skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to tutor math and physics near Bloom's office in Timothy Dwight. My main association with the man is that he would come on strong to every female English graduate student he could reach.

When #MeToo first came to national consciousness about men in arts and letters who completely abused their position to take advantage of women, I thought of Harold. How could these giants of arts and letters abuse so many? Because no one spoke out.

It does sound near the end of his life, he got some of the medicine he deserved:
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/12/16/students-organize-...
It depends on how the laws or practices are in the US but for most european countries:
Capitalizing means that the hourly rate of a contractor will be added as an increase of value in the software he/she creates. So you pay me 10k for something and this way the value of the software increases by 10k. The software itself is an asset. Whereas in some cases with employees you can’t fully capitalize their cost towards a piece of software, so the cost are on the balance sheet more of a loss than an increase in value of an asset. Accounting trick basically.

However I’m not an accountant so that’s only what I heard from my clients when I asked them why for example they don’t hire a full time employee for a long term project.
> A copyright notice is not required for copyright; by default in the US, everything copyrightable is copyrighted unless it comes with a public domain notice.

This did not become law until 1989. https://www.sunsteinlaw.com/copyright-flowchart (Stallman started work with Steele on EMACS in 1976, and the dispute happened in 1985.) Until that point, US copyright law protected the public from copyright abuse with strict notice, registration, and renewal requirements, which were eliminated in order to join the Berne Convention. [This paragraph has been edited to correct egregious errors]

Moreover, until 1980, it wasn't clear that software was copyrightable at all — the analogy to printed books is rather weak. Congress updated the law in 1980, although unfortunately did not require the publication of source code to gain the monopolies granted by copyright, an omission which is likely to cost us much of the intellectual history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, as source code is lost long before it passes into the public domain. Passage into the public domain is the essential step that fulfills the copyright bargain with the public: a limited-time monopoly in exchange for the promotion of progress in "science" (theoretical knowledge) and the "useful arts" (practical knowledge), as the US Constitution explains. So, much of the current practice of software copyright is a fraud — the public suffers the cost of the copyright holders' limited-time monopoly, but then are cheated out of the benefit of an expanded public domain.

Consider, too, that we're talking about events that happened in 1981–5, in communities that were struggling to accommodate the impact of these radical new intellectual enclosures that destroyed the rights they had traditionally enjoyed, comparable to the enclosure laws that eliminated common grazing grounds in England before the Industrial Revolution.

> Gosling was perfectly within his rights to sell gosemacs to Unipress

This is not clear; quite aside from the question of whether Gosmacs was a derivative work of PDP-10 EMACS (it was not, under current caselaw, but that caselaw didn't exist in 1985), Gosmacs of course included contributions from other people, who presumably did not assign copyright to Gosling; they may not even have been aware there was anything to assign.

> I really don't get how you're coming at Gosling so hard...he's clearly uncomfortable talking about the topic

Entirely independent from the question of copyright notices, Gosling's account is false and defamatory, and omits the crucial background fact that the program he sold to Unipress was an imitation of a program Stallman had devoted the last seven years of his life to, and the subsequent fact that three months after the initial release of GNU Emacs, Stallman had removed the disputed code. It's unsurprising that he would be uncomfortable lying. Most people are.
Criticizing "people building algorithms (or other systems) they don't fully understand that could have poor consequences for others / society" implies there is a conceivable alternative. That is it possible to build algorithms with a full understanding of all the negative consequences they could ever have for society. That seems obviously absurd to me, so the criticism is vacuous.
I think there are many things that, when published in the context of the day, are not distinguishable from other work in terms of "Nobelity". It seems like most impact is measured decades after an initial technology is discovered, reported, and published. CRISPR seems like a relative outlier (once the basic technique was perfected, it went from "nothing" to "everything" in just a few years, and has now completely changed the nature of biomedical research).
Yeah I think probably the issue was that it wasn't revolutionary. Dyson really likes unique inventions that he can patent because it allows a healthy profit margin. I think the unique thing for the car was probably supposed to be the batteries, but last I heard they're made by chemical vapour deposition, which doesn't exactly scale to car batteries.
Confederation Helvetique.
In modern society, people do not own their own property (ie, real estate). Please elaborate on why this is a requirement for profit?
A very good question. Muting a TV seems OK on the surface to me, but only because it is normal to me. When actually thinking about it, I realize that muting TV ads is similar to web ad blocking.

So in principle I would have to say that one shouldn't mute TV ads, or skip them using +10 second buttons. Of course I will not always live my life up to that principle...
The average HN user might balk on an early sign up wall (and become very upset), but that doesn't preclude it being the optimal placement for most undifferentiated users of your metric is purely the number of sign ups completed.
I believe that as always problems like this one may be solved only through erasing privatized monopolies from the market. The civilized way to achieve this is to raise number of competitors on the market. And there's a plenty of available options. E.g. cut subsidies and raise taxes for big pharmaceutical companies, make additional subsidies and cheap loans to small ones, give students extra grants for pharmacology courses at universities (in order to increase number of specialists), abolish or at least change patent laws for drugs, support public pharmaceutical researches funding by government and involved companies with results available to everyone. I guess in modern world one of the primary economic responsibilities of government is providing an environment in which not only large business may start to do high-tech.
Look how far people are reaching to tarnish Stallman's reputation. This is laughable.
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (2007)
Eating well is not straight forward, there's a lot of misinformation out there.
I hear you. Luckily, our bodies are pretty amazing. When we attempt to put it back together, it'll recover. Exercise, eat healthy daily. They'll do wonder to your bodies.
Clearly the most absolute answer is to have every individual track and identify their own commits and changes to the computer system in an authoritative manner. Then you must balance each catastrophic failure against the reasonable expectation that the programmer could predict the outcome. Then you effectively strip the license to program (in that company/industry at least) from the offending 'rogue traders' when they try to run away with billions of dollars that was built on exploiting said catastrophe and get caught.
> [...] and one of their studies showed that young men who smoked just before puberty produced sons who were more likely to be overweight [...]

My father started smoking when he was 7 y.o. (yes, seven, lol). I was born when he was 36. I'm almost 33 right now and have never been overweight in my entire life. Not even a little ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The full report can be found here in pdf form:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/wp-content/brochures/r...
My experience living in London was that most of my colleagues were perfectly content picking up a sandwich from the nearest EAT or Waitrose or whatever. Every day a tired, boring sandwich for lunch. I just couldn't understand it. Some stores were just aisle after aisle of sandwiches, I'd never seen anything like it.
After being really stressed at work due to colleagues harassing me and being threatened to get fired I started to sleep poorly and put on a lot of weight despite exercising and eating well.

A lot of the times mental health, especially sleep quality, is more important as it will affect your physical health as well.
Former Norway resident here, 3yrs.

Their lunch traditions are definitely basic, as they were not a wealthy country for hundreds of years before striking oil in the 60s.

The point to remember is that while the fare is basic, the quality is typically very good. Their cheese is extra creamy and nutritious, as is the bread. The same goes for the milk.

Many Europeans won’t drink the milk here in the States because the quality tends to be much lower, due to feed/living conditions for livestock. Garbage in = garbage out.
> I think the reasons legacy vendors

They aren't "legacy vendors", they are the world's biggest car companies. The reason that they're still making ICE cars is because that's what people are buying. Toyota sold over 10 million cars last year. Volkswagen also sold over 10 million cars last year.

Volkswagen will be the world's biggest EV company in a few years, but even then their electric cars won't be the majority of their sales.
LiveJournal has not failed yet. It is still a fairly large network in Russia. It did fail in the American market and was eventually bought out by a Russian company.
Linux is GPLv2, so it would have been okay because of that I'm guessing.
Did they try to do the beg for invite model with Google+ - like Gmail? Holy loly if that's the case...
There's quite a bit of research that shows calorie restriction and/or fasting increases both lifespan and healthspan.
The fix was done in https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/83db8dba09e7

The fix appears to be to reject -1 as invalid.

The article should have included in the fix section a link to the commit and a summary of what the fix was.
It's worth noting the historical context of this:

Gosling and Stallman have always been rivals. One of the reasons it took so long for Java to be open sourced was because Gosling was so adamantly against it - in part because of his hatred of Stallman.

Stallman started the whole open source movement in part because he thought it was wrong that Gosling could put restrictions on distribution of Emacs.
LuaVela – the LuaJIT fork I've worked on
VTM – Venice Time Machine
I feel like coming on strongly to women is something desirable now, a drastic deviation from how I used to think less than half a decade ago.
Indrop looks really well done, and I agree with the author's motivation coming from building core product as opposed to focusing on bizdev, marketing, and growth.

I know a lot of open source authors and indie makers who have very similar motivations, which is in large part why I decided to build https://saasify.sh.

I'm hoping that it will help developers and makers like the author in this article focus more on their core value proposition that drives their motivation while being able to largely put aside the growth focused stuff that most businesses need to focus on to be successful.

Saasify won't work for every project or for every author, but if it helps some aspiring makers out there sustain their passion, then it'll have been a success in my eyes.
Agreed, given their product line, been more about good looking plastic toys than actual 'good' things a car was really a moon shot.

OK they may have ended licensing something to Daimler or the like but still doubtful.
Start with something easier, like simulating water. Our best ab-initio simulations, last time I checked, don't correctly predict it's phase change locations. Digital abstractions deliberately supress every single other interaction unless explicitely accounted for. Those interactions happen "for free" in real systems. We need to boil quite a bit of water to even approach simulating a small subset of atoms.

Consider the 3 body problem. Without a math breakthrough, we can only approximate, and even with a math breakthrough, we can still only approximate (because real systems are not closed). This idea that we can simulate something misses the point. It's always going to be a guess, on bounded memory, because we cant copy real states.

Letting go of the digital abstraction provides a window into why this is hard.

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....

These circuits evolve to become hyper-specific to their enviroment. We have no hope of repeating those results with software, it's the physical attributes of the hardware that are being exploited.
> the #metoo movement

metoo is fine until any name is called. Then it becomes witchhunt, where the hunted victims couldn't properly defend themselves, as they could in a proper judicial trial.

In many parts of Europe (Germany and France for example), you can't call names, you would be sued for that, even if the story is true.

> the idea that someone would want to tell their side of a famous story

Accusation of stealing is a pretty strong claim, if it's a lie, it's a bad thing of course.
I have the same Dell Windows/Ubuntu setup. In case this helps you, I found that whilst plugging in a DisplayPort monitor into the USB-C port didn't work, I could get my 4k monitor to work either by going through a USB-C Dock made by Dell, or by using an Hdmi cable.

I also managed to get a 2015 MBP second-hand quite cheaply, and although the specs are a bit weaker it is a lot more pleasant to use.
It’s a matter of grade.

If China murdered thousands of protestors in Hong Kong, I would imagine there would be a lot of shaming of companies doing business with them.

They’ll still be companies who skirt public opinion, but I can imagine many would be affected.

The other impact could be government sanctions against China. Companies wouldn’t have much of an option then.
I think the more relevant example is how the US manages investment in critical transportation infrastructure, and that doesnt even require innovation.
Preventing AWS Lambda cold starts with an uptime monitor
I'm pretty sure looking at it isn't the illegal part. Making, possessing, and distributing are the illegal bits. Maybe some other aspects too, like transporting or buying or some form of conspiring? I don't think the government (at least the US gov't) can actually make looking at anything illegal. But it's hard to look at something that's restricted in that way without doing at least one of the illegal things.

If just looking were illegal, you could shove it in someone's face on the sidewalk and they'd instantly be guilty of a serious crime.
There are absolutely many video games that are non-violent. But yes, people do like violence too. And that's okay.

> Particularly as we try to grow the tent and move games from being just video games to more, sort of, cultural artifacts.

I don't want to be a dick, but, like, do you not read books or watch TV or movies or anything? Because those areas are all chock full of violence. Particularly if you look at movies, what are the biggest hits? Action-adventure flicks, like the Marvel movies, right? And yet nobody says "well if movies want to be cultural artifacts, they really have to move on past this sort of thing..." with a straight face.

As I was working on my computer tonight my wife was watching Good Omens on TV, nice little miniseries, and while I wouldn't normally categorize it as a particularly violent show, there's still kids stabbing dudes with a flaming sword, demons murdering other demons, etc.

Like, I just don't know how someone can be aware of the fact that violence is pervasive in all sorts of media, and then seriously suggest that video games have to somehow move past that to match those forms of media. Because they already have non-violent games as well, so you can't actually be asking for that, that would make even less sense.
Unfortunately, some of these studies suggest that the damage is done before you hit puberty. It shows that we should have more concern for how what behaviors we teach our children from the beginning will affect our grandchildren and even their children. It’s not enough to consider ourselves or our children in isolation. This is a communal problem, or even a societal one, as much as it is a familial one. And the consequences can span generations.
Yeah that's not cool.

What's also not cool is to judge people from another time by the standards of today.
>The boys were at the age when their sperm cells...were forming. The studies showed that overindulgence in food or exposure to toxins at this key developmental stage left a biological memory on sperm cells that could be passed on to future generations.

This is not exactly accurate, because sperm cells are constantly re-created. It would be more accurate to say that some sort of epigenetic mechanism, that authors of the linked study admit they are not sure about, during the time of initial spermatogenesis can affect future spermatogenesis and therefore future generations.

The implications of epigenetic inheritance research, including regarding the fetal environment, are pretty shocking. Endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs, smoking, and obesity can hurt your grandchildren.
Anyone looking for some help?
Why do you think shorting a stock is (uniformly) just as easy as going long? I don't know where you people get the idea it's symmetric. And the difficulty of shorting a stock varies massively from one company to another, which is a not irrelevant aspect of it. You can't (legally) print unlimited shares yourself to sell short.
There is! You can run Haiku, as many people do:

https://www.haiku-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21252784
Of course! If only they had met you, they would have realized their mistake! An N of 1 counter example is the perfect way to disprove a statistical claim!
> “One of the best strategies for kids who get bullied is to use self-deprecating humor.” This defuses the bully’s insults, and, potentially, helps the nerdy kid seem a tiny bit subversive.

That's horrible advice. The only way to stop bullying is to make yourself a higher risk target. Participating in your own deprecation is not going to accomplish anything outside of showing weakness.
If you can find cases where its cheap, thats great, but its not the case for a lot of people with static compute load.

One of my example datacenters is:
Private servers, access controlled, etc
12 servers (E5-2438L, 128GB of ram, 6T of RAID in each, 10gbps interconnects/etc)

It costs $1200/month to run.
Just the storage cost in AWS is around $3k/monthly.
The equivalent EC2 cost is around $14k/monthly.
It requires around 1-2 hours/month of oversight and the costs are generally fixed except for the bandwidth which is billed at a fraction of the cost of AWS pricing.
What Is Your Time Worth to You?
Well, depends. If you want to look like Thor, then yes, nutrition is complicated.

If you just want to stay in decent shape and be healthy it's not really that hard. Let me summarize it:

1. Don't eat processed food !!!!

2. Limit your portions to the size of a medium plate(don't stack it though)

3. Eat your green vegetables.

No need to count calories either, just split your plate in 3 roughly evenly sized slices:

1st should be protein(chicken breast, fish, eggs, low fat mozzarella or cottage cheese for example)

2nd should be starchy carbs(pasta, rice or potatoes for example)

3rd should be fibrous carbs(broccoli, spinach or bell peppers for example)

and lastly you can add a little healthy fats like a fist full of nuts, a slice of avocado or a few table spoons of olive oil(men need this healthy fat for testosterone production).

And you can play around with this like increasing the ratio of the starchy carb slice for breakfast/lunch for more energy during your evening workout and increase the ratio of the protein slice for dinner for better muscle recovery after your workout.
I hope people realize this is what Snowden told us is happening HERE in the U.S.
Anyone know if the dev lurks here? I'm wondering if there's a way to fork his code or add Kroger functionality to it. If im not mistaken Kroger is a safeway acquisition that is a popular grocer in the south/southwest of the USA. this would be very helpful for those of us without safeways.
Im not, but thats the glory of using (XXX)867-5309. Tons of people know to use that number when buying groceries, many less so when buying gas.
I never saw nor heard of that rule being applied against developers using Emacs. And of course there wouldn't be a special excemption for Linux; Linux wouldn't need to be exempted from a ban on a license it doesn't have.
If you disperse it into an ocean current, you’d have much of the mixing done for you.

(How that would affect the ocean current, given that they’re thermally driven, is less clear and unlikely to be good.)
The hidden costs of publication metrics
> It seems there is a huge opportunity for disruption in the computing/OS space. Why are there so few companies working on this problem? What are the main challenges?

It is a huge opportunity... but at great cost...

A company/country may want to develop their own OS. They can either write the Kernel themselves, which is an enormous task. OR they can just use the freely available Linux kernel. So most companies just essentially fork Linux...

Developing an alternative Kernel is the main problem, and not really a problem worth solving. The Linux Kernel is 15+ million lines of code now, and would cost an enormous amount of effort to reproduce (re-solving the same problems Linux faced).

Companies eventually come to the conclusion that using Linux kernel is the opportunity to develop an OS... which is why there's thousands of actively developed Linux distributions [1] ...

[1] https://distrowatch.com/
> some Quaking Aspens are believed to be between 80,000 and 1,000,000 years old [2].

1,000,000? I don't see anything in the Wikipedia article referring to anything higher than 100,000. Was this a typo, or am I missing something?
> Sometimes, people have to move. Sometimes, crops fail. etc

If the ebola infections started appearing in all the major cities with airports and seaports, would you want the experts to try their best to stop it, or would you shrug and say, eh, sometimes people live and sometimes they die,

> One might get that impression from the media narrative though. (that AGW is going to kill all life)

I have two responses: one, as potholer likes to point out, we all know that press headlines are sensational. Don't deny the science because you don't like the way the press reports it. Second, I don't personally get the impression that even the press claims AGW will sterilize the planet. It sounds like a strawman to me.
Seattle is extremely hilly so I see e-bikes, I assume e-bikes would help with long distances.
> Why are all these rich people for Brexit I wonder?

They have cash.

They assume that with Brexit, a whole lot of punters will go broke and they can vacuum up the assets for pennies on the dollar.
Android was also pretty key for Google.
It is true that most impossible results are experimental error of one sort or another.

But it is a systemic failure that biologists broadly rejected a result out of hand that had been successfully replicated many times, at multiple labs, over decades. And the attitude that you describe is part of why it happened.

Data that does not fit in existing paradigms should be scrutinized with extra care, not rejected out of hand.