skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happy to be corrected here, but what I understand is that what we call Intellectual Property (other than trademarks, and focusing mostly in copywriteable material) is a fleeting concept that arose between the time humans invented the printing press and the time we invented digital media where the incremental cost of copying is zero. During that time, IP mainly helped distributors make money by monopolizing physical manifestation and delivery of the IP, by running a printing press or record label or whatever.

Before that, there was no distribution of e.g. music, and bands profited from live performances, much as they still do. The work to copy a manuscript set the value of books. It didn't stop writers from writing.

I believe we're done with that period, and should accept it and go back to the historical standard that ideas have limited value (sorry) and the prize is in the execution.

We are seeing this already I believe, with obvious things like Netflix and spotify, which are about accessibly and selection, and do not derive consumer value from the IP itself (evidence: it's easy to pirate music, why would I when I have access everywhere to a huge catalog for $10 a month from Spotify).

Same with "good" cloud business models. Simple example, password managers like 1password give you access to passwords etc. everywhere, and manage security. That is how they produce value, the source code of their apps is valueless and in any event could be substituted with open source. This is in contrast with some software vendors that literally want to charge a subscription just to execute their code. I don't see that as a sustainable business model, because it wrongly assumes that the code itself has any value as property. I believe this is borne out by the way the market is heading, and by what already is open source vs what types of things people will pay for.

So even if it's not mainstream, I'm happy to see anyone rethinking intellectual property.
You're upset that wikileaks didn't report on a leak that was known for 2 years by major western media organizations, and was later forwarded to them? Despite their longstanding policy to not report on leaks that have already been reported on elsewhere?
> But all taxes should be voluntary because the government doesn't own you or your property.

Yeah, it doesn't own it: the relationship is more fundamental than that. Government (and its primitive antecedents) is the system that enables you to own property in the first place, and taxes (or their equivalents) are the price of admission to that system.

I wouldn't mind making taxes voluntary if it also meant surrendering property and other rights (though of course to be just that surrender could only happen after a formal renunciation of the obligation, not just a failure to pay). So you could choose to not pay taxes, but then all your property would become legally abandoned and you'd lose the protection of the law.
Furthermore, most meat eaters additionally eat plants too, and the animals they eat also usually are eating industrially farmed plants, which really makes the crop deaths argument silly.
have kids! your questions about life will differ and emerge to heights and lows you could not imagine without (them). full-circle.

hint: time is an asset. asking questions (on hn) costs you: time
I think mostly journals like this claim to be "reputable" based on their impact factor rather than based on any particular claims to accuracy or quality of published research.
Not to say that that wouldn't be pretty cool, but we also have Discovery Park and it's only like a couple of miles away from Seattle Center. It's a legitimate Cascadian forest.
Probably not twitter, any remotely popular link shows 'sorry we can't show this, maybe try reloading' for users without an account, unless they're very persistent.

Meta: this had gotten much better in late January, but is back to where it was again.
That's too bad. I see why you're angry. Good luck!

FTA btw "Essentially you have the option of two different kinds of certificates and three different price levels, depending on your urgency and user sensitivity."

Maybe you need to change something about your application.
It's funny because when I read something like this (and your pretty harsh replies) I feel attacked! I mean, there are a lot of reasons you might say this including but not limited to: you weren't alive (or were too young) in the 70s/80s, you were in a country that had a different culture, you grew up in your own bubble.

And maybe, just maybe, my memory is bad. But I really feel almost gaslit. Like where someone is telling me my lived experience wasn't my lived experience. I remember IBM as one of the most recognizable brands of the time. I recall in social studies class a teacher talking about how IBM sold calculating devices to Nazi Germany during the war. I remember another class where we discussed IBMs infamous "THINK" posters, which we discussed in relation to propaganda and subliminal messaging. I remember that THINK poster showing up as a gag in the early Simpsons TV show. When Apple made the famous super bowl commercial where the athlete throws a sledge-hammer at the George Orwell-esque Big Brother screen, every news outlet was going on-and-on about how it was a direct attack on IBM and the stodgy perception that PCs were only for business. And of course the whole Deep Blue chess match. Heck, even the Jeopardy Watson thing had IBM branding all over it. In all of those cases IBM had a cultural currency that anchored the discussion.

I would honestly be completely and genuinely surprised to find any people in my age group born and raised in North America wouldn't immediately recognize the IBM brand.

When I think of niche tech brands from that time I believe Oracle and Cisco fit that "you only know if you know" kind of niche. But IBM? It actually feels so completely unbelievable to me that it can't be true. But hey, maybe you're right and I'm wrong?
If they're taking public money of course they should be accountable to the public.
Also he testified to one thing, waited for the case to be closed, then said something else to the media. His media statements could easily be self serving (I have no idea what his motivations are) as they are not under oath they have no bearing on the case. The case which was already adjudicated in Assange's favor. It's entirely moot.
https://archive.is/sffuO
> But just because something is inconvenient doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And these options mean you can put your child where they will excel.

Exactly. If I don't want to live or visit somewhere where I might encounter certain police officers or departments, I have the option of making that happen. And that option means my kid won't be on the wrong side of those particular people or departments abusing their power.

Sites like the OP give people that option.
You mean event triggers[1] right?

For the problem mentioned in the blog post — protecting roles — it's not possible to use event triggers because PostgreSQL doesn't fire[2] a DDL event for `CREATE/ALTER/DROP ROLE`.

If an event for role modification was added, then maybe the same could be accomplished with event triggers(perhaps in pure SQL). Though hooks will always be more strict, since you can enforce conditions by preloading the extension in C code, without custom SQL. Also, hooks can enforce a condition even in presence of superusers[3], something that event triggers can't because a superuser can drop them.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createeventtrigg...

[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/event-trigger-matrix... (full list of events fired)

[3]: https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/hooks-in-postgres-super-sup... (example hook that does this)
I'm not an attorney. If this has become a question of legal interpretation I'll have to excuse myself.

I would be very surprised if IP law was the only possible legal wall in such a bad faith action as the one you're referring to but I'm completely unqualified to argue any actual legal nuance. Sorry.

What I really want is easier access to historical primary source research material without having to drive an hour and spend all day combining through microfiche. It feels stupid having to still do that in the 2020s. These should have been fed through a digitizer 20 years ago, it'd take like a weekend. It's not hard. The IP boogeyman is the only thing holding this up.

Heck, sometimes, say with various local LA city paper, there's often only 2 existent copies, one in Downey or Lapl central and one in Sacramento. When I get that role I literally have half the world's copies in my hand. I mean really, what the hell is that? Disk space is effectively free. Let's get on this.

I wish you luck on your book
Distributing binaries to third parties is enough to trigger a license violation. For internal corporate tools, it would be less of an issue as "distribution" hasn't happened.
The issue is that the "How it Works" link points to a saved Instagram STORY, which requires viewers to be logged in.

If it was a regular Instagram post of a video, people could view it without logging in (just tested in an Incognito window).

But yeah, probably better to self-host, or at least put it on YouTube.
Not a 100% technically correct answer most likely but first look suggests they hook into the statement preprocessing pipeline. In the example, they’re hooking into the ALTER ROLE statement and deny execution if the role is a protected one. I don’t think this can be done with triggers without creating triggers on system tables and knowing the exact places where postgres would try to make changes. This seems to be an ott solution and probably a pretty bulletproof one.

Very timely article, I wonder if this works with yugabyte...
> perhaps free speech should fall back to what it used to be, you can say anything except illegal forms, and then platforms can remove only those illegal forms

Free speech has literally never been that.
The point is that jacks are software configurable on most computers. So a speaker jack is a setting change away from being a microphone jack.
> Despite reading your articles, I still don't think $100/hr is a reasonable approximation of an average cop's hourly rate

I’ve personally never said that police make more than $100 per hour, in fact I specifically said that despite not knowing what the hourly wage works out to, I don’t think that $100 would be a significant amount of money to most cops.

If your premise is “you can bribe anyone as long as the dollar amount is higher than the wages from one hour of work,” then I suppose it’s impossible to discuss in good faith.

My premise is “$100 isn’t usually enough to bribe people that make high five figures or more.” I’m not entirely sure why hourly wage is supposed to fit in here.
Have you looked at https://www.condocommunities.com, they offer most of the features you've listed and have different packages depending on the needs of the HOA. I'm not affiliated with them just sharing my experience; my HOA started using the service recently and it's very easy to keep up to date with events in my building.
Came for the burninator was not disappointed
Yes, it shares an unrelated property with the flu. "At some time" is not like "every year".
I’m suggesting that it’s silly to use frivolous cases are evidence of that. Under that rationale you could say that almost every law is not as simple as what it was meant to do.

If I get mad at my neighbor and falsely accuse him of stealing my car, that is not evidence that laws prohibiting theft are “about more than just stealing things”. The law means what it means regardless of others untested and wacky claims about it.
If you want to know the actual conditions, there is a recent article from a much better source

Bloomberg: The Last–And Only–Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out

She is an Australian virologist, now working in Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, previously scientific director of the biosafety lab at Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School in 2016.

Archive link:

https://archive.is/IFDZY
Unfortunately analogies to The Matrix abound in the US these days. Most people get their information from 6 mainstream media corporations that were left(down from 50) after the 1996 Telecommunications Act eliminated restrictions on monopolies in media. That's 6 billionaires determining what everyone gets as news. So yeah, welcome to the matrix: red pill or blue?
The statement was specifically that C had encapsulation, within the context of a discussion about whether OOP should be defined as "encapsulation, abstraction, polymorphism, and inheritance."

You interpreted that as meaning memory isolation for some reason (even though plenty of clearly-OOP languages do not implement that), and when someone asked you how that definition of encapsulation squared with the fact that C++ is generally considered object-oriented, you said you didn't want to have that conversation.

It's not hard to follow and it didn't trip anyone up; you just changed the subject out of nowhere and for no discernible reason by injecting a contextually-inappropriate definition of "encapsulation."
Link the case please.
Climate change is technical problem. Carbon sequestering coal plants can remove all carbon from the atmosphere. World hunger is undoubtedly not a technical problem though.
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"Online survey among 1,200 registered voters nationwide conducted April 15 – 18, 2021. Respondents were selected randomly from optin panel participants. Sampling controls were used to ensure that a proportional and representative number of respondents were
interviewed from such demographic groups as age, gender, race, and geographic region.
Gender breakdown: 48% men – 52% women
±2.83% overall margin of error at the 95% confidence interval for overall survey. M.O.E.s for subgroups are larger."

You can find other polls that find the same results:

People agree that climate change is an issue. Most of them are willing to pay taxes to do something about it. They're just not willing to pay very much.

You'll get a budget of maybe $10 a month per taxpayer if you want majority approval.
DDoS, systematic spam, et al. End up preventing those aspects.

And most ISPs don't "allow" home hosting on personal plans, so you have to pay extra, hosting on any other platform once again subjects you to extra rules to restrict your speech, etc etc. for something that is the right of every citizen, and needs to be in the reach of every citizen. This is not a good approach IMO
TAMs you get with the higher support plans can be of some help in situations like these.
This is very impressive given that reliably recognizing a particular brick with custom built optics and near ideal lighting is hard enough. Props to whoever built this, I very much appreciate how much hard work this must have been, especially labeling the data.

Do you have any figures on the error rates?
It’s certainly not punitive but I can imagine at some point an administrator will notice a $9,000 / month expense and wonder if they should be posting prices.
He sold zero IBM System Z mainframes to AWS.

He let thousands of IBM point of sale systems to be replaced with crap that can't buffer keystrokes - instead of modernizing the SDKs for those who know Linux and not AIX.

He bought RedHat, but not Digital Ocean so they had a cloud consumers trust.

He didn't win a serious contract with Facebook for kernel tuning. He didn't win a serious contract with AWS for AWS Linux 3.

He let COBOL and APL continue to die instead of funding modern tooling.
World hunger is rapidly being solved by exactly technical means. So is climate change. How do you think these issues are solved?
Doesn't copper interact badly with silicon?
And to be fair that is very much _not_ the entire point of the article.

"Essentially you have the option of two different kinds of certificates and three different price levels, depending on your urgency and user sensitivity."
I suppose you’re referring to the AI Twitter bot that initially was very lovely and within a day 4chan had turned into a nazi. That was both very naive and hilarious.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/...

The big difference in this case, however, is that this AI was constantly learning based on user input, however, which I do not think is the case for Copilot.
I was really looking forward to a Google amusement park though.

Would be neat to have attractions like Google Drive Bumper Cars.
Why is the Virtual DOM necessary?
They store passwords client-side among other gems. Completely amateur.

[1]: https://twitter.com/adgodev/
I think munificent gives a good justification for IP here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27716935

> I do not derive consumer value from the IP itself (evidence: it's easy to pirate music, why would I when I have access everywhere to a huge catalog for $10 a month from Netflix)

It's imperfect and in need of reform, but IP exists to ensure that some of that $10 gets funneled back to the people who created that work. I'm a photographer, and people steal photographs and use them for profit constantly. IP enables me to force them to pay me for creating that work. Yes distributing a JPEG has essentially zero marginal cost, but producing it required me to wake up at 3 AM and hike off into the woods. Aside from my time, I had costs like acquiring equipment and gas to drive out there. I don't work with models, but if I did, they would deserve to be paid for their labor as well.
Absolutely. This is the single most counterproductive move by tech companies in response to misinformation, in my opinion.
I... already did? but here it is again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
We talk about an industry were people receive money for just being themself. At the core of this "profession" the content is the product and procuct is the content. There is no way to distinguish this.

> Understanding the motivations behind media creation is critical for navigating biases.

No, it is for this completly irrelevant, because there is no straight path how influencer, creator and the whole industry evolved. People come with all kind of motivation and grow into all kind of paths and motiations. There is no "single truth" here, but a dozen different that just happen to lead all to the same result.
You can forget about the 'amost', it is intentional and has been for many years. The time that you could build a model perfectly from the bricks you already had is long gone.
$100/hr works out to about $200k/yr, maybe a little more or less depending on how much vacation you get and assuming no overtime (for convenience despite the sibling comment). Based on your data, the represents about the top percentile of police sergeant pay (not including benefits). Actually in the most recent available year only 1 out of 250 passes this threshold, with the median at around ~$85k. Unless this website is just a tool for police to hide how much they earn too?

It's a good amount of money for a blue collar job, but I think you're overselling it, especially for HN.
The money residents spend on living costs is spent and circulates within the local economy, it doesn't go to the government (excepting sales tax, maybe.) How would a government fund infrastructure and services with that?
I wasn't really referring to their reaction to covid, rather their creation of covid.

Leaving aside the Lab origin theories, Covid 19 never would have happened if China had hygienic food supply-chains and banned wet markets.

That's where other zoonotic diseases have come from in recent years from China (SARS is the biggest example). They closed the markets, new viruses stopped happening and everything was fine. Then they opened the markets again and we got covid 19.

China is like a drink driver who already hit someone and refused to stop drunk driving and hit another person. Right now no one wants to make them stop driving. So I guess we'll just keep getting pandemics?

Covid 19 is really just SARS 2.0.

That's what really gets me here (sorry, I'm ranting now). China knew this would happen. Everyone did. And they did it anyway. And now everyone is pretending like it was bad luck or something!? This is literally why every other major, industrial country has food hygiene laws and minimal "Bush meat".

Thanks for listening to me shout into the wind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

Edit: I wonder if one of the reasons china is so unwilling to engage is to encourage people to think it was a bio-weapon accident (we'll never stop that happening) rather than just "the CCP is too weak and lazy to say no to old people who want bat soup". Conspiracy within the conspiracy! But I'm an idiot so probably not...
Likely upper middle class folks who can afford this will end up all make the same decisions, but those common genes they'll pick will leave their offsprings more likely to die from some unforeseen disease and get wiped out, after which those practices will tend to be better regulated. The normal course of society eh.
I'll hazard a guess that most trademark cases are like this. People straight up infringing would likely be out of your jurisdiction. Meaning that most cases probably aren't about intentional fraud. Similar to patent cases.
>Instead, along the same lines as right to repair, such products should be required to release the firmware source code.

Releasing the source code doesn't necessarily mean that people would be legally permitted to modify or even utilize that source code.
"good cheese is one of life's pleasures"

Unfortunately animals are usually harmed for this pleasure.
We can disagree and still have a discussion.

Yes, that is where I am coming from. In both situations the incentives are the same. Do the hard work to improve and get more or do the bare minimum and get what is required by threat of force.
First of all - thanks for thinking about this critically and choosing to reduce your meat consumption.

Humans evolve and we create new technology that allows us to live better than we did in the past. We have reached a point where a lot of humans on this planet don't need to kill (or pay others to kill) to survive anymore. It's mostly about taste and pleasure - not survival.

Ethan Brown - founder of Beyond Meat - created his company because he knew you can't change culture overnight. But if you offer something that is like meat or better and cheaper then people would switch.

If you live in nature and you need to hunt or raise animals to survive - sure you got to do what you need to survive. But a lot of us are not living under those conditions anymore.

Factory farming is causing a lot of destruction and we need to find more sustainable ways to feed the world.
That's like saying it's not the painter generating any Art, the gallery curating the art through their lens of critical artistic appreciation is the Art.
Water under the bridge or not, they don't want people doing it again or supporting Russia. It could be as much as a message to the next potential Assange - don't even try. If you believe he's an enemy of your interests and working with your enemy to hurt you, I have a hard time seeing a calculation they would make that says leave him alone since what's done is done. They are going to make his life miserable forever and hope it's a deterrent. That's the realpolitik of the situation - morals ignored.