skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even remotely close to stealing. Stealing causes an actual loss to the victim - they owned an item which is worth money, and now they don't. Copyright infringement, OTOH, causes a potential loss to the 'victim'.

The copyright industry's propaganda about 'piracy = theft' is based on the frankly absurd concept that anyone who pirates media would have paid for it had piracy not been an option. This claim doesn't hold up to the slighted shred of scrutiny.

>End of the day it’s a choice to do the right thing and respect the artists behind the work you enjoy regardless what the “reality” is.

Except when you pay money for TV, movies or video games, your money either doesn't go to the artists behind it, or very little of it does. Rather, the money goes to the investors who funded the work, or the publisher contracted with the musician. The real people lacking respect for artists are the publishers/record labels whose entire contribution to the process is making the initial investment, paying artists the bare minimum - and moaning about internet pirates, it seems.
Sure, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the belief that it is fair and just for all this media to be controlled by a few companies forever. The person I replied to said "nobody is entitled to access it, ever", and I think it's very unfortunate for anyone to believe that.
Right. My point is that, as with a battery, you'd need to store the product so you can reverse the reaction. Practically none of our current infrastructure for using CH4 is set up to store the output CO2 + H20; it just dumps it into the atmosphere.

If you want to reuse existing CH4 distribution pipelines, that's fine, but now you need to pipe back the CO2 to the plant that makes the CH4 in order to complete the cycle. That's much harder than pumping CH4 and would require a whole new parallel pipeline infrastructure that can transport highly pressurized CO2 back to the source plant. Alternatively, you could regenerate the CH4 on location, but then you need to pipe the energy in; in that case, you're not using CH4 to deliver energy at all.

You could make the CH4 from CO2 in coal or something, but then you're no longer carbon neutral (since that CO2 will end up in the atmosphere rather than the battery). You could also try carbon capture, but honestly thermodynamics suggests that that will never be a viable solution; far easier to order your coffee black than to unmix the cream from it.

My point is that, unless I'm misunderstanding something, existing distribution systems for natural gas are not useful for CH4-based battery storage.
Good read.

But stories like this always make me wonder how society is ever going to find a path forward. The young idealist who saw a black man as a victim of the system ended up fleeing from him and living in hiding to protect herself and their child. But on the opposite end, some comments here feel this guy deserves no break at all.

How do we make a better world when it clearly doesn't work to say "You were just a victim and you deserve better!" but it also doesn't work to err on the side of "The beatings shall continue until morale improves."

I'm kind of glad to see he found some sort of path out, against very long odds. We seem to do such a poor job of that at the societal level.
There isn't anyway of knowing it was the most profitable unless you can prove that the number of people who signed up for HBO because of GOT was enough of an increase to make up for the cost.

Maybe? But I haven't seen any surveys.
Yea I’ve been on a few. Basically I felt that I got taken hostage (no key to the airbnb, no car rental budget, basically forced to stay with colleagues at all times). Meetings all day about company direction and architecture, then our normal programming work all night Hackathon style. I need time away from my coworkers to write productive code and I think other engineers do too.
"Right of free association", sure. So by that token, businesses should be free to refuse to "associate" with anyone for any reason. Guess what, that legitimizes racism and discrimination.
My understanding is that it's the other way around. Without ACID you can't guarantee FK correctness. You can't be sure another transaction might add a key to a row you're about to delete.

It's an easy mistake to make though.
There will possibly be a tipping point, especially if developers do the IE thing (or now Chrome thing) and only test their sites on one browser; currently a large portion of the education, private, and public sectors rely on the word of their vendors for which browser their app works best on (mostly Chrome because of its 10 year dominance). If all of the developers go to Firefox, and the sentiment changes from Chrome to Firefox, we might start seeing dual-install deployments and eventually firefox-only. That is, if Google hadn't been pushing their GSuite offering for the past few years and managed to tie a large amount of both private sector and education organizations to Chrome for the integration and MDM.
The project sounds pretty cool.
> It prevents everyone from getting public school English education in the province unless one parent also went to English high school in Quebec and has a special letter to prove it.

Only one parent, and they only need the right to have gone to English school, in Canada. Yes this may be made more difficult in practice due to some bureaucratic requirement.
Does anyone know if/where one could download all the art from Magic the Gathering? If not all, any subsets? Not necessarily generic wallpapers, but the actual card art.
I wonder who's behind this SJW organization. America has many powerful enemies, and SJW looks like a standard radicalization technique: divide the society into two camps and make them hate each other. Divide and conquer. The divide is made at the white males vs the rest line. On the other hand, SJW is clearly flourishing under the all seeing Feds Eye, but if it's them, then what's the point? Feds don't win anything by making the society waste energy on silly fights. My bet would be on Saudis: the radicalization technique smells like middle east and they have money and tensions with the US.
In your universe, what politicians are people allowed to support?
SQL is pretty powerful. A last_updated column and a PENDING view that shows PENDING and WORKING with now - last_updated > CUTOFF does a decent job for you.
so, i do the thing you really arent supposed to do, i have a private github repo where i throw all files that i want synched, from notes to full textbooks. i used to email myself, but it was always very annoying to do (and then i would need to email back any changes i would make), so github winds up being a reasonable solution- ive tried dropbox but i prefer the control i have with git/github
And also super easy to administer, replicate, back up, monitor, and test with.
For myself, I think there's enough information available that something like the FBI could still trace even monero.
I got interrupted by unpredictable exogenous events. Somehow when I get the last one handled, some more come along.

None of these events have anything to do with the project. The project is in good shape, and the work on the project that is uniquely mine has all been fast, fun, and easy.

I had a motherboard fail. I moved. And many more.

I better understand the advice to entrepreneurs -- "Never quit". Well, I don't want to quit, and I don't have to. Actually now my bank balance is growing nicely.

Most recently I've been setting up my new office -- it was a lot of work but looks good, efficient, functional, etc.

I'll get the nonsense out of the way and get back to the work.

The work to do now is reasonable. What has not been reasonable are the unpredictable exogenous interruptions.

Thanks for your interest.
Hey there, you and I still need work. Let them speak!
welp pack it up boys back to LIDAR
Can someone explain what we're looking at?
In addition to context + YMMV, I want to mention, sharding is NOT THE ONLY solution for scaling[1], albeit it's a popular technique. So that makes Shlomi Noach's first point weaker.

[1]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-alternatives-to-sharding-data...
TikTok time-bomb: Silly clips raise some serious questions
Man I miss when chrome first came out and made the web so dang fast. Now it is the heaviest app I have on my computer by far. We need a Chrome Lite.

I have been enjoying Brave lately though.
Hard Times for SoftBank
This is a good song for the Tesla Coil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5evlN8Bbs
Modern genetics will improve health and usher in “designer” children
The hard silica glass can withstand being boiled in hot water, baked in an oven, microwaved, flooded, scoured, demagnetized and other environmental threats that can destroy priceless historic archives or cultural treasures if things go wrong.

The worst environmental threat is when your media is a proprietary format with secret specifications or even worse, DRM... even if the media could last 1000000 years, that's a moot point if the specifications have disappeared before then, or the encryption keys lost. Given the tie-ins with the entertainment industry mentioned in this article, the possibility of DRM causing the death of a format is too big to ignore.
Expecting endless (or effectively endless) compensation, or any compensation you demand unilaterally, for adding value once, seems abusive.
How many users were trying to support simultaneously? I can stream maybe four or five streams at various levels of real time transcoding on my Core I3. But I do have about 900Mbps up.
Definitely a great idea for employees working remotely.People who go to office daily may not be very appreciative about it though.
It's a huge difference from just 4 years ago!
Scryfall has the biggest-sized art if you're looking one card at a time. https://scryfall.com/card/me1/54/vesuvan-doppelganger
Your worldview is threatening to me and every other freedom-loving individual. That is my feeling.

For the record, I think modern politics is total garbage. Republican, Democrat, it's all the same coin. I believe in equality, not equity, and I believe in equal rights. This mindset that some people are more deserving of rights than others based on how marginalized they are, should be antithetical to modern progressive thought, instead it's become infected by it.
> In the extreme case, we could make a system where everything is an opaque pointer and there's only one function that just sends things strings containing commands.

Interestingly, Objective-C has other ABI issues…
And Google will have full control over the web. As soon as they have majority browser on all platforms, they will ramp up their “innovations” of web platform and leave competition in the dust. And then nobody will be able to stop “standards” that help Google, like substituting URLs on AMP pages for instance.
Such pre-implantation testing is already used in some places, don`t know why they even write about it. It`s a common practice already.
>happens on both sides of the political spectrum

Can you provide any examples to support this?
Reddit Datasets for Machine Learning
When you read the rules for what you're allowed to put in that recycling bin, its a tiny fraction of your actual waste. That, combined with the fact that not everyone putting waste from your house into those bins is going to read the rules, is why it all gets contaminated.
I keep feeling, more and more, that the whole notion that we can actually reduce "trash" by adding more and more narrowly-defined recycling/composting categories is nothing but a load of BS.
Why are we downvoting someone for giving examples?
HBO knows how many people watched, yeah. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-television-gameofthrones/... Here's an estimate of the costs and revenues. https://decider.com/2019/05/21/game-of-thrones-hbo-profits/ ThinkMoney had a somewhat lower estimate but they don't say how they got those numbers. https://www.finance-monthly.com/2019/05/how-much-money-has-h...
When Chrome came out I didn't have the problem with Google I have now. But I could never switch to Chrome because I hate having the tabs above the address bar. At least with Firefox I could tweak userChrome.css to keep tabs right above the content. So I never switched either.
That's a bridge too far. If I have Netflix and I'm in the US and then I travel overseas on vacation and I can't watch the same content, I would have no problem pirating it.
The current stock system is NOT sustainable.

We either rock the boat in a controlled fashion or the boat sinks and we all metaphorically sink with it.
I looked back repeatedly. For one I could never get it to launch Zoom from a link, it would always try to download the exe again. The Dark Reader extension is much slower on FF than Chrome. I think Chrome is still faster in general, I can tell especially when flipping through a bunch of tabs really fast.

When I came to the realization I was using FireFox essentially just for idealogical reasons I went back to Chrome.
It's also worth mentioning that these services are very big outside the US. Premium (cable) TV was never such a big thing in other countries, and those where it was somewhat popular never charged as much as the US.
I find it interesting that individual journalists are also terrified of this. Like, do we really think the current system is a sustainable system 50 years into the future?
There's an extra date in your link.

http://www.sebmckinnon.com/illustration/2019/5/29/answered-p...
> We did but it is a concept not a physical thing.

We actually don't know this. People have qualia, which is an unexplained physical phenomenon. It could be that the universe comes with some universal signal that twists the thought processes of all beings with qualia, so as to shape their feelings about moral questions, to align them with true universal morality.

Obviously, I just made this up, and even if it were true, maybe you'd call the signal false universal morality, but it could be a physical thing.
Incident at Morales
Everything you are saying is irrelevant to the argument I was making. My whole point is that the per capita GDP growth from then to now is not just a matter of us being more than 100x better at farming, or other things that we do now that they also did then; it is a matter of us being able to do things that did not event exist and were not even conceivable in the Stone Age.
Getting rid of single-use plastic would help. However, the "War on Plastic Straws" pisses me off to no end. (Especially since its often done along-side a plethora of needlessly single-use plastic to the point that its just a PR gesture.)

Getting rid of non-organic packaging would help even more. Dealing with packaging materials is one of my biggest frustrations when trying to get rid of boxes. However, this is very much a "long tail" sort of problem.
You mean Classical Mechanics? Plus your example doesn't make sense because the term "Newtonian Mechanics" was likely coined only after Relativistic Mechanics were discovered[0][1], Newton himself referred to it as "Natural Philosophy". In addition "Newtonian Mechanics" isn't even the preferred name, Wikipedia refers to it as "Classical Mechanics"[2] while the Webster's definition of "Newtonian Mechanics"[3] is just the words "Classical Mechanics", which themselves have a much longer entry[4]. The fact that we do not in fact refer to "Classical Mechanics" as "Philosophiae Naturalis" actually supports my point: as our understanding of Physics improved we renamed the field, with older concepts/terms falling out of use and being renamed when they are reused.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Newtonian+Mech...

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Natural+Philos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newtonian_Mechani...

[3] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Newtonian%20mecha...

[4] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classical%20mecha...
That's a problem specific to Chrome. Firefox and Brave do their own thing and lots of people choose to use those browsers instead. The fact is that people don't have that choice when using iOS.
There is really no benefit to "pirating" most iOS apps. Almost all of the apps that I spend money on, I'm actually paying for a service.
I never switched to chrome. I find it hilarious that the author thinks the decision to switch is forwardthinking enough to write about.
what are the issues?
The problem is that hoarding wealth in various assets like the real estate market is also part of the problem.

Gates barely has a normal income. What he does have is a ton of wealth that a lot of us see as something broken in the system.

You could cure cancer and you still shouldn't have THAT much wealth.
I'm a regular programmer who has seen other languages and don't mind writing the 30th new slice copy function, or the 10th get-slice-of-keys-from-map function. And I like `if err != nil {return err}` for its sheer simplicity.

There's value in doing things in the most boring obvious verbose way. Quick onboarding is one, from experience. Homogeneous codebase is another. Having less ways to do the same thing. And so on.

Go isn't the type of language for ego massaging. It's meant to be a productive language for large projects while adding resiliency to teams against dev churn.
Amazon has never sold DRM'd digital music and Apple has sold all of its music DRM free for over a decade.
I like the text too. It's interesting that the text other people point to as their favorite is not interesting to me. https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-favorite-flavor-text-on-a...

Magic serves many different audiences -- they even purposely design cards for certain players knowing others will hate them. I guess the flavor text hits different people too.
Been using the new Edge Beta for a year now, don't ever need Chrome for anything
Then the taxes would've property shown the valuation of that company.

You're taking a whole system and applying it to a single variable and saying it doesn't make sense. WeWork should've never been worth that much and an inability to pay taxes would've shown that.
> If universe is deterministic and computable, then it is possible to create a simulation of a part of the universe that would be complex enough to contain humans and would be simple enough to pause computation, make changes to the state, copy the state, etc. So for simplicity i will talk about this simulated universe.

I don't see how the 'computable' part is relevant in regards to free will. You can write a program that outputs random numbers that it reads from some source, and you can simulate it by writing another program that outputs random numbers from the same source. The two equivalent programs will generate different numbers, but that doesn't mean they had any choice over the numbers they printed.

> Recomputing with different human shows that different choice was possible in principle.

Recomputing with different human is equivalent to creating an impossible universe. It's impossible to have two different people in the exact same situation at the same point in time in the same deterministic universe. The very action of pausing or modifying the universe from without would make the universe non-deterministic.

> And because running the simulation is equivalent to letting the simulated human to live that means we do not predict, but merely observe the choice.

Who's choice? If the algorithm is making the choice then the humans simulated by such an algorithm would not have any more free will than a video game NPC.
I would honestly love to see him code. Do you know if any video is available online?
If a work is truly useful, it's better for more members of a society to have it at a low cost. The other way around benefits one person at the expense of society.
This is quite brilliant and much more preferable. No one is going to want to sift through someone’s old vacation slide show. But to interact with a close facsimile of an ancestor...priceless.
ivar layout: http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/archive/2009/01/27/objc_e...
> I'm working with a company that also refuses to use [...] indexes.

... ?
and emacs too
It won’t result in lower prices. The middlemen are the ones who are responsible for the low prices.
This is why I dislike the term 'Private API'; there's a big difference between using internal functions of a library, and using public functions which aren't properly documented.

In this case, there was a public method that took the public object Firefox needed, but wasn't documented as doing so.
Absolute rubbish - and quite sadly I note that you're just parroting industry talking points.

>This can be seen with music today. Rampant sharing made it so you can't really sell albums anymore. If you want to make a living, you almost have to go with a big label.

This didn't happen due to piracy. Music piracy is dramatically down compared to the lofty heights of the late 00's. The culprit is music streaming platforms, who used their official licenses from the music labels to dramatically dilute the perceived value of music.

Music piracy was popular, yes, but everyone knew it was illegal. That combined with the relative lack of convenience (compared to streaming) meant that it never had the effect of dilution that streaming has caused.

Now that consumers can get a near-complete music collection for $10 a month, and the entire thing is legal and endorsed by record labels, there is a general perception that music has no value.

As always, the big companies cause the damage, take the profits, and pass off the blame on the little guys. It's a story as old as time, and people keep falling for it. Compare this to 'jaywalking' or 'litterbug's.

>It's also why most software companies have now have SAAS and we now are renting software by the month instead of being able to buy a copy.

How on earth you connect SAAS to piracy, I'll never know. In reality, that's being caused by companies realising that they can make a hell of a lot more money, and more consistent money, by moving to the SAAS model.

>All of those people I remember a decade ago who claimed they were sharing music to help the indy artist are nowhere to be found and their actions have only hurt any chances of an Indy artist to make a living.

Except numerous indie artists did make their break though internet piracy. A number would even put their own music on the pirate bay as a marketing ploy.

This isn't really a thing now, because gasp music piracy is dying, and now the Spotify's and Apple Music's of the world are the sole gatekeepers to music - for most people, at least.

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In general, when major harm is happening in the world, it is always being caused by those with major power - and that means corporations and governments. Those with power will always try to misdirect the anger of those wronged upon each other - look at the way the 'debate' over immigration in US politics has overtaken real issues like healthcare, taxing the rich/corporations, or tackling climate change.

Immigration is being pushed as a social issue by corporate media and politicians as a wedge issue which doesn't matter to the average person, but gets them really riled up so they don't get too upset about anything which actually matters.

Try not to fall into that trap.
It was significantly faster on all platforms, plus looked good on all platforms. That also was a big deal on Linux, where things usually don`t look good.
Retirement reform is part of Warren's plan.

Our retirement system isn't sustainable. Most people have literally nothing saved in their 401ks, etc. It also assumes a growing economy. The system is already in a failure state, we're just ignoring it.
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The term for that is akrasia.