skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more than that though, you're paying for that artist to be able to create. In most cases, if people stopped paying, the artist would have to stop creating, or at least reduce the time they spend creating, so they could find alternative income sources.

Just because there's no defined benefit or exclusivity doesn't mean all you're paying for is "fuzzy feelings".
Hopefully this deal is killed. Its really bad for consumers, content creators, and actors. Monopoly on too much media all under one roof is bad all around...
There is a reason for that. If your business goes bankrupt it can be liquidated to settle debts. Once that is done you are left with nothing. The same cannot be done with an education. You can't "give back" knowledge to your school, or sell it to someone else.
For the record I support Ajit Pai. I think the hate for this man is because he is brown.
Not like they were wrong about TV or video games. Unpopular view for sure.
I would like to see a rematch with Stockfish configured correctly. I give Stockfish at least 1 GB of hash per thread. In AlphaZero match they had 64 threads and only 1 GB of hash for all of them.

No one knows how Stockfish behaves with that many search threads, since no one tested it. I don't know if there is any data on how Stockfish scales with number of CPUs but I seem to remember that being one of the weaknesses of the engine, and that commercial engines like Komodo scaled better with larger number of CPUs.

Anecdotally on 2.8 GHz 8 core 64bit CPU with 8 threads and 16 GB hash size it calculates about 7-8 million ply per second at the beginning of the game, and much more later when there are less peaces on the board. AlphaZero's setup, with 64 threads on 32 physical CPU cores, calculated about 70 million ply per second, with tiny 1 GB hash (i.e. the engine could remember less of what it calculated previously).

But my Stockfish on computationally weaker setup clearly flags some of the moves in the match as mistakes on the 64 threaded Stockfish. I would really like to understand why. Is it because if you have more resources to see deeper you see how hopeless the situation is, or is it something else?

I am sure we will see more of these matches. It would be nice if Google volunteered some computing resources and entered TCEC regularly.
The copyright industry is a direct arm of American soft power projection into the rest of the world. For the content industry it's about money, but for policy makers and the geopolitical strategists who have the ear of those policy makers, it's about furthering the nation's position in the world.

The content industry punches above its weight in getting the government to protect it overseas for this reason.
> I often tell CS people that everything in computing is metaphor and it honestly disturbs me that 80% of the time I get blank looks

This is why people think Machine "Learning" means that the Singularity is near.
This is a midway solution, there are plans for the Mac Pro line: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/04/apple-updates-mac-pro-a...
This ends up not being much more than an advertisement for google. Wikipedia's articles on these subjects have more depth.
That explanation presumes (i) that most or all of the people who have been using 'scientist' in that way are non-English speaking; and (ii) that they have no knowledge of or fail to use the English sense of 'scientist'. I don't see why that's plausible at all.

I think the likely explanation is that we're on a tech forum with a decisively scientistic outlook, and in which most of the people here have a scientific background. And of course 'people mean academics when they say scientists', but that's the point - we shouldn't sublate all academic work into the sciences.
A $100 video card would make a desktop PC usable. High-Sierra bricked my 2010 27" iMac. Not sure whether it's worth fixing.

Not as pretty but I miss PC hardware. I'd leave the case open so I could save a few minutes when I'd add/change memory, hard drive, video card, CPU... For me, a 7 year old PC would be turned into a Linux box.
Dropping the support does not make the elements non-functional. Instead, they are presented differently. Formats and notations do undergo changes.

The comment mentions long-lived MS-Word doc. Which version of those, specifically, has been around the longest so far?
Copyright holders lose customers because of piracy, but that's not stealing.

If I sell some object and my logistics is that I sell 3 per months, then I manufacture 3 objects per months and wait for customers to buy them. If someone steals one, then I've only 2 remaining objects. I've the choice between telling the 3rd expected customer that I'm out, or to manufacture one extra, which in any case result in a direct loss of money. I'm a victim of theft.

If I'm a film producer and my logistics is that I sell N viewings per month, and someone pirates the movie, then this doesn't interfere with my ability to sell the N viewings to my expected customers. So this isn't theft. Of course, I would like the pirate to be my customer so that I can step up to N+1 viewing per month, but if I want to enforce that I need to turn to who made the copy available to the pirate, which is counterfeit.
Read page 2 of the article itself and look up the author. I think the article is credible.

More interestingly: so what? (not a flip, but serious question -- there is a what). The article points out that 1> It was long claimed by some that these assurances were given. 2> Turns out that they were in fact given. 3> Then some years later they were abrogated.

To some (including me), this is perhaps unfortunate at worst: People make all sorts of statements, sometimes earnestly and sometimes in error. But without formal followup they are just comments. (I happen to think philosophically that expanding NATO was a good idea but felt at the time and now that it was a mistake on practical grounds). So from my perspective this is a "big shrug" of an issue.

But to others, particularly some former Warsaw Pact nationals, this is "yet another example of western duplicity". Since nothing was enshrined by treaty, there is no legalism to stand on, but not every society obsesses with legalisms. Just because I disagree with them doesn't mean I should't appreciate their attitude.

And the article even goes out of its way to point out that the Soviet Union had the absolute legal right to veto any unification -- which was a result of the SoF agreement and 1948 peace treaties ending WWII in Europe. In retrospect it was a mistake for the USSR not to get this representation "in writing"

(BTW similar agreements are not yet in place in Japan BTW, and are unlikely to ever be)
This assumes you have internet connection always when developing/running tests, which is not always the case.

I always to rely on local tools/endpoints so when I'm offline, I can still continue working. Don't use Stripe as much as before but I definitely I wished I had this mock when implementing Stripe in applications I worked on.
In other news:

Puerto Rico gives out $100 million in bonuses after pleading for $94 billion in hurricane relief

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/3/puerto-rico-...
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I feel like it could lead to more independent studios popping up, but I’m an optimist.
I think you place python in a much smaller box that it deserves. before it was object-oriented it was functional and procedural. For certain things I use it in a purely functional way but have never felt the need for one of these libraries to do so.
See my earlier comment [0] about Rackspace HQ. Apparently they bought the mall for USD 27 million in 2007 [1] so it's certainly feasible, if not cheap.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15922440

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Park_Mall#2007-present...
Sure.

In 2014, I paid $3500 for the original iMac 5K. It's the best desktop I've owned. At the time, the display was unbeatable.

I have another monitor on mine and it doesn't bother me that they don't match.
Or repairability. And, before anyone mentions that it's impossible to fix SMD, it's totally doable.
Just as an example, https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup click any of the board level repair videos.
(and I mean, this is HackerNews, the ability to tinker with stuff or keep a historical/cultural legacy of these things for decades is pretty ingrained in the general "computer crowd").

I just find this user hostile to be honest, they would probably lose 0 customers over publishing board schematics and making the back pop off. Now in a few years, all you have is a pile of steaming metal, with no hope of ever repairing it (for any reasonable price) after Apple decides they're done with it. It's planned obsolescence for a market that should know better: pro's. I would think twice about rolling this out in an enterprise setting or any critical piece of infrastructure. It's a toy, an expensive one at that.

EDIT: typo
A two line article with one picture? Wow, talk about low effort.
Just like TV was different from Radio, the Internet is different than TV. Traditional TV had/has "gate keepers" to filter the raw information and present it with a certain level of professionalism. With the Internet, these gate keepers are less important/powerful/needed. Individuals can "create" their own information feed based on their own pre-chosen resources (legitimate or not).

Yes, cable TV expanded TV beyond the "big networks" (CBS/NBC/ABC etc.) but the democratization of news, reporting and information spreading is entirely new.
Sounds like opposite side of a thread I was involved in recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15898460

I really don't think there is anything that can be done just short of a verification system like what Twitter use to do. You had to scan and email your driver's licence or state ID and send it to them. So you would need 'social security number' for job sites. I guess a Facebook, Twitter or Google login might work.
Not that I don't take the point, but presumably if mankind were in an endless decline into intellectual laziness, then each of the writers in that XKCD comic would be correct: they'd each be sampling a different segment of the same downward slope.
Magnetissimo: index popular torrent sites and search the local database
Some people really don't get the distinction between moral vs legal. I have actually seen a law student say that they were against legalizing pot, because smoking it is immoral because it's illegal. And he couldn't see how that argument made no sense.
Well, the OP for one. Their anti piracy efforts are legendary, and pressing ISPs to filter VPN's and BT would be in their interest.
> It's not enough to be stable to be a standard, you also need authority that enforces it.

There exist lots of standards that hardly anybody cares about. So this is clearly not true.
Plsm - https://github.com/jhartwell/plsm - An Elixir library to generate Ecto models from existing databases

I'm working on a few other things now that aren't ready. First is a site that allows you to test REST services from the browser. Think Postman but in the browser.

Second is an Elixir library for the Chicago Metra Rail API.
Amazing feedback, thank you so much :)

I’ll carefully analyze your suggestions for our next releases.

The Spotify message is not related to territorial restrictions. Putting it shortly, Concertmaster database wasn’t pre-checked; it checks the availability of each recording in real-time, after user’s request. That's why Concertmaster keeps showing recordings that don’t exist at all on Spotify.
It costs roughly $4000/lb to LEO, and the rocket equation makes the whole thing pretty unforgiving with current tech.
Maybe it was scanning us?
The price, compare with a similar PC, is quite competitive. But that other systems are modular, no need to buy all the RAM at the same time for example. I will pass and continue waiting for the Mac Pro.
Its simply false that market freedom always leads to consolidation. There is a very complex interplay between transaction cost, information problems, scaling economics and so on. You are just throwing out populist phrases because they sound good.

The solution is not to declare some kind of neo-progressive trust busting but locking at individual industries and figuring out why they are consolidating and if it will be bad.

In this case Disney can only do what they do because massive help from government protecting their intellectual property. Intellectual property, both patent and copyright, need reform. This is the relevant practical problem here.
Most of your points are addressed by Ian in an old email:

"In the case of the WHATWG specifications, the licenses allow broad re-use,
so that implementors can copy-and-paste text into their comment blocks, so
that tutorial writers can copy-and-paste text into their documentation, so
that experiments we haven't considered can spring up without inhibition,
and so that, if the WHATWG stops being a good steward (like the W3C
stopped being a good steward in the early 2000s), the next group of spec
editors doesn't have to start from scratch." (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2014Apr/0034...)
I'd think the independent studios would be less able to gain a foothold in this scenario.
* Trump as president, predicted in the 2000 episode "Bart To The Future" [0]

* Top 10 Simpsons Predictions That Came True [1] (not a great video though)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyaDKaun7w

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGXofzQEiE
It feels like you're actively avoiding the question. Let me show you:

If phone companies blocked you from the Butterball hotline because they support another turkey company, that would be what's known as an "anticompetitive business practice". Now, if you removed the special exemption telecoms get, the FTC would fine them for that, and tell them they can't do it.

In the same way, if ISPs were to prioritize their own video services or block a competitor's, that would also be against antitrust law, and the FTC could fine them for it. Hilariously, the common carrier designation actually prevents this from happening.

At the risk of aggravating the moderators, to ask this a third time what is so special about telecommunications companies, that, unlike other monopolies, need a whole different form of regulation?
you are confusing between investment and speculation. buying amazon stock with an outlook for income potential is an investment. buying something that has no way of recouping investment other than capital appreciation is speculation. even if amazon pay zero dividend now, you own something that has potential to pay back to you. bitcoin has no income potential whatsoever.
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This looks neat, if it's still being maintained when I start my next project I might use it. I 100% agree with the gripes that JS build systems are too front loaded with concepts that you have to understand before you can be effective using the tool. Something that strikes the right balance between flexibility and simplicity sounds great, people should be able to use build tools immediately!

Still though, it's irritating that every build system wants to reinvent the console API just to add a pretty tag at the beginning of the output. Why not wrap "console" when executing tasks and add the pretty tag there? It seems like most of the extended logging API's extra fields can be pull sensible defaults from the context it's executed in.
rightly so, according to the second paragraph police suspect the husband poisoned wife and child.
LG Ultrafine 5K, same size/resolution
Police are pretty worthless in my experience as well. Once, some poor bastard had the misfortune to purchase a device stolen from my employer that I could easily track. I had GPS coordinates, identifying personal information, pictures from their phone, pretty much anything you could ask for, but nothing was done even after it became clear that this person was a meth dealer.
I work in Education. There are a surprisingly small number of vendors that are willing to do little projects in the space. When I hear "I wish we had something to do X", I take notes and come back with offers to build X. Recently, I've decided to make this my own Project as my employer is shuttering it's doors in 6 months.
> their consumer oriented design philosophy

That design does matter when the pros are creative professionals.
That's the 'paradox' of capitalism. But it's only a paradox if you take bourgeois conceptions of wealth and prosperity at face value.
Agree! There are so many people willing to relocate to Dubai, for instance.

PS: Love the concept of Relocate.me!
If they have AM available it at least will be reach last mile locations. I wonder how many pirate radio station will pop up now.
Early next year you'll probably be able to get a matching display from Apple.

27" is a lot of real estate on your desk. Not everyone have the space to have two of these.
Here is a python package I wrote a few months ago to make async requests and downloads more convenient. I haven't had much time to work on it lately so I thought I would give it some more exposure to the wild. Constructive feedback welcome.
> And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.

Those "very people" are not the same as those currently in power. The latter are presumably, in one way or another, the ones propagating this particular reading of history.
Isn’t Facebook and it’s algorithms that sell you a pretty hefty gatekeeper in deciding what you see?

I mean, HN, Reddit and what other social sites do the same thing, and you could still go where you want without relying on internet“channels” or google searches, but most people don’t.
"Unix mainframe" is something that never really existed, mainframes run special operating systems like z/OS. (You can run SuSE on a virtual partition under z, but not natively, and it is a recent concept.)
This iMac is pointed to a Professional user maybe it is not about internet but connection to servers.
And for all the same reasons, EOS and NEM are better than Ethereum. Not a great post from ethBuddha
Letting only unused IP go to public domain is completely contrary to the stated goals of the constitution.

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

Much of our creative works and culture are driven by building on top of what came before. The asinine length of copyright we have today means we have to wait entire generations before works are available to adapt and build upon, which is extremely hypocritical wrt Disney since most of their classic movies were based on public domain books.
I think they can come up with a writing exercise a little more challenging to high school students than "transcribe these instructions".
The Flint, Michigan water crisis has been ongoing since April 2014...
China is right: The world doesn’t need Silicon Valley
So you would prefer JFK to have said: "We choose to send robots to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, because they are easy and cheaper and faster..."

It's worth reading the whole speech: https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm

It ends with:

"Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked."

There will as many robots as you want in space, but man will be out there right along with them, no matter how difficult or dangerous or expensive it is.
I'd love a 10 core Xeon laptop with 128 gigs of RAM.
I do work for Portal Games. We publish all sorts of awesome stuff, mostly from our CEO, Ignacy Trzewiczek. The rest of the team is in Poland, so I am the de-facto English authority. I write rules and such. Also, I manage all our US convention appearances.
Obligatory SMBC: A Short History of the Death of Culture

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2873
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Becomes more difficult the more social your life becomes. Ordinarily I wouldn't care about the new Star Wars movie, but because everyone else cares, I pretty much have to go see it, if only so I can talk about it.

I don't mind going to see movies in the theater, but TV shows are a different animal. Hollywood refuses to allow me to buy the kind of access I want, digital, unencrypted copies that I can store on a disk drive, or failing that a streaming service that allows access to everything, so pirating is the only way to go.
I love xkcd, and the point the cartoon makes is not lost on me. However, one could also argue that the thoughts expressed more than a 100 years ago are still true today and have only accelerated still further. We are humans with finite limits on our capacities. While machines got faster, smarter and more flexible, we have not.
> raise wages substantially

> which in turn would mean a substantial increase in prices,

Higher wages only result in higher prices in non-competitive industries that rely on human labour. I think what would actually happen in competitive markets is they'd be constrained in their ability to raise prices and instead shift even more rapidly toward automation and capital investment to cut wage costs.

The optimistic scenario would be lots of crappy jobs automated out of existence, and people with more free time on their hands.
The "big five" studios decreasing to the "big four" is not a good thing either. I feel like people have decided that because they really want an Avengers/X-Men movie (I want one too), it's okay that one of the largest companies on the planet is buying out one of their largest competitors.
I don't know if this is still the case, but you couldn't login if you had 3rd party cookies disabled. Somewhere in the authentication phase, it would silently fail. No error message like incorrect username/password. You'd get kicked back to the login screen as if you just got there. It was a hassle trying to find exactly which cookies were necessary.
The HTML mode tag should put the browser into compatibility mode. This content should not be lost.
If a plant glows while you're eating it, is it a cry for help??
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Permit me to don my tinfoil hat for a moment, but that makes it "better" (for some definitions of better) in a very important way: It avoids the problem Monsanto has with people (intentionally or inadvertently) cross-pollinating their genetically engineered crops and not buying more seeds from them.

If they can industrialize and patent or keep secret the process of injecting luciferene, then to get their glowing plants you must always buy a new plant from them. You can't plant clippings or seeds with the modified genome.

I too would prefer sidewalks edged with naturally proliferating glowing ground cover, and walking through night landscapes that glow like in Avatar, but that seems to be a few steps away.
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While iMac pro's 10gb is primarily for lan connection, Chattanooga's municipal network offers a 10g connection for $300/mo. (coincidentally, thats the same price I pay for 100mbps 'business fiber' here in Memphis)
https://epb.com/home-store/internet#pricing
How is it relevant that it may be a girl?
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