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> There no moral high ground in deciding to give away other people’s things.

Copyright does not have the moral high ground either. The fact is most books should already have entered the public domain. However, the public was cheated out of its rights due to ever increasing copyright durations. Why should authors and publishers retain monopoly rights to works for over a hundred years? It should be a few years at most and that's being exceptionally generous.

There's absolutely nothing moral about copyright. When properly constrained to a reasonable duration, it could be considered a necessary evil at best. In its current form, it is equivalent to rent seeking and should be straight up abolished.
"Except that no one says white people that hire friends--most of which are white friends from their childhood and school background--are racially motivated and yet the impact is white people hire more white people. This implicit bias might not be intended to be harmful, but it is racially informed."

Except they do. In fact, you're saying it right now.
I've read a fair bit of military history, and I'm fairly confident the moon landings were not done using a green screen, so please elaborate on which 2 of these are not true.
> But by the way, if you read the issues from a while back

> you'll see that AlexeyAB's fork basically scooped them,

> hence the version bump.

Yeah that sucks, but it does mean they should have done some proper comparison with YOLOv4.

> This took a while, probably because there is actually very

> little documentation for Yolov3 and there was confusion

> over what the loss function actually ought to be. The

> darknet repo is totally uncommented C with lots of single

> letter variable names. AlexeyAB is a Saint.

Maybe I'm alone, but I found it quite readable. You can quite reasonably understand the source in a day.

> The v4 release was also quite contentious.

Kind of, I am personally still evaluating this network fully.

> I disagree on your second point though. Demanding a paper

> when the author says "we will later" is hardly a blow off.

Checkout the translation of "you can you up,no can no bb" (see other comments).

> And before we knock Glenn for this, as far as I know, he's

> running a business, not a research group.

I understand, but this seems very unethical to take the name of an open source framework and network that publishes it's improvements in some form, bump the version number and then claim it's faster without actually doing an apples to apples test. It would have seem appropriate to contact the person who carried the torch after pjreddie stepped down from the project.
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Of course would a facebook post not change OP's mind. Other cultures can also have different definitions of friendship. They might even call American friends, flakes.

What is the definition of friend, if yours don't think of you when deciding to reallocate a quarter billion dollars?

I think there are no sides to this conflict.
The system is in conflict with itself, and we're barely able to control it at this point.
Are you really conflating the under representation of black people in corporate boards and management with conservatives? I mean seriously, that’s not even a serious argument.

Let’s go ahead and ignore the systematic and historical oppression of minorities and black people in particular, if anything conservatives have dominated business culture and are over represented in leadership positions of companies.

Reddit, if anything is an outlier, not some propped up example of oppression of conservative voices.

But I take your point. And I agree people should hire from across the political spectrum.
Because the APIs where too permissive and plugins would be a threat to privacy of the user because they could intercept everything.
Oh look, the conversation has turned unpleasant again. How unpredictable.
That sounds interesting. Does it exist as an audio book?
Rex Krueger is worth checking out too. The series he’s been making now is all about getting started with real woodworking using minimal inexpensive tools. There’s some craft-historical topics too especially in his approach to workbenches: he first makes a simple low bench in an old Roman style (inspired by Christopher Schwartz’s research) and later an English workbench with a big leg vise. Both relatively easy constructions from cheap softwood with ingenuity and definite pragmatism.
Easier and more performant to work on a subset of the repo. That is, if you're in folder /repo/foo/bar, it should have a mode so that it only checks anything in the bar folder. That can probably be added to Git though.
Yeah, try signing up fro steam with your protonmail.ch address... I have a personal .nl one, also caused me some grief in the past, it is the reason I still have my gmail address, because it always works.
This makes me think of the Von Neumann bottleneck. How much do you think our CPU designs are affecting the high level languages of today?
If the point of contention guns specifically, or people defending their homes to the point of killing someone?

America has more than just a few home invasions and murders. If someone is trying to break into your home, especially at night, there's a high chance that that person is not only willing to maim or kill you, but planning to do so. America has around 1 million home invasions per year and help isn't always nearby. Waiting can easily result in the victim being killed.

The man who shot at police here was worried that someone would end up killing him or his girlfriend. Unfortunately, he was right.
> From the patents it looks like I can thank inventors Mr. Krause and Mr. Chernov for their freedom sucking, major appliance disabling, communist, 1984-esque idea.

I know it’s just a figure of speech. But having DRM on a fucking fridge filter is the most capitalistic idea that I have ever seen. Communists don’t do this.
No, the Movable Type license change that drove massive migration to Wordpress happened in 2004.
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All Spivak books are masterpieces (including the last one about physics).

By "Axler", you surely mean the one with the catchy title, about linear algebra. I find it unbearable. The book says: "determinants are difficult and nonintuitive"; anybody who understands determinants: "man, it's the damn area and volume".
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Could you site your source for "their net assets are only a couple million dollars"? Knowing the scope of the organization, that number would surprise me.
I like Spivak's Calculus but I think it's a lot of effort to learn Calculus from (probably very rewarding though). I've currently been studying from Real Analysis 1 by Terrance Tao and I find the explanations to be great, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811017896.
Look into teachyourselfcs.com. They have a good list of areas every good programmer should be comfortable with and a recommendation for books/lectures that teaches that well. They explain why each area is important to learn and why the book is an apt choice.

They recommend Kurose and Ross for networking too, though I disagree. I feel like High Performance Browser Networking (free at hpbn.co) is superior.
I can’t help but read this and think that this is a good thing... especially knowing Logitech uses these chips and the scummy things they have been known to do to sabotage the resale value of the hardware they make. [0]

Is there any meaningful downside to anyone but Nordic and Nordic’s customers?

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/esiv9b/psa_...
Why would that be relevant to treating those who disagree in a charitable way?
Lest someone think this is a US thing, this is true in India as well which has a fairly different medical system. Hospitals are struggling to stay afloat and many nurses and ancillary staff have been laid off. Doctors in India are typically independent contractors and not employed by hospitals.

Not only are no non-essential activities happening, many essential ones are also being pushed back and people are dying as a result. There are multiple stories of people not being able to go for dialysis because hospitals insist on a negative COViD test to admit you and authorities don't allow you to get tested if you are not showing COViD symptoms. It is a catch-22 that can be resolved only if you are well-connected or rich.

Also, in knock-on effects, immunization programs are severely impacted, and many infectious diseases are likely to make a huge comeback with the monsoon season since typical mitigating measures for those were put on hold. The non-COViD death toll will be massively above typical years.
"That China has everyone's face 3D scanned by now (multiple photos from multiple angles), everyone's voiceprint, everyone's IP, transcripts of what was said and by who"
As a native Chinese, I haven't been scanned by 3D scanner. How do you get this conclusion?
I make it a point to always expand DRM as digital restrictions management. The world hardly needs more doublespeak.

> This website is best viewed with proper web browsers such as Lynx or Elinks.

I love it!
I loved Willard's General Topology.
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I'm still using the last free Sketchup, with some ancient plugins that only work with that version :(.

Of all of Google's completely selfish moves in terms of turning their backs on viable products, selling off Sketchup seems to be pretty high on the list of worst offenders.
Transport encryption isn't something I'd mention when talking about "Encrypted File Storage", I'd assume that to either don't matter or be the default.
Product as a Service at its finest

You buy a thing, but still don't own it after the purchase.

Think of having to pay rent to live in your own house.
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> cursed O(n^2) of "infinite" scrolling

What exactly is that?
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By exactly this same line of reasoning, don't libraries present a loss of revenue for publishers because people can borrow a book that they otherwise would have to pay for and purchase? One book may be borrowed hundreds, if not thousands of times.
> I have never seen this be the case, though I can only speak for start-ups and early post-IPO eras.

That’s usually because the founder(s) still have majority control at that point so the board just takes an advisory role. The dynamic completely changes when the board members can form a majority and remove the entire C suite.
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> As a result, the US usually has lower generic drug prices than the EU or Canada

Doing a quick over the internet comparison, comparing with actual visits to different countries: the "simpler" generics seem to be cheaper in the US (as in, getting hundreds of ibuprofen or acetaminophen capsules for a couple of dollars) where things like allergy medication or more specialized drugs are more expensive.

So the "average" might be cheaper (weighted by what?) but the distribution is certainly more long-tailed in the US
You do an incredible job with Hacker News! For those of us interested in the subject matter I feel this place is in the top 5 sites on the Internet.

The irony here is that while Hacker News is not growth-driven and that's surely part of what makes it great, the bills are paid by a firm that couldn't be more focused on growth.

Here's a thought, which is probably far too political for its own good but oh well. The characteristics of the software industry (both the ones we love and hate) boil in great part down to IP and business law... why not get behind legal reforms that would mitigate the growth at all cost environment. For instance if America had a better antitrust framework then some of the more predatory business plans out there might never have been written. And Stallman, the FSF etc. have been out there for many years pushing us to think about IP in a way that has had enormous societal benefits.
Pretty much the opposite advice than http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
It sounds like you are trying to say that when you are asked for a source for your claims, that you see that as confirmation that you are right?
Edward Tufte's books, "Envisioning Information" and "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information".

Why suggest these books that seem just about graphic design, to an audience of mainly software developers? Well, aside from the stylistic points about graphical plots and figures, it is more deeply about being able to communicate effectively, with intention.

I find that all too commonly, many junior people who code are unable (or maybe more charitably, unpracticed) at formulating arguments or explanations for why something exists in the form it does, or how it ought to be designed, in a way that they can coherently explain to someone not deep in their code. It usually means that they have not spent time thinking about it deeply, and are stuck in the "show me lines of code to explain what something is" mode of thinking. Or that they can only explain the approach in terms of the specific lines they are writing -- they have not moved beyond that level of understanding.

I won't say it to the person generally, but I really have to bite my tongue when working with someone who has no way of explaining something (at an overall approach level) other than showing me lines of code. Stepping out of that realm into graphical communication is one way.

Being able to think graphically in a coherent way as a software developer means you start to think about how to explain your work to others as more than lines of code -- and in explaining to others, improving your own understanding of what you're writing. Btw, it also probably means that you're more likely move beyond the role of just a plain old software developer and become someone responsible for the design of systems, the direction of work.
Though the period in question here is between 400 and 1100, so it ends before the renaissance. But I don't think that time was only constant fighting, especially when comparing to the renaissance.
It's a modified version of the official YouTube app, which is also closed source.

It doesn't really affect whether you can trust it or not, but it's probably unreasonable to expect them to deliver something they don't have.
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If PHP is a rusty saw, what isn't?

There are hundreds maybe thousands of languages. And when you measure all things (expressiveness, stdlib, productivity, ability to build a team, etc.) PHP would come up in TOP10 for any webapp.

Of course, it has its gotchas. So does Clojure, Ruby, Python, C#, etc. Honestly, once a person knows PHP very well, switching a language has almost no impact besides their "feeling".

I have switched from PHP to Clojure 8 years ago. I feel better. But I am not significantly more productive. The brevity of code is higher, abstractions easier to do, overall it just feels better. But it's not a silver bullet. At the end, when a huge amount of webapps are mainly working with a database, validation, putting data to templates, and all the auth staff. All this is usually well developed in existing frameworks and libs without any extra overhead. There's not a lot of space for elegant abstractions in average webapp.
I'm assuming that rape is still illegal, or ("if the police refuse to do their jobs") that some extralegal mechanism exists.
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If you’ve put keys or IP in that chip and thought that readout protection would help you, then you’d be hurting right now. There’s a high chance that you’re only doing so if you’re a customer, though, and if you thought that this would actually protect your stuff you’re fairly misguided.
Yes, it's the copycat behavior that unnerves me.

I'm constantly censuring myself already, and only speak when I know what I'm talking about. Someone said talk is cheap but that's not true for everybody.

Words might be cheap, but getting them out...that's expensive if you happen to be
an introvert.
Why haven't you refactored those 3-letter variables to more descriptive ones?
In other words, it's a place so filled with hate and racism that you're ashamed to admit being a part of.
That was my first sampler as well! I have no idea how I got rid of it.
But, Just Eat and co did solve it with volume; they made it possible for countless food places to add delivery to their repertoire, and their app added discoverability.

I would never have learned about local food places if it wasn't for that app.
I'm pretty sure the USSR would have loved to have technical enforcement mechanisms available so that the great unwashed masses could only use "domestic products" anywhere.

Although, to be fair: a capitalist fears nothing more than a truly free market.
And it was hardly the only one around at the time, many other libraries in many other Greek cities with Pergamum probably being the most notable.
Plans are now on hold: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-11/bhp-halts-aboriginal-...

I expect this means that even if it goes ahead in the future, the traditional owners will get a big payout (beyond whatever was signed in 2015)
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At the end of the book, you are able to design the entire computer architecture from humble logic gates.
In other words, it's a place so filled with hate and racism that you're ashamed to admit being a part of it.
But why would I filter potable tap water?

If it really tastes that bad in a particular region, central filters that you install where the pipe enters the house are cheap. Just make sure to get one that you can use generic filter media with (ie it's basically just a tube of some standard size).
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Google offers archival storage at $14.4 /TB/a so about $1mm/a + access costs.
> HN is one of the highest concentrations of intelligence on the planet [...]

Oh please. It's mostly just another tech forum.
Nice! Fellow Scandinavian here.

Just some feedback. I think the free tier was a little unclear.

> Free

> Personal use

> 1 user

> 1 meeting room

I have trouble reading this. It's as if I coule only create one room for myself without having anybody to chat with.
Modern policymaking is about optics, and the simple fact is being employed looks better on paper for the people, so that's what politicians will push for. Doesn't matter that overall it's worse for everyone.
> How is this different from professional woodworking?

Professional wood-shop costs easily >$100K :)

Number one cost factor, IMHO, is space for a shop.
You need enough room to store and handle lumber.
If you have that, you can start with hand tools (saws, chisels, planes) for let's say ~300$.
This will in-principle allow you to do everything.
People have done this for ages, this way.

Power tools make woodworking much faster. I would start with a jig saw, drill press, circular hand saw. This will be another ~800.

The first expensive mile stone is the table-saw.
This will be the most used tool in your shop.
Everything gets better when you have access to a good table saw. I have spent 1.2K on mine.

Next upgrades are miter-saw, band saw, planer, jointer. They need a lot of space and are not cheap.
This is were you enter the more professional realm.

To get high quality versions of all that tools will cost a lot of money.
Oftentimes ebay has used tools for small money.
E.g. I bought 15 hand planes for ~100 EUR last year and 50EUR for a used drill press.

Happy woodworking!
This idea, implied in your comment, that information should have the same legal treatment that a physical object it's not so obvious to me.
Very interesting! Can you do it for world news.
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> to imply that the native communities... can't be trusted to know how to use money to improve their communities?

I am not implying that though. Please do not put words in my mouth.

> but the idea that ...

This is not what I said.
Copyright is neither moral nor immoral. It simply gives people who create content the ability to exercise certain property rights over that content for a certain period of time. There would be nothing immoral about abolishing copyright, but if you did then you could be sure that a lot less people would be willing to spend years writing the books you enjoy reading, or millions of dollars creating the TV shows and movies you enjoy watching.

Whether or not you think the existing copyright laws have exceeded their purpose is a completely different discussion, and one that is not at all related to this particular topic at all. Because the Internet Archive did not only violate copyright for content benefiting from whatever your opinion of excessive copyright is, they violated it for all the content they had.
There are phone apps you can use to do that automatically. I think most of them are designed for mechanical watches, but they could probably handle a clock ticking, too, unless the sound profile is weird.

At 240 fps, iPhone slo-mo would need about a minute or three of filming to get a decent measurement of accuracy, so audio is generally more convenient.
I don't mind some changes that were made though - like people respecting your personal space more, cleaning shopping carts (that was never done before), and personal hygiene like washing hands and sneezing.

But there are some problematic developments happening as well which should be stopped in their tracks; additional government powers with no deadline, tracking apps and the abuse of phone data, etc.
This look amazing.
The application looks so diverse !
Can someone know if it can be applied on msgpack ?
Develop domain knowledge of the motor car. Ever more outlandish scenarios to enable you to make money from software in an open source way.
Well I want to develop software for devices people already have, their PCs.
Nobody but some software developers and those who don't want to pay anything cares if the software is open source or not.
Proprietary software has worked well for business for decades. It's more likely to be maintained and extended because it's paid for.
In my market there's cut throat competition between various proprietary software companies. All have developed software to migrate each others' data.
Don't like software A then go with software B or C or D.
Diversity in backgrounds, not diversity in skills. You don’t hire incompetent board members to check a box anymore than you hire programmers who can’t program to check a box.
Please, let's switch from facebook to in person interaction, without technology. Does anyone really remember how facial expressions work anymore?
> or are you just pulling that out of your ass -- I mean theorycrafting?

That seems really uncharitable, he's just trying to better understand the issue and reason about why it may not have been an issue for him. Can we not all agree that if there are objective flaws in PHP, speaking about it objectively might be the simplest way to communicate it? I feel like you're quite emotionally charged, which isn't always a bad thing but I could imagine it being quite discouraging for other people to deal with.
My friend imports medicines from India. While US often accuses Indian companies of selling shoddy quality drugs, it's interesting they wanted HCQ from India and didn't question its quality.
What is the specific 'backdoor point' you take issue with? Comparing a thing to a thing that is not that thing is not 'the height of discourse'. The comment made a point, I made a different point. Which is not necessarily the height of but at least qualifies as discourse. I'm not sure what to make of an objection that ends with exhorting me to define an interpretation.