skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know a true libertarian wouldn't care about IP because a piece of code or song can be copied infinitely with little effort therefore isn't scarce like property or an object.

I think the fact that you can pretty much download every Austrian economic book for free from the Mises Institute website makes this clear.

Note: I don't want to discuss politics. I don't care if you think its wrong or you don't like left or wing wing libertarians if that's a thing. I'm just stating what I know. Please keep your opinions about "the one true anarchist" to yourself.
Honestly I think Mastodon is already about as easy to use as possible. The real problem is the network effect, and the fact that the average person really just doesn't care enough about the benefits you get from it.
What we really need is a libre, decentralized social network that's "cool" enough that non-tech people would have FOMO if they don't join. That's a much harder problem, one that I certainly won't be able to solve any time soon.
So the utopian vision is that whoever has the bigger or better army gets the rewards?
Just because a law is being abused does it invalidate that law? Apple should absolutely get a bunch of fines for pursuing this enforcement if it is doing so in bad faith - or Prepear should be forced to alter it's image if it's found to be unfairly exploiting Apple's brand image.

Also this case was resolved in a pretty reasonable manner[1] which actually does seem to increase the visual distinctiveness between the two logos and, from what I can tell, that logo change was the sole result of the settlement. Apple's logo is, IMO, three main things, an apple, a bite, and a leaf - and each of those is quite distinctively placed within the logo. Prepear was pretty precisely copying the style of the leaf.

1. https://www.creativebloq.com/news/apple-prepear-logo-resolut...
Freespeech: Universal Keyboard for the Non-Verbal
I think lab grown meat is the most sane solution for the largest number of people as it becomes simultaneously cheaper and better than raising cattle for meat; imagine getting wagyu every day for cheaper than regular cuts now, simply because you don't have to grow an entire cow and massage it its entire life, you can just grow it on a Petri dish.

Veganism on the other hand is not an economic solution but a moral one, which takes considerably more thought from the average eater than something like Impossible Foods or lab grown meat, simply because if it were cheaper than existing meat and tasted better, there is no reason to _not_ buy it (all else being equal).

But until lab grown meat arrives, I'll continue eating my meat.
Most local communities aren't going to do that.
Going to have some meaningful size savings -> play store CDN traffic has got to be pretty incredible.

I don't think devs were really creating enough APK's on the various device dimensions to do this efficiently themselves.

They make it sound like you can't distribute your code using other platforms but you can (so far) based on what I've seen (using .apk)

But smaller app sizes (and the other benefits) are not anti-consumer features.
This is really cool! Do you have any in depth posts describing the ML behind this?
Researchers discover new type of memory cell in the brain for facial recognition
The next couple of minutes from here https://youtu.be/0J8G9qNT7gQ?t=3984
So if I understand correctly, you’re among a group of people who are really angry at losing, and partisan, and therefore demand to forgo press freedom for your perceived political enemies. In addition, you’re willing to write long, factually incorrect soliloquies to achieve that end. This is probably the most fascistic thing I have ever read on the internet.
In principle I'd agree with paying taxes for Intellectual Property, but there are problems:

- Copyright is "automatic" whenever you fix a work to a medium. Should it be made manual, like patents? Or should copyright be exempt from taxes? What about Open Source?

- Profitability for any given patent varies wildly depending on the company that owns it. So you'd end up with big corporations having patents because their scale (and profits) justifies owning patents, and small companies having no IP. Same thing for trademarks.
Sounds pretty abusable to me..
I worked in the Watson group during the time you mention - the problem that they made was to attempt to productize the original Jeopardy system. The Jeopardy system was built with the single-minded goal of winning jeopardy. It was much too heavy weight for real-world applications - it required unbelievable computing resources and simply could not be deployed in the cloud as it could only run on Power machines.

Ultimately much of the system had to be rewritten and this took years by which time, it was just another competitor in a crowded market
No, it is a tax on a government granted monopoly on concepts that the grantee may or may not have come up with.
Just host it on YouTube?
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There are replacements for most/many popular packages (that I use at least). Many people do prefer lua packages over vimscript ones.
It wasn't evident from link but sure, these also look like nuts-and-bolts stuff, which is fine. It's not like it's bad, my comment wasn't meant as a criticism but more of a reminder - "X is fine but X reminds of Y, which I'm really interested in" really isn't a criticism of X. Maybe a derail but not a criticism, darn it.
It's perfectly legal to post videos of any of those things.
It sounds like our support was trying to help you troubleshoot a login issue — to say that we “require you to disable VPN” to login so that we can push our own VPN product on you is absolutely false and actually kind of absurd if you know anything about our business.
> metal behave funny

*behaves
I don't think anyone's alleging it's against the law to time news releases. But both countries (both US and UK) have violated their own laws time and again in the persecution of Julian Assange. They have thrown all pretense of due process (e.g. access to attorney) and human rights (denial of medical care) out the window, just to punish him.

There were 10+ violations that would have been more than enough to let a murderer go free.

The problem, in other words, with Assange is that he didn't really commit a crime, or more to the point, that's not why the US is after him. And clearly, as a country, the US is perfectly willing to violate it's own constitution to punish this person. The allegation is that this is, among other things, due to the timing of the releases. And because of the danger that it would make Hillary Clinton lose the election.

It would be funny if it wasn't both such a sad, sad failure for the US state and an enormous crime, committed by the state.
I guess, I don't really get it. I'm happy to denounce Jan 6 as terrible. I just don't understand the hyperbole, and because I don't denounce it enough that's seen as many as bad faith.

On the other hand, God forbid you express concerns over the summer of violence we saw in 2020, because then you're just exagerating.

I am frankly exasperated at continuously having to keep track of not only what I ought to feel but also what level of passion I need to express my thoughts with in order to be taken in good faith.

I am willing to take it in good faith that you honestly believe Jan 6 is basically the worst thing to happen since the civil war. I don't really get how you can say that, but I don't think you're being disingenuous, or even malicious, in your statement of equivalence.

Unfortunately, since I don't see it the same way and don't feel Jan 6 is as bad as you make it out to be, I am apparently not only misguided or hyperbolic (what I believe you are) but -- as you've claimed -- a government abolitionist who lacks integrity.
What I do: Ask the doctor/PA/nurse how much EVERY LITTLE THING they want to do costs before they do it. Sure, it's really annoying and not 100% foolproof, but it has saved me alot of money.
It's not dead atm, but it has been flagged. I found it interesting reading and certainly pertinent to the HN community.

I would hope that the mods would remove the flag.
I don't like how it is implemented. For example, copyrights would be fine with me if they were for short duration. Patents serve some purpose, but again, fewer patents and shorter terms would be better in my opinion.
I believe with shortening them to eg. 1 year or two. You still have enough time to break into the market, to establish your position, on the other hand it stops the patenting of "useless" crap (eg, page-down moving one full page (and not screen) down), because patents cost money, and if your invention isn't something revolutionary, it's not worth patenting it for such a short timeframe.
Caltech’s David Baltimore discusses the debate over origins of SARS-CoV-2
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're referencing exactly.
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IANAL either, but I'd expect anything that puts onerous restrictions on speech to be unconstitutional. Usually these "over-enthusiastic" laws don't define the restrictions in a narrow scope. It all boils down to the definition of PII in this law, for example. If it's narrowly and clearly defined it could pass the first amendment test. If it's not clear and instead has the effect of chilling speech because of that, it'll get thrown out.

I mean the Supreme Court just threw out the donor disclosure requirement in CA because it could have the effect of stifling free speech.
Maybe the cops should stop abusing citizens then.
Maybe learn to use a large trackball with your feet?

Something like X-Keys L-Trac (Formerly CST2545-5w)

I've developed carpal tunnel, and to mitigate my problems I now use a mouse at work and trackball at home (strain different muscles). The clicking of the mouse bothered me for awhile, so for that I tried two mice. Right hand would control position and left hand would do the clicking. A foot pedal for the clicks would have been so much less awkward.
Many right-libertarians fight against the idea of the state, but ignore that their economic system of choice, and their basis for property rights, comes from the state itself.

Some of them recognize this, and then propose that private entities take on the responsibilities and bodies of the state, but envision another state with accountability to only shareholders or the market, and not the people.

Some follow the logical conclusion and advocate for a minimal state needed to enforce property rights and contracts, and so they envision a state similar the ones we have now, but without welfare. I find that to be an interesting take on what they mean by liberty.

> If you write some source code, intending it to be proprietary (for your operating system, for example), and I obtain it somehow, you'd be screwed under this system. I guess you could call this "resolving the dispute without government intervention" in the sense that the resolution is me telling you to pound sand, but I don't think any capitalist system would find that satisfactory.

Imagine computing in such a market. It would prioritize cryptographically secure application DRM, application distribution systems that complied with that app DRM, systems that only allowed approved software to run and systems with tight integration with HSMs/TPMs.

The biggest difference in such a world compared to ours would be that general purpose computing would hardly exist, and personal computing would consist of locked down thin clients and purpose-built devices.

It wouldn't be much different than what iPhone and iPad users are already accustomed to and what Microsoft, Apple and Google are all trying to bring to personal computing in the coming years.
What do you mean by 'types of reviews'?

What 'type' is this?
> Right, it was a (trivial, both in scale and plausible durability) threat to territorial integrity, not sovereignty or Constitutional order.

Okay but five people died because the American government did nothing.
My Mom died in 2014, in a local hospital. Several years after her death, I received a bill from that same hospital, addressed to her but sent to my address, for $9K. The kicker is, the "service date" on the bill was 1996! I ignored it since a) she had died; b) she had died in their hospital, so they obviously knew; c) her estate had settled years ago; d) she never received this bill while she was alive.

Hospital billing practice are pretty horrible. If a more compliant person had received this bill, they might have paid it, even though there is no way it was legit.
You know that Alexa can be depersonalised by changing the wake word. "echo" and "computer" are the options last I checked. I recommend it.
If a cop is doing their job what percentage of their interactions with the public would be positive for the person they are interacting with?

I understand the problem this site is trying to address but I'm not sure this is the correct metric.
> It is not accurate description of how things work.

Grown up adults don’t usually expect precise descriptions of how human physiology works from one short quote.

> This sentence here is motivational sentence

Yes, obviously.
To dig deeper, there are couple of interesting nuances there:

- extreme number of objects on single photo, typical number of visible pieces in large pile is 1500-2000

- extreme number of classes in multi-class classification, there are ~1000 most common Lego bricks and up to 30000 classes if you include rare bricks and different patterns

- really hard data labelling: one photo can take up to a 5 work days to label
That's what the filing fees are for. In addition, it's possible to have intellectual property without requiring government influence on someone's thoughts. Case in point, trade secrets.
I don't think it's fair to assume that genders and ethnicities should match either the general population or the hiring pool. Geography plays a huge role: if you have a company in a city with a substantially higher asian population (like Seattle or the Bay Area) that geographic distribution is going to have a significant influence. Likewise, a product used primarily by women might have higher representation of women because of the userbase. Pinterest is a good example here.

I think the solution is to realize that it's wrong to pick outcomes a priori, that we shouldn't trying to find the "correct proportion". Instead, focus on eliminating discrimination and biases in the hiring pipeline. Anonymize the gender and ethnicity of applicants. Use voice altering software to prevent the ability to discern between genders when interviewing. If the goal is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics, create a hiring process that isn't able to distinguish between these characteristics in the first place. Then, whatever proportion that results is the "correct proportion".
> The cost of table salt is basically all transportation at this point.

Using the salt on site would save the transport, though?
The typical buyer of this type of product has no idea what "closed source" means. They went to Harvey Norman and asked the 17 year old store assistant what they should buy to keep their important photos and documents safe.
Just to clarify, I have been able to use one batch to start the next. I've used various yogurts from Whole Foods (2% or whole, but always plain/unflavored).

My first culture lasted through about 15 cycles (8 mo) before developing a weird blue cheese odor/flavor. When I started again, I also noticed the first batch of the new yogurt was substantially thicker than the last batch of the old yogurt.
> an individual's legal team could use this tool determine if an arresting officer has a history of abuse and police perjury.

No self-respecting attorney would ever trust a third-party site with zero verification. You would literally get more accurate information from Twitter or Facebook.

> I imagine the impetus for this comes from the widespread accounts of cops that have long histories of abusive behavior and evidence tampering being tolerated and indeed covered up by the police.

All of these issues are only going to be correctly handled by legitimate authorities anyways, this site doesn't actually solve anything. Anything posted here can be safely ignored. If anything, this site's layout should just be translated to an official city's website for handling complaints, so that they can spend the money to use it and make it effective.
> This can ONLY be done by the gov in an official capacity.

What should citizens do when the government and official capacities are completely failing to hold police accountable?

In Seattle our Office of Police Accountability is a blind rubber stamping agency that our OIG recently reprimanded for their abysmal failures in investigating an incident with a lot of public intention.

https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/06/30/oig-memo-reveals-...
I think just putting in the liquid that comes with the test on its own would do that just fine.
How would that even work? Like, why would I find a private court's ruling binding over me, and if there was some way to force that ruling to become binding … that's what we call "the government".
This is correct. Maybe people just misunderstood your first post, the way it was written was slightly ambiguous.
Not yet, but it seems that we will talk about it
> Because a tax on IP is a tax on someone thoughts

No, like any other property tax, its a user fee for the government service of excluding others from whatever exclusive rights are granted under law for the class of property at issue.

IP doesn't limit or license thought, and a tax on IP doesn't tax thought.

If you want the government to protect against other people making certain applications of similar thoughts to the ones you’ve had, then you want IP protection, and that protection is what a tax on IP applies to.
“ An effective monopoly over customers should be won through superior products in the marketplace, not by inferior products defended in the courts.”

Unfortunately, this is impossible in the context where some companies will just spew toxic waste in other countries with no regulation to save costs, so that behavior wins with no IP.
121 Degrees Fahrenheit in Canada two days ago
It was because of heat dome.

103 deg F in Arctic circle as of Jun. 23, 2021.

What's happening is that the winds which circulate continually around the Arctic Circle, which are called "jet streams," are being destabilized. Normally they're lines encircling the globe, but they're becoming wiggly, deviating North and South quite far. Current global models used for regular forecasting don't include these dynamic effects. I don't know what models do, but there is talk of "quasiresonant" behavior in the Rossby waves. This refers to a particular type of differential equation, or whatever (I'm no math genius).

Obviously a lot more is going on, but I'm also no weather genius. I just thought you might find it interesting.

Another point is that the specific wrinkle which caused the so-called "heat dome" was supposedly the result of heavy flooding rain all over China occurring on June 22-23. This somehow "added energy" to a ridge of high pressure which traveled along the jetstream path. When that ridge hit the wiggle in the jet stream it curled into a circle and trapped the weather.

Apparently these general effects explain phenomena over the entire hemisphere. I don't understand it very well, but it is fascinating.
For a while, I've supported a less extreme measure of cutting all patent and copyright durations in half (applied backwards to legacy patents), eliminating all legacy submarine patents, and requiring that a party proves it is actively using or trying to reduce a patent to practice in order to claim damages in court.

But honestly, I think this would work. As long as NDA's are enforceable, which they are, that is sufficient protection for encouraging innovation as trade secrets. The downside, compared to the aforementioned idea, is that less new engineering knowledge is published into the public domain, to then stimulate further idea genesis. But either way is better than the current system. The patent office is so flooded that no one reads the garbage boilerplate that makes up 90%+ of patents.
So abusing innocent cops just doing their job is just collateral damage?
That is seeing a slippery slope and extrapolating to the bottom.

I agree that it is worrying that facebook is trying to determine what is acceptable / true, and what is extremist. People with that kind of position should come by that power through choice of those who consume that truth. That means politicians, editorial boards, opinion makers. Either people who were elected, or people who you can decide to tune out.

The social media companies do not have this mandate. So doing this kind of stuff is bad. But.

But, on the other hand, extremist violence is actually a widely recognized problem, and these platforms are playing a significant role. It makes sense that we try to hold them accountable. The issue is that is leaves them between a rock and a hard place. It makes sense that they want to be more proactive about this stuff. But either it should not be their job, or there should be a choice in who censors / editorializes your facebook. It should not, by default, be facebook itself.

Facebook does not like this though. Facebook does not wanna say "hey all you trump voters, please go somewhere else". It would either break their network effect, or it would force them to go to a federated system. But really, this is the only reasonable solution here. Otherwise facebook is slowly going to alienate and censor Trump voters. Turning more of them into extremist who believe themselves the victim of "the man". And in some sense, they'd be right.
YouTube among with many other places are even now censoring it so acting like it's a Facebook problem is counter-productive.
Thank you! Seattle PD has just been added by someone https://rateourcops.org/agencies/2955
Space, the final frontier...

Do you really think they will/should 'ride' there in some rattling rocket, between shaking cargo crates in mesh nets, with clothing from military surplus?

SPACE should look like the highest technology ever. In all aspects PERIOD
I agree, but the other side does the same. Why do pro-choice groups oppose holding abortion clinics to the same medical standards as other medical facilities? Because "access" is their political hammer, and they want to keep using the issue.
More that a non-deletable video storage system will probably accumulate lots of spam.
what I see is a lot of people thinking their bubble is relevant for the public at large, even discounting the rampant americentrism