skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can imagine how deflated the person would feel if you met them IRL and started asking proper questions.

You could make anyone unhappy by "asking the proper questions," irrespective of what they have in their LinkedIn profile. Doing that is called "being mean."
From a "mechanical" standpoint, breeding humans to maximize certain desired traits would clearly be powerful.

It's just all the social ramifications that are horrific.
On a semi-related note, I don't know if torrents are successful outside of piracy.

In the last week or two I went back and downloaded all of my years worth of Humble Bundle ebooks/videos. I downloaded the torrent versions as they were easier to track failures with and the HB store does limit simultaneous downloads.

I'm still wondering if I'm going to get an automated scaremail letter about using torrents from my ISP. I already received one for downloading Ubuntu years back, though IIRC that was a different provider.
> the difference may not matter to you but it's not an ad because it's not a paid placement.

Why should that matter? It makes not a lick of difference to me whether they got paid for it or not.
Object eversion, ZigZag, and the RDBMS
I've never understood why I see so many posters on HN (and in other tech-related circles) who seem to think derivative works have no legal encumbrances.
>It occurs to me that much of what crypto-lovers want is actually radically undemocratic.

It's just the latest iteration of the libertarian fallacy, embodied in code - that a market can exist without a governing body to make sure it doesn't get sold.
Code as communication
Most tds I play don’t allow changing your maze during rounds
Retiring from 'sad' on Twitter
Someone has to overpay their manager, marketing, and executive personnel with money that they receive from donations supposedly for improving Firefox.
He's outcast. This post has been flagged. You're just not allowed to talk about it.

Only an idiot with his head deeply in the sand would disagree with him.

This comment will be downvoted/flagged too.
Isn't Snow White (as in the fairy tale) centuries out of copyright? Disney's specific version will still be protected by trademark, so at best one gains the right to host the Disney footage online in 2030.
The Age Four Transition to Responsible Childhood
Sort-by-controversial as a proxy for information content
With things like that, I find moral superiority of Mozilla to be questionable.
Really you think with all the challenges that the young generation rent faces copyright extension is going to be the key motivator to vote out trump etc?
UI lit by the lights in your room [video]
As I mentioned in the Twitter thread, my chief criticism of cryptocurrency since the beginning is it's naivete of the history and politics of money.

The discussions about economics applied here focus too much on microeconomic rather than macroeconomic arguments. So they end up missing the point entirely which is this:

Money isn't a neutral instrument and it's not something that can be decoupled from societal/political concepts and structures.

You can evaluate it as though it is neutral, but it has not ever been and will never be a neutral instrument because of the historical tendency for resources to pool and therefore become power centers, among other things.

Therefore if you view cryptocurrency as having the primary intention to de-couple commerce from coercive power structures [1], then you'll see immediately the historical problem. Namely, history doesn't favor distributed power, especially not when it can easily be co-opted by the powerful systems in which they rely.

In the best case scenario for crypto-utopians, millions of people transact and do commerce on a decentralized currency. In that case, whatever sovereign is most impacted, will then either outlaw commerce by crypto by force or require parity with the sovereign currency and control of the crypto currency through tax payments. This has happened multiple times over the centuries with alt-currencies and they are killed off by the most powerful (see: Most powerful economy/military) organization.

Politically, there is nothing different about Bitcoin than there was with the confederate states dollar for example.

[1] From the original whitepaper: "What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party." https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Xanadu and the rhizomaticity of texts
Who are these super huge amazing artists full of talent?

I can't think of any really.

Because of all the crap - the 'talent' is now gone into show, entertainment, visuals etc, not anything remotely musical.

Example: When Justin Bieber was young, his producer/backer Usher hired him a 'swagger coach' - to teach him how to be cool. Effectively - how to walk, talk, be chill. So Bieber honed is 'swagger' instead of honing any kind of musicianship, creativity or otherwise.

Kids unfortunately don't want to be 'music stars' so much as they just want to be famous. 'Rapper/Musician' is just another form of Instagram star. Kanye is not that different from Kardashian. (FYI I do think Kanye is actually talented, and I also begrudgingly respect Kardashian's entertainment sensibilities). When Ariana Grande was 13 she walked into the label's office and told them she wanted to be a famous worldwide.

And yes - there is actually a lot of innovation in production - production is now where a lot of the 'art' is as the producer matters more than anything else these days.

The saddest part is that it's nary impossible for a 'good group' to make a decent living, or maybe to earn a nice buck for retirement because of course life is short for musicians. A few of them in the zeitgeist, but that's about it.

Oh - a 'big name talent' I can think of is Bruno Mars. I thought his music was ridiculous until I saw them at the super bowl and was very impressed, looking into his background it's clear these guys are super talented, though fairly commercial as well.

Low barriers + Commercialism have benefits: notably broader access and also the money/backing to do stuff. But they have really taken over and it's a problem sadly.
I'd like to debunk two arguments I hear frequently in defense of Apple's 30% cut:

1. They created the iPhone hardware and OS platform on which all apps stand on top of. Surely one who builds the most expensive infrastructure on which so many rely on deserve to tax the economic activity they've enabled.

The problem with this argument is that the enablement actually flows in both directions. Remember the last battle between Mac and Windows in the 90s? Mac was the losing horse because "Windows had all the important software". Office was the killer app back then and the Mac version was gimped. All the cool games were on Windows, and hell, during the days of peak Internet Explorer, Mac users could hardly browse the web properly. The tables have turned today, but the past tells a story of how much the software ecosystem contributes to the platform, not software as freeloaders on the platform.

2. The AppStore is much more secure. Apple's curation protects users from malware much more effectively than Google Play and overall app quality is higher

The issue I have with this argument is one of "who pays for this?" I'd argue the consumer should and has already paid for this via premium prices and the handsome hardware margins of iPhones. This is a benefit that goes directly to the users after all, so they should be (and already are) paying for it, not app developers.
If we think about the Tor consensus mechanism as the part of Tor infrastructure which aspires to decentralization, then Tor is probably about as decentralized as Certificate Transparency—"kinda"!
Historically there have been a lot of sketchy dealers who are very pushy and dishonest.

If you go in with your own financing or cash, and say 'no' to all the upselling, it isn't much different than Best Buy.

Most new car dealers make more money from their service center than sales.
Now I'm talking from an Eastern European perspective, but this writing is pretty one-sided with people working in (liberal) arts fields with 4 kids. HVAC repair folks, plumbers, electrical repairmen have as much an income as a software developer here.

So go get a blue collar job, if your libarts degree isn't paying for it. Welding pays well, sure it's dirty, sure it's hard, but there is zero competition in these fields.
I'm not sure how you could create a Batman or Mickey Mouse product without confusing the consumer and isn't that the test?
I would expect at least the major linux distros to turn said flags by default.
Computer game launchers and updaters, such as the one used by Blizzard, have used BitTorrent under the hood for years, for large downloads.
During the 60's more people opposed the Apollo program spending than supported it, specifically for the reasons you allude to, spend that money on social programs, etc... De-funding these types of programs has been a major talking point of almost every election since then. The discussion has even been renewed quite a bit since SpaceX has came into existence.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/moond...
There's plenty of small business incentives out there. The problem is that the whole "fiber-fueled small rural business" concept is pure romantic fantasy. That's not viable in a modern economy. The future is about massive scale: Amazon replacing regional retailers, etc.
Very timely for me. My wife bought a bunch of choose your own adventure books at a antiques store just before Christmas, and she's been engrossed in them since.

I always thought of them as a sort of offline version of Zork.
Tech's Masturbatory Historiography
> If you took an IQ test made in Africa, chances are you would do much worse than someone for whom the questions are more familiar with the types of questions they would ask.

This sounds like an easy way to falsify the racial intelligence differences hypothesis (or at least throw out the data that supports it). The fact that the reaction to this is a bunch of handwaving bullshit instead of simply performing this experiment and attempting to falsify is a huge red flag.
Old movies, cartoons and comic books are not commercially attractive enough to keep fighting for those originals. Disney can make new Snow White and make hundreds of millions on this release, so what's the point in costly lobbying for a fraction of that revenue?
Also, the blockchain has introduced (AFAIK) the idea of using append-only databases to build decentralized applications, and this is currently used in very interesting new techs which have nothing to do with currencies or economics (like secure-scuttlebutt). The "dweb" is becoming a thing, IMO.
Car dealerships made a lot sense in the pre-youtube/doug demuro age, they can explain the tech, the new cruise control options or passenger side airbags. These days cars are generally pretty reliable, have heavy feature parity at their price points, and car rental is accessible if you would like to try before you buy. Certainly, there are edge cases, but it's probably good enough for most people weighing something like a chevy bolt over a ford focus.
FreeCAD uses Open Cascade, currently on the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800503
What is the character of internet technologies?
Worse, and when and how it can be better
"Champagne" is actually a brand, it just belongs to a region (of France) instead of a company.

> EU law and the laws of most countries reserve the term "Champagne" exclusively for wines that come from this region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_(wine_region)
I'm convinced this is just another Protestant work ethic as secularized by capitalism, ala Max Weber. Each generation is supposed to work hard and devote everything (or almost everything) so their kids have it better, but who gets to say, I have it better, I'm not going to work hard anymore, so I can enjoy some of it? How the public general treats people who have amassed enough to live on but don't actively have a job, seems a testament to the religious foundations and origins of the idea, rather than anything drawn from what might be called reason.
The showroom isn't so much a problem as the high-pressure sales tactics and negotiations that comes with it. The laws in most US states protect this model. Ford can't typically setup a retail store where you just test drive a car and the pricing is transparent and obvious, they have to sell through dealerships (franchise). Obviously franchise owners have different motivations than the manufacturer, they make a commission and need to get as much as possible with each sale.
There isn't a lot of choice in the open source world, unfortunately. You have open cascade and cgal, and that's about it.
Perhaps overall, but murders are up quite a bit:
https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/m...
Robberies:
https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/r...

I certainly hope you're right though. But anecdotally, I know of enough people getting robbed with guns and knives that I don't feels as safe as I did 10 years ago.

I pulled the 200k out of thin air. I'm talking more about the sum over the past few years rather than a specific peak.
Mozilla's death will be one of the saddest dead-horse-beatings to be ever seen. Personally I've switched to Chrome after so many years of using Firefox and I'm not looking back. I'll be stabbed in the back, but I won't say I didn't expect it! Also the knife in my back will be placed by competent people, keeping my bleeding to a minimum ^_^
Can they figure out if it was drilled in space or Earth
Have you looked at https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/gdpr-center/ and https://gdprchecklist.io ?
It is -- that's salary for entry-level engineers / fresh graduates in Tier-1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen etc).
I think your issue is you got a GM car, which has had a decades long reputation for some of the worse reliability and quality issues.
Queen guitarist Brian May wrote a song for NASA's historic flyby
How exactly philosophy is going to save anyone in a desert?
Yep, there are big steps up at around $300 and $1000 before that. Tons of opportunity to get great sound without losing your mind or your savings :-P
The flawed history of graphical user interfaces
Citation needed. Not every country or community has access to your cushy first-world banking system.
Maybe, but a homeless person may not have time for all that fiddling around
Bach, Beethoven, Chopin...
A short glossary of tech industry terms [satire]
> This was the result of users reporting the extension as not working, users that have low tolerance for bugs and can't wait for them to get fixed.

I always wanted to convert one of my chrome extensions that has close to 100k active users to paid.[0] If we do the Math, if we sell it 0.99c, it would be close to $100,000 and would be good motivator to keep maintaing the project. However, a part of me wants to make this free to contribute to the community and also a way to be thankful for other things we get for free in return.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-inspector/j...
Have you looked at stainless?
Yes, you are exactly right. This is survivorship bias [1]. I often find myself pining for the NES and SNES games of my childhood, annoyed by the massive proliferation of crap today. Then another video by AVGN [2] shows up on my YouTube subscription feed and my nostalgic bubble is so violently popped.

I think survivorship bias is such a huge part of nostalgia. We remember the best times and forget the mundane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

[2] https://cinemassacre.com/
Computers today are almost always networked but not many know just how that happens. The equivalent today I'd say is knowing about ethernet, TCP/IP, http, wifi, bluetooth and being able to connect things. IoT will make this feel like dip switches again.
> every single Rust crate I have used so far its creating its own `Error` enum which makes it really hard to compose `Result`.

Is there a reason why `map_err()` doesn't achieve what you need - i.e. to get everything into your error type no matter where it came from?

For example: OtherLibResult.map_err(|e| MyError::from(e))

Unless I'm mistaken - you ultimately are doing something like this in one form or another, because if you never match on the different Error variants that happened somewhere along the pipeline- then those details are being swallowed.

Implementing a From trait at least forces you to make that choice (all in one place too)- and then you can keep composing the results as needed since it's all in your MyError type
That's what I meant: Derivative works have been allowed under copyright laws within the boundaries of Fair Use.
As I've just checked, Ubuntu doesn't. Don't know about other distros.
d'oh - you beat me to it ;)
Woven – “interactive fiction engine. . .clean syntax somewhat inspired by LaTeX”
So thats a bit over 3k per record. Forgive my curiosity but whats the application domain? Thats a lot of info per record.
What is the argument for not protecting copyright? What public good does making Mickey Mouse public domain serve?
Steamboat willing entering the public domain would not allow you to create the movie "Mickey Mouse joins the Pirate Party"
Is this true? The few references I find indicate 1921 works became public domain only in 1997. Perhaps it was 1920 works which became public domain in 1977?
I know a little about two of the big open source Rust projects, Servo and the Rust compiler.

For integration tests, both the Rust compiler as well as the Servo web engine have written their own test runners with an accompanying set of tools. This allows the test format to be as flexible as the target domain of the program. In fact, servo can just simply use the cross-browser wpt [1] test suite.

As for avoiding to initialize heavy objects, I only know about the Rust compiler's test runner initializing the entire compiler every time from zero for every single test file. The result is a quite long testing-time. Suggestions by me to use a shared driver were rejected by them because one test might affect the other one.

But in theory you could write your own custom test runner that has as much shared state as possible. You might also want to check out cucumber-rust [2] which I think allows for some way of sharing. You could also just group smaller tests into a small set of bigger tests where each group of tests shares some resource.

[1]: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt
[2]: https://github.com/bbqsrc/cucumber-rust
To an extent. There are protections for fair-use.
https://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/where-is-gent... : it seems like gentrification means displacement of existing population that is lower income. It doesn’t address affordability. Cupertino doesn’t need to be more gentrified by becoming high density. Average condo price was 1 million ten years ago. How is high density in already affordable places more sustainable? Example:Oakland. Oakland was a poorer part of Bay Area and because of its proximity to San Francisco is becoming more gentrified and has even more high density buildings now. It displaces older long time poorer Oakland residents who were already living in a high density town.

Let’s take public school spending: OUSD spends average of $14534 per student. http://educate78.org/much-money-ousd-spend/ ..it’s spending has been increasing steadily as it gentrifies and its population gets displaced. They are always in debt.

http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Fremont-Unified : I searched for Fremont. The one that is currently being converted to super high density.

This random search re Cupertino public school system and it turned out to be in Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-approximate-per-year-expe... ..

Here is an even more brutal question of someone with $400k and can’t make it by buying a good school district home: https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-survive-in-the-Bay-Area-with... : I had mentioned this elsewhere on HN(diff thread) about how children’s education is now based on speculation because property taxes are tied to public schools and their excellence. Rich parents donate or obtain private coaching classes. (The first answer is what makes it brutal)

I have a few more examples of other cities. But a quick search spits out shocking contradictions which only tells me why high density is a myth and that it was never meant to be a true solution.

This is the corroding of middle class. And this is how pitchfork factories get started.

I don’t know a single example in the Bay Area where high density has translated to sustainability. Or affordability. It only increase taxes and outgoing funds to the tax coffers in Sacramento.

An expected side effect(and probably planned one) is an increase in govt employees ..so basically all the revenue generated goes to the care and feeding of public sector employees that has left ginormous unfunded tax liabilities of these union backed employees. The city manager of san Jose makes 700k and fremont city manager makes 500k. The new one is this guy http://tbrnews.com/news/manhattan-beach-dismisses-city-manag... ... no one in fremont knew that this was the story behind their city manager. Why? Because they were all stuck in grid lock traffic trying to get back home while not being able to participate in the running of their city their tax dollars built. This is the reality of Bay Area.

There are no slum lords. Even the slum lords have to pay the piper. The real winner is the govt. this is the reality of gentrified Bay Area.
> Most new car dealers make more money from their service center than sales.

And from the "finance reserve." If Toyota Financial Services approves you for an autoloan at 3% the dealer will tell you're eligible for 5% - and they keep the difference.[1] That can really add up over the life of the loan. And why it's important to read your TILA disclosures.

[1] http://www.realcartips.com/carloans/220-how-much-dealers-mak...
Indeed, those modules are essential for doing anything in Python beyond small scripts.
If you go in with your own financing or cash, you are going to get a worse deal. I would use their financing then just pay it off after a month or two.

If you don't do your homework ahead of time, a dealership is a tough place to navigate. When I bought a Toyota, the sales guy only wanted to talk about payment - what payment did I want because he could get me that payment. I wanted to talk about absolute numbers for trade-in and purchase and then talk about financing for the balance. They really resisted that.

The last car I bought was a Subaru and that dealership felt even slimier. They handed me off from person-to-person-to-person and only the last guy could tell me the final numbers.
Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia
Waterfox has done this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox
This is just a side observation: It's amazing that all any programming language has to do is 1) Store data and 2) Branch. Yet the number of ways to build on these two basic concepts is astounding.
What the Nazis Borrowed from Marx
Rogue Amoeba is another one https://rogueamoeba.com/
The Blizzard client even used to have a window you could open where it would show the status of all the BitTorrent connections. I think they got rid of that some time ago though.
200k Yuan is entry-level salary. You can expect 30%-50% rise for a few years if you're really good. Top engineers command silicon valley level salaries, easily.

If I ever want to move back to China I can probably negotiate 2x-4x what I'm making now.
But, as the article mentioned, you can still sell merchandise of Batman with original design after 2024. Meaning the idea of Batman is not protected only the "implementation" of those ideas that are still within copyright period will be restricted. So you should be able to make Sherlock and Batman movie if you want.