skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I'd rather have no GPL and no copyright.

But Stallman and the pirate party have come up with a pretty nice proposal in the end: a much shorter time limit on copyright that can be extended if you give more rights to the user.
In Australia, it was considered a type of shoe like a "boot". We got really annoyed when a US company trademarked an Australian product and then stopped Australian companies from selling it under the name they had been using for decades.

Sort of like this exact case...
No mention of power efficiency though. Hardware decoders are good for more than just performance.
This is the live feed for the 2230 EDT scheduled liftoff of a two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first 60 satellites of the Starlink Internet-satellite constellation.

Read more here: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellite-lau...

See SpaceX Twitter feed for updates: https://twitter.com/SpaceX

Update: Success! Satellites are deploying: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1131765246664646657?s=09
>MCAS is frequently confused with a flight augmentation system which isn’t true.
This is demonstrably false. MCAS is a system in the same vein as the MD-11's LSAS. In other words, a hack to ensure the the "piloting experience" of the MAX stays as similar as possible to that of the 737 NG, despite the fact the NG doesn't suffer from directional pitch instability at high AoA.

>It’s designed to counteract a confused pilot and if you look at the history of the 737 NG some of the few crashes not from the vertical stabilizer issue are from disorientation leading to a stall.

If pilots are so prone to stalling in an aircraft with no pitch instability near critical AoA, it seems disingenuous to try to pitch the MAX with MCAS as being "more safe" when the possibility exists that MCAS may need to be disabled in flight; thereby resulting in the same pilot, in what is touted as "the same piloting experience" as the NG, yet with the spectre of pitch instability at high AoA, exacerbated by a tendency to pitch up even more if power is added on at landing speeds if a go-around is required; that wasn't there before. It is less-than-or-equal in terms of safety.

Will it be an effective plane? Yes. Will dealing with MCAS be seared into pilots' minds? Yes.

Let's not misrepresent the machine though. It has issues. Issues that are at the center of a regulatory and business clusterf*ck that never should have happened. The poor engineering and business decisions created a plane with potentially lethal failure modes, that were unsuccessfully communicated to customer (airline) and operator(pilot) alike.

The MAX may be able to operate for the rest of it's relevant operational lifetime, but it will never be a success. It'll be memorial to the height to which greed, and contempt for the law, and hubris were elevated in the process of designing this plane.

At the risk of waxing poetic:

The MAX will be as the Crow that caws at midnight. A somber reminder of the banal parts of human nature against which we must remain ever vigilant, lest they take the reins again in humanity's struggle to push ourselves passed the limits that bind us.
There’s a ton of research online...

https://dancesafe.org/drug-information/is-mdma-neurotoxic/
Yes. It doesn't mention the size of the battery or how hot you get from lugging it around.
So, uh, a merger of the two largest beer companies in the world couldn’t be at fault here, could it?

Nah. Let’s blame the guy we don’t like instead.
Don’t use blockquotes instead of section headings… please. This makes my skin crawl, but more importantly, it messes up assistive technology such as rotor and text-to-speech.
I’d pay a lot to play one more game of “Nobunaga’s Ambition.”
What non-nefarious reasons would GitHub have for making these decisions?

GitHub is owned by Microsoft now- they can afford to do this at a loss / zero sum amount because Microsoft thinks it's a good idea.

As long as Microsoft is being altruistic here, we should be fine.

I think.
Gotta get those Instagram photos.
As an artist, who collects royalties, go on and torrent it. We see virtually nothing from the likes of spotify thanks to backroom deals selling us out. Come see the show, buy merch, the music is for better or worse, free.
No, I am not suggesting that in any way. I am suggesting that when the marginal cost of their product approaches zero, a system that is based on retributing them based on the number of copies do not make sense anymore.

Actually I am goign to vote for them more because of their proposals on liquid and direct democracy, I haven't followed their debate on copyrights in the last few years. When I was the most popular proposal to replace copyright was a global license, which actually exists in a very badly implemented form in France for bars and shops.
I actually watched My Fair Lady recently ... on YouTube TV. I couldn't find it anywhere, saw it coming up in a month or three in the search box, set it to "record", watched it in a streaming-like way later.

It's weird; you can't watch it on demand, but you can virtually DVR it when it is "broadcast" at an arbitrary time.
> Let's say you've been playing a video on YouTube. You missed the last few seconds of dialog, so you scrub back a few seconds. Have you noticed that it doesn't instantly start playing from that timecode you just selected. It pauses for a few moments and then plays. It's already buffered those frames from the network, since you just played it, so why that pause? Because you've asked the decoder to jump to some arbitrary frame, the decoder has to redo all the calculations - starting from the nearest I-frames and adding up the motion vector deltas to the frame you're on - and this is computationally expensive, and hence the brief pause.

Uh, is that actually what's going on there? Because for some reason, seeking is basically instant when I'm playing locally-saved videos, including ones I downloaded directly from Youtube and didn't re-encode.

Actually, this is one of the reasons why I download videos before watching them, instead of using the normal Youtube player.
> If he does not want to stand on principle, then no

What principle, exactly?

The principle of spending your life in jail if you dare oppose the US government? Where is the fun in that principle?
Ask HN: Is Optimizing for Engagement Ethical?
This is an argument similar to "China is odd for using the metric system; to prove it here is the US using Imperial"

> Let’s start with how the U.S. is different from other countries. In the U.S., just using a brand in commerce will grant you some legal rights over the brand. Many jurisdictions, however, are “first-to-file” countries. That means whoever registers a trademark first – regardless of whether they’re using it – is the owner of the mark. For example, both China and Japan are “first-to-file” countries.

https://thestartuplawblog.com/trademarks-file-outside-u-s/
An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole
There is such a thing as becoming a martyr but the most likely outcome is becoming another Michael Hastings or Daphne Caruana Galizia. It's all fun and games until you get killed before your story breaks or your proof of corruption gets buried under a pile of disinfo, FUD, and distraction and then you die "randomly" as punishment.
According to this page I googled, about 9 - 12 months from filing. And not via a court.

https://www.ip-coster.com/IPGuides/trademark-china
Out of interest, could you share the context for why you chose your username?
Wait...What???
Exactly! They're both concatenative languages, or at least languages which have a concatenative subset. Juxtaposition is composition.

APL/K and Forth also have very concise syntax for declaring functions.

// JS
const foo = (x,y) => 1 + x * y

// K, lambda with implicit arguments
foo: {1+x*y}

// K, points-free
foo: 1+*

// Forth
: foo * 1+ ;

It's subtle, but I think making function declarations "lightweight" in this manner is important for encouraging factoring. In APLs the scale of the semantic units you give names to is a little different, but that's its own separate discussion.
> If you can easily steal something but there is no easy place to publish it to get stolen revenue from “nearly everyone”, the value of the theft is reduced. (Imagine if you had to find a way to propagate your stolen app to 100 stores. Would it be worth it?)

The same obstacle would also apply to all legitimate app developers…
The MacOS version:

sleep 2700 && say "Time to take a break"
Not trying to be overly pedantic but, turtles and tortoises are two very different things
I think this is not the real root of any particular problem. I think entrenched power is good at exploiting weakness in the system. The fact is that the major pro-wealthy policies aren't snuck in as obscure riders to normal policy. Candidates run on a pro-wealthy platform and people cheer for it. The question is why are voters so easily convinced to vote against their interests.
Submitting to political imprisonment is not a principal, my dude.
exactly. Before I had google play I'd end up playing from the same set or leaving off with the same directory that I had listened to before. I'm also a fan of XM radio because while driving it's too much work to pull up the phone and start a playlist, and to an extent I do like the (one-sided) human "contact" of having the DJ announce the songs and make occasional chatter (even if I begrudgingly complain about it sometimes). I tried Radio Garden [1] but found myself still listening to top-40 adult contemporary crap.

[1] https://radio.garden/
That's an interesting claim. I have to say it doesn't match my experience at all, e.g. when playing VP9 videos on Youtube. Several thoughts:

* I'm not sure what the "ffh264" decoder they're talking about is. My understanding is that pretty much everyone is using libx264 for both encoding and decoding. Maybe the latter is more performant?

* Using SSIM to pick "equal quality" files will probably not give very accurate results.

* SVT-VP9 is, if I'm not mistaken, a hardware encoder. One of the issues with these is that they require some significant tradeoffs to get better speed, so they'll have worse quality than a software encoder at the same bitrate. If you go with software you really pay the price when it comes to encoding time.
The article really is so annoying, and not just for that reason. There are no links or references to the technological advancements made here along the way. Another: they at least mention the CSXT team in passing (which the article seems to imply to an unwitting reader to not exist), but not even their name.

If I were king of a news outlet, I'd rather hire actual enthusiasts to write articles, and editors to touch them up, rather than have this kind of crap.
The number of albums I cannot find un-remastered is infuriating. I want the version I remember, not this years overcompressed mixing style squashing the dynamics while the singer autotunes out those 'bad notes'.
Yes, that holds water if there is some point where a citizen is selecting to waive their rights to privacy. Interacting with a company as a private citizen does not change the fact one is a private citizen. Without a citizen waiving the right to privacy, such an action would constitute a violation of one's rights. There's effectively no way to "opt out" of clandestine information harvesting and that is by design. Even worse, the intelligence agencies release the tools they created quietly so that they can't get in trouble in court because they're using tools that are "publicly available" lol. give me a break. civil liberties are not being demanded by the people and will likely die as a result.
Thank you for posting this. A timely reminder that the problem isn't China, or any country in specific - the problem is greed.
Modern studies:

For the terminally ill: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/professor-david-nu...

Treating depression:
https://www.ft.com/content/2c4121de-c5d6-11e5-808f-8231cd716...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/05/psychedelic-...

Microdosing: https://psyarxiv.com/gk4jd/
Tortoises are mostly vegetarian although I've seen them eat garden snails.
Turtles however are cold blooded predators that eat meat all the time
SQLProvider has been ported to .NET Core - I've used it no problem when scripting/prototyping across a variety of different data sources at once. Admittedly I tend to just use straight ADO.NET anyway - its simple enough to use and with F# your not saving all that much code/if at all moving to Dapper since the language tends to be more succinct.
Yeah. VLC for example doesn't have a frame-by-frame backward seek, because they argue it would blow up the memory consumption to keep all those frames around just in case you want to jump backward. And since videos are mostly hardware-decoded on the GPU these days, you'd be wasting all that memory in your VRAM.

Here's one of many threads where Jean-Baptiste Kempf addresses the feature request. https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=390778&sid=1a571d...

The amount of pausing is going to vary a lot by video. If you have an I-frame followed by 250 P-frames, there will probably be a noticeable pause.
Really? How did you get the source code for those dependencies in the first place? Whatever you used likely has just as much power as Cargo does. (And is perhaps similarly hard to audit.)
In fairness mobile / idle / clicker game is one the dodgiest genres. All your dev peers are gonna be money grubbing philistines. I dont know of any great game-makers striving to make such a game for its artistic merit / innovation or its contribution to the medium.
Good news then: https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-prima-cinema-2016-5?...

It will only cost you a 35000 dollar setup fee and 500 dollar to watch a movie.
it is really expensive to live there, everything costs more, salaries of state workers, materials, designs, etc. it's more expensive for the state to have an office for those workers to live in.
Apple has also prevented them from distributing their game under the English name in the U.S.
The article doesn't really say anything to the parent commenter's question...

This was not possible years ago (the part about students being able to do it, not nation states). What improvements in design and tech occured?
I agree. A Lisp may not make available all bits of a machine word to an integer, but they won't mix up an integer and a float.

JavaScript tried to make things artificially "simpler" by implicit conversions. As usual, the lack of consistency only lead to more eventual complexity than a sound solution would have in the first place.
Is it as good as LIDAR
If stories like this interest you, I highly recommend Nat Geo's Valley of the Boom. I don't even like "history shows" but it's a funny and self-aware take on SV in the 90s with solid acting and a pretty low budget.
Yeah, I see whole bunch of additional network activity, suggesting that they redownloading something.
There is the serialization model.

You produce whatever small part of your work you can afford to on couch change, pizza favors and family support and sell it. Fund the next part from the proceeds of the first.

It lives on today in webisodes and patreonage, or, hell, TV shows, but some of what we now consider great literature was produced as serialized chapters in magazines, and only after the fact bundled together as a single volume novel.

Maybe box-office blockbusters funded as multi-million dollar investments and released all at once were just a temporary aberration, like the "album".
I don't think this implies replacing government with private business. This could be services sold to government or tightening connections between government and the public. And don't just think of federal government. Local government frequently uses antiquated technology because better stuff is out of reach. How about helping small libraries organize their collections? Or fire departments manage procurement?
When you click on Youtube's timeline, it seeks to the nearest I frame, not to the exact frame, so it avoids the problem altogether.
Yep, also don't forget this 132 page document where Samsung emails showed they were copying iOS features on left with their own UI on right comparing them to add those features to their own UI:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/8/3227289/samsung-apple-ux-u...
I think this is a bit of a misconception. A critical element of Forth is that there are two stacks: a data stack for operands, and a return stack for keeping track of what word to return to after each call completes (and other fun stuff). These stacks grow and shrink independently. Unused operands on the data stack quietly flow along to the next word that takes a peek with no overhead. There's no difference between how the stacks are used within an "expression" and between "function calls"- these concepts don't exist at all like they do in curly-brace languages!

In a typical non-Forth "stack VM", there is a single stack which behaves like the C stack: allocate an activation record with locals on a function call, pop the whole thing off at the end. Intermediate calculations go on top of all this, avoiding the need to explicitly register allocate in bytecode, but operands don't naturally flow between function definitions; they're copied around explicitly as the stack grows and shrinks.
None of us are Equifax's customers - we're their product.
well… clearly employees Should Not do this.

Here's what you aren’t seeing, if I may: Consumers see the end product. They intuit rules based on what they see. I only see pictures and videos sent to me, and then they are gone. From this their mental model becomes No one can see media that is not sent to them, and the media is gone after it has been seen. This is strikingly different from the way a developer at Snapchat models the world: We run a big warehouse full of data and media. We present this media to users based on logic that prevents arbitrary non-admin users from seeing others' content and from experiencing that content repeatedly. Oh, and we should eventually get around to writing that cronjob to delete old media. And once we rule the world, we can spend time playing with end-to-end encryption, maybe.

People aren’t stupid (mostly). They are just ignorant (in the literal sense). They are extrapolating in a way that makes sense in a physical world but not in the digital world.

The clearest analogy is that of actual dice vs. video gambling or the virtual spinner in a free-to-play game. With actual dice, what you see is what you get: fair odds. But that virtual wheel is 'weighted' to end on the worthless prize right after the jackpot space nearly every time.
Here's three: https://jumpfaster.com (All of these are at the state government level) They specialize in solutions for the senior and long term care areas of HHS. it looks like they may have started with possibly a custom development for one state agency, then turn that into a product and have since gotten other customers. This is a good strategy: for any program or solution area in state government,It's likely there are 49 others like it. https://mycomplia.com/ This company is literally a handful of people, they have developed solutions for medical marijuana licensing. They have partnered with another vendor who handles the seed to sale tracking. https://billtracker.com/ This company is I think one developer and one salesperson/CEO. state agencies need to be able to monitor bills that are progressing through the state legislature; this essentially scrapes the information from the legislative website and lets agencies focus on bills that are important to them. You can add attachments, assignments, etc. It's not rocket science, but it's better than spreadsheets. I have some thoughts on how small players can get into this space, navigating procurement, and key product features, but don't want this comment to get too long drop me an email if you're interested. My account + gmail
I actually think it's worth taking the time to break down what makes something a good or bad HN submission. Some elements present in this piece that, when combined, seem to drive the worst kinds of HN threads:

* A spicy take

* A subject almost no likely commenters have any expertise on

* A subject that lots of likely commenters have their own spicy takes on

* Invocation of "wokeness"

* Perennial HN punching bag target (here: pharma; could just as easily be something else)

Again these don't make the post itself bad. I'm not saying it is. I'm saying: grapes are great! But don't feed them to your dog.
It has been a long time since I used VLC—I generally use mpv on Windows and QuickTime X on Mac because I like their minimal UIs—but I remember it being instant too!

Side note, using VRAM to make seeking instantaneous seems to me like a perfectly good use of resources, at least if my device has the VRAM to spare. On my desktop, I have a 1080 Ti, and it mostly sits idle when I'm watching a video...
This is not a valid program. The second line invokes undefined behavior. The compiler is legally allowed to replace the null dereference with code that sends your porn collection to your mother, and set the reference to 42.

If you get a null reference, this is by chance and not by design.
Open Collective already offers many of these features.
Well, one might grok C++ with the same perspective the author had, but I think C++, and especially C++17, make the language much safer and friendlier for beginners. C++17 for example is a big enough departure from pre C++11 days. If you stick to the bleeding edge, it doesn't look anything close to C at all.

Author has a point there, but maybe, just maybe, we won't see "new"s or "delete"s in most future codebases? (we have smart pointers now) Or non-intuitive macros (yay constexprs!)

I see these as stepping stones from C to where we are today without breaking everything at once or doing it with a whole other programming language.
"The New York Times had held the story at the request of the government."

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
The article really should mention it. Seems to not do much justice not to.

They seem to refer to the CSXT rocket going even higher, but don't mention it by name.
Another "it doesn't instantly start playing from that timecode you just selected" is to jump to a nearby I-frame, and just start playback from there, instead of going exactly to the selected timecode. (How well this works depends on how frequent the I-frames are in your downloaded file. In the 90s it wasn't uncommon for I-frames to be minutes apart, but less so now.)
I didn’t notice that or even realize the other category was for the more serious gamers, thanks for pointing that out.
First to file is reasonable. Chinese trademark costs like $200

Geez, give it a break. Huge biz screw up, but just release under a different name.
On the other hand, VLC serves as a gentle reminder (or introduction) of how video compression works, every time you seek. ;-)
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m on Firefox Nightly, but I get 1080p@60.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/JoT2wsM.png.
I mean, I only have 32 GB of RAM. Wouldn't want to waste any of that on letting videos rewind.
I voluntarily owned the original iPhone 3g followed by the original Galaxy S. The similarities were very shallow in practice.

It did not have a dock connector, though the tablet did, but so did all sorts of media devices at the time.

Anytime this came up in conversation I'd hand people my Galaxy S and no one would call it a ripoff in person.
Yes, patents give companies monapolies for a limited time but I don't see how a company having a monopoly on a drug for a limited time makes anyone worse as the alternative is to just not have the drug at all.

And if your argument is that the government should fund all drug research, realize that they are fully capable of doing so and then patenting the drug and giving it out for free in our current system. Thus, both funding models can work in cohesion.