skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What exemptions does Netflix have?

Netflix is exempted from mandatory usage of Apple's payment platform. OP stated that Apple is threatening to pull the app if she does the same thing that Netflix gets away with: avoid using Apple's payment platform, and set up payments outside of the app. For a company that loves demanding its partners adopt Most-Favored Nation clauses, Apple sure does hate treating its app developers the same.
Part of the empire the Franks founded was named "France" and France still traces its origins to Frankish kings. So connecting a trade language spoken by the empire-before-the-empire with the empire of France doesn't seem that far off-base to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks
I have a basic theory that 'journalists' don't generally understand math, economic or finance. For one, if they did, they wouldn't choose to become journalists. As a result, they surround themselves with a bubble of low math and finance skills and are prone to misunderstand and conflate basic concepts like assets and income.
I suppose the next logical thing is for them to say: "I fart in your general direction".
Step away. You've hit the right conclusion, "...ultimately he's an adult and should make his own decision...", don't let your fears cloud your perspective, "...suffer his own consequences." You're already assuming at this point that his time involved in this game is potentially a negative. What if it lands him a job?
Also, UI design has traditionally used visual styles from minimalism and the Bauhaus, mainly because the very low-resolutions where it was created (desktops first, later mobile screens) didn't support anything more ornate that would be still visually appealing.

I long for the day when more elaborate and luxurious art-deco-based interfaces become fashionable in UI design.
Literary French is quite phonetic, at least outside proper names. What are some examples where you feel that French writing is not in a one to one relation with pronunciation?
I agree, and real time pitch shifting (as is done with the bat sounds in this work) is itself a non-trivial procedure where certain weigh-offs have to be made, so even pitched shifted it is not an accurate (or even easily invertible) representation that you can mentally pitch up. (this is not a problem for non-realtime pitch shifting where you would adjust the tempo accordingly).
The oil from the tar sands isn't clean, there's no great reasons for it to come from Canada (I'm Canadian too before anyone jumps on that). Sure, it's extracted under better working conditions than many places in the world, but the damage to the environment is substantial, it's a very energy intensive process and furthermore it is much worse in terms of impact and energy use than almost all other means of obtaining oil.

Alberta seems to be expecting this oil thing to keep the province going forever; it is over. Diversify, try new things, for your sake and the sake of the rest of Canada. Please stop expecting this to get better. 2015 was a warning, it's now officially ending and the time to start moving on has passed, every day not diversifying the economy of Alberta is just a day of economic procrastination.

Edit: Sure energy security, keep some for us, but let's not make it the backbone of our economy.
I have a Karabiner-Elements "Complex modification" rule that changes ^[ to an ESC keypress everywhere in the OS. I don't recall where I got it. My karabiner.json has this https://gist.github.com/philsnow/b820d96c69ccd2d4f86cb2a573a... , maybe you can figure out how to paste that in
this is the one: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
Yeah. Would you put private money into infrastructure in the US after this? I wouldn't.

That leaves just government-funded infrastructure, with all the efficiency that usually brings...
Still feels like bad faith, as there is plenty of evidence for what is causing climate change. (It isn't moon related)
> It's not something obscure about iTunes use in nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

This is not some weirdness of iTunes but is standard practice in all large software licenses. Take a look at Adobe or Microsoft licenses, they all have this clause.
The entire archive actually fits in a small desktop NAS (e.g. QNAP or Synology) with a few 14-18TB drives, you don't even need a server rack.

There is existing index in sql format distributed by libgen: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/nh5dbu/a_brief_intr..., it is around 30GB uncompressed.

Those 851 torrents uncompressed would probably take half a petabyte of storage, but I guess for serving pdfs you could extract individual files on demand from zip archive and (optionally) cache them. So the scihub "mirror" could run on a workstation or even laptop with 32-64GB memory connected to 100TB NAS over 1GBE, serving pdfs over VPN and using unlimited traffic plan. The whole setup including workstation, NAS and drives would cost $5-7K.

it's not a very difficult project and can be done DIY style, if you exclude the proxy part (which downloads papers using donated credentials). Of course it would still be as risky as running Scihub itself which has $15M lawsuit pending against it.
Buying a car with a loan or a lease is wealth destroying. I don't care whether most people do it or not. If you are smart enough to be reading Hacker News you are smart enough to know that you don't borrow to purchase a depreciating asset. If you don't have the cash to buy a new car, buy used. Buy a beater if you have to. No wealthy or financially savvy person is impressed because you leased a nice car.
> You need to live there two years, not five[0].

Thank you. That wasn't clear to me. I interpreted it as you needed to have it for five years and live in it two out of those five. Makes me wonder why my father had to pay tax when he sold his house. But then this is just by memory, he doesn't have his 1040 anymore.
Thanks for answering, however I tried to search for "linear programming in CAM" and also skimmed wikipedia on CAM and linear programming and came up with nothing. Can you please point me to some resource on this?
Reddit gifts is shutting down
I only downvote cause of your comments about voting. Like the guidelines say "that shit boring".

Your other points were creative even if a little /edgy/ and could(will?) get conversation on their own.
I can hear bats normally. I have a freakishly large hearing range.
A strong desire to quit and a big support network (family, friends, recovery centers, etc). We tend to look down on addicts, when in fact, we probably should be looking to help. And the more help there is, the better chance someone will have quitting/recovery. Support also means real support, not a parent there because they have to and so they have disgust on their face, nope nope nope, that can make things worse.
add(a, b) => a + b

How would you verify that algorithm?
Yes. Erectile dysfunction drugs were common in my friend group.
> If the savings rate of one person exceed the total investment rate then another person must save less than the investment rate.

Yes, at the macro level, investment (defined as an increase in capital equipment or inventories) must equal savings in terms of national accounts, but incomes and rates as well as the foreign sector all adjust to make it so. You cannot say one controls the other. It is an equilibrium condition on a number of variables.

It's like saying that the quantity of stocks bought is the quantity of stocks sold - an equilibrium relationship -- and so whether stock volumes go up or down is completely determined by sellers -- a casual mechanism invented that satisfies the equilibrium relationship even though it is false.

So you cannot take an equilibrium result involving many variables and use that to deduce that one of the variables is independent and the other is dependent just by linguistic or emotional affinity.

Next, that type of savings/investment identity in the national accounts has nothing to do with financial borrowing/saving of the household sector nor even of "the poor" or "the 1%". What you are thinking of -- say a household takes out a mortgage to buy a house -- is a balance sheet expansion that is invisible to the national accounting and contributes nothing to savings or investment. What would contribute to savings/investment would be when the house is remodeled. So if I invest in my house by adding a better bathroom, then that will add savings to the economy as a whole. You can imagine that various inputs, for example, cement, are consumed in the course of expanding the bathroom, so the savings is the value add -- e.g. the value of the improvement net of the consumption required to make the improvement. And over the economy as a whole, if you add up all the savings (in terms of capital), you will get all the investment (when things like inventories are property treated). But this is not what the blogger means when she is complaining about "the 1%".
> Wouldn't clients then only become aware that they need to replace their certs after they've been revoked?

A certificate that is going to be revoked is as good as revoked. There is no "almost untrusted, but not quite yet" gray area (unless you're talking about expiration dates, which some browsers allow leniency on; but we're talking about revocation, where we know there was a problem or misissuance, whereas expiration is mainly a passive safeguard against indefinite trust).

So, once a client sees a "Revoked" OCSP status, it can replace the certificate immediately, before the previous, valid OCSP response expires.
Put that way it doesn't sound much like a typical French thing or a hissy fit, but the sort of thing politicians everywhere do. It's dumb and petty and will probably backfire somehow, but there we go.
Can you provide more details on what the "fantastic support system" consists of?
If there is no 2FA, not being asked for a confirmation code is things going as normal. Also, it's totally irrelevant whether the user gets cold feet since in the password-only world they've just handed away the keys to the kingdom.
Sci-hub is such a great example of a clear and compelling use-case for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is censorship-resistant money that doesn't rely on countries, laws, central bankers or politicians. The US dollar cannot be used for purposes not aligned with the US government. Sometimes ideas that the US Government doesn't agree with can be useful (e.g. Wikileaks, Sci-hub.)

When I hear complaints that Bitcoin has no use except for speculation, I think of Sci-hub, Wikileaks and other organizations that may be bad for the interests of the US government but may be good for mankind.
You may want to check this beautiful (yet expensive) beast ;-)

https://remarkable.com/
Isn't the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion still going ahead?

Didn't the Canadian federal government actually buy the pipeline company, and offer to indemnified any investor for any delays caused by other governments?
This article is linked in the main article which talks about the rising rental rates. Invitation homes talked about in the article is owned by Blackrock.

https://archive.is/JgQwb

That is incredible that your rental prices have remained roughly the same over the last 5 years. Invitation homes is also in my area (PNW) and yes, checking their website, their rates are in line with other rates in the area... except... these are rates which have grown 10% YOY for the past 8 years. It's the same story for the cost of homes. I sold my home this year for 50% more than what I paid for it exactly 4 years ago. Rent for homes in that neighborhood (identical homes) went from 1700 to 2700 (60%) in that same timeframe.

If anything, hopefully we can realize that we live in drastically different housing markets and that affects our opinions on the subject.
Summary of the article: Republicans bad, Democrats good.

It's a shame that partisanship makes it impossible to notice certain issues. The article completely ignores the erosion of journalistic standards, censorship on social media, "woke" takeover of academia and demonization of white males.

It's not a surprise that the situation keeps getting worse.
See https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Losing and in particular the comic linked from there, https://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/4/40/FunComic.png
PyCharm 2021.2 EAP Has Started – The PyCharm Blog
Yes, that's correct.

An intuitive way to think about this is that Sharpe depends on the specific horizon you're using. E.g. annualized Sharpe will be sqrt(252) larger than daily Sharpe. It would not make sense to change the Kelly criterion based on a substitution of variables. In contrast variance, like returns, scales linearly with time horizon. Therefore the variance ratio is invariant to the time horizon.
Were you at the Bitcoin 2021 Conference? I saw many people acting shady, looking over people’s shoulders as they were using Coinbase, other wallets. Do you think there’s any way this might be related? (Obviously moot if you weren’t there...)
You can actually run unsigned code on a retail Xbox One console officially. There are ports of RetroArch to it and all.

I suspect this permissiveness was a major reason it was never hacked throughout its full 8 year lifespan - homebrewers didn't need to enable piracy to do what they wanted.
I always thought they're slow because of JavaScript, but not because of crappy code!

That actually explains a lot.

It would be interesting to know if they lose a lot of users because of slowness, but since it hasn't been fixed, I guess they don't?
> Or maybe Obama, Trump, and Biden had different ideas about what "better for the USA" meant that led to them making reasonably rational but different decisions?

Yes, that's basically what politics is about in a nutshell, making different tradeoffs based on values. I'm not sure any of them actually had a sufficiently detailed analysis or model to justify having any certainty in their decision.

> But I'm not sure your assumption that all three of those presidents have a worse understanding of this issue than you do is justified.

Don't get me wrong, I don't understand the issue either. I'm just honest about that fact and merely espoused why it's a complicated dilemma. This is all unintentional consequences and it's not clear which was the best call for the environment, the countries involved, or the world at large.

I would have liked to see an in-depth study of the tradeoffs and a rational decision based on that rather than a political decision, which seems to be what we got all three times.
Greening the Blockchain: How DeFi Could Reverse Global Warming
Imagine waking up on a crisp, cool morning in early September 2038 and checking the news. You see a headline that world temperatures have fallen by half a degree Celsius in the past six months, meeting the final goal of the Paris Climate Accords. Then you check your online wallet. The balance is several zeroes bigger than the previous night — all because you made the choice to invest in the planet years before.

The proposed financial instrument is a smart climate bond, whose yield and maturity would be tied to prevailing global temperatures.This new form of capital could fund anything from community block grants to getting electric vehicles on the road sooner and more affordably.

Climate-based smart contracts are already used for crop insurance. Rainfall datasets from NOAA and other sources allow insurers to automatically settle claims for farmers, via Chainlink’s decentralized oracle technology.

What is a decentralized oracle? To connect an Ethereum or other smart contract to real-world data you need another layer. This is known as an oracle, sometimes called the “God Protocol.” The first oracles relied on a single data source and were vulnerable to attack. Next generation oracle systems rely on multiple data sources and reputational scoring, as well as hardware-based controls, to ensure data integrity.

Smart climate bonds create economic incentives tied to real-time scientific data, on a macro or a micro scale. Anyone, anywhere, can set up a smart climate bond: private parties, the national government, or city and state governments. Climate bonds simply use the mechanism of the blockchain to verify contract conditions and execute payment. Coin-based and NFT green finance solutions are also possible.

Crypto exchanges could use a portion of transaction fees to fund climate bonds. This would do a lot to rehabilitate their image. The more actors buy into climate-based smart contracts, the greater the potential for success.
Are you proposing that governments should be unable to revoke permits? Because that's really the only way to prevent permits being revoked after a company has spent billions of dollars.

I think the more pragmatic answer to these companies is "don't invest billions of dollars in controversial projects that can be undone if your permits are revoked"
You mean amphetamines, not stimulants in general. I've seen people do much worse when they mix this shit with alcohol, the worst offender that is still perfectly legal
Down voting is supposed to be used to indicate a comment has no relevance to the conversation. Conversely, each of your statements must be part of the conversation.

[ upvoted ]

( instantly downvoted )

This site's guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Impressive for its length, implicit hostility to anyone reading the FAQ, and incredible chutzpah. An example that characterizes the entire document:

> Unfortunately, “GNU/Linux” is five syllables. People won't use such a long term. Shouldn't you find a shorter one?

> Actually, “GNU/Linux” is only four syllables. “Unfortunately” is five syllables, yet people show no sign of reluctance to use that word.

Another particularly bad faith example:

> There's nothing wrong in calling the system “GNU”; basically, that's what it is. It is nice to give Linus Torvalds a share of the credit as well, but you have no obligation to pay for the privilege of doing so.

> So if you want to refer to the system simply as “GNU”, to avoid paying the fee for calling it “Linux”, we won't criticize you.

It's not okay to leave out GNU but I guess it's okay to not credit Linux??? Just blatant hypocrisy.

Does the GNU org think publishing a FAQ like this is acceptable? If so - why?
I upvoted you because you were pushed down to grey and I don't think that's fair to do on a comment like this without a reply.

Your second sentence comes across as a bit conspiratorial, but one of the first "features" added with the release of new reddit UI was javascript click and mouse motion tracking, which was not clearly communicated to the userbase and defaulted to on even if you had previously disabled tracking, because this was "new tracking" and you'd disabled the old kind. I don't think it's unreasonable to distrust their app and frankly, it's terrible compared to the 3rd party alternatives anyway.
>A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.

-Wikipedia

It gets defined to death every time we have this discussion. Apple has a de-facto monopoly on the app store no matter if their phones have 1% or 100% of the market share of phones. This isn't about market share but if they abuse their position/control on the app store.

Is Apple the "only supplier of a particular commodity" on the app store?
A response/followup regarding Varnish software's error message to "What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages" https://onlineornot.com/what-fastly-outage-can-teach-about-w...

as noted here by user phkamp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27446785
I don’t understand, you think that switching to French will expose us to each single European country culture?
A few years back, frustrated with increasaed DNS blocking of Sci-Hub, I wrote a quick DNSMasq hack (haq?) to return Sci-Hub IPs for any "sci-hub.<domain>" possible. The shins-n-grits factor of surfing "scihub.elsevier.com" were palpable.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/7m3uin/meta_if_you...

As others have mentioned, Sci-Hub also maintains a Tor presence, and you can access the Onion link using the Tor browser (provided you can install that on your desktop or device).

https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion
> I personally wish it weren't permitted in the first place, but revoking the permit afterwards is the worst possible outcome.

Why?

It was obvious from the start of the planning that this project was at risk from political intervention given the continuous protests and the general political landscape (being blocked by Obama and then unblocked by Trump, with Democrats calling for the reversal of the decision).

It was obvious that long-term political trends are leading towards ecological conservation, that international treaties limit CO2 emissions and that oil consumption will only go downwards given the rise of viable electric car models.

The companies behind Keystone XL accepted this risk, and if they now go bankrupt or face massive losses as a result of not accounting for obvious risks, I don't shed any tears for them. They were aware, never forget that.
Yeah, when working with ascii, I just use `Vec<u8>`/`&[u8]`. There's also the `ascii` crate which encodes ascii into the type system (enums), but I find it easier to work with raw bytes. The equivalent code in Rust would be:

let mut bytes = c.as_bytes();
bytes[0].make_ascii_uppercase();
> RMS and his ilk developed these licenses pretty much because they wanted free shit out there with no stipulations.

Copyleft, having to release code diffs, is a stipulation / restriction.

MIT/BSD is the one without any stipulations / restrictions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

Depending on one's goals one may be better than the other.
I'm prepared to accept "does generate no revenue" but "can generate no revenue" ...?

Perhaps some sort of MTurk or captcha-like tasks per access? Patr[e]ons? Donation drives? Micro-payments? Something else??
I remember Sun working on wireless interconnects, but I think it was horizontal, inter-package
It seems unfair and unnecessarily hostile to speculate about a subset of people you just addressed ("Maybe people don't like nuance and prefer to see the world in black and white") when the only thing you know about them is that they disagreed with you for some reason. It is of course natural to be annoyed by downvotes, but the urge to start painting yourself as a victim and the anonymous mass as unthinking tends to create a really bad atmosphere for discussion.

Now, if you wanted to criticize the downvote mechanism in general, maybe it would be considered off topic by HN rules, but it certainly wouldn't be unreasonable.

Edit: Also, perhaps some of your downvotes are due to your commenting on your own downvotes. Personally, I always downvote those kinds of comments (including the self-fulfilling-prophecy version: "I'll be downvoted/flagged for this, but..."), even if I find the rest of the post interesting, or completely agree with them. But I have no idea if other people do that.
There are already torrents of the archives. But supposing scihub was taken down it's pretty non trivial to get from the archive back to a working site with search functionality. For one thing, none of Sci-Hub's code is available.
Cool, so does that mean that Sony/MSFT/Nintendo should be sued for anti-monopoly here too, given that they take over 15% for game-related transactions?

Because my question was less about "how things should ideally be", and more about "how much legal scrutiny can this legal case withstand".
Am I missing something? It doesn’t seem counterintuitive to me that repeatedly making an all-or-nothing bet with a non-zero chance of losing will eventually cause my expected value of capital to go to zero.

I like the presentation style though, and the allusion to Shannon’s theorem although I didn’t quite grasp the connection.
Trusting a proprietary app for your lights was a shitty idea.