skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no evidence that intellectual property is necessary for innovation or creative endeavors.

Just ask yourself if Avengers - if the entire franchise of Marvel movies - would have been made if not for IP protections that allowed the costs of making those movies to be recouped; that allowed those movies to be profitable for the investors.

Ask yourself if we would have all the books we currently have from Steven King (or George R.R. Martin, or Stan Lee, or any other commercially popular author) if copyright (a form of IP protection) did not exist.

The answer is "No".

There are a few options for people to put their work up for free online, but if you've read or watched those, you realize that the quality is nowhere near a professionally written and edited novel or a movie with millions of post-production work budget.
UPU rates do include tracking. All ePacket deliveries from China include last mile (port-to-door) tracking.
Negotiation over pricing for SaaS products often comes down to who can put in enough time, or who is willing to ask for lower prices.

There are cultures where asking for lower prices is not culturally acceptable, and many people feel uncomfortable doing so. This does not mean the product is worth more to them.

Having more information here is a good thing.
The analog synthesizer scene is probably even worse, cork sniffing wise. Only outranked by the HIFI vinyl scene.
That's a valid choice, but it isn't for everyone for a variety of reasons (perhaps they like the amenities a city offers, perhaps they have family nearby and don't want to move away).

Point is, cities could be building a lot more housing, but typically can't because of zoning regulations and NIMBY activism. It's a shame.
Well, like I, they simply launch "Search for new updates" and "Install new updates", and each of those operations can take dozens of minutes. I mean, in the lucky cases the first one completes. The downloading step is the most infuriating, with a progress bar that never progresses for several minutes, although the download is just supposed to be a few tens or a few hundreds of Mo.
Ouch for AliExpress.
>Lots of good lighting effects, motion effects, and other things that make it look modern.

The trouble with those effects is that they run at high resolution, which calls attention to the low resolution of rest of the art. I much prefer a consistent art style like Shovel Knight (still the best looking modern pixel-art game IMO), where it's all low resolution. Celeste also uses that hideous cartoon style for the characters, where the noses are solid red. It looks like they have a contagious disease.

Undertale has the same problem with inconsistent styles, but the inconsistencies are less frequent, and the character designs are better, so I prefer it to Celeste, but I still wouldn't call it good. It's like an inferior version of Earthbound, and Earthbound was criticized for its primitive graphics 24 years ago.
you're redirecting to a similar but unrelated claim. the claim under scrutiny is:

> eating cholesterol-rich food raises blood levels of cholesterol and damages the heart

not whether or not high cholesterol to heart disease generally is impactful. that's an important distinction, and what you've posted here isn't evidence for or against that.
We already have this in JavaScript: isArray, is-even, left-pad, etc.

And the (searchable) database is called npm.
Bring back street cars. Then not only will there be public transportation for everyone, there won’t be room for the cars anyway
Not at all.

That was press articles done by journalists without any clue what UWP is all about, and equate UWP with Windows Phone.

The BUILD 2019 sessions are freely available to anyone that cares to actually learn what the current state of Windows development actually looks like.
By "stealing" I meant literally taking their money, not using their art.
There are some incentives you could use to move people and jobs back to city centers that don't require much effort. For instances, I believe Portland, has lower property taxes closer to the city center than the outer boroughs to incentivize people/business to move there.
Oh, no. Don't get me wrong: I'm a communist. But in the current system, I would rather costs not be subsidized. In fact, I think costs should incorporate much more than the pricing system currently allows (pollution, recyclability, etc).
What is left and right has been misunderstood in evolving ways since the 60's anti-intellectualism set in.
Will be interesting to see the effects of this. Especially Shopify drop-shipping stores and Etsy stores full of cheap garbage. Hopefully it helps clean up some of the noise...I don't think those stores were adding much value anyway.
This is a great book, and while FreeBSD and Linux differ in a lot of ways, there are enough similarities to make it worth reading even if you're only interested in Linux.
Sure, but where is the fun in that :) Also, I don't think I can do it justice from memory.
I haven't read Intellectual Impostors, but suspect it is more about people like Paglia who find elaborate ways of saying nothing (or is it everything?), than about Foucault or Derrida. Indeed the authors said this themselves as someone linked lower down:

Des penseurs célèbres tels qu'Althusser, Barthes, Derrida et Foucault sont essentiellement absents de notre livre. [1]

Barthes is another quite obtuse but really wonderful writer (IMO) - who crucially has something to say. Paglia I suspect of having nothing to say I'm afraid.

Lacan I haven't read anything significant, but he does have a reputation for being obtuse and a bit of a fraud yes, so maybe the charge by her against him is accurate, though frankly Paglia should not be calling anyone else difficult or bombastic given her style. Note the person grouping these three very disparate thinkers is Paglia.

I didn't cherry-pick that quote, it's just the first para of her book. I honestly am not sure what she means by that first page of Sexual Personae (for example she doesn't define nature), and one paragraph is not enough to do her awful writing justice because it bludgeons the reader with paragraph after paragraph of the same thing, as if to bully them into submission; she flits about from pithy assertion to clever sounding reference, giving other authors an adjective and not much more, then moving on to her next thought, without any sort of research or backup for her bald gnomic assertions. Indeed her confident nonsense about the authors quoted above sums up for me her depth very well.

[1] https://next.liberation.fr/livres/1997/10/18/sokal-et-bricmo...
I'm not sure that the mutation conferred actually proves to be beneficial, even if it took place without any offsite modifications. It is associated with a fairly large increase in mortality.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190603124709.h...
So what we should expect is internal shipping costs to go down as a result of this?
It doesn’t work in every app. It doesn’t even work in a lot of apples own apps... you hold shift and click in 1 app, it works, try it in another app and it only resize vertically and not horizontally.
Net of methane production from the cattle may affect that.

I don't know if it does or doesn't, but you might want to incorporate that into your model.

(NB: I'm not a vegitarian myself. I'm quite familiar with arguments. And have some familiarity with feedlots.)
> and inconsistently takes forever or semi-forever.

As a teenager I ordered a custom mousepad from a website, apparently it was ultimately sourced from China. Never did show up, but it was something like $5 so I never bothered looking into it, chalked it up to a lesson learned.

About four years later I'm visiting home, and in my mail pile sits a random Chinese package. Lo and behold my mousepad finally arrived!

I figure my $5 went towards building the actual factory.
The OSDev wiki can probably teach you anything you need to know about "OS theory" (and practice, mostly on x86): https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

Depending on your style of programming, I'd recommend maybe not working on Linux if you are trying to learn kernel development and OS internals.

Have you looked at Haiku (https://www.haiku-os.org/)? We have a very well organized and commented modular-monolitic kernel, and a pretty active development team with a wide range of experience levels. I'm more than happy to help you (or anyone else) learn OS development!

Some example Haiku kernel code:

* "load_image_internal()", which is responsible for creating processes: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/src/system/kernel...

* a recent change by me to replace a global lock with two local ones: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/commit/37eda488be1c9fee242e8e...
I'm not saying if they are or not, but I'm arguing from an absolutist point of view. They're probably not, but you could make just as strong an strong argument that GCP and AWS are probably not because at the end of the day we just don't know.

My point being, at some point in the chain you have to trust a corporation is not doing something evil. It's all a calculated trade-off at the end of the day.
That's not what I have seen in any description of TPP. It appears that withdrawing from it is pure vandalism of US interests that we now see in the trade war with China, happening outside the framework of TPP.
>Why can't women just go to a sperm bank and buy premium DNA?

They can. High end sperm banks that do thorough background checks and create profiles on donors already exist.
Hi awwstn. Using the term "founder" leads me to assume this is a company. What business model are you intending for Capiche, or am I wrong in assuming this?
> Or make the case that we don't need to ship if we can produce locally instead.

My impression was that this was the argument being made. Shipping emissions could be cut dramatically if more things were made close to their end destination.
WTF Happened in 1971?
Thank you! WebGL is underutilized in my opinion. You can do a lot with it, and if you do it right, it can be performant, too. Right now the Hordes Alpha is more or less a concept for what the game is meant to be, and the Beta is a total overhaul. We're doing tests on the weekends and the response has been very positive!

Some of the new features will include:

- A party system that allows 10 people to group up and fight bosses together

- A skill progression system for each class, with a vastly broader amount of skills you can learn

- Much larger worlds, and the ability to chain many worlds together

- Improved performance, slicker netcode, and overall a more snappy experience

If you're interested, you can sign up for the beta here: https://beta.hordes.io
Hit me up when you're around :)
I've always wondered why these bees get shipped all over the place, instead of just keeping local colonies. Is it just the pure economics of having "idle" bees in the offseason vs. keeping them employed all year?
If Chinese sellers get locked out, where will I turn to buy those same goods?
No, but your commute is probably bounded by time, not distance. If you can only travel 5 miles in X time, you'll get the best job in that radius. If you can travel 60 miles, the odds are your job will end up being further away. Rinse and repeat for shopping, socialising, etc, etc, etc.
Please consider a not so deeply technical solution. You can do more than creating yet another programming language. I bet if you did, the next rant would be about your language and its shortcomings. Even a very small constructive contribution to the discussion could be very helpful and have a big impact.

A decade long series of rants doesn't help at all.
In HPC, we use `#pragma omp simd`.

`#pragma omp imd` should force the vectorization, but maybe not the hoisting, I don't know. Could be nice to check.

Edit:

Clang fail:
```
<source>:5:5: warning: loop not vectorized: the optimizer was unable to perform the requested transformation; the transformation might be disabled or specified as part of an unsupported transformation ordering [-Wpass-failed=transform-warning]

#pragma omp simd

^

1 warning generated.
Compiler returned: 0
```

But ICC seems happy with it.
Are you implying that no one in an LGBTQ group could be facing societal oppression because they have major sponsors? That's absurd
> The fact that pircay exists exactly does show that their exist people that do not want to pay.

Many people use piracy to get art they literally cannot buy legally. Many others use it to get digital versions of physical media they bought.
You mean adjust it to the last day of September, right?
Street parking itself seems pretty dumb to me. The bandwidth on streets should not be used up by idle vehicles. Even a single car parked on a block uses up what could potentially be another lane. Is there any less efficient use of space? Hopefully self driving cars will allow us to repurpose that real estate since they can drop off passengers and go hide in a garage somewhere (or carry other passengers around).
I have to mention "But How Do It Know?" here as well. I came across it from a previous HN discussion and picked up a copy. It's really, really good. And it's a really easy read. http://www.buthowdoitknow.com/
Come to Toronto - they never left! (and have their own set of problems)
not exactly focused on Linux but a good resource on networking nevertheless: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
None of these people have been convicted of anything. It's not a judicial punishment. Furthermore, some of them aren't even immigrants. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180...

Fundamentally, America has given the right - no, demanded - that police do "papers please" stops on people, and given them the right to detain them indefinitely until they produce papers. This is like a mandatory ID card system but without the benefits or coherent organisation.
Yes, it's quite a pity that Microsoft didn't put some weight behind it. It causes a never ending amount of pain to the average users too.

Anybody ever used the peer to peer local caching ?
That first article is severely stretching the definition of "getting money". Virtually all of the alleged $18B is attributed to the law that gives the USPS jurisdiction over your mailbox.

The second just reflects Congress's attempts to deliberately hobble the USPS in 2006 by requiring them to suddenly pre-fund their pension obligations.

https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congre...

> The law requires the Postal Service, which receives no taxpayer subsidies, to prefund its retirees' health benefits up to the year 2056. This is a $5 billion per year cost; it is a requirement that no other entity, private or public, has to make.
Why would there be any correlation between sexual orientation and morality?
So many — here are a few large scale problems I think about lately.

* Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers.

* fall out from monetary policy in the us and Europe: take your pick, but for example - home prices in urban areas; figuring out how to house families for 1/2 or 1/3 current prices in the United States would have a lasting impact on stability and wealth creation.

* the continued effectiveness of state propaganda; related to my first suggestion above.

* obesity in the us and soon Western Europe.

* data security - fixing large scale data breaches.

* what I call long range to short range : problems too big for people to think about or accept abound, like climate change. Finding one and figuring out how to tie to short term incentives creating a positive feedback loop would be a real game changer. Oil does this all the time but usually not with good long term consequences - cf fracking turns North Dakota into a boom zone — creativity around good not pernicious cycles would be a boon for the world.
That's true, but we're not living in a world where everyone uses Tor. I think it'd be pretty cool to see though.
> On a side note, I enjoy reading John Baez's answers to common physics questions: http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/

Me too. But take care about the infamous answer to "Why is the sky blue?", which is quite confusing. The take of Randall Munroe is much clearer, and exactly as correct: "the sky is blue because air is blue".
dnf does download the packages in parallel. You can configure the degree of parallelism in `dnf.conf`.

Look for `max_parallel_downloads` here:

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html
Check your spam folder, I believe this technique works even if the email was sent to spam.
> You don't want rent control?

I don't want rent, period. Housing and means of production are a basic need and should be provided outside of markets.

> I guess whatever non-Pigouvian portion of tax/subsidy is also out of bounds?

Following my system, there would be no money, no taxes, and government would be limited to coordinating between regions for large projects.
It also only allows it for small shipments, so it encourages the Chinese to sell directly. The per-item shipping cost wasn't close to UPU rates unless you shipped a whole container, and sometimes not even then.
> At least in the context of copyright, independent creation of something is not infringement.

The lines what is really counts as "independent" are deeply blurred.
Isn't making it more miserable an incentive not to do it?
Right but they compared that to taxicabs which take a beating and those on ave are 3.8 years old. (Some are rather old some just off the dealer lot). So if the ave is going to be roughly 2years (recycled at 4years of service) that seems comparatively low.
Hi Mtmail,

Thank you so much for your feedback. Do you think the glasses are expensive to buy?

Do you think the glasses comes with prescription lenses and if so, do it cost extra?

Best,
Raska
The impression I get from that thread is that the dream here is now Americans can do what they do best, sit in the middle of transactions and collect rent. Previously, you could go to a Chinese website and have the Chinese factory send you a widget directly to your door. Now that will be too expensive, but hey we have a solution! An American will order a bunch of widgets in bulk, ship them over in a cargo ship, come up with some fancy marketing, and then sell the widgets to you at 200% markup. You know these folks will never hire electrical engineers to certify safety and conformance, or work with the factory to improve the product in response to customer feedback. They're there to do one thing: sit in the middle of the transaction and charge Chinese manufacturers for the privilege of selling to Americans.

But hey, look on the bright side... at least there is someone you can sue when your widget blows up.
even turn-key products/services to measure (by proxy or otherwise) GHG emissions would probably be a tremendous boon to enforcement
Trends in agriculture are driven heavily by cost. This is where the vegan fundamentalists go wrong, arguing that meat is "more expensive". But in the days before modern agriculture, people raised animals and had meat - it was economically beneficial to do so, even for people living at the edge of famine.

Cornfed beef is a result of economics, too - it's cheaper to buy corn than use pasture, and/or it produces meat that can sell for higher prices. We don't just see corfed beef for fancy prime steaks. It's used in cheap fast food hamburgers as well.

Fast food and junk food are the cheapest food. They've applied industrial logic to every link in the food chain. If meat was as expensive as vegans argue, we wouldn't see it as the basis of so much fast food.
If I'm reading the generated asm correctly (which I might well be not), the following function is vectorized conditional to a runtime alias check (the non vectorized case is completely removed if the pragma is uncommented). So even scalars seem to be handled:

void inc(float* x, float* c, size_t n)
{
//#pragma GCC ivdep
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
x[i]+= *c;
}

the issue really seems to be that the compiler just gives up very early if the iteration count is not a loop invariant.
Yeah, I've been offered jobs in some of the cheapo areas (actually live in one), but among many issues, it would be tolling on my mental health. I already lack any friends or nearby family, and moving to an area like that would kill me
GUI for Golang
The explanation I've heard is:

The Universal Postal Union rules for how international mail is paid for were established at a time when most mail was letters, and most letters would need a reply by letter.

So on average, every international letter delivered in Country X behalf of the Country Y postal service would be balanced by one letter delivered in Country Y on behalf of the Country X postal service.

No exchange of money between countries needed, and if a country had daily/weekly mail delivery or dense/sparse population or expensive/cheap postal employees or rich/poor citizens or tax/subsidy on post or efficient/inefficient processing that was no other country's business, so long as the number of letters balanced.

In the modern age, the number of letters doesn't balance, because no-one places their AliExpress order by mail.
I originally responded pretty much in the same vein as everyone else responding here (inaccurately mentioning the Space Echo).

If the only "digital" part of the circuit is the clock then couldn't you replace that with a quartz oscillator that you can wire an analog modulator for in order to get the switch timing for the capacitors banking the sound? Am I oversimplifying this?

If I'm at all correct than I would also say I don't know of any product that does so since it sort of sounds like it would be going full analog for the sake of going full analog and wouldn't affect the tone AFAIU but sounds like there's no technical reason it couldn't be done.
Is that a problem? Seems like if they do that then it's US domestic mail, playing by all the same rules (and high rates) as any other domestic mail item. Competing with Chinese shippers would look exactly the same as competing with anyone shipping out of LA/Oakland/Seattle.
> no one copulates based on the national availability of housing[...]

The GP's point is nonsense, but people most definitely do start families based on the overall cost of having kids, and housing plays a major role.
This is all true but missing one important fact. Dietary cholesterol doesn't turn directly into blood cholesterol. It makes sense why this became a common misconception, but the actual physiological mechanics of this are more complex.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
I'd be happier with not having to wait so long for dnf metadata to download all the time. Pretty much my job (at Red Hat!) is to wait for it a lot of the time.
To offset the debt that Congress has forced on them by requiring them to pre-fund pensions and healthcare cost for employees who don't exist yet. And Congress sets postage rates as well, so USPS can't raise rates in order to pay down their congressionally-mandated debt without getting approval from Congress. And the requests to raise rates are often denied.
A little over 10 years ago I was on an engineering internship and worked on a NASA project that was part of the overall goal of converting ad hoc links to being IP-based. I wrote a test tool which allowed simulating long distance and/or unreliable links. You could specify chains of filters on the command line for both uplink and downlink, as well as introduce taps. The reason I couldn't use an off-the-shelf tool was that by "long distance" I mean "interplanetary". It's one thing to introduce a delay/drop, but my tool simulated the possibility of gigabytes of data being "in flight" along the link.