skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope to formalize my thoughts on this in the future but this is precisely my hypothesis- that as a whole we have reached peak intelligence; any smarter and we will start "seeing" the futility of life and just be more prone to suicide or other acts. It can also go the other way where no fully intelligent individual sees the need to cooperate and you end up with a lot of extremely selfish intelligent individuals killing each other.

I also think that's why traits like intelligence are not completely genetically determined within our species. It looks like evolution has programmed stochasticity into intelligence so that the distribution is kept intact within the population while no individual lineage gets an unfair advantage.
In the UK all research councils and the National Institute for Health Research awards carry restrictions that everything is made open access. It is a step in the right direction but it also means that more government funding is just going to journals via paying article processing charges
Fun fact: in music, anyone can avail themselves of a compulsory mechanical license to record someone else's already-recorded song. As the songwriter, you only have a right to specify who may release the first recording. This is how cover songs can exist with minimal effort of rights acquisition.

I wonder what the IP world would be like if this model, or some variation, were more widely applied?
This is one of the main reasons I like watching soccer. The smallest dude can dominate the world and it doesn't feel like I'm watching people destroy their health for a chance at making it big.
Same, and there was a whole tv show based off the movie.
Our deployment tool at work sends you a notification if the deployment failed
Can you use Utah coal energy to pump water back into reservoir for clean hydro plants?
Reminders of that sort are pretty basic; I had something more like "Now where was I?" in mind - recovering the context, or at least easing the context switch cognitive load. E.g. a task which pops out of the backlog based on your current context of being at the hardware store, to remind you to get a claw hammer, along with the why (you may have forgotten). A memory aid as a synergy of todos, note-taking and reminders basically. It also reduces the constant re-iteration and procrastination over important but not urgent items or ideas that you can push off the top of mind to your note taking app if you can trust it to bring it back at the right time and place or in the right context.
So on one hand all the software will be open source and on the other hand there will be no free as in beer distribution anymore. Sounds similar to the RedHat model. I wonder if the community is active enough to produce a CentOS like alternative distribution for Chef.

The Essentials distribution is interesting, I wonder what is in it. I assume it will not have things like Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
I see "spectral violet" and "UV" in two different comments. I have the understanding that "ultraviolet" is past violet and outside the visible spectrum. So now I have questions...

Do spectral violet and ultraviolet differ? In what way? If something isn't visible, why does it matter?
I agree, but you can archive emails in gmail and it does the same thing as setting an email to done in inbox. You can still search for them in the search box or browse the all mail category.
To give some ball park figures, this is the default maximum current permitted per train according to national regulations:

- UK conventional lines: 300 A @ 25 kV

- UK third rail network: 6800 A @ 750 V

- German conventional lines: 600 A @ 15 kV

- German high speed lines: 1500 A @ 15 kV
I use Onenote because it comes with Office on our work computers, but it's still an annoying mess. The notes are in some kind of weird text box inside the page, which can scroll in weird directions? I don't understand it, maybe it's user error, but it feels clunky. Sometimes I open Onenote after rebooting and it just decides to not find my Notebook? Also, how come if I type a title and then hit the down arrow (and again, because the first time it goes to date), I'm now on the second line of the text area, and have to press up to get to the first line? I have no idea why this bothers me so much, but these little weird behaviors drive me insane.
I’ve been playing with something like this as a self hosted service.

My main points of worry in this kind of services are data security and reliability.

How are these addressed here? As it’s a free service there is no contractual obligation to fulfill. There is no mention what happens with the data afterwards. There is more to consider but you get the drift.

Like the idea but before I would use it would need a lot more information.
It sounds like all Chef code will be open source (I'm curious what isn't open source today), but there is no release engineering work in public, and so if you want a supported / stable release, you need to either pay them, make a release internally yourself, or hope that someone like a Linux distro builds a release for you. It's intentionally patterned on the Red Hat model, and very much unlike the MongoDB / Redis Labs / Elastic approaches.

I'm of the opinion that depending on someone else's release of OSS is an antipattern anyway because if you're not going through your own release process, you're not confident that a one-line bug-fix is actually only changing that one line. (The exception is when you know their release is through some decently hermetic build environment like distro packaging or Travis or Docker, such that you expect to be able to replicate that build environment for yourself when the time comes.) But I think a lot of companies use vendor binaries even when the vendor source is open source, so this seems likely to make Chef pick up a few support contracts.
The most important issue is buried in the middle. Patent exhaustion applies to one specific instance of a patented item. The idea is that, when you sell a physical product, it should flow through the stream of commerce unencumbered by any patent rights held by the seller of the item. (Hence the landmark case Lexmark v. Impression Products, which held that contractual arrangements between the seller and buyer could not limit the scope of the exhaustion as to downstream purchasers of that item.)

When applied to software, the question is what is the "item" to which exhaustion applies? In the closely related context of first-sale doctrine for digital files, the Second Circuit has held that the first sale doctrine does not apply to digital copies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_LLC_v._ReDigi.... By analogy, patent rights might be exhausted as to a copy of the software downloaded from the patent holder. But it wouldn't apply to copies of that copy, or to derivative works. (And that makes sense--the point of exhaustion law is to give you unfettered right to use and resell the thing you bought; not recreate it distribute it to more people.)

Open source licenses add an interesting wrinkle to that: what if making copies and derivative works is authorized by the copyright license? Does the exhaustion follow those copies? The article makes a case for "yes," and I'll make the case for "no." A copyright license is a contract. Lexmark v. Impression Products tells you that the contractual arrangement between the patent holder and first buyer does not affect the scope of exhaustion. That's a double-edged sword. You can't limit the scope of exhaustion through license restrictions. (E.g. "you can only use this software for personal use" may be enforceable as a matter of contract, but exhaustion probably applies to the first buyer even if they use that copy for commercial use.) But on the flip side, you can't broaden the scope of exhaustion--making it "viral"--through the copyright license either.
Because of the very large amount of data.
Google+ was dying slowly to be sure, but the reason it was killed off is because they tried to cover up a data leak affecting over 500,000 users. [0] They've definitely killed off/abandoned their fair share of flagship products without warning (Hangouts, anyone?), but Google+ was shut down to minimize media controversy.

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Not to dispute your main point, but in Japan more than 1 million people died of starvation after the US blockades in WWII. It's the reason it is illegal to import staple foods into Japan to this day. The question of whether or not Japan would have surrendered without nuclear attacks is still very much an open one. It's really hard to say what the Japanese government was thinking at the time, but I can say that my mother in law told me that the only reason she survived is because her uncle had a garden and had a few sweet potatoes. Most people that were alive during the war suffers still from ill health as a result of malnutrition at the time. It has given me considerable cause to re-evaluate things I thought I knew.
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Thanks - I did not know that. The hostage-taking did make headlines internationally, any subsequent trial less so.
That's why I said open-endedly optimizing. Obviously some amount of intelligence is beneficial to humans' survival, procreation and protection of offspring, but only to a point. If evolution tended towards ever greater intelligence, you'd expect to see the most intelligent individuals having on average a greater number of offspring. Instead, studies generally show a negative correlation between intelligence and fertility. This would instead suggest that evolutionary pressure on intelligence was not open-ended, but in equilibrium.
So it's "just" an energy problem?

In a hypothetical future with 100% cheap renewable energy, we could recycle plastic over and over?
There must be some places where Usenet has some use.

Why else repeat important messages like "Subject: PRENDE ENORMI CAZZI IN CULO DI 30 CM: LUIGI BERLUSCONI (CON PADRE IL PEDOFILO SPAPPOLA MAGISTRATI SILVIO BERLUSCONI)! CHE FA PER LAVORO IL MEGA RICICLA € MAFIOSI! LO STESSO CHE PRIMA EFFETTUAVA IL BASTARDO CRIMINALISSIMO SUO NONNO: LUIGI BERLUSCONI!"
There's a handful of hybrid trains in Japan that are electric in urban areas and use a diesel generator in rural parts of the route.

A quick search didn't reveal any running North America but considering diesel locomotives have mostly used diesel generators and electric motors since the 70s, it's not a stretch to think about implementation there.
They call out RHEL specifically as inspiration:

> Beginning on April 2, we will be making all of our products open source under the Apache 2 license and we will begin to attach commercial license terms to our software distribution (binaries) with the next major release. This is very similar to the “open source product” model most effectively run by Red Hat®, where they develop software in the open while attaching enterprise license terms to the distribution of RHEL (Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®).
'm pretty sure physical enhancers would be more attractive to the general population than mental enhancers, although the HN community probably varies on this issue.
Today we have two easy methods for getting Chef's bits.
1) www.chef.io/get-chef/ - which is intended for newer users where we collect contact information so we can help with customer success.
2) downloads.chef.io which provides all of our downloads, ungated, for advanced users.

hope this helps clarify.

Best,
Brian Goldfarb
CMO, Chef
many soy studies are heavily influenced by corporate interests not unlike how Coca Cola and tobacco companies in the past have had extreme influence on the scientific community so while I still eat soy I will continue to avoid the industrially processed variety, but thanks for showing me things I already have read.
If the law is on Getty's side, the law should be changed. Selling public domain content should be illegal if it's a digital work, as opposed to a printed book. At the very least, it should be required that it's clearly labeled as public domain.
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Yeah, it should require user interaction to trigger the prompt. In fact, some of the better websites do this already.

This should be the same for nearly everything, like:

- playing video/audio automatically
- location access
- direct GPU access

In fact, it would probably make sense to include all scripting (JavaScript and web assembly).

To make this suck less, the website should be able to request multiple permissions at once, with each permission able to be granted individually and websites able to put a short reason why each is being requested. Those permissions should show up in an easy to use menu for each site, like the TLS info button. Perhaps that same menu is the only way to enable/disable, so no popups, and all permissions are disabled by default.
Any reason to use Chef instead of Ansible ?
Bad examples. Increasing the amount of some substance produced vs re-growing limbs?

Evolution is an optimization process. It can get stuck on a local maxima, but it's not a local maxima, if it can be trivially improved upon with no harmful side-effects. And it's not like producing more Klotho requires complicated mutations that are unlikely to happen. We know they happen.

So - asking why it's not already widespread is perfectly reasonable. It probably involves some trade-offs.
> They discontinue products that don't pan out and lose them money

It seems they also discontinue products that make them money and continue products that lose them money. Their exchanges with the SEC [1] seem to suggest that YouTube loses money (otherwise why wouldn't they publish the numbers?), and if that becomes known public info, it may open them up to a host of legal and political problems.

Regardless, if you discontinue products your customers are using, don't be surprised if your customers stop relying on your products.

1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/28/sec_google_youtube/
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There are two other block types with notches.

One is for a proof by cases; it accepts a disjunction ("or") as input, gives you a local branch for each disjoined option, and hopes you'll show that each branch individually proves P. Then the block globally proves P. This one was intuitive to me.

One is for instantiating variables from existential quantifiers. If you send ∃x.P(x) into that block's global input, you will get P(c), where c is a constant, coming out of that block's local output. You're supposed to prove an expression that does not involve c, send that to local input, and get it back out of global output.

As far as I can tell, this is done for reasons of convenient implementation. Mathematically, the notch shouldn't be there at all -- you should just be able to hook up ∃x.P(x) to global input, and get P(c) on global output. But I think the tool author wants to think of c as being a variable which is scoped inside the ∃-instantiation block and can't exist outside it.
The actual browsers are hard coded to filter a single github repo?

Is it common for them to filter at the browser level?
> Its about the freedom to explore our great national parks, etc.

No one's getting rid of that freedom. Cars are still legal and commonly used in Switzerland.

The point is that effective public transportation networks can reduce the need for cars (and the resulting pollution, congestion, noise, etc.), particularly in populated areas. Instead of a family needing to own two cars because reaching the grocery store and kids' school requires a drive, a family might need just one, or even be able to just rent one for a weekend of camping.

One of the best things about the Swiss system is the close integration between different modes of transport, even across different operators. Bus schedules are set up so they drop you off right before the train comes, and they leave just after it drops off its passengers, so you're not sitting around for an hour awaiting a connection.
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>Epic, which is what the next iteration will be. Everyone is worried.

Why are they doing that? I'm curious as to the dynamics that make people drop "works really well" for systems that are widely disliked.
Isn't it a nature of invention that it's a non-trivial combination of fairly trivial parts? Patent the whole invention, not parts.
> Google's messaging ecosystem is confusing and seems to change every 12 months

Don't worry, they'll launch a new messaging platform that will definitely sort this out for real this time!
>You want to CRISPR yourself to gain a few IQ points?

Depends on the side effects, depends if you can safely and reliably reverse the decision.

Would I personally be patient zero? No, not likely. Will someone be patient zero? Yeah, of course, there's always people willing to be on a new frontier.
Does anyone even use Google's messaging apps? I've literally not seen one being used once in the past 4 or 5 years.

It's been Whatsapp for as long as I can remember.
Yes and no. There are often lots of medical assistants of various sorts, ranging from someone titled "medical assistant" (who is qualified to take your temp, confirm you are the right person and little else) to "Physicians Assistants" or "Nurse Practitioners" who for a lay person are basically doctors with a lesser title.

An assistant specifically for documentation is known as a "scribe." This person follows a physician and does all the typing into the EHR so the doc can focus on the patient. My children's pediatrician recently recently started using one and it does allow the physician to focus more on the patient. My understanding is that they have to pay for the scribe out of their own pocket.
> User interaction is a popular measure because it is often seen as a proxy for user consent and engagement with the website.

“This site uses COOKIES! Click here to brush off this interruption and be presented with the page proper.”
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
Discussion last week on HN with more info about what 996ICU is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498179
Most open source licenses have an attribution and license-preservation clause specifically so buyers know that the software contains things derived from OSS code. I can certainly sell you ReallyCoolSSL which is just a rebranding of OpenSSL, but you're going to see the OpenSSL license and then go wonder what OpenSSL is.

Works in the public domain do not have a license and therefore do not have this obligation to tell people what's going on.
I believe from my GraphQL reading that schema stitching is often done real-time at launch, so the live schema is always used by the stitcher but at a non-zero cost in latency and instantiation time. Is there a way in your stitcher to cache and stitch the schemas at build time? (Optimizing for client instantiation speed that way seems to make sense since the rest of the app would likely break regardless if the underlying schemas changed arbitrarily and unexpectedly)
Unless I missed it, I'm still not really sure what a hypercasual game is. I'm guessing it's one of those games where the players is given a number of turns or lives which reset at timed intervals?

I think they're interesting products, but the kinds of dark patterns used to hook users is a little bit disturbing to me.
>If true that it enhances healthy people, I wonder why we didn't evolve to produce more of it? Why didn't mice?

We don't evolve towards some perfection.

Just randomly walk through evolutionary paths as much as needed to be fit for our environment.
But that argument is no more effective than stating that people have a limited amount of time and thus must prioritize what they do. We all know prioritizing is key to being effective. The question should be about whether one effectively prioritizes to generate positive momentum toward their long-term goals. With that in mind, I better get off Reddit and get to work.
Evernote is still the only accessible note taking solution to offer OCR + related notes search. I've tried moving away from Evernote many times, but I always come back because of this.

Example 1:

1. Snap photo of document on table

2. Seconds later: Open in Evernote and see related documents

Example 2:

1. Take notes on laptop at lecture/meeting

2. Evernote presents photos of slides and handwritten notes about same topic

If it wasn't for Evernote I would never revisit my handwritten notes, ever. And I would have lost countless important receipts, bills, etc. I have tried various open source home made setups but nothing has come close to the portability and ease of use of Evernote. This is why I keep using Evernote to this date.

I just wish they would fix basic issues such as slow, or completely broken, search on mobile, etc. I think if they can strengthen their core product they still have something unique that I think many people would use, and possibly pay for, if they knew about it.
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Disagree about the MS point a bit.

Yes, nominally, MS has killed some programs in the Office Suite, but the core products of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook are still there. Even the weird, obscure products like Publisher and Access are still around.

So maybe they killed Clippy, but that guy