skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're equivocating on the word "support". Actively supporting whoever is currently in power is not the same as not caring enough to bother or being on the fence as to which side to support.
Regular people didn't but PCs in 2000 that's just not true. I think most consumers buy laptops nowadays, but that shift started happening around 2005ish, not 2000.
The article itself appears to be claiming this is not true: every book they lent was endorsed by a backing library, such that the physical book was guaranteed to be sitting in the stacks, not lent to anyone, whenever the digital copy of the book was in circulation.
International geopolitics isn't the Bible. He who hath lots of sin can most definitely cast a stone. And if I'm on this side, I'm damned well going to back them in pressuring those guys to not fuck up space.

I don't need to be fair to the other guy. I don't plan on it.
Big law firm demands associates remove TikTok from phones
Google photos was launched in 2015 and hit a billion users in 2019 [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Photos
This. I doubt the human capital required would make any financial sense for many companies. Digital contact tracing, on the other hand, is also a bust.

I wrote a 10 min post on it - https://tolusnotes.com/state-of-digital-contact-tracing-in-t...
But the article doesn't actually say that at all... It explicitly says the US didn't build such a capability in space.
Sure, but whether Arm remains with a cash-starved Softbank or is sold for tens of billions of dollars to a company like Nvidia, it seems inevitable that royalties for their licenses will drastically increase in the near-to-medium future. And this will inevitably open the market for RISC-V chips.

I mean, this is already the case, when Arm licenses are still very reasonable, just on a much slower trend/adoption rate. Once license costs rise to 4x or more, I expect RISC-V adoption rate to grow by at least as much, too.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-group-arm-exclus...
TikTok’s Parent Said to Weigh Selling a Majority Stake in the Video App
I think if you are submitting a Show HN, it is frowned on if there is no way to see it without paying.

From the guidelines, although its not explicitly stated I would think your submission here is not really playing the game. Just a heads up (and I may be wrong, but that's been said before), best wishes with it anyway.

Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.
It’s your job as an employee to not drink the kool aid and to properly value benefits provided, regardless of how they’re marketed. Cash is king, everything else is window dressing.
In "The Coddling of the American Mind" Jonathan Haidt speaks of catastrophizing. I believe the new cult of Puritanism is from a place of catastrophizing.
Any way to refocus on the bully publishers? Boycott these folks (Hachette, Harpercollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House) so they respect the public service IA is giving to millions of people - beyond just the content in question. Actions can speak wonders.
My impression was that "lending" digital copies this way is less likely to upset publishers, since it's more or less analogous to the already-acceptable practice of checking out physical books from a library.

Allowing an arbitrary number of simultaneous readers would take better advantage of the digital format, but is much more likely to attract a lawsuit.
Sorry to hear that. Could it be related to pandemic closing down places you usually go, people you see etc?
None of this is strong or principled. What's the principle?

* Charter schools: Politicians create charter school setups that don't have proper checks and balances and tend to completely shirk their responsibility to public schools in the process. Your statement isn't some fringe idea. It's just not why charter schools are pushed. If you take a look at what happens with charter schools you'd see why people get divided on them. We aren't presented with a rational system. We're presented with a system that gets hijacked to push religious schools and/or defund public schools without.

* Medicine: "Works great pure free market." - Citation Needed. No one will give us your far left solution.

* Gun control: In case you haven't noticed, we aren't allowed to question it. We aren't even allowed to study it. This game is rigged.

* Race: How does cancel culture play into this? I'm not allowed to find a different Applebees if the manager is a racist? "The left's oppression of free speech" - do tell.
Startup reworked its privacy-friendly sensors to help battle Covid-19
I've been thinking about this "stock is a bubble" with regard to Nvidia and Tesla. Normal investing logic says to pay attention to P/E.

However, if you look at stock as its own currency, basically dollars*managementskill, putting a dollar into Nvidia or Tesla basically means "if I give this money to someone else, they can do better with it than if I hold onto it. It would also be a way of "investing" in a management team, helping support them financially so they can go out and make acquisitions.

Then Nvidia and Teslas stock price becomes less "a bajillion times their next five years of earnings" and more "what could these great teams buy or build if we pump them full of cash." Youre investing more than just the future of the current company, as it exists right now.

I don't see Softbank wanting Nvidia stock though, unless they intend to liquidate it quickly.
Inter is almost as good as Apple's SF, and with a much more permissive license. It's my default when designing apps for the web.

I used to default to "system font stack", but that was always because SF is such a great font. Defaulting to Ubuntu font on Ubuntu is... unfortunate. Luckily, Inter is fantastic, and it can be fantastic on every OS.
This happened to me the other day with sqlx. Tried to duplicate the quick start example and got a slew of errors. I should make a ticket, maybe I did something wrong.
Real pinball table hooked up to the Internet and playable
You could simply never give your employer your residential address (use a post box) and then just continue to not do so when you move.

My personal residence address is need-to-know, and if I were to have an employer, they would have no need whatsoever to know my residential address.

If you're remote, it's simply not their business. You might have an extra step when filing state income tax, but that's your liability, not theirs.
I don't think it's particular productive to suggest that the problem is some kind of tribalism or reflexive rejections without providing any kind of rationale, argument, or support.

The context matters. The actual actions matter.
I have no vendetta. You're projecting.
> chat with other coworkers (non-work related stuff)

> ...

> Same outcome (for the company),

What if the company cares for those non-work stuff - for example, some of those chats being a mentoring conversation?
> Why do you feel they are declaring what the price should be? Aren't they basically....

The 'we'll give you X dollars in Y years' that is (notionally) written on the bonds isn't the important part of the process. If you auction a bond it doesn't matter what interest rate the bond is nominally at, traders will bid for the bond such that the coupon it pays is (market interest rate%) of the actual price bid.

Eg, here is a reasonable view of the market for Australian government bonds [0] which I'm more familiar with. If you look at the bid column you'll see that nobody is bidding $100 for bonds, even though all the bonds are nominally $100. The same dynamic will be seen at a central bank auction.

I feel they are declaring what the price will be because central banks will typically have press releases saying "we will target an interest rate of X%". Then the market fairly reliably settles on some interest rate that is quite close to what was declared. It isn't related to the fact that they hold auctions; the auctions are irrelevant. An auction doesn't prove or disprove anything about whether the market is free. The central banks are taking actions to influence the interest rate and they aren't at all governed by market forces - the market for interest rates is a controlled market.

> I feel like the price of a MacBook is entirely determined Apple...

If it were entirely determined by Apple then the prices would be in the billions. The floor on the price of a Macbook is entirely determined by Apple, the ceiling is controlled by the customers. And both parties can be swapped out (Apple for, eg, HP and consumers are basically a faceless interchangeable mass) if the other thinks there are better alternatives.

For interest rates the floor and the ceiling are controlled by central banks, as can be observed by noting the "state target" -> "achieve target" pattern in central bank declarations and what the interest rate then does. It is a market, but it isn't free.

[0] https://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/interestRateSecurityPrice...
It doesn't have to be, if people are willing to compromise.
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Disagree. Often there is simply no option for practical policy choices, in the USA at least.
Just use /r/NeutralPolitics. And with non-politics stuff, insults don't even matter. The real problem is people talking about shit they don't know anything about. And HN, for instance, is full of people politely bullshitting, which I'm constantly reminded of when I see people talk about things I know lots about.
> Companies can't really "rent an office space" for one day a week can they?

Not exactly but they could get 1/5 the space and rotate people onsite one day per week.
What if the right brain is liberal and the left brain is democratic socialist? Certainly passes the uniformity test.
This is my feeling as well. I've shifted well left of norms in my conservative area, so I tend to stay quiet at work.
What is not proven is if Starlink will work the way it's been sold to you as an idea. What is also no proven is if it can be profitable even if it does work. People in these remote places of the world are unlikely to be able to afford internet... not have a need or desire for it. They have other priorities.

Not to mention there's already ways to get very high-speed internet to remote villages that want it. The only barrier is cost - but for motivated villages and/or governments, it's not very expensive ($10's of thousands up front cost, trivial long-term costs). I've sat in many conferences with people building out wireless networks in remote regions - very fascinating work.

There's some pretty non-trivial chance Starlink was only approved because of the Cult of Elon.

SpaceX wants to put 1,584 satellites in orbit[1] to the cost of around $10 Billion USD, and will need to replace these routinely due to orbital decay.

There's only 2,666 satellites in orbit currently[2]. 1,327 of which are from the US[2].

Re: No fly zones - they can be established for all sorts of things. There's no fly zones around many amusement parks, for example, and not just because of the remote possibility of some terrorist attack.

> UN General Assembly HRC declared access to the internet as a basic human right

That seems simply to be virtue signaling. Of course everyone should have access to information and knowledge, but that's not exclusive to the internet.

It costs money to provide internet access. Basic Human Rights don't cost money to exercise. The Right to be Free doesn't require a monthly payment to some mega-corp. If it did, you would not be free, would you?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

[2] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database#:~:text=....
1) You don't need to agree.

2) Each of those is an essay or two to justify. Of course they're not specific. This isn't a political essay. I'm giving examples -- enough to understand the gist, not the nuance.

3) In modern America, all of these views piss everyone off -- left AND right. If you articulate most of them, you'll get fired WHOEVER your boss is AND uninvited to the family dinner.

That this "critique [is] most often wielded by dishonest provocateurs" is precisely because everyone else is afraid to speak. In a functioning civic society, we'd have many opinions like the ones above, and we'd all discuss them and work towards the best solutions. I've found that the best solution to "dishonest provocateurs" is still to assume the best intentions until shown otherwise.
I don't think it's necessarily wrong. All society is is norms and taboo. If someone is violating the social norms and/or breaking taboo the natural response is social shaming. This can have negative consequences but it's hard to argue that it is wrong to do this all of the time.
They will at best ostracize me from their social circles. And at worst damage my property.

Yes, I had a direct experience of the latter when my car was keyed for having a “give peace a chance” bumper sticker during the times of the war on Iraq. And that’s in Canada, bear in mind.
That’s exactly why I implemented my own queue system. If it’s something that will only take a few hours to build, and I’ll need to maintain it long term, I’ll always favor rolling it myself.

There are very few “feature gems” that I’ve used in the past 15 years doing Rails development that I’ve been happy I used a year later. Development gems on the other hand like byebug are usually fine.
Actually back in the day the Soviets were genuinely afraid of the Space Shuttle, as they though that due to it's capability for sudden orbit changes via aerodynamic surfaces. They thought it might start on an otherwise routine mission only to do a sudden orbit change that makes it fly over Moscow & nuke it with hardly any warning at all.

It is said that was also the reason they started the Buran and Energia project - while their engineers though the Space Shuttle was too complicated, expensive and dangerous (and they were right...) they also though there must be something special about it, otherwise the Americans would not build something that bad.
I am eternally ashamed to admit I never did manage to beat the Red Dragon. Many years later I downloaded the game and ran a local BBS just so I could see what the result was.
Hardly minor. I'm connecting from a university with a 1Gbps connection and it felt like 56k. I gave up after 5 seconds.
I don't get it: if someone's ideas are so universally considered horrific and dangerous, why do you even allow that person to run for the elections?

The state defines a frame of things that are lawful and that every citizen should be able to perform in perfect safety. If you think that the laws of your country are not sufficient, then seek to change them; instead you seem to advocate for vigilante justice in the absence of shared and agreed upon rules.
Thing is, the IA did not make infinite copies and distribute them freely. They specifically made limited copies and for every copy the lent out, they took a physical copy out of circulation.
I'm not too concerned about people in "the land of the brave, the home of the free" who feel unable to express themselves in words. Their actions (or lack thereof) speak much louder than any words. Injustice is self-evident, and 'I know it when I see it.'
The general idea of WeWork, but not that business model
> People could, for instance, get tested each morning, and be required to present their daily test results upon arriving at work

I don't think test turnaround time is this quick in the U.S.
You monster. I'm unfriending you this instant and telling all of my friends they have to unfriend you too in the next 6 hours or else I'm unfriending them also.

While I'm kidding about the op, I see this all the time on my feed. Just today, I saw someone in my Facebook feed just today demand that everyone unfriend person X right away because they're a Trump supporter, and he would go through the list of mutual friends and unfriend everyone who didn't. I'm far from a Trump supporter, but I find this behavior childish.
If reports are correct they did hire some of the Imagination GPU design team.

So they probably could but whilst the relationship is good the best of all worlds is a strong ARM team plus a strong team in-house.
oh, i wrote software that does this over airplay wifi mirroring and a bluetooth dongle as a mouse. i gave up because I couldn’t convince my phone to take a tablet hid profile for seamless mouse capture. it’s messy but I’ll throw it on github in a bit
> I don't want racists and white supremacists spreading their rhetoric, but I also don't want our society so constrained by mob mentality that having merely unpopular opinions have dire consequences.

Either you're in favor of free speech or you're not. Republicans, Democrats, and, yes, Hacker News all participate in cancel culture in one way or another.

Sure there are bots, provocateurs, and anonymous trolls who have no intent on changing their beliefs. But, please, let the American people have enough credit to make decisions for themselves and see racists for who they truly are.
The fact that GPT-3 can write a better essay than I can has sent me into a full blown funk this last week.

edit: *than I can, not "that I can", hah.
I just went to it from the parent comment, then checked the main page which notes:

[EDIT 7/21: This post is now a month old, and I am cautiously optimistic that the Times has changed their mind. There is no further need to take any of the actions described below.]
If they are, and one were to draw up a list of other human rights violations and international laws that China is breaking, I don't think this would make the top five.
When will we stop being fooled by Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Tesla, etc?
Interesting. Have any people/groups/organizations been credited as having made prescient, non-trivial bets anticipating this pandemic?
Just having a theoretical conversation now, but

> antisat weapons that only ever raise or lower their orbits and fire .22s at their targets.

raising your orbit is the hard and expensive part, it takes a lot of propellant, which generally rules out smaller vehicles, right?

And if you want to destroy a satellite, you need a lot of kinetic energy, which for a tiny projectile means lots of speed relative to the target... But since your absolute speed determines the height of your orbit, the only way to get more than ~1000 ft/s is to have your gun-sat in an opposite-direction orbit to the target, right? And isn't it the case that our satellites are all orbiting in more or less the same direction, since they launch from canaveral and have to head east to be over water?
And Anthony Weiner, well...
Nobody is obliged to vote on a matter. At least not in America, I've heard it might be different in Australia. When I feel as though I cannot make an informed decision, I choose not to vote. Why should my uninformed vote be so valued that I'm obliged to give it? What utility is there in an uninformed vote?
It's been possible for a long time, but there are big challenges to adoption. Every FPGA is different and the image is tightly coupled to the chip, so you'd have to compile the algorithm specifically to your chip before loading, which can take hours. Then loading the image each time you change out accelerators for a different application can take minutes. Then the software that uses the accelerator would have to know which chip and which image you're running and send data to it accordingly. Then you have to remember that FPGA's aren't really that great of accelerators sometimes, since they run at such low clock speeds, have crummy memory interfaces, limited gate support for floating point or even integer multiplication, etc. CPU's commonly outperform them even at the things they're supposed to be good at.

So it's unlikely ever to gain broad acceptance because the software vendors would have to support such a high number of permutations and the return can be questionable. This is why you see far more accelerators based on ASICs that have higher clock speeds and baked-in circuitry for specific tasks, with standardized APIs.

But sure, there's nothing preventing you from buying an FPGA board, hooking it up to your PC, creating a few images that do the accelerations you want, and writing software that uses them, swapping the image in when your program loads. You could even write a smart driver that swaps the image only if it's not in use by another app, or whatever.
It's just unlikely you'll ever find a bunch of third-party software that supports it.
I generally agree. It's impossible to have a knowledgable position on every single issue, and a full-time job to have a position on whatever is popular in a given week. The end result is that on most issues, most of us default to the status quo, because, well, that's how the status quo works. It's literally the default until enough people care to change it.

In other words, "you don’t have time or inclination to obsess about the political origins and implications of every atomic micro-decision in your day because doing so is a tremendously tedious and unproductive burden that frequently yields no meaningful insight or behavior change" is a lot of words to say that you support the status quo.

I think everybody does, on issues that aren't important to them.
It's ironic how my least favorite genre of comments are about people discussing the correct usage of the word "ironic".
I think you replaced climate change with racist behavior there.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but is this in any way replacing Stripe?
Me too, but it's the stress from the virus and deteriorating political situation in the US, rather than working from home.
I could but I just do not want to. This pandemic definitely stacked the cards against my living preferences
Someone needs to run the experiment. Move to some place in Russia outside the Moscow metropolitan area. Apply to Gitlab. If you get the job, relocate to San Fran. See if your pay quadruples.
I worked at Medtronic and currently work at Qualcomm. Both companies had policies matching this. Don't search patents so you are not influenced by them.
I am pretty introverted (which is not exactly unique on this site I'm sure) and I genuinely like and miss many of my coworkers. Sure, I talk to them on zoom all the time, but that's not the same as having a social meal (or even coffee break) with them and shooting the shit about whatever.

Overall, I agree working remotely has been great for family time, saved a ton of time in commuting, saved some money, but even as an introvert, I'm not sure it's exactly "better" overall or not. I don't expect to go back to the office anytime soon and that's just fine with me, but it would be nice to add back some of the social experiences that are being lost right now (both inside and outside of work circles).
No, I don't. How long ago was that? I hear that credit unions don't charge for other credit unions ATMs.
This article is very well written and very helpful. It presents the case for digital lending quite well.

But in the last 20 years, pirates have abused digital copies of data and given digital copies a bad name.

Today the publishers are sore from that experience. And they fight like they always did before.

But they will use court cases against pirates to justify suit against IA. And that sucks.

Judges worldwide have sided with opposing sides on the issue. No consistency has been reached. It is clear that courts cannot interpret these issues with consistency.

So legislatives must CREATE rules for digital content and digitized content. And they are not the same. The latter is conversion of data into a less than digital format and this takes effort, the kind of effort like buying tires, creating molds for them, and distributing tires made from those molds.

Current copyright laws do not distinguish between digital and paper products. Paper products before year 2000 should be digitizable. After should need to be paid a fee. And lending should be clarified.
What is the hospital bill going to look like for 20 days on the ICU?

Say it doesn't kill you, I can see how it can easily wipe you out financially (at-least in the US).
Yup it's classified. Do you have evidence that it's a weapon?