skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If say, I was in captured accidentally in a promotional video or in a photo in a popular instagram account, I might just sue.

And I’d respond with a 12(b)(6) motion for summary judgment and dismissal and demand costs. I'd also file a motion for sanctions against your attorney for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

In certain states, there are rights to publicity. But these rights limit the use of someone’s name and likeness for commercial or promotional purposes of something other than the subject him/herself. For example, if I took a photo of Dua Lipa and used it to promote my potted meat, she’d have a claim against me. But if I took a photo of her and put it in a newspaper, or put it on Instagram or in my paid magazine with the caption “hey look, it’s Dua Lipa!” — even if it were on the front cover to sell the paper itself — the elements of a rights of publicity claim would not be there; or at the very least, a First Amendment question would arise.

The fact that you might make money by selling a newspaper or access to a website that has photos of someone in it isn’t enough. As we say, that’s incidental.
Bitcoin is way to volatile for that kind of a commitment - it's short term pump & dump I would say.
Consider people's reaction to people selling boot leg DVDs vs torrenting a movie. Although people may consider both morally incorrect the corrupting profit motive results in the former being seen far more negatively. In the current situation there is also the matter that the Microsoft is still perceived rightly I think very negatively and open source authors very positively. Also in a David v Golliath situation nobody wants to be seen rooting for the giant.

Personally I would be concerned about insert corp here accidentally stealing code from an open source project then years later going after the open source project for copyright infringement regarding the code they in fact stole from the open source project.
In a world where the goal is to mobilize your own supporters, not turn "swing voters" it is helpful to have grievances that can be endlessly recycled.

If it wasn't for "cancel culture" Fox News might have to go somewhere and report the news, but somebody is always going to get "canceled" somewhere and even if they don't you can keep talking about somebody being canceled for years after it happened.

The focus on BDS shows that Israel is no longer afraid of their neighbors and the Palestinians and now they can't bear it that somebody won't buy a Sodastream. (I was a little shocked to look through a big medicine cabinet though and not see anything from Teva.)
This is one of the least coherent things i've read on the internet in a while, which is a pretty hard competition.
you only buy shit so you can complain
I’m pleasantly surprised this hasn’t happened after reading this recently:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-l...
I hear a lot of stated assumptions on how certain things trigger emotional investment and other don’t.

If you knew how manufactured the music industry was, and how nothing of what you see of celebrities is true, it might as well be AI plucking our heart strings, because it isn’t “real” in the sense that I think you mean, authentic human connection over shared experience.
In this test the kids are sorting figures that do or don't activate a music box. The box is left next to them so they could use the box to test the figures prior to sorting them or they could rely on what an experimenter told them (white figures activate the box) or what they observed when a different experimenter was actually using the toy. What the title means by "seek data" is "Did the kids try the figurines on the box themselves?"
That'a not true. It may be missing in your area, but it is a core feature of OSM.
It’s exhausting and certainly not all a pleasure, but no regrets at all. Wonderful moments in between all the mayhem make it all worthwhile.
Anything upwards of:

- 300-400ug of LSD

- 6-9g of mushrooms or 25mg 4-AcO-DMT

- ~22mg of 2C-B/2C-E/2C-I

- Nearly any amount of DMT or 5-MeO-DMT

And a bunch of others will do this. Psychedelics are all unique feeling but the further you push the doses the more similar they become.

At the furthest edge of the spectrum is the "grand psychedelic experience" which, in my incredibly unscientific & anecdotal opinion, is an (nearly) identical experience that you will reach every time, on any psychedelic, given the right circumstances and a high enough dosage.

But this experience is just the "Can't see my hand in front of my face because of the visuals" level.

You pass this level on the way to the last stop, if you take the ride all the way to end (whether you meant to take it there or not!)
Maybe a fake mouse could resolder a real secure enclave. I'm not sure what sort of remote attestation the enclave can perform. Mouse manufacturers would need to partner with Intel (or anyone else that makes a similar hardware signing system that a game developer trusts)
The average age of death from covid is higher than the average life expectancy in the U.S.

By and large Africa doesn't do mass testing the way the developed world does. No tests, no cases. Young population, very few deaths.

Voila. No pandemic.
SSDs (or NVME) are used for plotting generation - but serving them can be done with big, dumb, slow spining drives.
Maybe... although I personally think that the GPL and other 'copy left' licenses aren't the reason open source has prospered, nor do I think enforcing attribution really helps the FOSS world that much.

People write and share code because it is useful to do that, not because licenses require them to.

I think FOSS would do fine with no copyright, and in fact more software might end up open source if we had ZERO copyright... why not make your code open source and get back contributions when your code would end up being shared anyway?
Does anyone yet know why only the pfizer two shot course is effective against the delta variant yet? Slightly different spike analog, different delivery, you just need huge efficacy?
Oh I never felt chastised… before…

I mean I agree with not wasting energy of course, but what we’re talking about here is really nothing compared to driving a car or making a couple of pots of tea a day, for example. I refuse to feel chastised!
Well, one of the big risks of plastics are the hormonal effects which are still little understood. There are serious reasons to remove most plastics from our day-to-day lives which makes reclaiming/recycling existing plastics less desirable - we should be removing them.
I.e. MIT license
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Isn’t that service run out of a bunker in Norway or something?
I remember they were in the news for something recently.
The mines probably come with liabilities of all sorts.
Perhaps read your parent again? They are distinguishing between reliable recent measurements and unreliable older ones.
I used to do this as well and I still advise others to do this.
It's worth reframing it. From: I love my current work and there's no way I would leave... To: What would be so awesome I would have to leave?

With this reframe I was always very up front to the hiring company. "I'm happy where I am but I'm open to interviewing and hearing what you have to offer." It puts you in a pretty powerful negotiating position (assuming you pass the interviews). Then if you like the company remind them that you are happy at your current job and ask for an amount (or hours, PTO, etc) that you would have no hesitation leaving your current job for. No ethical dilemma (in my opinion) and I've definitely accepted some of those offers.

Also it's fun to interview with no pressure to actually land a job. Not a totally fair comparison but my interview success rate at these is way higher than when I was actually looking for a job.
Ooh. They have a DARPA grant! Applying now.
Question for those who know better: isn't the Indian coal industry rife with mafia activity, or is that all in the past?
No, it's still nothing to do with that for steam. Its their compression.
"Least bad billionaire" is a weird tag to give Musk.

I mean, there are a bunch of people who either inherited a billion dollars or married into it, and, not being psychopaths, they just decided to spend that money doing good and have done with it. That seems pretty easily to be "less bad" than somebody like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, or Warren Buffett who set out to acquire wealth..

I guess if you've got a really out-there moral utility function maybe saving the eyesight of a million children or whatever counts for nothing while making a slightly better toaster oven is a 100% goal achieved, but outside that I can't see any way Musk could be the "least bad billionaire".

Actually I can see a case for a different weird utility function if we also had some billionaires who got wealthy from scientific discoveries or mathematical breakthroughs or philosophical insights. If Martin Hellman had earned $100M per year since the 1980s for licensing fees from DH kex he could be a billionaire and we could argue about whether that's an important thing to give to the world. Or if Judith Butler had become fabulously wealthy explaining to people that gender is a social construct, she'd be a billionaire and we could argue whether that was great. But in reality we do not pay philosophers or cryptographers billions of dollars, that sort of money goes to somebody like Musk or Bezos.
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I'm in the market for a desktop/tabletop 6DoF robotic arm to experiment with, any recommendations? Not certain of uses, but: I might develop custom grippers, repeatability of 0.25 mm or less desired, option to extend workspace with linear rail would be a plus. Thanks!
I never thought about it, as far as I know it’s been stable like this for years now… Gas is getting more and more expensive though.
How accurate were thermometers in 1913?
I didn't downvote you, but i feel like the reason is that you're basically doing what you complain the other side is doing - i.e. demonizing the other as irrational people who are all the same and beyond reason.
So, I think it's great that they're looking at this, and I even believe that on balance it is probably the best bet to go ahead with this idea in countries that have a vaccine shortage. However, I just have to point out:

"Levels of both antibodies and T cells were comparable to those found in people who have recovered from COVID-19."

I can think of another reason this might be true. Maybe, you know, most of these people actually got covid-19, in the months after their quarter-strength vaccination. Now, this might still indicate that it helped them out, since they apparently were asymptomatic or at least did not have a serious enough case to attract the attention of the researchers, but it would not help stop the spread of the virus. So, the idea that there is no downside or risk to going with the quarter-dose, is not necessarily true. It could be that a quarter-dose leaves you just as likely to get (and perhaps spread) the virus, although it does prevent death or serious hospitalization.

Again, I think on balance it's worth the risk, given the situation many countries are in, but I just think it should be acknowledged that it is still a risk.
That does sound like fun but I'm sure there's a minimum bid.
The particular grant highlighted in OP is for transiting megastructures in TESS light curves. I don't think the article was misleading.

>"Motivated by these discoveries, we are embarking on a project to quantify the frequency of anomalous fading events-- and hence occulting structures--among main sequence stars. Our objectives are two- fold: First, we will detect or put a stringent limit on the presence of transiting megastructures; second, we will assess the frequency of transiting minor bodies in planetary systems."

>"However, the proposed study will enable us to place the most stringent limits yet on the presence of large artificial structures orbiting stars in our Galaxy, and correspondingly on the presence of technologically advanced life."

https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/...
Climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming
There’s a pretty big distinction in the journalism world. It’s more like saying anyone who uses a computer for work is a programmer.
Well, I’m about fifteen years older than you are. You must have worked with a different class of EEs. The one I knew weren’t hams and probably didn’t grow up building kits and stuff like we did.

Inductive coupling is one of the most fascinating topics in EM. And, is all the power really flowing in the air between the wires? The electricians don’t know that, either.
Copyright is different from patent. Copyright is (basically) forever.
Intrusive containers are a way more natural fit for a C codebase. They are also a superior choice for C++ code. The one and only plus of STL containers is that they come standard.
Interesting perspective, I hadn't considered the age pyramid. The median age in Kenya is 20.
I am not familiar with the environmental laws in India but in Canada you are often on the hook for closing down and cleaning up a site once it is abandoned (that is, you can't just walk away from it). My understanding is this can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I recently met someone who was leasing oil wells (edit: natural gas, not oil) that lacked sufficient pressure to pump gas into a pipeline. The wells still had enough pressure that you could use them as an immediate fuel source so they were hooking up a few cryptocurrency mining rigs to a generator there. Apparently the companies who own the wells like this because they don't immediately have to declare the wells abandoned and pay the cleanup fees.
Since STL was introduced actually, even if functors were a bit painful to write, however if you look at codebases like Android, there is some catch up to do with modern times.
>Maybe the solution is to overproduce on things with longer shelf life, which can be stored and transported without refrigeration

Then you get people complaining it's "ultraprocessed"

>so any excess past the target 150% (or other figure) can be donated easily to other parts of the world?

The logistics of this probably makes it more expensive overall than just donating bulk corn or whatever.
I think I priced it recently and it was $499/mo (+ hidden upcharges) for 1 gig. their lowest price was $65/month for 35/5
How important is a name to a brand's success?
Should have sold them Bitcoin ( $33,461.37 ) sent out Bitcoin cash ( $494.26 ). Technically sending them Bitcoin, just on a different blockchain.
I don't think professional mathematicians think highly of this https://www.galoisrepresentations.com/2019/07/07/en-passant-...
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943

https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/nikola-tesla-birth-ann...
> paid for by the tax payer.

Actually the Zurich build out was only financed by the tax payer to be done by the electric company and Swisscom. Internet providers must each have equal options to lease the last mile from whoever built it out in a given city or town; it isn't free.
Coal usage peaked ~2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_coal

Just in the past two weeks:

Germany closing even new coal plants - https://reneweconomy.com.au/german-coal-plant-closes-after-j...

Philipines will not build new coal plants due to economics. They will instead invest in grid scale storage and renewables - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-10/biggest-p...

It's mostly economics. When other generation and storage systems drop by orders of magnitude in price in just 2 decades it throws the old equations out. There's no economic reason to build a coal plant today.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/12/03/plu...
Since the government of India is setting targets for net coal export, you'll likely have to meet output quotas. So, good luck! :D
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

There's unlikely to be a giant, sudden collapse... it's just things are getting ever-so-slight worse over time until the US becomes a mirror of Brazil or Mexico. (Boiling frog)

The shrinking upper-/middle-class doesn't want to see what's happening because it doesn't affect them right now.

- Collapse - Jared Diamond

- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I-VI - Edward Gibbon

- America: The Farewell Tour - Chris Hedges

- The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic - Chalmers Johnson

Arguably, the US has been in decline since WW2 because of a presumed entitlement to excellence/exceptionalism rather than delivery it. The scenario isn't intractable; it's cultural, psychological, and socioeconomic related to community, individual power, civic involvement, and standing-up to the ultra-rich to remove their corrupt stranglehold on lawmaking and policy.
Right for repair will be solved in politics, which is what this is all about, at the end of the day
> We should stop turning a blind eye to his labor practices.

Aren't there legal systems to make sure that's being done right? Is "we" some labor inspectors?

If you want to give credit to engineers, where does it end? There are millions of engineers in the world doing important things. Crediting that many people will dilute the value of it all.
Libre-SoC: We're building a chip. A fast chip. A safe chip. A trusted chip
Could have also been compressed OOPs
Kind of reminds me of the SWIM nonsense of the early internet. Not saying the name with so much detail isn't protecting you from anything. Just say the name people, or don't comment.
Good points. I'm not implying that publishers add no value; I agree that they add some (but charge far too much). I'm just trying to find a way to determine the values of their different inputs.
I don't think a 'me too' on this bug would be noise right now. Last activity was in 2019; having someone state the problem is still real in 2021 could impact if it gets fixed.
Here is another example, COM or as it originally started OLE.

Yes, basically it is C OO ABI, however only masochists would use it as such.

Everyone else just reaches for VB 6, C++ (MFC, ATL, WRL, WIL, C++/CX, C++/WinRT, yeah I know, so is WinDev....), .NET, Delphi, C++ Builder, ...
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Or: "suicide FBI informant marin county construction"
> while having a biochemical effect on amyloid protein buildup, which has strong correlations with degenerative brain diseases.

That correlation has actually been turning out to be very weak. The very studies conducted to test this drug are some of the proof (reducing amyloid buildup doesn't affect disease progression), And there is also mounting proof from brain imaging that Amyloid buildup exists in the brains of many people with no mental problems.

And in general, if we know the drug does nothing at all, why allow the company to force doctors to prescribe it (by marketing to desperate patients)?

The drug can still be used in new research. But unless and until research shows that it has an effect on some disease, it should be illegal to market it as medication. At best it could be sold as a supplement, for those gullible enough to try it.
One funny downside is that if you do enough startups you end up with a few that do really well later on and then you're kicking yourself for not joining. I have to remind myself of all the others that I interviewed at that didn't make it.
not just children
This may be a somewhat silly question, but why couldn't they just have used flashlights? I'm sure there's an obvious reason, but I don't know what it is.
If they do a good job at prices that are in the ballpark it may be fine.

Sometimes what looks like cronyism is just someone picking someone they trust to do the job. It can be hard to tell the difference unless there are obvious problems constantly being overlooked - like with NASA contractors for example.
They also get a ton of data about the world through free play, especially outside in nature, but they experience it as play, not data gathering.
> I actually like that but find it annoying that very few people actually want to dig in to any depth and talk about the flows of their emotional journeys, their core intellectual advanced, the things that they've learned, or instructive errors that they've made so that we gain wisdom from the conversation.

I'd enjoy doing that with people I work with, but I don't think they'd appreciate me asking.

Perhaps as a result I come off as one of those people that doesn't want to dig in to any depth about the kinds of life aspects you listed.

But I'm optimising for getting along at work without coming across as intrusive and probing. I don't want to make people uncomfortable by showing too much interest in their personal lives and excitements, if they aren't volunteering it. There are definitely people who want their work life to remain very separate from the rest of their life.

If I'm doing that, willing to engage in deep conversations about wider aspects of life but optimising to not be intrusive at work, perhaps some of the other people in your work circle are also doing so.
U.S. Air Force detonates hypersonic missile warhead for the first time
It depends on the definition of waste. Excess food that no one wants, or food that is thrown out that someone hungry could eat.
Better yet, threaten to punish them. It's been shown that negative reinforcement is more effective than positive
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I don’t regret having kids, they are amazing.

BUT: You are MUCH more likely to regret your choice of WHO you have kids with than the kids themselves. Having kids together ties you closely to that person for a very long time (20+ years), whether you like it or not. Think VERY carefully about whether this is what you want with this person.

Do you really know this person?If you were going to die next year, and you had to spend the whole year with one person, is this who you would choose?

Another BUT: At least for me, it took until my child was about 2 years old to feel she is amazing. I regretted it immensely during the first 24 months (I am a male). I have heard a lot of other reports of this anecdotally - for some men, it takes longer to become attached to the baby. It can be disorienting, especially relative to expectations (like other posts here where the love happens at first sight).

All that said, kids are by far the greatest source of happiness, meaning, and pride in my life (which was not at all devoid of those things before the kids).
Help wanted for podcast that combines history and news
I run a weekly podcast in which I interview professors to provide the background to and the history behind current news. As a point of clarification, we don't do history for its own sake. We are NOT a history podcast. We only do the history and background to subjects that are in the news. The name of our podcast is ThePeel.news, which you can find on Apple, Spotify and Google podcasts, and also on our site at www.ThePeel.news

Our guests are distinguished professors, including those that are nationally recognized in their fields.

This project started out as a labor of love for me, but it has morphed into a full time commitment. Finding potential guests and persuading them to come on the show takes time (prominent professors are extremely busy).

So I am looking for help to promote my podcast. My project is not a startup (not yet anyway). So we don't have any funding. I have a tiny budget and would appreciate any input regarding how to get some quality help in promoting this project.

Thanks very much in advance.
I do not assume I know better. I am just asking why any of these ideas would not work.

> What are you even basing this statement on?

As I understand it, the transport was immensely difficult. The divers and the rescued kids were at great danger. It is unbelievable to me they managed to save them without any special solution.

I'm sorry if my comment was misunderstood.