skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This drives me up the wall. I recently moved to a newly refurbished apartment in the Netherlands. The fiber connection is terminated outside in a utility closet on the balcony. Okay, fine.

The apartment has Ethernet wired to each room, that also runs back to the same closet. However, all of the ISPs issue a standard modem/router combo. If I leave the router in the closet outside, I have basically no signal inside, but I could wire up the Ethernet. But then I need extenders plugged in and taking up my wall jacks just to have wireless in my 75sm apartment.

I ended up using the plugging the router in inside and running the WAN connection over the cable to the outdoor closet. So I have no Ethernet but at least the wireless speeds are acceptable. On my M1 MacBook Pro, I get about 750mbps symmetrical in the living room and 600 in my office. Good enough I guess. My game console is plugged into the router directly.
Derivative work has a specific meaning in copyright law, there has to be something in the output, and that's not the case here. Otherwise every single owner of 5 billion images could sue you for your "cat at a cafe" midjourney picture.

Judge Orrick in one of the US cases already called this idea 'nonsense", his words.
We both know, unless you are operating with deliberate ignorance, what various authorities with a history of checking past claims have said about the reported M&M stats, eg:

No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

and numerous others.

Are you saying the IDF has had troops on the ground in Gaza verifying the M&M stats? Or are you simply stating that you believe the IDF?

Either way, as neither of us are an expert here I suggest you take this up with The Lancet and the UN, etc.

I have stated as a simple matter of verifiable fact that vastly more precision is both possible and achievable today in 2023 than was the case in WWII night time bombing.

The IDF are hitting the targets that they have chosen to hit.

If they have poor intelligence then perhaps they should not fire their weapons.
OP might have voting manipulation going on
The defendants will evidently claim transient copying.
The CEO of the last startup I was at was like that. Very much an archetype in my mind now. I will never work with someone like that again.
That is a fallacy. The artists tend to gain with it, for one piracy boosts concert sales (https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-boosts-concert-ticket-sales-...). Box office revenues are hurt but the last Hollywood strikes just showed us the corporations couldn't care less about the artists.

Only business models that rely on monopolies are harmed.
Glad you use matrix and not discord!
> But when you want to do research, design great composible systems, be creative, write good code, it is better to do it casually.

As a fellow ML researcher, I actually have a good answer to this. It's a creative task, not a labor task. Creative tasks require your brain to be exceptionally flexible and to view things from unique perspectives. Research is literally creating something that no one has thought of before so you clearly have to do things no one did before. Plus, the truth is that if you're a researcher, do you ever really "stop"? Because I'll even be sitting down playing videogames and sometimes thats when ideas come to be. Other times when I'm out for a walk. Sometimes it's also when I'm deep in the codebase tearing stuff apart because it's already 5 levels of spagetti figuring out exactly what each line does and thinking a lot about it and its connection to the rest of the program (seriously, we could do a lot more testing if we'd rewrite code from the ground up. Not doing this is like thinking your first attempt at anything is good. Idk about you, but my first attempts are absolute shit and I've learned a lot by the next go around). But all those things are connected together. Because science is very much an art. My best ideas always come from after time I've taken off which is usually long overdue (as in I can barely name 2 realistic vacations in the last 5 years), but exactly like you say, it feels like I can't take the time.

> The moment I try to talk about the creative type of work my colleagues look at me like I'm making excuses or that I'm a slacker.

Just me and the teams I've worked on/with or are these people also typically low productivity and not the most creative? The type of people that treat science as something you can just hammer away at like there's a clear algorithm to solving any problem. I know it's wrong, but that shit gives me mad imposter syndrome.

Like our literally job is about optimization. You think we'd be able to at least optimize a work day, or maybe a month?
It is also immoral to delete bought content from users' devices
> why would anyone go to the trouble of carrying something empty?

1. It's new.

2. You're going to load data onto it at your destination.

3. You carry it in case you need to copy data.

I often carry an empty messenger-bag; a USB drive is a lot less trouble to carry. In fact you can easily lose one in the corner of a pocket, and carry it inadvertently.

Provided it had never been written, I would regard an empty USB drive as unremarkable, and not grounds for suspicion. But you can't buy a new USB drive with a hidden partition.
A more specific, practical and workable discussion than questioning the morality of it is on the perspective of how (and why) the law should balance, in the short and in the long term those interests that should be converging: artists, general public, production/distribution/rights management companies.
I find your posts fascinating - after working in the content industry for awhile, it's very easy to see (and confirmed with repeated studies) that DRM doesn't significantly affect or prevent piracy. Not to mention that there's a constant stream of more and more anti-customer requests coming from content provider lawyers. Requests that would make your head spin at just how fundamentaly evil they are (most of them... for now... can be pushed back). Remember, those dudes had the idea to attempt to make physical media that rot away after few days of use.

You are hugely, hugely wrong in the basic premise that actual reality of piracy is something that even comes close to reasoning for people who put these anti consumer practices in.

Use your brain - DRM allows them to increase profits even without piracy (by taking away consumer rights like second sale doctrine and ability to share content with your friends and family). You're seriously implying it's a bit of piracy that's making them say "yes, let's make sure everyone buys their own copy of the movie"? Do you think copyright protection laws were extended to 70 years+death of the authors because there were too many pirates copying Mickey movies?
The new Google Titan keys can store hundreds; sadly not even sure if I can get one here.
Well.. I’m further north east and my experience is somewhat different. My only point was that Europe is not as homogenous as some people keep implying (most people still primarily communicate in their native language which creates a lot of more or less isolated bubbles)

> and still don't understand why the colors of the messages in green or blue matter

Because it indicates a fallback to standard SMS/text messaging which means all the more advanced features (which everyone expect messaging apps to have these days) stop working if you get a text from an Android device.
We tried something similar once. It broke down quickly, led to the rich owning everything, required a surveillance nightmare to function, and left a permanent scar on the world. I don’t think we should in engage this idea again.
Bao (包子) is usually referencing a steamed bun, for those interested.
Theoretically, you would be right. However, it did reach the state of limiting ownership when the providers started changing the terms of service making the copy you have not entirely yours. Nothing forced them to do that except their own interests
The most astounding statement is this:
“What do Americans have to pay for if we give them everything they ask for?” they noted. These sources insist that Spain openly collaborates with the United States, and always exchanges information. According to these sources, the number of times in which Spain has refused to share information of interest to Washington is “between one and zero.”

Either this is a lie, the USA and Spain have zero competing interests, Spain absolutely ignores it's own laws and regulations or Spain gave up on being an independent country. I can't imagine a world where the USA shares everything with Spain, so I can't image why would Spain share everything with the USA.
> My wife won't use Signal because it includes a crypto wallet and crypto transactions are taxable.

I think the crypto wallet is lame, and am disappointed the Signal folks decided to integrate something like that, but it's entirely opt-in. If she doesn't want to worry about being taxed on crypto transactions, she can simply not use that part of the app. I actually forgot for a second it was there until you brought it up, and I'm a daily Signal user.
I wish watching ads on Facebook was treated as personal income that you have report to IRS. Social graph would fix itself in a nanosecond.
> everyone who you'll encounter in the activity

You have a far smaller chance of encountering the person who puts in 3 hours and then quits. The average encountered participator is much more skilled than the average participator.
There is no singular conception of The Social Contract, nor indeed of morality.

You’re making a point about how you feel about it without presenting an argument.

The discussion of harms or lack of harm from piracy has been raging for a long time. It’s not going to be solved by appealing to the idea of right and wrong. It’s not universal in this instance which is why the argument continues.

You would have a point if everyone agrees it is wrong but some people do it anyway. However, that is not the case.
Honest question: has your implementation of copy protection increased your revenue and decreased your support request by an appreciable amount?
What is Rust missing out on?
My guess is: they got a MBA bureaucrat who is mostly adept at increasing his own power as a leader, instead of a technologist who truly values innovation and building quality products.
Theft has specific meaning in law, and it's reserved for physical property (or unique digital assets and financial instruments like bonds).

Copyright uses infringement, which is not theft: it's non-rivalrous, and it contains a number of exceptions.
> Yeah dude I totally love it when journald eats my logging and power interruptions create unrecoverable log loss!

So does everything else, because of consumer drives. Fun fact: filesystems by default only guarantee the integrity of the filesystem's structure itself. The promise is that after power loss, the basic structures of the filesystem won't be corrupt, but makes no big claims of reliability about the data written. Blocks of random junk in your data, blocks of NULLs, even parts of other files (maybe deleted data) are all things I've seen happen.

Databases and the like take serious effort to ensure safety, but that greatly slows down performance. So it's kind of a hard sell for a log system that's not supposed to be a performance impact.

For this contingency, you can do log shipping, but in general, system logs shouldn't be expected to be reliable in the face of a crash, since to my knowledge all normal daemons (including rsyslogd) buffer data before flushing to disk.

> You can forget just mounting a drive and checking its journald logs -- your machine has to be started by systemd in order to read journald logs!

No, it doesn't. There are file arguments to journalctl. Read the manpage, sheesh.

> I totally love it when liars frontmanning the project say it's a project and an init system and a system layer that will replace everything. But it won't! Pay no attention to the inconsistent messaging, the "gentle pushes" to get other distros to use it, etc.

Meh. Paranoia.

> Also, let's not mention he basically hoodwinked the entire community by switching teams to Microsoft. And people like you eat his work up! Are you sure you like free software?

Free Software is a licensing/distribution concept completely unrelated to whether one likes or not Microsoft's technical decisions. Some I really hate, and some are actually pretty cool.

I'm for Free Software because I like the licensing philosophy, not because I believe Unix is the best thing since sliced bread. In fact I believe Unix started as a bunch of good ideas but that have not kept up and so needs a bit of work to remain a good system to use.
If you are interested in having self-hosted auto scaling github actions runners but don't want to manage your own webhook handling infrastructure, https://cirun.io is worth a look.
> how iMessage costs Apple money to run

This assumes that Apple can periodically extract money from users after they bought the product.
A 7b quantised model is also about the biggest you can run on an M1 MacBook too. It's nowhere near that speed but it does work.
I’m trying to figure out why it’s a crappy experience elsewhere, but not on Apple devices. I don’t think Apple deliberately contributes to Android hardware development to just make it less usable.

The ball is in the court of Google et al. to make messaging and video chats less frustrating.
What advancements? Shoveling more money to the top via new middlemen we don't need like Uber and Airbnb? Mortgage backed securities? Blackrock's business model? For profit prisons?

Moving money does not mean advancement in humanity or quality of life for every one.
Buying is an investment, piracy is a loss of investment and the license come with it.
Maybe this. 2 HN blow ups in a week. Any publicity as they say…
Thank you for the link, this one makes more sense.
It is though because you 'rent' from a digital store but you 'steal' from the content owner. Someone owns the content. Just not you.

An analogy would be if I rent a car and someone takes it they haven't stolen from me but they have stolen from the rental company.

(Where 'steal' is strictly shorthand for copyright infringement, but that's a pretty meaningless semantic difference outside of a courtroom.)
> If we did take that to be the definition of anti-Zionism, then it seems one could be both a Zionist and an anti-Zionist, if they supported the existence of a Jewish state but didn't approve of the particular way Israel was established.

Anti-Zionism was the mainstream Orthodox Jewish position prior to the Holocaust; and contemporary mainstream Haredi anti-Zionism essentially continues that historical position largely unchanged. According to that viewpoint, it is a sin to establish a Jewish-ruled state in Eretz Yisrael prior to the coming of the Messiah. So, classical Jewish anti-Zionism supports the existence of a Jewish state (in the future messianic age) but doesn’t approve of the particular way Israel was established (by mostly secular Zionists in 1948 instead of by a divinely appointed Messiah at some point in the future). Still, it clearly is an anti-Zionist position not a Zionist one.

The majority of contemporary Haredim are neither anti-Zionist (the mainstream being Satmar, Edah HaCharedeis, Central Rabbinical Congress, and then there are extremists such as Neturei Karta) nor explicitly Zionist (as in the Hardal), rather non-Zionist. Haredi non-Zionists agree with the anti-Zionists that the 1948 creation of the State of Israel was a sin, but now it exists, they say (contrary to the anti-Zionists) that it is okay to cooperate with it by voting in its elections, running candidates in the Knesset, accepting its handouts, etc. Sometimes the boundary between non-Zionism and soft Zionism is rather murky - my impression is that is particularly true of contemporary Chabad, whose non-Zionism has grown closer to Zionism over time

I think there is an important (but often ignored) distinction here between theory and practice - whatever one thinks of the rights or wrongs of Zionism as an ideology in the abstract, doesn’t necessarily decide one’s practical attitude towards the State of Israel - e.g. a person (whether Jewish or non-Jewish, whether in Israel/Palestine or on the opposite side of the planet) can theoretically oppose Zionism as an erroneous ideology, yet simultaneously decide to support the State of Israel on pragmatic grounds-and there is no necessary logical inconsistency in that
And even then, why have DRM when you could simply request the user's invoice-number or license-ID in the support-ticket form?
Existing integration tests should fail if you make a change that impacts the behaviour of a module and beyond. That's the whole point.

My unpopular opinion is that usually there are already too many people working on a project.
Where I can read this social contract?
Simulating the performance of photovoltaic energy systems
What if you mix splatting and diffusion models, so you get point cloud like type semi-3d image (re)construction?
Immoral is in no way clear cut, but in this case it is as universal as the agreement to abide by copyright rules are at the time of the exchange between the licensee and owner.

The violation of the social contract comes when you agree to terms you intend to our letter decide to violate, or in the case of the consumer pirate, when your benefit from the ill gotten gains of the person you know to have deceitfully obtained to copied work from its owner.
> clearly immoral

I hope you do realize that it’s your own opinion.
I suppose one approach is just sanction/isolate the entire region, until both sides reach their own solution. But… unlikely the entire world would unite in that, resulting in incomplete sanctions and messy alliance networks, with probably new enemies for each in the aftermath, and sadly perhaps new “scores to settle” against those who sanctioned them.

As an outsider to this feud, perhaps the best thing for me to do is not to judge either of them. I think it’s human to want to pick a side, but they’re not making it easy either way, by now. War is ugly, and I feel sad about and disappointed in that region for reminding me how bad people can be…

I wish they would stop fighting and dying but i got no power to change that. If that’s what they wanna do, it’s up to them.

I was really looking forward to a trip to Israel this year but now i guess that’s on hold…too dangerous
It’s amusing how much HN expects from “the outer world”.

Companies can adopt new tech in 1-2 years. Industries have around 5-10 years inertia. Bureaucracies like courts still live in the past millenia. You should be happy that they are using email.

The best security measure they will implement after this article going wide is something like “only emails from @<domain> are valid, but we’ll destroy you anyway in case a judge mistakenly sends you an order from his own gmail”.
You could do a few OpenAI hokey pokeys in that time.
I always end up laughing while watching SuperfastMatt[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@SuperfastMatt
> I'm not sure why you think that, that's exactly what the peace process of the 1990s and early 2000s was about. E.g. the Camp David Summit.

Actually, one of the fundamental flaws of the Oslo process was that Israel did not have to commit, at the outset, to recognizing a Palestinian state. The PLO recognized the state of Israel, and in return, Israel agreed to negotiate with the PLO. What the final status of the Palestinians would be was very much up in the air.

Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo Accords, said that there would be a Palestinian "entity," by which he meant something with partial sovereignty, under significant Israeli control.

Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli right-wing extremist, and Netanyahu came to power. Netanyahu was totally opposed to the peace process, and both he and his party have always fundamentally opposed any Palestinian sovereignty. Netanyahu refused to carry out the promised military withdrawals, and generally stalled and sabotaged the peace process at every turn. He simply didn't believe in the process.

Ehud Barak won the elections in 1999, and tried to revive the Oslo process. However, he was unwilling to make an offer that met the Palestinians' bottom line: a sovereign Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. The "state" that the Palestinians were offered in 2000 at Camp David would not have controlled its own borders, airspace or water. The Israeli military would have maintained bases in the Palestinian state, overseen the Palestinian borders, and had the right to conduct military incursions into the Palestinian state. The Palestinian state would have been demilitarized (except for the IDF, of course), and the Israelis would have had veto power over its foreign policy.

Beyond that, Barak was demanding major territorial concessions (the Palestinians would have had to give up the most important parts of East Jerusalem, and Palestinian territory would have been cut up by corridors annexed to Israel), and refused any meaningful right of return for Palestinian refugees. That's the offer the Palestinians rejected at Camp David.

The Palestinians continued negotiating with Israel in 2001 at Taba, but those negotiations ended because Barak was facing another election.

The hard Right won again in the Israeli elections in 2001, and that was really the end of any peace process.

> The Palestinian Authority was formed and given control in the West Bank, independently of this Israel left Gaza

The PA was given partial control in a minority of the West Bank. To put it crudely, the Israelis offloaded the duty to take out the garbage and do the laundry to the PA, but maintained ultimate control. The PA has no army, and its police forces act to a large extent as auxiliaries of the Israelis, tasked with keeping the Palestinians quiet.
A whiteboard is just a medium to draw.
Uml is a standard that says how to express certain ideas as symbols that can be drawn.

It's not clear to me what your argument is.
Is it using whiteboards to draw uml instead of special uml software?
If so, be prepared to take much longer to draw the diagram.

Or do you mean uml is deficient compared to free drawing of symbols on a whiteboard without a standard?
If so, be prepared that nobody will completely understand your diagram without explanation
Apple rarely delivers on promises that involve allowing people out of their walled garden.

Remember that, for the longest time, just disconnecting your phone number from iMessage was... very much not easily done or guaranteed to work at all.

"Switch to Mac? If you did, good luck ever switching back."
Sorry, that is exactly what I had meant (which I didn't stress upon further). Palestinians only want a "one state solution", as long as it is a Palestinian state where Jews are either repressed or genocided.
So basically the cake containing the file to break out of the vault?
It’s extremely well understood that the social contract covers “don’t lie to get stuff”, which is what pirates do to obtain the copy they then make available, as the social contract presumes those engaged in a sale of a copy of a work won’t turn around and give it away for free.

Pirates are thus “free riders” to the social contract.