skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what OP was trying to say. The point here is the irony of Peter Thiel, an openly gay man, having cofounded Palantir, which helps foreign governments persecute LGBTQ+ people.
You can say this, but it's not really true. Courts have sliced away at the "independent creation" aspect until it exists in theory but not in practice.
Yes.

I've lost count how many times I've implemented Google Tag Manager or Google's product feed on the ecommerce sites I build and maintain. Sometimes its a standard install (I should get around to building a collection of libraries for stuff like this). Othertimes it's a totally customized bespoke setup that tracks things down to individual clicks on every page (a good flag that the client is on its last legs).

Similarly, for those sites, I have a collection of Python scripts that translate between CSV and the standardized XML imports that the ecommerce platform uses (SFCC). I almost certainly have to modify it a bit for different heading names, but it works pretty well.

When I use Java and need to search through XML, I built a class that searches for a specified child element, because the NodeList class isn't iterable (can't be used in a for each).
> Without IP how can you enforce copyleft? Someone could just take your code and modify it and distribute modified binaries without you being able to do anything.

You can, for example, reverse-engineer these binaries or develop binary patches (without IP laws, all of this becomes legal).
I'm using a local apt-cacher-ng to save bandwidth, and apt really flies - I'd recommended it if you have (obviously) 2+ (debian, Ubuntu or derivatives) machines. Makes even the occasional network slowdown much more tolerable... Just disable it when doing dist-upgrade or do-release-upgrade.
No need for a conviction. Most detained illegal aliens can leave and go home anytime.
So only around ~1/8000 of the people who need to speak it actually speak it. It doesn't show any signs of dying but it doesn't show any signs of growth either.
It's a PHP conference. What different living experience would you expect? "I prefer to name my variables by diminutives because I am a woman"? "I am black person and I detest dark themes for PHPStorm?"

Politics should be discussed on political events, not technical ones.
When I read this:

> If you look at what programmers spend their time doing when programming (other than thinking of course), it’s actually stuff like:
>
> - Adding imports to the code to be able to resolve names
>

It makes me wonder whether the authors have used a modern IDE in the past ten years.

The video in this page is also showing nothing that hasn't existed for years in pretty much all IDE's under the sun.
I want everyone to be able to go on a website, checkout products in an online shop, look up the menu of a restaurant or post on a forum with an alias, without anyone keeping track. I want everyone to write emails encrypted by default. I want the data transaction to be transparent, temporary and local, like when I decide to buy something online, and need to give them my address. I want services like Siri, Alexa to work local, offline. I want authentication services using public/private keys.

I want all of those things set in stone, not to be overruled by a default checkbox or "I agree" button.

I want a massive, global deletion effort of all the data that had been acquired during the last decades.
Nothing the parent comment said has anything to do with commingling of inventory. I get that HN likes to complain about FBA, but pretending inventory commingling has any relation to unresponsive sellers or long delivery times is misleading and stupid.
I really don't think you can refer to these games as using different 3D engines. The 3D capabilities are ingrained in the N64. The SNES likewise didn't have any 2D engines (except maybe for when the extension chips were used). Perhaps what we're talking about are the game logic engines.
Global warming. I think a good approach would be growing sea weed. Sea weed is much better at consuming CO2 than land based plants. https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/seaweed-climate-change/
That's what nonsensical libertarian dogma insists, sure, but that pseudo-religious tripe has no relation to or bearing on reality.

Property is created when someone uses force to claim ownership of something. That's it. Anything else is post-hoc justification for said claim. You can indeed own that untouched forest if you can hold it with force. That's the ultimate basis of property, no matter how libertarians try to mask it: the imposition of force on the existing natural world to create artificial division of ownership.
A comparison of credit-assignment models in mathematics and biology, Part I
If fiscal responsibility were the goal, they'd have required the other federal agencies to do the same. That this specifically targets one of the few agencies ripe for potential privatization is... suspicious. Even if it made fiscal sense, the sudden switch is problematic.
I'm not quite sure what you have in mind, but in a free market, interest rates in Germany would now be negative. People are demanding government action to prevent it.
If you remove parking before the transit problem is solved, you’re going to make the problem worse by further discouraging density. People will continue to use whatever transit that works to get them to the places they need to go.

If you block drivers from accessing an area without any alternatives, you’re simply going to kill any economic activity in that area long before anyone demands transit. People will individually seek alternatives elsewhere to continue their daily activities before they organize and demand political change. People will always make decisions based on where they need to go today.

A building with no parking and no public transit, doesn’t have a bunch of people hanging around it demanding a 10 year transit project. They don’t have 10 years to wait. They need a place to work/shop/live today.
To be fair `nix-channel --update` does take a ridiculously long time:

$ time nix-channel --update
unpacking channels...
created 2 symlinks in user environment
nix-channel --update 1.92s user 16.58s system 15% cpu 1:56.62 total
$ time nix-env -iA nixpkgs.ack
installing 'perl5.28.2-ack-3.0.2'
these paths will be fetched (0.06 MiB download, 0.19 MiB unpacked):
/nix/store/43rvd2kinid0g48ng07d782dsqb497g1-perl5.28.2-ack-3.0.2
/nix/store/k3f819h2ncadkd6g8yzyzg24wn3vr609-perl5.28.2-ack-3.0.2-man
/nix/store/p82srjihmh7vnq4szl9q83adcl9r6j2v-perl5.28.2-File-Next-1.16
copying path '/nix/store/k3f819h2ncadkd6g8yzyzg24wn3vr609-perl5.28.2-ack-3.0.2-man' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/p82srjihmh7vnq4szl9q83adcl9r6j2v-perl5.28.2-File-Next-1.16' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/43rvd2kinid0g48ng07d782dsqb497g1-perl5.28.2-ack-3.0.2' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
building '/nix/store/p765c3dxn32zccl4q9xjgr74n2ljgiky-user-environment.drv'...
created 134 symlinks in user environment
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.ack 0.19s user 0.24s system 36% cpu 1.158 total
>intellectual property is an invalid form of ownership and shouldn't exist at all....If I hold an apple, you cannot hold the same apple, but we can both hold a digital copy with the same information.

What if you manufacture a computer under a company you name Apple, and manufacture/sell computers under the mark "Apple" and even have a "Apple logo."

Do you believe other companies should be able to infringe on your name, mark and logo?

What if other manufacturers are attempting to decieve the public by trading off the good will and value you built in the name? What if other manufacturers are purposefully flooding the market with cheap knock offs of your machines and the public can't tell the difference, so they stop buying your machines and the value of your company/brand goes down to zero?
When the "ideas to improve stuff" stop being hopelessly naive, the critiques will surely lessen.
I gotta say, the font size on a lot of these Chinese packages is stupidly small.

I guess they don’t realize how old my letter carrier is. Or some dolt figured they could save $0.00000001 on ink costs per package this way.
What about software maintenance as a service?

Most of the decent software I’ve seen lately has used this model of monetization.
> In particular, they take a retail price for fast shipping with tracking and compare to a wholesale price for slow shipping without tracking.

While I agree about the fast shipping part, many of my slow shipping AliExpress packages from China had tracking included.
Is it? Mexico deports roughly as many migrants as the US. Proportional to the population, this is over 2x as much. And let's not get started on India's deportation of Muslims to neighboring countries.

This assumption that the US is uniquely strict in its border enforcement does not seem to hold water.
couple it with some double walled carbon nanotubes and you can get upto 700 GPa

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/01/fabrication-of-ultrast...
Dream Chaser is way closer to this space plane in features, I think.
Parking minimums are a big problem. But, it's just a part of a much bigger problem: Regulation is strangling the life out of us. Regulation like zoning and countless other regs prevents market forces from working the way they should.

Have you ever heard of a banana shortage crisis or a jeans shortage crisis in the US? No you haven't. The reason is because market forces are able to adjust to changes in market demand. In housing, those market forces are bottled up and stifled, preventing investments, preventing innovation, preventing progress, preventing better solutions. We really really need to start looking at regulations and find ways to get rid of the ones causing all these problems.

ADDED:
We've seen very little actual VC money or Research and development go into improving the cost of creating Shelter (In fact, we haven't made any improvements in this in the last 50 to 100 years adjusted for inflation). Much of this is due to regulations. Other industries can find ways to reduce cost but the mountain of housing regulations prevent any and all progress in these areas. I'd argue Housing is one of the most critical areas that human should be trying to progress in, as it's most important for human survival.
> If you aren't doing anything economically useful...don't expect returns greater than inflation in the really long run.

I think the British aristocracy would like a word with you.
It has a legal monopoly, the power to tax competitors under the Private Express statutes (this is why there is no FedEx First Class mail competitor), it is exempt from local taxation, and doesn't pay federal taxes to the same extent a regular business would.
Figuring out how to keep the ignorant masses from blaming everything on climate change.
If you completely redefine "improvement" and "labor" then sure.
Fresh installs have a large (for Windows Update standards, which are rock-bottom) number of updates to download, compared to a currently updated one.

AFAIR (not 100% sure) some Windows Update fixes have been released after Windows 7 SP1 (which is the last available image), which means, in order to install a fresh system and update it, one has to install the O/S, then patch, then update.

So this explain at least some cases. Although, I remember that even after patching, WU would hang.
I pay netflix but still use popcorn time because its simpler. I think media should consider a patreon-like service: pay for a virtual ticket to watch our show legally and with clear conscience, but watch it anywhere it is convenient.
> "look busy, change nothing" initiatives

Why would China create more warehouse space in Vietnam, or so many people spend time writing about this topic, if nothing is changing?

Have I taken your comment literally when it was intended to be metaphorical? If so, could you more clearly clarify the specific idea you are intending to transmit?
Short-haul and medium-haul and long-haul conventional take-off electric aircraft.

There's a lot of work on VTOL electric aircraft and hybrid aircraft. There's a lot of capturing low-hanging fruit by trying to electrify existing airframes. On the higher end, there's a lot of work on enabling lithium-air or lithium-sulfur or solid state lithium or metal electrode lithium ion batteries. However, there's not a lot of work on combining extremely high efficiency airframes (i.e. glider-like) with extremely high performance batteries (and high battery mass fraction, i.e. 60%, not 25%). Often one or the other is the focus, but a combination is essential to enable decent range (1000km) with existing batteries and long-haul range (at 4000-10,000km) with advanced chemistries (lithium air).

Another issue is low capital cost hydrogen production. There has been a lot of work on reducing the cost-per-watt of solar and wind power and fuel cells, but progress on cost-per-watt on hydrogen production (i.e. electrolysis) has been lacking. That means it's not financially viable to produce hydrogen from excess intermittent renewable energy, in spite of the clear potential (if the cost-per-watt of your electrolysis equipment is much higher than the cost-per-watt of wind or solar, you need to run near constantly to make your capital investment make sense... hydrogen doesn't work as a flexible demand source if the capital cost is so high the plant has to run all the time).

Microbiome modification to reduce methane emissions from ruminants (cows and sheep and goats).

Liquid hydrogen powered container ships or long-haul aircraft (and a method of dealing with the water emissions so as not to release water vapor at high altitudes).

High efficiency deep cryogenic liquefaction of hydrogen.

Battery-electric long haul locomotives (perhaps with intermittent charging via catenary).

Extremely cheap Level 1 or 2 electric charging outlets. Literally an outdoor outlet with a relay controlled by an app that can be deployed at just ~$30 extra beyond a regular outdoor outlet. Could enable mass deployment of electric car infrastructure at very little cost (possibly even self-funding due to a small fee).

Carbonfree (or carbon negative) steel, aluminum, and cement production.
Trains don’t solve the last mile problem in metropolitan areas. It’s just not economically feasible to constantly run trains or buses that cover a metropolitan area with less than 1 mile spreads and acceptable intervals.

I’m being generous that ‘walk a mile’ at source and destination would pass muster for people with difficulties.

Making our infrastructure for cars better seems like a much better solution honestly.
Build more housing where driving a car isn't the default mode of getting around and people will naturally start to demand better public transportation services and local spots they can get to via bike or walking. This housing won't suit everyone's needs but there's a significant part of the population who wouldn't mind being carless even in southern California.

Changing LA's car mentality isn't going to happen overnight but it has to start somewhere.
UPU and ePacket are two different programs. ePacket is more expensive, includes tracking, and is profitable for USPS.
Congress sets domestic letter mail rates.

Everything else is a free-for-all.

I’m sure Amazon’s direct delivery system also stuck a knife in USPS.
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That surprisingly doesn’t seem to matter to most tech people, no one boycotts Vision Fund companies (I personally do).
This post lacks counterfactual reasoning. The question around IP law isn't if it's possible for creative work to be created without it, which is obviously true, but what creative works would be created (and what creative works would not be created) if IP law didn't exist.

Is your claim that the set of creative works we have today would exist in full without IP law? Because that is a bold claim, and rather easily refutable through any single example where a company's primary competitive advantage hinges upon IP rights. Potential examples abound.

You can argue that the tradeoffs in IP law are not good tradeoffs. But your post seems to think that there would be no tradeoff -- that simply we'd get all the benefits conferred to society (in the form of creative works), with none of the downsides, if we eliminated IP protections. The burden of proof is on you for that one, since I'm sure if you surveyed any company relying upon IP protections in any non-trivial way, they'd indicate that capital would have been allocated elsewhere if not for those protections.
> No, that's not true. Real estate can be purchased and owned, resold over and over without being improved by labor.

The initial labor is what creates the property. It can then be traded and whatnot. But it was not property before the initial labor that transformed wild land to something useful.

> Land property is not created by laboring on it, in fact it was always there.

There is much untouched land on the moon. Who owns that?

Land exists before improvement, but it is not property until improved through labor by people. That's just how the property rights on which our civilization is based work.
There are a few small towns in Minnesota where you will see an officer posted up right where the highway turns from 65mph to 45mph through town. They will be there almost all day, without fail.

I don't think it's a coincidence that their cruisers are all brand new. It's obviously a source of income more than anything.
> The problem with these "many many ways" are that those that tend to work better also tend to be user hostile (subscriptions for things that have no reason to be provided as a service instead of as a product), make the users the products themselves (e.g. advertising), be privacy nightmares (like both the previous examples, at least for the majority of cases), etc.

Public money and grants avoid all of these problems. In my view, we should dramatically expand public funding for technology and the arts, especially in a world where distribution is nearly free.
> bringing manufacturing back

heh.
Free here means free at point of use. I pay property taxes and don't own a car. You pay property taxes and do park a car. We both pay the same toward parking, therefore it makes sense to say parking is free.
I'd like to think i'm somewhat torn on this due to my "political views" but the title is definitely right.(Hollywood has been "doing" this for a while now,specially after the Dotcom era)

When i think of intellectual property and copyright issues, i always end up with the same answer to myself: eventually, all information, patents,etc. become "free". By not relying on the copyright system and actively suppressing people for sharing information, you're accelerating the spread of information and the many other ramifications it has on the world.(We've learned through history that the more information and critical thinking, the better.)

Not to mention the hypocrisy behind suppressing "pirates" but not giving the people in that area/region the option to buy that same thing.(some would go further and say: at a reasonable price by comparison of purchasing power)
google cast is probably downloaded separatedly because they will try to avoid vpn proxy etc so they can honor some bizarre video encoding/drm Copyright.
LA has 93 rail stations spread across at least six lines that covers 105 miles right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail

There are also a number of new lines and extensions coming up: https://www.metro.net/interactives/datatables/project/.

The Crenshaw line is close to opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crenshaw/LAX_Line
I don’t have the background on this - help me understand why or how it’s cheaper for goods to ship cheaper from China than shipping within the US? The US taxpayer is subsidizing this? I’m shocked and confused.
It's all a matter of who you (or customers) want to trust. In the case you mentioned, we'll need better way to source what material / virtual content is produced by whom and where.
>The answer is "No".

As the statement you quoted said, there is no evidence that this is the case.

Those movies made back their investment despite piracy, why would the removal of those IP protections change that? Many authors have not become commercially popular for much of their career but still wrote. How can you claim those books only exist because of copyright?
That's still just enforcement of intellectual property.
It's not just with ICE. They help cops do a lot of big data citizen tracking and spying. If america had a social credit system like China,palantir would run it.

In the movie "Den of thieves" the actors studied real police so well they even included palantir in their dialogue.
While I agree with what you’re saying I’m not sure jeans and bananas are in the same category as housing because they’re much cheaper to produce (granted, simple concrete structures are also very cheap to produce, not quite so cheap though.)
You can get costs down on small, light packages by putting it in a big envelope and using good old fashioned stamps.
I posted this article because I found precise mobile tracking such as this to be a genuine privacy violation. IMHO, this is much more invasive that passively tracking web activity.
It could be reasonably called inciteful, but it's not ideological. It's a factual observation that liberty is diminished by power structures of all kinds. Monopolies and unfair economic arrangements can exist without any explicit restraints on human decisionmaking, but they do not maximize human freedom.
This is a great point often overlooked by the “punish motorists” crowd: some of us actually like the suburbs and don’t want to live in a dense urban hellscape. All this work to get rid of parking and remove roads is not going to result in us realizing how wrong our single family home lifestyle is—it’s just going to inconvenience/rage us even more than the roads already do.

I lived in a shared-wall apartment in the city when I was younger. Never again. You are never going to convince me to enjoy those nights with neighbors blasting their music until 2AM. Or the guy walking past my home every 3 hours yelling at his own fist.

My town recently got new leadership that decided that they’d fix traffic by dedicating half of some roads’ lanes to carpoolers. All that happened is already-bad two-lane roads became one-lane nightmares, with the “carpool only” lane unused (except for the cheaters who gamble they wont get caught). Everything is worse now except a few politicians get to put “I pretended to fix traffic” on their resumes.

You’re not going to get cars off the road by writing laws to making driving more miserable than it already is. All that’s going to do is convince motorists to vote for the other guy next time.
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> the sky is blue because air is blue

This comes off as a smart-alecky non-answer to anyone not already familiar with what gives things colours in the first place. John Baez's answer captures the core mechanism in two sentences and one diagram, and provides more detail below for the curious:

> A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
Then they're most likely using ePacket, which is more expensive than UPU rates and is profitable for the USPS, and is not subsidized.
Perhaps you should look at USPS Publication 542, https://about.usps.com/publications/pub542/welcome.htm, which describes how they have a monopoly and the power to levy what amounts to a tax on anyone that competes in a prohibited way.
Being able to hold someone accountable seems an important aspect of neutralizing the Amazon fraud problem.
I grew up on the outer edge of the metro Atlanta area, and I remember a lot of people joking about this small mill town and how they made all their money off traffic tickets. Eventually, I'd here a ton of notes about these type of towns everywhere I lived.