skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The existence of laws doesn't indicate the mood of society.

But if laws are proliferating and regularizing instead of standing still or being abolished, and one assumes that elected representatives are acting on the will of the people, it probably does.

There's lots of controversy over how to improve copyright / patent law, but not very many people in governments in the EU, US, China, Japan, Australia, &c are talking seriously about just burning the whole copyright / patent system to the ground. At least a subset of the countries in the groups listed are generally understood to have representative governments.
As Petzold said in Code, all the pieces for computers existed in the 1870s, but it wouldn't be until the second world war that any serious effort at leveraging computational power was attempted. All you had to do was take three unrelated disciplines & combine them into labor saving technology, right?

Evidence that humans, while excellent problem solvers suffer terribly at the creative aspect. In far too many disciplines only by already 'knowing' something can we solve for it. The real miracle is that we're here at this level at all.
I randomly got recommended this video about Ken Allen last week. Pretty good and funny video about this orangutan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgpcW8Hw4Y
I've criticized Feyerabend in the past, but I entirely agree with him in this case.
Als being homeless is a huge red flag for any job. It's a nasty spiral.
> “ET phone home”

Usually short phrases aren’t supposed to be protectable under copyright. However, when a defendant blatantly appropriates a well-known literary phrase for a commercial purpose like selling unlicensed merchandise, courts may make an exception.
Nice work. Don't yoy feel that content types would be nice to have under source control though? For auditing, rollbacks ...
They are still dual-issue out-of-order x86-64 cores. Same architecture as in Xbox One. Plenty of power for the TDP.
I’m pretty sure all roads above 55mph in the US are restricted access (exit/entrance ramp only) interstates - not highways with stoplights and intersections.
$3.4T has been wiped out of the stock market in a week
IIRC they circulated a video along those lines in the wake of the Charleston church shooting to capitalize on the topic for marketing purposes. It was a very oversimplified video designed for the quick "FACT! In your face!" social media argument.

If they are a conservative outlet then that video was specifically designed to engage non-conservatives so that they could reach them and that would make sense if that was the mission.

As for the the actual causes, there really is a lot of complexity to it.

The short version:

- 11 states seceded

- There were only 4 declarations of causes (SC, Georgia, Miss, Texas)

- Secession happened slowly over the course of many months, from November to May

- The border states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Arkansas seceded in direct response to Lincoln's requisition for troops. The request bypassed Congress.
Virginia legislature in particular took it as an abuse of executive power.

The viral video put out by Prager quickly listed off the states that seceded and oversimplified by saying "all the declarations of causes" which insinuated that each state produced such a declaration. It gave the appearance that the secessions were something of a quick and unified action.

It hit all of the necessary points for a viral share though. Gave the appearance of an educational entity delivering a quick video to support the "everybody in the south was evil" rhetoric.

If you ever really deep dive into the history, there was a lot going on, so seeing something like that from an "educational" institution immediately put them on my propaganda radar. I haven't seen much else from them since.
No, I don't think so. People can be extremely stubborn, yes, but sooner or later, reality is going to force them to make a change. No amount of stubbornness can change the laws of physics. Note that I am not claiming that things will get better for these stubborn people, in fact I'm claiming that things will get much, much worse for them when reality gives them a wake-up call, and there will be nothing they can do about it at that point because it'll be too late to fix things.
Even if you run the CI on your own network, if it can't check out from Github it isn't going to have the latest code unless you're hosting your own repos for CI. Developers will need to push their changes to CI Git in addition to Github. Its certainly possible but far outside the practices of what most companies relying on Github are likely to do for the once or twice a year it goes down briefly.
Neverwinter Nights?
This is a friends start up idea/ project. Any constructive criticism is welcome!
I only use them when I'm sick.
>> you now have single-factor authentication

In many cases that factor is now Google's security vs. the same reused password that is your hobby + the year you graduated high school. It this is what makes it convenient enough to always use, it's probably still a step up. It's at least a better, slightly more distributed factor. And even then they're distinct systems, possibly not even within the same cloud.
Authy. Fantastic replacement app. makes backing everything up a snap. I can log into Authy on one device by allowing on another, etc.
You’re ignoring how teams actually work in this analysis. You’re not giving one guy a raise, you’re giving everyone a raise. And they all know it. So your call center workers can quit their second jobs, and get to solutions much faster because they can think more clearly. Your admin people now want to do professional level work out of appreciation. Your sales team has enough money to live that they can focus on big clients rather than taking a bunch of tent accounts to get commissions every month. So the entire company starts to perform better, and because everyone is in a better mood they work together more too. This is all missed by a strictly Taylorist analysis treating each employee individually and assuming their output are independent. Humans are social and they need to sleep to operate well. Paying them more makes them more social and lets them rest more instead of working for someone else. By paying a living wage you’re effectively buying the highest productivity you can get from your team which happens to be a lot.
> The current Mozilla Gecko codebase has seen a flow of constant major changes and api removals in the last 2 years and is no longer really usable for our needs. By the end of the year the SeaMonkey project is expected to be completely independent of Mozilla

Wow, that’s... something. Keeping a browser engine of that size maintained independently is going to be quite a task.
I was thinking about this thread and came up with a potential useful suggestion.

We use our phones quite a bit. In hospitals, they are considered pretty dirty because the pick up a lot of germs.

We do not always have the opportunity to wash hands and their is a good chance we transfer germs to our phones.

I thought it might make sense to wipe the phone down at the end of the day with a chlorox wipe or rubbing alcohol. Then immediately wash your hands.

Side note, I tend not to handle those wipes directly as the chemicals are not great for your skin.
so what? Old ladies can be warm and very helpful too
Here in Amsterdam where the 1st case was reported today, my company sent an email stating: travel to at-risk countries is restricted, emergency number and email in case of problem while traveling, WFH when coming back from an infected country and recommendations like washing our hands, etc.
now compare with https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI-DSS-v3_2_...
I solved this problem for myself 30 years ago by turning up outside the local Manpower offices at 7am with safety boots on. The local construction gangs picked up any extra workers they needed for the day there, and it was halfway decent cash-in-hand work. I earned enough for my share of the deposit for a house share with a mate, and the rest was easier once I had an address.

But times have changed and I very much doubt that would work any more.

However, now there is Upwork (and several other similar). If you can meet the basics with that: a bank account, a network connection, a laptop, a basic understanding of PHP and enough Google Fu to understand a Stack Overflow answer, etc, then you can actually make some money there. It's not very interesting, but it does pay money.
Multicore OCaml: Feb 2020 update
My index fund (or well-diversified, medium-long-term portfolio) is not in a competitive relationship with other index funds. That's not how that works.
>Programmer geniuses often can’t see the forest for the trees

Indeed, this is true. Likewise politicians often know nothing of how trees and forests actually work; and make absurd proposals which primarily serve their interests and pretend to care about a saving a few trees while endagering the entire forest.

Weakening everyone's security in order to weaken a small minority of criminals' security by default results in a net decrease in society's overall security
Roughly half of voters voted for this. Non-voters do not count in a democratic system. I'm not counting "people", I'm counting voters. Non-voters are quite simply irrelevant. If you don't make your voice heard, then you're implicitly allowing others to speak for you.
I have created something similar, but ofc much simpler years ago. You can even feed it by mouse.

when cell collide, the bigger one take life points from the smaller. Cells give birth randomly with slightly changed DNS (color, speed, etc)

play in browser:

http://life.viralpoetry.org/
The poster. It used to be that shares/retweets were used to put a post on your friends feed and likes were used to express support/appreciation to the poster/creator.

Twitter always had the problem where faves (now likes) were public but people didn't always realize – they were used as a combo of bookmarks and upvotes. But even then, there was a difference between having your likes viewable on your profile and when they started randomly showing your likes on followers' feeds.
Tangentially relevant is Adam Neely's take on that lawsuit: https://youtu.be/0ytoUuO-qvg.
Out of curiosity why?
most likely true. these days you have to be a well funded company that has enough cash to jump through the hoops. the cost of entry these days is astronomical. hence very few players on the market.
Sure, my address is shell@alterednarrative.net.
Show HN: Derek – reduce fatigue by automating GitHub
My Google Authenticator data survived me migrating to a different phone because my flow is:

1. Backup old phone using Titanium Backup.

2. Get new Android phone.

3. Root it.

4. Copy TB backup files from old phone to new.

5. Restore apps and data on new phone using Titanium Backup.

Obviously it's not a procedure a normal user is expected to do...
this is true. And I guess it could result in couchsurfing to stay off the streets, at least.
Which is why they eventually had to release something like PhyreEngine.
Back in the day I worked for Atari, writing game cartridges for their line of home computers. I had a decent relationship with marketing and had developed a reputation as one of the more helpful geeks.

One fine day a marketing guy knocked on my door and asked:

"What would it take to print out every possible eight-by-eight bitmap? We want to copyright them so our competition can't use them."

Seriously.

So I told him the story about the king who wanted to reward the inventor of chess, and upon being asked what he wanted the inventor said "one grain of wheat for the first square, two for the second, four for the third..."

I thought a bit, and added "I think that printout would outweigh the planet."

He went away. I was not a helpful geek that day.

Later I realized that I had only considered black-and-white bitmaps, and that preempting copyright on color bitmaps would have meant a lot more planets.

There's got to be a Douglas Adams style tie-in here somewhere involving aliens with planet-chewer-uppers invading and taking Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and then us for some cockamamie copyright scheme in another galaxy . . .
>The big issue with your reasoning: racism isn't an opinion, it's a crime.

Some manifestations of it are in some jurisdictions. How is that an issue with my reasoning?

>You're talking about freedom, but for good reason you wouldn't give the jihadists the rights you're claiming. Neither fascists nor Muslim terrorists deserve those rights.

Do you want a civil war against these "fascists"?

>And if you say it's not comparable, please reminds that for the past 12 months, there has been more terror attacks committed by white racists than Muslim jihadists in Western countries.

How many white racists do you think there are in Western countries?
For a long time you could see a friends like history on Instagram.

When you told friends that, a fair number of them would look like, “oh fuck.”
1) That's just plainly and self-evidently silly. `0 0 * * 0 certbot --nginx`. Season to taste. (There are more involved options out there--but you bought into them by making other choices ahead of time, and that's a learning experience for you to better understand your tradeoffs in the future.)

2) 20 years' expiration is a security risk that should not be taken. Letting you do that would be a bad idea not just for you--you can make stupid decisions on your own--but for anyone who connects to you, and you aren't entitled to do that.

I don't understand why someone who is theoretically a programmer would be so odd about this.
Music lawsuits can be based on about as much information as they're conveying. I think that's their point, too. I don't believe they were trying to be satirical, they wanted to prove a point about the nature of music itself that could be used in defending musicians against lawsuits.

One of the items they were trying to point out, often abused in lawsuits for pop music, is the idea of "Access". If you came up with an idea all by yourself, but a similar song exists that is popular enough, the court argues that just by there being the possibility that you heard it, you therefore definitely heard it and then copied it.

If this music set exists, and is freely available, shouldn't it be considered that you had reasonable access to it and therefore stole it? No, of course not, that would be a ridiculous assumption and so is the current outlook of a song being popular being enough proof that you stole the idea.

Not to mention, music is extremely formulaic. Chord progressions have a natural tendency to certain forms, with centuries of prior art, rhythm within genres of music is often the same, even melodies have a trend toward particular combinations (leading tones over chord progressions bring about lots of similar sounding solos).

Any musician trying to claim copyright for their music should remember that their song only exists on the back of centuries of musical exploration. Consider how much of the song you can say is truly novel, it's going to be nearly nothing.

The combination of lyrics + chords + melody is in my opinion, the absolute minimum you need to claim a song has been copied. Lyrics are derivative, melodies are derivative, chord progressions are derivative, but together they have the chance to be a unique combination.
The robot business isn't bad... Story for another day. But it's my first startup, the test automation SaaS business that's currently making the big $$. Literally any company with a web site or mobile app needs to test their stuff. It's a huge market.
It reminds me of that old line, “it’s not enough that I win, everybody else has to lose.“

But, how do companies who behave like to stay in business, though? Doesn’t backbiting or treachery slowly destroy the whole enterprise?
Well, while some of the quarantine measures might seem excessive (and at thje same time ineffective, it seems), cancelling completely unnecessary sporting events or trade fairs certainly is a good idea if it can even slightly slow down the growth of new cases.

The point people often miss is that officials (at least in Germany) are not concerned with a major decimation of the population. But they are concerned that the high rate of contagion this virus seems to have combined with the high percentage of cases requiring hospitalization (even if its only 10% of the cases) would completely overwhelm the health care system. Mind you, there is at the same time a influenza epidemic (like every year) that is already taxing the resources.
Yet to get around to using, but this looks like it may be good: https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox
That's absolutely true! However, I think restricting corporate speech is a misguided way of going about balancing the free speech rights so that the wealthy can't overwhelm the rest of us with their ability to marshal the (digital) presses. Like I pointed out in my original comment, restricting corporate speech would hurt individuals of lesser means as much, if not more, than it would hurt wealthy individuals.

The real "problem" is that the US has the First Amendment, which guarantees both free association and free speech in a relatively absolutist manner. Unrestricted corporate speech is a result of the confluence of those two conditions. I can associate with whomever I please, so long as it is not for a criminal purpose, and I can say whatever I want (subject to the usual restrictions around threats and direct incitements to violence). So of course, I can gather with like-minded individuals to say things more loudly.

I don't think the solution to this "problem" has anything to do with speech laws. The root cause, as you pointed out, is the massive disparities in wealth. If we addressed that, then the problem of the wealthy being able speak more goes away, without us having to weaken the First Amendment, a step I am very averse to taking.
Along with muslims, billionaires, homosexuals, communists, jews, vegans, nazis and libertarians.

Pretty much the only people who are persecuted in the west are whistle blowers, zoophiles and pedophiles.
Times are hard. Lie about your background.

Say you worked in a cafe for many years, then learnt programming, then show them some projects you’ve done (simple websites etc) and attempt to get an entry level job. I know many people who found entry level jobs this way.

But let me reiterate what a previous poster said: try to find a church. Offer them IT support. Ask them about their network. They often help the homeless: eating restaurant/cafe food wastage together, giving away clothes donations.

If nothing else, you may find a friendly ear, and people who value community. Your own religious beliefs or lack thereof do not matter.
But a melody over one chord progression, versus the same melody over another chord progression, is surely a different song.
it doesnt have to be, you can tune a D&D session to suit the audience, such as making it heavy on the board game or card game side

the thing about 70s style D&D is the liberal arts involvement as role playing is really thespianism

the costumes and the soapboxing as people play out thier characters was really something
Maybe I'm a zealot, but I don't really consider "doesn't work as well on windows" a con of a language.

C# is (or at least used to be) utter garbage on Linux compared to Windows. I don't hold that against C#, but rather recognize that Linux/Windows are very different, and that compiler maintenance and development is non-trivial (and obviously Microsoft is going to prioritize Windows).

This article is basically a rant that Go was designed with *nix in mind and that Windows is a second-class citizen by comparison.
Looks like a fun weekend project
I've been actually wondering what they might use if they want to keep 4 cores. V1500B looks nice but it is rated 12-25W.

https://www.amd.com/en/product/8496
Not everywhere, but Montana has a tiny, tiny fraction of the total population, and no large cities at all. In much of the country, for most of the population (which mostly lives in urban/suburban areas), it is as I described.
This. If HR are involved at all, then they'll gatekeep you. If you can get past HR and make contacts with the actual decision makers, there's more chance.

The local Golang meetup has a "20 seconds for anyone to say anything" spot. If someone turned up there and said "I know Go and I'm looking for a job, but I'm homeless can anyone help?" then I'm damn sure someone would.
Nothing is wrong with you. First fix your self esteem, stop beating yourself up.

So now since temp agencies are not hiring. Go gangster. Look at the nearest biz getting customer complaints. If you can stop the customer complaints than talk to the owner and sell him or her on hiring you even if its few hours a week. Should work as they have an immediate pain problem they want to go away.

I hope it helps and please talk to more people and ask for help.
The popular story has cetainly inverted the significance of Galileo and Kepler to the scientific story. The rise in prominence of Galieo's story is partly due to its use in anti-clerical, and often specifically anti-catholic, rhetoric in the 18th. and 19th. centuries.
2/3rds about platform FS incompat, last third about only a couple of things like time comparisons being monotonic now (does more good than bad IMO).

I suspect if issues of such importance are enough to make you want off the "wild ride", you will not find a ride suitable.
Reddit CEO calls TikTok “spyware” and “fundamentally parasitic”
> one assumes that elected representatives are acting on the will of the people

Yeah, that's the assumption I take issue with.
Before posting this, did you give them this feedback directly?
For humans, maybe it's not. But making an AI that's good at free-form interactive storytelling won't be easy.
> The Netherlands has a generous social system that I can't access because I'm not actually from here.

Then any reason why you are there? Are you allowed to legally work in the Netherlands.

> there's not actually any support in the UK for people like me

I'm pretty sure there is. 2/3 of British families receive some kind of benefits in Britain. You might have to ask for it. I also suspect there is more to this story (like do you have something serious in your records).

I'd go to the British Embassy, ask them to get me to the UK, present myself to the government and ask for any help. Then proceed to the plan outlined previously.

Heck, I'm from Tunisia, an almost non-functional and bankrupt country and the government does have some benefits (like food, basic medical care) for the really in need.
It also makes it clear they realise the limitations of the exercise (it isn't nearly all possible melodies), and it shows their motives a bit better too (helping protect against corporate music copyright trolls).
Well, interstates are highways. It's the Interstate Highway System.[1]

And outside cities, there are some highways with speed limits over 55mph without restricted access.[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Sta...
Here’s the thing. I consider myself fairly responsible but I’ll bet I’m far more likely to lose my phone than it is that my Authy and Dashlane credentials are both compromised, which are my pw manager and Authenticator app. You have to choose your risks and for a lot of people an authy like feature is much safer overall than GA.
About 40% of US adults are obese, government survey finds
CodeBERT
Uh okay, lots of "but windows" and a few misinformed takes about the http lib (using contexts over using a client instance with a timeout set) alongside ripping apart a random package I've never used or heard of for having a huge dependency graph.

Such a long article, for this?
In Switzerland you don't get the same day off depending on what canton you work at. And sorry, that Swiss banks don't plan their software release schedule, around carnival.

1000s of people need to get to and from the train-station, to go to their jobs and the city makes almost no extra arrangements.
Does anyone know if these presentations were recorded and videos will be posted?