skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd have to check but if I remember right, before issuance there's no fee for less than 20 items of prior art, and just a flat $200 fee for more. After issuance I think the fee is $35,000.
Isn't that just feeding the trolls though?
> I think Apple are specifically releasing it now because […]

This presentation is from WWDC 2018. The timing strikes me more as coincidence.
I assume they associate the server request with a token/app key. No need to set cookies just to keep count etc.
Marginal and transaction costs are very low.

But you are right on the principle : storing, copying and transferring data always costs energy (in physics, temperature, energy and change of entropy are linked together)
Some points:

Requiring an ID online in a country that requires no national ID? That's highly novel.

If there are no anonymous spaces how can people explore and discuss their mental health, sexuality, abuse and other issues they aren't keen on having permanently attached to their identity?

Anonymity doesn't cure or cause. People can be reactionary assholes with or without identity. Neither does it cause them to check every fact before resharing the cute meme - essentially no one does that.

The people behind Britain First (now banned by FB) didn't seem in the least bit bothered by being exposed as former BNP fascists spreading fake facts on FB. It did not cure them of their race hate, or stop the current US president retweeting them a few times.

Seems like it would work mostly as a method to retrospectively shame people, publicly.
Consider the epistemology blob.

A bunch of axioms. A bunch of backstories justifying the axioms. A system for deriving good ideas (from axioms, observed phenomena and other ideas). A mountain of ideas derived from the axioms and observed phenomena, ideas derived from those ideas, and so on.

We call these epistemology blobs things like "scientific culture", "western culture", "Christian culture", "Inca culture" and so on.

Epistemology blobs appear to be invariably mutually antagonistic. They can't suffer each other to exist. They compete and self-preserve with a nigh biological zeal.

It's weird.

Charles Fort discusses it a bit in his "Book of the Damned".
I'm curious why bullying/mobs/trolling/whatever is rampant on Twitter, common on Facebook, but non-existent on LinkedIn. Anyone got any ideas why this is so?
Yes but that just means if two inventors are working on something privately, the first to file gets priority, instead of the first to invent. Public prior art still invalidates the patent.
I don't think it's the State's job to shun individuals for poor social behavior. If school administrators do not have the authority to kick bullies out of school based on poor patterns of behavior, do they really need to escalate to criminal offenses that put them in prison? Maybe we should keep shunning criteria off the books when possible and let society establish its norms like actual human beings.
You've been give a free 'app' to do just that, your eyes and a brain.
How Depression Made Me a Morning Person
Postmill – open-source social link aggregator with voting and nested comments
Most web front-end code exists a single page at a time, and encompasses a pretty narrow range of functionality, so you can get away with fewer abstractions/patterns/etc since your whole program is pretty simple.

I think Redux (often used with React/React Native) looks a bit like ECS, at least to the extent that they both use an event/action-oriented approach.

But web front ends are just far simpler than games, and so the main priority is how to make them look like the designers want and how to crank them out quickly, rather than how to manage a lot of complexity.
>I have spoken to many "rich westerners" about my (also western, not poor but rural) upbringing and gotten responses which were longing for that sort of life.

I bet. There is a romanticization of a back-to-basics lifestyle. But western farming is nothing like 3rd world subsistence farming.

>It is possible to live very well by a certain standard, on a small amount of land by doing most of the things you need for yourself.

There is a hidden assumption underneath your statement, namely that you have ready access to electricity, indoor plumbing, modern healthcare, and generally typical western infrastructure. So what you're describing is either cottage living, or a hobby farm. Those are nothing like 3rd world subsistence farming.
wow, they still use analog film
What exactly are you trying to say?
In all fairness, the software that you buy today is almost certainly going to stop working at some point in the future as you upgrade your OS etc. So, unless you can download data into some reasonably open format, you will eventually lose access anyway.

That said, I don't disagree with your basic point. In the case of Adobe, I use one of their programs fairly heavily. But most everything else is once in a blue moon. As a result, their Suite subscription doesn't work for me as I'm perfectly happy running something from a few versions back. Subscriptions only make sense for things you use pretty regularly.
I've recently dropped out of highschool and I've been considering two options: promptly returning to school and finishing my degree or dedicating time to self-educate via the internet. Which pathway would you suggest?

I have always felt conflicted about our current education system because it undervalues creativity and disingenuously puts forth the notion that school is for learning when clearly it is not. Teachers constantly remind us that attending school is imperative to our growth yet fail to explain that we are merely fufiling a social obligation to become stable adults. Education has always been about the indoctrination of social values and the apparent lack of effort by teachers to purvey this speaks quantities of their system. Mind you, I'm not necessarily blaming the teachers nor those who have constructed such educational pillars but rather I'm antagnozing our modern perception of the intended purpose of school.

All I really hear about from students these days is which prestigious school people want to attend but whenever I question them as to why they wish to attend such facilities they respond with "to get a better job" or "to learn more and then get a better job." Is there something not inherently flawed with this kind of logic? We wish to obtain better jobs so we mindlessly waste hours cramming an entire textbook before an examination only to retain almost no knowledge of its contents afterwards.

There are cultural nuances regarding this matter and my anecdotal argument is probably not very strong, but I do believe there is a problem with incessantly encouraging young students to pursue academia for the sake of acquiring a _better_ job. As someone who has always been interested with the philosophy and intrinsic beauty of learning itself, I find our current implementation repulsive. My aversion to school has led me to study various types of -- or perhaps attempts at -- artificial intelligence in the hopes that we may one day supplant this flawed approach to education with a more personalized view that can take into account my preferences.

That being said, I'm still relatively young and by the duty of such a description, naive. There is still so much that I do not know about and I'm wondering now how I should proceed. Being a well informed and tech literate person, could you possibly offer me some quick guidance? Thank you.
Apple Defends Killing OpenGL, OpenCL as Developers Threaten Revolt
The correct solution is to eliminate income-based taxes altogether, be they corporate, individual, derived from regular wages or derived from capital gains, etc ... and stick to a flat consumption based tax. But we're so deep down the rabbit-hole of our current system, we can't even imagine doing that.

Without going to that level of simplicity, it's worth noting that some countries have done away with capital gains altogether and are doing perfectly well socially. That would be a perfect first step.
Again, donations, etc. may work for some creators, but they will not work for all. There are always going to be products that are "Wow, I'm donating to her !", but the vast majority are more of the "plumbing" variety that are much, much harder to monetize in ways other than "pay me".
Can you show your code for 8 bit case that fails to generate rol?
I'm skeptical on beta limits particularly when they haven't made pricing clear yet. Anectodally it's a typical marketing tactic to build hype. Expecting that it's temporary, rates will be throttled, and proper pricing tiers will kick in.
Ask HN: What is your favorite way of taking notes?
I am looking for an open source, free from ads app for my laptop and phone. What do you use?
I don't believe this is grave.
There is. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17275784
PCG: a family of better random number generators
"I had to look for a few minutes myself before this started making some sense...On one hand, it's extremely information dense. All the colors!"

If you keep the layout, keep all the buttons in place (maybe invisibe or grayed out), and strip down the interface to just one idea, what idea would you use to communicate how to use this tool?
> One age cannot bind itself, and thus conspire, to place a succeeding one in a condition whereby it would be impossible for the later age to expand its knowledge (particularly where it is so very important), to rid itself of errors, and generally to increase its enlightenment.

Unless they are talking correctly about truths which are unchanging. in which case, good sir, you have a philosophical bias towards false progress.

Plato teaches me far more about true knowledge than does the enlightenment.
I'm a dropout, myself. When I was growing up, higher education for software engineering _was_ expected in my area, and the norm. It was not as widespread a domain as it is today.

So, know what I did in my interviews? I focused on what I _had_ done. Projects I'd driven to completion on my own merit. I put my heart into my interviews and worked to let my passion and depth show through.

The first place I got a foothold, I was nearly passed over, my resume was so bad. I know, because my boss told me, years later how they almost threw it out. But my interview got me in. Barely. Doesn't matter, it was enough. I pushed my way up from there.

It's not easy to say I'm a dropout. Nor has it been easy to work my way up to where I am. But, who cares? I'm not _owed_ a software development job. I _earn_ a job, by being willing to put in the work, and by not making excuses for myself, and showing I can do it.
I hope it will affect Google's pricing, so I don't have to rewrite everything.
Better approach in my mind is to develop vaccines.

Last I checked marriage is by no means an STI preventing form of contraception so I think you mean monogamous relationship. As many people are in happy monogamous relationships with no intent for marriage because of a variety of reasons.

It's not entirely clear to me how you would even go about enforcing such a law. Why would either participant report their "crime"? Isn't that effectively what Judeo-Christian beliefs have encouraged since their inception?
> "One night in Seoul last year, Ha went to a motel alone after an evening of drinking with friends. In the middle of her sleep, she felt something on her legs. She woke up, opened her eyes, and in the dark, saw a man who looked to be in his twenties. His hands were on her legs, trying to part them. His face was illuminated by a glowing white light — emitted by a phone. Ha remembers her mind going blank. She was only able to stutter, “Who are you?” "

You fucking degenerate.
I wonder why it explicitly calls out "by threats, intimidation or abuse, including cyberbullying" as the methods for causing physical or emotional harm. In the cheating boyfriend example, why wouldn't the boyfriend be considered a criminal for clearly creating emotional harm to the girl?
Before patents, copyright law, and all that, secrecy was the only way to stop people copying your stuff. That was kinda crappy, and people went to great lengths to obfuscate their IP, expending lots of effort on something that had no benefit for their customers / the world.

Intellectual property law changed that - it made it possible for people to openly disclose their inventions whilst maintaining control of them (normally with some conditions). It was a really, really good thing for society, as it dramatically increased the returns to "thinking work".

I can probably dig out a link if you're interested.
Do you need a paid Apple developer account for this too? I don't like to give my credit card details just to use the free limits.
I mean, the issue is getting enough charge to be useful. It'll certainly help, but you aren't going to be able to assume your car can run off solar, probably ever. There's huge inefficiencies with car-mounted solar since you can't adjust its position, and many times your car is in the shade. And even if you could fully power your car with optimal solar input, bear in mind the falloff of being in a more northern region, for example, is steep.

I could ideally pull a couple hundred watts in solar panels that would fit on my roof rack, and I've considered trying to power a computer with it.
The article, including the title, is not in favor of the legislation.

I personally am in favor of it, but I also think it’s complicated.

I was bullied growing up, but in real life. I do have a hard time imagining what it’s cyberbullying is like. I am familiar with online-mob behavior, though. If anyone has a link on what it’s like, please share.

The law has a low ceiling on what it can do about bullying. As long as our society lacks the social/cultural nuance to identify instead of reward so many forms of bullying, we can expect it to continue.

Due to the difficulty of identifying bullying behaviors (reaction over prevention) and the environment enforcing them, laws like this often punish the bullied more than the bully.
Reading through the linked 2014 email exchange is somewhat amusing. I love how the first two responses to his ideas are uninformed cynicism regarding increased hardware memory costs.

Then things start to make a bit more sense with another engineer interested in coders actually digging in and verifying / debugging his work.

And then of course it takes a dark turn at the end with Google applying to patent his ideas which he so generously offered to them.
I love that post. Also, just bought a license (and subscription for updates). Product looks awesome. Installing right now and am going to use it today!
First, it must be said that this is super cool, and I love it so much!

I've got questions...

1. What is the relationship between the bottom colored dots and the colored notes? I'm looking in the "scalar" tool, key of C. It looks like the bottom dots are for coloring a cross-fretboard position. I would have expected the red bottom dot to mark the position from C on the 8th fret for all the scales, as it does for pentatonic minor to dorian. However pentatonic and blues major are on the 5th fret position, and major is in open position.

2. The pentanizer, what is it? I also don't understand the relationship between the colored and numbered dots and the fretboard coloring. The UI has a strange way of switching the numbers if I switch the scales. E.g. select pentatonic major, red dot, and 1 dot. Then switch to pentatonic minor, and it auto-switches to 5 dot. Overall, it's pretty disorienting the relationship between these design elements and the scales. Or I've fundamentally misunderstood the tool.

3. What tools did you use to make this? Will you open source?

Thank you, you're really killing it!
I think both are in the same category. Being horny is like being violent. If you don't have access to a partner or a weapon then your just an angry dude in a dark room fapping into the abyss.
Interesting, but I would think Civil War battlefield surgery is not an apples-to-apples comparison, since the article states that trepanation might have been practiced for headaches and other more mundane symptoms. Trauma surgery from blunt force or bullet wounds would put the starting conditions a bit at the high-risk side, no? Didn't the Inca conduct a substantial amount of sacrifices including child sacrifice? This could be like studying anatomy with a plethora of corpses from the guillotine during the French revolution like Lavoisier(?) where you learn by cutting up and practicing on cadavers.
This is kind of timely, as setting up a Patreon account is something we (DB Browser for SQLite / sqlitebrowser.org) did a few days ago:

https://www.patreon.com/db4s

For us it's an initial experiment, as we had no idea at all if anyone would decide to become a Patron.

However, it's um... 3 or 4 days since the account creation and already some people have become Patrons. Kind of nifty. :)

Other people have been at it longer, and are definitely having a measure of success with it. For example, seeing Gina Häußge being able to work full time on OctoPrint gives us hope for the future. :)

https://www.patreon.com/foosel
Downloadable Mars Explorers-Wanted Posters
22,000 people protesting in the streets seem to think otherwise.
Windows Packer Project to Empower IR, Forensics and Malware Analysis
I realize my comment was a little vague around Solr — my experience is specifically more with Lucene than Solr itself, and I just think of Solr as an easier entry point to Lucene. Did you consider or end building your custom search engine on top of Lucene or something else? What about using a service like Algolia if something like that were available at the time?
> but how does that system allow for a company that re-invest all profits into growing, if doing so is a tax disadvantage?

Use your own money to gamble. Once you accept shareholder's money, you play by their rules.

If you are not paying dividends, register as non-profit.
Interesting, didn't know that, but you'll need a hell of a rig to render two screen of like say 4k. And the quality isn't like having a 4k TV at 2 or 3 meters distance.

The requirement of a high-end GPU, and the current price of high-end GPUs thanks to the cryptocurrency mania, meddle with the adoption.

We're far from VR being mainstream; AR costs far less resources.
"Correlation doesn't imply causation"
Are there any devices that can detect the presence of another electrical device? So that it could scan places. This is scary, imagine renting a place only to know the owner has put cams all over. Stuff of nightmares.
What does FANG stand for?
Had Duda released his code under GPLv3, he would have quit his own patent claims, not prevented Google from asserting theirs.

In general, there is no way to prevent patent claims on your work other than to defensively patent every conceivable application of it. That is why all major corporations have large portfolios of such patents.
The worst thing you can do when designing an API is to make that API different on the various platforms you support.

Edit: That’s not to say you shouldn’t strive for the most natural and easy interface for devs to use, but even if you’re not there yet, keep things consistent on all platforms.
Without going into the idea that if it's just genitals it's fine (which I also disagree with), it's not just genitals:

> It’s not just footages of sexual intercourse. There are spycam footages of women relieving themselves in toilets; photos of women in bikinis, at home, walking on the street.

> I’ve seen cases where women quit their jobs, consider getting plastic surgery, change their names and even commit suicide
> There's the dual-licencing approach e.g. Red Hat.

This bit is confusing to me. AFAIK Red Hat doesn't use a dual-licensing approach.

Is it something they've recently introduced?
Just saw an Apple Maps camera car in SF a week ago. First one I've seen. So they are at least doing a tiny bit of their own data gathering.

They also opened a 4,500 job facility in Hyderabad in 2016. [1] Presumably to do human editing like google maps does [2].

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-to-open-first-offshore-t...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-g...
It depends a bit on my mood, but I generally switch between a zim[0] wiki and plain text / markdown files written in vim.

[0] http://zim-wiki.org/
> Ha went to a motel alone after an evening of drinking with friends. In the middle of her sleep, she felt something on her legs. She woke up, opened her eyes, and in the dark, saw a man who looked to be in his twenties. His hands were on her legs, trying to part them.

That sounds grave to me.
Citation needed for the idea that there was a golden age wherein healthy norms were formed and communicated, without at least the implication of backing by an authoritative enforcer. In what I know about such golden age references, one or more was true:

- deviants operated unacknowledged in shadows,
- society operated under the idea that there was an acceptable class of victims,
- an in group either openly or tacitly wielded the authority of the state

So I don't find the "why not let people solve their own problems at a societal scale" as being a particularly well-informed critique.
And everytime Palin said something else absurd, Tina Fey's joke was the rim-shot. It stuck not because it was informative, but because the joke would _fit_ into the massive ironic _gap_ Palin's words made for anyone who wasn't her intended audience.
Is HTTP 451 suitable for GDPR blocking?
I've read this site a lot and enjoyed the content - keep going!
Yes.

Lack of incentives didn't stop the artists of the past. Many were able to secure patronage.
From one of the comments:

"As soon as you start adding extra fields that couple to the gravitational field, you're no longer modifying gravity. You're doing something that is much closer to what dark matter is doing, with the only difference being that you're invoking an additional particle-free field rather than a field that does have particles. Which is frankly just weird because any field should be quantizable and thus any field should have something that looks like a particle, in principle. Your proposal would basically be to throw quantum mechanics out in order to explain the bullet cluster, which is frankly a lot more problematic than simply adding an extra field to the already existing ones."

If I understand the gist of that, the whole argument for modified gravity being somehow simpler seems to go out the window. The author responded:

"That's how it's called. Don't blame me for the terminology. Sure, the field should have particles if you quantize it, but at low energies the classical mean-field approximation should be good."

It sounds like the Occam's Razor argument about modified gravity being better because it's just a revision of universal laws was conceded somewhere along the line, so why even bother?

Edit:
From my lay perspective, I imagine it like this: we see dinosaur footprints appearing for no apparent reason. Dark matter theorists say it's invisible dinosaurs. Modified gravity theorists say (I thought) that the laws of gravity can be adjusted to explain it as a "natural" phenomenon. But now it sounds like they are saying there is a continuous field that happens to have significant amplitudes in the places that we would otherwise appear to have quantized invisible dinosaurs. But how does that explain at all the reason for the field having an amplitude here and not there? Why is it more pleasing or likely than distinct individual dinosaurs? It all seems like a bait and switch so ridiculous I feel like I must be misunderstanding grossly.
I meant problems with file access specifically.
Not at all, for example you can't implement the ratcheting down semantics of pledge() using seccomp. Say starting with a broader promise set "stdio rpath recvfd", and then dropping to "stdio" after full init.

pledge() can also be found in over 85% of OpenBSD's base system.
Star Trek has no economy except for its fictional one. Their economy of fabricators is itself a fabrication. At best, it represents an ideal.