skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please not make the link an enormous button? I'm having quite a difficult time dragging it to my bookmarks since it covers 1/4 of my screen, making it really hard to see where I want to put it.
It's right there in the article

>Google has long been under fire from photographers and publishers who felt that image search allowed people to steal their pictures, and the removal of the view image button is one of many changes being made in response. A deal to show copyright information and improve attribution of Getty photos was announced last week and included these changes.

Using the context menu to "Open Image in New Tab" essentially does the same thing so the functionality is still there.
It is. [0]

"The billionaire is severing ties with Silicon Valley over its left-leaning politics, and moving his home and operations of his venture fund Thiel Capital to Los Angeles"

[0] https://qz.com/1208584/libertarian-peter-thiel-is-escaping-s...
"the man that Russia snuck in to the White House"

I find it astonishing that intelligent people actually believe this.
The city of Los Angeles, or somewhere more conservative such as Orange County?
You can do this, but all you're going to get is your flagging privileges revoked. They're not going to tell you, and you're not going to notice. They'll let you keep clicking that button like something's actually happening. But it won't be. Because it's a longstanding rule of the site: paywalled sites are fine as long as there's some workaround. It's right there in the FAQ.
Although I don't like most of his alleged improvements, surely a separate map/flatMap would be more like function calls.

If I write

function foo(v) {
return function () { return v }
}

const fv = foo(4)

then I expect fv will be a function, not a number. In that respect, I think the choice to make `then` flatten was a poor decision that makes it more confusing for people who don't really take the time to understand. Such people don't realise it's confusing: they simply notice it's usually convenient; but they're inhibited from drawing the correct analogies.

But as for the rest. Yeah, it's just arbitrary and weird. Maybe we should make integers all arrays lazy by default too?
DNS predates REST, JSON, and HTTP. DNS gets great utility out of the UDP protocol, which would be lost by using TCP. Parsing the JSON would ruin DNS server performance (a DNS server can answer hundreds of queries in the time it takes to parse one JSON message).
"Capitalism is very efficient at exposing useless labor"

No its really not a lot of work out there adds limited value to anyone's life.

Further the measure of the worth of the labor is determined by how much resources the decision making party controls.

Something which flatters a rich person and ads negligable value is worth more than something that keeps 3 poor people alive.
If anything, the rule of law of the time all but directly promoted and encouraged it.
The way you find out whether a change like this afffects revenue is by testing it, not speculating.
It’s the perfect destination for him. A place that is as shallow and morally bankrupt as he is. If you examine his beliefs, he has all the trappings of a pseudointellectual that happened to get lucky once or twice. Fuck him.
Finally I know if I'm making money or not. You guys will do great!
I do not believe that you're astonished by this. I believe you disagree with those people, don't get me wrong. But astonishing, that belief is not.
Probably not, if you have to show a demo instead of describing it.
> "That’s when you get in trouble politically in our society, when you’re all in one side"

Funny they don't mention that Thiel is all-in on the other side. He's a massively regressive conservative. The dude hangs out with (grandfather of the alt-right) Curtis Yarvis ffs.

Thanks for the warning WSJ, we'll take it from here.
And just like that, the telescreens from 1984 really become a reality.

We've known fb is invasive to the point of being problematic for a while, but surely this is pretty next level?
In my experience (with Rust programs that take 20mins+) it is all about the monomorphisation of generics. The great majority of the time is spent in LLVM, because Rust hands over many GB of LLVM IR for optimization, having done not very much (edit: in the way of code transformation) other than direct instantiation of the generic parameters.

Rust does have the opportunity to do more, and I suspect they are hoping to do more with MIR, but at the moment they rely on LLVM to optimize out all of the zero-cost abstractions that they introduce.
Works for me with a long-press in Safari.
Unless you are talking about any decision that upholds the individual rights of citizens against the government, i.e., the Bill of Rights. Your cynical take doesn't map very well to reality.
Another option is to politicize manufacturing. Take "Made in USA" vs "Made in China" and the connotations of those stickers in parts of working class america.

The equivalent could be a right-leaning silicon valley in middle america making competing goods and services. I see firms like this from time to time (often veteran owned), but it's a bit surprising it hasn't cropped up more. If Thiel etc were really trying to play the long game and erode the cultural monopoly of the coastal elite, creating competing centers of competence seems like a good place to invest.
I was asking myself why this was there in HN top, headed to Google Images and yes, it dosen't provide a direct link to the image anymore :/ This is going to be very harder for a normal user to download an image at full resoultion. Well done with this script :)
Funny enough that one in downtown Santa Monica just shut down after being open for twenty-something years.

Source:

I work/live near there and always went.

Also http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2018/01/barnes_noble_close...
The photographer didn’t post the image on Twitter, someone else who presumably didn’t have a license to do so did. The sites then embedded that other person’s tweet.

If it had be the photographer that posted the tweet then the media companies would have been in the clear AFAIK since part of Twitter’s TOS allows for embeds.

This ruling doesn’t make a ton of sense assuming the media companies were acting in good faith. If they knew that the image was copyrighted and the Twitter user didn’t have the rights to post the image but embedded it anyway in an attempt To get around the copyright on a technicality then this seems more reasonable.
There's a difference between 'this image has just sold for the most an image has ever been sold for!' and embedding a low resolution photo, which is the news reporting exception, and embedding the original as part of another, unrelated-to-the-image news story.
We plan to add an export option for TurboTax as soon as possible - we should have it in the next 1-2 weeks.
Why functional programmers should care about Rust
Yeah, but when I search for an image, then that's _all_ I want. I don't want to be forced to meander down the path of where the image was posted and see any of the content that supports it (which is usually pages of comments). Google, you're a search engine - Find me what I'm looking for and get out of my way.
Just wanted to say that in NYC, the quality of book selection at Barnes and Noble is just amazing. In my opinion, it's way better then the hyped Strand, for example. So, maybe, go to your local B&N some time and just buy a book? Support brick-and-mortar bookstores, while we haven't succumbed to Amazon just yet.
'The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a US labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 calendar-day advance notification of plant closings and mass layoffs of employees, as defined in the Act.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

It's sad that old-school books are dying. I love books, especially older hard cover books; but, if you know your business and industry are dying, then you owe it to your team who got you there to engineer a soft landing. That's simply the ethical thing to do.
Adapt the “docs like code” approach to supercharge your product knowledgebase
if you want to add some risk you know what you can buy :)
Thanks. What a stupid change on Google's part.
It’s important to make a distinction between Trump’s stands on legal and illegal immigration.
The human(ish, see the legs) form factor is likely preferable because they had ground controllers operating it in a telepresence design. If a human is trying to do things a human would do if they were there, a human shape is a good one. And many things they will manipulate were designed to be manipulated by humans.

Since we can't beam a specialist into space when we break something, the next best thing would be if that specialist could take over control of a humanoid robot in space they can directly control there to intervene and help fix a problem.

Perhaps someday when they have a problem with their humanoid robot in space, a roboticist can take control of another humanoid robot up there to perform the repair work.
How could an industry largely composed of highly educated immigrants ever be stupid and xenophobic enough to support Trump era clown college nativist conservatism?
>Consider older mediums; does broadcasting a TV show put it into the public domain? Or playing a song on the radio?

It certainly should do.
They got sued, and this was one of the consequences

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
you mean the one in bellevue near the new amazon building in bellevue across the lake from amazon hq1? I'm not sure that's the best store to example off of.
Maybe what he says and does are different, but he was been very vocally against both forms of immigration.
> To counter the threat of Amazon, they have dedicated a large amount of their stores’ square footage to a lifestyle concept that sells aesthetically pleasing stationery, home goods, and gifts.

B&N does that, too.

Plus the in-store café.
You wasted 7 of them. The word was "Papal," having to do with the Pope. As in "The modern Papal Swiss Guard serves as both a ceremonial unit and a bodyguard"
On a somewhat related note, I recently noticed that the thumbnails and respective images in the mobile version of Google Images tab are no longer served from Google's servers, as it takes a heck of a long time for me to actually get a feedback from the site and reach to the image/source.
Maybe the books you buy are way more esoteric than ones I do, but I’ve been very happy with Alibris for used books.
That’s a fair point. We are starting off with the centralized model, but in the longer run we are definitely thinking about if we can take a more decentralized approach to this problem too.
"The WARN Act also is not activated when the following coverage thresholds are unmet:

If a plant closing or a mass layoff results in fewer than 50 workers losing their jobs at a single employment site;"
Ah, TECO. I still have some muscle memory of TECO on the PDP-10. Line noise indeed.
> and the parent business could have put the work into making value out of that distinguishing fact

The fact that you can easily make vague pontifications about what else they might have done doesn't mean that any of those things are actually viable for the business.

> I know it’s hard to imagine that retail work could involve any amount of skill or knowledge, but this is no doubt a loss of value.

But probably not enough value to be worth keeping them on staff, unless they did the layoffs on whim, like you seem to think. It is possible that they examined a lot of scenarios and are privy to a fair amount of relevant details to which the public isn't.
Whitepaper in Four Minutes – Bitcoin
This post is condescending without any real substance. "Read some economic books" is not meaningful in the context of one particular government safety net.
Um, did anyone really not see this coming?

Their whole deal was “we are going to merge humans and machines”, yet it had zero technical side on how to do that.

“It has become a conference and seminar company” .....

No, that’s what it was from day 1.
I'll bite: what's an example of wealth creation that's fundamentally different from what Amazon is doing?
TL;DR Read book. Practice without cheating.
This literally makes my day! Thank you guys so much!
You'd probably need 1 CoreText process per application which seems suboptimal. If you didn't you'd end up having 1 crash impact all processes (+ opens you up to things like trying to steal data between processes). There's another problem which is that CoreText is intended to be an extremely efficient API for processing lots of text. It would seem to me to be hard to do that while maintaining performance requirements.
> computers truly are so fast that it wouldn't look any different to the end-user; a 1ms and 1us delay upon each keystroke is, to the user, practically indistinguishable.

Unless, of course, the 1 ms operation drains the users battery 1000x faster than the 1 us operation.

Efficiency is no longer about speed, it's about noise, temperature, and battery life. Speed is a happy side effect.
> Barnes and Noble had a huge high-margin section, just like Best Buy did... their ridiculous physical video and music section.

They didn't have that as a large section until deep into the time Amazon was eating their book sales; I'm pretty sure it was a response to the competition from Amazon.
Just a public ledger to show exactly whom is responsible.
There isn't a use case for me. Rather than scan something, it is easier to just enter some error-ridden version in to Google and let it give me the correct result. There is no sense in scanning anything when it takes as much time or less to just Google the same word.
Inflation and Stocks Are Both Up Stirring Some Worries
Do we really need a new name for this? It's basically "safe C-style unions", but pretty much everything in C is unsafe, so you might as well just call it "unions".
>But AI is a unique threat because it can match (and then quickly absolutely dominate) humans for any kind of work that requires cognitive power.

Only at very specific tasks. As you point out later there is no evidence that AI general intelligence where it needs to be for this actually to be a threat to humans who can adapt to unexpected circumstances.
The profits aren't limitless. Pharma is an industry in decline, because drug r&d is so hard

As it currently stands, 60%+ of the new drugs that are developed in the world these days are for cancer or rare disease. Because for most other diseases, drug r&d is not profitable. Neuro is too risky because the biology is complex. Cardiovascular and metabolic disease is too costly because of regulatory and reimbursement hurdles. Infectious disease is a field where generics dominate, and the regulatory system is failing to support efforts to fight drug resistant strains

For-profit companies fund 3x what governments fund. We don't have the federal budgets to support a public drug industry. And we don't have the political will at least in the US to empower federal funding increases of that magnitude

It certainly isn't ideal that profit driven companies control which drugs get approved. But if profit driven companies didn't fund new drug development, no one else would
Looks great and helpful. Spaced repetition is such a powerful concept. That said...

One of my pet peeves about new projects is when there is a complete lack of information on eventual pricing.

Even if you don’t yet know the pricing you will end up with, are you always going to have a free core set of features?

Are we going to lock in to your system only to face big charges when you leave beta, etc.?
I too remember with fondness going to the 2600 meetup at a B&N. I am not sure I would link drug addiction to the lack of people going to bookstores, but I do agree that they were a social place as well and I used them as such.

Some of this may be the lack of companies reinventing themselves. I am more likely to go see a movie now that the one near my house has reserved seats. I would be more inclined if they served adult beverages and maybe something a bit more advanced than a hot dog or nachos. There are theaters that I have seen that I could see myself going to if they were near my house. Maybe there is a model of a bookstore that I would be inclined to go to should it pop into existence.
Sorry, you didn't mention economics at all but all of your points are discussed thoroughly and pretty well agreed upon in economic textbooks so I assumed you weren't aware (since if you were, I thought you would have sourced them).
If something seems just stupid, it is always a good idea to try to understand the change. This one wasn't really voluntarily [1] (Though I agree for some recent changes, it seems impossible to find a reasonable explanation :/ )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833
It's not a new name, just one you're unfamiliar with.
I think they are quite common in Israel.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/when-a-job-interview-turns-int...

> In Israel, too, the results of a polygraph test are inadmissible in criminal court but in civil court they are fair game if the person being tested agrees to it in advance.
Go is good middle ground between simplicity and being fast/dynamic.
Show HN: Eless – A Better less
Reporting isn't automatically fair use, it's an example of a purpose which can be fair use depending on the fair use factors. And fair use is a defense, which only applies if a use is otherwise infringing.
Your edit picked up on exactly what I was going to reply with letting you know until I saw you already got there. Expanding on it, you can 'copy image location' (at least in FF) to get the original image URL, and you can also middle-click 'view image' to open the image itself in a new tab. Both are useful tricks when rifling through images.
IAAL

In general, outside of any safe harbors, you are responsible for infringement when you republish something, even if it was by accident.

IE if i reprint a newspaper article that fucked up and didn't clear an image, i am also a copyright infringer[1]

The main thing that makes this not true on the web is the DMCA safe harbor for hosting third party content
(which is inapplicable in this context).

This ruling, IMHO, is completely and totally consistent with every copyright ruling i've ever seen about republication.

[1] The circumstances in which you would have an innocent infringement defense would be something like: you having licensed, from the newspaper, the right the republish, and mistakenly, but reasonably, believed that they had the right to license you the image.
In general, conversations are more interesting and edifying when they consist of more than someone just saying "my reaction on this topic is what economics textbooks say" :)
I agree, but for this attitude to work, we need to recognize that this situation won't happen by itself. It will take massive cultural shifts, a lot of money, and a lot of time. We've already seen what happens to communities when all the jobs leave, and help isn't sufficient (imagine any crumbling city). It's a lot harder to, for lack of a better word, rehabilitate those communities after they succumb to generational poverty.

I think a much better alternative to UBI, which is just a modern twist on bread and circuses, would simply be larger inheritance taxes that are kept by the state. That way work that actually contributes to human betterment still gets rewarded, but society doesn't begin to stratify into rich and poor people in a world where it becomes almost impossible to move from poor to rich.

That said, your idea isn't mutually exclusive with UBI. One interpretation of UBI is that it acts more as a social safety net than as a long-term solution.
Thank you! Any specific stories you recommend? The problem I was having with the things I was looking at were that a lot of them seemed to be basically romance novels for kids.
"good faith" doesn't make infringement non-infringing. It might mitigate damages though, for not being willful.

EFF Deeplinks has a consistently bad record for misinterpreting court cases to drum up controversy, and today's example fits the pattern.
Unsurprising from Facebook.
Thank you for your comment!

Except your first point (I don't know why it was slow on your side), we are working on the rest by adding more value with useful libraries that makes web development easier for developers.
> Personally, I think it's sad that old-school books are dying.

They're not.

US printed book sales climbed for the fourth or fifth straight year in 2017 (depending on how you're measuring it), at 687 million units sold. That compares with 648 million for 2004 for example. Further, independent book stores have been doing quite well [1].

"Unit sales of print books rose 3.3% in 2016 over the previous year, making it the third-straight year of print growth"

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/b...

[1] http://www.bookweb.org/for-the-record

[1a] http://theweek.com/articles/573874/4-reasons-why-independent...
(Armchair copyrighting ahead.) This case, which is apparently about "embedding", raises some questions about the line between linking to infringing content and hosting it.

I feel it is clear (apparently unlike the judges) that linking cannot possibly violate copyright while hosting content without permission does.

I'm not clear technically what this article means by "embedding". I think the interesting blurry lines are when page A contains code from page B (say as a frame), and the code loads infringing content.

I wonder if this situation should be subject to DMCA "safe harbor" provisions, which are what protect Twitter, YouTube, etc. from liability for user-uploaded infringements as long as they take them down upon request.

But in general, I tend to think the responsibility should fall on page A for content that it serves to users, even if indirectly by loading third-party code....
Cool as hell, I have always wanted this and have been thinking about such a flashcards base every day for quite a time already! Great news it's here! I just hope to see more cool free courses on this platform soon.

But there is a feature I want badly: a KDE5 plasmoid widget to show the cards on my desktop, switching them every now and then so they will catch my attention and get memorized as I use my PC (I use it about 10 hours a day and I believe many other hackers do the same) without me having to dedicate time for this. I also believe other people might also appreciate similar desktop widgets for Windows, Android and other platforms.
There is a new protocol from Google to do this:

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...

The traditional reason that DNS doesn't use HTTP is (1) published DNS standards predate published HTTP standards by 9 years, and predate the mainstream popularity of the web by even more than that (so HTTP didn't even exist when DNS was created, nor was there any such thing as a firewall that only permitted HTTP traffic); (2) HTTP requires more roundtrips, which add more latency, while a UDP-based DNS connection can usually be answered in a single roundtrip.

However, Google has pointed out that their DNS-over-HTTPS approach can improve security and privacy. Presumably it will inherently be slightly higher latency because you need a couple of roundtrips for the TCP and TLS setup even before you can send a query.
Redstone in Minecraft could be added to the list.
Because treating people to lots of free kindness, ra ra spirit, free cheap food, team building is a great way to retain people so long as the wages you pay them are enough to get by. If you persue this strategy successfully your business will be chock full of people who love you and think you all are family even though you don't pay them much..

People that need more monetarily will of course notice that raises are minimal and long term growth meh but many people have modest needs or spouses that make more money and they have no particular reason not to collect the same money adjusted for inflation and stay comfortable.