skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It follows that the Cabinet minister with responsibility for DCMS is the Minister of Fun

I love British humour
This is one reason why we use adblockers (malware distribution aside).
It seems like the decline of the feudal system was the dominant trend.
This was a problem with Creality in the 3d printing world two years back. They used Marlin - a program for the embedded micros used in them - which is licensed under the GNU GPLv3+. Creality refused to release their contributions until they were convinced by Naomi Wu (Sexy Cyborg) that the community would actually refuse to purchase from them unless they did, which they probably would’ve.

https://hackaday.com/2018/08/27/gpl-violations-cost-creality...
In the comments section of the last page:

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=8

Poster "tr1ck5t3r" wrote at 15 Jan 2017, 15.46:

>"BadBios, BadUSB, Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu, Shamoon, are all different names given to the observations by experts of the same suite of malware that has evolved over the years."

That is the hypothesis my research into this subject also supports, although it is purely an intuitive hypothesis, not an empirical one, that is, at this point in time, I do not have concrete proof to back this intuition...

But tr1ck5t3r's comment is a very interesting comment, nonetheless...
The problem is that the energy market itself is not orderly and organised like you would like it to be. People want to put the kettle on when they want a cup of tea, not when you think it is appropriate for them to put the kettle on.
As an immigrant, I don't feel the same sadness you do. There's still many injustices in the US, and framing it as "hating their own country" is extremely unfair: people are frustrated about a lot of things, people are emotional about a lot of things, and I don't think it's fair for you to discard it as simply "disdain".

After all, America was founded on rebellion against the status quo (what day is it today again?), and I hope that doesn't change.
The system as we know it needs to be overhauled. We need to scrap everything and then think carefully about what should be patentable with the goal being a system that’s good for society. Drugs that cost $1B to bring to market? Seems like they should get some kind of exclusive period though we can argue over what that period of time should be. Software? Nope. Keep copyright law for that, but even there, drastically reduce the copyright period.
Tell HN: iBooks has deleted all my downloaded books
So apparently when your iPad is getting low on space, it just deletes all the books from your iBooks library. Without asking for permission or notifying you in any way. It "offloads" them to the iCloud, so you have to re-download them manually.

Which is a very unpleasant thing to find out after you went on a summer vacation to the area without the internet, hoping to plug off, having downloaded a bunch of books you were hoping to read.

This is the most infuriating moment of using a piece of technology I've ever had.

I'm posting this here on the off chance that someone from Apple reads this, since that happens with threads on HN sometimes.
I might see it this way because I've been studying math for a long time (though not professionally most of it) but I don't think modern math is ever made more complicated or hard to understand just for the heck of it. That's because math is already felt as extremely hard for most people.

I think anyone in professional math is working really hard to make the field more comprehensible to themselves and so to the world - and the reason for this is the more a mathematician understands and more compactly they can understand it, the further they can go.

And certainly, the way a mathematician put things curtly makes it harder for the laymen, I think the biggest harm to the layman's understanding of math is a math education that gets people conditioned to not think abstractly and think of math as a series of dull exercises.
> Words have a history and carry their original intentions with them alongside their current meaning.

Respectfully, I disagree. Words are fluid and shift meanings constantly throughout time. Words are not sentient and do not carry anything in and of themselves. Meanings are assigned by people based on context. It is quite clear from the context where these words are used what meaning is intended. To discern another meaning based on an obsolete and irrelevant context requires deliberate misinterpretation.
> Make it clear that the left truly welcomes people of all races and beliefs

Everyone could do this regardless of party affiliation.
The CSS Standardization Process
If people would like to do this, that's cool. As long as I can still call myself crazy I see no reason to object.

But have no illusion: this doesn't actually count as doing something, and you get zero accolades for it.

If you want to do something useful, and I highly encourage it, here are some ideas: fix your platform (start by kicking the Nazis off), fix your hiring process, and call your city council rep to ask what they're going to do to ensure the police treat all members of the public fairly and professionally.
Jeff Epstein set Kimball Musk up with a girlfriend to get close to Elon Musk
Windows RG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEYOaO9kp4
When the group of people who are supposed to be protected by a law say it’s not helpful and the group that enacts the law says it’s for their own good, it says a lot about the law and who it is really benefiting.
> Will it even boot Windows (or any non-Mac OS. I suppose someone will write Linux support eventually.) ?

If other operating systems are allowed, then there's no reason that Windows can't work; it runs on ARM - consider that https://www.windowslatest.com/2019/03/08/windows-10-arm-nint... exists! Granted, drivers are an issue; if Apple decides to support this, then I expect them to either straight up write the drivers, or release enough information for someone else to do it.

If, on the other hand, other systems are not allowed by policy, there is very little chance that Linux or anything else will be an option. That would be more like an iPad; sometimes jailbreaks happen, but it's generally "protected" against execution that Apple didn't approve.
That's not clear. California briefly had total deregulation with a power auction ever half hour, and volatility increased so much that there were blackouts. Expecting markets to produce stability is naive. Markets don't typically converge on some equilibrium, they oscillate around it.
> Dentistry: can we replace dental x-rays with infrared?

There's a US company that has an ultrasonic "x-ray". Signal processing is used to find cracks and cavities. It's not well-known yet even to Bay Area specialists.
There's obviously a balance to be made with incentivizing inventing though. Some inventions are expensive and nobody would do them without patent protection. Some are trivial though and it's those that are a problem.

Perhaps whether you can get a patent should depend on how much time has passed from when the invention was possible (existence of necessary prior inventions/science/etc.) and when you invented it. If nobody else thought of it for 10 years, maybe it's worth a patent but if it's an immediate consequence of something else, then perhaps it's obvious and deserves no protection.
Lesser of two evils is a common tactic to push authoritarian bills in some countries. They don't expect LAED to pass and it has practically no supporters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stora_Enso so it's looks like perhaps there technically were some proto-joint-stock companies by the bubonic plague, but yes the article is quite bad, rather shockingly given the authors' academic credentials.

I dunno what corner of academy they are from, but in every one I'm aware of, using historically-specific terminology like this in a different period is a major faux-pas.
Only a matter of time, when someone throws an electron wrapper around it, would be funny
Show HN: Qbix Platform 1.1 – open-source social operating system for the Web
Hopefully all the would-be enforcers of language don't find out what happens inside a commercial plane cockpit on landing.
I believe the wronged party in such cases can ask to have imports banned.
I'm not sure I agree (I have a PhD in maths). There are many maths papers and books I've tried to understand where that seems to have been deliberately made more difficult than it needs to be. Sure, you could argue that I didn't have the necessary prerequisite knowledge at that point, or that the authors simply weren't good at explaining things, but I do get the impression that it's sometimes more than that.

Using specialised meanings for words without definition or reference (words that are used for other purposes elsewhere so they can't be searched for) is a key problem, as is the same with notation, and as is leaving out crucial steps. If you're already in the know, those things are probably clear.
I think the moral of the story is that America is flawed, however, it eventually does the right thing, as well as other great things. And that's why it engenders so much love/hate.

I think it's very relevant to today's events, where people wants to "cancel" a person, just because of one or two things they did wrong (which may have just been the norm in their days). This is a slightly disturbing trends, as we can supposedly only use perfectionists and saints as role models (are there any?), instead of humans who are naturally flawed.

I am proud of America, the country that produced a great democracy, defeated Nazi Germany - which raised hell on earth and held concentration camps, sent people to the moon, heralded in 70 years of relative peace, spread democracies around the world, launched reusable rockets that landed back safely, and is in the process of confronting China - another country that raised hell on earth and held concentration camps - after realizing its fault.
Given the earth's population trajectory and the reduction in fertile arable unpolluted lands, there is a coming crisis in the distribution of food. How do we distribute food to high density Asian urban populations efficiently, minimizing needless motor vehicle trips, packaging and spoilage, when convenience purchasing is on the rise and average household sizes are shrinking? Our answer is a network of robotic service locations with automated stock-keeping and a shared, wholly owned logistics network plus personalized direct from fresh ingredient preparation.
Seems interesting. I was curious about how mouse support was retrofitted into the app but discovered that the commit messages are unfortunately absolutely useless for seeing recent changes. They’re all “update xxx.cpp” or just “bug” [sic].
If they had the will and resources to do it, they would’ve done it. Having been in both engineering first and engineering last orgs, it’s clear they cannot execute in this regard (like a tech company).
In my mind, there are only two indispensable Presidents without whom there really would no be a United States of America: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had the rare traits of dogged determination, clear headed pragmatism, and a rare humility that allowed him to do the seemingly impossible and hold the Union together while still ending slavery. Truly, one of the great people of history.
Thank you for the extra free line! Worked a treat.
Government does not always mean nation states. In this context I believe it is talking about regional, feudal government for the most part. As for companies, the corporate structure may not have been developed yet, but there were guilds, partnerships and other business ventures. The article does mistakenly use the term corporation in one place, though.

I don't see any contradiction between the linked article and the Wikipedia article. Peasants absolutely benefited from the shortage of labor, while feudal lords lost power. This power vacuum was partially filled by guilds and merchants who were able to take advantage of the new economic situation. I'm not a historian, so I don't know all of the details, but I don't think the two sources contradict each other.

As for historical articles not supporting political proposals, that may be a faux pas in academia, but I would hope that the people making and evaluating political proposals are carefully studying similar periods in history to understand the possible effects of their proposals.
“Apple turned away from Intel over Skylake CPU bugs”
You aren't wrong. There were probably some veterans who were too bitter to accept the late grant of citizenship.

The government finally made the step forward--apallingly late--but it's still a step forward. Let's make sure we keep taking those steps.
America eventually doing the right thing is America at its worst? Why so much self-hatred?
>"And other teams have probed a different property that makes anyons an intermediate between fermions and bosons. Fermions obey the Pauli exclusion principle: no two fermions can ever occupy the same exact quantum state. But bosons have no such restrictions.

Anyons are in the middle — they do bunch, but not as much as bosons do, as an experiment described in April in Science reported [2]."
Keeping AM broadcast radio around is useful for emergencies. The range is long and the receivers are simple and widely available. One transmitter can reach all of the UK. Besides, the 1MHz "medium wave" band is not very useful for anything else.
Demography of England:

1348 4,810,000 +16.7%

1351 2,600,000 −45.9%

1650 5,310,000 +29.2%

300 years to recover
Probably more likely to take down Bob and Claire who have HELOCed their way into 4 AirBnB properties than REITs that own entire apartment buildings, leading to further concentration of the housing ownership.
I don't think it's accurate to describe the state of Israel with the terminology of white nationalism.
So I'm meant to associate the word follower with slave if working at Twitter?

Some unintended consequences there given how the term is used by them in forward-facing contexts.
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That’s the usually definition of a lifestyle company. One that just wants to be a profitable privately held business with no interest in either going public or getting acquired.
If your standard for a country is perfection, you're going to be sorely disappointed, again and again.

And in fact, I can guarantee you that you hold opinions today that will be looked up with disgust by people in 100 years.
So multiple people have claimed that “no one“ knows what it means and the original meaning was forgotten and multiple people in this thread knew the original meaning and the the origin is listed in the dictionary etymology and Wikipedia page.

It’s not a deep dark secret. I grew up in the south, I know the history and the racial connotation for it was always there for me. That it’s not there for you or that you never thought about it before doesn’t mean that nobody did or that everyone here is making it up.
Its great that they didn't hold a grudge, but I don't see why I should be moved by it. Of course they were happy, they were finally being given what they were promised. A prisoner being exonerated of a crime they were falsely accused would probably be ecstatic, but hearing the story of someone being falsely convicted hardly engenders feelings of pride in our justice system. I don't see why it should be different in this case. There was no uplifting story about how someone managed to change immigration by fighting for what he believed or anything like that. The story was just "we backstabbed you and 44 years they were happy when we finally removed the knife. Yay us!" I can't muster any positive emotions in this story. I can't see why anyone would feel proud of this.
The latest version now involves State law so if one State out of 50 decides encryption is bad for children they can go after any company in the U.S.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/new-earn-it-bill-still...
It’s amazing how much people will argue about precise programming terminology here and then anything about race is suddenly “it’s just words who cares?”
> Adding a market participant with the motive and means to buy when the price is low and sell when the price is high reduces the price volatility.

Anecdotally, I've heard from people who work in business related to the australian energy market that it is sometimes profitable to push the electricity system in a direction that increases imbalances of supply & demand (i.e. increase the volatility of the actual system -- not merely the price) in order to maximise profit of an individual market participant.
As an immigrant the US I feel the exact same way. American don't know how good they have it compared to a lot of the world.
When writing this, did you consider that most African Americans are descended from people who didn't get to bring a suitcase? That they were still fighting to be treated as equal citizens a century and a half after no longer being considered property?

And that the fact that they're over-represented in basketball doesn't mean that inequality is solved?
How to Summarize Content
The term gay has changed in meaning over the last 50 years. The Flintstones opening sequence uses the phrase "we'll have a gay old time" which obviously doesn't fit the modern definition. Do people still commonly consider the phrase "a gay old time" as equivalent to an enjoyable time?

Even wiktionary[1] considers it a dated phrase.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gay_old_time
Kubernetes Explained with Comic
An electron isn't a standing wave, so apparently it is that complex. :(
Their lobby group has shared their concerns over the bill but they haven't done much beyond that.
What other car company has a legitimate energy division at all?
Whether a law or policy gets enacted at the federal level has essentially zero correlation with public opinion, in general: https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem
Very nice, maybe there should be a way to change the border color.
Cleanroom duplication of the invention should probably be strong grounds for invalidation of a given patent. (Since it would be obvious to an engineer skilled in the 'art' (science).)
Relevant: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/new-earn-it-bill-still...

New version of EARN IT.
They have legacy status
Similarly, my wife's family came from an oppressive SE Asia country. One of them escaped on a boat and spent 3 years in a refugee camp in a country that refused to admit them. They eventually made it to the US and survived on nothing but the generosity of Americans.

They are now firmly upper-middle class and consider the US as truly the land of opportunity and are grateful they had the chance to come here.
Doesn't elastic have APM tools? I think a bunch of them open source as well.
Isetta
I don't know any Lincoln examples but here in Portland they have pulled down statues of Washington and Jefferson:

- https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1273859657447006208

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V29opdHt-M
I used fossil professionally for about a year before company got bought out and switched to git. It was interesting. It’s been a few years since then, but here are my thoughts:

* the built-in web server was neat and useful

* when things got in a weird state (anyone learning Git knows what I mean)- it was extremely difficult to find a solution. Doing a web search was a waste of time, no one is sharing their useful Fossil SCM knowledge online.

* clear text passwords. To clarify this a bit, users are local to the clone, so not like it’s being shared... but then again clear text passwords. I just looked it up again, looks like it’s SHA1 now..... bcrypt would be nice.

* Fossil SCM does not believe in altering history. Your not going to find any squash commits or branch rebases. There is a ‘shun’ command for removing sensitive information, but it’s specifically designed to not work like git history edits and has weird behavior regarding clones.

Overall, I significantly prefer git. Being able to find solutions if something goes wrong is huge. Not having to train people on another tool when they join the team is good- you can put git as a skill requirement without limiting your options, you can’t do that with Fossil SCM. I learned Git first, so very likely I’m bias on the git-way vs. the fossil way. It was an interesting experience. To have a version control system have a built-in web server, it’s certainly unique!
You're right, it is, despite my care to only speak of the result of measurements, not properties of the state we measure.
https://heathermeeker.com/2018/04/30/first-gpl-case-in-china...

As the link warns, this is a secondhand translation, and my summary is thirdhand. Do your own reading, especially in the original language, if able.

The general point here is that the Chinese legal system declared that the GPL legalese is OK, but that judges have the power to evaluate it in context of the case and retain the authority to override the legalese when it results in inappropriate outcomes.

In this specific ruling, the judges ruled that bundling ('aggregation') of GPLv3 and unlicensed code did not infect the unlicensed code with the GPLv3, resulting in a loss for the defendant.

If Onyx is bundling GPLv3 code with non-GPLv3 code, based on this single case, they are not required to disclose the source of the non-GPLv3 code that is aggregated with the GPLv3 code. If they have also/instead modified GPLv3 code, then they would probably be required to publish the source for the works derived from GPLv3 code.

The usual arguments here are that modifying a bundle of GPLv3 code to include non-GPLv3 code is itself a 'derivative work' of GPLv3 code, or that the GPLv3 specifies that such bundling shall result in the bundled code being forcibly licensed under GPLv3. The Chinese court apparently did not accept this line of reasoning.

YMMV, IANYL
But that sounds like bad exposition. What benefit would any author get from purposely obfuscating what they're trying to share?
There's obviously a balance to be made with incentivizing inventing though. Some inventions are expensive and nobody would do them without patent protection. Some are trivial though and it's those that are a problem.

That is quite an assumption, especially in assuming that the only way for governments to incentivize the development of technology is to give someone exclusive monopolies on those inventions.

We could give them grants, reward money, whatever. There are other ways to incentivize invention without tramping on companies and inventors' abilities to build upon the work of each other.

Not to mention that the development of 3D printers take hardware, which is quite expensive.
Yes. Asking people to literally give their lives for you on the battlefield, promising citizenship to those who survive, then betraying them until most are dead. Not much to be proud of here, no matter how you spin it.
Possibly via:

Import halt via complaint in appropriate US Customs regulatory regime and / or court, about infringement of intellectual property. This can embargo a company's product nationally in the US, and gets the attention of the producer.

Not quite on topic:

Stopping Infringing Products From China: Section 337 Cases.
By Bill Perry - China Law Blog -- August 22, 2016
https://www.chinalawblog.com/2016/08/stopping-infringing-pro...
Much of the cost of that drug being brought to market has far less to do with innovation and much more to do with regulatory approval and clinical trials.

A solution to address that might be in the form of designed profits, where the exclusivity period is determined by the profits generated. However I'd also still like to see second and more sources, so a compulsory license during this period is also desirable, but might focus on a fixed percentage of profits. (Also contributing to paying down the public liberation fee of the work.)