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Ask HN: Finding the Australian Aboriginal flag in all artworks
For those who don't know, the Australian Aboriginal flag (https://i.imgur.com/sGsnLkv.png) is actually copy-righted by an individual although it is recognized as a national flag.

It was created in 1971 by an artist named Harold Thomas and went onto to become culturally accepted as the flag of the Aboriginal people. And then as above, went onto being proclaimed a national flag by the government.

Unfortunately, since then, Harold Thomas has licensed the flag to various private agencies. One of the licenses was exclusive to a clothing label, which now means that no other Aboriginal business can print clothes with the flag on it without paying royalties. (Sitting around 20%) A lot of Aboriginals feel dismay at the current situation of the licensing.

I am rather free market orientated and do respect the artists desires.

But, the situation is rather unique, I can't seem to find any other examples in the world of a nations/cultures flag being owned by an individual.

The creator has no intention to relinquish the copyright, so movements have already sprung up.

A good timeline of events can be found here -> https://clothingthegap.com.au/pages/aboriginal-flag-timeline

The page above found an artwork released 4 years prior that contains the visual elements of the flag -> https://i.imgur.com/rKbS2m4.jpg

The flag artist studied European art just before he created the aboriginal flag so he may have already copied it himself.

For a bit of fun and to build a case, I thought it would be a cool experiment to try find the Aboriginal flag in as many pre-existing artworks as possible.

I am looking for API's and libs that would help me achieve this as I think it is a fun problem.

Regardless, I've used HN for over a decade and have no doubt some of the smartest people on the planet live here.

So if you find this tale intriguing and perhaps unjust, any advice on how to tackle this problem from a public policy perspective would also be great.
I don't know if that's true at all, and I suspect it's false. While both types are not uncommon, I think sellers being scammed is the more common scenario.

Even if it wasn't, though, how can you say this isn't useful? Even if 99% of scams were from sellers, the fact that this trivially and provably solves scamming from buyers is amazing. Saying this isn't a good case because cryptocurrency doesn't miraculously universally eliminate the possibility of any fraud from any party in any scenario is really setting a very high bar.

And with things like Ethereum smart contracts, you theoretically can prevent fraud from all parties in some cases, and defer all risk to the implementation of the contract. Or do you consider this a bad case as well, because a contract could possibly be flawed and "the majority of fraud isn't actually due to human deceit"?
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It's a mistake to think that "meditation" is only a religious practice or that it has only one aim. There are many forms of mediation, with many different aims, some religious, some not.
Disappointed in the article. When I saw the Yale domain I thought it would be a research paper or at least something written by an expert on the subject. It appears this is written by a journalist[0] and as typical of things written hy journalists, leaves out crucial details/sources which leaves you with more questions.

> the country’s commercial fishermen often serve as de-facto paramilitary personnel whose activities the Chinese government can frame as private actions.

???? The article doesn't go any further, but how would you use a bunch of unarmed fishing vessels crewed by "illiterates" (according to the article) for anything resembling a military purpose. Later on it mentions "crowding" but doesn't really go into detail about what that means.

Plus what is a "distant water fishing fleet"? The article gives numbers for overall number of fishing vessels and then "distant water fishing fleet", but only provides context for the later number by saying the US has only 300 such boats in its fleet. If a country with coasts on two oceans only has 300 of these, it has to be some really specific category of boat right? What makes this category important?

And of course there's the framing of the article, the fishing is done by private commercial fishers but apparently their entire country is to blame. I mean you can make some arguments about subsidies but then the article itself acknowledges that other countries also engage in similar level of subsidies.

Also there's this weird fixation on North Korea, where it claims the Chinese fishing fleet is depleting North Korean waters, but doesn't really tell us about whether or not that's done with North Korea's permission. It mentions that it would be technically illegal for NK to sell fishing rights, but that doesn't really bear any significance.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Urbina
This question has been answered many times in the past. Through most of human history, it would have involved killing 80% of their young men and taking the women as slaves. I don't know where it will lead in the age of nuclear weapons.
I don't understand these impulsive "don't do it" reactions.

Why can't folks just assess their own situations, review/learn about possible solutions, try stuff out and then eventually go with something?

There's going to be unpleasant problems no matter what you choose. There's no silver bullet. Projects fail for many different reasons, only one of them is because of wrong "technology platform choice."
I didn't downvote him but I think I know why he was downvoted. Denying human reality doesn't work. Remember the Prohibition?
>lying is necessary.

I hear this a lot but do you have any examples?
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Aquaculture is huge in Asia. China produces 61% of all of the farmed fish in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture#/media/File:Global...

What we need is to reduce the popularity of consuming "predator" fish species -- there is an abundant supply of forage fish, but these are often caught and fed to farmed fish! Sardines and herring aren't popular today, but they'd be a lot more appetizing and sustainable if we just froze them on the boat instead of grinding them into fishmeal to be fed to tilapia or salmon. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forage_fish
I have no horse in this race, and may even be persuaded to agree with you, but as other commenters pointed out, the statements in themselves are not logically inconsistent.

The recent episode with the Apple story on HN reveals how easy it is for emotional pile-ons to happen on something that may or may not be factual. I think cooler heads need to be prevailed upon to speak up and add some balance to discussions.
To be fair, Pi Zero's are $5, which will happily run nerves. Outfitting with relevant hardware for the task at hand will of course increase the price (as would any hardware product), but the "$35 pi" is a little misleading. You are right that it will require larger hardware constraints, but there is a lot of nuance to the price discussion. Operationally, nerves grants you the ability to provision fleets and deploy updates in the field, rollback bad firmware pushes, etc. Value wise, this kind of feature set out of the box should factor in to life-time device cost considerations. I'm not aware of an equivalent offering on other platforms, but I'm admittedly just a spectator in this space.
> in SF despite the declining quality of life.

Then again, a large contribution to pre-Covid/BC-era "declining quality of life" was due to the city bursting at the seams (the city's population grew far in excess of the number of new housing units being built), and the troubles that came with that.
>recent RapGenius lyrics scandal

It got thrown out of court.
What kind of books do you like?

Personally, I recommend reading the novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, on which the film Arrival was based, because the novel is quite a bit different from the movie and takes the whole topic of non-temporal existence in a much more Slaughterhouse-Five direction.
> If you use web tech, you get a lot of important stuff, like sandboxing, ... for free

That’s very context dependent, no? Electron removes a heap of sandbox limitations does it not?
“though Apple Keynote is a superb software product”

My theory on that: people at Apple actually use Keynote. I imagine it’s the part of that software suite that’s used throughout the company. See: WWDC presentations.
It's possible to have a large population with deficiencies, which may be the case in India for example [1].

Another factor is, the number of insects that accidentally get into the food supply provide some protein. I remember reading about how a more primitive lifestyle leads to more insects being in the food supply, which provides some of the necessary protein for humans to thrive. But I can't find the link at the moment.

1: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/80-india...
The thing is, fertility rates are going down across the world.

What are you going to do with the current people? They will all want a decent quality of life. Will you sacrifice your life and quality of life to achieve this greater goal you mention? Or do you just want "others" to sacrifice themselves for it?
Meh. I would bet that has way more to do with the cost of travelling to Boston for the average person around the world and the growth in prestige of that particular event.

Also, athleisure is "active" in the literal sense, but is it contributing anything back to society? I guess one could argue it collectively reduces the cost of our growing passiveness. But I would argue, as someone who loves exercising, that exercise is just a video game that makes you feel progressively better the longer you play it instead of worse. It doesn't serve a broader purpose beyond a certain point of basic health, unless you are so good that other people derive satisfaction from your accomplishments (pro athlete) or you are doing it to form social connections (golf, intramural sports leagues, etc.) or like break a world record or something.
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Its about using protein that has other uses. E.g. free-range chickens eat bugs; I don't want to eat bugs, but I'll gladly eat chickens.
That's true. But the prices just keep going up -- they increased their prices across the board by 30% this year.
How could future results be any worse?
1. There is a difference between complete deprivation of human contact for months to years (which could be a form of torture) and spending 23 hours a day in a single occupancy cell with an hour outside for exercise with guards and healthcare workers regularly attempting to engage you in conversation (in an attempt to evaluate your mental state). Chelsea Manning's guard's stated they tried to engage her in conversation regularly, but she wasn't responsive. That doesn't sound like purposeful lack of human contact for the purposes of psychological torture.

2. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture is a lawyer in a political position, not a psychiatrist.

3. The studies linked in his report and the article failed were horribly flawed. They examined general population prisoners and prisoners subjected to solitary confinement without taking into account the selection biases that lead to differences between those populations, i.e., prisoners who have behavioral problems are more likely to be selected for solitary confinement.

I think that charging prisoners exorbitant fees to call their family is horrible. I think that not allowing books on programming in prison because the warden is concerned with "hacking" is wrong. Hell I think giving prisoners beds that are less comfortable than what you'd expect guards to sleep on is terrible.

But I don't think those things should be described as torture because they diminish the meaning of the word.
> For example, what’s the end game for the cellular signaling modeling outlined in the article?

I think the article meant to refer to systems biology (as in a new field). It's not exactly a single 'model' rather a methodology as far as I know. Also the 'end game' IMO in bioinformatics the goal is mostly to discover new knowledge rather than having a 'production ready' model. Through the 'big data' science one could uncover hidden biological effects, new mechanism and new insights etc. Each of these big data modelling exercise is really to push the biology forward to a deeper level. In a way it can be comparable to astrophysics (is it a coincidence that many people working in bioinformatics have an astrophysics background)?
That might not be lying per se but rather an inability to take responsibility. I have two nephews-in-law, there's a dynamic there that sometimes happens between brothers where the younger feels it's unfair if he doesn't get to do / be allowed all the same things as his older brother, but he isn't mature enough, inserts himself anyway, and gets mad and acts out when it doesn't go well for him. The older brother, unable to get the younger to just chill, settles instead for goading the younger one until he melts down.

Anyway there've been instances where after losing at football or Minecraft or whatever, the younger nephew has launched on a long monologue to us about how the contest was unfair, that really he should have won, that actually if you look at it a certain way he did win, yes he won and his older brother lost and... on to increasingly fantastic made up story about what happened.

It's not so much lying as a "revisionist history" with a magical realism element. It's almost like... grit gone wrong. I.e. grit would be, "I failed once but I won't accept failure permanently and next time I'll try a new tack" versus this is, "I can't accept failure therefore I must justify and explain why I actually was perfect."

I find this behavioral tendency worrying.
CPUs and GPUs have been converging for a long time.
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To be fair, they are an outlier, so not really normal in that sense.
It's a pattern that is common for people with ADHD, but it's also pretty common for everyone else—just maybe not as common. I'm sorry if it wasn't intentional, but your comment reads like you're saying that the above comment is a sign the commenter might have ADHD and that seems unwarranted.
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That's a great question so I hope I can provide a little insight to my thinking:

* You are right, we do need to also focus on reducing emissions and carbon removal is by no means a replacement for reductions;
* However even if we were to reduce to zero emissions tomorrow, there is still an excess of emissions already present in the atmosphere that needs to be addressed/removed.
* Another large consideration for myself when thinking about this project was to support as many carbon removal projects as possible now, so they can be mature, cheaper and readily available as we also reduce.

It is my firm belief that carbon removal should and will replace the existing carbon credits based system. If I emit a ton of CO₂ then buy credits that have reduced (although this is a little ambiguous) someone elses emissions, my 1 ton still exists in the atmosphere.

Reducing my own footprint (so it becomes 0.5 tons) then actively removing that unavoidable footprint - or more if I would like to live carbon negative - means I can truly say I have no impact.

I hope this helps but please feel free to ask about anything else or email me directly: ewan (at) carbonremoved (dot com)
This is not correct. The world can currently sustain all 8 billion people and then some. It simply chooses not to. Population control is a very weird argument and I'd like to not hear it anymore, as someone who used to believe it.
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Any advice that has the word "never" or "always" in it is nonsense a large proportion of the time.

Everybody lies. Sometimes it's good, e.g. in order to avoid someone having a surprise spoiled. Or sometimes it's inconsequential, like telling someone that you're fine because you don't have the mental energy to get into what's bothering you (and you know they won't let it go if you were to just say that). Sometimes it's bad.

Telling your kids "we always tell the truth" is a lie, because you don't. And it has a high likelihood of (as a sibling comment said) making them unprepared for people who do lie, at least while they're still young. And you can bet that the first time they catch you in a lie, it will be that much worse.
Pine is using the Pinephone as a workbench to build open source, Purism is using open source as a workbench to build a phone. I'm not applying either of those negatively. In either case, I think one gets what they pay for and a delivery timeline to match.
Not only that, it would allow SEO companies to sign up as "news organizations" and then use the knowledge gained about the ranking algorithm to fill everyone's search results with SEO spam even more than it already is.
For AI/ML and scientific computations? Maybe.

For games and graphics? I don't think so, a GPU has a ton of dedicated hardware that is very costly to simulate in software: triangle setup, rasterizers, tessellation units, texture mapping units, ROPs... and now even raytracing units.
Ah yes, the age old question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
The lesson here is all in the “CAN worsen anxiety”.

Even if a study shows statistically significant result that meditation helps on average, the tails still matter. That is in health, individual responses to an intervention matter a lot. Sometimes a treatment helps most people a modest amount, but makes things much much worse for a small minority of people.
At least my personal feeling from having watched multiple projects arrive at hundreds of microservices, some of which end up amplifying inbound requests into a nearly exponential number of internal requests, the problem is that most teams have no thesis at all for when it makes sense to separate two functions, when you should make a function a service, etc. this means you get a massive amplification of cost and complexity and, honestly, not a lot of gain most of the time.
> what’s the end game for the cellular signaling modeling outlined in the article?

Pharma.

Most of the modeling work that people do is fairly well motivated. Going from models to working technology is indeed a huge leap, but everything starts with the basic scientific understanding.

> Maybe I’m wrong and there are people working on the big picture.

You can usually find the "big picture" behind a paper by reading the recent grant applications from the PI who funded the research (or the funding lines explicitly mentioned in the paper, if any).
I would see J solutions to Project Euler problems a lot, and they would often be the most terse and cryptic solutions.

Good introduction. Its always nice to see a "community review".
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IDK. I feel pretty siloed on Netflix today. And I wander how 3rd party content producers feel about Netflix's recommenders.
>Google relies heavily on third-party content that they don't pay for in search results

If you’re so confident that’s the case, then you support Google removing that content entirely from search, yes?
You are not even making an effort to feed them at their current population, so the end of your argument kind of answers itself.
Why would anyone use this? As I understand it's not even supported to do hot code reloads on the target when developing?

Is it really only a way do package the Elixir app with a Linux distro and a template config that includes a couple of hex dependencies?
> Obviously "making a point" or "satire" is not a valid justification for scientific fraud. Otherwise anyone caught in plagiarism or whatever could just use that excuse to avoid consequences.

This is not good logic. Of course anyone they can make the excuse. Just like they can claim they made a editing mistake. Just like a person committing murder can claim self-defense. It doesn't mean the defense is true or holds. Establishing whether some behaved unethically is just hard sometimes.
Can it receive calls/SMSs in this mode?
Yes, they are.
The problem is that the civilized world cannot see the barbarians for what they really are, unite and deal with them.
Best time to do it was in the 40s of XX century, Germany backed by the economies of the UK and USA would've gotten the job done in 2 years.
The US government threatens and conspires to commit violence all the time. Clearly this is allowed if all men are equal. Otherwise agents of the state would have rights that others do not.
> But software of any non-trivial scale is rarely written for one person.

Maybe it should be? Much like how people cook for themselves all the time, it seems reasonable to encourage people to code for themselves at least every once in awhile.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of software I've written, both personally and professionally, has been software with exactly one user: myself. Usually these are indeed "trivial" programs or scripts, but they are indeed software nonetheless, and are crafted to my tastes, much like how the vast majority of the meals I cook are for myself alone and are cooked to my tastes.
I've been using btrfs as my main file system for about 6 years now and have run into the "no free space" issue about twice.

It's horrible. Everything stops working and freeing space is quite hard.

Other than that I had no issues with it. Subvolumes and snapshots are pretty cool to me, but I can see how the added overhead might not make sense in a processing power and space constrained environment.
Docopt is great until you start digging in and discover the author doesn't have the first clue about parsing. I don't mean in the sense of "weird opinions about recursive descent", but in the literal sense of "has no idea what parsing is or means". The internal implementation is a gigantic clusterfuck of the worst sort of poorly constructed, unmaintainable code you could imagine.

I maintain two ports of docopt and I'm telling you not to use it.
RTT between VMs in the same GCP zone is often well below 100us. Are you also measuring the latency of the query itself? I realize not all networks are built the same, but it seems like your benchmark case is much worse than what's possible, even without buying specialized hardware.
It's true. Here is the 13th 5-year plan by the Ministry of Agriculture. It does say "总数稳定在3000", which means to stabilize the number of vessels.

http://jiuban.moa.gov.cn/zwllm/ghjh/201712/t20171221_5985078...

Also for more details about the ODI estimate: https://www.cffacape.org/publications-blog/how-large-is-the-...
It really doesn't. Take genocide for example, a polarized conflict. It's ridiculous to point to the victims as mere participants in a mutually antagonistic conflict.
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Claims about raw numbers of attacks on internet facing services always seem a bit dishonest.

Anyone who has ever attached a public IPv4 address to a server knows that they are immediately hit with drive by attacks of all sorts because it's just not that hard to attempt attacks against literally every possible IPv4 address.

It would be nice if CloudFlare could indicate whether the attacks they're claiming in this post are targeted or are just run of the mill drive by attacks.

Raw numbers don't really mean anything. How do the numbers of attacks against campaigns and election sites compare to those against other sites of similar reach? They do compare Senate and House campaign sites but I don't know if those differences are more likely to be due to how the drive by attackers prioritize their work (eg if a site appears on Twitter more often because a Senate campaign has a broader reach does it lead to more attacks)

Overall this post implies the attacks are related to the election but I don't see any real data indicating that they are targeted.
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