skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, perhaps I should not have used the word 'debunked'. Let me briefly explain. Long before Yves Couder did those experiments about a decade ago, I was intrigued with why the Bohr/Copenhagen model became the main QM orthodoxy and why the 'shut up-and-calculate' attitude became so entrenched. (One of my other subjects was phil., so I was never fobbed off by being told to just 'shut up-and-calculate'). It seems to me the main reason for why this view prevailed and still does is that it works so successfully well in its practical applcation.

Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen were right not to be satisfied with the then mainstream view of QM and question its underlying mechanics—even if they were wrong (science doesn't advance if theories/ideas aren't questioned). Same goes for de Broglie when he initially proposed the pilot wave theory at Solvay '27 (although it seems to me that he caved in a bit too quickly under pressure from Pauli). When I was doing physics, de Broglie–Bohm, not seeming to have any practical application, hardly entered the picture.

It was only later I discovered David Bohm's pilot wave work in more detail when I was learning about the Aharonov–Bohm effect (which itself is an intriguing matter). Not only did I find de Broglie–Bohm fascinating but by accident I also learned about Bohmian trajectories which may possibly explain some effects I'd seen years earlier with electrons being focused and scattered in a vacuum (that's still unresolved). Of all QM theories, de Broglie–Bohm is the one I found the most interesting and provocative, and it would be a neat solution if the multitude of seeming objections to it were resolved (that said, I'd bet they'll all be resolved well before, say, many-worlds will).

The reason why I used the word 'debunked' is that some while after Yves Couder's work came out a flock of papers started appearing (perhaps in response to his work) that claimed the death knell for de Broglie–Bohm; Bell, if I recall, was often cited as the principal reason. As I'm not in QM research, (my work's more in its application), I'm not up to date on its latest developments but from various science news reports I've glimpsed recently, it seems to be resurfacing again (obviously you're much more au fait about this than me).

BTW, David Bohm seems to have been a most fascinating character, from what I've read of him, he's the sort of guy I've have liked to have met (reckon I could have talked with him for hours).
I haven't really been too worried about that. They're free to build apps that are simpler to use, but the technology and frameworks behind it still need to be in place. As long as Apple themselves need to build e.g. Xcode, they need to be focusing on allowing developers to build macOS apps.
The box was (supposedly) sealed and a sealed box is worth more than an opened box. Opening the box to check its contents might significantly decrease the box's value.

Opening collectors' items would be more akin to a museum trying to run a pristine old engine to test if it's genuine instead of letting it sit for display. It's the untouched nature of the objects that's making these little bits of cardboard worth more than half a dollar.
I would say the business person is way more important than suggested (caveat, I’m a VC investor with a business background)

A lot of time the business person on the team brings two things - 1) translates the tech into “business person speak” which is actually important for raising money AND getting customers excited and 2) they bring a completely different set of relationships that can help commercialize the product.

Also important are translating the business speak back to the startup - how do fund raising processes work? What do all these documents actually mean? Why do these terms in the contracts with customers matter?

This all matters and a single person on the team playing that roll at an early stage can impact things. Just make sure it’s a business person with lots of relationships and experience doing similar things... “business” is general, so make sure it’s the right kind.
Yeah, the primary intolerance is done by the champions of Popper's maxim, who weaponized it and use it to cast away anyone who disagrees with them.

I keep saying: the paradox of tolerance applies recursively. To preserve tolerance, the intolerant must be removed from the community. However, if in the process of removing the intolerant, you cause collateral damage on innocent, tolerant people, then you become the intolerant that needs to be removed.
Are you running that on iSH or a jailbroken iPhone?
> compiled python programs that can be emailed

I learned Python programming almost 20 years ago by also writing a small script on my Linux machine (a Mandrake distribution), running it through py2exe and then copying it on a floppy disk, then get to work and use that .exe program to automate some stuff for me there.

That proved to me that programming can be very helpful sometimes, as in that example it provided me with lots of free time during work, on the behalf of the stuff I had just "automated" for myself. Very good times.
> "fair use" is even allowed in such restrictive countries as US.

The fair use doctrine doesn't even exist in most of Europe, so I wouldn't consider the US especially restrictive.
Show HN: Beautiful Spotify covers generator (by a music maker)
I'd love honest feedback about something I'm working on. The more honest the better - don't hold back if you hate it! Just please tell me why.

App Link: (http://bit.ly/spotiplushn)

SpotiPlus, is an easy-to-use tool dedicated to design nice looking cover arts for your Spotify playlists, tracks, albums, podcast. From Rock to Hip Hop, I've prepared a variety of ready to use styles for everyone

Here's what sets Spotiplus apart from other design tools

Easy to use, no design skills needed
I believe that Photoshop is an excellent design editor however it requires a huge learning curve to design a simple playlist cover. With that in mind, I tried to simplify the experience and make an easy-to-use editor that offers only the necessary tools to design the cover in no-time

Export the cover art straight to Spotify
Another issue I found with exporting the cover image, was that I need to download the image first then I had to open the Spotify desktop app to upload the new cover. I thought “wouldn’t it be nice if we could upload the cover straight to Spotify with no hustle?”, For this, I linked the Spotify API with Spotiplus in order to upload the cover with 1 simple button click

Choose from a variety of built-in templates
While playing with the editor, I found that finding the perfect background and text colors is time-consuming and requires an artistic eye. For this, I handpicked a collection of copyright-free pictures that match the Spotify vibe in addition to a cool list of the color combinations that work together well and gives good looking results.

Spotiplus is launched today, you could find it on Playstore by typing Spotiplus or use this direct link (link)

http://bit.ly/spotiplushn

It would be great to get feedback on the app.
>I have no idea what happened here – why some people decided to use a code that was, apparently, written to protect people from sexism, violence, racism, and intimidation, in this way.

"I didn't think the leopard would eat my face".

Jeremy seems like a very kind, passionate, driven, smart guy. Unfortunately I think his innate kindness and sense that people should follow the rules has failed him here. CoCs are so often wielded in this way that I'm honestly surprised that anyone believes that they'll be used otherwise.
Not really stressing the parts which substantially improved in the Pi 4, so not that surprising that the results aren't drastically better.

If you can use USB 3.0, saturate a GbE link or use lots of memory then the Pi 4 is a big upgrade.
Even requiring “Buy License” would be a good step IMO.
Libel would require the allegations be, at the very least, false, and not an opinion. It appears all factual allegations here are true (he presented the talk, he used bits from another talk, he called a speaker wrong), and everything else is an opinion based on those facts. So it's not libel.

And any improper employment termination suit would be against the employer, not a conference organizer, because in a very direct sense, it's your employer that chooses whether to fire you or not.
These were senior technical architects that I doupt wrote more than a dozen lines of code in the tool, nothing real. They had great pie in the sky ideas, and the tools did useful things, but they forced everyone to use it for many years and kept defending it for years while evidence kept building up that using the tools made projects take 5 times longer than just writing in C.

If they had accepted the evidence and backed off the tool until it could deliver the better than C quality (which it did do) at the same speed of development they might still be around. However in the end we need to ship code to make money and our competitors were catching up on us which isn't acceptable to the business.

Let this be a lesson when you want to adopt new tools. They might be better but they might have some unexpected downside that means they are not useful.
Can You Publish a Paper at Machine Learning Conference?
All very true. But then you get drama about "what is an asshole". Trust me, it's not just a made up strawman argument. That happens regularly.

Breaking the Code of Conduct isn't a one-and-done thing. You talk to that person, and tell them that what they said was over the line. Be that using a slur, being increasingly insulting to another community member, or something else.

I, as an administrator, basically tell them "not cool". If their reaction is "yeah, alright" then nothing more comes of it. No citations. No three-strike rules. But if someone continually defies our reprimands we have the backing of saying "you've repeatedly been told... " and "this is written in ..." meaning nothing should come as a surprise.

It's also a way for normal users to understand what might be rule-breaking behavior. I can't observe everything happening in a community, as much as I like participating in them. Instead, I have to rely on other non-admin members reporting bad behavior. Making it clear to other users what kind of behavior they can report someone for is also super helpful - and for some people induces trust.
I am from Brazil, here usually door numbers zig-zag (one side is odd, the other is even).

But for some reason, on the street of my business, the numbers are seemly completely random, really.

Cue the drivers that are supposed to come pick-up products we have to ship ALWAYS getting lost if it is their first time...
Eugenics Shaped Statistics
Exactly, it's a high risk & potentially high reward long term investment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_World_Screamed
I suspect the last one is the size of workforce, and even then "embedding in product teams" seems a common mantra mentioned from FAANG companies.
Show Up for a Decade
First Look at Azure Automanage
No, it means it has succeeded in attracting the X developers over, so the old stack starts bitrotting.

Remember, this was not some guys just randomly showing up and pushing their shiny new thing on people. Wayland was started by one of the developers who had already worked on the Xorg stack for several years.
Ask HN: Where Do You Live?
The last thread like this is from 2009 and I thought it'd be interesting to see where y'all are from. Please comment your city or upvote if someone has already posted it.

Hello from Chicago, IL!
This redirects me to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416
How to Invent the Future I – Lecture by Alan Kay (2017)
I have similar issues. I do not pick the wrong options. It also doesn't take me too long to solve the captchas, leading to "too many queries from your ip address".
This is what internet users deal with when blocking most google services.
The purpose of many opinions is to gather support for some kind of sociopolitical state, and changes or maintenence of the political status quo cause harm or maintain harm respectively. For example, if I lived in 1800 and stated the opinion that "black people deserve equal rights", it would be dangerous to and greatly financially threatening to southern landowners. The added effect of these opinions would be proven out by history. And while that opinion would turn out to help far more then it harms, other opinions like "jews undermined our army in the great war" would turn out disastrous. I would say that opinions are some of the greatest powers in the world, and calling them harmless is dishonest.
> over an indefinite period of time

I don't know with Amazon, but with Google streaming "purchases" are linked to one email. You lose that email, and you've lost access. Transfers are not possible.
Quick question for HN users.

When you read the title what you think it means?

[1] GDP is 33.1% higher than it was in Q2. Rate of growth is 33.1% per quarter.

[2] GDP is 33.1% higher from year ago (annualized).

[3] If GDP grows whole year at the same pace as it did in Q3 it would grow 33.1% over the year.
CoCs have been abused from the first moment they've appeared. I remembered the discussions years ago, people were raising warnings that this would end badly, because CoCs were primarily pushed by the abusive crowd. But the warnings were shouted down, and here we are.
Chicago, IL (Just had our first snow of the year!)
Shyft’s Veriscope Governance Task Force for AML Adds Bitfinex,Huobi,Tether Other
When I bought a DVD from Walmart, Walmart didn't come to my house and claw the DVD back.
Since this is on HN with 700 upvotes and nearly 600 comments supporting the author I’m inclined to agree.
This is false.

1. Universities can and regularly do file patents, including public unis and including research funded with federal grants. See the Bayh-Dole Act.

2. Researchers can and often do choose not to publish research or research output (eg code) that might be commercially valuable.

3. Even the papers, including open access ones that can download and read for free, are almost never public domain.
US hospitals are ripe to attack. They make huge profits and use extremely outdated tech or use new (untested) software.

I take this opportunity to complain about regulatory capture and the medical cartels. Their constant irresponsibility (opioid epidemic, coronavirus response) affects everyone. Yet they still are paid more than any other industry.
Are remote doctor visits anything more than a video call? I'm not sure why that would make it difficult.
You don't own the content on DVDs either
We (at torproject.org) also adopted GitLab CE recently and we had to close down registrations because of abuse. Tens (hundreds?) of seemingly fake accounts were created in the two weeks we had registrations opened and we had to go through each one of those to make sure they were legitimate. In our case, snippets were not directly the problem: user profiles were used as spam directly.

We can't use ReCAPTCHA or Akismet for obvious privacy reasons. The new "admin approval" process in 13.5 is interesting, but doesn't work so well for us, because it's hard to judge if an account should be allowed or not.

As a workaround, we implemented a "lobby": a simple Django app that sits in front of gitlab to moderate admissions.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/gitlab-lobby/

The idea is people have to provide a reason (free form text field) to justify their account. We'd also like people to be able to file bugs from there directly, in one shot.

We're also thinking of enabling the service desk to have that lower bar for entry, but we're worried about abuse there as well.

Having alternatives to ReCAPTCHA would be quite useful for us as well.
Correct

A lot of artists are totally in favour of internet censorship if it means they will make more money.

See the recent "surprise" when a FlwMac song became "viral" again on Tiktok since they had been doing all they could to keep it off youtube even when they had the choice of being paid for it Well no crap Sherlock

20 years of losing the battle and RIAA makes a point of reminding people how petty they are
That's life.

I've checked OpenBSD once, no audio support. I've bought Intel Poulsbo based netbook [1], no video acceleration beyond XOrg 1.9 and kernel 2.6. I've patched source for 3.* compatibility [2] and finally bought new hardware. I would dance if GNOME or KDE had Poulsbo support.

Soon (if not already [3]) NVIDIA would be second class citizen on Linux.

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

[2] http://sergeykish.com/linux-poulsbo-emgd

[3] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...
This isn't news, digital media has ALWAYS been like this...

...BUT it should be illegal for a digital content provider to revoke purchased licenses without compensation, regardless of ToS.

The same way credit cards aren't allowed to set their own terms arbitrarily [1], neither should vendors of digital media.

If a company decides to remove individual purchased titles, they should be forced by law to refund the purchase price to everyone involved. We need legislation for this. End of story.

(If a company goes bankrupt or decides to end a service entirely it's a bit more complicated... but perhaps part of bankruptcy proceedings should be to give priority to pay a competing service a reasonable "maintenance fee" to provide continued digital access to the same titles wherever possible.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_CARD_Act_of_2009
> People asking less specific questions (such as asking for "more photos") are often just bored and have nothing better to do and will either disappear or ask more questions.

Or maybe the photo is the easiest way to confirm if you have the version that the customer is looking for. I know because I have done that. And yes, if you don't have the right version it might look like I never intended to buy.

Really though, if you don't already have detailed pictures posted that show the state of the product from all sides then that's something I'd consider a problem with your used games business.
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Publication does not equate to public domain: the manuscript itself is likely subject to some sort of copyright, and the underlying research may be the subject matter of one or more patents (pending or otherwise).
> A separate factory type means you have to write twice as much code for no real benefit.

Ah! There's the confusion. What I meant was I see factory methods in code we consume on a daily basis, not that we write the full factory objects. A number of Java projects have static factory methods that provide the interface implementation instance based on your configuration.

Would you still object to this kind of design?
I studies CS back in the 80s and back then every student I knew was genuinely interested in the subject and motivated to learn. In my last job at a bank I regularly interviewed recent CS graduates and candidates able to demonstrate a genuine passion for the subject were few and far between.

I know, I know, get off my lawn.
Idle vs. Pycharm vs. Spyder: Choosing the Right IDE for Machine Learning
On Living in the Shadow of the Boomers
Do you think there are negative sub conscious biases around race?

Do you think racism has the same consequences for all races, for example, someone who is a member of a minority group vs someone who is not for a particular region?
I think I would have a very easy time rejecting any further interaction until they tell me what the problem is.
> My DWM is 3k lines and it's fully featured as far as I'm concerned.

For fairness, you should count the hundreds of thousands of LOC in Xorg as well. From that PoV, 50k might actually be pretty lean.
Imagine reading an article where the author thoughtfully points out flaws in CoC/enforcements but agrees that they have a valid purpose and using it to bash "SJWs". Go back to gab.ai or something perhaps?
Not new that the Canadian government is using propaganda. Go look up on CBC "about-our-social-experiment" where they got caught red handed trying to push that all Canadians are white supremacists. Or how about CBC articles that are in Urdu saying Canadians are adopting and killing Indian/Pakistani children. If you try to use google translate or bing translate it will fail. Or how about the endless 'parents' articles about how it's sexual assault if you don't have consent to hug your own 5 year old child. How about 'dear white people' where the CBC clearly says that racism against white people is impossible.
Presumably the costs amortize pretty well, though.
Show HN: Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
Something Old, Creatively and Lovingly Remade
I help others.
A four-part series about the cypher punk movement of the 1990s
>"Disturbing the Peace" is one example off the top of my head of something that's incredibly subjective that we consider the purview of the legal system.

That doesn't mean it's a good thing. Good laws (especially criminal laws) should be normative, i.e. it should be deducible for anyone which behavior is punishable. Laws not adhering to this principle are ripe for selective enforcement and have no place in a rule-of-law society.
I had this as well with Mumble. The problem was that I didn't have a notification daemon running, so the application was timing out trying to connect to the respective bus. Autostarting a barebones notification daemon like Mako fixed the issue for me.
To some degree, you are correct. But I believe you underestimate the amount of abuse and harassment that certain groups of people face in reality.

> We've been working fine like that, both online and in the real world without any CoC

I'm not sure what you consider "fine". Misogyny has been par for the course for a long time. Not to mention verbal degradation of e.g. ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. We have not suddenly removed these formerly accepted behaviors, even though things have gotten better.

It is possible that there really isn't a problem in communities you engage with, and that consequently their CoCs make little positive impact. But do you really know what kinds of inappropriate remarks e.g. women around you face? It is easy to dismiss anyone who had such negative experiences as a professional victim, but surely the world doesn't just consist of "perfectly reasonable and encompassing people that know better than to offend", "harassers that purposely ignore any community guidelines"?

In short: Yes, CoC creation and enforcement will naturally appeal to certain groups of people that have more personal motives than those of the community. The same is true of HOA, police, unions, workers' councils and so on. But please be careful to dismiss their usefulness due to this.
This is what I imaging would be a perfect set of devices:

1) a smart watch can read notification, messages, listen to music, podcasts, audio books, receive and make phone calls, voice chat, group chats;
2) a eink device to read books, browse internet for news (hackernews for example), emails;
3) game consoles or pc + project + vr for entertainment;
4) a tablet with keyboard for work (with access to servers in cloud) and netflix, youtube.

I really don't want to carry a phone with me.. it is big, attention seeking and to be honest, not very useful.
There are no exceptions except for things like paid TV shows (not clips, actual TV shows and movies you can pay for[0]) - you can download any video and, as said in the sibling comment, it only expires after 30 days of being offline.

0: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9679194?hl=en
> Thanks to the article editor who did not do the common "The Earth is SLAMMED by a pulse every 26 seconds and NOBODY KNOWS WHY."

FTFY
Personally, the main motivation I have is to improve my writing for documentation that's intended to be read by coworkers (a specific, professional audience.) I wouldn't be surprised if most people on HN feel the same way.
Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan’s Influence with U.S. President
In the example "atttack image" the husky and the outline of the fence in the sky. "That's amazing!"
I'm ending immediate pain and hunger, how is that operating in an imagined future?