skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also easy to see that, by far, artists don't create things to actually make a living from copyright-based forced royalties.

I would expect the exact opposite. Do you have any data? I’d expect the primary money maker for artists is people buying their products or getting those products from the channels the artist chooses. E.g buying a dvd or watching my show on Netflix or watching my video on my YouTube channel or buying a print of my drawing.

Patreon processes payments of less than a billion dollars per year, so artists’ money seems to be, by far, made via copyright protection.

There’s a question about what fraction of artists make a living, and I expect the majority don’t make a living from it. Most artists probably don’t do it for the money. Most probably just have it as a hobby. That said I’m glad some artists can make a living at it.

I have yet to see any evidence that switching to a copyright free world would help anyone but the hobbyists and big companies who can afford to exploit the fruits of the hobbyists labors (I imagine some kind of YouTube like company going around taking everyone’s content and putting it in a central place and making bank off ads).

You seem to be getting at this with your mention about the need for “anti-tivoization” regulation. When you flesh that out, trying to regulate away the worst exploitative practices and enabling a professional class of artists, you’d end up with something that looks a lot like copyright law.
And it's insanely expensive and thus not ever going to be remotely economically feasible. The only reason it might falsely appear to be so now is because it is heavily subsidized (way more heavily subsidized than EVs are).
You can pause updates.
Yes they do. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Web_(book)
Oh how wonderful.. I would like too Microsoft showing more marina abramovich art with blood, siemen, shit and milk.. Oh yes!! Go Microsoft go!
Im not saying that this is not true(seriously no snark here at all) but its weird how things like this come together on the internet some times. Even on Hacker news, it seems that there have been times that topics bubble up from multiple sources. In the abstract it can seem rigged.
I may not type, but I certainly shift-tab while I talk and need to reference something in another window.
As in what is a TPU? It's Tensor Processing Unit.

It's like a CPU/GPU, but specifically for doing the kind of math you come across with Machine Learning / Neural Network applications (mostly: lots and lots of dot products).
They took essentially the approach most likely to be effective and deliver results as fast as possible. If you choose the overly conservative choice on dosage you might possibly end up with not meeting your efficacy goals and end up either having to rerun phase III.

The duration between doses was chosen because it was the minimum plausible time that the second dose was likely to provide significant additional benefit, and therefore the fastest to test. It's entirely plausible given what we know about other vaccines, that delaying the second dose 8-12 weeks may actually have been more effective long-term, but if they'd done that the end of the testing (and therefore approval) would have been delayed another 4-8 weeks.
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Personas are problematic when they assume goals and values of users. I've seen many product teams create personas or jobs to be done that literally come from their own idea of what "someone like that" or "someone in this role" would need. Conversely, when we start with the idea that we don't know, define a customer and then ask them unbiased and non-leading questions about what they have done (NOT what they 'want'), it doesn't matter as much whether the framework is personas, JTBD, or any other approach.
For me, the pinacle of the Windows UI was Windows 2000 Professional.

Desktop search is fine and useful for consumers. For someone who uses a machine 8 hours a day, Windows 2000 was great.
> You assume people will be given the choice to get vaccinated.

I assumed that they would in my hypothetical, yes. That's in a USA that was even capable of considering that option a year ago, the concept of a "free country" would be understood.

In the actual USA of now, that concept is not understood; just as the article under discussion says, our current society combines the worst features of freedom with the worst features of authoritarianism, and gets the benefits of neither. Your hypothetical about how vaccination will be handled is an example of that. In other words, you are giving further evidence that the status quo in the USA is not working and needs to change.
I look forward to this, but I have been hearing about a major UI overhaul to make the Windows UI "beautiful" since Windows 10 launched...and it has basically never happened. It is incredible how Apple can launch a major UI overhaul (which I think looks great) while Microsoft has more or less the same look as Windows did when 10 first launched (granted it has gotten some good features since then.)

Edit: this thread is full of Linux stans (I use Linux too!) calling Windows a POS... I don't see how that is helpful or relevant to anything. Windows is actually...very good. It has some problems, but uh, using Linux and even MacOS, every OS has its share of problems/difficulties.
Git is a distributed system, so even if you lose access there isn't a huge data loss.
Many countries don't have the concept of private bankruptcies at all. You may effectively be on the hook for the rest of your life if you really messed up. Don't know about Denmark though.
I am in the early stages of a biotech startup.

I am working on developing the next generation of antibiotics and am located in Salt Lake City.

I am a solo founder at this point and would like to spread out the founder burdens.

I have a PhD in molecular biology and a lot of industry experience, particularly in regulatory and product/market fit.

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And yet cycling is surprisingly popular in Norway, much more popular than in parts of the US that have much nicer weather.
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I'm not familiar with specific implementations, but from what I've seen with Redis and Postgres clients there's always a reconnect hook of some sort, which I assume pooling proxies give you as well. We've had plenty of broken pipe errors and we just reconnect.
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I take it you don't live in the UK. At least a third of the population already lives in accommodation that does not include any off road parking. They haven't carelessly moved there knowing that they wouldn't not have somewhere to charge an electric car and they certainly will not be able to afford to move just to be able to park the car off the road so they can park it.

And 'other forms of transportation' are not 'better regardless', merely better for some limited purposes.
Gov.UK had a good article a while back (appeared on HN) where they pointed out the importance of designing for no JS. All official gov.uk sites that I'm aware of will work without JavaScript.

They had an analysis showing how many % of their visits had broken JS support and therefore the need to build for the lowest common denominator.
Maybe they all studied Latin or learned Roman numerals?
Google and ti ketmaster should be merged. Would be best for all fans.
I mentioned it many times, actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630340

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1250200008621608962?s...
I hope this isn't the case. It's not like this is the first holiday season for slack.
Am I naive to still hope for more peace in the world? Establishing an inclusive developer community around the globe feels like a step into the right direction bringing developers closer together.
I imagine Being the CEO of an american high-tech company nowadays is also politically no easy task cause you get bound to a lot of restraints.
Anyways. Congratulations Nat for the effort you put in and your willingness to improve a little part of the world.
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Surely ten years should be long enough to work on a better solution? Why does everyone seem to expect perfection overnight?
i think the ivory tower argument is related but somewhat separate. i think in the cdc case, you have scientists of status who feel compelled to justify their status and in doing so they skipped over simpler solutions. in the OP case, you have people chasing status perhaps at the detriment to their stated goal.

i think there may also be a flavor of this in the vaccine race. there are tried and proven vaccine technologies but it seems most of the attention is going to the more experimental (and difficult to deliver!) approach that has potential nobel prizes and wall st upside tied to it.
I believe the maker of 3blue1brown has a open source kit for just that: https://github.com/3b1b/manim
Which parts of the Crimean sanctions are normal people most upset about?

The ones I'm seeing on the Treasury page target specific individuals and companies. And they're coordinated with Canada and other countries, and the EU.
Saying "we are applying for an OFAC license" will lead to a deluge of other tech companies applying for the same license, and the likely outcome is the OFAC says "we don't have the manpower to review all these, reject them all".
If they had been denied the licence then it’s potentially misleading. Generally you don’t comment on things if there is a very realistic chance they’re unachievable.
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US sales of Nissan Leaf in 2016 was 14k. In 2019 it was 12k.

If Nissan Leaf was sold out in U.S. it's only because Nissan decided not to make enough of them. Or they made exactly the very small amount that people were willing to buy.

Bolt was even worse. They did 23k in 2017 and dropped to 16k in 2019. GM dealers were so desperate to get rid of them that at some point they offered up to $10k cash rebate. At that despite the fact that GM admitted they are loosing money on Bolt even when sold at full price.

20k a year in U.S. market of ~10 million cars is a rounding error. Whatever the reason, no one except Tesla was selling EV cars in US at non-laughable numbers.

In contrast, Tesla sales went from 50k in 2017 to 195k in 2019.
What does Israel's conflict in Palestine have to do with Iran? The Ayatollah doesn't care about Palestinians.

Saying that Israel could resolve the issue by de-escalating is nonsense, as much as saying the same thing about North and South Korea. One side has leaders intent on acquiring nuclear weapons and publicly claims it will use them against its neighbors.
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Part of the EPA's mission is to protect human health. It is often illegal to release medical data underlying studies that link environmental factors to health problems.
I love Rust so dearly that I wish I could marry it, but I still feel that it's a massively more complicated language than C.
The argument a layman would make in favour of this is:

"if people know they could rent seek with their intellectual property and potentially make millions of dollars charging people for licenses / gatekeeping their work, well that's going to motivate them to create really good work! Without this motivation, no one would create good work"

And it's like, ignoring all the well-established counter-arguments to this, it kind of seems to justify its own existence through contradiction. It says, in essence, "We have to coerce people into making really good work by not giving them the building blocks that they could use to make really good work"
I think that the suggestion of a challenge-based Phase 3 trial is poorly elucidated, not for the reasons mentioned in other threads (the risk of severe reactions) but because they probably would have revealed in more detail what the Phase 2/3 trials actually did reveal, that the vaccine is not 100% effective in preventing infection. (Full disclosure - I participated in the Moderna Phase 3 trial and will get vaccinated ASAP if it turns out I was in the placebo group.)

The incentives for Moderna/Pfizer/AZ are a bit complex here. If they did a challenge study and discovered that 25% of vaccinated individuals were infected but had lower viral loads, that might have made it more difficult to get approved. Instead, doing what they are doing - rolling out vaccination with zero public health monitoring of folks after the fact allows them to avoid having to deal with that. Moreover, for the anti-vaxxers, who currently seem to have focused in on the fact that a tiny fraction of folks appear to have an anaphylactic response to the lipid nanoshell on the mRNA, it would have been easy to say "Oh, the vaccine doesn't actually work at all."

It's unfortunate, but certainly not the first time where incentives are aligned to favor ignorance rather than maximum knowledge. I think the really interesting question I have is whether Moderna will continue to follow their Phase 3 participants after they are all unblinded and vaccinated. If they do, and do a good job of assessing changes in antibodies, then I'll be really impressed with their ethics.
The one that was deployed is now being overhauled in drydock in Portland.[1]

But what's the point? I posted this article to criticize the LA Times' handling of the messaging. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at the original article from which those excerpts are drawn, I think you'll get it.

1: https://www.marinelog.com/shipyards/shipyard-news/vigor-wins...
One of the main purposes of school is child care, as we've observed through this pandemic, so schools must open when most adults go to work.
Without enforcement, "lockdown" is just a word coming out of a politician's mouth in order to make it look like they are doing something. I think when the dust settles, we're going to find that lockdowns did indeed work, but only in the few places on Earth where they actually had teeth and were enforced. Most of the West say they ordered a lockdown, but it was more of a flimsy suggestion than an order.

In the US, people are still out and about horsing around despite Stay At Home orders, and there are just no consequences. They just busted an illegal gathering in NYC [1] with over 300 people, yet only the organizer got a slap-on-the-wrist $15K fine. Where are the $15K fines for each of the party-goers?

1: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/02/us/sheriff-nye-raids/index.ht...
I love law as a field, but the sad fact is that it's often a post-facto rationalization/repair of power politics. Sometimes it's like a conference of physicists trying to demonstrate that a fire in the room is not that hot instead of pouring water onto it.
But Twitter/FB/YouTube effectively drive the national conversation and consciousness at this point. Ben is correct to place emphasis there.
We use discord for our company voice chat and you can easily enable push-to-talk if that's what you prefer.
Examples? I've never come across anything heavily political, aside from maybe "free software" advocacy, which I assume isn't something most governments find particularly threatening.
WIN+"calc" opened up a Bing search for the term "calc" inside of Edge for me the other day. I imagine in a few more years that will actually be the expected behavior.
Why do you care what Apple does then?
>Corporations can't act, people inside the corporations act.

I'm not really sure why you think this distinction is important. If a sufficient enforcement/punishment was laid on a company you can bet the employee responsible will feel it. Rather in this sense because there was no real punishment the employee was commended.
I get that (1) there are UX design features that it was missed, and (2) there are people who want to be able to spy on people through the webcam without any indication that they are being spied upon and (3) try to sell it as a feature, (4) spying could be for the purpose of remote monitoring employees during these times of pandemic-forced remote working (5) or something more nafarious with state-level actors.

Was there something I missed?
In-process caches of DNS replies would solve it (they don't have to last for long, 1 minute is enough). Doesn't libcurl do that by default?

Federating the internal DNS would solve it. Who creates a DNS system without redundancy?

A keeping the connections open for each process would solve it. But then, you'd need HTTP/1.1 or newer, maybe that's too new.

In fact, that scenario requires breaking about every good practice for the tools used. Yet the author mainly blames the lack of threads. Yeah, sharing that coordination info would increase your scale by some 10x, while creating a lot of other unrelated failure modes.
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The ccTLDs are maintained by the respective entities that own them. This has nothing to do with Internet being supranational, the DNS simply does not reflect that. In fact, it had been controlled via ICANN by the US for the longest time:
https://newrepublic.com/article/117037/us-gives-iana-and-dns...
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Triggering a malfunction is incredibly easy compared to a proper backdoor. A kill signal could also be injected through side channels e.g. a power line, and the kill mechanism could be implemented in many other semiconductors than an FPGA.
First, American holidays does screw up customer service that in some instances it knocks out the very service (a la Slack). Second, despite posting a FAQ from the US treasury department that apparently excludes this case, the posters have missed the point that it only applies to financial services. Software is much more regulated (the silver lining is that cryptography is no longer munitions-class export fortunately) than most commenters think and that behind-the-scenes negotiations tends to happen especially with regards to cryptography.
Go uses compiler magic to have effectively generic collections, why not hardcode a Result type in the same fashion? It's not very elegant, but it's pragmatic and error handling is important enough that it may well warrant it.
My guess is two reasons:

- Expectations settings. If they say they're working on a possible solution, people will expect the solution to materialize and get upset when it doesn't. Since this seems like it was a lobbying effort with OFAC, there was probably a large degree of uncertainty on whether this would happen at all.

- Like you suggested, maybe they thought any public comment about this might put at risk the conversations they were having with OFAC?
> Unfortunately teenager and adult hours are forced to be synchronised,

No, they aren’t. Even with the progressive infantilization of children over the last several decades, its still generally widely accepted that children over 12 can be left alone for a few hours at a time.

Though shifting the standard workweek to 30 hours and adjusting to that by moving the standard start time forward by two hours wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.
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We have some form of this in Norway too where companies can be fined for having inaccessible web pages. We will also adopt the EU wide Web Accessibility Directive (WAD).

The department overseeing this has guide lines [1] and tests for web pages/apps/forms etc [2]

[1] https://www.uutilsynet.no/wcag-standarden/wcag-sortert-etter...

[2] https://www.uutilsynet.no/regelverk/testprosedyrar-nettstade...
Are you concerned that the first time someone from Iran posts something controversial (eg. "Opensource Nuclear enrichment centrifuge control algorithm") that the license will be knee-jerk revoked with no notice?
it's is a long as OSX. So it perfectly matches the 'long con' time frame. Just don't know why you go about calling amoral business strategies designed to benefit from opensource without giving anything substantial back as a "con".

There were alternatives to LLVM and patches to gcc that achieved the same. Apple option to bring llvm up by investing heavily in it has more to do with the licensing than technical aspects.
This sounds amazing. Two questions:

a) How does this work with the new stricter visa entry requirements for Taiwan?
https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-220-5081-c06dc-2.html

b) Do I need to know Mandarin to be able to communicate with other folks?
I joke about this a lot, but if anything is a sign of the state of journalism, its "Twitter is outraged" articles, which consist of a "journalist" finding 2-3 tweets that agree with their stance and have moderate to high engagement, writing up a few paragraphs, and embedding the tweets.
Never, because if you change the insides no one notices: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...
You can absolutely mute a microphone, since you can say "I muted my microphone" and any English speaker will understand exactly what you mean.

edit: in fact I would go so far as to say that the majority of English speakers, at least here in America, would prefer saying "mute the mic" instead "put the mic on mute" (I've never heard anyone say the latter in actual conversation, to be honest).
Even if your schedule is flexible, other people's schedules aren't. This means that if I want to shift my schedule to wake up earlier to take advantage of the morning light, I either have to miss out on evening social activities (lets say an 8pm dinner), or miss out on sleep.
Android. Usually cheaper phones too.
It really is both. Corporations have corporate personhood and should be held accountable for criminal acts, as should individual criminals.

Ticketmaster did do something. They clearly broke the law. So did the individuals. All should be severely punished this is egregious behavior.
It's false, but there's confusion around it because the rules actually changed in October 2019

https://eurid.eu/en/news/new-eligibility-criteria/

before, it was actually true
As someone else posted, there's been several passed initiatives about moving to permanent DST; and no passed initiatives (that I'm aware of) about moving to permanent standard time.

I would prefer standard time, but I'll accept any time as long as days are always 86400 seconds (+/- 1 second). I'm willing to have a separate discussion about leap seconds, but that seems like it's being determined by concensus among national standards bodies, not democratic action, so I have less influence.
I have a certain sympathy for the SovCit people, because while 99 times out of 100 they're trying to evade their legal responsibilities, they are making a valid point that such evasion is in many ways institutionalized in our society as long as you can throw some money at the problem ahead of time.