skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it okay for somebody or some company to copy that content to their own website without my permission?

Sure. Why not? It's just data and it doesn't actually belong to anyone. By reproducing your work and making it more widely available, I'd even say they're helping you by propagating your ideas.

The most common problems with this is the subversion of the creator's business model and reputation. If people get your content via someone else's website, they won't look at your ads and might think someone else wrote it. We need alternative business models that don't depend on artificial scarcity. Advertising is becoming more and more unacceptable so we'll have to come up with something better one way or another. As for reputation, I think the way academia handles plagiarism is much more sane: misrepresenting authorship causes damage to one's own reputation.

Even if the work did belong to you and someone did copy it without permission, would you sue them? Would you spend thousands of dollars and years of your life fighting against them in court? Most people wouldn't. This intellectual property stuff disproportionally benefits rich corporations with lots of expensive lawyers at their disposal.
Jingoism
> 11/18: Started going through the French Duolingo tree

> 3/19: Reached the end of the Duolingo tree (level 1 in all skills, but most were level 3+)

This is pretty impressive. I've started French Duolingo around the same time and have been doing 30 min per day every day; 14 months later I'm about 1/2-way down.

This must have taken ~3h/day of Duolingo.
Or my recent suggestion here:

> 3 strikes and you are out. Take down 3 obviously (probably decided by a judge) non-infringing things and you lose the ability to send takedowns.

Of course neither of those are going to happen, those companies donate way too much money.
I work in this field. It's fine, honestly. We really don't need copyright to sustain the arts.
New Ideas Need Old Buildings. But Can They Afford Old Buildings?
Do you think the AAP recommends a limit of one hour of screen time because parents are unable to think rationally?

I personally am a little skeptical that these studies have no confounding factors, but I don't think it's fair to blame parents for what doctors, researchers, and clickbait authors are saying.
last time I looked there wasn't much evidence for breastfeeding when you controlled for other factors.

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2014/02/28/sibling-study-f...
I've wasted 2000+ hours of my life according to Steam on Factorio. At this moment I'm beyond shame to admit it.
I'm a thermodynamic engineer by trade. We spend a lot of time around freezing and boiling water. Even more, we spend a lot of time in Kelvin land.

I've a particular hatred of Fahrenheit :)
South Korean here, explanation for some context:

South Korea has a deep legacy of MS-DOS/Windows, and it’s reliance of Microsoft’s OS is very high. This mostly is due to two reasons: the high use of the unique word processor(Hangul Word Processor) and the legacy ActiveX plugins used for cryptography when banking.

In the 90s, multiple internet service providers used ActiveX technology (for people who doesn’t know, it’s basically binary plugin technology to provide unlimited access to the local environment) to provide services. They were used to provide VOD services, etc... and when online shopping & banking started in the mid 90s the government mandated use of a 128bit crypto algorithm. At that time, the dominant browser IE only had 40 bit crypto due to US’s export restrictions — so the 128 bit algorithm they decided to use was a independently developed algorithm called SEED, which was then implemented in ActiveX by the banks and shopping malls. This became a legacy, and for a long time even after the restriction was removed, people were forced to use ActiveX plugins until the smartphones came and the banks were forced to rewrite the system. There are still a lot of banks mandating the use of Windows for desktops — that’s one reason why the Windows was so popular.

Windows 10 AFAIK (I’ve never used it, so I’m not really sure) is much more strict to the binary plugins, and Internet Explorer is almost going to die — so a lot of people were staying on Windows 7, including most of the government. By the deprecation of Windows 7, the government thought that this was a good time to remove much of the legacy that enforces Windows, and is considering Linux for one of its options.

One of the reasons why I have some hope on this project is because the government’s use of Windows is basically for two things — the ActiveX plugins in the web (which are mostly disappeared thanks to smartphones) and the Hangul Word Processor, which was exclusively only on Windows until about 2008, when a Linux version was released for a short period of time (and was removed due to the lack of interest). If the government decides to transition to Linux, Hancom(HWP’s developer) can prioritize the Linux port — which, in 2008 was already fully featured and has almost zero compatibility problems! (People using Linux still use the 2008 version by dockerizing the whole environment.)

Some context on the operating systems that were mentioned:

The Harmonica OS is a Linux Mint-based distribution that is localized thoroughly and has a lot of baseline programs (like the input methods) installed, and is pretty great for daily use.

The Tmax OS is... basically a scam OS that... well uses a big mix of Linux, BSD, and Wine’s code, a homemade custom DE that is a poor ripoff of the windows interface and tries to integrate them (unsuccessfully)... and advertise as a ‘pure Korean OS’ to the officials.
What new javascript flavors came out recently?
Other similar annoyances in US-centric front-end JS code :

- Numeric text fields filtering out all characters except figures + ".", even when the locale is set to something that should allow commas.

- Numeric text fields that expect a specific keyboard layout, for example numbers as the lower characters of the top keyboard row, filtering out anything else. In some layouts (like French), that's not the case : numbers on the top row are accessed with Shift, direct access is for symbols / punctuation. If the text field also disallows pasting, that makes it impossible to fill unless you switch layouts in the OS.
Maybe once there's no more content for them to mainline, the audience will finally go outside and have an original thought for once in their lives.
lol, they are a sign of experience, not burnout
out of the woodwork crawl out the little pests who have nothing to do except hold you to the highest level of scrutiny they can imagine

You say, with derision and personal insults to those people who dared not meet your standards for perfect corrections and perfect judgement of feedback desirability.
I don’t care about stickers. Signal is my messenger of choice, but I can’t recommend it to people because it is SO SLOW.

Seriously guys. Backups, persistent history by distributing identity across multiple devices, and fix the app load time.
How many governments has the US sold military weapons to?

Even the Islamic State (Isis) was mostly using US-produced bullets.
Cheers. Linux share just went up.
Stream Processing for Computing Approximations
They continually promise they won't.

I don't trust them on this remotely either, but given the official app is hot garbage then that would mean a signifcant net reduction of time on the service from me, just like it did on Twitter.
The distance from Mumbai India to Osaka Japan is ~4000 miles. Both of which are clearly inside the circle.

What are you using to assert that the 2500 mile number is the diameter?
Hahaha, a likely theory!

Actually, I'm Indian, and we have our steering wheel on the right side, just like the Brits. It's one of the less fortunate things we picked up from them.
As this article shows, it is perfectly possible to learn a language to a decent level (B2) in a year by studying at home. This is especially true if the language you're learning is closely related to your native language (e.g., English and French). You just have to consistently put in the time (probably an hour a day, at a minimum) and use a good mix of resources: a good textbook, flashcards (e.g., Anki), Italki (personal tutoring over video chat), radio, and some easy reading (childrens' books are great).

If you can go to a country where the language is spoken and are able to spend all of your time working on the language, you can learn to B2 level in much less than a year. I would say you should be able to achieve B2 level in a relatively easy (because close to English) language like French in less than 6 months.
> I personally suspect it's an attempt to "sell" the religion

You can think whatever you want. It's a quote that I enjoy that came to mind while reading the parent comment. I was going to leave the name out because inevitably anything Mormon on the internet gets bombarded with comments like yours, although yours is fairly benign compared to most. I decided it was odd to quote someone and leave out the citation.
Their friends to the North have been using Linux for many years know, although pirated copies of Windows are still prevalent as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
Hello, nice to meet another Korean (still wake at 4AM) on HN! :-)

> The result was criticism that is was just a pathetic clone of MintOS(linux distro).

I’m pretty sure you’re mixing up Harmonica with Tmax — Harmonica is based on Linux Mint (and is a pretty well operated open source project) while Tmax uses the Linux kernel, some BSD components and a custom desktop environment that features a rip-off interface of Windows.
Yes definitely: Alexandre Grothendieck.
And Terrence Tao can’t sit at his table (yet?).

But honestly it’s kind of a silly game to rank mathematicians this way.
From the article:

> I initially preferred native French speakers, but after taking lessons with non-native speakers, I found that I couldn’t really tell the difference between natives and non-natives.
Whatever they change will not be for the better. The main thing that needs to be fixed with DMCA is its limits on reverse engineering that require constantly renewed exceptions from Library of Congress. Eg for jailbreaking.

FWIW, people might hate copyright in general, but as someone who had my own work stolen, I’m glad it exists.
To your updates point: as I understand Microsoft's strategy they are doing rolling release now, which is how a desktop OS should do in the age when hardware is expected to still be fast enough for everything in 15 years. Ubuntu doesn't do it, their LTS is just 5 years, neither does MacOS by the way. This is of course very annoying to deal with and disrupts and breaks user experience pretty significantly. But also is not a problem for government making their own distro, updates is like half of the reason to even make a distro.
"Old Reddit" refers to the web UI before the redesign, which is still available at https://old.reddit.com/
I appreciate the sentiment, but don't see the issue in this case. Omitting articles is standard headlinese for a good reason - I can't see how it could be interpreted differently without the 'a'.
Speaking of career progression and management... has anyone here been able to transition from an IC to management/leadership at a remote company?

Remote work feels like the ideal job when your happy with your position long-term. I don’t know how to do it working remote.
Mountains mean rivers, rivers mean agriculture, and agriculture means more people. The Himalayas are the largest mountains in the world, and the countries flanking them have always been the most populous.

Try an image search for "rivers of Asia" and you'll see a bunch of lines pointing near the center of that circle.
Wait, the country which stills uses Internet Explorer 6 for online banking?
Essentially yes. It makes a very big claim with very little in the way of either justification or clear causal connection.
Further reading about activex mentioned above:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-koreans-use-internet-exp...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/elaineramirez/2016/11/30/south-...

Oh, and some required apps simply don't have mac equivalents. Fun times.

It's funny because S.Korea is otherwise quite advanced. It's just their banking/online shopping is a huge hassle compared to using foreign cards.

In order to use my Korean card online, I had to go to the bank, set a password there (valid for 1 year) and have a randomly generated numbers-lookup card printed. I forget the exact term for it. So when I used my bank's debit card online, I guess it would go "type in the number next to 20 on your numbers card". Totally ridiculous. I just never used it because I realized sites like gmarket allowed foreigners to use their cards anyways.
I'm not sure what you are advocating here. (Letting children fall asleep to Netflix???)
On sites like YouTube this is what would happen:

Abusive bot makes fraudulent DMCA requests against your account.
Your bot automatically files disputes.
Abusive bot automatically verifies with youtube that they are the owners of the content, because they say so.
Your account is demonetized and/or shut down for multiple dispute violations.

The entire system is rigged so the abusive bots have more or less free reign as long as they're backed up by some big media cartel. Google really doesn't want to anger said cartels who have been more than willing to sue individual people for trillions of dollars for sharing a single CD. Google has never been sued by creators for letting media cartels steal their works. They have no incentive to change policy at the moment.
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Not everyone speaks English, far from it, but I totally understand the sentiment. In any case, even if you're visiting a place and you're awful at a language, it still means a LOT to the native speakers.
could you expand on this? Do you know of a tool that keeps the source files, or are you describing only a cataloging system like e.g. how to set up a spreadsheet?
From what I can tell, listening to books read aloud is by far the most effective and efficient way to promote child language development. Listening comprehension is a foundational prerequisite for most kinds of intellectual work.

In comparison watching videos, playing tablet games, etc. comes nowhere close.

The differences are (1) the language in books read aloud is more often tailored to the child’s comprehension level, because parents can figure out whether books are too easy or too hard; (2) the range of grammar, vocabulary, styles, ideas, etc. is much wider in books than most kids get from other kinds of media; (3) the book is not a fixed medium but also has a live interpreter who can define or skip difficult words, repeat sentences rephrased a different way, answer questions, ask questions, go back to cross-reference earlier parts of the book, point specific things out in the illustrations, etc.

Anecdotally, the preschool kids around me whose parents read to them for 1+ hours/day seem to end up advancing about twice as fast in their language skills as their peers. YMMV.
Have people really save the thing like "I stuck because of this of that..." for 1-1 questions. Arn't you suppose to raise awareness among your team before that point, ask for help from co-worker etc...

I just cannot understand how a technical block is saved for 1-1 meeting.

I would love 1-1 meeting is more about:

- personal life: where thing that block you are person/family duty and manager can help with your schedule such as flexibility of wfh.

- vision/long term goal: some wish list you want to implement or improvement. But even so, I already created google doc for these and 1-1 are just to discuss more about them.

So when 1-1 happen too frequently, I'm out of question and feel stress and don't know what to ask/talk. Any advice for people like me?

Some of question on this list is just bad because they cannot be asked more than one. Example: "How do you prefer to receive feedback?"
Not a single suggestion in this article would improve the current dmca situation and most, if not all, would make things worse. Hopefully bipartisan squabbling will kill any proposed changes and leave this awful law as it is rather than making it even worse.
Related paper here:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
No it wont.
Oh it is certainly going to be worse than that. I doubt they will remove safe harbor because it protects places like YouTube and such, right? I expect they will require sites using safe harbor to automatically provide user tracking information for the copyright offenders to be fined and pay damages directly to media organizations or Thursday lobbying groups.
Did the study only compare differences between siblings?

There are so many studies that are wortless because they don't controll for the environment.

Besides there is quite a bit of evidence that games and especially competitive games are good for the brain.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201502...
I think what makes Apollo great is how closely it integrates with the iOS interface and design language. Its value proposition is that it matches expectations of iOS users and is fast and intuitive on that platform. If you re-wrote it in Electron I think it would become "just another reddit client."
The funny thing is that they really can’t afford anything else. Just like half of Asia.
They are using mostly stolen Windows instead.
Stupid.
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Letting your kid stare at an iPad for 3 hours at a wedding is damaging their brains? This is a bold claim and requires evidence. The article is talking about daily screen time, not the occasional one-off.
Not OP, but:

> There's no shame in trying, and no shame in pivoting after a cost/benefit analysis, and sticking with Windows.

It wouldn’t been a shame if TmaxOS was advertised as a BSD distribution with Windows integration through Wine from the start — it advertises itself as a ‘pure korean OS’ without any mentions of BSD (which I’m pretty sure is a license violation) our Wine.

It later moved onto the Linux kernel and a more standard Linux environment (with some BSD components left over), and a custom DE, and is currently advertising itself as a Linux distribution. I’ve heard it is actually in a fairly useable state... but the OS already got a really bad rap.
It was more than luck; Apple was involved in a long-running lawsuit against Microsoft, one which they might have had to settle, and were running the serious risk of losing.

Microsoft was also doing a decent business selling Office to Mac users, which they would lose if Apple went out of business.

Last but not least, Apple stock was trading for a buck a share in August of 1997. If Microsoft held on to those shares, that $150 million investment would be worth almost 49 billion dollars today.

Not bad.
You, my friend, are true evil.

Also, I have a lava powerstation.
Dark mode is still incompatible with monospace code regions, as reported several times in the ApolloApp subreddit; I tried using Apollo yesterday but couldn’t get past this bug (as I read a lot of code on reddit). Please fix this and I’ll buy the app!
I'm advocating against these studies being turned into blanket statement advice that can do real harm.

"IT’S OFFICIAL: SCREENS ARE BAD FOR YOUNG BRAINS" does harm.

If you want me to advocate for something, it would be, "find a balance, demonize nothing, you're a competent parent and you'll know unhealthy behaviour when you see it."
Research on small communities might be worthless.
forgive your mother for making you so emotional
> I honestly thought the steps to submit a new question was satire...

I know, right? No Kubernetes deployment configs to check whether it builds and runs as a micro-service in the cloud? Pff!
Right with you. I’ve watched them manipulate my wife and guilt her into so much stress over such things. (I’m a bit to much of an asshole (with classical statistics training at the level of grad school econometrics) to be anything other than bemused at best by their bald faced claims)
No amount of deconstructing the studies and deconstructing the health care we receive can mitigate the doctor who tells her our son needs x and not y.
Not to say that scientific medicine isn’t amazing. Just saying sometimes it gets ahead of itself.
> the government thought that this was a good time to remove much of the legacy that enforces Windows, and is considering Linux for one of its options.

Microsoft will just offer Windows for free and Office at a steep discount and nothing will change. Mark my words :-)
I doubt it will happen but I wish the consequences of filing false DMCA notices would be much more severe. Like Getty sending notices after images in the public domain, renditions of sheet music in the public domain on YouTube etc.
> Started consistently covering 50 new words a day on Anki

That's a lot! I could never do that... I'm learning Japanese, and I could never imagine myself doing more than 10 words a day.
No I was just joking.
If this bothers you enough, you may want to seek out a therapist. I don't want to and can't diagnose you over the internet, but certain phrases you use suggest to me there are some elements that they may be able to help you with.

On the self-help front, you may want to pursue mindfulness studies, with an eye towards the sort that helps you interrogate your own mind about why you feel the way you do. You may be surprised where that leads. Studying stoicism or other philosophies around acceptance may also help.

However, let me both open and close with the suggestion that professional help may be worthwhile. I do not mean that in a bad way, but a helpful way. I am all about self-help and independence and learning things and doing my own thing, but there's a limit to how far that can reach and sometimes you need direct external help.
“A complete disaster”: Fears grow over potential for Nevada caucus malfunction
Some interesting stuff in here.

On page 4, a note from Raj Reddy about a tape drive not working correctly. Reddy was an assistant professor at Stanford at the time (1967). He went on to win the Turing Award in 1994 for his work in AI. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Reddy)

But apparently he had time to play computer games. On page 15: "SPACE WAR BUTTONS DO NOT WORK. - Pingle and Reddy".

On page 1: "TTY 3 threw its drive belt". Anyone else here remember the days when terminals had drive belts? (On page 6, some output from one of their printing terminals pasted in.)

On page 10: "MY HARDWARE WORKS!". Looks like they were building custom hardware and hooking it up to this machine.

Here's the Wikipedia page for the PDP-6, complete with a photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-6
Shouldn't you adjust your expectations as the evidence comes in? If you think something should have been done differently, next time don't expect so much?

By updating your priors as evidence comes in, your disappointment is reduced.

I see incompetence everywhere, but I don't feel angry and depressed.

One thing that I've found essential is to have a reservoir of people who are dependably competent. A few guys who can actually code, some who understand the topics I'm interested in, and some who know some fields I'm not so good at.
Moore's Law Is Not Dead [Video]
this is correct
normal people don't get angry over little things like this
Imagine a world where the ability to make a personal app like this is actually as easy as making a home-cooked meal; a skill passed from parent to child in the natural course of growing up.
“Special Edition of Firefox”
As far as I know, phones don't permanently listen and transmit data to the cloud, like most home assistants do when they're (accidentally) activated by a cue word.
As a South Korean, I can definitely assure you that’s not the case. We definitely didn’t mandate the use of IE ‘6’... and while it’s true that until early to mid 2010s banking did mandate use of IE, it stopped as soon as the smartphones became mainstream. Almost all banks and shopping malls work on Chrome and mobiles as well.