skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do deserve to be paid for their work, but at what "deadweight" cost to the rest of us?

Rights collection these days works by media suppression: almost all the effort is put into preventing people from getting it, destroying copies etc. Given free reign they would put a lock on every technological system to ensure prices stay high and media inconvenient.

Netflix and Spotify (and I think iTunes etc) only exist because piracy drove the media companies to negotiate.
I would be happy if Evernote was "done". I pay for a subscription, I am not interested in paying for new features, I would simply be happy if it went into eternal feature freeze and only did security and compatibility updates.

Of course this kind of thing won't happen but maybe it says something about the optimization pitfalls of our economy.
Ah, that peculiarly American sentiment where the word "government" is always followed by "interference" and never by "protection" or similar.
> a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps

Never mind random apps, what about socks? [1]

1: https://mashable.com/2013/09/26/evernote-market/
IP addresses aren't country codes, in the same way that phone numbers aren't permanent unique identifiers. If you block IP ranges, you'll let some European users through, and block some non-European users.

Is "at least we tried"-style blocking good enough?
Why should the onus of blocking content in some faraway country be on the company publishing it? If you don't want your country's citizens to have access to something, well then, time for a Great Firewall.
> So we got United States of Vietnam now?

No. After 20 years of fighting, we got the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Also FWIW the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.)

> Ah so the plan is to camp with guns around military bases an shoot at whatever comes out?

The English didn't blockade the Spanish Armada at their docks. They attacked the clustered enemy under favorable conditions on the English coast.

> So in a really unaticipated way and with unimaginable dose of luck.

Perhaps. Hard to say how it might happen. But if I had to guess, it'd probably involve weapons of some sort.
There’s a lot of hatred for dealerships, because the sales process is not very enjoyable. But historically the franchise model allowed the manufacturers to extend their available credit to expand across the country. The local knowledge and independence that a local business person had also made (and makes) dealerships more nimble and better able to meet local demands.

Ultimately though, the nature of manufacturing determines almost everything in automotive. For manufacturers to be competitive they have to highly efficient assembly lines, which means a nearly constant output of vehicles per month from a typical plant. Supply is constant, and But demand is seasonal, and responds to various factors, many of them regional, and some of them hyper-regional (a hail storm for instance). Manufacturer’s need to be able to keep vehicles from stockpiling outside of the factory, and they work with dealers to do this through various incentives, loans, and programs.

Dealerships provide a measure of adaptiveness, because each dealer has his or her own lines of credit and capital, relationships with local city councils, charities, and media, and local knowledge of real estate in a way that would be difficult for a vertically integrated system to manage. Successful dealers are treated well, and unsuccessful ones are muscled out if they aren’t doing their job of moving units in their region.

If you dig around on the forums where Tesla bears hang out you can see photos of parking lots full of newly built cars with nowhere to go, and how hard of a time they are having managing a slightly higher rate of production.
I don't begrudge people having children. If you want to have more children--and pay for them with your own time and money--more power to you.

What I begrudge is being forced to donate _my_ time and money to subsidizing those who have children, at the expense of the things that _I_ value. Subsidizing the creation of the 385,001th child born today is quite low on the things that I would spend money on given the choice. I would rather spend that money on anti-aging research, or prison reform, or a new startup. And if I were inclined to give money to help children, I wouldn't give it to the relatively wealthy parents of children in the US, but to the children of parents who make less than $2/day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878149
Reading the phrase "political truffle pig" is a win regardless of anything else you may think about this article.
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I am loving the empathy people are feeling for Terry Davis in this thread. His final video is heart breaking.

Terry was the proverbial homeless person: Schizophrenic and paranoid. Too sick to be helped or supported. It's easy to get frustrated with the homeless people you see day to day, but I think it's extremely important we acknowledge these people's humanity and keep them from becoming wallpaper.
This American Life had an absolutely amazing story about how a dropped wrench in a nuclear missile silo caused a cascading series of failures that ended in utter disaster but could have been even worse: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/634/human-error-in-volatile...

It just goes through the story in bone chilling detail and shows how the natural human desire to cover up their mistakes is absolutely anathema to safety culture.
A friend of mine is a professor ( History ) at Fisk University, I sent her the text in this thread ( not a link ) and asked her what she thought. Her genuine response was:

"Why do you go to these ALT Right Neo Nazi websites and act surprised when you find people that defend racist/racism. If I go to the store, i'm not surprised when I find groceries. Its a waste of your time and your better than that."

I think you should consider stepping out of the bubble of white privilege you live in and take a second to see how this thread and the comments in it appear to the outside world. I am too outnumbered here to even really argue because I will just be flagged again so you win.... #MAGA
This is not the place to discuss this. But it is baffling to me that you think your disparage for the mentally ill is standing up to racism. You are no better than racists that refuses to understand socio-economic causes, and link behaviour to ethnicity no matter what.
Try empathy instead of hate.
> It’s that whole innocent until proven guilty. The government has to prove guilt on an individual basis.

Which is the thing that happens after they deny your passport, in the same way that it's the thing that happens after they arrest you for a crime. "Innocent until proven guilty" means you go free if they can't prove you're guilty, not that you don't have to go through the process.

> You really believe that law enforcement looks for “stupid pretext” to stop blond haired blue eyed white people?

Finding a stupid pretext to conduct a search is literally 90% of what they do all day. Ask all the meth heads who got pulled over for a minor traffic violation and ended up charged with possession.

> Was Reagan ever called a “secret Muslim” when he was sending weapons to Osama backed Mujihadeen and Iran during the Iran Contra scandal?

What does that have to do with racism? Your argument can't be that no one has ever made a false claim against a white person.

> Right because people from Norway wouldn’t support a large social safety net, government run health care, and free college education....

The people from Norway are going from a country with more government benefits to one with less. If they liked what they had then why did they leave?
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I'd say I'd love to punch some people, but the sad truth is that whoever did those things likely had no idea what harm they were causing and did it for the attention
Terry Davis was a bright individual who was, even with his handicaps, able to produce something noteworthy. Many people viewed his pursuits with some disdain, but I doubt most of them have produced anything on that level.

It is worth noting that he would not have been able to truly participate in this very discussion, due to the shadowbans he received on multiple accounts.
The kind of work you describe though is small, compared to the effort the scientists have to put to conform with the journal's author guidelines [about the detailed formatting of the paper and the figures etc], and the amount of time it takes to the reviewers to review the paper. Authors often suggest the reviewers themselves - but even if they don't the editor just goes through the list of people who have published on the same subject in their journal before - that doesnt sound that hard or time consuming. Double-blindness is not even a concern in the age of computers. Their judgement call is usually made by the reviewers, and their role is limited to cases that are on the fence, and even then it's more of a roll of a dice . They often do a lousy job at keeping with deadlines - you ll sometimes have to nudge them to get some progress. Babysitting is the wrong term, given that reviewers are generally more qualified scientists than the editor. But yeah when you expect to get free work, you have to do a bit hustling for it.

I m not saying it doesnt cost some amount, but for high impact journals a lot of the cost goes to publicity work, which in the end benefits the status of the paper but not science.
Every time I hear about the Librem 5, I get excited about the idea that I could run Debian, or Arch, or another open source OS on a phone. But I can find scant details about how this would be implemented.
It's funny, most people are concerned with security (rightfully so). But my main frustration is the inability to fix the parts of my OS I don't like. It's just convient that most security professionals agree open source is the best way to achieve security as well.
Facebook and Twitter Have a Message for Lawmakers: We’re Trying
Last time I tried to order a purism... I waited for 4 months and then took about a few weeks and multiple payments for a refund. Have they worked out their supply chain issues yet?
I had my surgeries in the middle of Los Angeles (Kaiser - 4867 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027). My insurance covered 7 days, but I paid for additional recovery time at about 2k a day.

In regard to your friend ... his 7 x 2 = $14k. That's a LOT for basically a bed, blood draws daily, limited TV and cafeteria food, but in the center of Los Angeles, that's what you get.
This was my grand scheme all along - after having a comically high quality of life on 2k/month in Taipei as an English teacher, I moved back to the states to learn frontend. Now I'm building out my resume and network so I can eventually fuck off back to Taipei, work a couple contract roles, pull in a cool ~4kish a month, and live like a king while having far more time for my own projects.

It was inspired when me and my dirty, sweaty, budget beer-drinking buddies were hanging out at a 7/11 with a foreign engineer we had just met. He said he wanted to go to the club, we were like "dude cover is pretty expensive, let's just drink our 50 cent beers." He did a quick count of us, then said "ok, I'll pay for everyone's cover."

Rent was 250USD a month, 100mbps internet 20 USD... this on top of the fact that you're getting nearly equal healthcare because all the doctors are US school trained anyway, way better public transit (trains are automated! and CLEAN!!). I mean, it's the dream.
Again you are putting words in my mouth. I'm upset of your lack of understanding for the mentally ill.
Do you have any good resources on implementing Joy?
OP is clearly talking about a targeted tax to lower profit margins on ads in order to incentivize developing other monetization schemes.
I'm not a materialist, and yet I believe we must take materialism to all of its logical ends, as uncomfortable as it may get (discomfort being an illusion according to materialism, of course), before any genuinely new truth will reveal itself
Yes, the last overhaul was really bad. Good to see them pivot :)
I think skepticism then is one of the devices of the Socratic method. You can't build on other people's work if you don't question and verify it's validity (or the lack of) on your own and build on top of that.

Art history is riddled with such free-thinking products. To an extent punk is derived from the avant-garde movement.

Closer to home, there wouldn't be data science without statistics though you can find data scientists that don't necessarily grok statistics.

Same with full-stack JS devs that skimmed CSS and/or web design history because doing everything in JavaScript in the name of reusable components and reduced mental overhead is what Facebook does, so it applies to every case given the weight of the benefits (without taking app weight and projected expansion into consideration).

This is IMO one of the reasons we get so much cargo-cults and tribalism around software development overall. Too much detachment in the name of abstracting complexity away.
Stop it w/ the straw man BS. No where did I "disparage" the mentally Ill.

BTW: My mother has been committed since I was 2 and is still going in and out of institutions. ( Im 35 )
I'm pretty sure they are piggy-backing directly on the FSF's "Respects Your Freedom" certification.
One reason they do this is so bad fw can't brick an expensive CPU
For those that would like more reading here is the explanatory bill: https://bit.ly/2NR4tTh

Three important things to note technical assistance requests, technical assistance notice and technical capability notice.
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I'd love to live in one of the futures the bio/cyberpunk people dreamed up, where you could enhance your mind and body with all kinds of unimaginable technology, adapt to any kind of environment (instead of adapting the environment to you), colonice space, etc etc.

Ironically, I believe we're on a good way to develop the technologies that were needed for that - just, with how things are developing right now, I'm pessimistic that we have the sociological skills to to put them to any kind of positive use.

If we're already fighting increasingly agressive political battles about where we should steer the part of the world we are able to control, how would that look in a virtual reality wher we had control over absolutely everything?

If you're annoyed today that your programs, books, movies, games, phones and cars are tethered to their vendors over the internet, can be used to spy on you and can be updated with changed functionality on a whim - imagine if your own body or mind suddenly required a cloud backend owned by someone else.

I think before we get the technological transhumanist utopia, we have to realise a society that would be able to deal with it. Otherwise, it would be a rather grim irony if we defeated death only to replace it with biblical eternal damnation.
When I started wirewrapping, I'd use a magic marker to place a dot at the pin 1 to make it easier to visualize on an upside down board.

For a while I did some wirewrapping for a company (defense contractor) and the boards came drilled and with silkscreened component markings much like you'd see on a PCB. It's not clear why they went through all of the trouble to silkscreen and drill boards for wirewrapping and didn't just make PCB's. Probably a combination of the cost to create PCB's coupled with a low production run (they were building 5 custom products, so a pretty low volume)
Take a look out your window... all of your windows. Roads are already pretty much everywhere, for better or worse. Rails are not. I believe that we should be working on forms of transit, both new and old, that take advantage of the infrastructure we already have.

The USA's geography is very different from places like Europe and Japan, if that's where you're coming from. Centralized transit is a lot more effective in places where 200 km is considered a long distance, and where the bulk of the population is already compressed into compact urban centers.
And on component sourcing, reading from further down the thread (https://www.element14.com/community/groups/fpga-group/blog/2...)... actually I won't spoil it, go find out where the flash chips came from yourself.

(Or... perhaps they weren't refurbished/reused, and we just discovered one manufacturer's test image?!)
When was the last time you checked that msvc and icc always use a function call form memcpy? At least the latest versions of msvc and icc can replace memcpy with appropriate move instruction. You can see here https://godbolt.org/z/BX0Wya that msvc 2017, msvc 2015, icc 18.0 and even icc 13.0.1 used a mov instruction for memcpy to uint32 instead of function call.
There are several reasons why HN users would correctly downvote and flag this subthread. First, it's a flamewar topic that has burned itself out on HN countless times in the past, that amounts to nothing more than people calling names at each other and worse.

Second, none of the people who do this kind of flamewar have any substantial notion of the relationship between schizophrenia and socially taboo language. Nor is that a topic that can be discussed on an internet forum at all, since any knowledgeable comment would immediately be buried by angry ignorant ones.

It's mindless, and those of you abusing each other should be ashamed of yourselves.
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson -- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Ne...

First half of the book changed my life, and second half is merely good. I wrote a full review [0], and eight years later, that first half has become one of my favorite reads ever.

[0]: http://www.spaceponies.com/review-of-a-short-history-of-near...
That's the first, obvious example of Walmart losing in court. A few minutes of skimming yields cases from 1993, 1995 and 2000 in the US, then 2003 in Germany and 2012 in Costa Rica. That's as much effort as I'm willing to put into a comment on HN. Maybe Walmart has completely changed their business practices in the last six years...
Onr can hope that they will roll back the electron app. Legacy native app was way faster and this just feels like a downgrade.
Yes. http://www.codeghar.com/blog/openbsd-on-ubiquiti-usg.html

They're basically the same hardware.
> While I'm relatively certain that his racist profanity-filled posts are how he's going to be remembered

I'm not quite so sure. Michael Jackson, for example, isn't remembered today as a pedophile or a degenerate, even though everyone was quick to demean the man while he was alive. Maybe the same will be true for Terry Davis. Respect is often something that is given posthumously. People tend to forget and forgive when the negative is vastly outweighed by the positive.
Note the plural: campaigns, hinting at the explanation: There are many campaigns, and they operate entirely independent from each other, at least when it comes to technology infrastructure.

The reason for that is something that HN would usually respect, namely the attempt to keep ownership of information. So of course the old discussion about cloud services is being replayed here: "Why would you trust Google?" / "Why do you think my small company has better security than Google" / ...

I'm pretty sure their next presidential candidate will activate 2-factor authentication etc.
Companies are deathly afraid of introducing new brands and cling to the misguided idea of expanding their existing brand into unrelated territories. Usually this results in the brand losing all meaning.

So here we have Microsoft trying to leverage an existing brand (Skype) into new territory (social media). The technical aspect or what users actually want is a afterthought.

Microsoft could release their own alternative to current social media apps but they won't just start small and build a new brand.
In Australia I had to pay 50% over RRP because the only vendor is Amazon and .com.au is a mere shell of its American parentage - filled with profiteers reselling at huge margins. :(
Why is nytimes supporting censorship?
Great post. almost a year old but still relevant. most SPA's are poorly implemented.
thanks for sharing.
I have conflicting thoughts about this.

On one hand, threatening someone (or someone's loved ones) with death is utterly wrong and despicable except for crimes committed by that someone with similar impact where emotions may run really high and would be understandable under the circumstances. A net neutrality defeat is not one of those situations when its direct impact is looked at. [To expand further, I also believe that death threats or attempts even for the most heinous crimes is wrong for a few different reasons, though it's understandable why someone may think that's right.]

On the other hand, without further information on whether the convicted person could or would actually carry out the threat (the assessment of which may not be an easy endeavor), and when the person doesn't have a prior record, the following stance by the US Attorney's office seems way too harsh to me:

> The US Attorney's office in Virginia opposed the motion for bail pending sentencing.

> "Incarceration is, by its very nature, a hardship, and neither the defendant's mental health status nor the nature of his conviction is rare or uncommon, particularly when compared to other offenders," the government wrote.

We know that law is meant to reduce discretionary decisions, but discretion is also there in the actual sentencing and in bail decisions. Somehow the attitude of US Attorneys to get a very high conviction and sentencing rate, as measured in person-decades, seems more like a stepping stone to future political growth of the attorneys and less about viable deterrence of crimes.

If we were to take a poll asking people if and when they wished a certain prominent figure would just disappear (or die) because of some decision that was believed to be incorrect and damaging, I'd guess the majority of the population everywhere would say they've had those thoughts several times in several instances. Humans are emotional creatures, and our reactions to many things are emotional, with rationality probably struggling to reign in the emotions. In a sense, everybody is emotionally unstable at several points in life. I feel we ought to come up with better ways to handle these as a society.
There is also a channel that someone has mirrored with some of his earlier videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEPEqMr199q3iRTwToIotVA/vid...
iPhone app development can be done on non-apple machines, but it is harder, so I assume that adds some reason to getting a mac, at least it did for me. Even though I don't primarily do app dev, having a mac, and not having to mess with a hackintosh, was worth the extra money.
I think that ‘noöne’ is the logical next step from the (widely viewed as permissible) ‘no-one’; OTOH ‘noone’ would just be wrong.

Keeping it as two words would be like writing Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften as rechts shutz versicherungs gesellschaften, which would obviously be terrible
It seems like they are just making it more explicit that companies must cooperate with the police. Isn't it already the case anyway if there is an appropriate court order?

At least they are not suggesting to compromise or limit encryption in any way.

What I fail to understand is how all this would help fighting crime. Criminals and terrorists can easily use end-to-end encryption for the communication. There is plenty of software for that and it's really easy to do nowadays.
Oh hey! You're all over it. Excellent.