skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fair enough, but commercial viability is the point of copyright.

I strongly disagree with this statement. The point of copyright is "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". The commercial viability is the means through which that point is achieved. If at any time copyright isn't functioning to promote the arts, and instead hinders, then it isn't fulfilling the point.

While I do agree that the tropes are the stronger part, part of the reason why shared characters are so powerful is because they can immediately stand in to represent the trope. If I am writing a Robin Hood story, I don't need to spend time explaining who Robin Hood is, I can just start telling the story. If I am writing a story about "What if Superman were evil?" (e.g. [0][1]), then I need to first spend time explaining who the character is, describing powers, and then drawing just enough parallels so that the audience knows who I'm talking about without drawing so many that I get sued. It's a really boring way to start a story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredeemable
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightburn
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> it reads so fast that it's easy to explore the temperature gradients in the food.

I was amazed when I discovered this. If you have a thick steak on a pan, knowing what the temperature gradient looks like inside is very valuable, compared to just knowing the temperature in the middle. Just slide your thermapen out slowly, and you can get a good reading on the gradient.
What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?
I love both cats and dogs, but there are definitely some ugly species of both, that aren't even adorably ugly.
It's a nice "gotcha" moment, but if you look at the CPI breakdowns[1], iPads aren't the reason why inflation is low.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm
> "In 2016, the commissioner demanded Facebook stop collecting user data from WhatsApp. In that case, Facebook worked with Germany to iron things out. It does not appear that the social media platform is willing to cooperate this time."

This line to me sounds incredibly sinister. For a long time I've been fearmongering about the level of power held by these multinationals approaching those of small states. It sounds rather disconcerting when Facebook is engaging in diplomacy and brinksmanship with powerful nation states. Even worse, when they're winning.

It's at least encouraging that the European Union is concerned about Facebook's growing power and political influence. The incumbent American institution seems to have all-but ignored this growing problem. Of course there were lots of crocodile tears about "Russian collusion" and "Fortifying the Election", and so on. However through all that, there doesn't seem to have been much questioning of the nature of Big Tech's power, only the direction of its application.
> If any of us are ever going to convince friends and family to leave proprietary platforms

I’ve kind of thrown in the towel on this fight. People are going to use what they like. For me, it’s E-mail. My friends and family know how to get in touch with me if they need to: using E-mail. If they want to text each other or WhatsApp each other or Snapchat each other or whatever it is they do, they can go right ahead: it doesn’t affect me. And that’s all OK!
What’s the deal with the “75%” and beige covering the article on my mobile browser? Was enjoying the article at first but that was annoying enough that I came back here to complain.
An interesting article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200813235643/http://slawsonand...

> Article 3(2), a new feature of the GDPR, creates extraterritorial jurisdiction over companies that have nothing but an internet presence in the EU and offer goods or services to EU residents[1]. While the GDPR requires these companies[2] to follow its data processing rules, it leaves the question of enforcement unanswered. Regulations that cannot be enforced do little to protect the personal data of EU citizens.

> This article discusses how U.S. law affects the enforcement of Article 3(2). In reality, enforcing the GDPR on U.S. companies may be almost impossible. First, the U.S. prohibits enforcing of foreign-country fines. Thus, the EU enforcement power of fines for noncompliance is negligible. Second, enforcing the GDPR through the designated representative can be easily circumvented. Finally, a private lawsuit brought by in the EU may be impossible to enforce under U.S. law.

[snip]

> Currently, there is a hole in the GDPR wall that protects European Union personal data. Even with extraterritorial jurisdiction over U.S. companies with only an internet presence in the EU, the GDPR gives little in the way of tools to enforce it. Fines from supervisory authorities would be stopped by the prohibition on enforcing foreign fines. The company can evade enforcement through a representative simply by not designating one. Finally, private actions may be stalled on issues of personal jurisdiction. If a U.S. company completely disregards the GDPR while targeting customers in the EU, it can use the personal data of EU citizens without much fear of the consequences. While the extraterritorial jurisdiction created by Article 3(2) may have seemed like a good way to solve the problem of foreign companies who do not have a physical presence in the EU, it turns out to be practically useless.
because none of you examples have a luxury of forcing people to pay them for their services
I recently cut a couple holes in my house exterior through stucco. Like a sibling comment, that stucco was secured over some wire mesh. I can't remember how dense the mesh needs to be to block whichever frequencies would be used, but something like that would be commonplace and provide reasonable doubt.
I went to the post about answers to common objections but I was surprised that I did not find one of the bigger ones. Email is a pretty big disaster for communication that needs to stay secret, even encrypted mail. (https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....)
My method is more like the following, which I believe is the better way to go:

1. Do research to understand your options

2. Purchase a mid-grade but not garbage quality version of whatever tool you need.

3. If you find out you use it often or that it has any annoying shortcomings, go back and buy the highest quality version you can afford and gift the mid-grade one to a friend who might need an upgrade from their average/low quality option from the box store.

This is how I ended up with a lot of Tekton hand tools and after I got more serious about racing cars and doing work on cars I upgraded to Hazet, Wiha, Wera, Nepros, Mitutoyo, Engineer, and Asahi tools. But at no point did I just go to Harbor Freight and fill up my trunk with random quality junk made in China ready for the landfill. I was then able to pass on the Tekton stuff to friends in need as I replaced it with higher end German/Japanese made tools and it's still more than capable of getting the job done even if it's not the utmost design in terms of speed or ergonomics for doing that particular work. All of the mid-grade stuff I've owned along the way has been reliable enough to last until I gifted it onward, or to stay in use up until now (and beyond).

There's WAY WAY WAY too much disposable quality drek on the market at bottom barrel scraping prices that people buy and then just throw away and buy another cheap one, thinking that the lifespan of a pan should be 2 years, that you should just buy a new set of cheap knives when the old ones don't cut well anymore, or that it's normal for an adjustable wrench or ratchet to eventually have the gears strip their teeth out.

I'm fortunate to be able to afford to buy twice and I'm nice enough to pass along my tools to others, but if you can learn anything from me, it's that it's worth not buying the absolute bottom barrel stuff in the first place. It's all garbage and in so many little ways adds to cognitive load and stress in your life, especially when trying to do hobbies you're supposed to enjoy, and it's just not worth it. It's actively bad for your life and it's catastrophically bad for the environment. If you can, buy it once and buy it for life. If you can't, buy it twice, and make sure the first option was at least good enough you could pass it along instead of throwing it away.
That’s 49.7 days. So this must be something else.
> considering the amount of NASA money they get I don't think it's right to say they didn't rely on government funding. Rather, they probably have the advantage of not being under the direct thumbs of government accountants

The Great Leap Forward was that SpaceX bid fixed actual price contracts. This was previously unheard of practice. Oh the other players might have bid what looked like fixed price, but any scope creep and it would end up a cost-plus gravy train.

They did tons of development on those contracts, but they still bid cheaper than ULA.
Why not link directly to his article? His website is beautiful
Nice work!
I find it funny that I'm in the middle of writing a song player in assembler on the old Commodore 64 :)

Anyway, what I missed in your app was a method to use the keyboard to play the drums. Using the touchpad is too slow.
It's a misspelling of IOCCC - international obfuscated C coding competition.
I really tried to like dev.to but the content is mostly low quality blog spam and no better than what is on Medium.
No tests? How do you refactor while ensuring your business logic invariants?
You aren't...by a long shot. When everything around you is significantly more expensive than just a month ago (houses, gas, etc)...then you are seeing and feeling inflation. When the government is pumping "stimulus" of trillions into the economy by giving away money...you are able to see how inflation works because it's so obvious.
Hey, Any way I can email you?
If anything, I like email now because these days people in my circles only use it for informational purposes, which means no annoying chain messages, empty inspirational videos, Facebook conspiracies and their ilk.

Also, unlike the unfiltered stream model of chat, you can organize emails into folders, delete useless ones and actually have a decent chance at finding past things via keyword search (because email subject lines). Paradoxically, email also has really good convo threading. In other words, email has high signal to noise ratio.
They probably meant to say "IOCCC," the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and they're referring I think to this entry:

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr
So you’re saying it’s marketing BS? Got it
I don’t see why it has to be one or the other. Both live and studio albums have their quirks and benefits.

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with live jazz. Every Friday and Saturday, I’ve been at a local joint to catch a few sets. Hearing good players live makes me appreciate older albums even more.

There are great live albums too like Full House by Wes Montgomery or After Hours by Charlie Christian & Dizzy Gillespie. Some of them even have video from live concerts in the ~60s.

I suppose it’s different with jazz albums as they’re not typically overengineered or note perfect anyways. The main issue is accurate reproduction; it obviously doesn’t sound like real life... The upright bass in particular tends to sound quite different. On the other hand, live music has lots of people talking in the background except on special nights where everyone seems to shut up and listen.

But these albums are a way of connecting as far back as the 30s and they’re crucial for learning the tradition & origins of modern jazz. Depending on your setup they can still sound quite good.
Well said. I don't think you need to refer to HFR to explain why The Hobbit films look "fake". It's hard to imagine this clip (at 24 fps) looking any worse in HFR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCswVszTEx0
Is that Co2 sensor reliable? I've been googling sensors lately and CO2 seems to be a mine field. Hard to tell what is a CO2 sensor and what is a VOC/CO2 equivalent sensor...
Possible, and that does sound nice.

But in my experience striving for consistency means that before improving something you have to go and change everywhere that pattern appears in 400 different code bases going back 20 years (and all of the documentation across however many platforms). As a result nobody ever improves things.

As with all things YMMV.
I think this points towards the inability of traditional schooling to engage kids in educational topics. I experienced something similiar where I bounced off math in school, partially because it was taught to me as rote memorization. Only years later did I realize how much I enjoy learning maths.
It's interesting that they don't consider cultivating more charismatic plants serve the various ecosystem niches. It would allow scientists to align with their inclinations over time.
Thx to another comment's suggestion I've just added numpad support to play it like an mpc. Let me know if that helps !

It was designed mobile first where I find the input to be very fast, but yes, on desk/lap the buttons are way slow.
I know what I wrote.

Was it a tweet or something? A video? I honestly can't find it.

If it's so easy for you just link me to the source and stop behaving like a child.
Really nice work, especially for someone pretty new to development!
Its been a while but I think I just hit install on the extension in vscode. It was pretty easy.
Texas House of Representatives Adopts Virtual Currency Act
The “Virtual Currency Act”, which recognizes the legal status of cryptocurrencies, was unanimously passed by the Texas House of Representatives.
God I hate this word, it's like in bad OOP where you classify things just for the sake of having more classes. This belongs to a class called compiler, just call it compiler.
China declared decades ago that they follow a No First Use policy in regards to nuclear weapons.

Of course, whether that holds true if boots land on their soil, who knows.
Lots of governments, Mozilla and many universities especially in Europe
So what you're saying is we're in a period of massive deflation.

Why stop at the 90s, lets look at the early 19th century. The early Model T was $20k inflation adjusted. A modern car would have been millions.
browsed the site for a few min, understood nothing
And that's fine right? 13 years ago an enthusiast-class graphics card went for $300[1]. Now it costs $650[2] (more if you include scalpers). Does that mean PC gaming hardware has inflated by 2x?

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/2556

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_6000_series
Ah yes, the free market utopia every libertarian dreamed of existed in 2008. There were only just over 100,000 pages of federal law and regulations. Not to mention state and local laws.
Work loves to send those fake pen-test security emails.

I don’t open any work emails anymore. Got tired of the gotcha mentality.
1k feral cats released onto Chicago streets to tackle rat explosion
Thank you! I'm excited to see what's next, though I feel pulled in many directions. With native apps I can make real performance and UI gains, with web apps I can continue exploring the wild world of javascript (which I've grown to love.)
From Apple’s own newsroom, the advocates of gatekeeping app installs, is this propaganda to support the app gatekeeping dogma?
Perhaps this happened because we had an entire political leadership calling it a "liberal hoax" shibboleth at the same time that the CDC was trying to ring alarm bells?

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it."
There are so many great cars from Toyota and Honda from that era, too. If only they kept making 1/2G LS/GS, Mk4 Supras, 1G Tacomas, NSX, S2000s, B18 Civics. Way to ruin my day (:D /s) by bringing up their current offerings.
Bumble’s Head of Product Design to Join Twitter
Unless a nefarious person opened the AirTag and removed the speaker, but that can't happen and there aren't any videos of how to do this on YouTube.
A helicopter is a lot less vulnerable, not least because it can put out suppressing fire.
Not as cool as winning and then one day becoming President of the United States though.
> At this point there is very little economic sanctions US could impose on China that Trump didn't already either try or talk about. And anything with teeth will never work whilst US companies build everything in China.

This is a contradiction. It leaves open the possibility of sanctions sufficient to induce US companies to stop building everything in China.

In the long term the cost of this is negligible or produces a net benefit. Maybe some things cost more if it would have been cheaper to make them in China, but that isn't necessarily true outside of China's cross-subsidies which you're then still paying for, and even if they do you get the countervailing economic benefit of repatriating some of the production. (It's also plausible that sanctions on China would move production to places like Mexico and Brazil which are still cheaper than the US, but then you're back to no significant long-term cost increase and a benefit from diversifying production.)

The main cost is in the short term, because things would cost more. But they would cost more by the amount of the tariffs. Which go to the government, which it can then give back to the domestic population in various ways. Which could produce a domestic benefit, if China ends up paying any of the tariffs. If there is a $1 import tariff which pays for a $1 tax reduction for the middle class, but the tariff is paid $0.75 by the domestic buyer and $0.25 by the foreign manufacturer, you just transferred $0.25 to the domestic population.

The only way you even get a short-term domestic cost is if manufacturing actually does start moving out of China. Because then you have a $1 tariff which causes people to be willing to pay $0.25 more for a product made in Ohio or Mexico. Which costs you the $0.25 and then you don't get the $1 to offset domestic taxes. But it costs China $5, i.e. the full value of the sale and not just the amount of the tariff or the marginal cost of manufacturing it elsewhere. It costs them more than it costs the US. Which gives the US more negotiating leverage to get whatever concessions they want.
Intentional or not it doesn't matter. If you do something wrong and lose money, they won't save you if you declare that it was all unintentional. But big companies have bad policies (sometimes criminal) and use this excuse all the time.
I'm curious about people who take extended time off (months, years).

Do you worry at all about how that will impact your ability to retire? The drain on your savings?
The problem with printing money by governments is that every dollar printed means the value of that money is spread thinner and thinner. That means you need more of those thinner dollars to make up the value. It's like watering down the beer. You'll need to drink more glasses of that weaker beer to get the same effect.

Every government gets away with printing money for a very short time, then the Zimbabwe Effect takes over. It will happen in the US just like it happened in the Confederacy. IIRC, in 1865 one silver dollar cost sixty paper dollars in exchange.

In Germany in 1923, one wheelbarrow-load of Weimar Deutchmarks could buy you a loaf of bread.
Did you see the video? The angles involved may not be shallow enough.
Germany ist’s a small State. It‘s basically the most powerful nation in Europe. I can‘t see any benefit for Facebook from this. There is a line of thought that Germany decides lots of EU decisions, could we see Facebook banned from the EU? Unlikely, Facebook will probably back down like they did with Austraila, but if things keep escalating after a Germany ban I think an EU ban would be talked about.
Matrix.org is exactly what you are describing
If a developing country handled all environmental regulations, etc. there would -still- be a profit to be had, unless shipping winds up negating that profit. Logically speaking a less developed country will still have lower overall wages.

While this means the countries may develop slower, they will likely/hopefully wind up with less concentrated wealth (hiring more workers instead of a few people pocketing all the profits.)

I would hope that such taxes would be used towards environmental or humanitarian efforts, to be a proper 'offset' tax.

Doing so will likely result in some short term shocks, but a more sustainable society overall. My hope is that when prices would go up in such a scenario, consumers would again care about how long something lasts in big enough numbers that we have a less disposable society.
Last time someone tried that, they capped property taxes by ballot initiative instead.
> Interestingly in modern times, at least in conservative areas, sometimes police/coroners will label an accidental self-hanging as suicide, as that's less embarrassing to the family than the reality.

I've actually read an interview with a parent who lost a child that way who said it gave them comfort knowing that their child's death was simply an accident, rather than a mental illness problem that they could have missed.

Wish I could remember how to google it and get an actual cite. IIRC it was in the New Yorker or something.
Email has very real limitations, imposed both by the protocol itself and by lack of consensus among all the major and minor clients.
If you want to disembowel music, I would suggest Izotope RX-8. If you like to sample music, this is pretty much as close to the dream software as I could expect is possible. Love a break but it has those pesky vocals? Remove them. Love the drums at a section but its got some annoying accompaniment? Solo the drums. Want to just tweak the mix? that is possible too.
The last one I bought came with a printout of the GPL2.
he doesn't manage babel. I think he's just saying this as a peer. It's bad regardless.
As far as I can tell Apple has not released an update for my Airport Express since 2018 :/
I've followed Stephen Diehl for awhile got the idea that he hated Bitcoin and proof of work because it's a climate change disaster for the amount of electricity it uses. I feel he is sincere in that. I happen to agree with him, so maybe that makes him more credible to me.
And U.S. chip tech leadership then ends.
Salesforce is experiencing a Global Outage
9:46pm UTC Salesforce began a global outage across multiple clouds. Core CRM (Sales, Service, Platform) Marketing and Commerce Clouds as well as trust.salesforce.com.

Per https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1463934&tp_key=4c847763af they believe it could be a networking or DNS issue.
Biotech firm Ginkgo to merge with Harry Sloan-led SPAC in $17.5B deal
Pardon my lack of knowledge, but what's wrong about an equivalent type sensor?
>Being on the spectrum

I don't think that is why you made a suboptimal choice; I think that's why you incorrectly think you made a suboptimal choice.

They might regret losing you, but that doesn't mean that good things would have happened if you tried to apply leverage before.

The act of trying to force someone to do something, whether by (implied) threat, logic, emotional manipulation, or whatever, can mortally wound a relationship making getting a concession you want moot.

As you say, the new job was "a lot better substance-wise", so it's a good thing you didn't try to hold their feet to the fire.
A lot of jobs are miserable; if someone moves to a new job and is also miserable there, I wouldn't assume that the fault lies with the person from a sample size of two.

I agree though that for many people their situation could be improved by the assistance of a mental health professional. But that doesn't mean that their problems are all caused internally and aren't to some degree a product of their work environment.
What is iOS market share in the US?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename) might have useful info