skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was.

The idea that the only reason the US extended the copyright term was because of Disney and Mickey Mouse is one of those clever, edutainment, Ted Talks kind of factoids. It is fun to write about and bring up in threads like this, but in reality, IP(including copyright) had become the predominate strategy of US economic policy in regards to globalization. That isn't to say Disney was not one of many companies fighting hard to extend copyright. Especially due to Micheal Eisner's Disney strategy[1] which, at the time, utilized much of Disney's historical catalog. Most media companies(and US policy makers) are likely more focused on extending IP protections globally at this point. Which is probably one of the reasons we are not seeing a fight about this now.

It is actually interesting now that I think about things like this. I wonder if this is a product of the "Google Knowledge" era. Where quick and clever explanations spread do to their ability to rank higher in a search engine query or social media share.

[1] http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/disneys-movie-vault1984-...

Excerpts from the cited article:

"In this case, however, some external forces helped expedite the decision, as in Italy, the film was soon to move into the public domain, which meant it would be fair game for pirates and widespread copying. Snow White was released on VHS in 1994, and would break all records for Disney’s animated classics, selling nearly 50 million copies worldwide. It was the last of the early Disney animated films released for home video. Disney was also able to extend the copyright for Snow White."

"The enormous market Disney discovered in selling older films, underscored the “huge potential upside” in stepping up production of new ones. – Michael Eisner"
It's not the payment that was specifically dirty, it's that privatized firefighting was a dirty job historically in America. Like competing companies brawling in the street on the way to a fire, dirty.

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

Here is a comedian's take on it in podcast form: https://thedollop.net/wp/episode-138-dollop/
why would those shadow accounts be any useful (or accurate) if there's no active users to corroborate or contribute any information on them?

Facebook's value is derived entirely from the information generated from its user base.
> How do people get their packages if they work during delivery time every day?

One option is to have the package delivered to the work address, or if you live in a building with a reception, the receptionist receives the package for you.

(Also, where I live a house's porch is normally behind the fence, so to leave a package in the porch it would have to be thrown over the gate.)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is one of my favorite books!

0 in this case is not really a relevant value (since that would mean transforming the input into something infinitely large). The functional identity value / origin here is 1x. Here's what that looks like [1].

To me, this is a significantly less useful image. But maybe that stems from a lot of comfort with both the subject matter and the detail log-log plots that I work with to evaluate zstd performance, e.g. [2].

[1] https://imgur.com/gU2Gdf6
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/1317#issuecomment-4260...
>Saying you know when you don't is a lie. Instructing people to say they know when they don't is instructing them to lie on your behalf.

Because, in that case, the intent of the statement is to deceive. If the intent of the statement is simply to not set an expectation that can't be guaranteed rather than to intentionally deceive, then it's not a lie, in my opinion.

I work in audio editing and recovery/enhancement and there are situations on a regular basis where we tell customers that their audio can't be recovered. I don't think we're lying to customers in saying that despite the fact that, in some cases, we may be able to recover or enhance the audio to the point where it's usable if we invested an exorbitant amount of time on it. In the most literal sense, yes we can recover the audio but in the practical sense and, most importantly, to the customer we can't recover the audio in any meaningful way because they either can't afford the work necessary, we don't have the resources to devote to that work, or we can't guarantee that, even if we can recover it, it's acceptable for whatever purpose they need it for despite being "good enough" for us.
FFI is very slow. He probably needs C++ calls in hot loops.
I generally agree with you. However I also feel that the ABI guarantees by Red Hat, Canonical and the Debian project are fairly trustworthy. Rolling forward automatically is much less risky, taken overall, than a rotting pin.
> "If drivers were classified as workers they would inevitably lose some of the freedom and flexibility that comes with being their own boss."

Does the law actually mandate that employers offer less freedom and flexibility if someone is classified as a worker? Because from my vague familiarity with it, it does nothing of the sort, and this statement by Uber is misleading well beyond the point of lying. After all, isn't it precisely the lack of said "freedom and flexibility" that got their contractors classified as workers in the first place?
It may be indeed, but the article gives no indication that this isn't a policy Amazon has after giving a vague indication that it might be.

HNers are reading a news story as clearly as it was written.

(to contrast, the other option is that HNers would make logical assumptions and making logical assumptions is quite illogical when it comes to how large corporations interact with sub-contractors)
They wouldn't lose much revenue from Steamboat Willie entering the public domain. But 20+ years of content entering the public domain could've caused a couple of percent of revenue to be lost annually by now. That's a chance they'd rather have nipped in the bud, and subsequently did.
But other services don't connect to your friends. So I guess it's more like, paying them not to use any intersecting public roads.
Where can I donate?
> The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimated that in 2006, injuries from plastic packaging resulted in approximately 6,000 emergency-room visits.

> Along with the potential health hazards, environmental concerns have prompted calls for the elimination of clamshell packaging. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about one-third of consumer garbage is packaging, and plastics comprise 12 per cent of U.S. waste each year.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/03/04/clamshell-pa...

I am having a hard time finding current numbers. 6,000 in 2006...12 years ago. I'm sure it's only climbed since then.
I wonder what effect the huge SOPA/PIPA outcry had on this change in position?
> pay taxes on the net $1000 of service they received for $0?

by that logic, then breathing in clean air is gonna have to get taxed as clean air has a value that's none-zero, despite that people are paying zero for it currently.
Yes.

Either fibre or wireless link(s) to an upstream provider. Non-residential connections don't have the same sort of ToS that residential broadband does.

The cost of those links (or link) is then shared by the community wireless organization. So typically, subscribers pay a small monthly fee to join the mesh, which covers the cost of Internet connectivity and any other shared resources in the community network (ie. rooftop space for a central node, etc).
WealthFront Career Launching List Trustworthy?
Can we trust the wealthfront career launching lists published every year.
What is their source of info ?

https://blog.wealthfront.com/career-launching-companies-list/
I'm aware of the reasoning. As you say, in C people would carelessly edit:

if (condition)
doSomething

to

if (condition)
doSomething
doSomething2

So fair enough, you protect against that. You cannot therefore conclude that:

if (condition) {
doSomething
}

is clearer or that 1 line if statements aren't clear. First of all, you've purchased your insurance at the cost of brevity. Which is quite a high price, especially when you have to use them constantly to write:

if err != nil {
return err
}

and when it forces all of your 1 line conditional expressions to be 4 - 6 lines, per my OP.

And there are solutions that allow you to buy your insurance without such a high price. You can invert the position of the if, as ruby does. You could make a rule that when you don't have braces you have to write your statement on the same line. The point is this isn't the only way out. And clarity is not the same as preventing one specific kind of error, which occurs only in a context which could be changed as well.
I want to know about what people pursued this year. I'm also the sort of person that enjoys reading resumes, and making new years resolutions. I find seeing what other people do can inform my own actions.
Saying that Sanders is advocating the elimination of private health insurance because he favors Medicare for all is just as inaccurate a saying that anyone who advocates for improving public transit is trying to eliminate all privately owned vehicles.

I'm sure there are plenty of things to dislike about Sanders or anyone else whose political leanings tend toward things like publicly-funded healthcare coverage, it should be possible to come up with a few of them without blatant misrepresentation
> I don't think they've done anything Mickey-related in a long while

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_and_the_Roadster_Race...
To a degree, "vacuum tubes" are like "machine learning" and "blockchain" in that their presence in a product has a magical money-attracting quality that's often divorced from their active role in the product's operation.

That said, comparing %THD between all-tube circuits and solid-state circuits for hifi isn't entirely apples-to-apples, especially since "single-ended-triode" type tube amps' distortion is predominantly in the second-order harmonic, which listeners often perceive as loudness or "roundness" or "warmth."

I've listened to 2% THD tube amps that sounded pretty good to my ears, whereas a 2% THD solid state amp will generally sound like ass. Although, honestly, I haven't spent much time listening to ass, so there's a chance I might just be talking out of mine.
When I was at ICLR a couple years ago, a group of 10 or so researchers from deepmind took a poll of themselves at breakfast and found the general consensus was that AGI was between 5-10 years away.
I don't know dude, an earthquake in California and Washington is going to create many more victims and destroy many more houses than the slowly rising waters in Florida.

Even if I agree with your general sentiment that people will "wake up" when it's far too late, I really doubt the reasons will be financial in a world where everyone is economically poor and accounting rich.
I saw multiple people in both Redwood City and Palo Alto.
This definitely will have a great impact. In high school, there was a school directive that basically adds extra hoops to jump through if a literature teacher wants to assign as a reading some work published in or after 1923. The motivation was that the school was worried that poorer students might not be able to afford those works since they have to buy them. In the end almost everything I was told to read in the high school literature class was published before 1923.
I didn't really plan to learn about anything specific. However, I did learn that I enjoy keeping journals/notes about everything I'm doing/want to do.
If it's true, it does seem like a bit of a loophole.

Perhaps returning too many of his own packages raises a red flag. Or perhaps it's $x per delivery and $y per return, and returning his own packages would eat into his $x.

I mean, I'm sure amazon have a check in place to stop you just picking up your packages in the morning, returning them in the evening, and picking up $y*packages. That's a little bit too obvious.

But it does seem returning packages that weren't yours should be noticed. Perhaps not impossible (red tape shouldn't get in the way of someone doing the right thing), but at least flagged (this has to look as fishy as it sounds).
Profit not service. The system has zero incentive to reduce inefficiencies. Its designed to increase overhead and deliver surprise bills.

The American system is largely a joke where doctors rather collect their co-pays and write prescriptions.
Loss aversion is probably a major factor [0]

It’s well known that people demand disproportionately larger compensation for giving something up than they would pay to gain said thing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Brotli is a competitor of zstd from Google. Google integrated Brotli into Chrome. Facebook are trying to get zstd into Chrome.
> Current stage of capitalism is strictly incompatible with sustainable development.

Are you unaware of the concept of 'externality pricing', or do you think it is flawed in some way?
What specifically are the problems you have? I'm interested in this because I've been working in the automotive retail industry for the better part of my career, and it's my job to provide technological solutions to improve the customer experience in dealerships.
Given Amazon's razor thin margins, zeal for efficiency and cost consciousness, this seems to just be a suspect making up a story to try and get away with a crime.
Yeah it did take a long time! Part of this though was due to people moving on/off the project a fair bit as other more pressing business needs took priority. We sort of justified the cost due to the expected cost savings from not paying for OpsManager/Mongo support (as in the RDS world support became 'free' as we were already paying for AWS support) - which took the pressure off a bit.

Another team at the guardian did a similar migration but went for a 'bit by bit' approach - so migrating a few bits of the API at a time - which worked out faster, in part because stuff was tested in production more quickly, rather than our approach with the proxy which, whilst imitating production traffic, didn't actually serve Postgres data to the users until 'the big switch' - so not really a continuous delivery migration!
I just realized it has been nearly 40 years since I first heard those words on the NPR radio broadcast of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It was broadcast alternately with the Star Wars radio drama. IIRC, Star Wars was aired Friday nights and Hitchhiker's Guide was Saturday nights. Good times, thanks for the reminder. :)
Sure is.
For me, Edge is the only browser that behaves properly when a Youtube video is playing but is not in focus with hardware acceleration on (the exact scenario is I have a game on my main monitor with a Youtube video playing on my other monitor). Both Chrome and Firefox stop loading the video and show the spinning buffering symbol after a few minutes. All three browsers work fine with hardware acceleration off.
The most dangerous equation
DataStax reconnects with Apache Cassandra
Curious why you feel it's overengineered?

I travelled along the O-bahn for most of my childhood/uni years and I think it's a brilliantly simple system.

Stick a couple of guide wheels on a bus, and you've now got a safe, fast, relatively low cost transport system, that still has the flexibility (once it exits the track) to go where ever it needs to go.
If there is AGI all bets are off so to speak, what's a few dollars worth then? If there isn't AGI the money still has value. Doesn't sound like a rational bet, even if you think the odds of AGI soon are high.
> I feel so bad about this product I created. I don't feel as bad about the money I'm making though, and no, I won't close the company out of principle. I just make too much money from it.

> But he left the company in 1997, selling his ownership of the product for $50,000.

He can’t close anything down. He made $50k out of it.
For it to replace MongoDB's aggregation pipeline, it would need to play nicely with JSONB. Does it do that? This is the thing I'm really missing.

For example, if documents in the JSONB column all look roughly like this:

{
"someArrayField": [
{ "key": "steve", "value": 7 },
{ "key": "bob", "value": 15 },
],
"someOtherField": [ "whatever" ]
}

* Can I count the number of entries in someArrayField, summed across all records?

* Can I get the per-record mean of the "value" sub-field, summed across all records?

* Can I filter by records that have a "someArrayField" entry where "key" is "steve" and "value" is at least 10 (the above record should NOT match)?
They probably weren't even aware that they were doing an exec.Command, as they say they were using a go dependency for the mount behavior. Whoever wrote your dependency might not have had your use case in mind when writing the library. When you evaluate your dependencies you have take into account what differences there are between the authors usecase, and yours.

It would be easy to say that dependencies are a bad thing, especially when writing programs that are run as root or even suid, but there's no reason to assume the same mistake would not have been made if they wrote the mounting code themselves.

The big lesson should be that there should always be an explicit step to your software development process that is to evaluate the security characteristics of your program. Of course, it should always also be on your mind while writing code, but there's so many layers you depend on, and so many things you might not think of.
I think that the endowment effect may be the more relevant behavioral economics concept here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
Correct. If they push a little more it will just become part of the OS. Firmware should consist of minimal hardware init and a boot loader and nothing more.
They are very attractive to small businesses who don't even know Mandrill exists. Relatively well known brand, quirky marketing, good integration with other sites/apps, and free up to 2,000 subscribers (which many small businesses can only dream of!). It's relatively simple to make a decent looking email with their UI, even though I'm not a huge fan of it.

By the time you hit that 2,000 subscriber limit you're comfortable and stuck. I've used them before, my main issue (apart from price) is their poor automation/segmentation logic.
I used to drive for an Amazon contractor earlier this year and I can tell you from experience that most package theft isn't coming from situations like this, but instead packages that are actually a part of a driver's route

Usually each delivery contractor has a set delivery area because of this it's extremely obvious when you're given a bait package because it's usually got an address that's very much out of your way. Or the package will look really beat up. Most of the time it's the former in these cases. Where I saw the most theft happen was packages that had an address that couldn't be found, clearly marked items (ex. toilet paper in a branded box), or a driver genuinely misplaces a package inside the van so they mark it missing only to find it later in the day. Now you might ask: why not just bring a package back if there's a legitimate issue with it's delivery? You'll be marked down. So it's easier in many cases to simply rip off the label and abandon it or take it for yourself and hope you've been given something valuable.

Most of these guys are in rough situations, are under extreme pressure to perform (200 + deliveries in a day), and often aren't given benefts or a stable schedule. Turnover is extremely high, employee theft is absolutely rampant, and frankly it seems like Amazon never cared so long as there was a certain threshold of delivered packages for the day.

Sure when you are claiming multiple packages per week are on your manifest but not present in your van things get suspicious, but of course all they do is send you an extremely obvious bait package that you'll end up returning unless you're just stupid. Many of these drivers aren't lasting more than a year and almost all of them are gaming the system through the method I listed above so there's no reprecussion for doing the wrong thing and in most cases doing the right thing gets you a thank you coupled with a black mark on your record. I've seen easily over 10k worth of theft in my first few months I really do wonder how Amazon manages to stay in business.
Personally I’d hate it if my cousin sent me her vacation pictures by email, but I’m perfectly happy to take a quick glance at them while scrolling by in the FB feed.

But that’s beside the point. There’s something you’re missing about the local newspaper analogy: it’s that Facebook works great for communicating and sharing within groups of similar size to “people in my small town community who give a shit about my daughter’s birthday”.
> It's too late now, but it would be lovely to go back in time, say 50 years, and keep plugging away with attempts to undermine the ideologies: there is no such thing as an 'economy', still less 'economic growth' (and as for 'sustainable' growth ...).

You think that because a think isn't concrete it doesn't exist? Growth is a real thing, whether you like it or not, and it has lifted billions of people out of extreme poverty and hardship.

The average person is much better off than they were 100 years ago. That is a direct, inalienable consequence of growth. If you think there is something (e.g. the environment) that is worth more than that, there's certainly cases to be made for that, but that is a value judgment. But it is absolutely not true that growth does not exist or is not important.
How do you feel about biodegradable plastic?
It will from now on going forward, unless congress extends the copyright length again. 20 years ago congress retroactively extended copyright for 20 years.
And yet the second bullet in that article:

> The electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as possibly carcinogenic to humans.

So it's not settled science, even though there is some evidence pointing toward it not causing cancer.
In German it's funny, we were saying:

Mein Vater erklärt mir jeden Sonntag unsere neun Planeten.

Not only is the last word missing now, the number 9 (neun) is also totally wrong now. ;)
The problem with this is the police can harass you back in an asymmetrical way that involves you in jail with a record on trumped up charges.

If they wont even bother with the most non-controversial of crimes, what makes you think they have the moral gumption to not do that to get rid of an annoyance?
The reason amplitudes are complex is because a fundamental role is played in quantum theory by symmetry, and the imaginary number in an exponential (e^it) is a very algebraically convenient way to capture an important symmetry.

In quantum field theory, the lie algebra elements of certain lie groups (U(1), SU(2), and SU(3)) play a fundamental role. For example, the 8 quarks correspond to 8 lie algebra elements of SU(3).

A lie group is a continuous symmetry group (such as the rotation of a circle which leave it unchanged, as opposed to a finite group like the rotations of a square) and the lie algebra are the "generators" of lie groups in the same sense that finite groups can be generated, such as the symmetry group of rotations of a square can be generated by a single rotation of 90 degree's.

Here is the real kicker, the imaginary number i is actually equivalent in a very strong sense to the lie algebra element of O(1) (which is just the rotations of a circle) and can also be represented by the matrix:

0 -1

1 0

as can be proven by taking the powers of this matrix and the powers of i and simply checking everything.
I feel it should be permissible to extend copyright indefinitely, so long as there is an extension fee, increased for each year of registration, without upper limit. Maybe first 35 years (~1 generation) free.

At year 36 you pay $100 to extend. By year 70 you're paying several million to extend. By year 90 you better hope that The Mouse is worth the twenty two billion dollars you owe.
Rural/Metro is now American Medial Response (they were acquired and all the operations rebranded).