skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should a business use the State to enforce a broken scarce physical property model at odds with how information honestly disseminates (impedance mismatch or category error) just so they can prop up their own business models? If their business models can’t be profitable without enforcing draconian and perhaps misapplied rules, then their business model should not be viable and we should rely on eg open source collaboration or hobbyists. Perhaps businesses SHOULDN’T have a “right” to create really complex movies music and software if it means causing far more others harm downstream.

There is zero harm to others downstream, because the only thing those people are being deprived of is a product that wouldn't exist at all without the "evil" content creators. You're not being deprived of anything when you can't download Avengers: Infinity Wars for free. You're just prevented from having your cake and eating it too. (I.e. consuming a product that was created in express reliance on the copyright system, without paying for it.) Which is the reason we allow companies to enforce this artificial scarcity--it allows creation of a product that people want more than the alternatives.

It's precisely because this scarcity is artificial that it's moral. If people wanted to consume content from "open source collaboration or hobbyists" then they would do it. Nothing is stopping them. But people don't want the hobbyist project, they want the $200 million Hollywood blockbuster. And if that's the case, people have no right to demand access to that content on terms different from what the creator is willing to agree to.
Nvidia launches Rapids to help bring GPU acceleration to data analytics
Feedbacks depend on which model you use. Still, it's not particularly relevant to the question of slow methane leakage from a natural gas distribution system, which is what we're talking about.
especially paywalled links to sources such as WSJ
> the pleasure to actually doing something instead of the stress of idle, and the satisfaction of finishing it

This is great. Focus on the after feeling, and then work to get there as quickly as possible. What I found is that feeling of procrastination caused way more stress than just doing. Of course it's hard to see this in the moment, and requires discipline to get going. But after, it's a great feeling to crush through all these things that would otherwise drag on for a long period, and now enjoy my free time.
There is already an official plugin replacing it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
So if you have a disease/accident that costs $100k to treat, how much is the deductible? If it's like $5k, it's okay.
I would do that too.
Why I'm scared of failure
There is a semi-decent selection on Spotify. I pay for the subscription and then also go to Bandcamp to buy obscure artists. I don't buy big label stuff anymore.
It's the people receiving that yearly rate that are the true criminals; still, drinks all around.
That's entirely in the "stop digging the hole so fast" category. Except for the tree peeing I think.

Actually removing thousands of billions of tons of excess carbon from the atmosphere is still an unsolved problem. We can't do it with trees unless we find a black hole to stuff them into.
And being verifiable this means we don't need to care about how it gets transported to clients, which is a recurring theme in Internet design.

The TLS WG has a piece of work for how you shove the DNSSEC RRs into a TLS setup, so you can say "OK, I know DNSSEC but my resolver sucks, so, can you prove who you are with DNSSEC?" as an alternative to doing the Web PKI or some similar setup but with a private CA.

For example we saw this previously with OCSP in two ways: Firstly, any issuer working at scale does OCSP by pre-generating answers and shoving them into an ordinary CDN / reverse cache. The CA knows they issued cert X, and it was still good on Friday, they sign an OCSP response that says "I'm the issuer, cert X was still good as of today" dated Friday and they shove that into the cache. Now the CDN can deliver OCSP responses quickly and at scale without scattering OCSP signer keys all over the Internet. Clients can trust them because they're signed, even though the client talked to some CDN, not the issuer at all.

Secondly OCSP stapling. Instead of clients doing OCSP (and most often failing open since it's unreliable) let's have the server collect OCSP responses for its certificates periodically, and then "staple" the response to the certificate when delivering it. The OCSP signer and OCSP client never communicate at all, but since it's a signed message the client can trust that it's genuine.
> By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio -- with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code -- to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.

Is this sentence a meaningless tautology (application code is not the same thing as patents) or are there some older patents that Microsoft isn't donating? For example the VFAT patents?
I hate this industry. Shooting themselves in the foot over and over again because no one can get passed the idea that possibly, women can be just as good at math, logic and computer science - if people would just let them. This never ends. It's just one place after another, when it gets discovered. It never changes.
That's not the point of the video. The video shows Apple charging 1200$ for what is effectively fixing a bent pin. According to Rossman cases like this show up several times a week in his shop alone. Disclaimer: I'm an Macbook and iphone user and find apples behaviour plainly wrong.
The market is NOT a new invention. Copyright exists to regulate the market.
>Do smart contracts have a way to dispute an outcome?

Yes, but you have to write code to implement dispute resolution, which in turn implies you have to devise a form of "proof" to be presented to the contract. This can be tricky (or impossible).
I took DiffEQs (the only 5-credit course offered, which I thought rather odd), of course, on my way to my CP degree at FIT in central Florida, and the one thing I remember was that they turn out to be very useful in biological simulations.

As I remember, population ebb-and-flow based upon available resources is something it was especially good at estimating and tracking over time, so I would imagine that any of the Sims-type games they would be quite useful.

It turns out they are damn good at estimating, over time, many things, so a little bit of research and the right game and it's not hard to see how the two could work well together.
The cynic in me thinks they found a patent in the portfolio that they value at more than 3.4 bn and they can now use it royalty-free.
I thought fonts were copyrighted.
I would like to see the definitive analysis as to whether they will continue to benefit from those licences on patents that affect open source software.

How do they plan to recoup their losses? They weren't getting much anyway?
I think you just described more than half of all political debate, as e.g. libertarians and socialists define "capitalism" differently.

When debating these terms I define them and/or add qualifiers, e.g. "voluntarist capitalism" or "non-authoritarian capitalism" for the libertarian concept (which is not what we have!) and "state capitalism" or "corporatism" for what socialists usually mean.

Making matters worse it's become popular to deliberately muddy the waters by attempting to steal or corrupt definitions or use bland meaningless dog whistle terms. The latter I call 'duckspeak' after the term from 1984.
It's pretty unfortunate, especially in light of the recent UN Climate report that the US is using its power to prop up the fossil fuel industry. Given current cost trajectories, coal was going to have a hard time competing against renewables. But if the health and safety regulations that coal operates under are greatly reduced or removed, coal may become very competitive again, to the detriment of pretty much everything and everyone else.

Mercury is a known harmful substance, and while the coal companies state they don't plan on taking advantage of any reductions I find it hard to believe that if a plant found itself not in compliance with old standards that it would voluntarily disclose and correct the issue if not required. Changing the way standards are calculated will also go a long way towards changing the standards on other pollution limits. The end result is more poison in our air, rivers, and bodies.

Add to this the Trump administrations draft plan to use the Defense Production Act to mandate the purchase of coal power and you have a pretty stark narrative.
I would love to see Australia take the lead on this.

It's a majestic notion and we should be trying it right now.
I think that is a particular ability - I can do so as well, but I also recognize that it may be more the exception than the norm.

That said, I very much like private offices more.
We should focus our efforts where there is the most bang per buck:

- Cleaner energy for developing countries, esp. China and India. Pay for their solar panels, to prevent new coal plants.

- Research clean energy technology — solar, wind, hydroelectric. Drive maximum efficiency, and minimum cost.

- Raise awareness worldwide. Keep talking.

This documentary was informative: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/an_inconvenient_sequel_trut... (2017, 10 years after the original)

2018: https://www.eco-business.com/news/coal-is-in-decline-globall...
35 years ago, microsoft assaulted me at a beer party.
it does what its meant to do and nothing more. I would never frequent it as much if it got ux and ui updates a la new reddit and new gmail.
In northern climates in the winter, people use hundreds of thousands of BTU per day burning fossil fuels to heat their homes. Translated to electricity, that's 30+kwh per day with a huge portion of that during non peak solar and wind.

In order to solve the energy problem, you also have to solve the heating one... and wind / solar currently can't do that.
I would guess that the training data for the ML set was the set of all resumes and an indicator of whether the candidate was eventually hired (maybe with supplemental data about how far in the process the candidate got).

Could this be a direct indicator of a powerful subconscious bias in Amazon's existing hiring process?
In my life I've only ever seen one person who looked like they couldn't afford to buy a ticket to pass through the exit door. All the youth I've seen jumping the turnstiles were people who clearly could. In many cases it's the same with the music, I know several people that just flat out refuse to pay for any music or films.
Ask HN: How do you feel about backchannel communications for engineering teams?
Hi!

On the teams I've worked on, I've usually always been part of a public Slack channel (with managers, product, designers, various stakeholders) and a private slack channel which is only engineers.

1.) I think the private channel makes people more likely to ask the "dumb questions", be more frank, and generally more communicative: do you agree?

2.) Should engineering managers be part of the private channel?

In general, I'm curious what HN thinks about this paradigm!
"Stealing" implies that the previous owner loses ownership, both in common English and legally speaking.

Why bending the meaning of words?
Microsoft's Android patent shakedown was the big thing that kept me from believing the company had really changed - I think I'm ready to consider that it really has changed now.
There is a reason to do it in private: So you don't have to deal with the general public and the questions they might ask.
Designing a DSL for accounting: use a DSL to describe taxes and financials
This is about rendering, not the font itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
I like this mentality. Notifications are inherently disruptive and can cause agitation by their mere existence.
That stopped working for me years ago. You sure?
What is a BNBR ding? DuckDuckGo didn't turn anything up for me.
How long till ZDNet realises that autoplay model is egregious?
"Why is it not possible to buy mp3s? Amazon, play store, iTunes etc. all use no DRM to my knowledge? Or is it just a question of price?"

I was going to ask the same thing - specifically about Amazon, which sells non-DRM, standard mp3s - but it occurs to me this might only be in the United States.

What does mp3 purchasing from Amazon look like from other countries ? Just a vastly different catalog ? The same catalog but with DRM files ?
Agreed! It's a great example.
This seems like an extension of what large tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google have been doing among themselves all along. Over the last two decades they amassed huge patent portfolios and then mutually agreed to only use them defensively.

The difference here is that anyone who joins OIN can play along too.

I feel like this a natural evolution of their policies over the last decade.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/04/04/a-new-ip-strateg...
The downvotes when you even bring up a possible alternative to "the narrative."
As an Apple user I find it sad to see this on the frontpage rather than Apples recent Anti-repair and anti-refurbish stories.
Couldn't you demonstrate right there that the Lightning port wouldn't charge the iPhone? Seems like a pretty simple way to refute the technician's claim.
You mean, In what other market does the law ban competition?
Freedom should be the default, not "copyright" since it does the opposit.
In many countries te public domain was the rule and copyright was the exception until the US started pressuring nations via multilateral treaties and economic sanctions or "incentives".
Machine learning should not be used in this way on humans, whether for resume screening or even more dystopic, for sentencing.
It’s Complicated: Dating Without Texting Is the Best
The notion that ideas are products to be sold on the market instead of free thoughts to be shared is a new invention.

In fact, most of the world still doesn't believe it, which is why the US has to fight so hard to expand copyright and patent protection in other nations.
Show HN: DuckRails – web app for mocking API endpoints (docker image available)
We also left compose but left to move to mLab. When Compose was still MongoHQ, we were really impressed by their support. In the last few years, we became incredibly unsatisfied. mLab has been awesome and responsive. I hope the move to Atlas doesn't cause their support to change.
access to OIN patents, presumably
> Copying, any copying, is breaking copyright, if a work is copyrighted

Only in some legal systems. E.g. in some countries you can make a backup copy of a software you bought.
"People on HN", to me, seems like it should be "People in the US".

There are plenty of urbanists on HN. Anecdotal, but I swear if I post something like "your free parking is just welfare for car owners" it will be upvoted most of my workday, and then downvoted as Americans come online. But I don't have hard data for this (wonder if HN has a way to pull the comment score history over time...)

For what it's worth, my Brompton looks pretty cool at my desk, too, but that's less visible.

And yeah, all new cities are garbage. Absolute dystopian nightmares of design where letting your three year old play in the street is a death sentence. Never mind that when cars were new a NYC judge decried the possibility of kids being banished from playing in the streets, which of course was perfectly normal.
> A high severity CVE-2017-9780 (CVSS Score 7.2) has indeed been assigned to this vulnerability. Flatpak developers consider this a minor security issue.

The flatpak release notes talk of a "minor security update", where "minor" surely means "of small size", not "of little importance" as OP would have it. Though the text could add a little importance.
> if you want a true partner who will find and exploit issues you can get that too.

Could you name such a company? This is a perfect opportunity to get to know a good auditor, actually I can't imagine how would one look for a good auditor otherwise.
They were getting more from Android on licenses than they were on Windows Phone.
That's marketing speak for "they used invisible ink and a UV lamp"

Considering that Apple is the biggest company in Silicon Valley, and every bar and night club bouncer from Boston to Bangkok has access to UV ink, it’s pretty safe to say that this isn’t just hand stamp ink.
Show HN: Commons Host DNS-over-HTTPS CDN with 20+ edge servers
That's not what the OP was discussing. Does Dell replace a laptop if you drop it and crack its screen?
Does this include hardware patents? Quantum computing? Microsoft Research? XBox?
There is also plenty of hydrogen in sea water. As with the nuclear fuel you claim is infinite, there are costs and complications with extracting it, though. So it’s a silly claim.

Nuclear has its own problems starting with the fact that it’s a highly centralized solution, with attendant problems following from that.
I also think the down voting system is very toxic. It's not for low quality anymore. It's mainly used for bullying.
Like SPF? Or DKIM?

ARP, and more generally any single-segment Ethernet network, is insecure, and it’s a problem. It’s just a very ingrained problem that’s unlikely to get fixed any time soon.
Solar hot water heaters are cheap and work very well for home heating outside the arctic circle.

In the US we mostly use them for pool heating, as anything else costs to much, but somehow they are ignored for other uses.
depressing.
I'm wondering if the portfolio include most filesystems Microsoft made (NTFS, VFAT, ExFAT, etc).
In your argument, where does live streaming stand?
I assume this is referring to some mechanism like `mlockall(2)` or using cgroups to disable using paging. Is the "excess" memory dirtied ? It's not clear why having the pages mapped but unaccessed entirely would cause a performance issue.
>3. Automatically create cache link

I just implemented this, drinking the hnrss post firehose and archiving each link at archive.is. Great idea!
Are they going to give back all the royalties they've stolen from every Android phone manufacturers with their patents, which the manufacturers didn't need to develop their phones, so they just gave them money for nothing?
A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety
Just waiting for a comment like this to appear.

Last time I checked, the last President to roll out tanks against American citizens was Bill Clinton. Oh wait, during the Obama administration, ranchers in Oregon were also threatened by the government and ultimately prevailed in court.

"Fascist" today is used in the same way "Counter-revolutionary" was used by Bolsheviks in the early Soviet Union - simply anyone who disagrees with the mob.

I would be interested in hearing instances of state-planned violence against citizens in present day America that comes close to what happened in Waco. Please don't cite immigrants in cages or Gitmo - both were in full force for eight years of a "progressive" Presidency.

edit: as predicted, downvotes and no responses
The term is in my eyes not used to describe the act of violence in this sense but most likely for living out side of the law and ignoring most authorities.
I'm reminded of why Watson failed, and the problem with ml and ai in general- you can't peek under the hood to see why something happened, or how to keep it from happening without a lot of time, a lot of hard work, and a whole lot of carefully groomed data.
IOHK has Smart Contracts too (Cardano)

https://iohk.io/blog/cardano-smart-contracts-testnet-iele-la...
Your comment will probably end up buried, but it does raise the question - if they want more female employees, was the issue in the training data, or their recruitment process?
Couldn't this be said of the broader diversification of demographics/interests/end goals within the tech worker and hackers communities at large?
I had a similar experience with Atlas. At least 1.5 years ago, Atlas felt like a enterprise company trying to do a SaaS. They used the same sales person driven approach I associate with enterprise sales. mLab just felt far more developer focused.
i hope population of the world goes down a lot in your region in particular
I assumed they were for service workers with SPAs. Not the case? The AWS landscape is so massive it's hard to understand what everything does. I'll check out CloudFlare workers, thank you.
What's the best current alternative database for storing financial transactions? Just use a SQL over a NoSQL?
(2013) https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fat-patent-loss-enda...

> A patent loss in a German court may lead to trouble for Microsoft's Android strategy ... one of Microsoft main Android patent weapons has been rendered harmless for now in the EU. This may sound like a minor patent. It's not. Microsoft has been using this patent since 2003 to pressure Linux and Android companies that use the popular FAT file system for compatibility with other operating systems ... combined with the recent judgment that the US version of this patent, "Common name space for long and short filenames," Patent No. 5,758,352 "invalid for obviousness," may finally blunt this patent's usefulness for Microsoft.
It tells the OS to never swap memory allocated to the process to disk.

You should always lock memory if you're going to be storing crypto keys, etc. since once the pages are swapped to disk you're vulnerable to someone pulling the swap partition out and reading it.
I disagree. I can't find any encouragement for downvoting things you simply disagree with (I just reread the guidelines to make sure). It's also not my perception this is happening: I do read downvoted comments (or parts of those), and almost always there is a good reason other than disagreement. I frequently see grayed articles coming up again after a while due to something you might call "corrective upvotes" when the only reason for a downvote seems to be a different opinion.

> I've lost track of how many times I've written/seen others comments ...

Interesting to see how far two subjective perceptions of the same thing - yours and mine in this case - can be away from each other ...
“spooky action at a distance”

It seems that everything I read states that this isn't actually a thing: No information can be transferred, nothing is changed at a distance. Is that wrong? This is so confusing.

This is the speed of what exactly?

There is the old related link here: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-s-quantum-sate...

Are the satellites basically signing the message kind of like quantum radar?
What Do We Learn from Amazon and the Minimum Wage?
It definitely still works at least some of the time, but there's also delays in some (I haven't received a notification about your reply yet, and it's been several minutes)
It’s a big bummer when your kid is a picky eater, loves tuna, but you have to severely restrict it because it’s loaded with mercury.*

One thing I’ve learned about constraints is that they breed creativity. It’s one of the reasons why I think a well-regulated market isn’t a bad thing.

How many of your unconstrained projects withered due to choice paralysis? How many of your tightly constrained problems led to some of the most satisfying solutions?

(* I’ve recently discovered Safe Catch brand tuna which claims to be tested for mercury and safe for athletes, children, etc. Haven’t verified their claims, but looks promising at least.)
And the 'address above' is a physical street address!

They mean write it on paper and put it in the mail.
I like owning my media. The idea that I can pay Amazon/Apple/Google for a piece of media and they can subsequently yank it out of my library down the line because they lost their license to distribute it does not sit well with me. I imagine it doesn't sit well with alot of people, either.

Until the dominant form of distribution allows people to OWN their music, I believe that piracy will persist.
It fails a NULL check, where an uninitialized value (probably) won’t. That seems like a pretty important distinction, no?