skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not opposed to this to some degree. For example, software patents are ludicrous and IMO hard to intellectually honestly defend. Copyrights are great but need to be drastically shortened (life+70 is an abomination).

But trademarks have some customer-friendly properties: if I buy a soda with Coke's trademark design on it, I can be reasonably sure I'm buying an actual Coke product. OTOH, we also have the IOC suing people for using "Olympic" in the name of non-related businesses (eg https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150221/14095930099/olymp...), which should be a "too bad so sad" ruling for the defendant against anyone who names their organization after a physical location.

As an aside, I strongly believe that entities should have to pay taxes on their intellectual properties. It's at least imaginable that you could defend your real estate without the government's assistance, even if that means hiring armed people to enforce the borders you're claiming. It's impossible to enforce IP without the government's assistance, and I think it's utterly unreasonable to expect that government to lift a finger to help protect it without paying taxes on it. I ran this by Cory Doctorow and he patiently explained why this isn't possible, but I still contend that even if it can't be, it ought to be.
For anyone else who couldn't find the changelog, it's in the commit message:) https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a094...
Experiencing the Aftermath Will Make You Tougher, Wiser, and Ready for Anything
When people talk about climate change they mostly focus on rising mean temperature. They fail to realize that variance of the temperature distribution is increasing as well making extreme weather events (in both directions) more likely. Hence, extreme cold spell in Texas in the winter and extreme hot weather in Canada in the summer. We lost weather stability and we should acknowledge that not just in words but in adopting our infrastructure to it (thinking of power grid right now).
Next step is “rateaperson” a la blackmirror.
Why should they. They are in business to make money, and cannot effectively self-police. Imagine a time, way back after WWII when fascism almost took over Europe and destroyed democracy, when the grown-ups in charge took responsibility for fighting against intolerance and propaganda by carefully regulating communication through a government agency. For better and sometimes worse, but mostly better, this agency created LAWS that prevented the distribution of propaganda and obviously false and unbalanced news through regulation of the broadcast media, specific rules about what could be considered 'news', and the fairness doctrine. These grownups cleverly called the agency the Federal Communications Commission, whose job was not restricted to just the airwaves: it was to protect the people from hate groups, harmful extremist content, yes communist propaganda, and many other unbalanced or biased sources of information.
In my experience, the built in LSP is a mixed bag. Getting language servers configured is a breeze, diagnostics and go-to definition work just fine. But trying to get autocomplete and snippets to work is an exercise in frustration. There's a handful of different hobbyist implementations which are all somewhat-maintained and somewhat work together but it's buggy and you end up needing to do 20x the effort of using VS code to get not quite the same ease of use.

I really hope they'll do some official work on lua-based solutions for autocomplete and code snippets in the future to really round out the LSP support, if that's something that they want to highlight as a feature of neovim. I still think VS code is the way to go if you want LSP features, but 0.5 is a terrific step forward and everyone who worked on it should be very proud.
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That there is not good evidence that screen time negatively effects well being was a surprise to me.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-01-15-technology-use-explains...
> “The Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

I guess that part of the constitution doesn't require the Congress to do that
It seems that psychopaths run some of these organizations am I missing something?
The lisp implementations described here had a small number expensive runtime costs (otherwise lisp can, if you wish, be complied into very fast code).

One was the cost of the gc memory barrier (cleverly managed for commodity hardware by using the mmu and toggling the write bits, I think thought up by Solvobarro). I think a slightly more sophisticated trick could be done with some extra TLB hardware to generalize this for generational collectors for any gc language, say Java. Another smart trick would be to skip transporting unless fragmentation got too bad. In a modern memory model compaction just isn’t what it used to be.

A second one is runtime type analysis. With the RISC-V spec supporting tagged memory this could be speeded up tremendously for Lisp, Python et al. Is anyone dabbing chips with that option?

The nice thing today is that a lot of languages are revisiting ideas originally shaken out by lisp, so speeding those languages up can speed up Lisp implementations too.

Ps: wish this article has mentioned the KA-10 (first PDP-10) which was really the first machine designed with Lisp in mind and with an assembly language that directly implemented a number of lisp primitives.
Interesting how this continues to be an issue for GPT3 based projects.

A similar thing is happening in AI Dungeon, where certain words and phrases are banned to the point of suspending a users account if used a certain amount of times, yet they will happily output them when it is generated by GPT3 itself, and then punish the user if they fail to remove the offending pieces of text before continuing.
are you suggesting that corruption should have been ignored and such people should be in power?

Wikileaks did the right thing, else imagine what they would be doing now.

Also, who killed Epstein?
> Sometimes local third party politics is the only thing less sane than national two-party politics.

I'd say that applies to all the local politics, regardless of party. Some of the wackiest crap I've ever seen in politics happens locally, even under the banner of one of the big parties. Stuff they'd never say at the national level.
Health economist here. I’m not convinced it will cause prices to decline at all. Under some circumstances it could cause them to rise (“insurer X gets how much? We want the same.” -insurer Y). It’s going to depend on the distribution of bargaining and market power among hospitals (which have aggregated into powerful systems) and insurers (which don’t seem to get all that much pushback about prices from the large firms they act for).

I could be wrong but I expect the effect to at best very small. More likely around zero. Worst case it raises prices.

Though I do like the policy myself bc I am interested in these prices for research purposes.
> Without a notion of "property", there is no marketplace. Even the more extreme libertarians will generally agree that it is necessary for government to have police powers, partly to ensure that property rights are respected.

No. Read Machinery of Freedom by Friedman for a primer on why this is not necessary.
It's settled then. It's time for more phone Linux distros.
Great answer! I'll post some notes I have on responding vs reacting:

Reactions limit choices.
Responses give choices.

Reactions are unconscious, automatic, and based on negative emotions which stem from unmet needs.
Responses are conscious, considered, and based upon the actual needs underlying the negative emotions.

Reactions often move us further away from getting our needs met.
Responses usually move us towards getting our needs met.
That’s a different argument. You’re arguing that all taxes should be replaced by service fees. It’s also a problematic argument, because it’s highly regressive, extremely annoying or intrusive in practice (do I swipe my credit card every time I step into a park or call the fire department? Do I carry a tracker that monitors my activities and automatically bills me?) and also doesn’t address the question of social services.

But that aside, WincysWife isn’t arguing for a change in how money is collected, but how non-payment is penalized. The statement was that you lose access to services. My question, which hasn’t been answered, is how that is enforced when so much that the government does isn’t a simple “service” that is provided to you directly.

(It may be tempting to respond with another non-answer, such as “the government shouldn’t do those things,” but again that’s dodging the question. The government does do those things, and I’m trying to get at a real-world answer, not a hypothetical.)
I suppose you never heard of Instagram or LinkedIn likes.
> We are quite a bit bigger and heavier than chimps, but chimps are about twice as strong as a typical human.

How is strength measured here? Because that sounds strange for two species that close genetically speaking to have such a big difference on how muscles work. I would expect 1kg of chimp muscle to have roughly the same strength as one 1kg of human muscle, and having a muscle/whole body mass ratio in the same ballpark. But our muscles are localized fairly differently, with much more muscles in our lower body so depending how you measure, you could get really different results.

Also, the typical industrial-world-human is pretty weak compared to what the average humans can be under the right conditions so it may bias the measure too.
I don't think I've ever copied code directly from any of the Stack* sites. I generally read all the answers (and comments) and then use what I learn to write my own (hopefully better) code specific to my needs.
I talked about the configuration in my videos (linked above).

The best place to start is here: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

I use it in combination with nvim-compe: https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-compe
A better analogy for the "finishing mindset" would be that every running process takes RAM, and you can only have so much of it. This highlights the fact that finishing a task has a value regardless of the value of the task, because it frees resources that can be used for something else.

I think trying to stretch the analogy too much is detrimental to the whole article. For example the reminders: a post it on my screen will remind me at all time that I should do something, because the "default mode" of the post it is existing. The default mode of the digital is not existing. I need to boot my computer to have my to-do list app, or consult my phone, or open my notebook. This is not the case with a physical reminder (sure the notebook is physical, but it needs an action to remind you of something).
I did not know this - it's just a footnote somewhere down the wikipedia page, yet that seems quite significant that I would expect it to be mentioned in the intro. Odd.
These regulations stem from legislation:

> Today's interim final rule with request for comments implements the first of several requirements passed with bipartisan support in title I (the "No Surprises Act") of division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
> I believe that we can lay this whole free speech debacle at the feet of our disingenuous, power-hungry politicians.

I blame online mobs. Twitter mobs can make even the largest corporations apologize and kowtow. Say the wrong thing and the mob will come after you and try to destroy your career, etc.
Their stance on Property and Intellectual Monopolies are in contradiction. Why is one form of "property" respected and not the other?
The author says they are not congruent in the specific case of the US.
Forget libel -- in some states, it potentially introduces criminal liability!

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-legislature/controversial-ant... [2021]

>"Governor Kevin Stitt today signed into law House Bill 1643, a bill that makes it crime to dox, or post personal information, of law enforcement and county officials online."

Sure, it's egregiously unconstitutional; but just as you say, I wouldn't want to be the one hiring attorneys.

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[late edit]: To defend of my assertion of "egregiously unconsitutional", I'll quote this succinct summary of the enumerated First Amendment exceptions in United States v. Stevens [2010], as summarized in Rynearson v. Ferguson. I can't imagine how any of these could even loosely apply here; please correct my misunderstandings if you are able. (For those Googling things, be warned that Stevens is a very disturbing case).

> Over the years, the Supreme Court has enumerated certain “well-defined and narrowly limited’ classes of speech that remain unprotected by the First Amendment. See Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 571-72 (1949). The unprotected speech is limited to, (a) obscenity, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476; (b) defamation, Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250, 254-255 (1952); (c) fraud, Virginia Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc., 425 U.S. 748 (1976); (d) incitement, Brandenbury v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447-49 (1969); (e) true threats, Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969); and (f) speech integral to criminal conduct, Giboney v. Expire Storate & Ice Co., 336 U.S. 490, 498 (1949). Speech that does not fall into these exceptions remains protected. See United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. 460 (2010).

https://www.eff.org/files/2019/02/22/order_granting_pi.pdf

Here's a longer (two page PDF) summary of the same, glossing some definitions:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11072 [.pdf]
Cool read! Though ordering the columns such that the cumulative cobsecutive dissimilaritiea are minimized is not what you really want. Think of a shredded image of a checkerboard: with this objective you would not obtain the original but rather a version where there are contigous black/white steps on the left and on the right, with a discontinuity in the middle.

That is to say: by reducing the objective to this you are assuming the image is continuous on the horizzontal axis, while in image processing images are usually supposed to be only piecewise continuous.
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Who's a for-profit corporation? All of the media? There's thousands of sources. Many of which are actually non-profit.

And speaking of bias, it's clear from leaked messages that Assange was targeting Dems and timed his releases to support Trump.
To think that a few months ago, sharing this article would have gotten someone banned from Facebook for sharing "conspiracy theories".
It's complex, can be multiple differing sources/causes individually or compounding, and what most of the world does is to follow a protocol of experimentation and practices for people to go through on their own to see what alleviates different dis-ease states - or where at least there is a net benefit found/experienced. The "solution" of psychiatry to deal with mental health IMHO is pure regulatory capture, a cheap, lazy solution requiring little to no skill or deeper understanding or experience by the administrator - and providing a recurring revenue model that seems to most often cause dependance.
This actually seems very reasonable. Due to its size, no unilateral action taken by Switzerland is going to have any meaningful effect on world CO2 output. Kneecapping your population with taxes and restrictions that cannot have any meaningful result is just performative activism to make a certain segment of the population feel better.

For any movement on fighting climate change, you have to deliver short term results. Investing in technology is the clearest path to doing this. Clean power generation, optimized fuel efficiency, and most importantly, carbon sequestration are things that can make a real difference for the climate and also provide economic ROI. I don't understand why this isn't the larger focus. Where's the "Manhattan project" proposal for carbon sequestration?
I suppose the difference is that you can potentially be off instagram. This is like someone else creating an insta account for you, downvoting it, and then having others judge you based off of that.

I guess LinkedIn fits the bill better.
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I've read lots about the charges filed against Assange, and "timing his release" was not among them. If you want that to be a law, contact your legislators.
This article is terrible, the reddit thread is far more useful.
Yes. It is a nice natural experiment as to Moxies motivations and principles, because only a very select set of circumstances has changed: Software authors can no longer control their signatures on Android. That time has passed is not relevant, or at best relevant to explain some change of heart over time.
This is true, and I think we have yet to fully reckon with what "permanent" means with "low context".

I'm a bit of a troll/shock that says outlandish shit, so I'm deeply appreciative of my core group of friends. I grew up shocking and making them laugh, but breaking out is really hit or miss.

The sad thing is that once you get your tribe established, then this environment makes it too hard and costly to try to expand it. The fortunate side effect of this is then developing deeper relationships with existing friends.
Respecting the fact that other reasonable people have different opinions would go a long way, also.
The stated goal on the website is good: better accountability.

But I’m afraid the proposed solution may lead to doxxing and threatening of police officers and their family members, ie 2021 style mob rule.

The correct solution would be more legislation requiring police to disclose whatever it should disclose. The law should define the level of police transparency, not anonymous justice warriors.
You're using some pretty strong language here, but do you have any more substantive criticisms of the analysis they present at https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio... ? They seem to think the incidence of meaningful (i.e. substantively infringing) recitation is very low, and that their solution in those cases will be attribution rather than elimination.

Again, I'm not an ML expert, but that sounds a lot more reasonable to me than announcing one's intention to solve the halting problem.
Care to give us a source for that ?
As if Yelp itself was even a good idea. I can't think of anyone I've met that's gone to anywhere based on positive Yelp reviews, but it takes no time at all to point to small businesses extorted and destroyed by review scammers.
Indeed. The whole thing needs to be looked at. Someone somewhere decided that the topic was taboo and needed to be purged from the internet, and then someone somewhere decided that it was ok that the tpoic gets to see the light of day.

It's all quite sinister.
> A collapsed condo building disagrees.

That's a really cutesy way of putting it.

My take on this is that the building codes in Florida are perhaps too lax, although I'm not an expert on building codes. From the reports I've been reading, the relevant inspections were to be done on a 40-year interval, and the building lasted less than 40 years (so its first inspection, in service, was never conducted).

This, to me, indicates that if the building was ever up to code, the code was too lax. If the maintenance was done to code, then the code was too lax.
> How? Is putting IP disputes in the court system "without government intervention?"

Assume they’re advocating for some sort of arbitration system.
They do know you can change the wake word
Not a lot of reviews ... not that I find that surprising, nor the types of reviews that are being left ...

> Considering Chicago is the most violent city in America , the police are way too lenient and practice more social justice than they do law enforcement. The scale of punishment vs reward is way off. The revolving door of crime also known as recidivism is out of control. They spend too much money, time, and effort on policing the police than prosecuting forcible felons, including; pedophiles, murderers, and other heinous crimes. Ever since they have gone overboard with watchdog groups over emphasizing everything the police do wrong 1% of the time the crime had skyrocketed. I highly recommend you utilize your tech savvy rating blog to create charts and graphs comparing depolicing, lack of prosecution, and crime. You will find that this marxist agenda tool is the cause of the priblem a d not law enforcement. I therefore give the Chicago Police Deparment 5 stars and Communism no stars. Peace be with you. I pray to Jesus.
REvil ransomware hits 200 companies in MSP supply-chain attack
Sloppy science is done in every field, natural sciences included. The article even leads with the statement that psychology experience more reversals due to being exceptionally open in terms of sharing code and data compared to other social sciences.

Reversals through replication failure is scientific progress. Your “better” question is nothing of the sort, just lazy contrarianism.
If Republicans had done anything like the DNC's kneecapping of Bernie during the 2016 campaign, it would have come out by now, emails or not.
So you are saying you would rather every project in the world have at least one--if not, thanks to making it easier via Copilot, many--copies of this code rather than one shared library that provides a high-level abstraction for libcurl?... At least for your own code, how did you end up with two copies of duplicated logic rather than a shared library of functionality?
A threat model that only concerns updates and not new installs is incoherent.
I don't get it, that seems like standard fare for an R-rated movie? And then it seems like some complained because they decided to start editing it down to a PG-13 movie?
Fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D%C3%A9jacque#Debate_wi...

"For Déjacque, on the other hand, the communal state of affairs — the phalanstery 'without any hierarchy, without any authority' except that of the 'statistics book' — corresponded to 'natural exchange,' i.e. to the 'unlimited freedom of all production and consumption; the abolition of any sign of agricultural, individual, artistic or scientific property; the destruction of any individual holding of the products of work; the demonarchisation and the demonetarisation of manual and intellectual capital as well as capital in instruments, commerce and buildings."[10]"

I guess Colorado LP's "2 out of 3 kinds of property are legitimate" is a middle ground?
(or 3 out of 4? Not sure how to classify their position on clean air as property)
Well, yes. The average daily trading volume in the US bond market is in the order of 0.8-1.0 trillion, which means 4 trillion over a span of several months is nothing. Inflation doesn't come about as a result of the Fed pumping asset prices up, this is a misunderstanding on your part. It comes about, at least in theory, as a consequence of lower nominal interest rates.
People will hate this source, but this is the most info I’ve seen revealed about the actual conditions in the Wuhan lab(s):

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3174242/wuhan-labs-leak-covid-c...