skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The verdict seems wrong. You can't copyright a cat. Per the constitution only "works" are copywritable. So you can copyright a photo of the cat. Or in this case a sketch of a cat. But unless the owners of the cat also drew the logo they shouldn't have a copyright claim on it.
Obviously you don't understand HN.. everyone here is a "very smart software engineer" and knows far better than a simpleton like you with your decades of medical training and experience.
The entity with the most complete information about you is not the doctor with the EMR, it's the health insurance company that has every claim (i.e. drug prescription, hospital admission, doctor visit, specialist visit across all providers) with all your diagnosis/procedure codes on each claim.
Very cool to see you commenting here :-) I'd shied away from digging into this new feature but tried this one and.. it opened Spotify's Web player with a 5 song playlist but no video, alas. I'm guessing it's region or client locked for now.
Of course it's not unreasonable to do that. The problem is that the analogy was a terrible one.
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For my wife, it's lots of sugar that causes outbreaks. Or worse, cheap American chocolate (British chocolate doesn't trigger it as bad).

But all the dermatologists she saw as a teen and young adult... always ridiculed this and insisted it had nothing to do with diet.
Scientists Have Cloned Monkeys for the First Time
Yup the cat was called Tard
Zstd recently added a long range mode that can find matches up to 2 GB in the past using a specialized algorithm [1]. It can be enabled on the command line with `zstd --long` for a 128 MB window, or `--long=windowLog` for a `2^windowLog` byte window.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.2
It's all about discount rate for stuff in the future. If you spend money to mitigate future damage, that's money that you can't invest productively. So basically, in economic terms, the distant future is worthless.
Grumpy Cat Limited

I genuinely don't know if I'm impressed or incredibly depressed that the owners of a disgruntled looking cat are turning the facade of a discontented feline into a company. Snarky types would point at this and scream "LATE STAGE CAPITALISM" or some such....

but...it's weird, to me.
Perhaps future image sensors used in cameras will be able to capture DNA samples, or maybe just an infrared fingerprint of the subject which would be lost in the final photo, but could be used to sign it against tampering.
"Keep up" is a really contemptuous thing to say. Could you edit to remove it please?
Why are you using regular expressions to parse XML? Python has excellent XML libraries.
I read the first Malazan book but it never really gripped me. I've heard that it really gets good at book three. Do you agree?
Maybe you missed this on your reading:

"Grumpy Cat Limited sued the owners of US coffee company Grenade for exceeding an agreement over the cat's image."

And...

"In 2013 Grenade Beverage, owned by father and son Nick and Paul Sandford, struck a $150,000 deal to market *iced coffee beverages* with the cat's scowl on its packaging."

It wasn't about generic copyright violation, but explicitly violating the agreement "as worded".

Grenade signed on to the language willingly, the violated it.

Seems pretty cut and dry.
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> we don't have institutions at present that will allow people to explore the problem thoroughly

What about academia?

Academia is not a great environment for creating tools that people will actually use, which Eve was definitely trying to be; but "exploring a problem thoroughly" is exactly what academia is for.
Yea, the chicken sandwich example is .. interesting. I mean it works in this really basic example and I think it will help the lay-person get the general idea.

A more accurate analogy would be in a food court:

For free, you're allowed to access Taco Hell, Burger Thing, and Mc Doubles.

For $5/month, you get a special pass that also sets you access Suppression Chicken[1], Pizza Slut and Baskin Toboggans

For $8/month, you get an extended pass that lets you get into the line for a few more diabetes joins.

You can get in any of those lines without a pass, but it will cost $1/visit.

This is of course, limitation of service (which is already done in some countries, like Optus Australia which gives you unmetered Facebook and Twitter that doesn't count against your mobile data), or African ISPs that give people free Wikipedia (which is arguably, kinda a good thing -- which is what makes this tricky).

The other aspect is quality of service. Say you could get to all those fast food joins for free, but you bought passes that put you in different positions in the queues (which is more like what we see with the Burger King example). It's like the airport pre-check. Pay government extortion prices and you get to jump to the front of the line, while everyone else gets molested by the TSA.

[1] Chick-Fil-A .. if you didn't get that one

Edit: formatting
Defendants should have hired you.
Because complexity is the enemy of robustness.

A village that lives entirely off its own subsistence farming, or a band that lives off hunting and gathering, can keep chugging along in merry ignorance of any catastrophe that does not destroy the local food supply (and if one does, they can pick up and move).

A society that depends for daily survival upon massive global flows of food, goods, and information is vulnerable to anything that disrupts those flows.
> There have been plenty of people out there with grand visions who tried and failed the first few times.

Most of them a con men, selling something they know will never work, especially on kickstarter and the like.

This was nothing unique, it's something people have been trying to do since computers were invented and it has failed every single time. COBOL was conceived with the idea that people in other disciplines would be able to do their own programming.

When there is every reason to think you will fail and you ask people for money to try then you start to look a lot like those con men.
He says:

The whole IBRS_ALL feature to me very clearly says "Intel is not
serious about this, we'll have a ugly hack that will be so expensive
that we don't want to enable it by default, because that would look
bad in benchmarks".

So instead they try to push the garbage down to us. And they are doing
it entirely wrong, even from a technical standpoint.

I'm sure there is some lawyer there who says "we'll have to go through
motions to protect against a lawsuit". But legal reasons do not make
for good technology, or good patches that I should apply.
AT&T ‘Internet Bill of Rights’ idea: just a power play against Google and Facebook
Good read of someone using his wits to survive falling off of a fishing boat: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/magazine/a-speck-in-the-s...
A point of JNI - use direct byte buffers. The address remains the same within the virtual address of the process (hence non-movable).

Of course that leaves some memory management in Java, itself, but the price is usually fine for having void* access in C.
Do people join managers, not companies?

Serious question btw. I think such a scenario would be vastly superior to the general "join a black box" type of recruiting we have today.
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You really defended your position quite effectively, thanks for the perspective.
Try comparing British to American process chocolate. Makes a huge difference for my wife. American chocolate triggers a bad outbreak. Different chemical process, different quality of ingredients.
Try on mobile
Trump wants to end NASA funding for the International Space Station by 2025
I happen to be working on this and since there's a thread why not ask...

Has anyone gotten "multi-tenant" (default-restricted) overlay network(s) working on ECS in a way that they like?
I understand, but they own the cat, and it has a commercial appeal, the proof being that people sold t-shirts with it's face on it. this is in no way fair use. this is just to regulate proven commercial worth, it's no different then Disney charging to print pictures of their star wars birds with teeth things on t shirts, etc. you find something. you own it. it has commercial appeal that is not against ethical free uses. you make money
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It provides you:

1. Snippets to insert with ease (Using shortcut key Ctrl + Shift + F)

2. Change output in real time as you type in the editor.

3. Customizable code editor.(Theme, Line numbers..)

4. Moveable output.

5. Responsive options to change output's window size.

6. Emmet enabled.

Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
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Likely an issue with ecsInstanceRole (either not assigning it to instance, or an API call that role can't access)
I've mentioned it earlier, yet - if you need native code use direct byte buffers as shared memory between java/c and hold/use no refs inside the native code.
Yes, the drawn graphic of the cat is exactly what the defendent infringed on. See the similarity on page 4 of http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/grumpy-c... between the second image and the image used on the coffee.
The issue isn't so much that bagged fries are frozen, it's that they are often watered down and mixed with oil.
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Oh no, I don't object to anything you're saying--I literally have no objection on the merits of the lawsuit.

It's just...we've made it to the point of profiting off of a cat. For looking humorously pissed off by cat standards. The year she (she? I think?) came to sxsw and I saw the lines of people spilling out onto the street for people to take a selfie with said cat, I was bewildered (and also slightly disgusted, pondering how anxious and probably stressed out/tired the cat must have been to be handled and fondled all day long so her keepers could pocket some coin and notoriety)

Maybe I'm just getting old and this sort of thing doesn't impress me; not the target demographic. Not here to rain on the parade, just...the whole phenomenon is something to behold.
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Have you ever seen a fence with a post about an inch from a building wall? That is great to reduce decay, but it also makes it a separate structure and depreciable as a fence instead of an extension of the building. Or so they say. I find it hard to imagine it would actually matter to an auditor. And yes, best source is the IRS. Appliances for example have their own depreciation schedule, etc. What I do is on any larger purchase just quick search in the depreciation tables to help make the decision on how/whether to do it. But many items are now 100% depreciable first year with the new tax codes, and I am not up to snuff on that at all.
If you want to chat more about this let me know.
Feels like the proper place for this sort of project is HARC. Given they're both YC, I expect that option was explored.
I haven’t used ECS scheduled tasks, only the Elastic Beanstalk equivalent (which I don’t like very much).

For my “worker” ECS containers, I set them up to run their tasks using an app-level scheduling library. When a task finishes, the app phones home an event to Datadog. If Datadog doesn’t get notified within a certain amount of time, I get an email. So far it’s proven to be pretty reliable.

I’m sure similar functionality exists somewhere in AWS, but DD is so easy and we use it for a bunch of other stuff anyway.
> Don't toll booths already charge you different amounts depending on your destination

Yea the mid-west toll roads and the Chicago Skyway will charge per segment (I think). The DC metro system and Seattle's Link Lightrail also charges you based on how far you ride (you tap in and out and it calculates the fare based on zones traveled. Seattle just has two zones though).

A lot of transit systems charge by zone, and with network traffic you're really talking about fair relaying between all intermediate hops. The analogy doesn't really work. I don't think I'd try to use it.
They hired a PR firm to make it famous on Reddit. I actively avoid it because of how much effort has been put into monetizing this poor cat.
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This case isn't really related to the cat. It's a typical infringement case on a drawn graphic of the cat, just like if you drew a logo for your tshirt brand and a a soda company started using it as a logo.
For me chocolate causes acne (usually on my back). It happens to my father too. When I eliminate that one item from my diet I am fine. Every few years I eat chocolate in hopes that my body's reaction will change. But 30 years later it still causes a reaction.

My high school health teacher insisted that chocolate does not cause acne, according to the research. Her definitive statement made me ignore what my father had been telling me for years. That's the problem with health science, you never know if you are an outlier to which the research does not apply.
HARC no longer exists unfortunately.
This crosses into personal attack, which isn't ok at any time on Hacker News, let alone kicking someone when they're down. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.
It was worse. AppleSoft Basic was so limited that if you wanted to take full advantage of your computer as a programmer, you had to type in machine language hex code.

I remember typing in pages of hex code to add the ability for AppleSoft basic to draw in double hires mode, another program to get more sounds from basic than the simple peek command could do, shape tables so you could write text in graphics mode, etc.

At least with Basic you would get syntax errors.

I never did have a real assembler for my Apple IIe. I used the built in miniassembmer to learn 65C02 assembly. But you couldn't use that to type in the assembly version of the code in magazines.
Oh duh. Yes coffee. I think I just telegraphed what’s on my own mind just now!
But now you have to demonstrate that your analogy holds.
Encrypted in transit and at rest doesn’t mean they don’t have the keys.
Bret Victor has been writing a lot recently about why the current academia can only churn out incremental improvements and not “fundamental research”.

The problem with both startups and academia is the need to meet constant short term goals. Startups have limited runway and often investors who want to see a return. In academia, most funding comes from small National Science Foundation grants which are usually only enough to cover a fistful of months of research and require publishing a paper with novel findings.

Many of the big breakthroughs of the mid-to-late 20th century came from long term fundamental research that was financed either through large public spending (ARPA, NASA) or large monolithic corporations who thought “meh, this’ll probably benefit us in the long term and we’re pretty flush with cash” (Xerox PARC and Bell Labs).

Unless we can find ways to fund long term research (which btw will be high-risk, you have to be OK with getting no return for years or possibly ever) we will not be able to tackle large fundamental problems.
I can’t think of anything which would improve the user experience more than Google, Apple, or Amazon doubling the size of their QA staff and giving them veto power over releases.

A couple weeks ago, I tried to report a problem to Amazon about Prime Photos. It took a couple dozen emails to get their customer service person to read for comprehension and as soon as they did they opened 6 internal bug reports for basic UX problems – 1 that I’d started with and 5 that I found while litigating that the first was a bug not covered in the online help.

Today, I noticed that Google is trying to push iOS users into using a “Smart Lock” app as a new wrinkle on their two-factor support, which seems reasonable until you install it and learn that the only thing it can do is pair with wireless tokens rather than the USB devices most people actually have. I would be shocked if a single person really tested that before they pushed it to production.
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Also, I'm not sure why you used this as a chance to take a crack at feminists. tsk.

Well, it used to be that the loudest public voices asserting that what people did in private somehow affected the outside world were people like Pat Robertson. In 2018, it's people like Anita Sarkeesian. So I think it's apt to make the historical link there. If some other people come along in the future, I'll make the link then as well.
Good point. While it won't beat a hand-optimized algorithm for a specific use case, compression with a dictionary (like zstd supports/encourages) is sort of a partial specialization of the algorithm to the type of data you're compressing.
They did own the "Grumpy Cat" trademark though, which does seem to be infringed as far as I can tell. It's a weird case though, to be sure.
There are a lot of proposals for making logical qubits. One of the more favorable is a two dimensional surface code [0]. Current experiments suggest that it is possible to scale superconducting processors to around 100 physical qubits [1] of relatively high quality. It should be possible to perform significant error correction experiments on them.

As the article points out, noisy quantum computers won't be useless. They could be used to speed up some optimization and quantum chemistry tasks.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toric_code

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-016-0004-0
I'm also glad they didn't fallback on the "easy" explanation. Funnily enough, an SMBC comic [0] is what made quantum computing "click" for me, and how it's not really easily mappable back to classical ideas. The comic was a joint effort with Scott Aaronson and SMBC creator Zach Weinersmith, and as far as I can tell is pretty close to a faithful explanation of the basics without diving into the technical details.

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
This is (in principle, at least) why we have public funding of basic research.
AV sucks, Defender sucks more, brain behind the keyboard is king.
I found this essay a little shocking, because his last message I saw was the OSCON 2011 talk "What Would You Do With Your Own Google" [1]

Something like - Let's all spend 5 years studying hard sciences and then go to work on important, world changing problems.

The war metaphors and the Uber problems space caught me off guard.

[1] https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon2011/public/sched...
I think the Rust is not how you should write such a code. Why not start with the struct, and cast to a void* or a char* when C code requires it? I.e., the buggy example becomes:

#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug)]
#[repr(C)]
struct Foo {
a: i32,
b: i32,
}

fn main() {
let mut array = [Foo { a: 0x01010101i32, b: 0x01010101i32 }; 256];
let foo = &mut array[0];
foo.a += 1;
}

The unsafe section isn't even required, and the effect is the same. And I don't think this violates the spirit of his example, either. Consider the author's first link to a real-world occurrence of this:

let size = mem::size_of::<FILE_NAME_INFO>();
let mut name_info_bytes = vec![0u8; size + MAX_PATH];
let res = GetFileInformationByHandleEx(handle,
FileNameInfo,
&mut *name_info_bytes as *mut _ as *mut c_void,
name_info_bytes.len() as u32);

This is again, IMO, the wrong way to do this. You should just cast a pointer to an instance of the FILE_NAME_INFO struct into a c_void; the structure will need to use #[repr(C)] and the code will still be unsafe due to the C FFI, but it will be correct (and a lot simpler). This is the same thing that you would do in C, were you to call this function:

FILE_NAME_INFO file_name_info;
GetFileInformationByHandleEx(
handle,
FileNameInfo,
&file_name_info,
sizeof(file_name_info),
)

just in Rust.
Aha, that got it!
This study established causality with double blind test and thee effects size was really big.
Think about what you wrote. If I am giving you one apple per hour and you are giving me 100 apples per hour, is it accurate to say you are feeding apples back to me?

No, I am feeding apples back to you. I am the feedback loop. You are the source.
The Google Chrome Developers channel has great videos on various topics relating to web development: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUYZLuoy1rq1aVMwx4aTzw
Arguably little different from any other brand.
Maybe you weren't paying enough attention to the video. Customers could get chicken sandwiches quickly, but if they wanted a whopper quickly they had to pay extra. This is actually a pretty good analogy for net neutrality. Some things will be delivered at "full throttle" relative to whatever speed internet you've signed up for, other things (whoppers) will be throttled or even restricted in access, and you'll have to pay extra to unlock "full throttle" access.
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Since this is your third such comment, it seems that you created this account for personal attack. That's obviously a bannable offense, so I've banned the account. Please don't create HN accounts to break the site guidelines with. We like HN users who like Smalltalk, but not being an asshole is more important.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
D3 to MP4
Rigetti Quantum Computing [0] is a YC startup that actually manufactures real quantum computers that are accessible through Forest.

There are a couple neat videos about the tech. [1,2] You can access the service through a Python API [3].

Disclaimer: I work there.

[0] https://www.rigetti.com

[1] “Lisp at the Frontier of Computation” https://youtu.be/f9vRcSAneiw

[2] Rigetti talk at QIP 2017 https://youtu.be/IpoASc18P5Q

[3] https://github.com/rigetticomputing/pyquil
You got it backwards, cats own people.
Someone spammed it with 0ETH transactions until it run out of gas? How much money is trapped in the contract? 0?
Great, I will check it out :)
For those looking for a more in-depth explanation of Amazon ECS, I highly recommend the videos here https://awsdevops.io/p/hitchhikers-video-guide-aws-docker
I feel like this is bullshit. It's very clear that the photo is inspired by the cat, not the photo of the cat. There are many different details between the two images to the point that it is a totally different photo of the cat ( see ear position,left eye ..)
Grumpy Cat arguably has more substance than, say, Coca Cola, which is little more than a brand + sugar + water + CO2.

Or that other brand which is little more than "three stripes".
I’m kinda surprised Apple or MS didn’t jusy acquire or acquihire you by now. Especially the influence on Swift/playgrounds seems obvious.
Seems to show the opposite point: there is no law requiring BK to not have a, say, faster drive thru or counter for more money. Yet we survive.
So much of this post reeks of venture-capital colonialism:

>"Aside from Singapore, the traffic infrastructure ranges from bad to terrible to near-nonexistent. (I mean, c’mon, Indonesia alone is 17,000 islands.) The credit-card industry is near-nonexistent."

>"And it is growing more rapidly in Southeast Asia, because — as any Asian person will happily tell you — they love their food more than you do."

>"I’m getting myself involved in a land war in Asia."

>"Asians use smartphones possibly more than anyone else in the world."

>"Not so in SEA. Everyone stares happily into their smart phones all the time."

It's not the 1300s anymore, many of us "Westerners" have spent time in South East Asia. And one of the great experiences there is going out to dine at night markets, hawker centers and food stalls. Getting food delivered ... not so interesting.

I get it that you came back from a company offsite and were eager to show management your enthusiasm but oh how cringeworthy this piece is.

Also talking crap about your previous employer as a means of getting publicity for your new one is incredibly tacky. More especially so considering you spent 13 years with them.