skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me a lot of the experiment someone did uploading white noise: “My ten hour white noise video now has five copyright claims”[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075325
Rails… Still??
No doubt. I was really surprised when I started following sites like https://gcaptain.com/ how many cargo accidents take place per year that practically no one hears about.
Why is uploading to Freenet illegal? And where?
So, this is kind of similar to the whole corn-starch-and-water non-newtonian solid kind of problem, right? A little different, because this isn’t entirely about mixtures, aqueous solutions or colloidal suspensions, but more about the fundamental behavior of large quantities of particulate solid mass.

The title could differentiate between being a total loss at sea, versus sinking while docked in a harbor, at least in terms of statistics and death. Also, how is there not one picture of a listing ship in this article?
In fact, that right already exists (in the US), it's Section 203 - artists can terminate their copyright grants after 35 years after the publishing date.
Would it make sense to implement some company size cap that prevents them from buying any more business? CocaCola is big enough...
Yeah what I want is a smart phone that has something similar that I can pull out more of the screen (or a Tablet) but the line in the middle kind of ruins it, if there can be a hard to see line in an end product it would be impressive as hell. I love the idea of having a smartphone and then extending it into a tablet format to consume video from Netflix or whatever service. Same with a Tablet, turn a 7 inch tablet to a slightly larger form factor to see even more detail.

I think one phone manufacturer had a decent idea to have it where you had a "flip touchscreen phone" but my guess is it hasn't taken off since I rarely see anything about it since, it's an interesting concept though, not necessarily wrong.
IBM storming in
Yes, I do :)
What would interest me much more is if y'all liked studying or university life before that? Because for me.. I originally started to study CS because I wanted to learn stuff (was already working as a programmer) and hadn't ruled out pursuing a PhD afterwards per se. But the longer I was at university (German Diploma, 13 semesters for me, 9 minimum) the more I couldn't wait to leave - so even the thought of staying there went away quite quickly, although I wasn't "in academia" per se. I'm still not sure if I'm just more on the practical and pragmatic side of problem-solving and less in research.
Ask HN: As a non-tech founder, how do I start building my MVP?
I’m working on putting together a platform to assess specific skills, which are not otherwise captured, in school students. I have developed the assessment methodology, the evaluation algorithms and the score normalisation formulas. I have also validated the effectiveness of the assessment through offline methods.

To capture better insights and to reach out to a larger number of test takers in a shorter duration I need to develop an assessment platform on which students can answer the test (all MCQs) and subsequently the platform can evaluate the test results to generate comprehensive reports.

The best way to get test takers to answer the test on a tech platform would be if they could use their smartphones/tablets.

As a non-tech founder with only basic knowledge of developing static HTML websites, how do I start building an MVP with the following features:
1. Sign up and login for test takers
2. Generate timed tests based on student details from a database of relevant questions
3. Generate a comprehensive report and store student scores on a database post tests.

I’m on the lookout for a tech co-founder, but while waiting to find the right one if I can get started on building something it’ll be great.

Looking for recommendations on what stacks to consider, what knowledge to gather and what skills to build.
US coffee chains have a bewildering range of coffee based drinks, almost to the point where ordering a plain black filter coffee will get you weird looks.
So ship shakes. The aluminum ore, bauxite, turns to liquid due to pressure increasing (or friction decreasing). Ore moves to one side of the ship. Pressure drops as shaking subsides. Ship becomes side heavy and lists and sinks. This is as weird as things can get with reality.
I just add `| cat` to the end of my pipeline. It hasn't failed me yet.

I don't think this has been an issue for me yet, but it has tripped some people up, yes. Overall, I think it's worth it.
Grew up in Irlam, went to school in Eccles! Lots of family in Eccles too. Small world!

That's the one. I'll check that out - I love stuff like this. The entire canal has a lot of great historic stuff along it. I used to cycle down it to work in Media City and if it's not tech, it's beautiful scenery all the way down.
Fascinating read!

Can this situation can be avoided if the loading bay has a cover/lid on top of the material?

As long as the loading bay is 'full' (or the top is movable to fit the cargo) the material won't be able to slosh around, thus preventing the situation described in the article.
Anyone can legally perform any piece of music because copyright law contains a provision called a "compulsory license." This is how an artist can "cover" someone else's song. Congress deemed music too important to allow the author to lock it up for years. An author automatically grants a license to anyone who wants to perform a piece at a rate per second per person fixed annually.
10 ships a year + 10 years = 100. Wow.

I’m guessing insurance going to be even more expensive now unless 10 ships a year out of however many ships out there is minimal.
You don't get locked up on remand just because someone made an accusation against you. People making specious accusations do get locked up sometimes.

To your question: obviously not. That statement discredits you as a genuine enquirer. Strawmen and incredulity don't really help us make progress here.

Or, you have statistics to show that's true?
The idea of corporate employment as citizenship is interesting and straight out of cyberpunk. There's an exchange in Gibson's "Count Zero" where Angie (daughter of a corp engineer) asks Turner (freelance mercenary) something along the lines of "Isn't it scary to live without a corporation taking care of you?"

I think you could make a case that corporations already take on some of the economic roles traditionally associated with governments, but they don't seem to have taken on the legal protection roles yet. However, I could see a future where the perks of employment include access to corporate retained lawyers. Or maybe corporations will hire lawyer secretaries to allow their employees to cut through government bureaucracy (e.g. to contest credit rating inaccuracies on an employee's behalf).

Another possibility would be the corporations and the cities associated with them sort of work together to act like city states. It definitely seems like the laws of San Francisco/California are informed by their association with tech and provide extra protections for the people living there (or at least the people living there who are employed by tech companies).
...As long as you don’t have spaces in file names.

I’d like to see something like cvs used more, where it can handle the edge cases without breaking, but still doesn’t need a translation step
> Are you going to tell them they have no right to their own work anymore 20 years after they had one of their most successful releases?

Are you claiming they wouldn't have made the music otherwise? It's hard to imagine such megastars deciding that the marginal effort of another hit album just wasn't worth making unless they could collect hypothetical revenue for more than 2 decades.

Copyright law is to incentivize creating these works so that more stuff can get into the public domain. We've shot well past that point with excessive durations, and the public domain is suffering.
In Philadelphia, most cash seizures are under $250.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/10/how-p...
A MIDI keyboard interface would be great for music notation software, latency would be a non-factor
Ask HN: Suggested Intro to Stats Courses with Programming Assignments
As a Software Engineer, I'm looking for a good Introductory/Intermediate level statistics class that would be great for myself, and the rest of my team, to take together. Ideally there would be some programming assignments to make the learning a bit more interactive. Also, having to self-check programming assignments would be fine, i.e. MIT OCW. Are there are any suggestions out there? Could be course materials on OCW, or could be as simple as a syllabus, problem sets and a text book.
> Unfortunately, Greg was not one of those folks that was told early.

Why wasn't he one of the first persons informed by Intel?
1. I'm aware of this, but it seems LLVM's built-in GC is not a concurrent collector, which is quite a big deal.

2. The assumption that allocations are long-lived can often be made because a compiler can perform escape-analysis (and in fact LLVM could provide utilities for this).

3. Yes, I'm not saying that GoLang's GC (or an adaptation thereof) is the holy grail, just that it would be very useful for many other languages. And work in this area could help bring LLVM's suite of GCs to a competitive, world-class level.
Does anyone have a reference for 'cutting it out and weighing it'?
This is a very old problem and solutions and knowledge has been available for over 20 years.

But I think the main problem is cost: not waiting for the rain to clear, not making time to install temporary bulk heads, and so on.

Edit. for example this article from 1998: http://www.gard.no/web/updates/content/52980/shifting-solid-...
Ah yes! That is a good one too. That's because grep uses "basic" regexes by default, and this sort of use case is one area where they work nicely. The downside is needing to remember which meta characters need to be escaped.

For ripgrep, you can enable literal search the same way you do it in grep: with the -F flag.

Thanks for responding!
Social networks and the geography of entrepreneurship
Can one of the HN free-marketeers explain how this sort of thing would arise "naturally" through market forces, without regulatory intervention?
Same here. Firefox is also better than chrome on this.
I'd rather see purchasing-power adjusted spend per person. Something better than the big mac index.

Would still need to adjust for poverty.
>How about looking into what else their education system does that is possibly absent in the Indian system?

No rote memorization for starters. I have found that if you want problem solvers, it's usually not people from rote memorization cultures. Hierarchical thinking is the next problem. If you want to disrupt something, you have to be a little bit of a rebel.
This has been a problem for decades and is already priced into the insurance. It's also not a big part of the world fleet.
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This would make a ton of sense as a peripheral device. An e-ink input that can change buttons for any variety of modes you can imagine. I can't see what good there would be in replacing a physical keyboard rather than supplementing it.
"Are you going to tell them they have no right to their own work anymore 20 years after they had one of their most successful releases?"

In a word, yes. The entire purpose of copyright is to enrich the commons by granting a limited term monopoly. Without that purpose in mind, copyright loses legitimacy.

It's a government granted right, and, in the US, there is specific authorization in the constitution to make such a grant. The term could be set to any term, and there would be no underlying constitutional of inherent human rights case against such a change. Unlike actual rights, copyright is whatever governments say it is.
Given the problems with the last 2 generation and Sony’s refusal to fix, I’m not so sure I’d trust that “this time is different”.

https://us.community.sony.com/s/question/0D50B00004JW8ZLSA1/...
If you order a latte from a big chain, half the time you end up with a flat white anyway.
So would my kid, but that's because she does not seem to understand money.
A simple way to calibrate your neural network
"| cat" has this effect.
> Not Rocket Science Rule

I've been trying to introduce this into my current company for as long as I've been working there, with no success so far, with varying reasons:

- Unit tests for existing projects often fail
- Unit tests for existing projects take several minutes to run
- Our current build process cannot be automated.

Quite frustrating, especially since I've seen a lot of cases where it could've saved us from near-disasters.

EDIT:
I think on the subject of Emergence, the writer has missed one key point: emergence requires interplay between different levels of the system.
AFAIK the first copy right takedown noticed is received without review by Youtube, they only review after being contested.

From my perspective, people are just too used tolerating the bad things of ContentId which in part is the result of bad legislation.

In this case I bet that no human would be able to make a confident call because of multiple jurisdictions. On Germany it's public domain but on France maybe it's still copyrighted so you need an international copyright law master degree to figure that out.
Where I work, the marketing department is always putting horrible newsletter popups on the web page, etc. I used to say, "That's going to detract from people signing up, not encourage it!". But they've got the data and they've shown it to me. As you say, it works.

I wondered why for a while, because as soon as I see those shenanigans, I'm gone. But then I realised: I'm not the target market for the websites we have at work (a full service travel tour company). Most of our clients are booking travel for a group of 30 people from their company 6 months or a year in advance. They are coming to our website because they want the damn newsletter. Took me a long time to understand that.
How are the companies evading? If I pay a plumber to fix my sink and he doesn't report that income, should I be prosecuted?
Fair point on Cadbury but to make Costa's coffee any worse is going to be a bit of a challenge.
Scalable process discovery and conformance checking
Ah, true. I didn't consider the "one time dump of a boatload of data" as a use case. My backups tend to run relatively often, and at that point, $10 for each tape load would easily make the tape service more expensive!
I've found trying to drag&drop with that method infuriating.
How did you get rid of them? :-)
Try to run it interactively :)
If patents can expire after 20yrs why is copyright special?
bringing experiments all the way to market is really only good if anyone cares to try them out. if no one cares to try them then that experiment has failed in the market.
You can buy flat white in every coffee in Prague.
It's probably not very bad, but stupid experiments can have a negative influence on the community as a whole.

Let's say e-ink keyboards are a good idea, but it's too soon. An early implementation will quite possibly delay (more make completely unviable) trying the experiment again.

If it's just a bad idea, resources will have been diverted into the development of a failed product (which is years of someones life spent on something useless). Not only that, but the cost of trying other ideas is increased. You have to hire and train more developers to work on other projects, to make up for the time wasted. The cost of developers increases for other companies, perhaps trying out better ideas.

This particular instance probably isn't very significant. But people apply the same logic to "what's the harm in VCs funding blockchains for pets", or any other buzzword without really understanding it. Well the harm is that they shift the entire ecosystem toward something that is possibly not very useful. They increase the costs for other companies (perhaps bootstrapping) their own ideas. And they push us toward a market that is driven by buzzwords, not logic, which is where most of us end up working.
Unsure. It was off on my machine but I might have had a flash of insight before and forgot about it.
Yes, I built it this way to reduce financial risk on my side; for instance, if lots of users suddenly sign up and the AWS bill is really big.

I'm making the onboarding process smoother this weekend, so after Monday all new users will have $1 of free compute credits they can use to verify the service works as advertised before handing over any card details.
Of the big coffee shop chains in the UK, Costa is actually my preferred one. None of them do great coffee, but Costa has the smoothest flavour which is what I prefer. I also think their paninis and carrot cake beats out the other offerings.
Possibly off-topic but it's so sad that the greatest minds of our generation, the previous generation, and the next are all working out how to maximize digital profiling to more accurately sell us things.

Second only to this is the creepy fact that tools like Deepmind are being built with the purpose of furthering these goals - all of the chess/go beating is literally a side line.

I think this is why people like Elon Musk - he may have some socially reprehensible behaviours, but at least his end goals are either benign or helpful to humanity.
Okay, but my point is that the other poster is responding to the idea, not the implementation. If people that have used it say it stinks, then we have some information.
Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014)
Honestly, I work in a huge company (number three in comparison worldwide, >90k employees world-wide), and it feels like Socialism. We eat lunch together in a canteen. Everything we do and buy is shared ownership. There's false propaganda from the top down, and you can live a happy life as long you accept the size of your share of the cake and don't criticize people above you.

This is not meant as criticism, I actually like the lifestyle. Especially since in such a big corps there are actually resources available compared to end-times socialist countries. But if you live here in this company your whole life it is questionable why we should call ourselves capitalists.
Yeah...I think the McDonald's double expresso is great value for money.
I was living in London only 3 or 4 years ago. I never saw it! Weird. But I'm a coffee nerd, so probably I never went to the kinds of cafes that serve it. I actually like a proper flat white -- coffee made with milk instead of water. Just never seen it outside of Australia.
Great research, it's important that macOS security gets some attention as people are lulled too much into a false sense of security nowadays. Also check out the tools on his site. They're great. Always running BlockBlock, this helps a lot.
Odd. His wikipedia page [0] offers a very different ending. Rather than "went to live in Fort St. Sebastian," it offers:

> According to at least one report, he was taken to a Dutch fortress, Fort San Sebastian in Shama, in the 1750s, possibly to prevent him sowing dissent among his people. The exact date, place, and manner of his death are unknown, though he probably died in about 1759 at the fort in Chama in Ghana.

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

The German and French wiki articles have yet other variations of his life's end and year of death, as do a few other articles on Google's first page result. Just spitballing here, but digging into the details looks like a low hanging fruit for someone in need of a thesis topic for a degree in History.
Presumption of innocence in the face of absolute proof? If you're a foreign national in the UK without proper documentation you are guilty of a crime; we could change that of course, but you don't appear to want that? I'm not sure restricted immigration can work without that assumption of guilt; the alternative seems like open borders with no controls?

If they're innocent then they'll be able to prove it easily ... if they have a valid reason for immigration than despite their crime they'll be released in good time. It seems a small price to pay for freedom if you're fleeing certain harm?
Moving to a function of salary instead of a lottery would be an improvement, but not if it is accompanied by a cut in the quota which the Trump admin is reported to want. Bringing people to the US who earn more than the median wage enormously benefits Americans. We've built our economy on a brain drain from the rest of the world and we're making every effort right now to fuck that up.
LeBron James' greatest gift is his brain that has a phenomenal photographic memory.

> In the jovial postgame locker room, it's pointed out to James by a reporter that almost exactly five years earlier, he'd won a game with a jumper at Oracle Arena at the buzzer from virtually the same exact spot at the same basket.

"Not really," James says in response. "That one was probably about six feet closer to the baseline and inside the 3-point arc. It was over Ronny Turiaf, I stepped back on him but I crossed him over first and got him on his heels. I'm sure of it. It was down the sideline a few feet. It was a side out-of-bounds play; this one we brought up."

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-gre...
Product Design: How to Tame Your Assumptions
It seems to me that a big part of the problem is that Google is focusing on this the wrong way. Rather than automatically assume that ContentID is correct and notifying the user, it should instead notify the supposed owner of the music, and let them decide whether or not to make a claim. If the "owner" makes too many false claims then they should be banned form the service.
In some US companies it is already like that, that citizenship is a priced good. Especially since most teams are a collection of differently sourced consultants. You rarely see any real employment besides the project manager.

And yes, a lot of the stuff feels like feudalism. But from my perspective the feudalism part comes from topic ownership and titles, budget ownership and headcount more than from employment status. Of course you can't get your own budget if you are not a full-time employee, but just because you're a full-time employee doesn't mean you will ever get your own budget to manage.
> They aren't saying they're using NVIDIA hardware

They are, see quote above. They're also going out of their way to mention that Pytorch is using cuDNN, which is true but off-topic.
Costa is still dramatically better than Dunkin Donuts, for example.
> Do american coffee chains do things like cappuchino, latte, flat white, etc?

Starbucks is an American coffee chain :-)
I never use right-click (either on mouse or on the touchpad) actually, I use much more "middle-click" (I trigger it with 3 touch tap) for opening links in new tabs, pasting clipboard, ...

and like someone else mentioned, tap action is for left-click
Use JavaScript modules in all browsers, including dynamic imports
17/20 (without looking anything up). You can usually tell by the "straightness" of Helvetica characters, and the more complex G.
This presumes we can choose the right path without mistakes. It's a silly presumption.

And I think it's fine to be frustrated with stupid VC spending, but to the extent it is actually a problem, it shouldn't be sustainable (it would be replaced by less stupid spending if it were truly enjoining advancement).