skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the effort to make the stack fully transparent and learnable. This seems so important! I wish more people had the ambition to re-invent the basics of our computing platform to see how things could be different.

Now my question is does this learnability hold as the code grows? For example, would the transparency enabled by the stack be reflected in the codebase for a word processor built on this stack? I'd expect not. For one, I'm thinking about how the original program in my Marilyn Maloney demo (http://glench.com/MarilynMaloney/) had good primitives, grammar, and a visual representation, yet the code is still hard to understand and can be made much easier to understand with depicting behavior (the interactive UI I made).

Secondly, I'm thinking of the Alan Kay-ism "architecture dominates materials" i.e. the invention of the arch was much more effective than the invention of the brick. Mu seems like it could be a great, transparent material, but more important to how software is understood and modified is the architecture of how the material is organized (and personally I think this has a lot to do with UI design and human communication more than the technical foundation).
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These places are already overburdened by people living off of social security and disability insurance. At least with UBI they will get a better mix of working aged and abled bodied individuals.
If your parents are elderly, maybe a savings account is the right place for their money.
> My only concern about the new specs would be the thickness

https://youtu.be/SWY_bwFMxro?t=73

Made out of aluminium, so I don't think there should be worries about give. I think bendgate is still fresh in people's minds.
With lomorage, you can backup photos and videos to hard drive connected with Raspberry Pi, and digtal photo frames setup using raspberry pi zero w, photos and videos are fetched with WiFi from 3TB hard drive connected with Raspberry Pi 4. It is inspired by pi_video_looper and integrated with Lomorage to support image playback, also added support for heic format and jpg rotation in SDL image.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk
Indeed, the only "win" would have been to go on national TV and outline the ways that we had been preparing for something like this.

More like an "already gambled and lost" situation.
Fist off, its a virus not a microorganism. Second, high humidity reduces the spread of viruses. That is why you get the common cold more often in winter, when it is very dry.
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France could nationalize big companies if necessary: finance minister
As someone who was involved with the patent process for a "legitimate" invention -- meaning one that really was useful and did take considerable thought, time and money to design -- I was somehow both happy and disappointed with the patent lawyer's initial reaction. He said it was a pleasant change to be writing up something where there it a technical person supplying the information and the disclosure really was a genuine advance in the state of the art that might later benefit others. I think there was a recognition and perhaps even a little professional pride there that this was how things were always supposed to work.

He also said that a lot of the time they just get handed some sort of vague write-up with little if any help to understand it nor much access to any technical expert involved in creating it. They have to turn it into the right format to describe something and try and extract the key words or phrases that look interesting in order to build up the hierarchy of claims, but there's little real understanding there and the results probably reflect that.

Most saddening of all, he said that often works anyway, because ultimately a patent enforcement action is going to take place in a court, and it's likely to be a non-expert jury you have to convince of your case. Rather like a complex fraud trial, the issues involved may well be beyond the understanding of some of those jurors, and so to a regrettable degree. What wins cases can be who had the prettiest illustrations or had managed to coin the most intuitively relevant but still distinctive terminology.
> It's a legitimate concern.

We're in the midst of a pandemic and you still think giving undocumented/illegal immigrants access to social programs is a bad idea? Not doing so would seed clusters of infection that will cross over to citizens without asking to see their papers first. I suspect even the most nativist person in the country would agree that ICE arresting people in the ER would be a terrible idea, based on self-preservation alone.

While you may not agree with it, the idea of discouraging people from lurking in the shadows comes from a place of pragmatism, not kumbaya hippiness. Even red states apply this principle to combat opiate addiction.
OT, but as a fan of Django who doesn't know any other artists of the genre - do you have some recommendations? :D
From the rules: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. And: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive
> It seems more like an indictment of the speaker than of the rest of society.

It most certainly is, I have Christian friends that have used that exact line asking me how I can have morals as an atheist without the threat of a higher diety. As if being nice for the sake of just being nice is an impossible concept. Or in this case that only money would inspire me to do work. As we know from studies, money isn't the only incentive for innovation. In fact at a certain point, ~75k it tends to become less of an incentive.
I don’t mind. Printers often have a startup time of multiple minutes. And with printers we waste paper and we are required to refill them with ink or toner.

I will gladly use this e-Paper display instead in any situation where I want some kind of reference sheet like the parent commenter said, and where the resolution is sufficient.
You're right, I didn't want to get into a philosophical argument on technicalities.

That wasn't the point. The point is that a lot of these technicalities are self constructed justifications. Illusions and lies we tell ourselves to cope with our imperfection. I conflate because I don't care about the technicalities, I'm talking about something primal and simple.

In its most simplistic form, this is what I mean:

If I create a work of art to make money or even for just limited showings and you copy it and distribute it without my permission, than you are doing something wrong and you know it.

That's all. My argument is saying that anything on top of that is an attempt to justify your actions.
Yes, everyone hinting that xenophobia might not be a sensible pursuit when facing a pandemia is obviously a paid troll.

I'm German, BTW, and considering the history of our country I'm a bit sensible to things like this.
I wonder if as people get sufficiently good at a second language, particularly on the internet, people become more willing to nitpick.
in a lab setting. Being able to infect a cell line in a lab is rather different from being able to infect a person. German public broadcaster NDR has a good podcast with an actual virologist, the transcript (in German, deepl.com should do the trick) is at https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/14-Coronavirus-Update-Vo...
I still hate the idea of not being allowed to buy/sell used books, and the potential to spy on you, which everyone from kindle to Wacom has decided to do. Paper and paper books are just the way to go for now
The use cases that work best would be

- Slow transaction need

- Accounting-related items.

In my mind Supply Chain on a batch scale looks to be the the most promising area, but there don't seem to be many places that can't, or don't want to, manage this centrally. Ergo the network trust is not necessary.

dApps are promising, but why add the extra expense?
It looks amazing. My concern is that it's around $500. That's about the price of an iPad and Apple pencil. Is it really worth the asking price?
Ooh, yes. Thank you.
Absolutely, without question, yes.
We're talking about music from the 40s. The various copyright extensions are part of the problem.
Abstract weird hill. Book, irrespective of the medium, should provide information in an ordered fashion.
Printing words and pictures on paper was one of the many ways to express what the book author wanted to say in the times when screens were not invented.
The purpose of books was to communicate a thought, philosophy or a concept. If that can be done using technology without harming any trees, sign me up.
Books are books, irrespective of the medium they are delivered on.
Physical property rights are suspended in times of crisis. Why not intellectual property rights?

How is it ethical to let a debate about compensation, which can be had in the future, stop you from saving lives you can save, today? Especially when you're the state and it's literally your job.

Trying to prevent a coronavirus test being used because someone might owe you license fees for which you'll sue in court is plainly murder.

I think a lawyer arguing that should be at minimum disbarred, and possibly jailed, at least like someone who was violating quarantine and trying to infect people on purpose.
Should we keep doctors out of their places of work too? Or is their life worth risking? What about the police? What about people who keep electricity/water/communication services running? What about food and goods manufacturers? What about people who deliver that food and those goods? Want to talk rational? People are going to need things. How can you just expect _the_ most significant supply chain actor in the world to _stop_ functioning when supply is going to become vastly important?

It's so, so trendy to hate Amazon these days.

And I do keep myself and society safe. I am staying home, before the authorities even asked.

But if I was part of an essential supply chain, I'd be going to work. Because supply chains are important, especially when there's a virus going round, putting pressure on supply. I've even volunteered to deliver groceries at unsociable hours for an online grocery store, just to make sure that people get things like food in these difficult times.

Apparently telling people to stay home is the new social bandwagon of (dis)approval.
Users sure as hell didn't leave for BlueMoon or the other also-rans.

(And nobody is falling for your "leftist Nazi" shtick. It's quite telling that you can't even come up with terms for your imaginary opponents and have to fall back on misusing "fascist", "nazi", and "dictator", isn't it?

Here, in the interest of the English language, are some actual left-wing baddies you can use: Bolsheviki, Stalinist, Stasi, Politburo, Khmer Rouge, ETA (potential for puns here), (Popular|Democratic|Worker's) (Front|Army|Committee|Union) for (Liberation|Democracy|A Better Future|Legalisation)
Damn, say what you will about FB, that's a gesture and a half.
That I completely agree with. It just sounded like the parent suggested that a housing crash would somehow make real estate affordable for everyone, which clearly isn't the case, based on what happened in 2008.
Flat fee. All you can eat.

I don't want to do the cost-benefit analysis of "do I want to spend $X for this movie?". I can afford it, I'm not counting pennies, but when I see a price figure I spend a few seconds deciding whether it's worth it or not, and sometimes the answer is NO.

On subscription services you just click and enjoy. I'm already paying for it, the answer is always YES.

But there's a limit. I will not pay for 10 different services at $9.99/mo to have access to 70% of the movie repertoire. No way in hell.
We were actually in the perfect position to react appropriately to this virus and we completely failed. We saw what it did to China and their response yet we stalled for weeks. Those weeks matter. The only country that seems to have responded well based on what happened in China is South Korea. South Korea was in second place for total infected for a long time, but they responded incredibly well and have remained relatively stable for a while, and now others are rocketing past them.
I absolutely agree on the rental risk factor. It discourages discovery of new things. In addition to that, the rental terms on these services suck.

Here's an example:
A month ago, my wife and I rented Casino from Amazon Prime for like $3 or whatever. It is a long movie, so we paused half way through with a plan to finish it the next day. The next evening rolls around and we discover we only had 24 hours to finish it once we had started it. We just paid again cause its only $3, but also resolved to never rent from Amazon Prime again.

These systems are a worse experience than pirating. It doesn't have to be that way.
So, are the claims very general and therefore encompass all kinds of functioning and non-functioning medical devices?

Or do they very specifically describe Theranos' non-functioning tech?

It doesn't seem like they can be both.
That shirt... Is something.
Hi everyone, I have removed the 2.99 payment from my postcard chatbot while the quarantines or my wallet last. Send a postcard to a friend or family member who is helping to fight the pandemic or who need some extra love in general!
For those of us stuck working with vanilla GNU Make, you can still use $(shell) to accomplish a lot of what the Guile integration provides.

As an example, string-length can farmed out by something like:

strlen = $(shell printf "$1" | wc -c)

When combined with $(eval), you can use the $(shell) command to do some pretty complex stuff in your Makefile. I've used this for doing checksum-based dependencies on one oddball build.

It's not as nice as working with Guile, but it gets the job done in a pinch. And since the Guile interface doesn't have direct hooks into the DAG or anything, it doesn't really have access to tools that you couldn't provide by calling $(eval) on the result of a shell script.
Money given to people benefits people. Money given to the military benefits fewer people per dollar spent, and silly percentages of that military money is wasted and lost.

Every dollar you take from SS/Medic* impacts a person. You could cut the military budget by a large chunk before you'd have to actually impact a person.
Right, you and I get to pay the interest on all those grants and bailouts for decades to come. I think it's called "privatized upside, socialized downside".
I get the point you are trying to make but I think you have missed the undertone, which is generally accepted in the US: Most people in the US agree that without freedom of press, "checks and balances", etc, the US government would indeed become an authoritarian state with all the evils that entails.
My office, which sent everybody home, also got hand sanitizer for every conference room. The same conference rooms that nobody is using. It's a colossal waste. And I work for a FAANG. It would have been good if they had had to pay an inflated price for hand sanitizer and has therefore reconsidered and not contributed to the shortage.
Its concentration in lung can be 100 times or more of that in serum. This may be helpful for its efficacy against the virus.
Getting ready to nose dive totally.

Here in NC we just joined the list of states that have banned dine-in service entirely. Curbside or delivery only, after 5PM today.
Both are very classic traits of authoritarian gov: In times of crisis, it's far more efficient than democratic governments. However, in times of non-crisis, its centralized power and information control would cause a crisis that would've been otherwise avoided.
If people's retirement money is shrinking, it's not just "I'm not shopping anymore" it's "I have to save as much as I can to try to make up for attrition to just keep my rainy day fund afloat." I can't see how I'd want to invest when I know that the money I'm saving "just in case" is quickly disappearing on me. I need to keep putting money in my bank account to just to stay in the same place on the treadmill. It's basically putting in a constant overdraft fee.
This was during the COVID-19 outbreak?
I’m purposely not drawing an exact line. Nonetheless, when potentially hundreds of millions of lives are at stake globally, it’s safe to say we’ve crossed over into IP as a public good land.
If the core problem is that you don't have enough resources to do everything you set out to do, splitting those resources between two separate products doesn't help matters.
Lousy privacy policy on that site. Is there a better link?
How does Pale Moon maintain security for these legacy technologies?
We already power our iPads via POE< which is also how you'd power those beacons, so it's not really a great improvement.

BUT the idea that you would "tap in" to book it would be great.
I fail to see how a link to a Russian disinformation site represents trustworthy sources.
For what it's worth, I don't think my device has ever crashed. I wonder if there is a memory overflow bug such that different types of usage could lead to different crash frequencies?

>No idea why this is here

I agree it would be nice to turn off quick sheets for those who don't use it. For me, I love quicksheets. I often want to just grab the device, jot something down immediately, and put it away. Sure I could create a 'notes' file and put it somewhere obvious, but quicksheets reduces the time and effort for these quick notes.
It is suitable for reading PDFs, but don't expect much. It doesn't have a web browser and doesn't run Android apps.
Is it capitalism or a broken culture that celebrates avarice?

Capitalism + public industrial policy made some serious progress. Back in the day there used to be this word called "solidarity". Capitalism does quite well when divorced from the weird self-interest dogma we've cultivated over the past 30-40 years.
>And of course, you can defensively patent something and then not enforce the patent too...

That's the same point I made in the above post (albeit through the mechanism of free licensing vs. non-enforcement).

"They" is important because it wasn't self-funded research.

"There was near unanimity within the organization that the public had already paid for the polio vaccine through their donations"[1]

And it wasn't just the March of Dimes. The funding bodies also knew it wasn't patentable. It's not much of a logical leap for Salk to have been part of that discussion and likely had the same conclusion.

"is that legally it was thought to be unpatentable. The National Foundation and the University of Pittsburgh, where much of the work was done, had looked into patenting the vaccine."[2]

It's not meant to disparage Salk. I doubt he would have chosen to patent it even if it was possible. But, like I stated in the previous post, he was never faced with that decision. There's better examples of corporate altruism (some of which are already mentioned in this thread)

[1]https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/the-real-reasons-jonas-...

[2]https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-polio-vacc...
Hm, maybe there are regional differences, but I can only find some Fiji water for ~40$/0.1 gallons. There is actually some toilet paper which isn't too expensive. I guess you could also use the packaging for your derrière which would reduce the massive footprint of personally shipped toilet paper.
Once again at the expense of the worker.
What do you mean by preparing? What steps are you taking?
If you swipe two phones, you can double the resolution.
Glad to hear. I always assumed Yahoo was biased. Wasn't sure AOL was still around since Instant Messenger :)
Wow, so an authoritarian government did authoritarian things. Big surprise.
Let them sell off that stock they bought back and/or fail. New airlines would emerge... when/if the demand ever picks back up to what it was end of '19.
Umm ... requirements.txt and pypi? Sbt/Maven/Gradle and maven/ivy repos? package.json?

Unless you setup a local caching, non-deleting, JFrog artifactory for all your dependencies (only jar files are covered in the free version BTW, and there aren't any tools that handle all those repo types in the OSS world), you are going to depend on external URLs.

Locally caching dependencies is not trivial.
... and now I learn that NZ has done similar things to AU.
U.S. Postpones April 15 Tax Deadline for 90 Days for Millions of Americans
I don't think anybody's expecting them to fund both indefinitely, but given that their soon-to-be new CEO went on the record to say that they would actually keep funding Atom development, I feel it's fairly reasonable to expect that they wouldn't pull funding from Atom almost completely as soon as the acquisition went through. That's a really shitty move no matter how you look at it.
https://cbm-products.fandom.com/wiki/Busy_Bee_Software

can't find too much more.
>It’s not clear if Facebook will also give a bonus to contractors who are content moderators.

Let me guess: it doesn't.

Have Facebook contractors been given the right to work from home yet?
But why? Aren't most of their employees going to still be making their salary anyways? What do they need the extra money for?

The people in the economy that really need the money are not the people working at Facebook.

I mean, congrats to Facebook employees, I just don't understand why.
this sounds tone-deaf. Much better to give that money to employees other companies who actually need it.
Project Digs Deeper into Teenage Smartphone Use
Creative Commons is a thing and there is large repositories for CC content.

But it is true, outside of developers, nobody cares at all about Open Source and you mostly get weird looks if you try to explain. We are probably still bad at explaining it.
No, China and Macao both mean roaming data (not included in “local data” quota on regular plans), though the rates are good.
The traditional answer to this question, for centuries, has been: if you're poor, buy gold, by weight — although acid for the acid test is getting harder to come by these days, very precise electronic scales are easy; if you're rich, open a Swiss bank account — no longer an option available to US citizens.
At US$1534 per troy ounce, 20 kg of gold is worth US$986400, so you can carry your entire savings in a backpack in the form of gold if necessary. To a great extent this was illegal in the US from 1933, when the government confiscated all the gold and silver coins it could find, until 1974.

If you're buying today as opposed to two weeks ago you might consider some silver, because its price has been driven sharply down relative to gold by the recent flight to cash.

There are other options. You can use banknotes; although a US$100 bill has lost >90% of its value relative to gold since the end of the gold standard, 15 hundred-dollar bills still weigh less than an ounce. As we saw a couple of years ago in India, though, the government can declare your savings illegal with the stroke of a pen ("demonetization"), and then nobody in other countries will accept them anymore; less drastically, they can just print more money, producing inflation and having the same effect as a negative interest rate.

Gold and banknotes have the disadvantage that they're easy for bad people to steal from you, whether those bad people are the police ("asset forfeiture") or just have poor impulse control. Alternatives that are harder to steal: Bitcoin (although on Thursday it lost 50% of its value); treasury bonds (although they'll also lose value with negative interest rates and inflation); real estate (although some friends of mine had their house bulldozed by the government last year while they were fighting in court to keep it).

Diversify. And try to live somewhere that thinks that financial stability is more important than fighting drug trafficking or pedophiles or computer criminals or whatever excuse they're giving this year to take money from the poor and give it to the rich.