skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it makes headlines is because the value of IP is very volatile and bogus collateral is a very old scam (not only in banking btw, fake valuations are a feature of many scams).

If I go to the park, pick up a rock, and then go to a bank and say there is diamonds inside worth $1m, and they lend against that then I have made $1m. If you lend against collateral, you are making a bet on the collateral being worth $X. JP Morgan have no idea what the IP is worth.

And btw, what is Magic Leap? They have got billions from investors with no product, they have now got billions from JPM with no product...either they have some of the most valuable patents known to man or this is an almighty scam (to be honest, I always hope it is the former because you have to be an abhorrent human being to pull off the latter...but that never is the case).
I think what's being missed in the discussion on HN is the reason CPL eliminated fines. It's not about the money, nor is it about getting the books back. It's to improve access to the library system.

CPL did a study of who held the cards with suspended privileges because of late fees, and found out that the vast majority were people in poor neighborhoods, and of those the vast majority were children.

Now with the new rules it opens up book borrowing again to tens of thousands of people who need it most.

/CPL cardholder.
As the article explains, the Internet is just a tool, and it's been aggressively used as a way to control user behavior to mostly benefit advertisers, producers, or conform behavior to governments. Even worse, political warfare is very easily imposed on today's social networks because they are designed to be echo chambers that receive outside messages from the highest bidder.

However, this doesn't NEED to be the case as we can design online experiences that bring people together. The last two years I've self-funded a foundation [1] to work on on precisely this problem of using the Internet to try to unify people together. Today we have two platforms we are providing to the public and organizations.

The first [2] service organizes people at physical events by maximizing the diversity of auto generated discussion groups, and we're having a fair amount of success in schools and events in the US and Austria. The other service [3] is purely an experimental free public social platform that matches people who have different viewpoints to have a timeboxed live discussion to chat about their views.

I'm not sure if what we've built so far can make a big impact online, but I hope it can serve as an example of what kind of tools that could be built if the focus is squarely aimed at unifying people instead of stuffing them into echo chambers with pay-to-reach walls between groups of people.

[1] Foundation: https://www.newdialogue.org/

[2] Group diversity mixer: https://www.mixopinions.com/

[3] Social platform: https://www.dinnertable.chat
Reserving a book is less useful when even the happy-path wait time is unbounded.
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>Personally I don't mind the artificiality of countries, but the insanity of the identities some people (artificially) construct around being randomly born somewhere (especially since people who contributed fuck all to wherever they live seem perfectly fine of being rabid nationalists)

What if constructing such an identity is a trait that has been selected for in humans?
> I guess the theory is that officers are well-trained and responsible, but where is the evidence of that?

Police beat their spouses at 4x the rate of the general population. The extremely well-armed police (who themselves demonstrate that they tend toward the more violent part of society) are one of the primary reasons that widespread civilian gun ownership is essential.

Without it, you get situations like what happened during the RNC in 2004, where the peaceful are denied defense, yet the oppressors are armed to the teeth.
As I understand it, there is no way to validate caller ID when it comes from another carrier. They're testing STIR/SHAKEN which supposedly fixed this, although I'm unclear on how long that will really take to roll out and actually be turned. I'm also unsure how well it will actually work, I haven't looked at how it will be implemented.
> The main benefit is that it makes Steam not depend anymore on the installed packages of the host Linux distribution.

Now if only most other Linux software could do that.
> I am not ignoring anything I am simply pointing to the fact that when we talk wind and solar the true cost isn't calculated whereas with nuclear it is.

I agree with you on wind/solar. I'm just going one step further and admit that with nuclear, the true cost isn't calculated either.

> And with regards to the insurance of catastrophes then Three Mile Island was paid by the insurance.

That convinces absolutely no one of anything. It's not what I was talking about as insuring a nuclear disaster. Don't waste your time making this point, it's worthless.

> Fukushima disaster happened not because of the nuclear powerplant but because of a tsunami, it was also the tsunami not Fukushima that killed thousands of people and Tjernobyl was owned and operated by the state so who else should pay for it?

It doesn't matter to the argument if a nuclear reactor blows up because of a tsunami, or an earthquake or Homer Simpson. It's a catastrophic failure case of enormous cost, and it's not insured, no money is being put into a fund to cover it, those costs are not taken into account when calculating the economics of nuclear energy. If such an insurance existed, it would be vastly more expensive for reactors built in a risk area like the Tsunami coast of Japan, so Fukushima Dai-ichi may have never been built.
Oh come on, they really are. Think about it: they typically retire in the area where they've been a cop. Criminals know who they are and where they live, and have for years -- and criminals never retire. Cops should definitely be allowed to carry concealed in all 50 states.

That no one else has that right maybe tells us we should expand CCW reciprocity. It's already something like 35 states.
Uh, the money grows by itself if properly invested. Investing in an index fund hardly counts as working.
> If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa, you’re both missing out and not really missing out.

I must be officially old, because I see no reason to give voice commands to things. If I did I'd just attach a microphone to the server I run at home and connect it to things.
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They released their product months ago.
I imagine the main cost-factor is size/weight of the books.

Not really. Fourth class mail used to be called "book rate." It's slow, but it's super cheap, and was established in 1879 to encourage reading and literacy.

I think a better innovation would be for one of the SV "tech" delivery companies to team up with local libraries to deliver and retrieve books from people in their offices.
Subculture is not the same as opting out, though. Nor is there a dichotomy of being either a member of a subculture vs society at large. There are American otaku geeks who are nationalistic christians. I mean, that is a lot of what 4chan is these days.

>You can test this yourself. Tell yourself —‘The country I live in now is the best country in the world for people like me; I would be terribly unhappy if I was exiled.’ If your mental reply goes something like, ‘Why, what’s so special about the USA? It’s not particularly economically or politically free, it’s not the only civilized English-speaking country, it’s not the wealthiest9…’, then you are headed down the path of opting out.

This is just wrong. There are plenty of well adjusted people who aren't nationalists.
I've got a neighbor that's a cop.

And a nephew who is a detective.

And the gym I work out at is crawling with cops. There's a judge and some school police, too.

All of them are very good people. I think the few bad apples get a lot of press.
Well, I can answer a few of them. But honestly, these are kind of obscure, and I'm not sure you need to know them all.

> 50. The error message 'No space left on device.' means you are out of disk space.

On Linux systems, (and perhaps most Unix-likes? IDK) some fraction of the file system is typically reserved for root, typically to allow core functions to continue and to give some breathing room to recover the device. This is the -m flag to mke2fs, "Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user." which defaults to 5%.

> 54. 'main' takes two arguments, argc and argv.

It can also take no arguments. I believe it can also take a third argument, a char* environ[], which contains the environment variables, but I don't know what the standards say about this. (I believe its a thing some implementations, particularly Unix-likes, do, but not a required-by-C thing. There's also the entry point in Windows, but that has a completely different name.)

Most of the rest seem like subjective opinion on the state of the world.

> 94. There is a "real world".

"You think that's air you're breathing?" and the recent https://xkcd.com/2221/ ; also https://qntm.org/responsibility ; or at least, that's how I'm choosing to interpret #94.
I'm sure people have different feelings about it. My personal view is that you can listen to anyone using the microphones in their computers and smartphones anyway (with a targeted attack) and nobody is unhackable.

At the same time I think people have become more privacy-aware in general and started to demand less bulk data collection. So they might accept certain risks of getting hacked but not necessarily submit to terms of service that allow bulk collection.
From the post I replied to.

“What pray tell would be better and more meaningful? ”
Agreed. I think you could even argue that string manipulation is even more common than uses of math.ceil, floor, the floor division operator (//), and so on. I love math, but this is a programming class.

This also fails my personal rule to always need to have a reason to do something mean - like failing someone on a problem, and no reason to do something nice - like saying it’s fine since it works.
I haven't tried this, but you can try: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/sidebery/

It claims to allow you to set proxy settings per container.
27. Real Programmers(TM) use neon-green on black terminals.

This is not a falsehood. The rest of the world just hasn't caught on.

Sent through lynx
They go in a little sound isolated Faraday cage.

If you want to check your phone, you can stand up and take the 60 seconds to do it.
You yourself are interpreting it the worst possible way, out of context.

What's the context? He was talking about people coming here illegally.

Basic common sense would dictate that many gang members, drug runners, criminals in general that we know are coming here, are doing so illegally. As he said, I'm sure some Mexicans that come here illegally are good people, but pretty much all of the influx of criminals from outside our country come here illegally (including people regularly facilitating illegal travel).

You can choose to lie (to yourself and others) about the context of his statements, as if he was referring to ALL Mexicans, but anyone interested in knowing the truth should indeed find his statements for themselves, completely in context.

He's said enough things to criticize that one shouldn't need to stretch the truth to do so, but the desperation of ideologues knows no bounds.
12:35Z : Starts
15:20Z : Mid-point
18:04Z : Ends

Gutted to be missing this ... it's been in my diary for years.
Because the article is anti-nationalism proapaganda.
how would a bank evaluate the risk -- do they generally have an internal team or farm it out to a consultancy? they don't have the history or contacts like VC or google's invesment funds.
meanwhile, they are playing footsie with saudia arabia again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDv2E22Mz0s&feature=youtu.be...
The map[1] of the 5 states without the power to remove a cop's badge for misconduct also happens to have some of the most strict gun control in the country. Seems this is what happens when safety is valued above all else.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SJM-L...
34. They know how to validate an IP address.

I am surprised by this one. What are the pitfalls there?
The AI fear mongering is getting old. If you don't want an Alexa or Google Home, then don't buy one. Personally, I ask Google questions all day long and miss it when I don't have it around. It allows me to learn lots of little things all of the time, and I would be happy to have contextual suggestions as long as it was truly trying to be helpful rather than only sell shit.
FYI - normal venture debt companies like WTI include IP as collateral as part of their standard deal docs. Just know what you're signing.

You as founder are most likely going to be the one trying to sell your IP if your startup fails and your debt guys will essentially give you a commission to do so.
Reminds me of the old adage - when you have good software architecture all the bugs are right where you expect them to be.
And steal all their data and be generally aweful vs the relative “we just pass the mail” of the USPS. No thanks.
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Do you turn off your Alexa when visitors come over?

Should I ask if I visit, and how would you respond?
I'm not entirely sure you meant it that way, but "spoony bard" is not a bad translation, as evidenced by its inclusion in every official translation of FF4 since Woolsey's. The bard is indeed spoony[0], and it is the kind of archaic language you might expect from an old man like Tellah.

[0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoony
Tribalism is inherent to the human psyche. Nationalism is only one form of it.
ML has training right?
I interviewed with a company that matches this description, I remember thinking their product sounded pretty silly.
Most inventors and small businesses can get a free patent lawyer
it doesn't have to be funded by the state. you can just "buy" a book off the library. in fact, you could buy the book in a book shop, and the library becomes a swapping center.

as long as you bring back books in good condition, and they are in the library catalogue. (the library may not want to take multiple copies of books that are unpopular)

of course paying for books up front does affect low income families and users who need many books at once.

another side effect of these models is that you can swap books with your friends.

you get 10 books, and i get a different 10 books and we swap with each other until we are through all 20 books together, and then each of us brings any 10 books back.
I worked with confluence, google docs and git like repos. Wholeheartedly prefer the last one.
Yeah. That's a common problem and mostly because nobody has time documenting this. The minetest page itself helps a bit (under customizing, but it's not that helpful admittedly).

FWIW, here're my recommended mods:

Basic gameplay: 3d armor, mobs_redo + mobs_monster

Logic: mesecons, more mesecone, digilines

Hard monsters: NSSM (not so simple mobs), dmob (dragons, etc) (both need mobs_redo)

Building more: Homedecor

There're also some read-made games. Mineclone 2 is pretty good.
While the technocracy is busy trying to convince us that what matters is smart light bulbs and the prospect of living on Mars the world's ecosystem is on the point of collapse and a significant percentage of the worlds population have nowhere decent to live. Wake up, human race! Ask yourself, HN crowd, how many of the AI jobs you routinely see posted on here are doing anything significant? Alexa is just a toy.
At least some of their key patents (https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130128230/en?oq=inassi...) are nearly halfway though there lifetime, so at best those patents will have a decade of value before they get a retail product out the door. It seems a bit like putting a decade old car up as collateral, sure it's got value but it's rapidly diminishing.
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Friend of mine lost $24mm : https://www.wsj.com/articles/he-thought-his-phone-was-secure...
Because you assume all humans see books for their same utility.
Strings are disallowed because they are not necessary for this problem and although the solution is shorter, is far more inefficient; it also doesn't demonstrate the algorithmic thinking that the course is obviously trying to teach.

I've taught CS courses before, and have seen plenty of self-proclaimed self-taught know-it-alls who seem to be more stackoverflow-copy-pasters than anything else.
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This particular article basically uses Edge Computing as a synonym for client-side computing. I've more commonly seen the phrase Edge Computing used in a different and more interesting way. Basically, a typical web app architecture would have servers for dynamic content in 2 or 3 places, mainly for redundancy, and use a CDN to distribute static content. The CDN in this case is the Edge, but there's no compute: just caching of static assets. That's not a great fit for some applications (those with high bandwidth or low latency requirements on dynamic data especially), but there's not really been provider support for that, so if you wanted to do it you had to deal with your own hardware in a large number of locations. If a cloud provider adds Compute to the Edge (ie Lambda@Edge from AWS, Cloudflare Workers), this architecture becomes doable for small shops.
Ask HN: App for quickly opening all files and windows necessary for a project
I remember some time ago I saw someone posting an App for quickly opening all files and windows necessary for a given project. You could, for instance, set it up so, with a single click, you would open your text editor, some terminal windows running a given command, photoshop, some folders, etc.

Does any of you remember what program is that or use some custom solution for the same issue?

It's a huge pain to have to do that every time, specially if you switch between multiple projects
it's all online, just go look it up. here's some firefighter that makes $300k. help yourself.

https://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/PositionDetail.aspx?employe...
Organizing at the document level is the main mistake that virtually all of these tools make. Search doesn't get around that mistake either.
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As a complete non-purist I’d suggest chucking the data into Auto.arima and seeing where that gets you. Not only will it save a lot of time, in my experience it tends to produce better models.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/forecast/index.html
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I recommend getting Firefox from the package manager, not from Mozilla.
We walked by the venue earlier that night and saw a pretty buzzing party (with lots of security).
So we know how much the library was worth to them now. Instead they should offer a subscription service that is free as long as you have fewer than N books checked out.
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Because I am a smart-ass, I did something like this in college. There was an intro course in MATLAB my freshman year, but I'd been programming for several years at that point so I found it too basic to hold my interest. In one of our early labs, we were told to implement a function that calculated a Fibonacci number. I figured that sounded like something MATLAB probably had in its stdlib, and it did, so I wrote a 1 liner and called over a TA to approve my work.

Thankfully this TA agreed with you (as do I). He said it looked good, and I think that's the shortest lab I ever had.
Actually I'm starting to think the cell phone operators are doing a smart thing on this.

In an ideal world you could trust the cell phone operators to diligently protect your number and you could rely on this to help Google/Chase/GoDaddy identify your account. The problem is this makes it complicated for the cell phone operators and why should they be the ones to have to enforce your identity protection to benefit FANGs/Banks/etc? It always seemed a bit dumb to me that you need a phone number for most accounts in this internet age.

Maybe they could offer a service for a fee where they will be stricter and you have to show a passport to the office to get a new sim issue.

In the meantime I'm sure they've figured out its more benefical in the long term that they just sell cell phone plans that are flexible and we need a better solution to identify people and their accounts.
All this is fair, but, at the same time, Chicago is far from the first library system to do this. It's just the largest. And it seems quite likely that it'll work out in Chicago the same way it has elsewhere. Other libraries are seeing that the benefits last.

You're maybe minimizing what the fines can amount to. As a parent of small children, I can say from experience that a load of books from the children's library, left forgotten for a week, is around $10 in fines, which is a pretty penny for a lot of folks. And if you're a busy parent and the nearest branch isn't too easy to get to - I used to live about 1/2 hour away from the nearest branch (Sulzer) - having a week or two go by before you can reasonably make it to the library is not at all unrealistic.
I remember when WoW ran on 300 mb
Cool app. I agree with your points about Confluence's issues.

> At this point documentation becomes viewed as a time sink and people start to prefer other practices like pairing, comprehensive user stories and tests. These unfortunately are only a bandaid solution to the problem...

I think that "pairing, comprehensive user stories, and tests" are all good things you should have anyway, and documentation can't be a replacement for them.
Eh, it's pretty hard to find quality wireless gear, so I may continue to buy APs until I can find a suitable replacement, but I absolutely won't be buying any of their other products. I was considering getting a router from them, but I'll instead roll my own or use pfsense or something. That way I can at least trust my edge, and I can configure the router to treat the wireless gear as untrusted.

Setting up a DMZ and some firewall tweaks is a lot easier than finding a good AP.
We shouldn't avoid chopping up one form of inheritable wealth just because we can't target all of it effectively or all of it at once though.

It's a great evil that needs to be stomped on viciously.
> Strings are disallowed because they are not necessary for this problem

the division examples are not necessary either, thats the point. you can solve it different ways, that doesnt mean one way is not necessary, it just means its different. one may be faster, one may be more readable. If you dont allow different solutions you cant explore the tradeoffs between them.
Which brings us to the heart of the problem: income inequality.

Anyone moving to Boise from another part of Idaho is still saddled with the same bottom-of-the-barrel minimum wage, an anemic $7.25 an hour. So it’s most likely not the Idahoans who are driving up home prices and filling up rental properties, because they can’t afford to.

Then Californians arrive, raise prices in ways the locals can't compete against, and vote the same policies they enacted in California, which they don't recognize (due to some cognitive bias) as the same ones that caused them to leave.

That's depressing. Specially to locals. They're powerless as they see their way of life challenged.

And then you call them insular, xenophonic, and close minded.

Wouldn't the world be better if we welcomed those who are different from us, at least as long as they also wanted to live with us in peace?

FTFA

“I’m not here to be a Californian,” she said. “I’m here to be a community member and contribute.”

I'm pretty sure if you're moving to adapt, to become one of them, to respect the locals and their ways, you're going to be welcome. Probably, and this is MHO, better than in NY or California.

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