none of the posts show the video, clicking on them doesn't expand anything, and the text isn't aligning, some of them randomly have the title in the center of the bar. I can't even figure out how to view the video.

This is on Firefox, latest version, no extensions.

EDIT: On further exploration, the submission description box has a bug. The first letter I wanted to type somehow got stuck as the last letter, and there was no way to delete/move it. "y description looked like this.M"
> Being able to sue anyone for anything is advantageous for the big dogs

Unless they can justify very high damages, they are predisposed to settling out of court. When you hire top lawyers, or have a massive legal department, you're paying a lot of money. Going to court is at best a gamble unless you have an obvious and solid case.

What this means is they use threats of going to court wrapped up in legalese in the hopes of getting their way out of court.

Unfortunately, the degree to which various districts earn reputations around being pro or anti patent means they're also advantaged in "shopping around", so to speak, to get any case they bring moved to a favorable court. This is the biggest thing that they can do that your average "small dogs" have a harder time with.

The worst has changed in the last year:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/patent-plaintiffs-scram...

but it'd be nice to see ways to make it more difficult to game the system by "judge shopping".
> state intervention would make property market unattractive

State intervention is why they are attractive in the first place.....