skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a great analysis, but I think there is one more aspect which needs to be considered. The decision should not be purely individual, since there is a tragedy of the commons aspect. To any individual, the risks of Covid are relatively low, and the long term risks of the vaccine are hard to know, so personally choosing not to get the vaccine seems reasonable. Yet if every individual makes that same calculation, we won’t reach herd immunity, and the risk to everyone will go up as a consequence. This is one of those situations were each individual making the best choice for themselves doesn’t result in the best result for everyone.
https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

Yes, but it enables many tools to cooperate on highlighting/"understanding" synntax.
> all around the world including Russia political leaders of authoritarian countries trying to sell bullshit like every single problem their regime has is caused by some US conspiracy.

This "bullshit" has a Pentagon-sized kernel of truth to it.

Washington is the only regime with hundreds of foreign military bases.

Washington is the only regime that directly funnels hundreds of millions of dollars in resources to foreign rebel groups through channels such as NED, DRL.

Washington is the only regime capable of unilaterally blockading entire economies through crushing sanctions.

So yes, it does really matter to 90%+ of the world population if the "journalists" they trust are actually paid couriers of Washington's foreign agendas.
They could stop taking your calls, but that's better than being thrown in jail or having your home confiscated for not paying taxes. And also, those who have an issue with corruption in their local police department could choose to not pay taxes that support the cops and instead hire a private security firm, or form a local gun group.
Manna for the droning narcissist: a phone with a flying selfie camera
Including both PHP 7.1 and 8.0 code in the same plugin or not?
Your definition of IP is very limited.

Suppose I took the 1password code, made a modification to save unencrypted account information for me to later sell, and published it under the name "1password"?---trademarks are a form of IP.

Suppose I invent a new way of doing something very valuable. If I keep my invention secret, everybody is happy until I get run over by a bus, at which point that secret is lost. If I do not keep my invention secret, anyone is free to copy it, undercut my prices, and drive me out of business---patents are a form of IP.

The one form of IP you seem to be thinking about is copyright. It's somewhat true that it didn't stop writers from writing, but a surprising proportion of the famous ones (and a large chunk of the non-famous ones) died broke. Fortunately, the number of brilliant works that were not created simply because the theoretical creator had to spend all their time acquiring food is not knowable.

Further, "the prize is in the execution", but it may not pay to develop the skill for the execution. For example, any "big budget" movie requires what is effectively a tremendous capital investment which would be hard to recoup without copyright.

Also, and possibly unrelated, you seem to be making the mistake of assuming "content" is an undifferentiated mass: "why would I [pirate music] when I have access everywhere to a huge catalog for $10 a month from Spotify". Because Spotify doesn't carry the music you want?
> I assure you, I know this stuff

Where did you go to law school, exactly?

Copyright infringement is not tort. Copyright infringement is a creature of federal law, not common law like tort is. And copyright owners can claim statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work in lieu of actual damages at their election. See 17 U.S. 504(c).

And fair use is a defense to a prima facie copyright infringement claim.
Two states, four missing kayakers: Rescued by drones in 5 mins
It seems like the risk is somewhat exaggerated because even when people get bad autocomplete results, they mostly won’t use them.
Miami orders evacuation of 156-unit as structurally and electrically unsafe
You mentioned this twice. "Contributed to real death." What do you mean specifically? Don't just use it as a scare quote.

It's not a good enough justification anyway.
The worst are large townhouse complexes without a central mail station. You double-park your van, and may need to walk for several minutes, through identical-looking units, perhaps juggling 3 or 4 boxes on your trek. Hopefully it's not raining.
Didn't know it takes Project Director to give that advice.

I always thought it is rather common sense, borne from experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule
Because not every video has full context and not every use of force is unjustified?
So the way to self-soothe is with self-talk? Are there any other ways?
Wow. To think of it, nothing in this HN thread, including your link, is truly new and unexpected, but in this context it felt somehow more dystopian than ever. Talking about machines pretending to be humans doing stupid stuff, getting automated responses from machines pretending to be humans, that also are the same kind of stupid stuff... Almost feels like drowning.
Right, so they're either emitter or collector. Base would then be the single wire left over and the counterpart the big terminal bonded directly to the thin film circuit.

Beautiful bit of history, thank you very much for taking the time to do this one.
Yeah but what portion of what Assange has done is illegal? Being a liar and yellow journalist is not illegal, however unethical or even immoral.

On the one hand we have an innocuous, as in inconsequential character, Putin suck up who will probably go to prison forever. On the other hand, a consequential character, who groveled so magnificently in public, debased himself and his entire nation, continues to get accolades by 1/3 of that nation, who even think he'll be reinstalled as president come this August.

One of these things is pathetic, the other is a significant mass delusion. How can it be surprising that rank and file Republicans don't recognize Assange as a liar? They have consistently lacked or repressed the basic character assessment skills to identify and avoid empowering liars, grifters, and groveling toward dictators.

It's quite bizarre and outside the realm of politics in my view. It's some kind of macro psychological event that has more in common with behavioral economics (just how irrational are people anyway?)
An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)
edit: actually nevermind, I'm not going to take a full degree in drafting legislature just to argue that citizen rights be respected in more places, you are silly and you know you are silly

Marsh would sooner apply to social media than to email, it does not magically have to apply to both or neither.
Well I'm happy someone posted this video to Twitter to be shared because the "See how it works" link on brickit.app seems to take me to an Instagram account creation page.

Very cool, I expect I'm not alone among HN's audience in having grown up building legos and continuing that hobby as an adult. Sending this to my parents to see what happens if they point it at one of the boxes of random bits left over at home. Fortunately I can send this tweet because they do not use instagram.

Edit: I see that in the time it took me to post this comment I became the third or fourth person to have registered the same complaint. Apologies for the clutter.
Lucid was founded because Symbolics was unbelievably expensive and unbelievably arrogant. “We will always be the best so you have no choice but to pay our prices, nobody can match our performance or technology.”

They wouldn’t even let a company decommissioning a workstation give it to an employee who wanted to take it home without paying about the cost of a Macintosh in “license transfer fees” and then whoever got it had to pay “maintenance” to stay within the letter of the license.

VLM is decent but they’d have been better off retargeting 80386 and 80486 atop either Unix or Windows, rather than trying to maintain their own special fancy architecture forever.
That is a valid point but let me highlight three counter arguments: First, a large fraction of those benefits come from "overtime pay" or "other pay", and are dispersed as cash. Second, benefits typically come out of pay before taxes, so even if they aren't necessarily the best value, they are a better value than you could buy yourself. Third, most public employees in my state, as with many others, who's retirement benefits are paid into the PERS retirement system, are exempt from paying Social Security taxes.
This kind of sucks honestly, copy and pasting without understanding has lead to all sorts of issues in IT. Not to mention legal issues as mentioned by another reply.
Maybe https://bitclout.com/
You begin to see the problem with Libertarianism.
If the police stop talking my calls, what is to stop the local tax man from beating me up and taking all of my stuff as taxes? Do I still get the protection of the courts and laws?

Also: Do people who don't pay taxes, e.g. homeless, unemployed, destitute, not get the benefits of police protection?
Your relationship with your employer is entirely business. Do not stay somewhere you do not want to be simply because you feel they can't afford to lose you. As soon as it makes business sense, they will drop you.
“Normies just don't care about privacy”
Tree Style Tabs in Firefox are a killer feature to me. They allow to group and structure dependent tabs, and quickly collapse or close entire groups unrelated to the task at hand.

Also, typing % and then some text on the search bar allows to find a tab if you remember its name. But I use an extension that does a similar thing but shows multiple matching tabs and allows to close duplicates right from the list.

Many tabs mean much RAM use. Auto Tab Discard is essential to make a hundred or two tabs manageable.
> Only when it was closer to the midterm elections and the confirmation process did the Democrats launch their attack

Well, but that was also when Kavanaugh became a supreme court nominee. He wasn't a nominee in the summer of 2018.

And getting nominated to the Supreme Court is what made the accuser want to go public. She didn't want to initially, which makes it hard to do anything with the information.
The owner of the Symbolics IP is an unbelievable idiot for not making sure the modern emulator is distributed far and wide, with source, so people can experiment with and enhance it. That’s the only value it holds today but they seem determined to squander it by not putting it out.
I love RSS, hope it makes a resurgence. But I don't think the only reason for the death of RSS was the discontinuation of Google Reader.

RSS can become very messy super quickly, and I think we need clients that don't look like the ones we know from 15 years ago, but ones that help users to keep their subscriptions neat and clean.
Good thing “compliance is really expensive” isn’t a valid legal defense.
Communism bad, police good, the problem is the oversight of the police and not the police. And Praise Jesus.
Signatures are only checked for consistency on updates. From a technical perspective, this was always possible for first installs. If you are concerned about Google being malicious, don't use Android. This entire discussion is just bizarre.
On shared runners. And they aren’t picking ours for some odd reason. Will file, thanks.
Yep. In elementary school I was called a computer nerd every day. Want to know who usually flung that insult? Girls. Typically ones that would say "ew, math is gross."

Now they're the ones posting the 70 cents on the dollar misinformation to their FB feed.
One small thing I prefer about neovim is that the default settings are better. For example, syntax highlighting is enabled.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/vim_diff.html#vim-differences
> This exact situation is why users don't update.

users not updating CAUSED this situation.

the actual blame lies on the attackers, of course, and users who do not take security updates make this type of attack possible.
I take the comment that something that is 99% done in time may or may not not be 99% valuable.

Example: marathon race. If you stop at 99% of the way it’s like not having run at all.

Example: washing the dishes. 99% done is pretty useful

In software dev it’s often a mix of these.

If you need to fix a bug that makes it awful to impossible to use the feature as your last 1% then your current value is 0. The good news is sunk cost aside the last 1% gives you 100-1 value compared to other tasks so definitely finish that off.

If you are doing a task that has 10 discrete stages of feature sophistication the 99% done could mean 90% delivered.

This is why you should try to chunk projects into small iterative chunks that deliver value and do them one at a time until completion. Reality sometimes gets in the way but its a good goal.
The best thing to do would have been to hold onto this information (to not affect the sacred election), and release it when it lacked any relevance whatsoever.

... Or perhaps your perspective is partisan.
We will find out when someone tries to recreate Mickey Mouse™®.
That's a really cool visualization, had never heard of nullschool before.
That's optimistic. The people who would rely heavily on this sort of thing are going to be the worst at detecting what a "bad autocomplete result" would look like. But even if you are capable of judging that you've got a good one, it still doesn't inform you of the obvious potential licensing issues with any bit of code.

Surely somebody working on this project foresaw this problem…
Thanks. That explanation makes a lot of sense. :(
Thank you. I think this discussion makes more sense if one has a basic understanding of Bayesianism – one starts with a prior probability, one then has various pieces of evidence and associated conditional probabilities than one uses to update that probability, and then one arrives at a posterior probability after updating based on those pieces of evidence. I was talking about the conditional probability for one particular piece of evidence; I was never saying anything about the prior or posterior probability. Obviously you, and others, get this, but it seems
bellyfullofbac doesn't.
Not at all. This idea that kids just spontaneously form ideas from a vacuum is obviously false. Inspiration comes from all sorts of guidance. I would have loved to know more techniques for building things when I was a kid and was stuck in the rut of similar ideas for a long time. I craved books that showed how to build things. I also created my own stuff but instruction material was gold. It took you to more exciting things than you could think of yourself.
The replication crisis in psychology has been on for a solid decade now. We need to stop treating poor statistical practice as negligence and start treating it as fraud.
This thing is pretty cool. I like that it's backwards compatible with some of the previous generation's parts which no doubt will appeal to companies already invested.

The 1,000-nit display also sounds great for working outdoors. It has modes for gloves and rainy weather, which I bet was fun to implement.

If I had one I'd probably just use it as a portable serial port, or for some outdoors or remote networking projects.

> with prices starting at €2,450 or £2,218 (ex. VAT).

Approx. $2,907.35 USD.
Do you hear yourself? “ I paste my signature into a PDF and then rasterize with gimp”

Is any normal user going to do that? Why the hell should I have to open a image editing app to sign a PDF?!

Why has no Linux PDF viewer added signatures as an option so far?

This is why I left Linux for MacOS
Now just add a feature to show me where the relevant pieces are in the pile :)
Covid-19 outbreaks: Australia is back in lockdown. What went wrong?
> Sure they can't. Data is lost.

So? Presumably you are going to continue to interact with the app.

> .. in addition to a bunch of security issues.

What security issues?

> Also makes it possible to do forced monetization, like YouTube has done.

Forced monetization is an even stupider conspiracy than NSA spying since it would require wide use rather than targeted changes. This would be plainly obvious since there are loads of people who decompile apps and the signature on the code section would be broken.
Please consider posting this as a blog post, really well put together.
Yep, a trendy restaurant in my city hired voice actors to read some of their most ridiculous bad Yelp reviews, and played the recording on loop in the bathrooms.
This article has a number of issues that jump out to me from just a cursory read.

The author admits that the NIH has a specific definition of "gain of function research" and then seems to go forward with the article using their own definition, without calling out that they're doing this. Why are they using their own definition instead of the NIH's?

The Chinese research this author cites claims that there are large reservoirs of virus's in bat populations that are currently able to cross into the human population with minimal, if any, mutation required. This makes a natural crossover event more likely compared to the lab-leak hypothesis. This point seems to escape the author entirely.

Next, this whole paragraph is a mess:

> The revelation that the WIV was working with SARS-like viruses in subpar safety conditions has led some people to reassess the chance that SARS-CoV-2 could have emerged from some type of laboratory incident. “That’s screwed up,” the Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin, who coauthored the seminal paper arguing that covid must have had a natural origin, told the journalist Donald McNeil Jr. “It shouldn’t have happened. People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs. My view has changed.”

There are multiple topics that are being jumbled up. The surrounding context has been heavily discussing genetic engineering research. Ian Lipkin's paper discussed a virus with natural origins. The linked article is discussing the possibility of a lab-leak. These are all different topics and no attempt is being made here to distinguish and collate them. The linked article doesn't make it clear on whether Lipkin changed his view on the virus being of natural origin or of possibly being leaked from a lab or even something else.

In fact, this whole article can't seem to distinguish between the hypothesis of an engineered virus escaping a lab, and a naturally occurring virus escaping the lab. The article ends by belatedly admitting that Baric believes that a natural spillover is still the most likely explanation but devotes zero space to explaining why. Instead, the author sees fit to spend the rest of the article explaining why Baric thinks WIV should be investigated further.

To many of these lab leak articles are structured distressingly like a Q-drop: "Look at all these facts that I'm going to recite in a spooky tone of voice but not bother to synthesize into a coherent hypothesis. Isn't it spooky?" It's not clear to me if it's because the author is writing high-brow clickbait, is unable to recognize these flaws, or is deliberately trying to sling conspiracies. The lab leak hypothesis should be investigated, but not like this.
I grew up reading conspiracy theories, then met powerful people and realized (20 years ago) that conspiracy theories were implausible.

Then I worked with the IC and heard what intelligence agents said. Maybe they lied. Maybe they’re crazy. But combined with what happened in the last 18 months, and their statements, there is an acutely centralizer corrupt power which has ever bigger rings of corruption.

Which is normalized as it goes. Everyone does it! Politics as normal. Modern Neoliberalism and government revolving door.
I think you have a massive free-rider problem with your proposal though. The Noun Project requires that you pay them or put attributions on the work. They would not be able to do this without IP protections, so most companies would use the free version. Not only that, but other companies would take their icons and use them to build their own catalogues. This would leave no one to pay for the creation of the icons.

> I don't see how trying to create an artificial barrier around something is sustainable

A world where no one can be paid to create work is not sustainable. IP is the backbone that makes all of this possible, due to the free rider problem.

> photographing on a commission from a client that needs a new photo of something

This does happen, but then the client gets exclusive rights to the photos they paid for. But under your world, this is impossible. Their competitors can just take the material without paying for it. This applies not just to photography of course, but to everything they create.
US Air Force to develop F-16 ‘digital twin’
If you watch the video, it shows exactly that at the end (albeit quickly).
A global pandemic, heat domes, towns in Canada blowing up in smoke, persistent wildfires in Yakutia (where temperatures can drop to −70C (−94F) in the winter)... it all seems to belong in a mediocre, over-the-top disaster movie... and yet, it's our reality.
The first commercially scalable integrated laser and microcomb on a single chip
There are two schools of thought. There are those that think Assange is a hero or a martyr to a surveillance state and those that think little if anything about him.

I've said this before: Assange dabbled in espionage without a Nation-State backer and is experiencing the repercussions of that gamble. Right or wrong the realpolitik is what Assange is living now.
TL;DR:

> “Our goal is to create a full scale 3D model of the aircraft, with the exception of the engine,” said 1st Lt. Connor Crandall, Digital Twin Program Manager within the F-16 Program Office. “The data will be used to help address future parts obsolescence, and mitigate supply chain risks because we won’t have to rely on legacy manufacturing sources and processes. We’ll have the 3D models, and designs that we can send to the manufacturers we choose.”
None of us can solve it alone.

First we need good tech, like Mastodon.

Then we need to move our own digital "lives" onto those better platforms, and start encouraging our friends to join us.

For my part, I'm working on a new social app where everything is E2E encrypted [1], so you don't have to trust the server. The main use case is to let parents share photos of their kids in a safer way. I'm hoping this will be a big draw for people who have currently checked out of the creepy ad-tracking platforms.

[1] https://github.com/KombuchaPrivacy/circles-ios
It's not that they "might hear" it's that people in mass already believe in made up propaganda about coronavirus vaccines. The natural result being individuals at risk not getting them, and individuals not as at risk not getting them, resulting in more death and longer lockdowns.
Based on a sibling comment's data, the only state that comes close to that level is California. I think this is reflective more of the messed up economics of the state than anything else. If this guess is incorrect please let me know which state so I can update my model.

There's no denying being a senior cop is a good gig, but probably the gig of an average cop is a little more mundane. In many municipalities the highest paid public sector employee is a cop, but only a very small number of cops reach this status.
I think that was in essence what Citizens United was about?
Automatically Labeling MiniDisc Tracks
For the life of me I don’t understand what your saying. Is this an inside joke I’m not getting?
I just started using a PC I built in 2014 again, also with a Haswell processor. Like you say, still pretty snappy.

But honestly I was a bit sad it hadn't become hopelessly obsolete.