skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nomad people consider all sand their roads, and since their home moves with them the acceess is pretty neat?
Dreams.

I've been journaling my dreams for years and I'm working on an app that makes it easier to (visually) map them out & find patterns: https://oneironotes.com/

I like the idea of accessing other (inner) dimensions during sleep, like an explorer (an "oneironaut"). The problems to overcome are related to capturing and recollecting experiences that only take place in the mind. You asked about the weird stuff...
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Without the right to exclusively profit from the final product, are pharmaceutical companies gonna invest all the resources and engage in all the bureaucracy-navigation it takes to develop a new drug?
I recently went back to using a DAB radio in our kitchen rather than using my phone, largely because at 6:30am when I get up I want to just hit a single button for Radio 4 to come on!
I like how all of these groups have some reason to oppose big-tech and social media. It's like the one thing we can all agree on here at HN.
Yeah, the argument that creative works wouldn't have been created without current IP laws is rubbish. Almost the entirely of the Western literature cannon was written before our current IP laws. Even in Dicken's time, he was able to profit without obscene copyright laws, because back then publishers would simply purchase the manuscript from him (which would be his income) and then they would print and sell them.

I find the notion that the number of times your book is read should be proportional to the income you make from it, to be entirely antithetical to the point of creativity and art. Doesn't matter whether your book is read by 1 person or by 1 million. You still put in the same amount of work. And, presumably, the higher quality the work, the more will read it. But not always. That's life. If a publisher thinks they can sell me or if you're an already famous and established author, publishers will buy your manuscripts for higher prices. If a publisher wants to enter into a royalties agreement then that is their own affair. We as a society should not be encouraging such arrangements - which is exactly what our copyright laws are designed to do.
I also wonder what benefit the study of alchemy, the Bible etc may have had on his other discoveries? Sometimes ‘flashes of insight’ come from patterns developed in other fields.

Gutenberg, for example, made a breakthrough with the printing press because his earlier career as a goldsmith taught him enough metallurgy to develop movable type; Charles Babbage credited his work on silk weaving machines with helping him visualise his adding machine (with Ida Lovelace, creating the first ‘computer’).
More people listen over DAB than AM or FM now, that threshold was passed in 2018.

I'd speculate that most listening is in the car now. I wonder if any new cars come with AM/FM radios, I'd assume they are all in DAB. In which case it will nearly all be gone in another decade.
Places without cars don't really need streets. If you replace all streets with footpaths, you can pack houses in much more densely, making walking a viable option, rather than needing lots of cars.

Streets are inefficient use of land, especially if most people can't or don't want to use them.
Do you have a source on the relation of “Amokläufer” to the Spanish-American war?

All the sources I can find claim it originates from Malay/Indonesian culture.
Next up: getting birds to sing your advertising jingles
Despite, nit because of the way US elections work. Limited number of poling places, especially in poor neighborhoods, affecting people of colour more because of past zoning laws? Check. Elections held on workdays, making it harder for poorer people, again more often people of colour, to vote because they have to take a day of? Check. Mail in ballots being very hard to come by, see above? Check. An electoral college and a senate that gives more weight to votes from states with a higher percentage of whites? Check.

Compared to any other western style democracy, and the differences become clear.

And arguing gerrymandering, proven to benefit one party only at the disadvantage of people of colour, is actually a good thing, is just plain manipulative.
So many comments saying hydrogen, like lithium, is not a power source. They are in a fusion device ;)
>How would you tax a company that patents something it develops and sells itself?

That's easy. Have a flat fee per patent that increases based on years plus number of patents the company holds up to crazy amounts. What this does is three fold: 1) Tax patents the same way physical possessions are taxed. 2) Limit big corporations that have the budget to realize tons of patents quickly so patents are again used for the benefit of the small players. 3) Prevent patent trolls from holding big portfolios of bad patents as the costs would be extremely hard for them to maintain.
> It might be a good exercise to consider the possibility that I could also have interests in life beyond HN.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say there or why. Just sounds condescending. That you do? We all do, I guess.

> I have to assume that there was some point that you wanted to make, other than what appears to be a rather flaccid insult.

That feels a bit rude, you could have just asked what my point is. I was offering what I hoped helpful advice. Wasn't meant to be insulting at all, sorry. (I assume you meant "a little pathetic"? My comment was meant in a "you can do better than that!" way, trying to lift up, not put down. "Be a man, like Eleanor Roosevelt" is I think a Simpsons quote, I should have put it in " "s)

I didn't write the comment when I first read yours, thinking it wasn't necessary to reply, but an hour later I thought of it again, so came back here to comment. It was apparently something I really wanted to say, which is one good test of whether to comment, I guess.
Also worth bearing in mind the genetic diversity of plants used for food, animals for live stock, gut bacteria, soil bacteria.

To a large extent humans are part of the greater ecosystem of Earth.

Perhaps with genetic engineering the Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms could be inserted a while afterwards to “inflate” diversity, I’ve not heard much about that but if one has a few examples of a species they could be used as a template to provide additional biodiversity.
> Lewisham

I live in Lewisham, Brockley and we only have a 10Mbit line available (and the real speed is lower than that) because we have a so-called “exchange only line” and we’re over a mile away from the exchange. The whole street can’t be connected to anything better than shit BT service.

So no, you can’t always have this in London.
>BLM/white supremacist content means that Disney endorses violence/racism

Are you trolling with this comparison? In a thread about de-escalation it seems a bit unwise to casually tie BLM to violence and suggest that it's somehow comparable to white supremacist extremism. I get that you were trying to choose one example from each 'end' of the political spectrum, but I think this particular choice was badly misconceived.
These generalizations and plattitudes are off the mark and dangerous. Sure, there are those working as PR for the elite, or they are honest journalists that work for MSM that is in the hands of the elites. Most journalists, especially investigative journalists want to do their job as well as they can, in an environment that is increasingly hostile to good journalism. We need these people to help keep our democracy intact.
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It's not "SHUT UP IT"S GREAT!" so much as pointing out specifically why the claim that it isn't great is wrong, to which the responses were a moving of the goalposts to some other, generic wrongs against black people that haven't actually been specified and so can't be addressed.
> He said, “a general and tolerably equal distribution of landed property is the whole basis of national freedom.” That was the American experiment. Hopefully we can get back to it.

Does that mean that every year the US government should take from others to give me my "fair share" of the US land and let me blow it on drugs and hookers?

The rest is just moaning about the consequences of the fake money.. If you don't like the thievery enabled by the Fed, end the Fed. Don't call for another form of theft (redistribution).
Are you replying to the wrong comment? There's no mention of "socialism" in the parent comment?
I really struggled with the iCloud feature that automatically uploads stuff to save space. I was running low on disk space and iCloud just constantly auto-uploaded files and deleted them locally. While this – in theory – might sound like a good idead, there where three issues that turned this into an nightmare:

- I could not tell iCloud which files i needed locally, or configure it in any way

- iCloud constantly uploaded files that I recently used and needed

- Sometimes it took very long to get them back

E.g. I would have a python script with a venv and because some files would not be there locally, the excecution failed. And even though I had internet access, I could keep clicking on the cloud-icon to fetch the file, and nothing happend... It was nightmarish.
No I'm trying to quit iCloud, but I first have to understand how to get all my files back and what will get deleted when I quit. Not too easy...
That brings up the possibility of ad-supported writing - like we see with free TV, most of the internet, etc.

Heck, I've often paid writers to write stuff for my business that I then give away for free.
And the UK is not even in the EU anymore.
Using elite as a term of derision is rather silly anyway. Who else would you want running the country than the most skilled and accomplished?
Did it ever occur to you that media outlets are businesses, and so their talking bobble-heads pander to whatever they think will help their bottom-line and perception as being "cool" or "with it"?

TBH, I was initially imagining your family being a bit sick of all the weeping and rending of clothes about Sacred America, the national entity one must worship or be unworthy. Embrace the flag or GTFO!

Get over it, it's a place. It's a country. It has a checkered past, as most countries do.
It's not perfect, nor is it the most villainous regime ever.

The current trend towards realizing Americas flaws is related to it's decline as an empire. Expect more of the same to the degree that said flaws are not addressed, expect more decline and plan for it, ideally by de-imperialising like Kemal Ataturk would have recommended, lol.

What some smarter folks may realize is that America has created a global empire and an imperial structure to match it, replete with satrapies.
Surely there are some consequences for being the Global Cop (TM)
As history assures us, no empire lasts forever.

I would humbly propose less handwringing but also less manipulation of the rest of the world, as this will save us from future handwringing. Let's back out of the Global Empire business and start trying to back the values we actually stand for.

Supporting Mubarak and Sisi in Egypt is not a long term value I will argue we should be projecting.
Do I need to elaborate further on this theme? We risk leaving the world a legacy of mere "might = right", which is not likely the legacy we want to be remembered for.

If one truly "LOVES" ones country, (It's a bizarre thing to require compulsive adoration of an abstract entity on par with the feelings one has for a spouse or family member. Such compulsory adulation is a tool used to build armies and blind loyalty, which is wrongful. I realize that one may need to find a structure of meaning to comprehend the loss of a loved one who died following orders and "defending a nation") one will seek to fix its flaws and will address criticisms as bringing up potential flaws to address.
>The world has many problems, but lack of military dictatorships controlled by a communist party is not one of them. //

There's N.Korea, but that's not controlled by a communist party. It's notionally controlled by people who call themselves Communist, but they don't appear to do anything ideologically communist.

World politics isn't my strong point, where did you have in mind?

I note that your structure was "in capitalism, {capitalist ideological outcome, those with capital own the means of production and leech off the value of others labour}; in socialism, {activity directly opposed to socialist ideology}".

I'd say 99%, at least, of companies are run under capitalist ideology; to accrue wealth for the owners. So why blame socialism for the upshot of capitalist activity.
CDs are useless because: Cassette tapes are good enough and they can be recorded. A lot of cars have cassette players, not CD players and they never skip.
Meh, the analogy breaks down too early for it to be useful or scary. Viruses infect you whether you choose to be infected or not. You can choose the type of information you read. You can use your rational thought to process what is in front of you. You can decided whether or not it is valuable, true, helpful, insightful, and so on.

If the point of this "meditation" is to show that freedom of speech is bad, then they need to prove the assumption that a lack of freedom of speech leads to higher quality information and less manipulation of the truth. History has proven otherwise.
The same way you measure everything else about broadcast - you find the people and ask them, aka "surveys".
Forgiveness.

Rather than encourage better behaviours of those targeted by the mob, it would be better to encourage better behaviours of the mob itself.

Forgiveness is absent in every social media or comment section and yet it's one of the crucial ways we get along with people. Having others visibly but perhaps silently forgive another would allow social proof that its okay to forgive this perceived offender. Forgiveness also allows a person to signal a change in views.

Where before they would only be able to signal disapproval, now they can still pile on and be toxic but then later signal forgiveness. Not being able to correct and reflect upon your own potentially negative actions would be one of the aims. By forgiving others you can forgive yourself of past negativity.

Forgiveness might say "I recognise you did something wrong. I do not expect public repentance, but I forgive you and go about my life feeling better".
You're chrooting the host's root. This isn't privilege escalation.
Main author of tinc here: it's great to see this get to the front page of HN! Development has been quite slow the last few years. Feel free to contribute to tinc!

It would be great to get version 1.1 out the door, and then focus on the future. One possibility that is very tempting would be to use Wireguard as a back-end for the end-to-end communication between peers, but have tinc manage the whole mesh, to get the best of both worlds.
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It's rather that they're not distributing it (either source or binary) so the GPL doesn't apply to them. Not having access to the source doesn't exempt you from the GPL.
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“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” By Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852
There's absolutely nothing wrong with what I've proposed.

Typically only people that believe in a soul or that humans "should die" take issue.

Neither of these is correct in my world view. I can understand the religious perspective, but the romantic idea that limited live spans are good is incredibly twisted.

I think people should be immortal, but that's just not feasible. The next best thing is using all of the tools around us to extend our lives as much as possible.

I'm tired of biology being so punch-card slow while the compiler is literally staring us in the face. The human is the perfect model organism for everything we want to accomplish, and I've shown that we can ethically build upon it as a platform without harming anyone. Moreover, we can farm it. Never deal with blood or organ shortages, end immunosuppressants for many people, and potentially perform purely regenerative surgeries.

A human grown in a lab without a brain is a plant. Dogs, apes, and octopuses are more human than that. Before you fight me, go take on the many acts of animal cruelty in the world.

The people that would hold this back are Luddites.

This is a faster path to curing cancer. All fifty thousand types of it.

edit: Down voters, why not argue your point instead? Because from my perspective your views are a dated death wish.
Ah, I interpreted it as a comment on the difficulty of creating the national flags in pure CSS.
I can see that is confusing.

Spring is probably the biggest.

My point was that I personally find JavaEE better.

Edit: Personally I'd also look into Quarkus etc if I were to set something up today, but I don't belive it to be relevant to the original question.
Susan Orlean article about the odd history of domesticated rabbits in our culture told through the lens of "rabbit Ebola” RHDV2.
Ok, I'll bite:

> TL;DR: Does it matter if the web platform adds new capabilities?

yes

> And if it should, which ones?

dunno.

> The web is a meta-platform.

Why a met-platform and not just a platform?

> Like other meta-platforms

such as?

> the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do.

This presumes a web browser is intended to do "the things we expect most computers to do", but it could be fairly said a web browser does strictly a subset of "the things we expect most computers to do", and some might further argue (right or wrong) that it should stay that way.

> Adjacency to the current set of capabilities provides a disciplined way to think about where to invest next when working to stave off irrelevance.

I think he's saying that we need extra functionality in the browser to do the things he wants. I think.

> If distribution of runtimes is blocked, competition falters, and adjacent capabilities can go un-addressed. Ecosystem decline, and eventual collapse, follows.

"Do what I want or there will be DISASTER!"

> Apple and Mozilla posturing about risks from new capabilities is belied by accepted extant native platform risks.

We already have risks so I'm going to dismiss concern over extra risk that will come with my desired extra functionality. (This is an awful sentence and BTW 'posturing' is a weasel word).

> For different reasons, they are both working to cast the web in amber. We will all have lost a future worth wanting should they succeed.

"DISASTER, I tell you, DISASTER!"

tl;dr of the tl;dr is he wants new stuff in the browser and damn the consequences. Best I can make out anyway.
No, to commute is plain English. Abelian is not.
Yeah, seems the Confederacy was the in itself the cause of tis own downfall.

Edit: As a what-if question, where would the US have stood in that case during the two World Wars?
> they also developed the MP3 coding format.

Why did they name their format after the litigous MPEG group, while in fact it was (afaik) an open format?
Particularly the (lack of a concerted) federal government response to the COVID pandemic.

Selective support of states rights when it's Pandemic Time counts as "kicking the can down the road" to the poster below me.
I think the Hamburger was a good solution to a real problem: that mobile phones simply have less screen space (physical, if not in pixels) than desktops and laptops. The problem is that people then seem to blindly apply the solutions where they aren't needed. Too much cargo culting, not enough thought.
I think you have a few details wrong.

Firstly (a minor detail) I don’t think GPL requires you to “publish” source code per se. Just make sure that every recipient of a binary copy can also receive the source code.

But more importantly, the license doesn’t “infect” things. In no way can you be forced to license your code according GPL. Failure to comply with the GPL simply means the license isn’t applicable and the situation reverts back to normal copyright rules.
> But if you adopt MLK’s views like this, can I take it that you then support reparations and civil unrest in response to racial oppression

Why would you think that? MLK was his own agent and so am I. Just like he agreed with some of the things e.g. Fredrick Douglas said but disagreed with others, I agree with some things he said and disagree with others. On the subject of the response to racial oppression I can, in some cases, support civil unrest as that is often the only way of breaking a status-quo. I do not support direct reparations because a) this does not solve the problem and b) neither those who would pay nor those who get paid are either guilty of enslaving people or having been enslaved. Targeted investments in areas which still suffer from the effects of earlier redlining and similar Jim Crow laws are something I can stand behind, as long as they are just that: targeted and effective. I do not support "Socialism" since I interpret that as being the precursor to Communism which has cost enough lives by now that it should be clear to even the most stubborn observer that it is a dead-end street - literally. I do not oppose Capitalism as it is implemented in e.g. north-western Europe, i.e. an economically liberal social democracy. Is it perfect? No, certainly not. Can it be improved? Absolutely. Given all that it still seems to be a reasonable compromise between individual liberty and social responsibility, both terms which when taken to the extreme lead to (extreme liberty) chaos and (extreme social responsibility) oppression.
I read somewhere that neanderthals were not less intelligent than humans, but humans "won" because being more social animals they can better learn from each other and spread ideas faster. Sometimes I feel like excessive "intellectual property" laws make us more like neanderthals.
>if you modify code released under GPL

_and distribute it_

Running it server-side is fine. That's what the AGPL addresses.

If you modify GPL code and only use it yourself without distributing it, you never have to give anyone else access to the modifications.
RoboMax: A Chatbot in Python (from scratch) now answering Q's on US election
>Ethics is the wrong term here, as the company's actions are not based on principles [...] //

The principle "do anything of any moral values that brings me value from others' labour" is still a position wrt ethics, though one can't really call it "ethical" without confusion.

Complete moral plasticity according to what "sells" seems to define our age quite well.