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Intellectual property protections aren't self-evident or part of nature. They are a human creation that, in theory, exist to encourage innovation and increase prosperity. In almost all cases, intellectual property is based on previous intellectual property.

Whenever you create a work of art, or work of intellect, you are using the work of "someone else". The vast majority of stories, for instance, use plot devices and elements invented by other humans. IP laws don't necessarily protect these elements - to a large extent because they can't in practice - but they are used nonetheless without special consideration to "someone else's" labor (the inventor of such elements/plot devices).

Many of the arguments for extremely strong IP protections ignore that an enormous percentage of IP is acquired from elsewhere. While many authors add much value on top of these existing elements, we still have the problem of the appropriation of such elements without any authorization/compensation.

Just because the law protects YOUR additions to the (unprotected) work of others, don't think that your additions are that special. The protections from the law, including extent, duration and penalties are arbitrary and, as I said, not part of nature.

People do work based on ideas that are in the public domain. But the differentiation of public domain and non public domain is also a human creation. Why can't IP go into the public domain 15 minutes after they are created? The protection duration is arbitrary and in practice decided by large business lobbies (just see how they increased over time to the current unreasonable levels).

So while a lot of what is being discussed is indeed ILLEGAL, it doesn't mean that it is IMMORAL. I recommend that advocates for strong IP protections examine how much of what they are trying to protect is, indeed, uniquely theirs and not traceable to previous work.
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I think it's generally accepted that as a human in 2021 you no longer can expect to or have a right to expect privacy, at any point, for any reason, period. Whether you're having sex, on the toilet or just moving around, trackers are everywhere (and yes, there are "smart" toilets/sex toys these days).

And honestly, the HN crowd will "go wild" and complain but I haven't exactly seen a societal condemnation of the intrusive surveillance. In fact, I think mostly everyone has embraced it. There are people who probably wouldn't mind their entire lives being recorded in 4k for you to spool through every second (and newer generations upload to instagram/tiktok/wherever else).

So this shouldn't be too alarming. Google/Amazon et al are in a race to record the trillions of data points humans generate daily and store them for the rest of time because why not, our phones are doing a good job of filtering a lot of that data (because it is mostly just noise), so they can focus on the "highlights".
Speck has a somewhat contrarian take to urban design that's really fun, promoting things like street parking and 4-way stops.

He has a couple talks he gives, one of which he's given at TED.
> probably a knife

Come on, seriously? Still? It's like your only understanding of violent crimes comes from TV dramas...
well, I think you're demonstrably wrong on the later, such that even if we accept there is something like a "universal" sense of human beauty (which I'll take as a highly debatable point) , there's also a learned/adaptive component that can't easily be separated from an individual's experience: it seems it can interfere, override or accentuate the first.

We can see this in various cross-cultural and historical comparisons where it's not clear that any inherent or obviously individual property should be considered beautiful in a universal sense.

Is foot binding beautiful?

Is clear skin or scarification and body modding beautiful?

What about lighter skin? is it beautiful because it suggests aristocracy and not working in the fields, or is a sun tan beautiful? or does white skin, to use a phrase from darker skinned indigenous populations make people "look like a corpse".

Is it the anorexic, the aenemic, the flushed, the athlete, the labourer, or the obese?

The weirder thing I've noticed talking to people is this IDEA that physical beauty must be objective is so entrenched in some, that they will actively deny or remove reported data points to the contrary (no, he doesn't really think that's beautiful/ he's lying about his perception of that beautiful man/woman).
I'm not sure. Possibly both?

Just took a look over my bookshelf, but they haven't made it with me through moves.

I do still have Incredible Cross-Sections. That was another of my favorites to flip through. It looks like there are reprints and new versions. Would definitely recommend for kids.

https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Incredible-Cross-Sect...
We used a lot of PyObjC BITD at Apple to explore frameworks that we couldn't get documentation for. That was simultaneously awesome and so so so broken, from an organizational perspective.
As one of the managing people at Ferrous Systems, I’d like to mention that the pace of development is very much only possible because of the sponsors of the project, both individuals and corporate and some paid for feature development. This allows us to spend constant engineer hours on the project instead of what’s just left over as well as pay some money to contributors as well. A big Thank You to all of them.
With a few other other elements (i.e. weather) added to learning model I bet this would be super accurate! Pretty neat. I love finding use at home DIY use cases with commodity hardware, ESP32s ftw.
That's a bad faith argument if I've ever seen one.

Understanding why people do things, even bad things, is crucial to easing divisiveness.

I understand why people stormed the capitol. I do not condone their actions and hope they are all made examples of.

Just as I understand the hundreds of years of history that is behind this summers protests. I am far more sympathetic to the tens of millions that protested against fascism and racism then I am to the actual fascists that tried to usurp democracy and install a dictator while taking scalps.

When impoverished, abused, and neglected people peacefully take to streets en masse to demand change are met with brutal policing, that could be war crimes, instead of compromise and change what else do you honestly expect to happen? When millions of people can't afford to put on the table what do you expect them to do when the majority party fails to provide even a poverty level existence during a pandemic that disproportionately effects their demographic? Should they shut up and starve to death? Should they continue to take these beatings from police? Until the field is leveled don't expect this movement to die; they're fighting for their right to live.
All the cacheable responses (including assets) benefit from being close to the user.
>Another factor in effectiveness of security review: how much of the whole system you can fit in your head at once.

This is why I think pure functions as much as possible, i.e. a part of the functional programming mindset, is so important for making code reviewable. Yes, you can make nice abstractions in OOP, but at least in my experience OOP with it's stateful objects interacting makes you need to know a lot more about the system than pure functions.

And yes, it's not a panacea, and large allocations may take too long to copy, which is why the next best thing is mostly functional, most techniques don't work in every case.
Any capacity to plug in an good old-fashioned Ethernet cable?
Deep Vision: Near-Infrared Imaging, Machine Learning Can Identify Hidden Tumors
Machine learning made easy for optimizing chemical reactions
Is it printed?
This is inspiring. I am going spin one up and also look into contributing to your source code.
You really think they did that out of the Goodwill of their hearts? 100% Godot competes with Unity , it doesn't compete with Unreal ( Unreal doesn't make a real attempt to do ,2d).

Unity competes with both.
Your assumption is that without McK’s involvement nobody would have died of opioid overdoses during that window. That seems very questionable.
Can you answer the question that was posed? Is the amount of spending on salaries too high, or too low? It’s impossible to tell what point you are trying to make.
brave, privacy + performance
I mostly use RHEL and SLES because that's what's required by my job. Their package databases are helpful sometimes. But usually it's just a symlink nightmare hidden across 5+ different directories. That is if you can even install anything past the license checks that fail to phone home because you are in a private VPC.

I do like Arch based Linux distributions. In my opinion they are the best all around for servers and even containers. Pacman is an excellent package manager.
it seems that you are the only one who is making this extrapolation, but I'll bite.

> In my experience, those who speak in this and similar manners are forming narratives to reframe the event to re-orient culpability.

why would people do this? to what end? who is really "culpable" in your opinion? all I see in this thread is people recounting times they have felt unwelcome or unsafe somewhere. in response, they do nothing more extreme than to avoid that place in the future. what exactly is the problem here?
Because of embrace, extend, extinguish, and the attempt of Google to make itself synonymous with the web.
Texture arrays aren't available on GLES 2.0, which I believe WebRender targets.

> It’s possible to append new layers into an array without moving data across PCIe and back.

? As far as I know, texture layer dimensions have to be specified up-front. Unless, I suppose, you're OpenGL and the driver lies to you about that with mutable textures, but it's really creating a new texture under and doing a full copy for you behind the scenes.
The emacs support is great. I use emacs 'racer' and 'lsp' packages full time for development.

There are two popular emacs packages for rust-analyzer: lsp[0] and eglot[1]. lsp (language server protocol) package is the default for racer. Eglot has far more features and is correspondingly resource hungry.

Detailed type information has a super helpful impact on my ability to review Rust code in general. I find reviewing rust code much more productive when I can see what owns a variable, how long it lives, and how it's being used (immutable vs mutable). So yea, lsp or eglot. Super helpful.

[0] https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
[1] https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot
I recall seeing some places (forget which exactly) where the default options start at 18%. Something like 18, 20 and 25. And this is for a place with no real service I think (you get your food, find your own table and put away your own tray).
> In systems in which there is common shared state between all participants (e.g. Fortnite), you fundamentally must have a form of centralized authority somewhere.

I wonder if there's any big online game already which does match making preferring local servers. And I don't mean local as in "people registered in us-east region", but rather "there are 4 people ready to play in Chicago, spawn an instance there and connect them".
This law is trivially easy to get on the wrong side of. Something like this would be definitely in scope of the anti-terror law you're talking about. American HN users beware.
Yes! I'm just going to add a link right this minute!
HN probably disproportionately attracts people who are well-off enough that they can afford to be choosy about work. There also might be some bias because working just for the money is the default and working for things other than the money is the exception, so people in the latter category are more likely to write about it than people in the former category. Also, some people who claim to be working for more than just the money might just be saying what they want to be true rather than what is true. It's not that they're consciously lying, cause there would be little reason to do that on HN, it's more that to believe that they are working for more than the money makes them feel good. Also, admitting that you're working just for the money is taboo in a large subset of corporate culture and, while there is not much reason to avoid violating the taboo on HN, the taboo may nonetheless spill over into outside-of-work thinking.
The reality you occupy may not bear it out.

Anyways: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/biden-covid-vaccinat...

As one example of, ? Thousands?
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This is a good way of looking at it. I had ample opportunity to buy GOOG and AMZN early on. After all, I had a brokerage account, and I followed those stocks. I bought LVS at the absolute bottom, but didn't hold. As for bitcoin, I was mining in 2011. But then I soon decided mining wasn't worthwhile. I could look at it like, so close but no cigar. But really, none of those decisions were wrong or stupid. Hindsight isn't just 20/20. It's useless.
Probably the actual reason is conflict with the board, or being fed up / burned out with running the operation.
I imagine lots of kids might have sort of "an emancipation event".

Maybe a non-amish equivalent of Rumspringa.
Something that really cheeses me off about Atlassian (bitbucket) code reviews is that by default they only show you the changed lines.

You can't see that the code they changed also lives in another function that they missed, or than in fact the whole thing should be factored out into a function and fixed once.
They are repairable: http://www.k-kcs.co.jp/english/solutionRepairingMethod.html
While well intentioned, we know who's going to absorb all this money from 18 yr olds. Tuition rates will go through the roof since 50k is basically the new zero.
Conclusions: Our analysis suggests that higher consumption of eggs (more than 1 egg/day) was not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but was associated with a significant reduction in risk of coronary artery disease.

That's really interesting! I just had a heart attack a few months ago and eggs have been on my "very rarely" list, I'm glad to see I probably can move those up to "probably fine a few times a week" list.
I have to admit I was unaware until this thread that the call for urgent donations was despite this endowment and their expenses other than directly operating wikipedia.org.

Thanks for that eye-opener.
App servers should have a fast access to data! Which either means running caches alongside the app servers, or doing clever things with databases.

We just released a preview Postgres + regional replicas. This setup keeps the postgres leader in one region and lets people add replicas in other regions they're interested in. It works really well for typical full stack apps.

We've also found a surprising number of customers who want to run in only one specific region. They don't spread apps out geographically, they just have a concentrated population of users in, say, Sydney. We're increasingly becoming "Heroku for <region>".
Preview of the new SoloKey V2 hardware revision
I know this sounds awfully complicated to handle (and recharge), but I think the market for practical applications of H fuel is existing, so these ideas can be evaluated in practice.

Also, not every invention has to save the world. So this paste might become useful for drones or in spacecraft. Depending on the energy density it might even be very usable for electrified air travel.
I have contacts in Iran but none of them are having trouble accessing Signal (I'm talking to them with it right now!)
Because it's been a very long since I've even done anything with PHP, and I'd like to play with one of the frameworks. I'm much more interested in learning Python or Ruby than I am in learning PHP.
This systematic review and meta-analysis concludes:

> Our analysis suggests that higher consumption of eggs (more than 1 egg/day) was not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but was associated with a significant reduction in risk of coronary artery disease.
How do you design an unemployment/UBI system that provides an incentive not to use it unless necessary and not to stay on it any longer than is necessary?
I maintain several open-source apps for macOS. I don't use macOS anymore, and am not interested in investing in that platform, however users still get value from my apps.

Right now, macOS treats those apps as if they're radioactive because I didn't spend the $100/year it costs to notarize the apps. The result is that some users suddenly think the apps they've been using are either broken or malicious.

That $100 is already a barrier, if I had to pay more money to release apps at all for Apple devices, I just wouldn't.

Which brings me back to my main point:

> Many of these apps that game the App Store generate enough revenue that a $100 fee won't be a barrier to entry, but will certainly be a barrier to entry for students, hobbyists, and developers whose apps are pre-revenue.

The cost barrier might stop a handful of script kiddies, but it will do nothing to stop the malicious apps bringing in $300k a month in revenue which are both more prolific and widespread.

> Meanwhile, legit developers spend hundreds or thousands or more hours on a good app. $100 in the first world just isn’t that much.

I don't know what country you're in, but I'm in the US and it's a country where not having $100 can mean not eating, making rent or buying medicine that you need. There are a lot of students, hobbyists and those that are trying to break into the industry who are in this boat. Your proposal would make it hard for them to release an app.

There are also people in this country who are either wealthy enough, or their income is high enough, that they wouldn't notice a $100 change in their budget. Your proposal wouldn't affect their ability to release an app, but they would benefit from a lack of competition.

In the end, users would suffer from the lack of competition, and people without means would be priced out of participating in the market.
Generic advantages:

- no binaries in your source code make git diff more useful

- continue to use your favorite editor especially if you don't like the notebook interface and keybindings

- batch mode can be good or bad, people might not like it as much for exploratory analysis but prefer it when they have a lot of writing to do and want to polish "later"
It's not inefficient if you think of it as a larger gas reservoir, so the O2 and CO2 levels would stay stable for longer intervals without requiring circulation.
It's such a shame nutrition science is in such infancy because when I read these types of things I get excited and then a couple years later there's inevitably some contradicting study.

The only thing I've read that seems to never be contradicted is the following quote:

> Eat food, not too much, mostly plants

EDIT: Is it just me, or do they never say how the eggs are prepared? I feel like that would have a huge effect as well as since the preparation method changes the composition of the eggs of course. Frying eggs with a bunch of butter might negate any health benefits eating say, an otherwise poached egg, might have.

I loved fried eggs and wonder if I'd receive more benefit by boiling or poaching, hmm.
This beats my method of cat locating, which usually takes the form of increasingly urgent searching followed by noticing my target following me around wondering what I'm up to.
I'm a little more hopeful. They've never been punished like this before for their work. In the future, they'll probably be more careful about who they work with and what they recommend. Not to mention, Purdue Pharma is already taking on the lion share of the blame for these deaths, and paid a $8b settlement and also turned into a public beneficiary company.
I also recommend this path, but I found it really hard to write all of the required Terraform for the VPC, security groups, load balancers, and Fargate configuration.

So I put together an open-source Terraform super-module to automatically set all of that up in a few lines of code.

https://provose.com/
Rivian wants to emulate Tesla in many many ways. I think in order to break the mold, they gotta stop worshipping the mold
> I know the answer on some levels is therapy. Is there any other advice besides get over it and therapy though?

A third approach is to acknowledge that, indeed, if you could predict the future, you’d be fabulously wealthy, but there’s nothing different about this example than any other one. If you’d purchased Tesla in January 2020, you’d be up about 8x, if you bought call options on X in Y, etc. The fact that you owned Bitcoin at one point doesn’t make it any more or less applicable, since you could have bought it at that time anyway.

If you want to beat yourself up over something, pick a decision that had a positive NPV at that time, not a decision that requires seeing the future (like this one).
I don't think this would be printing money? I'm also not saying this is a good idea but it does sound like it would be supported by taxes. I may be misunderstanding what you mean by printing money.
I think this common gripe "I'd hate to be the one just before this mass relief" has more to do with the direct costs to oneself rather than some desire that others suffer.

In this case, if the graduating class right after you got a big leg up, that means they're more competitive and coming for the same jobs / opportunities as you. 2020 grads were competing with (and still are) the same new grad jobs as the 2021 grads with the pandemic. College loan forgiveness means those 3-5-10 years behind you now have a big cash leg up on you with years less work and investment. This $1,000 check at 18 means the 19 year olds may very well fall behind as those younger roll over them.

I'm not saying all these concerns come to fruition, but a leg up to your peers can have negative ramifications for you, even if the aggregate and future prospects for the aggregate is good.
“The inventor of email” permanently banned from Twitter
You write this as if I contested anything you said. Maybe signal didn't _claim_ to be censorship resistant but it's _essentially_ marketed as such by well meaning people. It's "the secure messenger", what is it secure against if not governments? Your ISP?

Or does security of access not get covered by this definition?

If people had chosen a federated system instead, then instead of _needing_ this very quick solution to be hacked together, the system would have dynamically moved around it.

But, it's a future we'll never know now. Signal has the mindshare (and certainly the favour!) of the people, so the ship has sailed and I'm tilting at windmills.

I think it's ridiculous that we have to patchwork _their_ broken system that _we_ warned them of, but that's the reality and I am not one to put principles before people.
...which, funnily enough, don't tell you where you are. :)