skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They already have haptic feedback on their trackpad, which is non mechanical. Merging the touchbar and trackpad would make a lot of sense; it's a lot of real estate to waste. Oled is the way to go here though. That's what they did with the touchbar.
Dammit. If they made daylight savings time permanent, I'd be thrilled.

The switch is only a brief adjustment. But having an extra hour of daylight in the early evening for half a year makes a huge difference.
Justice Department Might Not Be Able to Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers
Taiwan is not a part of UN?
DD is coffee for people who don't like coffee. Almost everyone gets some kind of heavy sugar and dairy mixed drink. Basically candy coffee.
On MacOs, it's not possible to tun off the tap-to-drag release delay. So you may often end up dragging stuff around even after you think you're done dragging. The physical button helps ensure you get it right when you really need to (so the use case for the physical button is a workaround for the wonky software).
"But (1) they were never internally transparent about anything sensitive, and (2) it’s naive to think 10 thousand people can keep a secret."

Maybe this is an opportunity for the C-levels of the very companies responsible for the modern surveillance economy to have a tiny taste of the crap sandwich that is having every detail of your life out in other people's hands, to exploit for their exclusive benefit, at odds with your own interests?
It doesn’t really “turn to liquid” but really starts behaving according to fluid dynamics.

Nothing melts or freezes. More to the point, the motion of the macroscopic objects (rocks, sand, dust, powder) being dumped in by conveyor belt create huge piles that slump in odd ways, as piles form, and then settle oddly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_carrier

(Which uses this as it’s source: https://web.archive.org/web/20070408154846/http://www.nautin...)
When I was small most of Edinburgh looked exactly like these photos, and they didn't start washing it until the late 80s.

(edit: come to think of it, entire central Edinburgh area still smelled of coal smoke in the mornings until about then, too, though Musselburgh even more so)
The problem is defining "value". Some would say entertainment provides some value, some would say otherwise.

I'm focusing on something approaching "minimally viable society".
Just because I built ripgrep doesn't mean I've reinvented a wheel without understanding the existing model/power, so your criticism feels a bit disingenuous to me.

To be clear, with the current release of ripgrep, you cannot create structured objects from its output as easily as you might think. I get that it's fun to show how to do it with long shell pipelines for simple cases, but the current release of ripgrep would actually require you to parse color escape sequences in order to find all of the match boundaries in each line. This is what tools like VS Code do, for example. The --json output format rectifies that. There are other solutions that might be closer to the text format, but they're just more contortions on the line oriented output format that aren't clearly useful for human consumption, and it's much simpler to just give people what they want: JSON.
If you read the article, you will find that they do propose to make daylight saving time (they call it "summer time") permanent.
Thrilled they're considering this, but my first thought was "I wonder how many time and date libraries will fail to adjust correctly?"

I'm sure that for the well designed ones it's just a matter of configuration somewhere ... But there will definitely be some fun and weird time bugs in the near future
Unfollow is an actual thing
ULBC: Ultra Large Bulk Carrier
The dad who wields a pencil is paid for his art, and he can use that money to buy a house.
Lego built a drivable Bugatti Chiron out of a million pieces of Technic
> Copyright should only have a term of life (with a minimum duration of 50 years in case the artist dies at 20-30) and that's all.

Boy you are generous, if it was up to me copyrights would have a life of 10 years, no extensions/renewals. Ten years ought to be enough to squeeze a healthy chuck of profits out of your material. If after 10 years you can't/haven't come up with anything new, then you better find a new job.
Just-In-Time Knowledge: Learn What You Need, When You Need It
There's no reason to assume that the drug division of the combined firm will continue to develop new drugs. In this imagining, they only need to continue to manufacture the drugs they've already developed.

Also are you seriously arguing here for longer patent terms? You think that will get new products to market more quickly?
view is also perfectly good, it's vim's pager.
I would bet the drop in album sales is more likely due to the rise of Spotify and other streaming services than piracy.
I think that anyone with appreciate for coffee would understand certain coffee has a time and a place, even coffee from big chain coffee places or restaurants.
The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303. Why?
Nothing stopping from renting out the house in your lifetime, only to leave it for your children once you cease to be.
The tell for Mattel is the Arial 'E' has a shorter middle bar, whereas Helvetica has all equal length bars.
10 Lessons I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Deep Learning Solutions
TLDR;

The 10,000 hr practice myth has long been busted by series of studies and this meta study is another one in the series focusing on sport. It turns out that among non-elites, only 18% of performance difference can be attributed to deliberate practice! More surprisingly, there are significant non-elites who spend same or more hours in deliberate practice which means that simply looking at this number doesn't allow you to accurately distinguish between elites and non-elites. Finally, starting at childhood has minimal advantage in performance difference.

This is another big stab in the nature vs nurture debate. There are many studies (also cited in this paper) which has indicated that deliberate practice only account for 30% of performance difference in activities like chess requiring purely cognitive abilities. So for physical activities, it makes even less difference! The paper has extensive references at the end which indicates that rest of the majority of differences comes from genetics and possibly psychological factors such as confidence, sensitivity to rewards, ability to focus, performance anxiety and so on.

So currently, it looks to me nurture contributes 1/3 and potentially (this is not in paper) nature another 1/3 and psychological factors another 1/3.
I really want a free software implementation of Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text that runs on local computer without network.

I don't trust those cloud-based solutions.
To correct and expand upon your point a bit. Yes, the Super Hornet isn't just a limited upgrade.

The Super Hornet is a bigger airframe. You can think of it as "what would happen if we scaled up a Hornet by about 15%?" New wing. New intake design. It required a development program and a flight test program of a kind that you do when you make a new airplane, not upgrade an old one.

The Super Hornet is much more capable. Greater endurance, can have an AESA radar, better ESM suite, better communications.
That says 6.26% of active sites and that's lower than last year.
How soon till one of the top-10 largest multinationals take the next step and pay in scrip instead of money?

Someone will probably jump in here and tell me this is already happening in developing countries...
What about business. Any business writing is copyright protected too. I've been on business for eight years, and it would be very weird it the stuff I wrote and still use on my site expires in 12 years. It potentially will still be just as valid in that time.

I know the tech world changes fast but there are some niches where something written or recorded in 1998 is still valid today.
Just FYSA, PAK-FA program was cancelled a few months ago.
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw this. I just want to attach a tmux/vi session to that EINK panel, I'll even bring my own wireless keyboard.
also

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

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
Exploiting Decades-Old Telephone Tech to Break into Android Devices
The equivalent Python code works fine, though.

>>> a=[0]*sum(rls)
>>> sum=-1
>>> for i in rls:
... sum += i
... a[sum] = 1
...
>>> a.sort()
>>>

Takes a real good while, too.
True, but that's only for the F-35A. The other two variants are more expensive per copy due to their lower production numbers.
interesting to see the 3-tier cpu cores.
It isn't perjury. In the DMCA, It is illegal for me to send copyright notices about you infringing a work I don't own, but it is not illegal for me to send a copyright notice about a work I do own - say a film - even if the page doesn't actually contain any of that film.

Apart from classical music, bird noises and ambient noises are common cases of inaccurate YouTube takedowns.
Only desperate people apply to big companies?
Market demand isnt going to remain in the USA if most jobs get shipped overseas
The photos do appear to be mid-late 60s from the cars you can see.

But I'll observe that the Uni of Manchester buildings photos could have been from 1987 or 1990 -- being when I saw them myself, still near-black on the Oxford Road side.
Actually that's one of the big things people misunderstand about capitalism - it doesn't have to be competitive. Capitalism can, and does and wants to thrive in a monopoly. Capitalism and free markets are two different things and the latter is far more important though they are often conflated.
How about someplace in the USA that isn’t SV or NYC?
You say that like no-one would show up to a Paul McCartney concert if Beatles songs were public domain.

In actuality, the examples you listed are especially painful because we could be enjoying incredible derivative works based on their music, if not for the stupid way copyright works.
China turns to fortune tellers to divine trade war
GDPR wasn't put in place to monitor people scribbling down phone numbers on pieces of paper. It was put in place to stop companies from hoarding vast amounts of personal data and using it to infringe on people's privacy (as well as making sure they looked after it properly).

Sure. The intent of the GDPR has not received much criticism, at least not that I've seen. The concerns some of us have always had are more about ambiguity and interpretation, because on the one hand the law as actually written doesn't allow for much leeway in some cases, and yet on the other hand it has huge ambiguities in key areas hiding behind words like "reasonable" or "legitimate".

It's easy to look at extreme positions, such as the example I gave above for illustrative purposes, and say no regulator is ever going to expect all of that. Probably you'd be right. The difficulty is that somewhere between not doing much of anything to comply and the other extreme such as I described, you cross an invisible line from being sufficiently compliant in the regulator's view (or potentially a court's if it really came to that) to not being sufficiently compliant and no-one really knows where that line is.

When you have not just the threat of fines but also potentially very significant costs in adapting your systems and processes, that sort of uncertainty is never good for anyone. That is particularly true in a case like GDPR, because many of those adaptations are more about being seen to comply than about fixing any actual security vulnerability or abuse of privacy or other tangible problem.
What about the Remarkable (https://remarkable.com/)? It's both got a larger screen and it's supposed to have a vastly improved refresh rate. I haven't tried it, but I'm really really curious about it.
Mainline GCC 9.0 Compiler Now Has Speculation Tracking Against Spectre V1
I guess credit approval was taken over somewhat by credit scores but that was quite a while ago.

There’s some basic ml in generating credit scores. Mapping credit information to default rates. Logistic Regressions I believe.
The same is true in Estonia.
Legally any artist can form an organization that is entitled to collect royalties for other artist's work. In practice there is only one such organization (Eesti Autorite Ühing) because nobody bothers to set up their own shop.. and if you're an artist and NOT a member of EAÜ they'll still happily collect money for your work and distribute it amongst their own members and own salaries/real estate etc.

It's absurd.
"This means giving some people on the engineering team exact information about what the system will be used for."

Yeah, well, remember there were at least a couple people who went around installing fiber replicators for AT&T to tap the entire internet for the NSA, and they managed to keep that a secret for a LONG time.
China using LinkedIn to recruit Americans
Nope. Mickey Mouse is not subject to copyright. As a character, he's subject to trademark, which allows him to remain under Disney's control for as long as they continue to protect the trademark.

What would go into the public domain is Steamboat Willie, the original Mickey Mouse short.
Agreed -- in addition, a shorter term like this fixes a major issue with using "life" specifically, which ends up unintentionally creating an incentive to murder the creator.
Well this is what the tech giants brought to us. The middle finger and an automated 'Up your ###' message. Not a far fetch to assume that soon similar technologies will judge your work resumes and credit worthiness too. With a similar up your ### message of course.
This works amazingly well on Linux with the ancient synaptics driver. I've never had to change the defaults
I've seen hacks on the Nook Simple¹ allowing for even runnig PSX games with good refresh-rate, ever since I saw those demos I've been dreaming about a decent resolution EINK screen for my terminal sessions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0wAmMbFgI
also

Single time zone earth please
That's what's probably going to happen, sadly:

"The European commission will recommend that EU member states abandon the practice of changing the clocks in spring and autumn in favour of staying on summer time throughout the year."
When they are leaving Japan after trading the damascus steel ingots for quicksilver, the Japanese fill all the quicksilver bottles to a level that will cause it to slosh along with the same frequency, causing harmonic resonance to sink the ship. Before leaving they open all of the bottles and transfer the quicksilver so that they are filled to the top and can't slosh. This is from memory and may not be completely accurate.
I imagine introducing baffles would significantly complicate unloading, as right now the procedure is basically to lower bulldozers and other heavy machinery into the hold and use it to keep the cargo in few piles that can be easily grabbed by a crane.

Liquid transport doesn't have the same problem since you can just pump the cargo out.
>so they’d have handily paid off the US national debt by then.

You did it! You found the solution to the national debt! Lets implement his right away!
I’m sure it will but I wouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of finding significant unintended state changes in something on the order of complexity of a modern CPU.
So long as here in the UK (you know, as if we were part of the EU anyway...) we could stick with BST all year round, then definitely!
California Advances Net-Neutrality Rules in Rebuke to Trump FCC
I personally work with music copyright claims for an internet company and as i see a lot of folks here (including the author) are missing the copyright thing.
They are not claiming for the fingerprinted music, they are claiming for what the big publishing companies are saying, and they are the ones making the rules.
This is how it works more or less, YT fingerprints a piece, they run their algorithms on new content and if they match the fingerprint, also using metadata, if its right and guess what, most of the time its not, they look at what the MULTIPLE publishers claims on the same stuff.
Publishers can claim whatever they want, they need just to face other publishers if they abuse their power (and bare with me, this is mad because there is no central authority!), there is no such way as YouTube able to rule on copyrighted content.
So as an example, if i upload a video with the 5th of Beethoven, the algorithm can fingerprint it correctly, next YT looks at what publishers are claiming and if there is someone with a valid recording of that piece at a "performance" level, they need to pay for the content otherwise stated.
And just to add something more, there are three different type of "claims" in the music industry, mechanical, synchronization and performance share, more about the aforementioned here http://www.copyright.com/blog/music-licensing-public-perform...
Canadians REACTING to Brazilian Viral Videos
Is the Perl dependency actually relevant? I've never seen a Linux distro that doesn't install Perl 5 by default, and it's also installed by default on macOS and OpenBSD. The other BSDs all have Perl in their ports, and you almost always end up installing it anyway due to the sheer amount of stuff that depends on it.
That's the point of copyright, so that the public eventually benefits from giving you protection for the term of the copyright. It's suppose to still be valid.
Your analogy makes more sense (to me) if Lazy rich child B was left original recordings of their father's music. This, like a house, would be something material that they could sell one time.
Conversely, if child A was left the rights to blueprints for how to build said house. That would be something immaterial that they could license or sell the rights to.
Music is a bad example since the rights system around making covers is incredibly generous compared to other mediums. The fact that just about every Beatles song has a cover in just about every style bears witness to that.
To clarify, in US even debit cards are primarily Visa or Mastercard, whereas in Europe they're not. E.g. Norway uses BankAxept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankAxept
Why don't C++ compilers do better constant folding?
Learning programming is not learning a programming language
I'm more concerned that the network/talent they needed to grow and scale was more in SV.
I absolutely agree with this. There is a human right to be a storyteller, to reimagine characters and themes, to expand settings and genres. To sit around the campfire and make new stories of King Arthur and Lancelot, new stories about Sherlock and Watson, new stories about Harry and Hermione.

Copyright is supposed to be a balance between the author and society. In exchange for releasing the full body of the work, the author gets paid in the form of a limited monopoly. Somehow, this became an argument about moral rights rather than repayment, and that the author has the right to prevent anybody from using certain characters, in perpetuity.

20 years is a perfectly reasonable time for copyright to last. On the side of the author, most profit comes within the first 5 years. On the side of society, 20 years means that the stories a child grew up with can then be built upon when they are adults.
Think of it this way, large parts of our economy are under central planning because of the power of large corporations.

For example Walmart, when they chose which company to buy lawnmowers from for example, they get to decide which lawnmower makers survive and which don't.

By picking one winner and putting in a huge order at a huge discount, they can undercut every other manufacturer, effectively putting them out of business.

I don't know about you, but I don't remember the election where I got to vote for who is in charge of Walmart, so it's very autocratic.
listen while you read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKiYw5hVuM

Dalia Lazar playing a Beethoven concert on piano.
I hate when the serfs get uppity too
I'm going to mail one to the oval office. I think spirographs could save us from nuclear war.
Here in Belgium, every city is moslty bike friendly.
On the other hand, the society does not have a $DEITY granted right to benefit from the creations of an author, material or immaterial.

The fact that in one case the creation is easily reproducible with almost zero marginal costs, speaks not of the inherent value of the original creation (that was presumably undisputed at the author's lifetime), but is mere opportunistic thinking from the perspective of the society.

How would you vote against that if you were on your deathbed? You can burn your house, but you cannot undo music or literature.

I come from a former Russian occupied country that has maybe left me a bit overprotective of private property. The notion of requisitioning property "for the good of The People" is deeply repulsive - a lot of families here, including mine, actually were liberated from their house, farm, land and personal freedoms by the "liberators". So maybe after some decades, I should leave more room for "The People".
consumers when given the option to pick any two of ‘cheap’, ‘high quality’, ‘ethically produced’, have made the obvious choice.

My observation is the consumers pick only one of those.
no

his greatest gift is that he's 6'8

https://investing.calsci.com/statistics.html

he has a collection of many traits that make him a unique talent

of all those traits, the one with the largest standard deviation from the norm is almost certainly his height
Most UK cities looked like this for the entire portion of my life I wasn't allowed to vote yet. I grew up in London (and slightly in Edinburgh area) and the centres of Edinburgh and Glasgow were pitch black all over right into the late 1980s when the sandwashing began.

This photo of London St Pancras station, for example, looks like it is colour-drained, but that's really how it looked until they washed the building in the 90s.

https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1818/43873591751_154164f8d5_...

That sign was inlined with slightly-feeble red neon, and that will remain my mental image of how this station looks even though obviously it's been utterly transformed since:

https://blackcablondon.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/st-pancra...
It's beautiful hardware matched with absolutely horrid software. It's Android 4.0, which means literally nothing works. They've tried to fix it with custom apps, but I still can't achieve a decent work-flow and there's no community to make it better. It's actually the worst.
EU abolishing daylight saving time
The Dasung's Paperlike monitors are a bit expensive. Onyx Boox Max2 [0] seems a bit more recent, slightly larger, has many more features, including usage as an exterior monitor through HDMI. It's an android-based ereader, with extensive note-taking, drawing, pen writing, music sheet drawing features. It's also cheaper $500+, compared to Paperlike's $900+. I'm not a fan of bloat, which is where Max2 might be leaning, judging by a quick glance, but I'm enticed by it doubling as a large-format (portable) ereader.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRFMWff5CI
Literally since the iPad first came out for most non-tech people.
Smoother Streaming with BBR
I have a coworker with one and it seems great and he loves it. I’ve just not rationalized the cost vs benefit to justify buying it personally.
Nah, we will hang on to GMT on some sort of half-arsed "principle" and hang the inconvenience. Anything else would be admitting that the EU is right about something.
also

Guillotine all who resists new scheme
I think it is obvious we are not immune to advertisement, that's why advertisement exists in the first place.

For the election, politics is 100% advertisement. Candidates have no legal obligation to keep their promises (and that's a good thing). An election won by something that isn't advertisement is not democratic.

Now for the 2016 presidential election specifically, the fact that Trump won despite having most of the Silicon Valley and a major part of the online world against him shows that "Google and others" are not that powerful compared to the traditional players.