skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think trademarks can lapse in the US

You can lose your trademark protection if the term becomes genericized and you fail to police its use. It's exceedingly rare for this to happen, the law isn't clear-cut, and different courts have ruled differently in similar cases, but it is technically possible. Velcro doesn't have to rabidly attack everyone trying to genericize its brand, and so long as they are still using it themselves and making some occasional effort to legally defend it, they're fine. But if other brands started calling their products "velcro" in the generic sense, and Velcro ignored it for a decade or more, they could in fact lose the trademark entirely.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
Which is why, in my opinion, a federal sales tax would be far better at capturing value from the wealthy (than an income tax) without penalizing people trying to earn and reinvest their earnings.
Interesting, I had no idea the rate was so high. I’ve seen one study[1] that sampled for ~7%, but not 25%. Do you have a link I could read?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904453/
> No per year per person. The NHS prescribes it long term for various high risk groups.

The NHS does not prescribe PEP long-term for anyone.

For HIV+ people, it prescribes HAART, which everyone who has HIV should be on.

HIV- people can take PrEP, which is different from PEP and does not include any NNRTIs.
And North Dakota. The resource curse can happen anywhere.
What I like about this problem is that it encourages Apple to continue supporting old hardware.

When you upgrade, they want that old device to stay on-the-grid.
On the other hand, as far as I can tell:

* The baseline requirement is 64 bits of entropy and Actalis were providing 63 bits, i.e. only short by a single bit. It would seem unusual if the baseline requirements were a mere one bit of entropy from insecurity.

* The requirement for 64 bits of entropy is to reduce the risk of hash collision attacks [1] - which have only ever been demonstrated for MD5 and SHA-1, neither of which are used to sign certificates any more.

If web security was a tightrope, this would be like hearing that the second safety net, underneath the first believed-to-be-robust safety net, was found to be strong enough to catch a 900 lbs person, when it was specified for 1000 lbs.

[1] https://cabforum.org/2016/03/31/ballot-164/
The iPhone is exceptionally cheap compared to what a device with similar capability would have costed 5 or 10 years ago.

So, pricing is always relative to the existing technological level and competing offerings. Within a given technological age, Apple chose to always go after the upper third - quarter - or even tenth of the market. It's a strategy that brought them great fortunes, they don't compete on price, not even on capability per unit of price, they sell premium gadgets for those with high disposable income.
Best ultraportable laptop with good Linux support
I'm looking for a small, lightweight (11", < 2 lb) laptop which has good Linux support. Something with roughly the form-factor of the 11" MBA would be ideal.

Complete wish-list

- < 2 lb
- ~11" screen
- thin bezel
- USB 3.0
- good linux support
- good battery life
- crappy CPU and GPU is fine

Any suggestions?
Not technology but science:

Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. You can have zero physics background (like me) and still understand a bit about quantum electrodynamics. If ever I had to distill a complex subject, I'd try to first dissect how Feynman is able to do so.
(I work in cell phone repair part time)

Checkout the "lower end" iPhones like the 7/8 (wait for apple to release their new stuff in the fall first so it's price drops). They really aren't that slow compared to the new phones, the improvements in phones have REALLY slowed down. I'm the kind of person who has a i7 8700k, 1080ti, 32GB gaming machine, but I've been using my iPhone 7 Plus for two years, and I have nothing to complain about performance wise.

And the iPhone 7 is only 450$ new from Apple. A screen repair from a 3rd party will be less then 100$.

The iPhone 7/8's are also really easy to repair by yourself (can't speak for the higher ones) - the exact screen our store uses for iphone 7 repairs costs less than 25$. Battery is only 12$. I understand that the "average joe" likely shouldn't attempt to repair it, but I figure the typical HN audience wouldn't have much issues - just be slow and follow ifixit.

They're very affordable/easy to repair, and are solid phones, and they'll be getting updates for at least a few more years.
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ICU is not trivial as everything is done quickly.

At first thought, overhead cable gantries would be the best as you could quickly toss the cable/tube into it, but then the area around the patent would have tubes getting in the way, so some thought would have to be put into how the cables come out of the gantries.

Other techniques such as pre-laid cable guards could work (a smaller version of the things cables go through to temporarily cross a road), but those people would still be tripping on, laying a cable or tube would be disruptive and they would be annoying to keep clean.
Those are a little hard to compare since the green square for petroleum is the same size reagrdelss of number.

But ignoring that, Norway's chart don't seem that different from Iran, Iraq etc. What did you intend to demonstrate via these charts.
It's far more complicated than that.

In the 1950s, the average new home was 1200sqft and held about 3.5 people. Today, the average new home is more than twice that size and holds one less person.

Since about the 1960s, we've also torn down about a million SROs. SROs used to be normal market rate housing. Now, most seem to be part of some transitional housing program for homeless people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
I'll add input device and hand/finger passthrough to that. I think the Rift S can do this, assuming you're good with "virtual screens overlayed on camera passthrough" as an implementation.

But if you want to bring it into a fully virtual world instead of on top of the cameras, then you can't see your keyboard, mouse, or fingers. I can blindly touch type well enough to get by, but for it to see any adoption you'll need to get the input devices visible in VR.
Nokia, Ericson, Blackberry...

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Honestly, I think the real underlying problem with America's politics is that the Federal government has grossly overstepped its intended scope. The federal government frequently tries (and many time succeeds) to impose laws on the entire nation (which of course is the result of any federal law), when many times such issues/laws should remain with the states. Doing this creates resentment and frustration. What's good for one area may not be good for another. Or, if we're talking about moral, hot-button issues - this becomes even more serious as it is viewed as the imposition of will of some group's morality upon some other group/region.

The scope of the federal government should be very limited. But all too often, the immediate response to any problem is to get the federal government to pass a law to solve it across the board for the whole country. Many times that just doesn't work. This approach also goes against the concept of the 50 state laboratory where we can see the outcome of certain laws and whether or not we want to adopt them based on the results they produced. Or maybe we don't care about the results because we are morally opposed to whatever the change is and therefore the economics are somewhat irrelevant because it's more of an issue of principle/value. Having federal laws in those instances removes the ability of a state to choose to be different, for better or worse.

It's much easier to live and let live when those you are letting live aren't actively trying to force rules upon you, which is exactly how most of the nation views the political climate right now - i.e. "the [dems/reps] are trying to force us to [x] by passing that new law!" When people view things like that, it pisses everyone off. Let the states be in charge of as much as they possibly can.
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Hmmm..., I remember the Macintosh’s slow death to the PC in the late 1980’s and 1990s.

I think you should probably look more closely at the iPhone’s global market share.

Developers will support the larger, more profitable markets first. At some point, they’ll stop supporting the shrinking market.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/31/iphones-global-ma...
The similarity to Lebensborn is uncanny, and reminiscent of Dr. Strangelove.

It all makes me think that the United States was defeated by the Nazis at some point.
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Would be fascinated to see a writeup on Dataomic being used in anger.
So… This is just a “please, don’t record what I send you”?
How could anyone believe apple will obey this demand?
I am glad to hear of good MCC outcomes!
Asymmetric Correlations of On–Chain Activity in Crypto Networks
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Niiiiice! The 98 catalog is the first one I remember, though I got the home gardener one then.
Works out to $4k per person in the fund currently.

The argument could be made that it’s because they spent the money on long-term assets, but I’d argue they spent it on lower taxes.
That’s precisely the point the GP is making
>where they can loudly gab with their coworkers, sometimes even yelling to one-up each other.

That's just typical American culture. Americans are very loud.
The live, collaborative document and the video are in the same window. That’s exactly right. (The call is joined from the document itself, no more switching tabs between call and doc).

I’ll send along your beta credentials shortly.
Absolute mastery. Thanks for this.
Have you tried Gnoosic (http://www.gnoosic.com)? That is the one that works best for me.
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But once you surpass roughly 4,000 people per square mile, things inevitably turn blue. Any political heat map shows this. There's a heavy correlation. Surely, urban vs rural is related to red vs blue, no?
The "The Node.js Handbook" and the "The JavaScript Handbook" from https://flaviocopes.com/page/ebooks/
Very handy and turned later into official doc at https://nodejs.dev/
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‘No way to prevent this’, says only development community where this regularly
I have a writeup for a previous app I made (a budgeting app) here: https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/ion/

What things would you be interested in reading about? I'll likely have enough material for another writeup soon.
You are right. Language hat usually provides more context and fantastic discussion with their readers but not in this case. Sorry for not reading close enough.
I would argue that basically all of the recent migrations are self-sorting: you're saying "I can't stay here out of fear for my safety" and doing something about it by removing yourself from that situation. "Self-sorting" is almost a disservice to the amount of effort it takes to remove yourself from a suddenly created situation past your control.

This is also why I hold general antipathy towards the sentiment "move back to your country"- clearly they left because something was deeply, utterly fucked. And it's awkward/cognitively dissonant to watch my family, a product of exactly this sort of immigration (context: Hungary and Russia in '55/'56) exhibit that sentiment in the modern day when people are fleeing gang violence in Guatemala and civil war in Syria.
>Its use as a money standard is arbitrary.

But it is not. Gold is finite which is important for a currency. Gold is one of the easier metals to work with/coin, which is important, at least historically. And Gold is non-corrosive, which again is important in coinage.

Sure these unique characteristics may not seem important now that most fiat is digital, but we are talking about a system of money going back thousands of years. It has withstood the test of time, not because its arbitrary, but because gold will last thousands of years, something no digital or paper/cotton based bank note can claim. Plus you can counterfeit all paper/cotton based bank notes, to date no one has successfully reproduced Gold.
I would expect similarly: if you are vocationally dishonest you will freeze to death.
Minus the dozens of cryptic special variables.
And Now, a Bicycle Built for None
The coolest cybersecurity job that ever existed was the cartoonist for
JVN iPedia. There were dozens of security alerts with these cartoons,
although I think only from 2007 until 2010 - for example:

https://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2007/JVNDB-2007-000398.html
https://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000034.html
https://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2010/JVNDB-2010-000040.html
Antibiotic-resistant genes found in London's canals and ponds
This guy makes several pretty clear references to needing his mom to do things like take him to Mexico and turn pages of books for him.

Does anyone think _she_ thought "hey why don't I accomplish big things" or "what do I need to sacrifice to get to where I want"? No? Was sitting in a library turning pages of books for someone part of her life ambition plan?

Accomplishing big things sometimes is getting a lot of help from your family and friends. They're not telling themselves Fight Club quotes as they're lending you money, talking you off the ledge or making you your favorite dinner every Sunday. They do it because it's the easiest thing in the world.

Maybe it's the most valuable too, even though no one, like, actually writes about it.
Would upvote that twice if I could. I feel the same thing. If I were free to get a space mission implemented right now, I'd opt for a proper camera of at least full HD quality to get a video of a Moon or Mars landing, to be released for free to just get people interested.

And then the same thing for Jupiter, or the rings of Saturn.
The tool is next to useless because it conflates income with wealth and, worse, it doesn't distinguish between income earned from work (e.g. salary) and income earned from assets (e.g. rents, equities).

Aside from that, it has other flaws. For example, I'd classify myself as "rich" by the (flawed) measure of household income used by the survey--but because I overestimated the percentile range my household income is in the survey result indicated I thought I wasn't rich.
And all it cost was the earth's climate.

I think this "oil fund" will be an interesting target when countries and states start disappearing under water and their crops start failing for reparations.

Also, why does Norway not contribute the full 2% to NATO spending again?
>Franchises add quite a lot of value. The hardest things in running a restaurant are marketing, product development & training, and supply chain. They supply all of these. If you want 'passive' income, franchises are the the closest thing to it.

Yep, the whole point is that "they" decide (and can calculate at the third decimal point, remember it is "their" business and "they" have decades of experience in it) how much is what you bring home.

A "franchise" is also the closest thing to being between a rock and a hard place, you have more or less fixed prices (sale prices) and fixed (by them) costs, the only variables you can somehow manage is volume of sales (and it depends mostly or more than anything else on location) and personnel costs (which is anyway in most countries regulated by Law).
Very enlightening! Thanks for the info. The implications of Sharia in countries lacking an Abrahamic religious tradition frankly never occurred to me.
The biggest threat right now is prices. There are pretty good Android devices available for cheap (Pixel 3a, Nokia 2.2, etc). Not so much with iPhones.

Rumor is they're dropping 3D Touch in 2019 models, and 2020 might see a screen size reduction on the smaller "X"-sized phone. So it's hopefully something they're working on.

I'm sure they'll still be priced as premium devices and not competing directly against phones that cheap, but if they weren't 5x as expensive it would certainly help.
According the to the linked site, the top 5% income in the Silicon Valley area, probably the highest cost of living area in the US, is over $500k.

Yes, all of the things you mention are getting more expensive, and median incomes would certainly be difficult (median for the same area is $133k). But, top 5%? At that income level, you can have all of the things you mention and still retire very comfortably by 40.
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Why didn't meal sharing take off the way car (Uber) and home (Airbnb) did?
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I've never bought anything I don't want or need. For me, it's not difficult, that's why its so hard for me to understand why it's not he norm.
There's currently a push to take it to the supreme court so it can be stopped once and for all.

Archive link because the Baltimore Sun doesn't like Europe:

http://archive.is/a3mMR