skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered this for nearly 20 years.

I think it's for 3 reasons:

1) most people get their information from media sources that profit from copyrights.

2) academics profit from copyrights.

Therefore little research is done to showing how copyrights and patents are bad for equality and the economy, and the work that is done receives little to no attention in the media (which doesn't want to go hunting for new business models to replace their current profits)

3) The industry has done a great job at marketing copyrights and patents as intellectual "property rights", even though it is in fact the exact opposite of property rights (property rights and copyrights/patents are logically incompatible). You have to hand it to them, dishonest but effective.

How do you solve this?

1. You need to reach a large number of people via channels outside the copyright driven media (and we have that now—twitter!)

2. You need research and data that shows how bad these things are (and we have that now—the China miracle; the open source revolution; the research revolution powered by scihub; the horrific track record of patents in medicine)

3. You need to start effectively marketing to the people and change the perception of these laws. Someone on HN brought up the term "Imaginary Property" as an alternative to "Intellectual Property". I think it's catchy and will grow.

My estimate is abolishing copyright and patents would be worth $100,000+'s for every person in America. I think it would be the single best thing we could do for our educational, healthcare, and media systems. I think the time has finally come when we can start spreading the word.
Not at all! I just really liked their project and thought more people should know about it. They made a pretty complex thing really easy to setup and very reliable.
If someone thought hooks were a bad idea, how and why would they ever "make the leap" to using them more than they have to?
The end of an outgoing president's term is a fairly common time to grant pardons or clemency in potentially controversial cases.
> Shop lifting, even at point of sale, does not occur inside the cash register.

But money-skimming does. I know someone who got fired for that... After being caught on camera.
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You might want to double-check that. I was looking at a thread specifically about 3 carseats in the back of a Model 3. There are several options.

You might need new carseats.

But I managed to get our 3 kids in the back of my first generation Nissan Leaf, which I think is slightly smaller.
Is it possible that less people were actually infected than was expected?
It was a sale that had been scheduled months previously, and it should by now be obvious that the trial really was successful!
Wait, is that whole complaint that Facebook and Google signed an agreement about allowing users to back up their data in Google Drive? Like a user clicks a "connect with Google to backup your data" button? It reads like Google's slurping things in behind the scenes and has access to encryption keys, but it doesn't actually say that.

Is the only contentious part that Google might have done [redacted] with the chats and photos?
Look forward to about 1:48 where they run through the whole sequence, flashing intake/compression/expansion/exhaust on the screen for each stroke. Each chamber has four full strokes. It seems clear that there shouldn't be any overlap between the ports.

I'm pretty in awe of the cleverness. Hope it works out.
I love using hooks because you can write extremely terse code, but the magical rules are almost not even worth it. Hooks are not robust to reactive code patterns. There's no reason why hooks couldn't have been implemented as a dynamic graph that forgets/learns which render calls have been subscribed to the current computation graph. Overall, it's a poor design, but it is very expressive if you know what you are doing. For example, a typical reactive function would be able to handle conditional reactive dependencies:

const myReactiveComputation = () => {
if (getReactiveValue() > 5){
console.log(getOtherReactiveValue());
}
}

When getReactiveValue() returns something <= 5, the reactive computation should automatically unsubscribe from getOtherReactiveValue, since that value changing no longer as any implications on the result of the reactive computation. Once getReactiveValue() changes to something > 5, the computation re-subscribes to getOtherReactiveValue. It's not hard to implement this if you're modeling your computation graph correctly. Unfortunately, hooks was implemented to depend on call-order, which makes absolutely no sense. This leads to actually more verbose constructs such as:

useEffect(() => {
if (iWantToRunThis(){
...
};
}, [])

This is better expressed as:

if (iWantToRunThis()) useEffect(() => {...}, []);

But alas, this is prohibited by hooks because of how they were implemented.
The version I've evolved, for teaching students why I care about style:

You need to communicate clearly with a number of coworkers, the most important of whom is future-nerdponx. Sometimes future-nerdponx is smarter than you, and sometimes future-nerdponx is dumber than you, but either way they know where you live, and their misery is your misery.
These shadowy Russians appear to be on a tireless quest to expose (literal, largely unchallenged) truths to the American public.

Why should they be opposed?
That’s exactly what I do. And, I realized that it makes a huge difference if you buy both audio and the eBook. I love Amazon’s whispersync functionality, because it allows me to switch back and forth between audio and text. So whenever I hear something I don’t understand I read it instead.
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I own a Porsche 911, a Mercedes GL 550, and a Toyota Sienna XLE. I like cars. However, one of my best friends never told me he was going to the annual car show, despite the fact that we often have lunch together. When I asked why he said it was because I had mentioned that I think the minivan is a peak of automotive greatness. He comes from the Detroit area, and literally assumed I didn’t care about cars simply because I like minivans!

Also, I may be a bit on the spectrum because I simply do not think about cars as a means of self expression. I don’t spend $120,000 on a car because I think it would impress somebody. I am a lousy mind reader and have no idea what people would think about what I drive, nor do I judge people on what they drive. That is bizarre to me.
Well, true. Emotional abuse is still abuse. I wouldn't say it's a justification for reverting to physical abuse instead, rather educating yourself as a parent on how raise your child in a supporting manner that guides rather than punishes.
Again???
It's a wiki that didn't get taken over by deletionists. Its original guiding principle was "there is no such thing as notability".
I use notability on the 12.9 inch iPad Pro. You can import the pdf, then annotate
I was born in the 80s. I spent two decades writing for hours everyday. So did my peers. Some had good writing, some had bad, despite many of the bad trying to write better.
There is a direct financial incentive for twitch to encourage simping. No surprise that they're banning the word.
Not being a cop is free. =)
why is it even being mentioned? i miss hacker culture from the early internet, where it didnt matter your age, your sexuality, your "race"; we're all human beings :/

here's a conjecture: maybe racism is not real, maybe it's something that seems real but isn't, like "evil". it just seems so easy to find counterexamples to racist ideas. hate black people? surely i can introduce you to one who is pretty cool. hate whites? they aren't all bad. like seriously, how does it continue to exist? is it just an excuse? how can you look at a whole population and just hate em? is it something like an emotion? and if so, how do we solve it? it can't be corrected with education if it's a feeling. people can't help their feelings. drugs?
This thread deserves to be an Ask HN submission of its own. XD
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If he does pardon himself, I believe that means he can't take the 5th when asked about the things he's pardoned himself for? Which is going to be spectacular when he eventually gets deposed because you know he just can't help himself.
Well with this I can atleast hope that 2021 will be productive!
Wish I could do this. I'm a slow reader and I get motion sick while I'm cars.
German writing evolved several times in the 1900’s. That most likely impacted the legibility as different types of training came through each letter.

As an aside, reading recipes from that era is nearly impossible for me as a foreigner.

Folks can learn more about the evolution by picking up the trail here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent
Could this be an issue related to DoH/ODoH being added to Big Sur?
coming from a parliamentary democracy (legislatures here technically do have the power to pardon but it's very rarely exercised) I find the practise to be extremely weird.

It essentially inserts an insane amount of arbitrariness and personal favouritism into what is supposed to be an impartial legal process. Given how often it has been abused for political purposes in the US it seems particularly problematic.
It was linked from a discussion on HN but I didn't record where.
BTC is less than 2%, whereas Ethereum is around 4% today

Let's not forget Bitcoin's block subsidy (currently 6.25 BTC) is cut in half every 210,000 blocks or about every 4 years. Bitcoin is deflationary—88.44% of all Bitcoin that will ever be produced have already been issued.

We have no idea where Eth is with its production of currency.
When you purposefully hire a whole group activists, be not surprised when they actually do activism.
I understand a lot of people are exhausted, especially when there are multiple children involved. But reading books has never suffered from parenting for me.

I wake up at 6AM and spend a while reading on the sofa, before our child wakes up. On an average day, pre-covid19, I'd spend time doing the morning routine (eating breakfast, getting dressed, taking the child to daycare), then I'd sit on a tram/bus for 30 minutes to head to the office. That time would be spent reading.

Lunchtime I'd usually read a book while eating a sandwich, then again reading on the bus/tram back to the house.

Before sleeping I'd read for 30-60 minutes too, unless I was watching a film with my wife, going to the pub, or doing something else.

But even on very busy days I'd always have around and hour of commute time, on public-transport, to read a book.
In USSR there was this philistine fashion of buying deficit books just to put them on your shelf and to look cultured to your guests.

Now I know they were Tsundoku practitioners.
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You think it's hard to schedule a well timed press release in a way that works in well with your predetermined share sales?
Maybe, but it doesn't really matter in practice. If you play against opponents with a similar rating to you then you'll be evenly matched.
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If Umbrella Academy is any indication you may just be watching exceptionally stupid shows made for stupid people. I also would get annoyed and bored watching cartoons made for babies so there is not much to be said about dumb tv for dumb people being predictable.
I'm pretty concerned about how this ends. It's clear there's a major problem in police departments within the US and it is getting worse instead of better for a few reasons:

1) There a significant camaraderie that is very much part of the job. Unlike most jobs, police depend on their coworkers to keep them alive. From a game theory POV, the price of defection (not corroborating the a partner's story, or testifying against another officer) is extremely high.

2) Confidence in police is at a record low, the majority of American adults no longer trust police. This will yield an increased 'us vs. them' mentality and even more divisiveness. Officers that were more moderate/compassionate will be squeezed from both sides: general public assuming they are corrupt and fellow officers questioning their 'loyalty'. This pressure will cause some number of the moderate/compassionate officers to leave.

3) Calls to cut funding for police departments as well as the public perception changes economic incentives. From an economic POV, rational individuals are less likely to choose to be police officers. This means that the average 'rationality' of our nation's police is likely to decrease.
I don't know about this sale in specific, but isn't it a common trick for execs to schedule sales in advance and then cancel if it turns out not to be the right time to sell?
I'm of the opinion that university trains you to reason better about problems and sharpens your problem solving skills. Especially complex problems. So although you might not always encounter the exact academic problem in your day to day work, you still unconsciously use the tools and techniques learned.
Try starting with something suspense based that does not have convoluted writing and really grabs your attention, like a Dan Brown book or Harry Potter (read by Stephen Fry). Also, go for the professional readings (i.e. not most of Librivox) and pay careful attention to what reviews say about the reader, as their performance is essential for comprehension. Play around with listening speed a bit (both too slow and too fast won’t work, depending on the material). I could easily increase material complexity after getting through suspense-based books.

I could not get into audiobooks (even after years of listening to scientific talk podcasts) until I got hold of Origin by Dan Brown in an Audible trial, and ended up being gripped by the 20 hour book for two weeks straight. It has been 15+ audiobooks from various sources per year for me since then, which has really enriched my life. Retention is better since I finish the books that can be integrated with various activities not requiring verbal thinking way faster.
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fair point haha and that's certainly where my personal bias plays a role. When I see something I don't understand I like to look for the reasoning behind it. Some google searching, talking to coworkers, and a bit more googling usually sends me down the right path to finding more information

Clearly hooks are not a bad idea given how quickly they've caught on in the react/front end community too. So while the majority certainly isn't always right, there's usually a common reasoning worth understanding
Ok, assuming I agreed with facebook’s premise (which I don’t), how does this begin to affect websites rather than apps?
It probably depends on the metric you're trying to optimize. I was curious about that as well, but I was thinking in terms of the maximum number of humans the earth can support. We certainly haven't hit that yet, we have large swaths of land allocated to relatively inefficient means of producing food (i.e. cattle).

Also, don't we need some level of population growth for Social Security to function correctly? We could replace Social Security, but it would be difficult and expensive.
Google secretly gave Facebook perks, data in ad deal, U.S. states allege
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That doesn't mean that it's a good thing; the mentality behind this is troubling.
There's so many messaging apps named Messenger it's always hard to tell which is which.

This is Facebook Messenger, in case anyone was wondering.
This isn't a "deep dive" in any sense of the word. Call it what it is: 'useRef tutorial'. If I'm opening up something called "deep dive" on a topic I don't know very well then I expect to learn at least something I don't already know from 5 minutes of reading the official docs.

Also, why even bother giving an example of useCallback if all the example does is log something to the console? Especially immediately following a section called "Real world use cases". This is how newbs get the mistaken idea that you need shit like useCallback to show and hide an element based on state and you end up with overengineered code everywhere.

Examples of library functionality should be of something that you should actually use that functionality for (because it's impossible or impractical to write in other ways). Not just because it makes the docs better, but because it gives you a chance to run into a big red flag when you've implemented something and realise you can't actually find a use case for it.

Then again half the people writing docs for libraries in React land don't even use the libraries they're documenting.
After a spine surgery, Audio books became the de-facto medium for books for me and I really appreciate the accessibility it provides.

Btw, Audio books for accessibility reasons are not new, 'Talking Books' have been in existence since 1930s through specialized record players, cassettes and mail-order libraries. Here is a nice video about[1] from TechMoan and article[2] at RNIB.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiaMxU01Rrg

[2]https://www.rnib.org.uk/reading-services/celebrating-history...
> accepted her resignation immediately

In saying "resignation", CNN is presenting the management framing -- as many people have pointed out, she was fired.

Bloomberg states both sides of that: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/google-ai...

As does The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/7/22158501/timnit-gebru-tea...
Gaming is a only small part of what VR can do.

Education (language learning, geography, biology, engineering...), real estate, porn, psychology, situational training (firemen), scientific visualization and collaboration, spatial painting and other artforms, social interaction, movie shots planning, etc.
Rewilding: Allows trees plant themselves to boost biodiversity+sequester carbon
(Exciting!)

I do wonder how many techie parents are waiting for the 7 seat Tesla before getting their third or fourth kid.
Quoting from the article

> The report states that the main factor in the problems in residential homes for the elderly was simply the fact the virus spread so widely in society.

With regards to the difference in strategy, there has been analysis like this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227592/

Finally, and this is just a common sense argument, I believe it is clear that avoiding social interaction will slow transmission of airborne diseases. And lockdowns decrease social interactions (to a much higher degree than simple recommendations)
On desktops yes, ARM rules on mobile devices and plenty of us code for them, and on Android unless you are doing CRUD like apps, most likely there is some C or C++ code as well.
Lost's final episodes were more like, "Box? What box? I don't see any box here. Who said anything about a box? What are you talking about?"
Somewhat related auth scoping frustration: the v4 GraphQL API documentation doesn’t say what field/query/mutation need what scope, so you’re left guessing, or cross-referencing a related endpoint in API v3 documentation, or trial and error.
They bought the trademark. From https://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/

> The CentOS Marks are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. (“Red Hat”).

Most servers that distribute current binary RPMs are mirrors operated by third parties. You can be reasonably certain that servers like www.centos.org, mirror.centos.org, vault.centos.org, or buildlogs.centos.org are paid for by Red Hat. Their IPs are mostly AWS.

https://www.redhat.com/ja/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-c...
You also have to take into consideration feedback effects though. COVID-19 would be much worse if people didn’t react to it. There’s also an automatic reaction to it by people which is too slow though as could be seen in Wuhan, Milano and New York.
Two blokes wonder why the same highly educated women who want a safer world for their children don’t want to push four babies out of their vagina.

Edited to add: “Dr Nickerson and Dr Solomon found, in fact, that the third-child deterrent appears stronger among wealthier families” - they put this down to them not wanting to buy a larger vehicle to accommodate 3+ kids because it’s too gauche!

I think we’re supposed to conclude that car seats are actually costing lives, which is the wrong conclusion to draw because it ignores all the injury and disability caused by car accidents.
> here's a conjecture: maybe racism is not real, maybe it's something that seems real but isn't, like "evil".

In South Africa they teach young schoolchildren about the country's apartheid history (and knowing this history is a good thing, because it provides context for the country's modern day inequality).

Sadly there are some older generations who have oppposing (and often contradictory) views of exactly how and why said history played out the way it did.

This disagreement of history often leads to modern day racism.

Sadly it's here to stay - at least for a while still - but I do hope that one day it becomes a thing the past.

EDIT: I see you removed your opening line. Leaving it here for context to my comment.
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...and Fabrice Bellard's "follow-up" of generating a DVB signal: https://bellard.org/dvbt/
I had some pretty good borscht today.

Slightly more seriously, Russia seems to get no credit for hosting Snowden, who's otherwise being lauded as a hero in these comments. Of course they're doing this to thumb their nose at the US, but the fact that Snowden isn't (apparently) even being pressured to serve his new masters is somewhat surprising.
Agreed. I think he’s an excellent filmmaker but a pretty meh movie writer.
At least CNN is being consistent. NY Times is capitalizing Black but not White, and they seem to be using tortured logic in my opinion to explain the discrepancy: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...
> May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump dismissed former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, who had been leading an ongoing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into links between Trump associates and Russian officials.[51][52] This investigation, code named Crossfire Hurricane, began in July 2016 after the Australian government advised US authorities that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor in the Trump campaign, had met with one of their diplomats in May 2016 and "suggested the Trump team had received some kind of suggestion from Russia" that Russia could release information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton.[53][54]
- from Wikipedia

This is why there was an investigation into russian collusion.
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There is a subpage with examples from various shows: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Flanderization/LiveAc... It discusses each main character from friends (and Gunther of course) in regards to this.
That's kind of like saying, "people who are parents, how do you find time to have fun?"

It is overwhelming, particularly at first, but after a while you figure out is a marathon, not a sprint, and that an important part of being a good parent is self-care. Then it's just a matter of what constitutes self-care for you. Getting good sleep, eating healthy, getting exercise, socializing with friends, watching movies, having date night, and yes, reading books are just some of the activities that might be considered self-care. You figure put how much time you need to allocate to self-care to be a functional parent, and then you figure out how to carve it the time. All of that is hard a heck, but you figure it out eventually or you fail miserably at patenting.

In that context, reading books isn't much of a miracle or particularly impressive; it's just a choice of what works best for you.
I worked at Microsoft in Europe and we never had such training. Is this only in the US?
This is why this is so nice. The police officers involved still have qualified immunity. But inanimate equipment does not have qualified immunity.