skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the definition is pretty clear in the DMCA, no need to play with words.

Corporations think the definition is applicable to anything under the DMCA. They play with words all the time.

> Sure, Google should keep linking to completely illegal content, correct? Scams, CP, drugs, all belongs to Google indexes, you say.

Sure, Google should keep taking down content on behalf of corporations, correct? SymPy docs [1], EFF tweets [2], product reviews [3], political speech [4], films of police [5], all targets for enforcement, you say.

There are abuses, pretty blatant abuses of DMCA in every corner of the internet. Most monopolistic platforms don't even get an actual human being involved to resolve issues.

Corporations might love the DMCA, but don't act like criticisms against it are unfounded.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31087175

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19663229

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5409525

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641094

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26082303
Arguably Twitter's refusal to honor the arbitration agreement should just invalidate the agreement and allow these to proceed as a class action.
There's plenty of food. Profits before people is the message: that people are stupid and expendable while corporations "know" better.
> overall it's a negative for society

I would disagree.

We shouldn't allow criminal behaviour to be tolerated just because it's white collar.

And the whole point of laws is to protect the vulnerable in our society which definitely includes the innocent employees who are being harmed for doing nothing other than working for Twitter/X.
It's not much different from a "bed slinger" 3D printer.
It looks neat, though it always seems strange to me when an ergonomic setup involves picking up one of your hands and moving it to the side often to use a separate mouse or keyboard. Is there not a better place to put it, integrated or slightly above or in the middle etc, to avoid having to change hand position all the time?
If I'm using a private window then my password manager logs me in with a single click/tap. Maybe you could benefit from similar usage
The biggest issue I see in that case is one of perverse incentives. It's not unheard of for municipalities to combine automated speed cameras with a reduction in yellow light time which does increase the number of accidents in exchange for additional fine revenue for the city. I'm very wary of supporting systems which reward bad behavior so directly from those leading the program.

https://ww2.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-sho...
My simple rules about money and investing for the future:

- Max out 401K and place it in S&P 500 mutual fund
- Take an additional 15% and but into an S&P 500 mutual fund
- Don't look at it, just keep buying at regular intervals until you decide to retire.

The rest of your money - do what you wish (within reason) and stay out of debt.

Simple? Yes.

Contrary? Yes.

Proven historical returns that beat inflation? Yes - https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1973?amount=1...

You can thank me when you retire :)
The fight to curb drug dealing in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district
Air and Space has been undergoing a massive renovation, and reopened the first half last year. That includes a very good Wright brothers exhibit, easily better (IMO) than the one at Kitty Hawk.

Beyond that, all the new exhibits are great. Highly recommended for anyone that has not been back since they reopened!
Found it by searching by the id in the original URL here

https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/74309951.mp3
That's not a "canonical" site either. That's the domain name of "Digital Millennium Copyright Act Services Ltd.", a company which deliberately (and annoyingly) takes the same name as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for SEO purposes. They don't want you to file your own DMCA requests, even though you can. They want you to fall for their trick of searching for "DMCA", and to use their services.

The canonical location to find the DMCA is the United States legislation, specifically the Statues at Large. On the other hand, the best place to find the DMCA online would probably be https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-105publ304 , which offers downloads in multiple formats. This is also linked from the Wikipedia article that was offered before.

Always check the "External Links" and "References" sections of a Wikipedia article if you're looking for canonical sources like this!
A certain former president has shown that you don't even need to do that!
Why every startup should be built on open-source
Earthwalker: Self-hosted GeoGuessr – multiplayer, no API keys needed
…which is exactly the problem. Our society has been structured around the idea that owning is more important than creating or doing.
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100B
Facebook Marketplace shutdown a home business
I read RNZ news and came across this article. I don't know this couple and I don't know if they did anything wrong, but what really bugs me is that major tech companies can do this without due process or penalties when they negligently get it wrong.

In New Zealand and many places around the world, governments cannot shut a business down without following due process. It seems tech companies make their own rules. How can tech giants do so in a way that affects people's livelihoods in a major way? For Facebook/Meta is it's a drop in the ocean - for this couple, it is their livelihood.
Meta question:

Does anyone know why negative Twitter/X stories tend to drop off the front page so quickly.

It is now ranked 65 despite having a lot of votes in such a short time period.

Just wondering if it's because it is heavily flagged or if the mods are intervening like they have in the past ?
Last time I used KDE, it couldn't find `ksplashqml`, and had to reinstall the OS (didn't know what TTY was at the time). It also frequently crashed three times, and counting. GNOME is minimal and out of my way. The only space GNOME Shell takes up is the top bar. Nothing more, nothing less. Not to mention the off-brand Hot Corner.
Strongly agree, but if it’s faster to cough up $3M to force arbitration to start while the enterprise still has value to extract vs waiting for a court to force it because of the bad faith actions of stalling, leaving you with potentially no enterprise value to extract when a court renders a judgement, that might make the path forward more obvious.

Regardless, I hope whatever actions are taken make the plaintiffs whole.
The #1 result I get is the wiki link to the scandal.

The #2 result is the wiki for the complex.
I was looking forward to the Kinesis Advantage360 Pro, since it solves some of the issues with the Advantage2. It supports three different tenting angles and is a truly split keyboard. However, the Advantage360 Pro was quite a disappointment. The keyboard, which is a hefty 650 Euro, was plagued with Bluetooth issues, the Gateron Brown switches were tiring for me, and Kinesis didn’t improve the thumb cluster. I switched back to my Advantage2 after a while and the 360 Pro was collecting dust.

I got a Kinesis Advantage 360 through Upgrade Keyboards: https://upgradekeyboards.com/collections/kinesis-advantage36... with Box White switches, and it's been great. Expensive, yes, but great. I got the wired version for the usual reasons ("he who knows wireless, chooses wired"). YMMV. I also like the brown switches but like speed switches or box whites better.
> you haven't seen Google return results that don't contain your search terms

Oh they absolutely do, and thank goodness. What turns out to be the most useful page often contains a synonym instead, which an exact query would have missed.

But I've never seen Google return results that don't have anything to do with my search terms at all. Is that a problem you've had? Do you have an example query?

The only bad searches I get are when a word/term has multiple meanings and the more popular one crowds out what I'm actually looking for... but then I just add terms to narrow it down and it fixes it.
My primary point is that there should be much, much quicker resolution of these cases, and when the facts aren't in doubt (e.g. contract says I delivered X, and if I did, I have the right to garnish wages/bank accounts/etc.) there should be a much faster pace to start requiring that the deadbeat pays up.

Taking the Twitter case, a lot of these folks were laid off nearly a year ago. Why is this still going on? Is there anything that could be more cut-and-dry: they were promised severance, in writing, in their termination agreements, and they haven't received it. As far as I'm aware there are 0 facts that are actually in dispute (save some of the highest up execs that were basically fraudulently fired "for cause", but that's a different story).

If Twitter wants to continue not paying them, they should have to file for bankruptcy, otherwise the laid off workers should get to take it straight from the Twitter bank accounts at this point.
We get it. You do 2 hours work a day from where you want and are paid a sizeable salary (possibly even overpaid).

There’s not much that is going to persuade you that freelance is ‘better’.
Once I wiped my account of marketing emails, the new ones that came in were glaringly obvious, and I unsubscribed from each one as they came in.

Gmail has a nice unsubscribe feature that another poster linked to an article about. It’s as easy as tapping the … menu and selecting Unsubscribe in the iOS app. It worked well for almost all of my unwanted subscriptions.

I am now deleting all unwanted email and maintaining a clean inbox with close to zero effort.
And they are completely free to add whatever terms they want to their employment contract, or to go solo and take all of the risk and all of the profit. What more would you want?
While I do think proof constructed code could be superior, I am not convinced for two reasons:

1. The problem expressed here has to do with a particular, well understood problem. It is not subject to the whims or constraint needs of the "customer". Proof construction is great when the problem is properly understood, I don't know how well it handles constantly changing requirements. (This encompasses business and interaction constraints too - perhaps you can construct a provable correct UI, but will it be engaging or usable?)

2. Test driven development can guide high quality code construction, arguably at lower construction cost. That is the reason I'd argue this has not taken off in comparison to traditional "test" based design.

You can argue it produces lower quality code, and you'd probably be right. But in comparison to construction of complex, rich design, I suspect that it produces faster results at lower cost. The provable solution will win out...eventually. Depends on whether it can make significant marker penetration once it is complete.

Nevertheless, yes of course we should be building foundations witb concrete not plywood and Styrofoam, so this is a good development. I do think a proper engineering approach with test based verification can build a "somewhat concrete" foundation, at least.
It's in keeping with traditional techpubs software being an unmitigated dumpster fire. :)

Not Vale, though. Vale's pretty slick; although personally I've always gravitated to RedPen.cc and LanguageTools[1] more than Vale. Grammarly, yes, Grammarly is also in this natlang linter space, but has possibly the least responsible data safety rules of any VSC extension I've ever seen. It's harsh, but I comprehensively advise customers away from Grammarly if they have any kind of data restriction at all.

[1] LT for no other reason than ASD STE-100 checking - it's old tech
Microsoft's Cloud is so grisly I don't think anyone on the technical side at my shop would want any more of it than has been shoved down our throats. Office365 takes the already bad Office "experience" to new lows. Sharepoint is the 40% solution to problems we don't actually have. The Cloud Drive is so clunktacular it is a chore to load or save anything. No way to map any of that to a shortcut so it is click, wait, click, wait, click wait. Per file. Teams does everything Skype does worse and more slowly.

We actually think that our IT and Microsoft are in it together and that we, the users, are their mutual enemy.
Drip Chamber
We’re not even talking about golden parachutes. Literally every employee had a severance package specified and agreed to in the sales contract. Musk straight up violated the agreement the first week.

The amount is negligible to the world’s richest man. He just violated it because he could.

http://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/elon-musk-...
Promissory estoppel / detrimental reliance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel
> Good thing valve has made it clear that if you’re using AI generated content that you don’t have fully copyright over it they’re not going to accept your game.

Valve isn't really a good example to use here... they have a policy of not hiring union VAs (and the few they have worked with in the last 5 years or so have been publicly mistreated, see how they treated Merle Dandridge) and have definitely made new lines by piecing together old recording sessions in cases where the actor wanted more money or in cases where the actor was deceased.
I reckon the missing objectivity you allude to is important for academics and art historians. However, Ad-hoc or informal grouping/labeling/critique of abstract visual concepts is really important for serious visual work, and definitely one of the fun parts. These are the sorts of groupings and terms I use when engaging with other artists, designers, art directors, etc. What we're trying to communicate resists verbal description because it is often complexly visceral and emotional with too many important details to single out visually let alone enumerate verbally, and it's all dependent on cultural context. Being able to take hunks of visual culture and conceptually manipulate them is central to our professional funtion.

My reasoning as a developer is like building with Legos, and when I'm doing visual work, it's like sculpting with clay.
Exactly: we already have plenty of areas where a civil case can turn into a criminal one like fraud (just ask Elizabeth Holmes).

Saying "we'll pay you severance" with 0 intention to do so sure sounds like fraud to me.
Legitimacy by jingoism: funneling trips, gifts, money, and jobs through an intermediary is a curtain of complexity patronizing credulity to misdirect and conceal criminality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel

Detrimental reliance/promissory estoppel.

If an employee continues to work under a contract, relying upon a promise that is later broken...
I think the person you're responding to meant search quality, whether you're getting relevant results for a combination of programming terms for example.

Not in terms of filtering illegal content. That's a separate issue that has nothing to do with quality.

And what the heck are you talking about with center-left? You can search for literally anything on Fox News and Google will find it for you. There's no evidence whatsoever of Google results trying to show political bias.

Indeed, to the contrary -- isn't the whole criticism of YouTube is that is sends people down rabbit holes of right-wing and conspiracy recommendations? How do you explain that?
VoWifi is using an ipsec tunnel for both SIP/RTP to the providers IMS stack. With its popularity I think it's likely network admins increasingly allow for it in networks you do not control.
I have long held that Twitter should have been bought by a consortium of media companies and run as a market utility. It’s been the media internet’s comment section for long enough that the BBC, MSNBC, Sinclair and even OANN ought to have understood the value of sharing it.
Anytime school textbooks are mentioned I feel the urge to refer anyone who'll listen to the relevant chapter of "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman" Feynman is popular around here and rightly so.

Blatant corruption from top to bottom is the norm, it would seem.

Feynman also loathed psychology and gave it as an example of "Cargo-cult science." Last I heard every single first year psych texbook contained the Stanford prison experiment as an example without mentioning how it was total rubbish. Is that /still/ true in 2023? Textbooks are weird.
exactly, besides I can't imagine that this game would exist without his full time job and time to experiment
If you're running in some theoretical fairy dust C++ spec environment sure, but in reality sparse is just a pointer and the compiler can't know its value, or whether or not it's "initialized".

Even if you construct a degenerate case:

int* sparse = (int*)malloc(100 * sizeof(int));
int x = sparse[40]; // provably unitialized

it still won't "optimize out" the access, since

1. it's insane. nobody would write such an optimization because there's no possible performance gain, and it changes program behavior

2. malloc is just a function, it's not treated in any special way

3. there's no guarentee this malloc is a per-spec malloc, it can be
a user-defined function for which this is perfectly valid
>"making things up" has been part of what Historians do since Thucydides

historians up until quite recently had nothing to do with the modern academic profession. they were paid writers who made tons of stuff up to sing praises to whomever would pay them.
The sub caption refers to “Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government.” The implication is that more government would increase life expectancy. The founding cultures are a real thing, but they don’t map in a stable way to partisanship. The south and Appalachia were core parts of the FDR coalition.

I suspect what you’re actually seeing is differences in food and lifestyle traditions.
Why put a "fairly involved" solar system on top of a truck when you could just put it on the ground in a sunny spot? Maybe solar farms are too boring and effective to excite investors...
Hmm interesting. Are these projects that were originally untyped but then gradually typed later? I ask because I've not really encountered that, the most I've had to do is add asserts or ifs to help explain to the typechecker something that I could see as a human. A few times in a gradually typed language I've needed to add an ignore to a line. But it's been rare in my experience.

I try not to think of it as whining, I try to think of it as the type checker helpfully pointing out, "hey, you haven't done your due diligence here." I ran into this advice when learning Rust and it made it much more pleasant. In the same way that you might chase a series of failing tests to finish a task, you can chase a series of type warnings. I have them integrated into my editor, so usually the "series" is length 1 because I'm knocking them out as they arise.

The projects I've worked with that were previously untyped (Python SaaS backends), I never actually ran the type checker on the entire source code. But if I had a megabyte of type errors that weren't really going to provide value to the business, yeah that would feel like a waste of time. Unless we were having serious quality issues and it was between annotating the entire codebase and rewriting it from scratch, I'd leave well enough alone - it's a tool, not a religion. But the new code I'm checking in, that's getting annotated for sure.

I don't really see types as arbitrary absolutist rules. They're the semantics of the language, they're the rules you're following whether you have a typechecker or not. And if you violate them you're gunnuh get bugs and crashes regardless. I too am a flawed human who frequently makes mistakes, and I like having them caught immediately, before I've even checked my code in.
I was referring to the GP argument that was specifically asking about exec payouts, not the broader point of the article that Musk is just stiffing these people just because he can.
Renderings show new CA city that tech billionaires want to build in Solano
LOL!! China's second largest brewery. And wine is out too. Even 1 or 2 drinks has been shown to make you live a shorter life.

https://newsroom.uw.edu/media-coverage/there-no-safe-level-a...
I've tried it on the buyer side and anything less than $50/hour can't speak proper English. It's definitively cheaper but not significantly; and if you add the struggle of going through all the profiles, then the price will match reality.
I think "The Spy" is a better stand-alone book than any of the Smiley trilogy books are. It's not as interesting as Honorable Schoolboy, but it's more tightly plotted and asks some of the same questions in a more interesting way.

Cormac McCarthy I'd start with Blood Meridian. But le Carre, I'd start with "Spy".
Nice size, rigid, satisfying spring action, convenient reading and writing noises.
Funny, I see the problem in the opposite direction.

Google results seem perfectly fine to me, and I know they have metrics that track how well it performs. And it's their golden goose, so it doesn't make any business sense that they wouldn't maintain its quality.

The "religion" seems, to me, to be people who keep insisting its results are getting worse. And I don't get it, because I just don't see it at all in my own experience. As far as I can tell, it's just anti-Google bias or something.

This thread has someone else asking for actual examples of where Google gives bad results and other search engines are great. And once again, nobody seems to be able to provide any. If Google really were declining, you'd think people would have put together objective evidence around it, because it'd be a heck of a news story.
I'm not convinced this is adequate, your specifications will be come rather unweildy.

If you employed this approach, I would want to pair it at a minimum with a test suite.

Even then, how do you know that your system (covered by hill climbing suites of tests that pass), has correct behavior for all things you didn't specify?

You don't. Better to build from the ground up formally than fight with "AI" that probably got it worse than wrong first try.
As far as is publicly known, the failure has occurred three times, and has led to two crashes. It is possible to recover from if you know what you're looking for and you act promptly. However, Boeing did not tell pilots what to look for.

The pilots did not diagnose it as stab trim runaway because it's not stab trim runaway. When MCAS is malfunctioning in this way, it engages nose down trim for 9.3 seconds, and then pauses for 5 seconds. A runaway trim is where you have a stuck trim microswitch or relay or some sort of short circuit. You're expecting a continuous trim input. The confusing thing about MCAS is that it appears to resolve itself, but then waits 5 seconds and comes right back.

By the way, the wheels going clack clack is a normal thing at that phase of flight. The 737 has something called Speed Trim and another thing called Mach Trim that automatically adjust the trim as the speed of the aircraft changes. In the initial climbout, this will be running constantly.

Both the speed trim and mach trim systems are documented in the 737 manual and pilots are required to know how they work to get a type rating. The workings of MCAS were deleted from the manual before it was released because Boeing was concerned that the FAA would require more training on the system, which would cause Boeing to have to pay a contractual penalty to Southwest Airlines.

edit:

Also, Boeing's own test pilots failed to respond promptly to this failure in the simulator: https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/aircraft-propulsion/b...

It's very easy as a pilot to say that you would do a better job and something like this would never happen to you. The earth is pockmarked with the smoking holes of these people's airplanes.
If you are paying taxes, you should get a new accountant.
Did you read the article? It says that they catch fire rarely, less often than anticipated and less often than gasoline-powered vehicles.