skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The courts ruled 6 years ago.

There was nothing stopping anyone from capitalizing on that ruling and moving forward with bring this "disaster"

This was brought up during the oral arguments and Google did not have a great answer.
Complaining about downvotes on HN after being flagged already. It's a bold strategy, let's see if it works out for you.
The font I'm seeing in the mono is not making this obvious: The US version has a hook on the right side. It might show up better in proportional font. /ɝ/ That hook is indicating that the vowel is rhotic aka "r-colored".
We also have no interest reading about when government performs a task ahead of schedule or under-budget, and almost nobody takes the time to actually look through government reports, budgets, etc. to see what’s going on, even though almost all of it is public.
imagine when deepfakes hit mainstream India.
> Also, Spotify is a major partner of Spotify

Can't argue with that
This looks almost exactly like the kind of data store I need for an application. I have previously considered using minio (too inflexible wrt to adding more shards / replicas), a homebrew system based on something like ScyllaDB (needs code on top to act like a blob store) or S3/B2 (too slow and/or expensive wrt to transfer costs). Is anyone using this in production and can share a story of how stable and hard to run it is?
>Because all of the copyright Trolls are waiting for the court to rule API's are copyrightable.

This isn't how the courts work and it's sad that Google has pushed this nonsense for the past 6 years.
Plus the fact that Biden just this week claimed to be the head of the Democratic party.

Hard to make that claim if you're not helping set policy.
This article seems much more nuanced than the title. Looks like it's mostly part time WFH, modulo specific authorization from one's manager.
How do I get the best hires?
>The correct solution is to teach people not to mis-use it. [...] It would be much less confusing if words just kept meaning the same thing.

Your recommendation is impossible to implement because language usage is decentralized.

The growing number of humans that can mis-use a term outpace the smaller force of volunteer "language police" that try to correct people.

E.g. It didn't matter that quad-copter enthusiasts kept trying to educate the public that DJI toys should not be called "drones". That battle has been lost and the the term "drone" has won over alternatives such as "remote quadcopter" or "UAV". It's like shouting into a hurricane.

Even very well-educated people mis-use terms. Alex Stepanov inadvertently misused "vector" when creating STL. C++ std::vector should have been called "vararray" and std::array should have been called "vector":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/581426/why-is-a-c-vector....
Didn’t he call other countries shitholes?
TIL there are hackers living in high-crime areas. Seems like a good idea to move to a neighborhood where you won’t get shot for having your eyes up, which is almost all of my city.
I mean, I see your point, but you kind of have to to achieve the intended purpose.
Ask HN: Affiliate Tracking for Service Providers
I run a business services company and find it extremely difficult to track referrals and pay my affiliate partners because current affiliate tracking systems are based on checkout gateways and many services leads call in or have a long conversion process.

What are your thoughts on an affiliate tracking system that integrates with Callrail and Google Analytics to more intelligently track leads and conversions for cost per lead affiliate payout for service providers (E.g. home services, professional services, healthcare providers, ect.)
A lot depends on what online services you are using. The goal of Purism is to provide a suite of online services at Librem One (https://librem.one/) so you don't have to share your personal data with Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Also see: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
KDE Plasma Mobile update: September 2020
Out of curiosity, please list these recent peace deals.

If the UAE/Baharin normalization with Israel is on that list, them remove it. Getting two countries, who are not in conflict, to acknowledge each other and begin a formal relationship is definitely not a peace deal. A peace deal needs to involve the warring parties, which this did not.
AWS IAM deep dive: How IAM users and groups work
Whenever you introduce a new solution into a problem space that already has plenty of options, you are obligated to state why your (new) solution is needed in the first place, IMO.

They did it well:

> Most other distributed file systems seem more complicated than necessary.

> SeaweedFS is meant to be fast and simple, in both setup and operation. If you do not understand how it works when you reach here, we've failed! Please raise an issue with any questions or update this file with clarifications.

https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs#compared-to-other-fil...

However, since I never had to touch hdfs after installing it in the first place, I wonder what the difficulties in operation are, that they tried to overcome here?
How exactly is this related? It's a puff piece for vectorspace.
From a section on Persian customs, somewhere in 130-135 of book one (which is as precise as my copy gets): “If an important decision is to be made, they discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.”
I miss the pre-monitized internet. I emailed Jonathan Coulton and asked if I could bring my uke to a show and join him in stage. I don't know why I thought he'd say yes, but he did said yes. I met up with him in the green room and we did a quick rehearsal then on stage he called me up and we performed a song. Surreal.

I have never been able to successfully replicate this sequence of events with another musician though....
The difference this this tool is a hammer and like any tool the operator is responsible to use it safely and appropriately, while the botters are people advertising that they got a hammer, and are willing and eager to bludgeon people to death with it for some money.
I think perhaps what the two of you may be getting at is that some repress it less than others? At least to me, that comes through in the writing.
Look neat. I wonder that the system requirements / license for software will be?

There's a real network effect with things like codecs - unless some significant proportion of calls can use it, it'll remain a cool but obscure experiment.

I hope Nvidia have the foresight to release something that'll run on any hardware, and under a permissive license, but I suspect not.

The idea is out there already (it's basically deep fake tech, right?), and I'm sure it won't be so long before some open source version of it gets released. Nvidia would be wise to get out in front of that and at least have their brand associated with a widely used variant on the theme.
Haha, you guessed it. I wish I knew how much my school would matter when I applied to colleges, and that Amazon isn’t as well respected as I hoped. Unfortunately Microsoft gave me a LeetCode hard for my internship interview and google auto declined me so I didn’t have a chance at them. Not sure what was up with that either.
A few years ago, in Paris, my commuting by train got perfectly synchronized with the alarm clock of an old gentleman who lived next to my workplace. Every day, he opened his window exactly as I was passing in front of it. After a few weeks, we got to know each other in that strange way that people "know" each other but have never talked. After a few months, we were saying "bonjour" to each other, and sharing a smile. I would be honestly surprised if the man suddenly decided to shot me! Would that be a common thing to do in the U.S.A. ?
Scylla wouldn't even be good for blob store if you're dealing with megabytes. If you're dealing with kB range Cassandra is stabler and pretty much what you want. For big (MB+) Seaweed is up there for the best option.
It's maybe, because science explains that there are limits in this world, where Islam does not want to hear about any limit.
That is page one of the waterfall document, there are other pages though.

https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a...
Thank you for your useless further explanation.
What’s a DPU? And what’s the difference between a DPU, a CPU, and a GPU?
>From a plain reading of copyright law it's obvious APIs far smaller and simpler than Java should fall under copyright.

You do realize that copyrighting APIs is functionally useless? There are ways of copying APIs that do not violate copyright. Reinvention is still possible precisely because of things like javadoc or the fact that Oracle doesn't have copyright ownership of code that uses the Java API. There is an endless list of loopholes that this protection is useless.

>The idea APIs don't is a convenient consensus-quo for the software industry that benefits competition and should probably be preserved, although there is the counterbalancing factor that the non-protectability of APIs probably has invisible side effects we can't see (e.g. under-investment in API design).

It has more to do with the fact that we already have patent law that was explicitly created for cases like these. Two inventors build the exact same thing. The first inventor should have the rights to the invention.

>But the Supreme Court won't or shouldn't care about any of that because it's a political debate. The question before them is about what the current law says, and on that, Oracle probably have a point.

Can you point me to software patents that protect the Java API?

>Also, it's going to be even more fashionable to hate on Oracle if they do win, but the current situation has always been legally fragile.

Clean room designs are the status quo in the hardware world. There is zero fragility. It's done all the time.

>Sooner or later someone would have observed the apparent skew between the software industry's approach to copyright and what the law really says.

They already did so to the point that patents have existed before copyright.
I'm surprised that there's only around 150k people (other than me) who read the newsletter. I don't work in finance, always enjoy reading Matt, and often learn.

To that end, if you don't subscribe to him and want a sample to consider joining the free newsletter, let me suggest his column "Arbitrage Discovered" from 2015:

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2015-02-27/ar...
“But suppose that DNSSEC does give you security—I’m not sure whether all of my DNS to Google or Cloudflare DNS servers [which perform DNSSEC by default] is what I really want if I’m interested in preserving my privacy.“

-Paul Mockapetris
Thoughts:

-I love reading Matt's stuff. The praise of his writing is totally deserving.

-In my daily life there's rarely a topic I come across that I'm unable to understand. In an otherwise boring day full of mundane work tasks, his column gives me intellectual challenges that I really appreciate.

-Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on Wall Street... is his level of intellect common among investment bankers and such there?

-He was valedictorian at Harvard and became a public high school teacher after!?

-Apparently MoneyStuff has 150,000 subscribers, the total income+power of which is gigantic (multiple billionaire readers along with presumably many thousands of high 6-7 figure readers). But yet they don't seem to do much at all of monetizing it (there's an easily bypassed Bloomberg paywall and a tiny ad in the text of the email newsletter).

-I would really love a weekly Matt Levine podcast. But sadly I don't think we'll ever get that.
But Dick Cheney stripped president Bush to a mere symbolic endeavor while upgraded his span of control as Vice with the executive power Cheney took from W. Bush before they went in office.

I highly recommend watching the movie Vice which gives a very telling report on these developments.

Some people say Bush behavior after his time in office is very typical for people that experienced severe gaslighting which manifests as a condition similar to Stockholm syndrome.

Bush was installed as President and kept in the dark because Dick Cheney had all foreign policies in his power portfolio.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6266538/
Activists never planned to try to talk and listen and went too far in this direction. If it keeps going, at some point it becomes untenable and needs to stop. It's not business' job to teach activists how to live, they must figure it out by themselves.
Not a course, but a good podcast by great engineers: https://anchor.fm/happypathprogramming
Wow, an actual use for AR.

It takes a humans applied intelligence to give a dog augmented reality.

So to give a human augmented reality, using napkin maths, would take an intelligence well above ours. General AI.

That fits.
Neobanks after the hype. Six things VCs should have learned after $178B
Frankly if Obama won it, so should Trump.
That's very insightful. He practically predicted The Donald and his wrestling with social media over how much he can lie and spread hatred online unchallenged (although that latter part is very much explicit).
There isn't an easier way. Every time I see any variant of the infinite scroll pattern which has come into vogue over the last decade, I feel the same complaints inside my head. True pagination was really nice. I miss when it was the default.
That's patent law. Copyright law is automatic and will always be granted which is why it's absolutely stupid to add patent law features to copyright.
This was part of what drove me off Twitter after the last election. I realized through my links and tweets that I had already provided enough training data for a bot that could not only sound like me, but share content from the future that I might be interested in.
> Dogs are not stupid and they are always very eager to learn and decode what you want them to.

Yeah, many are so clever that they very convincingly pretend they don't know what you want. My dog sometimes does this when he doesn't want to go back home. Being smart and obedient are two orthogonal things.
Very much in agreement with you.

In this day and age, a single person having this level of impact on the world is rare. They might be the figure head, but there is usually a team behind the figure head that finally implements it. The team also deserve the recognition.
"The entire Internet" these days also means IPv6. I suppose that IPv6 scanning is not going to happen any time soon?
> How about simply renaming curl to zurl so that you end up at the very bottom of the list and hand over the case to the next dependency in alphabetical order?
Target weight gain,stubborn belly fat and metabolic slowdown
The biggest application that I can see is being able to send video messages from Mars and beyond.
Was America a war torn region before the states united? As far as I know, not by a long shot.
> ten years ago, computers didn't think black people were humans

And they still don't often enough (see recent ExamSoft issues discussed e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641063 )
Do you have evidence that this is the case? Drug use comes from natural urge to explore consciousness and people take drugs regardless of the law around it. If they are no longer being harassed by law enforcement, then it is easier for them to pursue this and Portugal's policy does that. If I recall the drug use is estimated from surveys and people lie when it comes to that (for example there is thinking what if they start to investigate me if I respond "yes", even if the survey is "anonymous"). Other way to estimate is by looking at numbers of people caught with the system. Now, because the harassment has been relaxed obviously fewer LE will bother going after consumers and from that it is easy for propaganda machinery to tout the policy is working. Well, it is working for those involved in the trade. You sell more if your customers are not being harassed, simple fact of life.
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https://pastebin.com/raw/qJhSKGyv
The really interesting thing here is the possibility of part-time work. I recently switched from full-time work to independent contracting, and have a single part-time contract while looking for a second. Honestly, part-time contracting work is really, really nice. The pay is more than enough to live on and I have a ton of free time which I am devoting to rock climbing, finally writing a bunch of blog posts, and learning physics. Plus, honestly, I doubt I was doing more than four hours of "real" work a day while full time.

If I could be fully remote and work part time, I would consider eventually rejoining Microsoft. There is a lot of hand-wringing over how fully remote workers get left behind but I've never been interested in moving beyond an IC level.
IMHO companies need to either embrace WFH fully or not at all.

This current "we're kinda mostly WFH but not really sometimes" is the worst, as you have archaic processes still in place from pre WFH days that are still enforced, and most importantly, if management is in the office and you're not, over time, the colleagues who will be in the office will seem to get really lucky in regards to promotions and opportunities for some reason and you'll be left out because you'll miss the coffee/water cooler/cigarette chit-chat where future projects/directions are discussed casually and off the record without you.

Example: I once ran into my boss talking to a colleague at a coffee break about a potential project with a new customer and volunteered to work on it as I liked the tech. Months later, I got it. If I would have been remote that day I would have never heard about it as stuff like new projects and new customers is pretty hush-hush until the ink dries on the contract so they're never written about in public slack channels until then, but then it's usually too late to call dibs as the pieces are already in motion.

Not to mention, you can't really move far away from the office either since you could at any time be expected to show up in the office for $IMPORTANT_MEETING.
No. Copyright only protects your works from copying. It doesn't protect against reinvention which is why we have patents.
My tests already take twice as long to run when I’m on a Google hangout. For my case, I’d honestly rather use more bandwidth and do minimal local processing. If my machine is slowed down any more then I might have to stop working completely and focus on the meeting I’m in!
> It requires an extremely narrow way of looking at the world (at basically the PR level) to think Donald Teump is even close to being net positive for world peace.

This checks out - pretty much everything being posted by Trump fans in this thread is a rewording of the PR spin we see Twitter bots spamming everywhere.
Giving up on Firefox's bugs is not the same thing as not supporting Web standards. The problem is that Firefox is the one that doesn't correctly implement Web standards.

It's not my fault that Mozilla is a shitty company that makes a shitty browser and that every other company that used to make a browser is now skinning Chromium. I just live in this world, I didn't make it.

You want better Firefox support? Put up or shut up. It's open source.
> Pre-modern science, while not blind to utility, sought knowledge primarily in order to understand philosophical questions concerned with meaning, being, the good, and so on. Modern science, by contrast, grew out of a revolution in thought that reoriented politics around individual comfort through the mastery of nature. Modern science dismisses ancient metaphysical questions as (to borrow Francis Bacon’s words) the pursuit of pleasure and vanity.

Curious, because I think to a pre-modern philosopher the pursuit of knowledge and mastery is itself the pursuit of vanity & pleasure.

After all, (pace Aubrey de Grey) all men will some day die, no matter how much knowledge they have or what levels of technological control over the natural world they achieve.
Short answer to the title: "With the rise of the Ash’arites, the ethos in the Islamic world was increasingly opposed to original scholarship and any scientific inquiry that did not directly aid in religious regulation of private and public life"

My opinion on the matter is that, in the islamic world, religious careers are more socially rewarding than scientific ones. Thus the best minds seeking a good social position go the religious studies instead. The idea of science is also not really important to a lot of muslims, who views their holy book as a revelation that explained the world already.
I’d be particularly interested in opinions about whether my popularized attempt to explain the expression problem is effective, or just confusing.
The trains run. Given human history, and every other undeveloped country, this is working.

It is incredibly difficult for a society to function as smoothly as any western country does. It is miraculous to people in many nations that there can be such things as timetables at all.
The nuance you might not get from just the title: "Microsoft will now allow employees to work from home freely for less than 50 percent of their working week, or for managers to approve permanent remote work. "

In order for true relocation to be an option, that 'manager approval' must be unequivocal, unrevocable and transferable, when, as happens very frequently at Microsoft, the worker gets a new manager.
Depends what you’re measuring, given both AI and bandwidth are sliding scales.

Even JPEG takes advantage of human perception, throwing away first what we can’t perceive.
It is from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuumnjJWFO4#t=2m07 for the TV version's rendition of this bit.

If you've not yet experienced H2G2 I suggest tracking down the original radio version before the books, TV, or more modern film - it is widely available to buy in various formats. It is justly recognized as a classic.
Not really,

> Interface Builder first made its appearance in 1986 written in Lisp (for the ExperLisp product by ExperTelligence). It was invented and developed by Jean-Marie Hullot using the object-oriented features in ExperLisp, and deeply integrated with the Macintosh toolbox. Denison Bollay took Jean-Marie Hullot to NeXT later that year to demonstrate it to Steve Jobs. Jobs immediately recognized its value, and started incorporating it into NeXTSTEP, and by 1988 it was part of NeXTSTEP 0.8. It was the first commercial application that allowed interface objects, such as buttons, menus, and windows, to be placed in an interface using a mouse. One notable early use of Interface Builder was the development of the first WorldWideWeb web browser by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, made using a NeXT workstation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Builder

On Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/62618532
"And local news doesn’t suck."

Almost every single "business accused of racism" story in the media story turns out to be a hoax. (for obvious reasons, being a victim is now the way to societal approval)

Local news covers these accusations, so it doesn't matter whether they're accurate about the fact that there is no actual evidence for a claim, that will still allow Yelp to label the business as "accused of racism".
There are now 3 TED talks promoting pedophilia & a mainstream TV show depicting pedophilia... Seems like the "Arabic world" is winning when it comes to the most basic criteria for a good society (they really mean "Islamic," but they're dishonest).
> Alternate headline: "People With Access to More Information Less Likely to Trust Blindly"

This is contradicted in dramatic fashion by the QAnon movement. People are happy to trust just as blindly, they're just trusting different people.