skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you note my non-use of misspelling.

What's curious to me is that the mark actual has a disclaimer (https://www.uspto.gov/trademark/laws-regulations/how-satisfy...) on "faire", the only slim element of distinctiveness in the mark.

Meaning they're relying almost entirely on "maker" to provide distinctiveness.

If the USPTO has any inkling of sense they'd realise "maker" is a standard English word that is being used for its ordinary meaning (someone who makes things), and does not give any indication of a specific origin.

You can't prevent people using common words, with their ordinary meaning, to describe their own products by registering those words (that's common across all TM systems). Any attempt to sue someone for running their own maker fair using the words maker fair should be dismissed by asking the judge to look up the two words in the dictionary.
While this is true, since nowawadays you can just get all of that information off your smart-phone, broadcasting such information no longer brings enough listeners to support a station.

Though to be honest, I don't even know what brings listeners to radio these days -- the only radio I listen to is 20 seconds in the morning before my car's infotainment system finishes booting and connects to my phone and then I can ask it to play just about any song/genre/playlist I want to, or ask for a news briefing, or the weather, etc. I used to listen to the station with the best traffic reports, but I don't even need that since my phone map will tell me about traffic backups ahead and even reroute me around it automatically
> ... so that they can choose their own avenues of success ...

At present 'success' in practice is basically synonymous with 'resource consumption'. At a guess that is going to be a very sticky connection that might even be wired in at the biological level; it seems to be quite consistent across the different cultures I know of.

It is not possible to liberate people to pursue success by improving the social safety nets. People who use their free time to advance society are as rare as hens teeth; even most of the productive people use their free time to advance their own interests or their immediate families interests.

I think there is a good argument for making sure everyone has few-questions-asked access to ~9,000 kJ/day of food and some sort of safe housing to live in. We live in wealthy times. But a social safety net isn't going to set people up for success in any way that is meaningful to most people.
The trucks in question have outsized power for their size, it's part of their legitimate use as work vehicles. You get in these massive, comfortable vehicles and you accelerate, maybe not as fast as a sports car, but you're easily beating a Honda Civic and instead of a squeal from the transmission you hear a deep-throated roar from your engine.
How is that contra-evidence? Are you saying the claims about IBM's involvement in the holocaust is disproved by these slides?
The meteorologist made some very valid points, though. The Sinclair alert system isn’t clear and well-designed, unlike the long-standing NWS alert system.

Indirectly related, but it’s worth reading up on some of the political battles being fought in the US meteorological world at the moment.

An Accuweather executive, Barry Myers, was nominated to head the NOAA, which he’s spent years lobbying against to cut off public access to government weather data[0]. This story was featured in Michael Lewis’ latest book, The Fifth Risk, which documented instances where private companies are trying to block public access to various types of government data.

Private interests are materially altering reporting systems that have worked for years, and many professional meteorologists are becoming more concerned about this influence.

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
I used to hold a kind of naive hope that the ham fisted Party would eventually be replaced with democracy. I remember back in 2011 my friends that were placed in moderately distinguished positions were sending their kids to Canada to collect foreign dual citizenship, fully expecting the collapse of the PRC in their lifetime.

But now I think the Party is too good at maintaining itself. It's augmented by technology like WeChat to know exactly what is going on across the whole country. Access to dissident conversations will make it even easier to tailor the kind of subtle propaganda they're getting very good at.

Will the PRC just continue to exist as it is, forever? My last remaining hope is for massive power grabs by xi jinping (already happening), followed by government ineptitude as he ages and underlings squabble, followed by chaos upon his death. Beyond that I can't see any way out.
Why would they not use android for that? The hardware would be so much cheaper.
Several hours at increasingly lower inclinations as satellites in LEO reflecting sunlight are low in the sky. Telescopes generally don’t point in that direction because of the amount of atmosphere makes for bad seeing.
This? https://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/04/tech/innovation/dna-face-...
I did not expect this to be such a controversial point, but I am referring to the fact that even having seen the source code would make me a legal risk to employers and open source projects. Whether this is ridiculous or not is not my point, it’s the reality I live in.
Yes, Twitter "threads" are annoying. It's just blog posts chopped into Twitter format.
If they could be emulated at passable speed, I would not need them.
"This caching, along with aggressive pooling of read requests, allows Zanzibar to issue only 20 million read RPCs per second to Spanner." ("Only")

I'm surprised by all the numbers they give out: latency, regions, operation counts, even servers. The typical Google paper omits numbers on the Y axis of its most interesting graphs. Or it says "more than a billion", which makes people think "2B", when the actual number might be closer to 10B or even higher.
the french history of black slavery is worse than that of the US, which is why there is a considerable black minority in france. this is not the case for lithuania, or many other european countries.
I wasn't aware that people let mice struggle and die on glue traps.

I have used them, but I don't use them lightly. Even tiny mice make a fair bit of noise when they get stuck. Then it is my responsibility to put them out of their misery as quickly and humanely as possible, no matter how unpleasant it is for me.

Personally, I think they can be used humanely. Don't use them outside, keep track of where they are in use, and euthanize the mice that it catches.

Is that worse than bleeding to death from Warfarin? Or being stuck in a trap that didn't break the neck?
I like Sirius, or at least 3 or 4 stations. Enough to make the fees palatable.

What's almost UNpalatable is the audio quality: my Audi has the Sirius decoder, and it's notably awful. 17-32k stream according to Wikipedia. I guess some of the XM radios have higher rates. It's awful.
I think you might be alone. 5.26 minutes of down time per year is beyond excellent for any moderately complex system.
Over thinking it? I don't think so.

35 years of jail time has a powerful chilling effect.

How this article could talk about the 'surprising' lack of ethical hackers without covering this law and it's abuse is beyond me.

It's like talking about the 'surprising lack of research into clinical MDMA studies' and not talk about the war on drugs. It's like they are intentionally ignoring the HUGE elephant in the room.
> It would be better and more efficient for a nation as a whole to take care of its children

What exactly do you mean by that? State raising children? No families? That sounds dystopian to me.
You both should at least admit that the comment you're talking about is not, in fact, getting downvoted.
My 8th grade science teacher taught us how to solder. And how to count in binary using our fingers. He was pretty awesome in a lot of ways.
I rented a car for a long trip that had a Sirius (or XM, is there a difference?) subscription, and I really liked it - no dropouts in hilly areas where my phone loses cell signal, and their curated content was a nice change of pace from my own playlists.

If my car had a satellite receiver, I'd probably subscribe to it for my commute.
The Making of a YouTube Radical
Does anyone know why that Sherpa's face has that distinctive tone? Is it frostbite or some kind of sun burn?

Great article by the way!
The article misses out on the math though. She saves 90% percent of her income? So does she earn 80k after taxes? She would need to earn about 130k+ after taxes to save 90% of her income, given that she is the one who pays all the expenses, which at 1000$ per 3 people is hard to imagine. Even in a small German town, where things are dirt-cheap compared to Seattle, 1000$ for 3 persons is almost impossible.

I don't like these headlines. Why does everything have to be clickbait these days?
> years back, the concept of a totalitarian society with surveillance, database, social credit was still very remote

Really? I don't think so at all, the threat has been known for decades. For at least one decade it is well-known that the information gathering has become aggressive and a real threat.
Interesting - so those values existed well before our modern concept of "the west," in a place we probably wouldn't call "the west" during a period of time when "the west" was very "not open?" For example, during the dark ages, Inquisitions, etc?

Why call it "western values?" Why not just specifically refer to the values by name?
>In particular Go bears very striking resemblance to Pike's two earlier languages, Limbo and Newsqueak.

From the GoPL (The Go Programming Language book, by Donovan and Kernighan), page xii, part of the genealogy is:

CSP (Hoare, 1978) -> Squeak (Cardelli & Pike, 1985) -> Newsqueak (Pike, 1989) -> Alef (Winterbottom, 1992) -> Go (Griesemer, Pike and Thompson, 2009).
Many systems would be "better and more efficient for a nation as a whole" if everyone was 100% selfless and treated the welfare of others as exactly as important as their own welfare.

Sadly, the way the universe works, any such system is open to free riders who take more than their share.

Tragedy of the commons.

The only solutions we've found so far are:

1. Assign people control of what they create, so they can benefit from their own efforts, and are thus incentivized to make those efforts. Side effect: People who didn't/can't create much have a really hard time (this is what you're concerned about).

2. Assign control of what people create to a central authority that redistributes it evenly, and also have that central authority kill anyone who tries to change or exploit the system. This hasn't tended to work out well.
This version is deplatforming is going to be oh so much fun.
Again, not sure I understand your example. What do you want to do?
The reason I said "net carbon captured" was to avoid the "cobra effect" of people releasing carbon deliberately so they can capture it, or of people using fossil fuel powered carbon capture that releases more than it captures. If they are paying high taxes on fossil fuels then it will quickly become unprofitable, so in that case it's not a serious problem.

Assuming they are not later burnt, growing trees qualifies as carbon capture. I now realize the tax would have to be on all forms of CO2 emissions, not just fossil fuels, otherwise the captured carbon would be re-burned.
Downsizing Nordstrom to close its Northgate store
Sure, i actually have one (well, kinda, i have a GPD Win which has a touch screen although i still prefer to use the joystick to move the mouse even if it s a bit slower) but optimizing the UI for the rare case doesn't make much sense to me.
INAL but even if you did not get paid does not automatically means the result of work for hire belongs to you. If you are a contractor this is a smart thing to explicitly stipulate in the contract.
Not the same:

Google does not have a mapping between an application and email address the customer used in that application. Also Google is not really enticing a customer not to provide the service provider any email address other than the ones in the mapping.
In a making stuff up sense, you can fit near any narrative you want to near any set of data about our history. Consider, used to be there was literally nothing to do for the majority of the day/night for folks. Yes, you could tend the garden and such, but that was done before sun was fully overhead or you would suffer exposure symptoms. You could watch the herds, but that was mostly passive, for mostly the same reasons.

With that narrative, many scientists in history were not people that didn't have to do some of these boring things. They were people that filled their free time with experimentation and other observations.

Of course, that is just one narrative to fit to the data. I'm sure there are others. But it is not just incumbent on one side to give evidence. Can you point to evidence that free time is not beneficial? Observationally, as a parent, forcing my kids to have boring free time has led to them doing/learning as much as forcing them to productive learning time. (Indeed, I've grown sympathetic to the argument that productive learning time often isn't either of its claims. )
I find it odd that the license is MIT here. Since he ultimately wrote this gratis, that license means his client could easily return and use it gratis, whereas a license such as AGPLv3 would help ensure he'd actually get paid if this client decided it wanted to use it again.
> The reactors have been closed since October 2018 as a result, but owners EDF Energy are currently making a case for turning them back on, with help from trade union GMB.

So, there is a chance for disaster if the reactors are activated again, not from continued non-operation.
One thing I learned as a developer for 12+ years is that the title is meaningless and where I work, many of the highest impact developers would be considered 'junior' developers. I wonder why people have such an infatuation with the title 'junior' and 'senior'. Seems to be more prevalent in European countries.
It's been illegal to discriminate health insurance based on DNA content since 2010
There is a bit of a learning curve, but some sensible defaults and bundled extensions could go a long way to help new users along. Perhaps a "playground" mode, similar to what XCode has, would help as well.
What is Developer Relations (and why should you care?)
I’ll be honest, that seems remarkably ignorant and short-sighted.

Do we need Tigers at this point? Of course not. Anything they hunted has now been hunted way more by man. That doesn’t mean we don’t recognize value in having them.

Just because you don’t see the value in mosquitoes doesn’t mean there is none. Sure, maybe they killed off people by transmitting disease in the past. They still do. They also kill off other animals, and if the mosquitos disappeared we could have a huge overgrowth if wombats next and no way to get rid of them.

I thought we had agreed that killing off any species was a bad thing. Maybe we don’t know how or why, but it’s going to bite us in the ass eventually. In the case of mosquitos quite literally.
> Imagine where mankind could be if we had everyone being able to have the basics, and ample free time to think, to explore, to experiment, to create.

Western Europe has vast social safety nets going way beyond "the basics". Yet you don't see an explosion of innovation, culture, art, philosophy or what have you. They may not be related, or a full belly isn't hungry and doesn't look for ways to fill itself.
> The reactors have been closed since October 2018 as a result, but owners EDF Energy are currently making a case for turning them back on, with help from trade union GMB.

I find it tragic that workers (the members of the union) have to weigh between safety on the one hand and their livelihoods (lost income) on the other. These things should be independent from each other.
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'Hoarding' money doesn't consume any real resources and therefore one person saving can't really deny anyone anything that exists in the physical world.

There are some complex questions of whether it causes more or less resources to be allocated to the poor. It isn't a simple as branding someone a hoarder.

Indeed, a complex experiment has been running since the monetary systems moved off the gold standard that suggest the less people save, the more unequal society becomes to the benefit of the wealthy. There is a reasonable argument that when the middle class 'hoards' money it increases the access of the poor to things they need.
Imagine deep faking Party members.

I'm sure the state will do so happily to politically assassinate officials that don't fall in line, but imagine if the people started doing the same to the Big Dogs, like to jinping himself. The possibilities are exciting ...
Yeah sounds like a great PR for someone to make who truly thinks this is a major issue
It's just a saying. All we do is move protos from one service to another.

JSON is definitely not the right stuff.
It means "got from concept to ramen profitability on your own money" :).
I suspect it's the intended outcome. "Silly librul media calls code red every time it gets a little warm -- they must be getting desperate to convince me about global warming."
We don't accept that as an argument for the morality of an action any other time. Why do you think it applies to discussions of our treatment of animals?
I knew this would get downvoted, instead of actually answered. Emotional arguments are easy to make, but hard to justify.
If you look back at any wealthy family’s history they all have this story, especially in the USA. The story basically goes like this: “A long time ago our great great grandfather lived in a dirt floor home and the family worked really hard and was frugal and did without and eventually luck came their way and they made good investments, or happened to be in the right place at the right for a resource boom, and made a lot of money”.

A lot of middle class Americans could take this path if they did without and the kids worked as soon as able for extra money for the family (you know like you have to when you have no other choice) but we have to have the nice home, white picket fence, big SUV, expensive sports, iPads and android phones, and as soon as the kids turn 16 they must have a car of their own, etc...

Modern life by design now (it is designed) requires more and more to get by. You need a car to get to work because of the awful thing called suburbia. You need a expensive cell to make sure you get the call for that job offer. Where you had to submit a PDF copy of your resume which you had to type on a computer somewhere and have access to Internet to send it.

The downside is you miss out on this fabled childhood luxury that has only been a thing for the last 80 years of human existence.
Even a good safety net is not going to provide more than the bare minimum. I don’t think I would stop saving and start blowing all my money even if the government decided to guarantee I wouldn’t be homeless or hungry under any circumstances.
Is that really the worst part of US poverty? I didn't see anything about drug addiction, abuse, prostitution, or prison.

Chinese poverty, I suspect, gets far worse than that.

Just seems like straightforward frugality, and she probably did far better than her ancestors going back a thousand years (or ever). Chinese premodern poverty was always worse than European.
You still have a big, complex, expensive fuel engine to maintain. For short hops I think electric planes are going to be the better choice. Maybe they can have ground power connections or droppable capacitors for the burst of energy needed at takeoff without the extra weight.
Overall uptime isn't the only stat that matters here, the distribution of downtime matters too. One 15 minute outage in three years is a lot worse than 900 1 second outages over that same time period. One second blips are a part of the web, we click refresh and move on--not even knowing who's fault it was.
Do you have any sources for that claim?
I went through many iterations of this very same issue, and note that I have pretty deep experience with latex and other publishing tools.

At the end of the day, now I'm optimizing for simplicity. Personally I use Google docs, but open office would be exactly the same. You just print as PDF when you need the PDF -- and with Google docs typically you can just share the link in view only mode, you don't even need the PDF.

The reason for me is small edits. With Gdocs I can do any small change even on my phone, and most importantly I can share the file with anyone and they can make edits for me, if needed.
The inventor in a shed is a well trodden meme. Pre 20th century most science seems to have been done by rich amateurs.
The most interesting blogs I've come across are just interested amateurs trying things out.

I'm not sure there's a linear relationship between free time and scientific progress, but people need free time to scratch their itches, and sometimes this itches progress our understanding of the world.
As one ex-Soviet to another, I think you are being too optimistic. The situation in smaller cities seems to be quite dire to me. Most of the people I know either don't know of the situations like this, or don't care. They still have some freedom of information, some level of access to "alternative" worldviews, but they prefer not to exercise it and to get their daily dose of brainwashing from RT and Russia 24.

For example, to most of my acquaintances Navalny is known as "the guy who stole the timber".

Honestly, I am not at all sure if Russia is still salvageable. I've been reading some of the classic literature from 18-19 centuries, and it reads like it was written yesterday.

I am thinking of just leaving as far away as I can from all this fucking bullshit, before the iron curtain comes crashing down.
what if the camera is connected to the internet, generates its own random key every 10 seconds, signs the new public key with the previous key, and a quorum of receiver citizens selected by sortition send their public keys, and the camera uses threshold cryptography to send each receiver their share of the secret frames for ~10 seconds.

The adversary would have to extract the key within 10 seconds without damaging the security envellope of the device, which can't be powered down. If such a camera is powered down, a replacement camera would need to be manufactured and sent and isntalled (again by citizens selected through sortition) at the place the malfunctioning / perturbed camera was. If the cameras cover each other (say cameras along both sides of a street such that a camera sees 2 or more other cameras) the perturber can be tracked, both where he came from, as well as where he went to...
This is a really interesting breakdown of how it developed over time and I love how the levels are so distinct. The treadmill level in particular looks really cool and creative. Here's to hoping it'll eventually come out on the Nintendo Switch, since that's the easiest place I can do couch co-op (I still bought a copy for PC as well).
I wonder if the reverse has happened. Where a client pays for a project, and gets code, but it's terrible. So, open source it with attribution to the original developer and an appropriate README analysis of the low points.

Edit: Wondering if it has happened doesn't mean I'm promoting it as a terrific idea.
OSGi After 20 Years
I suspect Europe’s relatively narrow roads would prevent American-style cars ever becoming generally popular. One of the Smart Fortwo’s selling points is the small size making parking easier, not just the good-but-not-best fuel efficiency.
I once tried downloading WeChat from Google Play but the registration process required another existing WeChat user that I may know to recommend or vouch for my account first so I couldn't complete it. Strangely enough, a few months later I needed to use it for work and this requirement disappeared. Has this ever occurred to anyone?