skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I worked at Amazon, I learned that search field auto-complete on the web was patented by Amazon. When I wanted to provide a better user experience in some Amazon-owned open source software, I couldn’t because they didn’t want the Apache 2.0 license to grant patent rights to users. (If the age limit is still 20 years, I _think_ the patent expired in 2019 or 2020).

Conversely, there was that time that Creative patented Apple’s iPod interface (or scroll wheel or something), then they promptly sued Apple over it. I would assert that deeper discovery be done on prior art before granting a patent.

Lastly, the patent trolls who don’t create anything, but own the patent for it (e.g., Eolas suing Microsoft over then-standard NPAPI browser plug-ins). I would assert that granting any patent requires an actual implementation.

I think patents have a place, but (a) see necessary changes above, and (b) I think that software (specifically) should have a shorter patent lifespan because it moves so damn fast.
"I don't care what anyone says, 14 inches is enough for any woman"

-Also Abraham Lincoln, just before finding out he was to be president in late 1860
Most of exams i took during my university studies were oral exams. I definitely prefer them to written exams. They were used even for big classes with 100+ students, professors just declare multiple test dates (each with say 20 timeslots) and students booked to them.
If that were the case, shouldn't they target their advertising a little... better? If you sponsor random youtubers you're just going to mostly gather cat picture and/or torrenting activity, which isn't too valuable. If it was really a front they'd advertise to criminals, like how FBI's anom app was targeted towards criminals, not the general public, otherwise they'd get a lot of sexts and very little drug deals.
Personal Capital – Q2 Market Review and Outlook [pdf]
Interesting!

I've been looking for ways to integrate my Fujitsu mini-split A/C heads, and while Fujitsu offers a Wireless LAN device [1], it appears to be a 3rd-party device that just emits IR to control the head. The device also depends on proprietary Cloud control and app, and while these have been reversed for HA integration, it seems like ESPHome can serve as an alternative.

[1] https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/residential/benefits/wirel...
I've used website blockers before on Twitter. I would still go incognito to find people for updates on things but the extra two clicks def nudged me from doing it as often.
Thanks morpheos137 for helping me to understand my place. I'm obviously delusional and my suicide will help clean the gene pool.

Thanks so much, morpheos137 for helping me to better understand and accept this cold, hard reality.

Tell you what. If I commit suicide now and if there's an afterlife that allows this, I'll pay you a visit as a ghost. I won't torment you like I've been. I'll just do everything in my power to help you understand how much of a piece of shit you were to me, and how wrong dang was to let you out of your malicious ape cage, after helping drive a stranger to suicide.

I hope I am wrong and nothingness awaits. In that case, there won't be any visits and you can continue with your malice against others. You know, to help clean the gene pool of mentally ill folks.

Good riddance, ape species.

dang, that was dead wrong to let that ape out of his malice cage.
Even if you interview "for fun", there's still a chance that you'll be so enticed by what they offer that you'd accept. There's nothing unethical about interviewing for a company that you don't think you'd want to work for -- it's their job to make the case that you should work there.

But this isn't the case if you're paid by another company to go to the interview and you are forbidden from accepting an offer.
Yup! I know how these work, but it’s not in active working memory...definitely takes a minute. I generally consider them to be almost a code-smell.
I'm not sure what's sad about it. What good is a language if no one speaks it? In the ideal world, wouldn't everyone speak the same language?
Exactly this. Short hash to identify builds, generally, seems to a pattern (and one that usually works fine in practice).

It gets a bit dicy once you setup CI to start generating builds/images off every commit to master, and then off every push to every branch. In practice, though, I haven't seen it bite of the projects I've been on. Usually something will break and then you just update the scripts to use N+1 characters.

In theory, a short-sighted script without safeties could do something wacky like deploy an image that's several months/years old. Running the numbers suggests something so catastrophic is quite unlikely.
Similarly:

Non-magic users: collect crystals, call their pet a familiar, draw pentagrams

Magic users: the most magical things I keep in my house are rocks, and I keep a hammer next to them in case they act up

You are not a expert in something until you know when not to use it.
Is this the same Red Cross that took in over $500B for the September 11 Liberty Fund, but then banked over $250B as a war chest? Or the same Red Cross that raised $500M for the Haiti earthquake and took a quarter of that for "internal expenses"?
We call it "kleenex", no matter what the brand actually is. Kleenex has become generic. And yet, if I were to try to sell some off-brand tissues with the name "Kleenex", I'd get sued, and I would lose, and rightly so. The word has become generic, but that doesn't mean that the trademark is (or should be) no longer owned.
Great run through by the Louis Rossman https://youtu.be/GE-qEDjUJYY
You assumption being that the government is after you specifically? That's unlikely. What's a lot more realistic is that autocratic and totalitarian governments collect all these data to analyze trends and find out how to better influence people or shut certain developments down before they reach critical mass. That is assuming they are a government front, because they could also just be private individuals snooping through and selling your data.
Not sure about inversion, but if I remember correctly, LAPACK can do for factorizations such as LU in place. You can the refuse the factorization to solve for many RHS.
I'm sure some legal wonder-kid would make slight work of your 'opt-out' preferences when it's for some form of 'national security'.
> in another you're having your existing tastes affirmed within safe boundaries, and StreamCorp's goal is to be better at doing that than your friends or circumstances. You'll get lots of great viewing material that meets your aesthetic preferences, but not anything that really surprises or shakes you; you won't ever have a movie experience that causes you to walk around for 3 hours in the rain because you changed.

That doesn't describe what I watch at all. It may be what many people see, but I'm saying that there is another way for Diller and them, and that I've witnessed it.

Also, people have been saying that 'it's not like the old days, when we weren't so focused on money' probably for Diller's entire career. I've heard it for my entire life. I think today it's particularly misplaced now, when there is more availability and outlets for artistry in film than ever before. And also, some of it is funded by FAANG.
The risk of becoming a crime victim is rather high here.
Ed Catmull once pointed out that the movie industry is actually quite cooperative and wants everyone to succeed. The more successful someone else's movie was last week tends to positively influence whether the audience will come back to theaters to see your movie the following week. It occurs to me that this idea is gone from streaming movies. In fact, you're more at odds with your competitors than ever, since you'll basically be competing for the same subscription dollars in the minds of your audience. I'm very interested in what that will mean in the future.
My grandmother speaks fluent English, but also fluent Italian. Problem is, it's what I'll call "pre-radio Italian" - where there was no single Italian language, but rather a great many dialects that sort-of sounded the same, until radio and (later) television came and unified them all into one language.

I bring this up because she often references words that only loosely resemble the modern forms. A good example is a number of her childhood figures who she affectionately calls "azi" - this is actually a version of the modern Italian "zio" (uncle). It gets much worse with foods, which really no amount of Googling can ever resolve a recipe, or even a description.
.bind() does create a new function, though it has far less “slots” than a regular one. It doesn’t modify the original function. The spec doesn’t specify anything beyond that, afair, and if binds aren’t cached in some way (easy to check with === or roll up your own cachedBind()), GC barely can make any benefit out of collecting slightly smaller objects (but the interpreted part of a runtime may still process bound functions a little faster than closures doing the same thing).

As of source code or p-code or by whatever structure {<code>} body is represented inside, it is always* static for all closures, so there is no overhead apart from a closure itself between:

function foo() {<code>} // func
for (;;) foo()

and

let i = 0
for (;;) {
let j = 0
function foo() {i++; j++; <code>} // closure
foo()
}

Because {…<code>} is a singleton in both snippets.

* of course jit may blur this distinction a lot, but that’s unrelated
The motorcross version is hard to look away from. Anyone know why there are right-handed and left- handed configurations?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-Cnd88yO4
> There are theaters that are dedicated to playing older movies, and they apparently turn enough profit to subsist in some locations. I think that makes this a top comment on HN with a profitable use case complaining that there's not enough around.

Great. Now every movie theatre starts doing that. What happens to profit margins?
"Papers, Please" but for programming.
David Graeber talked about stuff like this sometimes. His book Bullshit Jobs [0] is one place. He talks about the history of work in the U.S. (going back to medieval guilds, puritans, industrial revolution, consumerism, etc), amongst other things.

[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullsh...
And then you woke up
Yes, because after considering a datapoint of n=1, it's reasonable to extrapolate that the footfall of any arbitrary location correlates to the Google Trend graph of the locations's search terms /s
Software as a Disservice? Security Shortcuts Are Exposing Computers to Hackers
The way to make this work first off is the cinema on a quiet day offers the chance to rent a smaller theatre and play one of a preselected back catalog of movies.

Then people will do it as a party experience kind of thing. They could just ask for a minimum of 10 customers, which might be a better turn out than the quiet days.

Then extend it by offering a “ride share” where you let the cinema sell more tickets to strangers and as they sell you might get vouchers towards foods and drink thrown in. Why would anyone do this? Pick YOUR film and maybe get free drinks sounds great.

Democratising the film festival ;-)
While we're being silly, here's a shell oneliner that outputs its own SHA1 hash[1]:

A=shasum; C=echo; I='($C "A$s$A$X C$s$C$X I$s$Q$I$Q$X Q$s$k$Q$k$X k$s$Q$k$Q$X X$s$Q$X$Q$X s$s$Q$s$Q$X $I" | $A)'; Q="'"; k='"'; X=';'; s='='; ($C "A$s$A$X C$s$C$X I$s$Q$I$Q$X Q$s$k$Q$k$X k$s$Q$k$Q$X X$s$Q$X$Q$X s$s$Q$s$Q$X $I" | $A)

Note that this is not in any way opening its own source code as a file or through shell magic or something like that, in fact it's not looking at its own code at all. It really generates its own hash computationally out of itself, and would work the same if this was a compiled C program computing (not containing!) the hash of its own source code, even if the source code was thrown away.

This may seem impossible at first, but it's really just a funny variant of a quine (a program that prints its own source). http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/quine.html came up with the idea and explains the concept.

[1] You could trivially change it to output its SHA2 hash instead (which just wasn't as common at the time I did this), but then you'd loose the particularly "nice" hash. That property is entirely unrelated to outputting its own hash, and done the same as the commit hashes linked here.
Well, I dunno how well forgotten QMS. or BB are... to me, all these folks were playing some version of the blues but ran through the filter of young folks on acid. And they are all about obscure with folks these days.

My understanding is that Tommy Hall claims to have invented the term "psych rock", but as the wiki points out, folks like the Holy Modal Rounders might have already been using it.

According to my buddy from the elevators (who was, like, 72 when I started playing with him), the Dead an JA really (really) sucked and mostly got traction because they could make drugs show up.

He was saying they were literally doing free shows and handing out pot. As for JA, my buddy was claiming that they were pretty bad, to the point of not understanding how to tune their instruments.

I personally really like the dead, though I never saw them in person, and I am pretty sure there is some amount of sour grapes. But still, they were out there in SF off and on during that time, so I'm just reporting what he said.

Given the nature of this music, I feel that the innovation is what drugs folks were taking at the show... so it doesn't seem odd to me that there are strange mixes of pop, blues, country, bluegrass, etc.

I will say that the elevators might also reasonably be termed Texas Garage rock, which some folks consider a specific genera, and which has a lot pop-ier connotations to me. Those same kids were really into the blues. Moving Sidewalks, for instance, was influenced by the elevators but became ZZ Top rather than something more psychedelic, and there were a whole scene of kids a few years younger in Ft. Worth who skipped the psych and played the blues (Bug Henderson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Marc Benno, another weirdo in Kerrville I was playing with for a bit).

Joplin also came out of Texas at that time (she came out of Port A), and as far as I could tell a lot of these folks knew each other and had been playing shows with similar groups in the 65 and early 66.

To your question, I think that the dead really took the psych banner and ran with it. Surely someone would if not them, cause it's fun to drop acid and listen to music. They seemed to have a much, much better head for business than any of these other groups, and so they built a much more recognizable and main stream enterprise out of touring and lighting folks up.
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high

I tore my mind on a jagged sky

I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

-Kenny Rogers, Just Dropped In

https://youtu.be/6WUTlCTi7fg
You are making the bold assumption that piracy is predominantly tied to affordability. The example of rampant music piracy transitioning to digital music sales proves that piracy is often disassociated with economics. Many people who pirated Photoshop could have easily afforded it, but piracy was chosen because the option to pay nothing was available and convenient.

As for justifications, you've completely misunderstood my point. I'm not claiming that Apple should justify its 30% on piracy. Let me put it another way. I reject the assertion that an alternative universe where the iOS marketplace wasn't a walled garden would have reliably resulted in higher overall revenues for developers.

Obviously, if you wanted to propose a situation where everything was exactly the same but Apple took a smaller share of revenue, developers would make more revenue. But for most developers this hypothetical is now real, since all but the largest developers can now receive 85% of gross revenues.

There is one area where I disagree with Apple's policies, which is how they only allow in-app purchasing for multiplatform "reader" content. Companies like Netflix and Spotify should be allowed to subscribe customers using their own merchant system within their app, so long as the subscription is entirely multiplatform "reader" content.

The reason why I disagree with Apple on the above is because it's simply too dangerous to stand this ground. If Apple wants to be in the business of selling music and television, they need to suck it up and compete on a level field. Their current stance looks too much like penalties for Spotify and Netflix as protectionism for Apple Music and Apple TV+.
Check whether you can control your model using lirc, using an audio cable and a soundcard's line-out. Had it running with an Onkyo receiver.
But what then of the tyranny of the majority, lemon mentality being itself reinforcing? This cannot be know as anything but an agreed truth, or one applicable only to a greater objective, but never The Objective Truth. We need to embrace conflict and mutual exclusion to recognize more nuanced aspects which are relevant and "truthful" for a minority too.
Right. If NodeList is compatible with Array methods, it honestly feels like it should just inherit those methods. Or implement them separately.
Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font
Sounds like it's Uber's issue.
I suppose they capture the video stream and detects pattern in it. I guess it was just a matter of time as the gaming industry went bonkers with the anti-cheat trojans and eavesdropping, pushing hackers to go for the raw video.

Sadly the side effect will be that the industry is going to push high bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) on every cables now.

HDCP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
I agree, programs are and will always remain first for humans to read, which means they have to follow the shape of thought and not the other way around.
Most of them at least had jobs. Taxi driving wasn't great but they are at least employees. Some even have a union.
Inhabitable actually means "Capable of being inhabited, occupied, or tenanted." and "Not habitable, not adapted to human habitation, uninhabitable."

The joys of english.
The small town in question is Älvdalen, which gives the name to the language (Älvdal-ian).

I wonder why it's not spelled that way in English; or, for that matter, why it's not called övdalsk (after Övdaln, which is what the locality is called in that language).
Duolingo has courses on Navajo, Gaelic, and even Klingon and High Valerian. Maybe they would be interested in helping this language as well?
This is AWESOME! I already have a super container heavy workflow and abuse dockerfiles to do things like this. It's great to be able to generate artifacts in a container and slurp them back out (really tricky with normal dockerfile builds, you need exterior commands).

How well does it work with big builds in a single stage that fail? E.g. If I have a 3h CMake build that fails, does it keep the intermediate files in an image somewhere?
Huh. Weird.
> The Array.from() static method creates a new, shallow-copied Array instance from an array-like or iterable object[0]

So, do this instead:

Array.from($nodeList, myFn)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The name in English seems a bit gimmicky. "Älv" in the context means "river" and not "elf". I guess someone choose to use this play on words in the translation to pique interest and garner sympathy.
I am sorry to be that guy but your assumptions are wrong. Rendering voxels is much more expensive than rendering regular meshes. The polygon count is actually tremendous. Getting detailed models with voxels requires a lot more data than polygon based mesh.
FTA:

>Forage Bistro and Lounge, a Driggs restaurant serving up crab fritters, farmers market lasagna and beef tenderloin, can’t keep up with demand, said Lisa Hanley, the restaurant’s co-owner. The bistro needs to add several employees to its staff of 17. ... Servers used to work five to eight hour shifts but are now hustling for 10 hours at a time ...

Don't work and be poor.

Work hard and still be poor.

Why work?
Yes, the 68020 had a separate MMU; the 68030 had it on-chip.
Maybe because many of the nice things we would like to have are not profitable, and the insistence that profit is all that matters[1] is the reason we can't have nice things.

[1] to be clear: I'm referring to the insistence by those who have the gobs of money/stocks to decide what we can have, not by the average HN commenter.
Same for me. Me and my partner had to set an artificial rule to never drink on weeknights. Especially at the beginning, the stress induced by the pandemic made it really easy to want to pop a beer open at 5 every day. It mostly worked, in that there was an obvious benefit even though we slipping every now and and then.
Since when? That is the relevant point.

Book prices have gone through periods of low-inflation and of high-inflation over the decades. A paper-back book today will cost you in the mid-to-high twenties of dollars.

When I first started reading paper-back books in the mid 1950s, they cost 30 cents each. Ten years later, in the mid-1960s they had risen to about 45 cents - quite a large jump in percentage terms, but still miles away from today's prices.
Sounds like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589

"I currently have 10 fully remote engineering jobs"
Language encodes within it's systems, a built-up treasure trove of human meaning. A universal language looses a humongous amount of meaning. Its usefulness is in merely communicating functionality. In short, such a "universal" will fragment for the need to enrich this substandard language. Remember, human language needs to be rich.
American beers don't taste like they used to. They're mostly IPAs that taste like eating a shoe.
Just like in programming, different spoken languages have different capabilities-- certain ideas are easier to express in one language versus another. Some concepts don't even have words across languages. And there's beauty and rhythm, the way words rhyme, so even if you can express the same concepts, the network of how those concepts play off each other is different.

Having shared languages is awesome, allowing people to communicate together. But having only one language would be a great tragedy. It'd be like saying all paintings can only use one color.
It's not really just the nostalgia. It's taking the base from that point in time while applying things that were not computationally possible back in the day. It's a continuation of that style that many simply appreciate and it's not going away anywhere. Sure we can have photorealistic movies but somehow people still appreciate cartoons.
Docker tags are also themselves not cryptographically secure - the repository owner can replace a tag. Better is to use

org/imagename@sha256:<hash>
Never heard of it either. But "Knewz" gives off serious "hello fellow kids" vibes.

Also, yeah google and Facebook absolutely have bias, but the name "News Corp" just feels way too on the nose.
Oh go fuck yourself, Diller. This happens every 30 years and movie executives act like the sky is falling because they’ve gotten greedy and forgotten that movies should be vehicles to share human experiences and not vehicles to make money. It’s your own fault that you didn’t pay attention to Katzenberg’s warnings 30 years ago.

https://www.wnd.com/2017/06/see-what-1991-disney-memo-predic...
Yeah, it's sad that we're losing unique and interesting languages, but most people only learn 1-3 languages in their life. It's probably economically better for them to focus on ones that are spoken by larger groups of people.
"I will diminish, and go into the west..."

We lost Quenya, except for some obscure academic and literary works, now we look like we'll lose Elfdalia.
"This post is for Paying Subscribers"

Pointless putting an article like this up, if it can't be read.
Link to the order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...