skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good observation. The significance of an apology is entirely dependent on the cultural context.

The fallout from BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill comes to mind. British executives failed to provide the gushing (but meaningless) apology the Americans expected until it was too late, and they were skewered in the American press for it. And that particular example concerns two closely related cultures. The results are often more jarring when quite dissimilar cultures are involved.
I took that to mean something like "the web in the 1990s still had the aesthetic of graphic design from the 1980s", which seems like a reasonable claim.
Digital radio just can't compete. Not only are the players generally large and battery hungry, everybody will be expected to buy a new receiver. It's a terrible shame and they might as well just switch to the Internet.
You can probably do the No Style thing automatically with Stylus:

https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/
One way to measure the impact of the New Deal, whether or not it caused the end of the depression, is to look at all the time, money, and political effort that has been and continues to be spent to systemically dismantle everything it put in place.

It basically defined the agenda and focus of the Republican Party from then until now.
Same for the Chinese characters. The complexity (number of characters and their different readings and meanings) stems from all the historical cruft the system accumulated for millennia, not something purposefully engineered to being obscure. There was lot of work made to keep the thing usable.

The other thing is at the time yes, people who could read and write was a small minority. That have been the case in other societies with writing too. Not because of a cabal making it difficult but because getting an education was very costly.
Does it work with milkdrop? That visualiser is exceptional. Unfortunately project M isn't as good.
Why not? It's not like statues are some sacred principle.

And in the Fourth of July, as the US celebrates declaring independence from its past status as a colony, of rebelling against an imperial monarch that no doubt did lots of good, but also taxed them without representation, let's also celebrate our current revolutions against injustice.

We should not idolize people, not even if they did good things. And if in the revolutionary throes of fighting for justice, the wrong statue gets taken down, that is so unbelievably tame and minor compared to what we celebrate on Independence Day.
> no historical article should include comments supporting a current political proposal, as this article does...it is just totally inappropriate

I do agree with the spirit but all history is really revisionist history and all is in fact re-creating the narrative in current context.
New Shepard is a suborbital rocket. It reaches apogee (velocity drops to zero), and drops back to land propulsively.

It’s possible it experiences zero-G for more than just a few milliseconds at its apogee. Hence the 0mph velocity.
I don't know how Dell makes any money on this laptop. It's too expensive. It's much cheaper to buy a Windows Dell XPS 13 laptop with the same specs and then just install Linux on it.
Just so I understand your framing: Do you consider the poll taxes and literacy requirements for voting of the Jim Crow era to have been policies that specifically targeted black people or not? They were written in a racially neutral way (and the 14th and 15th Amendments were in effect then, and they were ruled constitutional).
Exactly. Anything can trigger emotions. The difference is emotional management, or not. Letting bad emotions stifle you may reduce your outcomes, but we can't always expect others to save us.

Racism and discrimination is real, but we shouldn't conflate them with unfair powerstructures. We need to level the playing field and speak up against bullying.
They are https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/01/national/japan-...
Yes, that logo puzzles me. I mean, how is tinc like an Apache attack helicopter? Or more generally, how does it relate to warfare?
We had a civil war. I would be very interested to see an analysis try and argue that we are more divided now than when we had a civil war over whether states had the right to decide whether or not black people count as people.
Thanks for sharing this, much appreciated. It will take some time to go through them all, but at the moment, Ash Kyd and Webamp stand out.

I was actually checking out Winamp a few days ago, as I was reminiscing about Geiss and Milkdrop.
An agency outsourcing that function to a private company for all care in a state does not invalidate the savings. It’s a question of efficiency and conflict of interest not inherently a government function.

That said, outsourcing them back to the same insurance companies which also offer plans has major issues.
The Aesthetics of Drone Warfare
Companies only exist as legal fictions granted privileges by governments.
Yeah I'm familiar. Was told i was white by my history professor because I believed in american ideals. Academia is the source of the worst ideas
I think lots of white collar crime occurs in “white neighborhoods”; it’s just not a priority for law enforcement.
I highly recommend these books by Alan Hirshfeld [1][2]. The first is about the discovery of parallax, and the instrument that was used to do this in 1838 was built by Fraunhofer. The precision of the instrument required to do this is incredible - the movement of a star due to parallax is, over the course of a year, about a fifth of the angular size of jupiter's great red spot. Unless you've been lucky enough to look through a fairly big telescope, you've probably never seen the great red spot and two centuries ago Bessel (using Franhofer's instrument) was able to detect a change in position of a small fraction of this.

The second book is about the technological developments of ~1850-1920 (cameras, spectroscopes, big telescopes) and is also really interesting. Fraunhofer also makes an appearance here - he was one of the first people to measure the absorption spectrum of the sun. These absorption features are still called Fraunhofer lines [3]. Later Kirchhoff (of the circuit laws) and Bunsen (of the burner) worked out what caused these.

The personal histories of all these people are also really cool, and these books discuss the people as much as the science/tech. It's amazing for how many people a small bit of luck was needed (or in Fraunhofer's case with the house collapsing -> meeting the elector, a big bit of luck)!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Parallax-Measure-Alan-W-Hirshfeld/dp/...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Starlight-Detectives-Astronomers-Ecce...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines
Wood is basically emerging as an alternative in this sector lately. There are some wood based building materials coming on the market that are cheap, sustainable, light, safe, strong, etc.

Think people building sky scrapers in areas with exposure to earthquakes and tropical storms safe. I'm talking about Tokyo. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/16/plyscraper-ci...

Hydrogen is not really needed to fix this.
If you can find a way to have nicer things by having more (expensive) children, I'm sure the world would love to hear it...

I've heard of having children described as a 'profitable' venture.
Noble goal, and I’d suggest the book Basic Immunology, but I’d also warn you, cancer might be a famously difficult disease, but the number of treatments is vast, thus it is difficult to market a new one, because oncologists are overwhelmed by options. There’s an idea for your ML buddy: just imagine rather than make new treatments, you could help docs pick existing treatments from the sea of complex options...

Link to an article on the topic: https://medium.com/bit-pharma/how-do-you-deal-with-cancer-3e...
Being able to pull HD radio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio ) from the side band to the center stage would allow for a massive explosion in radio channels and/or sound quality.

FM is simple enough, but not so simple that people could just jury-rig a receiver/transmitter together in an emergency situation. If you need a store-bought receiver, you might as well have a receiver that's not using tech from 1930s.
Honestly we could use an assassination market right about now.
you just gave the reason. the long reach. one transmitter can reach all of uk. wouldn't it be great if you could transmit a digital signal on that frequency? not all communication is bandwidth intensive cat videos. and as far as am radios being simple, who has one vs people with a phone? you want am voice? transmit a hundred of them on the reclaimed bandwidth, with the same reach, and higher quality.
Already in the virtue signalling repo pipeline. Pull request submitted. Zdnet had a faux outrage article about this yesterday.
At first glance, it seems like Lisp is inappropriate for spreadsheets: the syntax is simply too verbose and heavy. But cool project, I've always wanted to make a terminal spreadsheet app. Maybe with some custom APL-like language. Now that would be cool!
tl;dr “America good, me not want think about complicated stuff.”
The whole metaphor of objects and compartments is just a pain in the neck

I like the metaphor, it helps me to understand the principle in the first place. I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way.
I like git-crypt for this:
https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
Parallel File Sharing Platform in C++
It's an interesting idea, but how would updating individual tiles at different rates appear to the user? Obviously if some parts of the frame remain static you could delay updating those, but how would it look in cases where the entire frame has changed such as during a camera pan? And how would it work with post effects like motion blur or DOF?
Maybe it would look good at very high frame rates, but would the individual tiles updates become visible if your app encounters slowdown and FPS drops below 30?
It's an interesting idea, and thanks for providing more info. However, I'd need to see a proof of concept, including post effects, before I considered it further.
I wonder if the "Patrick" that signed that request is also the Patrick interviewed in this article also in the the Pelican Bay SHU:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/07/17/california-pri...
I honestly cannot understand how "sanity check" can be offensive to anyone. I am not saying there no other ways to express the same meaning but I also don't see why it should be changed in the first place since its already established.
I question that it's obvious that we need to incentivize inventing through any form of IP law.

Let's look at software. Some of the most notable pieces of software, from postgres, to linux, to redis, are available under open source copyright license. Those licenses are intentionally waiving copyright law.

Inventions of those pieces of software happened with no expectation of IP.

Let's look at academic research: research institutes and academic institutes are more interested in getting published, advancing the arts, and improving their own name in the field than they are with patents. A large chunk of ground-breaking research done in academia or research-labs is done with the primary goal of getting a paper published out of it, and whether there's a patent or not, it's not what motivated the research. Often, there is no patent.

In fact, I think the open source software movement is the most obvious example of what happens when you don't have IP. The whole point of open source licenses is to defang copyright law (to use copyright law against itself). In the case of the Apache2 license, it also gives up patent rights. Within the open source software movement, innovation and profit are both common. Both happen in spite of the lack of IP protection.

Why is that the case? Well, software developers who create great things and release it into the open source world often want to increase their talents, increase their recognition, or solve a problem they or others are facing. Those motivations all exist even without IP nor profit motives. Some of them do have a profit motive and create open source software in order to be hired or in order to sell support (or for some other more complex funding model). Those also don't need IP laws to help them.

I admit, software is interesting. It can be argued to be an art in many ways, and it's much easier to accept that artists will continue producing art, even without financial or IP benefits.

However, I think that it's likely other fields where this holds as well. I think that someone who has an idea to improve a part of a car will still wish to publish the idea to gain recognition, or negotiate with an auto company to try and implement the idea to gain both fortune and fame. I think the drug companies will still wish to produce and sell drugs, and their research employees will still attempt to find new and better drugs, even with the only motive being commercial profit, not IP + commercial profit.

I think software provides ample evidence that you can profit off something even when IP is not in play. That the original inventor has enough of a headstart.
This would seem to be very biased in the favor of large corporations. If the fees/taxes are high enough to be non-trivial for a mega-corp, then it's very likely those large and increasing rates would easily outpace the rate at which a small company could develop their product, get it to market, and start making a profit. It would also mean larger corporations would have little incentive to purchase patents from smaller entities, when they could just wait our their ability to pay for them.
@edwardDiego there are sadly currently 9 million+ slaves in Africa and slavery and people trafficking is a huge trade worldwide today.

"According to the U.N.'s International Labor Organization (ILO), there are more than three times as many people in forced servitude today as were captured and sold during the 350-year span of the transatlantic slave trade", Time Magazine March 14, 2019.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16152/modern-slavery

The USA is a nation of immigrants. Look at the incredibly diverse people seeking a better life as they came through Ellis Island just over a century ago and where America is today.

https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=6529EB6C-155D....

Also take a look at the great work by Charliebo313 documenting ghetto realities in the US today for black people.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CharlieBo313

Even though I feel black north american culture is foundational to the American experience, and a major reason why I emigrated from England to California, the current era of people speaking on behalf of 'BIPOC' people is mildly insulting to those people given the internal dialogs within that culture around who is helping and who is hurting. The reductionism of black and white (sic) simplistic thinking isn't helping anyone.
Sigh, I hope not.

Now to get a job or keep being employed I need to grind leetcode for months, actively participate in top open source projects on GitHub, know the latest trends, and be a systems designs guru.

Now that I'm starting a family, I'm worried I won't be able to keep up as I've done so far.

I sometimes envy people that can disconnect from their 9-5, take a break every week, go on regular vacations, relax at the pool.
You shouldn’t record Clubhouse calls
Funny how people can literally "forget" that Google is a third party. Probably people at Google believe they are not third parties. Not even asking or trust, just assuming it. No other alternatives. Trust relationship by default.
> I wonder how many contributors there are for OSM maps. I have personally never updated a map there and have been too lazy to read up on how to do that.

I was linked to OSMstats [1] earlier - was fun to look through, and the
"Contributor to Elements Created" ratio made me proud to be a Canadian contributor :)

[1] https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries
It’s Independence Day in the US. Patriotism is the theme of the day. This is just a humorous holiday-themed style sheet with a readme to match. It is not a serious style sheet that the author expects anyone to use.
> Many Black people have white ancestors but ask how much of that was really consensual

Doesn't this imply a problem with the whole "sins of the father" thing? Otherwise all of those people would have to be condemned as the offspring of a rapist.
This assumes everyone has an AM radio. I don't have one in this household at all. I have no reason whatsoever to own one. It's not much use having an emergency transmitter when no-one has a receiver and even then, it's not running all the time. AM is probably worse as you need squelch or to keep transmitting a carrier to keep it quiet.

On the other hand most people have the facility to receive an SMS and most of them have their phone on. The only issue is lack of power to charge a phone. Worse than keeping an AM radio running but in the past people turned on their AM radio at certain pre-organised times of day anyway so there is not really order of magnitude difference between a phone and an AM radio.
You can charge a flat fee per patent. By this you avoid having to assess their value.

For normal ip it would likely need to get registered in order to receive copyright protection.
This way creators only pay taxes for their larger works. The biggest problem with this is that this tilts the playing field against smaller creators.
I've done some moderation in the past. Of the posts actually written by humans maybe 1% got removed for not following the stated rules. Does removing 1% of posts that somebody else makes, make me a "publisher"? Seems a bit rediculous to me.
It is reasonable to not support 13-year-old operating systems but there shouldn't be any reason current operating systems can't support old devices. Certainly Linux based operating systems manage to do that.
One right doesn’t cancel out a wrong, or vice versa.

The problem with a statue is that it literally sets something in stone; perhaps these particular statues are being torn down because people don’t think the conversation is over; that there is more to be said, more to be heard, and more to learn.
I've been mulling over an idea that is essentially a combination of personal ID, secure digital authentication and online communications all baked into one.

There's a EU directive instructing on how citizens should be able to identify online with eIDAS. In my country, you can use eIDAS to authenticate in basically any governmental agency portal, but you can't get any eIDAS enabled auth method as a citizen. The current way of authenticating is done via bank accounts or a paid extra mobile service that requires a non-prepaid mobile contract.

This is a relatively huge issue. First off, the Finnish government pays the banks for each auth any user does when they for example want to log into their medical records etc. It's a few million euros a year just for verifying the users.

There's also obviously issues with whom the banks serve, there has been some cases with them not taking foreigners or people with bad credit as customers, making it impossible for them to authenticate themselves.

The current EU directives also indirectly require that the banks should provide a bank customer the possibility to authenticate without needing to have a banking account (which costs money), but to my knowledge this still isn't possible. I pay around 20 euros a month just for the luxury of having an account, not everyone can afford that on top of other bills.

Auth services are not accessible for impaired users.

It's also basically impossible to manage who has essentially the power of attorney and over which matters, for how long etc. Either you have to give them your login info (good luck resetting your SSN) or try to use the services over the phone and somehow convince the other side that you have permission to manage things for another person.

There's no ways of authenticating who is using your accounts online and actually verify the users.

Basically, my idea is combining biometrics, PGP and having the government running the identity management themselves. This would have added benefits of basically enabling hashed throwaway addresses and info for use online while providing a free and accessible way of authenticating strongly online.
> It is a by-product of a society where a cop can murder an African American in broad daylight and (in most cases) suffer no consequences.

A cop can murder anyone in broad daylight and, in most cases, suffer no consequences; there's nothing specific about African Americans.
I recommend this video of the press conference from the neutron star merger discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLPKYl4AHs

Its an amazing example of collaboration where it stars with gravitational waves, that helped locate it and quickly half the world of astronomy was looking at it on every wave length. Its an unbelievable example of cooperation and using different observatories to look at the same event.

It also shows how LIGO can be used to find events, and then others can point there to get more information.
You should read some history. The political battles of the day are not unique. The Constitutional Convention itself was extremely contentious. The 1850s in NYC were particularly brutal.

The difference now is that you don’t have social amplification of every little utterance.
I also like Michael White's "Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer", which stresses the weird conflict in his character between mysticism and science.
"At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. "You want to know what this was really all about?" he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - Dan Baum, talking about John Ehrlichman, who served as domestic policy chief for President Richard Nixon
radio is mostly used by people in cars. all cars, at least stateside, have had digital radio for eons. i don't even think there's a used car you can buy that still runs, that doesn't do digital. for a car, a digital radio is not battery hungry -it's power requirement doesn't even count.

people don't buy standalone radio receivers, and haven't in decades.