skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you would need the USPTO to hold the keys anyways to be able to effectively resolve disputes.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtnH0fxDUg
Excellent point. In addition to my reply to blattimwind (1), this is a very significant reason to be suspicious of pro-salt research/advertizing.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17746708
> ... in the hope that you will find some triviality that is easier to attack than my core premise.

That "core premise" is the very thing I want to see articulated here. What you've offered is your conclusion: that sin taxes somehow entail a structurally divided society.

> If you'd really like an answer, please articulate the nature of the logical disconnect you see.

That's literally not how argument works. The burden of proof lies with the party making the positive assertion — in this case, something about societal bifurcation and sin taxes and their causal relationship. I suppose you could say that means I somehow need to "prove" that I don't follow you, or amn't merely trolling you into tripping up as you assert, but that's a reductio and then some.

If the connection is "obvious" to you, but you are unwilling or unable to articulate it, it isn't implausible for me to surmise that we're talking around unexamined axioms (or, as I often call them, "articles of faith") of yours. Which is fine; I have my own such.

But what you're doing here isn't argument, and I have now spent more time explaining that than I think hearing whatever argument you might have to articulate is likely to be worth, in terms of the amount of my life spent.

EDIT: Not trying to be mean. Just, with this dialogue as my sample, I'm not inclined to anticipate an argument that will enlighten me, or change (or even challenge) my perspective. I'd be delighted to have been mistaken, though.
I think it's user error. The app's first recommendation for "I don't care, just give me cheap food" was a place I had no idea existed. It happens to be on North Avenue. https://www.yelp.com/biz/forastero-restaurant-chicago?adjust...

This is an awesome app. I suspect there are a lot of happy users, but no one's saying anything because we're too busy visiting all the great places your app helped us discover. :)
Damn, I didn't know it was illegal! I can honestly say that I have seen maybe one instance of a dog doing its business on the road since I started living here eighteen months ago. In the vast, vast majority of cases I have personally observed (at least hundreds), owners let their dogs piddle on the sidewalks.

I would love to see this law enforced and I will complain to my representative. But I would also love for dog owners to have some decency and do the right thing without enforcement actions.
> I wish papers that get published contained a section with the reviewers' notes.

At least the journals published by the European Geosciences Union publish the whole review process in the open. Reviewers' comments, and authors' responses to them.

https://www.egu.eu/publications/open-access-journals/

(When you open the view to any article in any of those journals, you need to click on the "Peer review" tab, and you get to see the original manuscript as "Discussion paper", and all of the review process.)
This is some ass backwards reasoning. And life’s too short to eat bad tasting food on purpose.
I wonder if the people causing and writing that nonsense lead a happy life knowing they are just creating nonsense. Who does this kind of stuff? People who hate their job? Or hate themselves?
> Mitigating effects climate change as you suggest will be extremely expensive.

But as I said, if there is 1% chance that climate change is not anthropogenic, then our actions would be futile.

Moreover, the literal argument you're making is what Climate Change skeptics make against curbing climate change measures.
like plane mechanics
”(probably business/residence which it is in front of)”

As I understand it, the city owns this ground. Why would the owner/renter of a neighboring plot have (sole) say over how the sidewalk gets used and, thus, force the city to build (and pay for) a wider sidewalk (assuming there is room to do so)?

If a shop wants to put something outside its building, it should either keep room on its plot for it, or try and reach agreement with the owner of the sidewalk about placing stuff there.
I found those two guidelines ironic considering that calling something a shallow dismissal without making reference to the original argument is in itself a shallow dismissal that encourages weakening the interpretation of the strength of an argument. It only gets worse when you consider the case of domain experts giving concise commentary using domain specific language. Is an argument shallow if you don't understand it?
Where did you go to elementary school?
We have known that salt is a vital part of the diet since pre-history. The problem is the modern diet, (Western, Eastern, or other) is rich in rich foods, and essentially all land animals evolved to favor salt, by taste rewards, geography, or whatever other genetic conditioning. Salt was scarce. Now it's not. And the access to salt induces direct salt consumption, which can be lethal to a brittle hypertensive, but also encourages more food consumption in general because it makes almost any food more delicious.
What trade secrets have been lost? And how would patents have helped?
The advantage here is you can turn the lasers on right before the harvest (when the birds do damage), but otherwise leave them off and the birds can return.
Wow, this looks like a great resource. I'm not currently in the bay area, but this looks perfect otherwise. I'm going to look into this a bit more, thanks!
Depends on company, experience etc. Where I am, no they don't and am glad they don't (I am a engineering manager).
I wonder if it's a location API thing; I can't tell where it thinks I am (and it's down now so I can't repeat the experiment.)
It is fairly clear however it is a small nitpick that has some significant consequences when it comes up as one is an 8th the size of the other.
AHD might be the answer. Analog, so virtually no latency and much higher resolution than traditional analog systems.
It's becoming widely used in surveillance and security so that cameras and DVRs prices dropped in the last year.

A quick search brought this camera module, but so far it appears nobody has made an AHD pair of goggles.

https://aliexpress.com/item/1-3MP-960P-AHD-M-Camera-Module-B...
Software patents should fall under the mathematics clause of unpatentable. Software is better protected with copyright and already is.

For hardware, I think I agree, but I doubt patents could be used to actually build something.
Dentists alsohave a curiously high rate ofdepression despite being very well paid

Literally anyone can snap. The only deterrent is precrime.
Arstechnica had a good piece on how patent reform was killed in Congress:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/how-the-patent-t...
Awesome. Care to share or point to best resources to learn? Thanks!
And then people wonder why anti-science is a thing today.

I basically stopped reading "science says that X is good/bad for your health" articles. At most I get entertaining value from them.
It wasn't obvious to me either. It sounded like you made an argument that at least 30% of people shouldn't be allowed to drive, and then leaping to that leading to some sort of societal bifurcation? Your argument or point isn't obvious or clear at all.
Thanks for at least responding to my actual argument.

> It means we literally have no idea what will happen, and there's no way to know if the levies will be high enough or if it will be needed at all.

I got some big problems with the climate change mitigation methods which presume anthropogenic nature.

The biggest one being, we can reduce our Carbon emissions and stuff, but this solution requires EVERYONE to do it. One defection (like China or India) and it might result in everyone defecting or our solution becoming futile.

On the other hand 'building levies' (which is just a way to label the actions which try to fight climate change by negating its effect, require each individual country to act in their own interest and it can be effectively pulled off.
Nope. They're dropping the green fruit on the ground, and never go back to it. They're nearly destroying their own food supply, in an effort to beat the rest of the flock to that one berry that ripens early.

I'm thinking this is why we'll never find an herbivore race reaching intelligence and civilization in the galaxy. They get stuck in this anarchistic zero-cooperation state.
I hadn't heard of Lambda school, but this looks like a great option. The fact that it's available online, and available after work hours is really appealing. Do you have experience with Lambda school?
Is there a limit to the amount of heat a body of space can transmit via black-body radiation? I wonder if the performance of the heat transfer is going to be a useful measurement for science on this mission. I would think so. I just can't help but wonder how much heat an area of space near a star can have added to it. Is it infinite? Is the limit so high that it's far beyond even the atmosphere of a sun? And are there special areas of space where the heat limit has reached its maximum and if so what does that mean for the properties of that space?
This is a little tricky. I don't use GeoIP, but request a location from your browser.

Location selection on mobile is generally pretty good, but it's very spotty from desktops. If the website can't get your location at all (i.e. if your browser refuses to share it), then you get to input it manually. Maybe I'll add a subtle option to always be able to access that dialog, to override the default geolocation.
A lot of them probably have nice cars and big houses. There are plenty of people who do BS in business and have happy lifes.
> The rate of horsepower in the world exploded once the original steam engine patents expired.

An invention exploding throughout the world upon the expiry of a patent is the primary feature of patents, not evidence that patents are bad. The whole point of patents is that after a brief monopoly period, the entire invention - detailed in the patent to a level sufficient to recreate it from scratch - becomes the public's to use.

Your example is evidence of patents successfully driving progress everywhere and working as intended.

I'd much rather things protected by trade secrets had been protected by patent instead. If that was the case, for example, I could buy coca-cola for the price of the store brand. But I can't, because the formulas are still secret and not held by the public, even after more than 100 years. The formula being secret serves only to benefit an entrenched multinational corporation and reduce competition - rewarding neither the public nor the original inventor.
Didn't we hunt mammoth by driving entire herds off cliffs? (Or is that a Disney-Lemmings situation?)
The issue is that non-state actors were hiding money to avoid taxes. I wouldn't label prevention of theft as manipulation.
These are fun and I do them often, but you can just use google for most of this.
Maybe it'd be more fair to say "whoever's actually managing Gab". Again, see upthread.
I think it's important to note this patent is from Theranos. It was likely used to perpetuate their fraud.. by telling investors they have N tech patents to show they were innovative.
Odd that people have privacy issues with Pocket but not embedding a search engine in the awesome bar. At the end of the day Mozilla has to pay the bills and Pocket looks like an unoffensive way to do so.
I thought koenigsegg was already doing this with their freevalve thing

Also I saw an interesting point in an article about the koenigsegg thing that would pertain to this too; environmental laws would be much harder to practically enforce with this as you could run virtually any engine anemic enough to get though the emissions tests (and set it as the default mode to get around the Volkswagen nonsense) and then offer high/sport/cruise modes that runs the engine at full capacity otherwise
No no no. People who overpaid for medallions gambled and lost. It is not my problem to subsidize.

Why not also subsidize traders who lose on a stock?

If you want a society where people can't lose then you also get a society where no one wins.
Sorry, that is to say, “people are too nervous about leaving their pets in the dog house.....”

I didn’t mean pets should be left unattended.

Personally I think it’s a great idea if they are clean, safe, and dogs like them. This opens up options for people with dogs.

Regulating as a vending amenity makes perfect sense. The city is being daft if they had that category available and decided it couldn’t apply.
Show HN: A syntax-diagram generator for rust's macro_rules()
KDE connect has an Android app that does this and most of the other stuff I assume Apple enables; I don't use Apple products, because I use Arch and Android.
I would hope and assume that the starlings can and have survived without the rich pickings of farmers' fields.
[*] Sesquipedalian
And to play devil's advocate, the opposite findings from just this June

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180622012101.h...
> By its own count, Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, made by NCR, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.

~15 years later, 460TB are about 10.000 euros in cheap over-the-counter hard disks.

or 70k € in SSDs.
As with almost everything else moderation is key. Some salt is good, too much is bad. The question is where you are on that scale.
I was considering commenting about the possibility of this happening, but thought maybe they'd just do it on streets nobody would want to go through. Thanks for the story!
I tried my favorite test search "android studio missing symbol r" and was pretty disappointed by the randomness of the results, but that is a tough one. Tried "newest iphone" but didn't come up with anything relevant until about 6 results down that found apple.com [edit didn't realize how small the index was]
Thank you for linking this. I've gone ahead and purchased the ebook and will start working through this. If nothing else, it looks like it will cover a lot of the topics I was hoping to learn in a course setting, so should be a good prep at least.
i read the argument as regulating types of behaviour and outcomes, rather than individual things.

much current regulation seems to be frustrating because they failed to do more root cause analysis: why don’t you want things on the sidewalk? regulate so that these things are met, then people can do what they like.
Yeah, a lot of people have no idea about this "homeostasis" thing, which is how you get to stupid things like "foods matched to your blood type" or "alkaline diet"
https://www1.nyc.gov/nycbusiness/article/sidewalk-usage-guid...:

”Property lines sometimes extend beyond the building line and into the surrounding sidewalk. That means that a portion of the sidewalk in front of your business might be within the property that you own or rent.

[…]

Any structure or activity extending beyond private property lines requires revocable consent from the City, which gives you permission to occupy or use the space on, under, or over a public street or sidewalk. If you are a tenant, you will need permission from your landlord as part of your revocable consent application”
How Airbnb went from renting air beds for $10 to a $30B hospitality behemoth
This is one of the tightest, best things I've read on HN in a long time.
It's great to hear about your story! Cheers and good luck ;)
This is a pretty neat hackathon idea, but as an actual business, I'm afraid it falls into the vanishingly large set of services aimed entirely at well-paid young urbanites who haven't matured into basic life skills yet.

We've probably seen enough startups aimed at people who don't want to cook, do laundry, shop for clothes, manage their budgets, go grocery shopping, or other life skills that everyone has to learn after you leave home.

It's a nice alternative interface to Yelp. As a business, though, I'd look for a bigger problem to solve.
as "obvious" as the connection may be to you, I don't understand it either. could you please elaborate
Yeah, without some sort of permit and/or payment to the city, she's just putting a vending machine on a sidewalk that doesn't belong to her. It's not categorically different from building a store to sell phones in the middle of a public park--she's stealing part of a shared public resource, and keeping the profits. Sidewalk space doesn't belong to the first person to setup shop on it.
I'm not saying government should have no say, but if the owner of the neighboring land was fine with it, that's a pretty good sign that it's ok, and the city shouldn't hassle them unless people complain to the city.
Likely. We definitely did it with buffalo.
It's worth noting that the initial orbits will all be fairly far out and they will ease into the tighter orbits after a few years of testing.
Dang, I was about to buy a block of salt to lick for dessert :'(
Deep Learning, AI and NASDAQ?
I'll clean up, but as it's more philosophy than an academic exercise and use of technical vocabulary, it's not straight forward.

Even so, here is some text:
Given progress and results in deep learning systems
pushed forward with ontology from human produced
semantic structures on top of attention and memory
guided by an invisible hand out of blue sky thinking.
In many ways this is the equivalent of lensing structure
and attention in human knowledge by blacking out half
of a semantically coherent process.

The amount of resources used to create the equivalent
of a epistemological forward process taking advantage of
natural inter-processing within understanding of semantics and
logic.

Gives concern about the feasibility of the next evolution
namely feed forward ontology and epistemology
in the other direction.
Needing a feed forward identity process able
to creatively deal with the intra-processes in-between these
functions: memory and logic, attention and semantics; and a
process able to navigate with ensuing identity processees.
A information super highway much like the corpus
callosum -- the front pole -- back to sensory motor as seen in
human cognition and brain structure with analogous cognitive functions.

In Norse philosophy, what it seems like -- too much faith
is put into half a horse -- loki without idun.
Thus, an intelligence that is a headless horse guided by a
democracy and cannot be trusted, it's just annoying feed-forward logic
with little to no command control over attention and memory.

Overly optimistic enthusiasm coupled with polarising fear
may have set in motion a need for an AI winter.
Can forget building anything that can solve problems
for life on earth. Perhaps more efforts adding an Idun
to help with neutral and intelligent information
processing is a more correct way.
I think what could be cool is applying this as a personal search engine and marrying it somehow to a personal dns server or squid/proxy server so that you can have a way of harvesting your own browsing data. By using the squid or dnsmasq logs you could spider out urls from it, and build your index automatically.
> too much is bad

In what way? Your kidneys dump any excess salt your body doesn't need. The long standing 20th century salt alarmism has no basis in reality.
I remember when butter was bad for you and my dad, who was great butter lover switched to a particular type of margarine that was marketed as being good for you.
Later it turned out it had the wrong sort of fats in it.
Then later again butter became OK again.
Shell scripts, aliases, functions and command line for programs composition.
You’re also reading a book, which is far more active than just passively watching stuff on a screen. A typical two year old has no trouble watching tv, but can’t read a book. Reading is a more cognitively taxing and attention-demanding activity, even when you’ve mastered it. Then beyond the raw reading, you have the activity of your imagination working to conjure images of what you’re reading, which is yet another layer of attention.

Reading is the best.
You know who else didn’t get paid in the 19th century? Computer programmers.

Things change the reason why entertainment professionals are paid more these days is because we have the ability to leverage their product through modern technology and the fact that the abundance of resources that even developing countries have today allows people to value entertainment.

And no most scientists were not rich by any means outside of a few in the UK many of them were quite poor and were often living on a stipend provided by institutions or private patrons.

And sorry to burst your bubble but A list actors historically became very wealthy in countries where entertainment was appreciated.
The name of the app implies a more impulsive decision, which means less friction on the search filtering would be ideal. Removing the distance filter and showing results which include the walking distance would take me directly to results.

There's a cafe about two blocks away that I go to on the weekends and I swear it doesn't feel like a six minute walk, but the fact that I didn't see this location show up on the results for three minutes was disappointing.
A forest may be a valuable resource but we recognize its value in respect to us. Even when we recognize that a lot of value may be obtained by protecting it for its own sake we do so because we feel that we will ultimately benefit in the long run.

Forests aren't individuals and talking about their rights is meaningless.
YAGNI is very useful. But :-

It's mostly useful in a situation where problems that YAGNI was trying to help with are happening. Namely, when people are trying to ask for anything that is possibly needed upfront because if you change your mind later it will cost a lot more to get it. For developers it was to try and get them to think vertically through software rather than horizontally and to stop designing large layers of goop instead of focusing on working software which you build out incrementally which means a HUGE focus on composable modular software.

It's also not a justification by itself. Lisa: "Lets do X" Bart: "YAGNI"

There needs to be a bunch of thought about things and YAGNIs purpose is really to just challenge what it is that is going to get built.

Most of the criticism of YAGNI is mostly YAGNIing something that was actually needed, or using YAGNI to compromise a software design. But that's not a fault of YAGNI, that's either because you let YAGNI hold too much power over your decision making because you felt its pressure to stop you doing something, or you just weren't capable at decision making time to work out what you really needed. YAGNI is just a focusing tool to work out what you are going to need and it's as strong or as weak as the people making the decisions.
I read the thread. It's still not a reasonable thing to say without proof and you don't have any. If I used your logic, it would be entirely acceptable to say youtube supports jihad against the west because it doesn't actively censor Al Qaida recruitment videos. If you had a screenshot of Torba saying he was a Nazi and believed in National Socialism, then it would be reasonable to say.
Agreed. The fact they were allowed to resumbit such a broad patent with obvious prior art is ridiculous.
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> The vast majority of healthy people don't benefit

If there's indeed no benefit, then the message is actively harmful, because it causes people who follow it to suffer (from bad-tasting food, in this case).

And of course, once they learn that they've essentially been lied to, they'll learn to ignore all "X is healthy/unhealthy for you" messages, which is probably a good thing given how many of them turn out to be wrong. (And if salt does not cause problems for most people, telling them that they need to eat less of it is wrong).