skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the sentiment that leads one to such considerations, but really all I see with no copyright is that creators will be completely exploited and the only people making money from people's works will be corporations who lock stuff up with DRM, or with other IP, or sui generis licenses, or simply through physical gateways like only showing movies in cinemas. I don't see that this would lead to greater access to new media creations (though obviously past media would all be open to use).

Short copyright terms - someone mentioned 20 years max, with registration needed after 5 years. That sort of thing is better, far better than both longer copyright and no copyright.

The maximum term, IMO, should enable people to enjoy for free-gratis in their middle ages the media of their youth and build on that freely (libre) as inspiration to create cultural works for themselves and those that follow. Being able to have open, uninhibited access to one's own cultural inspirations well within one's working lifetime seems ideal to make sure that the demos get something worthwhile out of the deal.

Works restricted by DRM can't enter the public domain and so should be exempt from protection by copyright, though I'd allow some sort of deposit system whereby companies could put un-bound works in escrow, and so still be allowed to get copyright protections.
> It sounds like most of these costs are just from having to finally do the things they skimped on in the first place.

Source? It's not TFA. TFA only talks about legal costs in the past, and doesn't state it but implies future projections are also for legal costs.

With $700MM of legal costs in 1 quarter, if that is 49% of the total (51% --most-- going to finally do the things) expenditure, that's $1.4bn in one quarter. Their entire 2018 revenue was just $3.4bn ($835MM in Q4).
The Software Triforce, Part 1: Setting a Courageous Goal
Yes, please do. Best with a short description of what the workload is, so we know what areas have been tested how.

Just one word of caution: I'd be careful deploying betas into production. Even leaving possible bugs aside, while they'll be upgradable using pg_upgrade, they're not guaranteed to be on-disk compatible with the final version. In fact, we're already certain that there'll be some small changes between beta1 and beta2.
Super interesting, thanks for that. I guess a synchronization mechanism could just be the cycle of sunlight.. I'm amazed though.
Does that refer to the World3 model? I wish I could remember the details, but I remember getting really into that for a few months. I found some other simulations of the model, including one in javascript. But I also found that some of the initial parameters/assumptions were kind of arbitrary, including one that had a really sensitive impact on the overall modeling outcome. It made me think that it wasn't really indicating what it was purporting to indicate.
> There's a fundamental approach here of basically, "don't get too successful."

Of course. We want companies to compete, we don't want them to win because then there is no functioning market anymore.
Why don’t you use Usenet?
How long does it take to search for a hash? I'm interested in both WHERE cases: hash = 'hash1' and hash in ('hash1', 'hash2').
On Muni's older Breda trams the interlock had a little toggle switch on the circuit breaker panel (conveniently located in the cab) you could use to override it. On the newer ones, it looks like the doors didn't detect a "pinch", the interlock decided the doors were closed enough, and the driver couldn't be bothered to check the video cameras.
Look up Chilipad and similar products.
"We've managed to predict 9 out of the last 5 recessions!"
However, the survey did distinguish between those who were paying off at the end of the month and those who weren't. A credit card balance that's paid off at the end of the month is effectively using cash.

Of course, whether cash or put on a credit card to be paid off at month's end, that doesn't really say anything about how painful that unexpected expense is. One can cover an expense and realize they're not going to be able to take a vacation this year. There's a continuum between "I can't pay this" and "Whatever."

But it's hard for me to see cash vs. checking account vs. credit card that will be paid off in a few weeks as materially different.
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In San Francisco the emergency stop button in the (older) trams will indeed trigger the emergency brakes directly. I'm OK with this — take a look at the Eschede disaster. One of the passengers was suspicious of all the vibration but decided he didn't have the authority to stop the train. Turns out the eventual derailment stopped the train.
"On the most basic level, governments are responsible to their citizens and their only purpose is to serve those citizens."

In the US, the default is to appear to support citizens while doing a mix of what lobbyists pay for and actually serving citizens. The mix favors the rich folks' lobbyists whenever there is a conflict. The leaked Citigroup memos called this a plutonomy, a capitalist form of plutocracy.
> the man in charge of the restoration is an Architecte en chef des monuments historiques

That's the professional bureaucrat overseeing the work e.g. an architect who chose to do his career in the civil service and is suffisently adept at navigating it/old enough to have been promoted. That is not in itself particularly reassuring.

Where I agree with you is that France most likely has both access to good experts and the technical know-how and means necessary to secure such a building.

> fully agree with the author in that they should be the ones designing the reconstructed spire

I completely disagree. The spire is gone. The original one is never going back. What's the point of making a copy ?

Since we have to build something, let's at least build something reflecting our time. It will be old soon enough. A worldwide art project will surely bring a lot more new and bold ideas to the table.
”and I remember “turning off virtual memory” being a control panel option on MacOS System 7 in 1991”

I think that truly turned off virtual memory (Mac OS 7 didn’t have separate address spaces, did it?)
The UK hasn't used the long scale billion since 1974
I believe the appropriate term for such an experience is dark pattern. It takes extra effort to blame the user when the intention of the experience is deception (a lie).

Evidence that the lie is intentional is this:

To find TurboTax’s Free File landing page, service members typically have to go through the IRS website. TurboTax Military, by contrast, is promoted on the company’s home page and elsewhere. Starting through the Military landing page directs many users to paid products even when they are eligible to get the same service for no cost using the Free File edition.

An Intuit press release this year announced “TurboTax Offers Free Filing for Military E1- E5” — but refers users to TurboTax Military and does not mention the actual Free File option. (E1-E5 refers to military pay grades.)
I was somewhat surprised also. I think many people can't distinguish video compression and how much impact it has. I've seen people watch live sports on incredible home entertainment systems paying high fees for HD TV and it is just blurry pixels.
And their accuracy remains.. let's say "unchallenged".
RMS's stance is that he is against the idea of 'intellectual property' as an umbrella term for copyright, patents, and trademarks, as it conflates three (or more) largely unrelated areas of law. This does not necessarily mean he is against any of these ideas per se.
Security Keys fix the problem of credentials getting phished by making them unphishable (a Security Key will let you give evilguy.example credentials, but only for evilguy.example, they are utterly useless for facebook.com or goodguy.example or any other site, it dumbly refuses to help you give Evil Guy your real goodguy.example credentials)

More subtle manipulations from phishing remain possible, but they're trickier to pull off than just stealing people's passwords.

IIRC somebody has a proof like with Arrow's theorem - that the perfect desirable set of features for names can't be achieved, but I can't find it. Certainly you can see a different trade in Tor hidden services for example, bad guys can't get a name arbitrarily similar to yours, but your name is also mostly gibberish, so your users probably don't remember what it is anyway. Did they buy the last bag from greatweedxstrm4aqp.onion ? Or was it weedxgreatstre6g2q.onion ? And unlike conventional Phishing the plan is probably to break your door down and arrest you if you pick the wrong one which sucks worse than card fraud...
I played with arcade.makecode.com at MS Build this year and made a Taco vs. Burgers side scroller on the MeowBit. My kids love it! My daughters and I are coding up something with a duck right now and it's uber fun! Thanks for making that platform!!
can it represent and manipulate ipv6 addresses (128 bit quantities) efficiently? not having to split into two 64 bits or deal with them as bit-strings may be an improvement for some things
I can't help but feel that with better representation (or at least representation that felt they had to actually do right by voters) then we would be in a much better place and many of these problems would be solved through legislation. I know this is glossing over many things like lobbying, gerrymandered areas, favoritism for incumbent candidates, etc. but I really think there's something to getting more people elected who represent the people and have a serious interest in passing legislation that actually helps people and solves major societal issues.

Maybe political training for "everyday" people who pledge to vote the way the majority of constituents want them to (I think there was a YC startup back in the day that had a software platform for something like this)?

Maybe a political donation platform like Crowdpac that only unlocks donations to a politician if they've voted a way they promised to on an issue?

Maybe a way to help bring more people to the polling station during elections to make them more representative of the population (many poorer voters can't make it as in the U.S. these are often during weekdays, have lines, etc. and they can't afford to take off work or the Uber ride to get to the location)

I've been researching the area and am looking to jump on something full time (currently working for the Estonian govt but will move back into the private sector soon) but haven't landed on a final killer idea so more than open to kicking around ideas with anyone who is interested!
Here is the actual paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.11111.pdf
My opinion? Because CloudFormation is full of shit regarding "always being able to rollback". After dealing with a 100+ failed CF rollbacks, I stopped caring about that phantom feature. That's around the same time I started using Terraform. At this point I only use CF for things I can not put in TF directly - namely ASGs.

Regarding IaC "rollback" capabilities - I don't think it really exists in a way that makes it reasonable for people to depend on. The path forward is to stand up new infrastructure, canary test, etc - then steer via load-balancers the traffic to your new nodes, and then finally destroy the old ones. I loathe trying to maintain a fleet of nodes that can drift into various states of dis-repair. I love the idea of blowing everything away and having a 100% clean and predictable environment again. It makes me happy.

</end rant>

Hope that helps - I really have fallen in love with Terraform after having to cobble down N number of CLI tools for various cloud providers, hypervisor providers, etc. Terraform at least gives an easy to use language and abstracts me above recursive API call logic that I would otherwise need to write for basic things.
From 2002: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2354135.stm

Referenced here: https://slate.com/technology/2012/09/avacore-technologies-ma...
you could try switching up your linens: percale cotton in a lower thread count
All fine and well if that's a tooth that's in the back. If it's a front tooth, you are going to have to then pay to get a fake one to put in its place. Having holes in your mouth will mess up your teeth even more in the long term.
Is there any particular reason you link to Wikiwand instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillating_gene ? The content appears to be the same.
If you looked at that table you would notice that the total is more than 100%. So the analysis in your last paragraph is not better than his.
This was a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991469 but we detached it because it's a large subthread that's nearly all about Patreon.
I recommend "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang! An excellent sci-fi story set in the past that explores themes of guilt and repentance.
What content the founders of Twitch, Reddit, Box and more recommend you read
Yeah but you could buy a 24MP camera and a whole kit of high quality glass for the same price as this body.
Not exactly but pretty dang close to Stripe Atlas for PACs, but I think a big part of doing that well is having someone that has connections so there probably either has to be some marketplace of lobbyists attached or some mechanism to guide you to the right lobbyist/team to hire based on the cause area
Company demand >>> 80k.
'i' suffix are often used in languages for complex numbers. For example, in ruby '1i' evaluates to 0+1i as a complex number.

I suspect they didn't want to conflate the two types.
I’m not sure what is expected, because it’s only a 40% difference in resolution.
Oh, yeah. they've been working on it for years [1]. You're probably thinking about the same articles I am, from 2012 when all the blogs picked it up as "better than steroids" [2]. I'm with you - I thought they'd have a consumer product out by now. Also, there's some debate about whether this actually works, but I did some personal testing years ago when I had access to a treadmill and was able to jog longer with my hand cooled.

1. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041006085310.h...

2. https://gizmodo.com/stanford-is-building-a-body-cooling-glov...
Yes. Look for one which sustains stable uninterrupted power output during charging and charger plugging and unplugging.
Wrong. Each provider has their own parameters and dependancies.
I’ve never heard of them before this post. Their other products are far cheaper and seem to have a more unique place in the marketplace.

This is literally a game boy with a crank, you can get a thousand-game library device with dual color screens for the same price.

Maybe nobody else besides TE is making cool portable synthesizers but this is definitely something that’s been tried before.

Obviously it’s a novelty and not trying to be a million seller, but I’m struggling to see who would buy one based on the price and features considering the alternatives.
No, they shouldn’t, because doing that would incentivise improper activity.
They didn't listen to a fire expert Donald J Trump? He had some good ideas. Church fires are easy to put out!
Please don't break the site guidelines by making insinuations about astroturfing or shillage. It's a toxic trope that people bring up as cheap ammunition in arguments, and unless you have something approaching real evidence, it's off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What you're seeing is the physical limits of resolving detail through thousands of feet of warm air. There's probably no need for any noise reduction in these conditions.
I didn't watch the linked video, but aren't things like education and affordable housing also problems that governments have been tackling for decades without much progress and even often making things worse?

For example, economists are almost uniformly against rent control, which many cities try to implement. And the flood of government money encouraging educational loans seems to have made college costs spiral.

Personally, I think both the free market and the government can do good and can do bad. Sensible policies and entrepreneurs can help these issues, and bad policies and bad companies can worsen them.
Could you link to a product or two SaaS products that you like, built for gov?

How can really small players get into this space though?
it's just an underground tram. it has 3 stops in a mile. there is no way (and no benefit) that the tunnel is evacuated, hyperloop-style, at those short distances.

which makes sense given the cost. which even at $50MM I very much doubt they can do it that cheap. the stations or other parts of it must be paid for in another budget.
Nope! Duvergers law says that our election system will never be stable with more than two parties.
If someone pirates a movie and watches it without paying, the movie studio loses ROI only to the same extent that they lose ROI when someone doesn't pirate it and doesn't watch it. Am I stealing ROI from the Detective Pikachu movie by not going to the cinema to watch it?
that's too harsh. philsophers are experts at a particular way of thinking: logic. it is surprisingly powerful for clarifying ideas and advancing knowledge, in much the same way as mathematics or the scientific method are. we would not say mathematicians are only experts on "numbers"
Can't we though? Isn't Congress planning to permanently ban the IRS from providing online tax-prep services itself in an attempt to permanently entrench this pointless and corrosive marketplace?
That still has the order wrong in the name section.

I mean, strictly speaking, the name field doesn’t document the output, but having those aligned makes the documentation much easier to read.
> To boost community funding, we'll match contributions up to $5,000 during a developer’s first year in GitHub Sponsors with the GitHub Sponsors Matching Fund.

How will GitHub deal with bad actors who might create a project and donate $5,000 to himself to get free money?
A few ms, with cold cache (both OS and postgres). The IN() roughly scales linearly with the number of elements, although it's often a bit better, as the upper tree levels are all in cache after the first few IN() element lookups.
'at least representation that felt they had to actually do right by voters'

What is the mechanism by which you propose to enforce this? Who gets to define "do right by voters"?
Thanks for the generous thoughts :) I know it's not intrinsically bad. But I suppose I am saying that this specific event is bad, in non-shallow analysis.

Yes, all things are aspiring to "bend the world" (i like that term) -- a kid putting up a poster for selling cookies from their pantry for 10c is trying to affect people.

But then there's greater bending, of almost all possible paths of significance. GitHub/GitLab are THE places in our digital lives as coders. The scale at which this intervention/distortion is happening is important.

The unfair squelching of funding experiments in open source land WILL affect paths outside software. OpenCollective was using their learnings and profits in serving FOSS, to affect non-digital projects in the social fabric of physical cities: https://opencollective.com/brussels

This unfair buying of the opportunity space -- afforded only by deep pockets of Microsoft -- will affects paths that were leading to much more collateral benefit for all of us. Most maintainers would need to be irrational to use anything BUT their system while the distortions are in place. Those supporting this launch bear some real responsibility for what becomes LESS possible in the world when this feature "takes the ball and goes home". (at least in terms of open source funding)

I truly don't feel I'm doing a shallow analysis here.

Anyhow, I really appreciate the attention you may have given this.

Disclaimer: I work adjacent to civic technology, government procurement and the distributed web. There are many exciting paths dancing around these things, and the execution of this launch (separate from the feature itself) is certainly not one of them imho
I could swear I read somewhere that they still did. Oh well
I think Herb Sutter's 2005 article "The Free Lunch Is Over" was a signal that this was changing.

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
You can regulate your environment based on the weather. If it's humid, you might benefit from a de-humidifier. If it's dry, evaporative cooling. If the humidity outside is 'average' or 'comfortable', a cross-breeze will help a lot. If it's hotter inside than outside, set up a fan to pump air outside, crack one window from the bottom to let in cool air, and one from the top to let heat escape. As a last ditch measure, you can try filling a hot water bottle with ice water and sleep with your feet on that.
The article placed a general emphasis on "cybersecurity costs"; I guess it didn't really indicate what percentage was that vs. litigation, but any "cybersecurity costs" are as I described above: costs that should've already been spent before the breach and are just being forced now. Only the litigation is a true "penalty".
Interesting, this is a similar idea to whats been used in motorsports for driver cooling systems for a long time. I just got in my new setup from Chillout Systems [1] this week. Since I live in Texas, even many of the club racers like myself invest in these types of systems since it's so hot here during the Summer.

[1]: https://www.chilloutsystems.com/
I think most people understand that the stone vaults are what is seen from the inside. At least most people who have given it a tiny bit of thought or looked at any pictures. Most, but not all, of the stone vaulting remains intact, although some of it may be weakened.

While they may comprise the bulk of the structure, I don't think it is correct to say suggest that the roof and roof supports (all that timber) is merely to keep the rain off. It plays a significant role in the structure as well. Sure, without an earthquake or strong wind the valuting is strong enough, but with the roof supports gone the building is substantially less able to stand up to extreme conditions.

As for replacing the roof with something else, it would have to be done where it contributes to the structure, not just sits on top. Glass can actually be structural, in fact. I like some of the new ideas, and don't think the ones I've seen are unfeasible, but they would simply (or not so simply) be done with a whole lot of regard for adding to the structure.
Google, FB, Amazon, Microsoft is severely limited in China as examples.
there's a wide amount of space between 'regulation by government' and 'regulation by corporations'
> Why not just get rid of the entire Constitution then?

Because the Constitution -- or more generally if you like, the idea of what a Republic is -- has a lot more to it than the question of whether an income tax is within the powers of its institutions.

> the idea that the government has any right to tax private property at whatever valuation they see fit is a quick step towards a totalitarian nightmare.

It might be interesting to examine the question of how "the government may assess taxes at rates which can be justified to the citizens who elect representatives and other officeholders" transforms in the mind to "the government has any right to tax private property at whatever valuation they see fit", apparently without any notice of either the skipped steps or the actual observable realities of not-totalitarian-nightmare in America since 1913.
sure, everyone will click on your random links.
It's a workhorse and as much as I miss the thunder of the radial engines it's nice to see them get a new life. I doubt the C-54 will get the same treatment but that would be impressive.