skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused by your claim, of course it's hard to make money on a patent after it has expired.

Assuming you wanted to use the assumption that patents last as long as copyrights, I have a hard time imagining how a patent wouldn't be even easier to make money with given that a patent is far broader and inventions probably "remix" old inventions even more than cultural touchstones. Just imagine if "jet engines" or "wings" or "AC electrical grid" or "power transformer" were still under patent as broadly patented approaches to solving engineering problems.

Oof. Society might collapse, but I'm sure someone would make money hand over fist on the way down...

At least copyright allows fair use and remixing to an extent, no such luck with patents.
Offtopic: somehow I can't get off Slackware, please help me. (And no, I don't want to go down that rabbit arch-hole.)
Practically companies outsource the recruitment process to schools. To get in a top school you need to have passed certain filters so it is more likely that talent can be found there. It's applicable is any country not just USA and in sports as well.

It's a hierarchy building system that works but of course it's not perfect.

If you are presuming that untapped talent exists in lower ranking schools on a large scale, companies would shift their recruiting strategies because people from top schools require much higher starting salaries. Leading companies recruit from top schools to remain in the front.

The hypothesis that some groups (black, women, lgbt, etc) are systematically marginalised is not compatible with capitalism. While it has an element of truth due to the in-group preference (which a very natural phenomenon - even trees do it) in a ruthless market companies which discriminate are at a loss - they loose star employees and eventually their leading position. If huge untapped potential exists in the marginalised groups this would create a market opportunity: companies could only hire from these groups and outperform the others. I don't see this happening.
I seeded most of the list and know basically nothing about docker or kubernetes, so don't know of any cold showers myself. But I would be more than happy to edit a submission by someone who knows the space!
Supports over 200 languages but not Greek and Russian.
>But the reform way hasn't worked very well, if at all, either.

You don't see a difference between USA, 1960 and USA, 2020?
When is AI not AI?
Inspired by the issues at ScaleFactor:

* Using humans in AI is a feature, not a bug

* Whether you can “fire” those humans along the way makes or breaks the business

* Not all business problems lend themselves well to AI automation
I'm very frustrated by dark patterns, too. IIRC those came well after I left the company in 2005, and I'm disappointed they're there. I think trying to get users to spam invites is especially annoying and lame: https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/953059635522502656
"I find your lack of vision disturbing."

Author does not lack vision: https://qntm.org/destroy
Interesting. Never heard of this before.

Any examples you can provide?
> The best way to learn something is to teach it...Not only will you learn something by teaching, but you'll also help and inspire others.

I especially like the last point about teaching what you learn and how you use accountability mechanisms like signing up to do a public talk to force yourself to learn the details. Great hack!

I think more of us should share what you learn and document our learning process
I suggest not putting people into quadrants and making an us-vs-them argument. Everyone is exactly the same and also completely unique. At times, some people appear to catalyze change, but it's everyone else that actually makes the change.

There has always been an "immune" reaction to new ideas. That is not going to change for the foreseeable future. Don't worry about it, just keep innovating.
Yep, and I remember when I got my first kindle e-ink reader, the first one they made, and was in awe because between that and the first iphone a few months earlier, it reminded me so much of the device described in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age.

I got used to it, and the feeling went away.

I had a similar feeling when I got a bluetooth headset where I just had to tap and speak and Google would answer almost any question I had, no need to even half shout "OKAY GOOGLE" for my phone to hear. I now actually feel dumber without such a headset because I can't easily get answers to random questions.

So, yeah, we get used to these things. The measure of "being in the future" is less the awe we have at technological marvels and more the way they become common place and accepted.
Now that you mention it, Antarctica actually does seem like a good backup solution. Not as good as Mars, and not against Earth shattering asteroids, but much easier to set up.

It's pretty far away from everywhere, so it would be a decent shelter for humans and important resources alike.

Though tbf, good underground bases around the world would work pretty well.

The problem with Mars is it would take hundreds of years with current technology to settle and become self-sufficient. If something wipes out Earth in the meantime, Martians would just die a slower death.

And again, bases on asteroids (especially if they're brought into Earth's orbit) seem like a better idea.
"I don't see how SAT scores would indicate the level of engineering talent at a school in any way"

Inability to figure out why IQ might be correlative with engineering ability (as it is with practically any performance measure you can name, reified by over 100 years of exhaustive data) is indicative of a failing of reasoning on your part, not a problem with the argument.

I do agree with you that in order to address the "racial gap" in tech we would have to ignore most metrics that would predict tech aptitude.
The EU will end up being a soviet style bureaucracy working actively against sovereign countries. The EU will break up eventually. Such organizations have never survived long in the history of mankind.
They Watched Us with Webcams and Rewrote Our Code
There are plenty of arguments, but E2E control is probably the strongest one.

It's not only about CPUs. Remember Nvidiagate or Radeongate? If Apple takes full control of the hardware like they did with iPhone/iPad/Watch they will (most likely) end up making better products.

But also:

- Single architecture on all their products

- More perf per watt
Good to see, I guess. But I'm so tired of "settlements" where no-one has to admit guilt or face criminal sanctions.

BTW, The Netflix series "Dirty Money" has an entire episode titled "The Man at the Top" that provides very good background on this (almost unbelievable) corruption scandal.
Find a grad student working on research projects in the field. Every area of focus will have different requirements but almost all wildlife related field work involves some form of data entry that involves transfer from data in a notebook to excel or some CAD program. Challenges include no access to cell data, wet environments, battery management, etc. That being said, if it cuts down on tedium, most researchers will find a way to pay for it.

I've seen a plant identification app disrupt the process of species identification with field guides. I suspect that there are a lot of tedious classification projects that professors assign to undergrad researchers (find photos with wildlife) that can be entirely automated.
I wrote some tools to search your HN favorites and export them to CSV or HTML in both JavaScript and Python.

Check out https://gabrielsroka.github.io/getHNFavorites.js or to view the source code, see JS: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/... or Python: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...

Previous discussion, other tools and more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788236
Matt Taibbi has a pretty good take on it I think. (https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Inc-Todays-Despise-Another/dp/19...)

I just built an app to control my own addiction (addictionlocker.com) and have thought a lot about this recently.

My two cents: the media has gotten good at giving us what we want, and what we want is conflict. If bad news and fighting weren't what we wanted they wouldn't publish it. By engaging with it, we tell it what we want, and they just deliver more of it. Extrapolated ad absurdum; YouTube and Facebook's algorithms serve you what you're interested in, otherwise you'd get bored and go somewhere else. The rest of the media just got good at doing this too...
I used to think this, and then I interviewed people who did both traditional and software engineering professionally, and now I'm not so sure. I did a first draft of what I learned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3018ABlET1Y

I'm hoping to have a written version by the end of September.
I mean there's no reason you couldn't have a thread-local override to the log level and restore it after the function call.

The fact that logging is at all intermixed with business logic I think is the main problem. I should be able to take a fully working logless program and apply different logging profiles to it. What gets logged should be a function of the person invoking the program.
sure, but if you are a scammer then selling the 8T for at least 100$ and picking one for basically free would net you more profit.
maybe it was somebody that did not think he does something wrong because "amazon is big and will eat the cost"
Thank you for the local context. Can you clarify more about the takeover attempt? The article portrays it as a conflict between the site's editor, and the Board President. Can you clarify the government's role in this? Are there any governmental barriers preventing these journalists from forming a new independent news site?
Is there anywhere that explains why governments in the US don’t build infrastructure, as a long-term investment?
Here's my interpretation of log levels:

TRACE = low-level details

DEBUG = details

INFO = good to know

WARN = might want to look into this

ERROR = definitely look into this

FATAL = why it died
I think it is an easy, highly rewarding version of learning. Learning new things from a physics book and a news paper is probably not that enormously different on a chemical level.

News papers give you dozens of new things to learn every time you refresh the page.
With that in mind the phrasing sound to me like “the bushing is supposed to be moving freely, if it’s stuck to the surface you have to replace it” in aviation lingo without using ambiguous words like “freely”
Not unless either party has the ability to walk away, which means multiple buyers. If I’m a buyer and I know you have no other options, why would I negotiate?
This is a very pro EU biased view. To assert the EU governing body is not playing politics in brexit is absurdly applying a historical vacuum, ignoring the history of how tensions have grown and based on a modern narrative posthumously.

The EU decided to force the currency issue with their largest economic contributor, and imo chose to die on that hill. The EU has threatened to hold Britain 'accountant able' by being intentionally obtuse and treating to impose artificial barriers for new agreements.

The britts do the same thing, it's politics.
It's hard to be sure, but my guess is the effectiveness came mostly from the brevity. Because at the time no one knew what LinkedIn or social networking were, so most users wouldn't know if the invite was spam or not, whether accepting the invite would help the other person, etc. Today there's more social pressure to accept LinkedIn/Facebook/etc invites from people you know.
macOS Terminal with any of Rec Mono Duotone, Rec Mono Casual, Rec Mono Linear, and Rec Mono SemiCasual installed from `~/git/recursive/fonts/Recursive-Beta_1.053/Recursive_Code`.
Even after the worst imaginable asteroid impact, Earth would still be much more habitable than Mars. Keeping a "backup" on Earth would be far easier than keeping a backup on Mars. At the end of the day, Earth has a thick atmosphere, abundant water, 1g of gravity and topsoil, and Mars lacks all those things.
Is Trump’s plan to bring merit-based immigration going to affect country-based quotas?
a few decades ago

~70 years ago.
>>he plays fast and loose with the facts

>Essays aren't scientific papers.

Seems like you are alluding that essays do not require facts. I guess I misinterpreted.

>expecting an elaborate empirical demonstration of everything the man writes on his site

Talk about putting words in someones mouth. Nowhere did I say everything written on his site needs "elaborate empirical demonstration".

Are you unable to finish a comment without throwing some sort of insult?
Would the election being contested by the losing candidate be more of the same to you? Because there's a massive difference between voters being upset their candidate lost, and the candidate not accepting the results.

Especially if that candidate is the acting president and refuses to go through the peaceful transfer of power.

And the fact it's even being discussed as a serious possibility that the current acting president would do that should raise so many alarm bells about how democratic the US really is ... it's not even funny.
I keep hearing people mention the Yuan as a reserve currency, but why would any country do that? China's economic and financial data reporting seems to be spotty at best.

Also would you put your faith in the rule of law in a communist country? I'm not saying the United States or European Union are perfect, but I think their courts are more balanced and independent than in China.
>We, collectively, are confronted with the reality that clean information is required for a healthy civic function.

I feel the opposite. We must learn to filter that news for ourselves, because you never know when the news is lying to you.
This will work until everyone is sick of getting short emails asking for feedback.
If I could walk to my office and could also work from home, I'll probably go 3 times a week and go home in the afternoon if I had no meetings.
Thank you so much for the clarification between goals and values!! AND for the work you do! Finding a therapist who practices ACT changed my life.
> There are 160 million people in the civilian labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (not that this number can be trusted)

I really don't understand why people write articles using data they don't find trustworthy, yet assert that their own article is trustworthy. Garbage-in, garbage-out. I see this a lot when it comes to unemployment in particular.

What's more likely, everyone whose job it is to report on unemployment figures gets them wrong, while some rando on the internet is the only one to get it right, or the other way around?

You can go here [1] and select number of people who have been unemployed for various durations. Number of people unemployed for between 5 and 14 weeks has decreased rather dramatically in June. Granted, the figures are still absurdly high, but it does suggest that people are getting back to work.

Also, take a close look at "Unemployed for 15 Weeks & over" figures from 2010. The economy maintained ~8-9 million unemployed people for years during the great recession. So the 11 million that's being reported now is high, but they aren't so much worse than our last recession.

[1] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln
For other confused readers:

A deadstick landing,is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land. The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls, but to the traditional wooden propeller, which without power would just be a "dead stick".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadstick_landing
There are at least two significant and distinct forces in the Republican Party: pro-business and free enterprise people, and (mostly religious) social conservatives. You can find more if you look carefully — by no means Republican Party is a monolith.
You might have noticed a whole lot of stocks dropped today. If I had my float money on some other stocks instead, they would have lost along with the rest. Instead, because it was liquid, I was able to buy at today's lows. Mainly today I bought more of some shares I already own because they were down a fair amount (bought pre-covid), and today's purchase made the loss a much smaller percent. Eventually the markets will rebound and I'll have a lot of money there and a much shorter route to green territory.

To avoid fees, I have to make 2 trades a quarter minimum. I consider those fees to be losses, even though they aren't terribly substantial. So there is also that incentive to keep a float and wait for good moments like today for buys. There's no reason to buy immediately just because I got paid today.

I'm not done for the day yet. But that's why I say stagnant and not lost. It's more than just the one-phrase simplification I originally posted, as I was just focusing on that one aspect of it.
If the people's needs aren't being served by the existing media, part of the 'free' bit of 'free press' is the fact that anyone can be a journalist. They can research, write and publish stories to fill any gap. The internet enables this even more than has historically been possible.
To be fair, this is nothing new - if you've hopped onto a few boards/forums that discussed this, or read any of Shulgins's books - https://www.amazon.com/Pihkal-Chemical-Story-Alexander-Shulg... this has been a constant conversation that was semi-, not really, but kinda underground to people who persisted and wanted to explore this world.

Erowid is a great history and collection of user reports, and from there you can look for other forums that share the same idea, concept of storytelling, experience telling, and even how to cultivate and probably synthesis things but the later part is what makes it more questionable to many people. :)

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MDMA is on the roadmap for regulation and being "legal"

https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/56027/1/MDMA_Roadmap_To...

https://beckleyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MDM...

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The article though is quite dystopian for sure, talking about all the artificial side of drugs, meanwhile ignoring the big picture of "Life is already artificial."

Finding ways to improve your empathy and your ability to love is not bad, never.

But then you have things like "One possibility is that people will begin to see that love is something that is at least partly in our command. "

Love is always in your command, always. I just can't agree with that affection and love aren't.

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And then the whole idea of relationships having to involve love is also new itself, most of the time relationships, marriage in history came out of need, not for "love."

So who defines what love is?
There is little substance in the article. Biggest point made is that enterprise software is easier to administer and use.

I feel they entirely missed the elephant in the room : SaaS.
1949 is not what most people would consider "a few decades ago".
Its not so much about ignorance or close-mindedness but insecurity and fear masked as offense, which is different than rationally forming doubts.
> They'll want to obey rules until they hit one that they feel doesnt' make sense and/or needs to be broken...

What the rules are is complicated by all the unwritten rules. Many people speed, but never more than 10 over the limit, and they'll even get irritated by people driving at the posted limit.

> PS: I find wording it as "sheep" to be unneedingly pejorative towards people who just don't break the rules and let others live their own life.

The problem is they'll also conform to rules that don't let others live their own life. So if there's a clique of people, the aggressive conformist might mark an outsider for ostracism, and the passive conformist will dutifully uphold that.

But "sheep" is awful. I always think of the cringey post of, "Imma sheepdog protecting the sheep from the wolves." Unspoken: ...so the shepherd can then send the lambs to slaughter.
I'm glad you agree and weren't part of it! Apologies for suggesting you were.
Probably nothing, If I'm being honest.
Far right does not equal ignorant, obviously.
Blackbaud hack: More UK universities confirm breach
It's not necessary to use calipers to measure these tolerances. In this case talking about clearance between two parts you just use a feeler gauge which is a calibrated thickness of metal. If the documentation says no more than X mm, you grab your X gauge and make sure it doesn't fit. It's the same if you're working on a 737 or your John Deere.
TLDR: The media is complicit in lying to the American people about the number of unemployed people.

1) Government reported "unemployment" numbers have NOTHING to do with the number of people who are unemployed. The reported number is how many people are receiving or seeking benefits.

2) Even this FAKE statistic they are further manipulating, saying currently there are 16.2 million unemployed BUT these are only the claims under state programs, and do not include the claims under federal programs. Combined, there are 31.8 million people on the unemployment rolls.

3) Truth is, it looks like around 1/2 of the population is unemployed (you now have to call it "underemployed" or "out of the work force").

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/29/nearly-half-the-us-populatio...
Legally we've left. Culturally and practically we've got a way to go.
> To put this in context: for imagine the largest, and one of the last remaining independent news site in a country where most of the media is centrally controlled. Criticism of the government in that media is unknown. This site is read by close to half of the online population. The government is clearly irritated by this.

Thanks for providing this context to foreigners; I wouldn't have known any of this or been able to succinctly summarize it with some research the way you just did.
Covid-19 is charging interdisciplinary research into new horizons
You are taking this way more personally than you should be. You should probably check yourself and see if you aren’t being an asshole to other people with your supposed “intelligence”.

Ad hominem aside, is it so hard to understand the words “implicit” and “explicit”? They are English words, and implicit vs. explicit goals really isn’t all that hard to understand. Maybe people around you don’t use this language, but implicit vs. explicit models is a dichotomy I hear all the time among pretty smart people. And very useful distinction.

I don’t think you are capable of ingesting in new information or original thought. Your response to what I said about “fake mission” clearly demonstrates this. I also never said you don’t know your desires. I don’t even know you. Do you have so much time that you feel personally attacked by some (you would call) random assortment of words on the internet? Jeez.

I am seeing your other comments and you are just not that positive overall. Being skeptical and negative and doubtful isn’t a hallmark of intelligence, mind you.

Please take your matters elsewhere.
> Your value is not utility.

Lol let your value feed you when you run out of money with that line of thinking. Once you are wealthy, then sure; but not till then do humans have value in these systems were born into.
Instacart user data for sale on the dark web, report says
How do you feel about the "mental homogeneity to the point of militant aggression towards dissenting views" when applied to a denial and perpetuation of aggression towards Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people and towards women? a belief that militarized police are just fine or that police brutality isn't a problem? a belief that gender is a binary or that love and intimacy are only allowable between opposites in that binary?

in the USA, the dominant mindset (if evaluated by the current political) is exactly "mental homogeneity to the point of militant aggression towards dissenting views" and it's not coming from progressive views, it's coming from the authoritarians

this whole idea of 'cancel culture' is just as much calling for the fainting couch as 'political correctness' was