skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a specious argument. People are willing to pay large amounts of money for content. That has nothing to do with the propriety if people taking that content for free, other than it proves that those people are getting a valuable thing for nothing.
Remember when they were "unintentionally" scanning and saving wifi data?

Broke the law.

If Google has a culture of "grab all the data, and use it in whatever way you can figure out to make money,"—and they do—then the real question is if they even have the institutional capability to not accidentally use this data the same way they use all the other data they have.
A magical world where such laws can be enforceable would be the same world where people have less freedoms than slaves ever had, as enforcing copyright is fundamentally incompatible with most freedoms.
All the more reason to appreciate the general knowledge we've written into books, rather than the cutting-edge implementations that only live on computer disks. The former is much more likely to be useful to a civilization with radically different needs and available tools.
Let's be honest. Palantir's business model is mass surveillance of people (including, especially, US citizens). They allow many government agencies to circumvent the legal procedures required to access government databases by instead using theirs.

If you support that, more power to you. Be honest about what you're supporting though. This is not just about ICE. This is not the same as the advertiser tracking.
Has anyone's career been ruined by this association? I don't think e.g. Trump or Clinton have suffered a bit...
Therefore?
"The City of Los Angeles has the highest number of Lane miles per 1,000 persons in the US. "

Woah stop right there. That's the opposite of reality. Of the metro areas in the contiguous US, LA is in fact last in miles per resident: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2015/h...

(The absolute least is Honolulu)
Rust the language has been backwards compatible since 2015. We add stuff, but don't remove it.

Many, many companies, including big ones, are using Rust in production. They don't need to re-write things.
Cash for clunkers took a large number of used cars off the road. Also post 2000 (even mid 90s), quality went up for a lot of models also a lot of cars basically don't need much repair and easily last 150k miles which if you have a 12.5k year mileage puts replacement at 12 years on average. If the engine, transmission and cooling system haven't exploded you may be in good shape. A large SUV like a Suburban, Tahoe, Explorer, F150, Excursion, Expedition also can easily go 200k miles with maintenance. These vehicles are quite expensive new but in high demand (even used). Also the average new car price of $35k doesn't help things.
The linked article says that the "average age" of a car is 11.6 years. This implies to me that the typical lifespan of a car is almost double that. The average will be skewed by people who have plates on 100 year old cars.
I don't get what you're upset about. The title doesn't infer that cholesterol is causing death and they state int he article that they aren't related.
It would be nice to implement this as an email address where you can send email to play. (A web interface would be easier to use, but it breaks part of the fun.)
Windows is most prevalent on PCs: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china
If it took you three billion dollars and five years to conceptualize an apple that cured something, and suddenly it was commonwealth, nobody would look for apples that cured something, and we'd go back to the dark ages. Ideologies must be evaluated on what they functionally incentivize in a society - and this proposition makes R&D investment equivalent to financial suicide.
XFCE4 is the bomb! I need to start reading the source to see how I can make my own taskbar plugins...
Piracy has always been about the balance between price and convenience. Since Netflix can't produce Game of Thrones, and HBO can't produce Stranger Things, they experience no real competition in regards to _product_. They are selling you convenience under the guise of a product. If you want to watch a show, you have one place you can find it (in the scope of streaming, sure you can spring $20 a season on amazon, but there is a reason the streaming industry exists in the first place). This is where piracy steps in, it provides competition on _product_ under the guise of _convenience_.
>FOUNTAIN: Anna sent us a chart that estimates how much less. And it says, if you or I wanted to send a three-quarter-pound package somewhere in the U.S., the U.S. Postal Service would charge around $4.76 for the last leg of the journey.

>MALONE: Yeah, the so-called final mile. However, if that same package came in from China, the USPS would only charge China Post $1.39. That means the USPS charges you and me roughly 3 1/2 times more than what they charge China Post.

Comparisons like this are very misleading. They aren't comparing apples to apples. In particular, they take a retail price for fast shipping with tracking and compare to a wholesale price for slow shipping without tracking.

It's true in general that UPU rates are cheaper than the comparable US rates but by 10-20%, not a factor of 3.5.
The Daily by the New York Times - every weekday about 30 minutes on one topic

Invisibilia

Hidden Brain

Embedded

Serial

Hardcore History

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape - learned of it thru Opening Arguments - seems ok
This. More about living your dream, instead of someone else's. Something a lot of us struggle with. Being highly paid is irrelevant.
This is one way to mitigate knock off products from China. If the shipping costs come up to the norm, they won't always (if ever) be the cheapest product so the real one will win out more often.

Various products will have different tipping points where it just doesn't make sense to ship and/or they aren't getting enough sales to justify it.

Personally, I like it and it seems like everyone wins.. except people who undercut the real product with cheap, inferior knockoffs.
Is This Deceptive?
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/digital-privacy-data-facebook-cambridge-analytica-britain

In the above article (from a reputable, mainstream magazine) about privacy, some links go via eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com, including in the paragraph that starts 'Consumers groups say deceptive behaviour by companies is rife.'. By clicking the link in that paragraph, you're taken via eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com before being redirected to the actual url.

On the face of it, this looks like a good thing because safe links are good right? But is this an example of deception? Most people will be unaware that ur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com may be receiving private/navigation information.
Thanks. I understand. Might you have some reading suggestions you could recommend that use your same teaching approach instead?
Maybe they are talking about the city specifically while other is speaking to the overall metro area?
This is how the world changes. Just because ICE is enforcing the law does not mean that what they do with Palantir’s software is ethical. Once upon a time the military was enforcing the law by outing and dismissing gay people and that changed by private entities taking a stand. Just acting on the default that enforcing the current law is ethical is just lazy, IMHO.

So, you can have any opinion you want about whether or not the job fair should have acted the way it did but I think it’s well within their right to do so if they want to make an impact.
Palantir is much closer to a consulting agency (think SAP or IBM) than anything like that.
This is how I felt about the New York Public Library. It's famous; everyone goes there. There's even a Gutenberg Bible there.

But I've been 2-3 times and I never found a book. It's like the books are all deliberately hidden, it's infuriating.
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I bought a Fairphone 2 more than two years ago and I'm happy with it. Why would I want to switch to Fairphone 3? Has anyone seen a comparison of the two?
Wow, what's that font in your logo?! That brings back a lot of memories!!
I support this, and I'm a rabid leftist. Things should cost what they cost. The only time government should interfere with pricing is to force companies to price in externalities.
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When was the last time Google was kicked out of a job fair over their products or abuse of personal data?
Citing the Wat talk in 2019? That’s about as tacky as JNCO jeans

So the bazaar always wins, hmm
Yeah I came here to say this: I don't see a good way to prove this at compile time, but you could always do a dynamic check.

In general, compilers don't generate runtime checks like this. In the case of aliasing problems, however, they actually do make such checks, but usually only in the case of possibly overlapping arrays. An example:

https://godbolt.org/z/9vZfl_

Both gcc and clang make a check to see if the x and y arrays overlap, and if they do they fall back to a scalar loop (instructions ending in ss: scalar single-precision) - but if there is no overlap they proceed with the vectorized approach (instructions ending in ps: packed single-precision).

So I guess these cases were important enough that they got specific handling in the compiler, but I haven't seen it for possible aliasing with a scalar, even though the same type of check could be used. Actually it's a bit trickier, because the compiler wants to know the array size to make this calculation, but the array size itself, which comes from size() is the thing subject to aliasing! So it takes a more complex analysis to show that it's safe.
> When digital replication is easy -- as it is with arts like music or software -- piracy destroys innovation and hurts creators who want to earn a living by selling their creations.

The "creation" is the work, which can still be sold. Copies of the work cost nothing and does not make any sense to sell them.
This is incorrect. There's no mechanism by which cheaper prices for UPU mail translates into higher prices for US customers.

If they had pricing power they'd raise prices regardless of fixed losses elsewhere.
That's a very roundabout way of saying "fuck you, got mine". Also trying to justify splitting apart families and leaving literal babies in cages to fend for themselves is messed up.
No problem with enforcing the law of the land but locking up kids and separating them from their parents , and withholding essentials like basic cleaning and health services makes this a moral issue of those who enable this i.e Amazon, Palantir etc ...
I don't think this article really says anything for or against that. The article did note that eating the burgers did raise the crows' cholesterol levels and also that "Crows, “which can live more than 15 years in the wild, might develop disease later in life,” but this needs further research, Townsend says."
> Why?

Not enough water.
There's this youtube video, I won't link to it, but its awesome. I haven't seen it myself, my wife has, and she told me it was amazing. Its youtube, the video, super student vs teacher thing, overly amazing, much overhaul, legit story.
". . . all USPS international GEPS contracts will be terminated September 31st."

Do courts just do the reasonable thing when contracts stipulate deadlines on dates that don't exist?
These are dubious theories from decades ago, if taken literally, they'd mean we'd just need to remove all transport (public included) and there would be zero demand for them. Behind such absurd claims there's always a simplistic model with wrong assumptions and too few variables. Thankfully, new roads are still getting built despite every attempt to refer to these bogus paradoxes.
“Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalize it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.”

https://slate.com/business/2012/01/sopa-stopping-online-pira...

When I was a poor college student I pirated a lot of stuff. Now that I'm a wealthy engineer I've gone back and bought all the stuff I pirated and wanted to keep watching or listening to.
Bad for the environment as well for trans-pacific shipping to be cheaper
>Having bought a couple drop-shipped goods from China, I, for one, won't miss it.

I will, China makes good stuff depending on if you do your research to what's quality and is just a cheap piece of crap.
I linked an example [1] in a parallel reply that shows gcc (and clang) doing it at -O3 without PGO, for the case of possibly overlapping arrays.

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[1] https://godbolt.org/z/9vZfl_
This is basic sales. Increase the price 10%. Offer everyone who asks a "special" 10% discount. Bonus points if you can convince the client you really fought for that special discount because they're such a great customer.
The challenge behind some of that cork sniffing is the differing behavior of "identical" circuits is often trivially measurable and audible.

Many of the "revered" circuits perform very differently due to component variations (e.g hFE or Vgs), and also have substantial drift in performance with temperature. So even different units from same manufacturer will sound different.
The nVidia Optimus drivers are still unusable on Linux. This makes the nVidia card in the laptop a dead weight.
Compared to Windows, they are all blazing fast.
I still wonder how it can take over an hour just to search for the latest Updates on a Windows 7/8.1 and/or Server 2012 (R2) Box.
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Tangentially related, but I was surprised at how blatant a lot of supplier price fixing is. Either you sell at the supplier agreed price or they don't supply you. This keeps prices up for the sellers, which presumably is good for the supplier as well. That's in the more open market of independent businesses.

In your example, the drugstore may be selling at cost or at a loss to bring people in the door, or he may actually have a cheaper supplier. But for the Shell Station franchisee, he likely has a contract to buy Shell products from a particular distributor, so even if he could find a lower priced distributor he is unable to use it. That's all part of the franchise business model, where the franchiser double dips by taking licence fees and contractually obliges you to use their services as well. Subway charges high margins for their mandatory dishwashing soap supply for one example.
it’s going to require the destruction of wealth on a vast scale

I don't see why that's a requirement. What exactly needs to be destroyed, and why?

From my simplistic point of view, all you need to do is to start injecting dense cores in the middle of the sprawl. Those cores can provide both local employment and local shopping coverage, thereby increasing the utility of the local area and raising the land value. Providing local jobs already reduces the need to commute.

Then start connecting the local cores with high-frequency public transport, then add park&ride infrastructure along those same lines to make the old city center private-vehicle free. That further reduces inner-city traffic while keeping the core accessible.

After some 30-odd years or so, the sprawl cores will have matured to mostly-independent city cores themselves, and the need for regular commute is even lower. Then you can dismantle the old park&ride lots and replace them with more efficient use of that space.

I don't see practical problems with that, nor do I see the need for bulldozing existing wealth. The only thing that needs to be bulldozed is the misplaced perception that living in sprawl is a symbol of high status.
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And before anyone else jumps down my throat...An hour later ESPN did post https://es.pn/2Ua6iP7

It's still interesting
There have already been calls to boycott cloud providers for providing VMs in the cloud so no, it seems there's little difference in the eyes of some people.
Entertainment seems to be swinging back to being primarily a service business, after a relatively short period as a hit-driven product business. It's not uncommon to hear a fan talking about buying a product specifically to support the creator.
Anybody else notice that they said "September 31st"?
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Sell before the music stops!
> the compiler should be able to assume that a previous write cannot affect the next read from the size field, but it seems that neither GCC nor clang take advantage of it.

Why?

Good point about #pragma ivdep. I feel like the semantics of that one are a bit less than rigorous, but it's a useful tool.
I'm suspicious of this argument. If you don't have any intellectual property laws, can't anyone just duplicate all of those methods you mentioned? If Marvel releases a movie, I can steal it and ask people to subscribe to my stolen movie service, donate to it, show it using advertisements, write a live show using the script, etc. About the only way I can't steal it is through commission, but then how is the person paying the commission getting their money back? This seems like it wouldn't work.
I have a hunch that any authority who blocks roads in LA to prevent traffic from flowing won’t have much of a successful career in politics.
It isn't that difficult. It is mainly about changing incentives and unleashing the autonomous forces of the population.

If you think about it primarily in terms of top-down planning, then yea it seems hard. But urban planning is not the solution. If anything it is one of the problems.

Here's a better list of options that don't involve mandates or grand designs.

-Increase taxes on land value to prevent idle speculation

-Remove taxes on buildings to encourage construction and remodelling

-Abolish parking minimums

-Abolish height restrictions

-Eliminate zoning laws that prevent multi-family or mixed-use development

-Reclaim poorly used space for pedestrian use, such as curbside parking which accounts for up to 10% of all urban land by area.
Even though I brought up limiting distribution, whether or not they limit distribution has absolutely no bearing on people’s decisions if those people have the perception that distribution might be limited to dealers. Perception is all it takes.
So what does that mean for US companies sending packages into countries that are part of the UPU (Edit: virtually all countries on Earth)? Can each country now refuseand set their own rates for transporting US parcels the last mile?
Funny you should mention this. I just bought a microUSB connector off of eBay to attempt to fix my kids Kindle Fire. It's a $2.50 part but replacing it is a roll of the dice with my skill level.

On the other hand, it's a $60 tablet so it's not like I can bring it to someone to have it fixed professionally and not end up paying more than it would cost to just buy a new one. I figure I can't break it any worse than it already is (impossible to charge, impossible to use), so it's a gamble that I'll be able to fix it cheaply.
Nobody drinks their beanie babies.
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Then why mention high cholesterol at all?
It's not direct. IBM was just an example to illustrate the point of what CBP is doing in terms of following a lineage of supporting mass atrocity, of which indefinitely detaining people in an inadequate facility is a mass atrocity. They aren't making an equivalence like you claimed. They could've used Japanese internment camps. However, people know what the Holocaust is a lot more.

A prison is when you're incarcerated in your own cell and not a crowded cell. A prison provides adequate comfort that meets a minimum standard of care for inmates. A prison is not putting 30 people in one room, putting 30 people in a fenced in cage, providing lack of hygiene products and having 30 people to a single toilet. They're not provided space blankets and given no bed.

A concentration camp, by definition is deliberate incarceration of a minority group in inadequate facilities to sometimes perform labor or be exterminated. Going through this one by one:

1) They're being incarcerated even for claiming asylum (which is legal in the US) and crossing a port of entry is not illegal.

2) They're being incarcerated indefinitely which is also illegal.

3) They're an identity group (ie. of latin heritage). There are no detention centers for Canadian immigrants.

4) They're placed in warehouses in cages with little access to hygienic facilities. They're placed in mass groups with no beds or individual cells. This fits the inadequate facilities criteria.

So yes, that fits the definition of a concentration camp pretty clearly.
> In fact it's the perceived lack of front running risk by the buyers and sellers that make Robin Hood more valuable to Market Makers.

Basically, you get a discount trading on Robin Hood, because the people taking the other side of the bet know that you're probably not making a smart move.
Can someone shed light on the subsidy structure behing the current model, are shipments from China being subsidized by shipments from other countries or is there government money involved ?

In any case this kind of subsidy is not necessarily bad for developing countries, and it was probably instrumental in China's phenomenal economic growth, but it is now in the conquering superpower category, it's time it loses this advantage.
While a comparison like this may be interesting trivia, it's irrelevant for all practical purposes.

Consider the amount of time it takes to update a system vs. its overall runtime. Now consider what's important in a package manager. Consistency, rollback, configuration management, audit trails, etc. The speed of the package manager is at the absolute bottom of things to be concerned about.
The author is probably clueless, not dishonest, in this particular mistake, but the Nix/NixOS installation command used is the slow one. Nix doesn't have versions for packages in the traditional sense. A fairer pair of test commands:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.ack
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.qemu

This is because Nix considers an entire tree of Nix expressions at once, rather than examining each package in isolation. When nix-env is run without the -A flag, it must evaluate the entirety of nixpkgs and then search for the desired package amongst the complete tree. With -A instead, it is possible to evaluate only the portions of the tree which are relevant to the named package.
You say this with such authority, but you are being naive yourself about the history of arts and economics. The window of history when art was considered "IP" that couldn't exist otherwise is vanishingly small, less than 100 years. Art survived and prospered somehow before IP laws, even after the printing press.

IP is a construct created by capitalism to monetize art and information. It is not a real thing and it is not a necessary thing. People create things just fine without and industrial complex behind them, and if losing that is the cost of all art being accessible to everyone, I am fine with that deal.
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> If digital piracy is unchecked, then it forces artists to dream up other ways to make money.

I think you've accurately captured the state of the world for the vast majority of owners of IP who wish to profit from their work. It is extremely rare for royalties to produce any significant percentage of revenues for artists. Most revenue comes from merchandise, live performances, custom work, and so on.

With this in mind, I submit that the actual value of IP in most cases is close to zero.
Reduced accidents. Increased time for people using self driving cars. Companies no longer needing to pay for staff that pilots cars. Just the time and cost savings alone for private people and companies is hard to be overstated.