skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I come across an unknown term in a discussion I take to the 'net to find out what it is all about. With new terms being born and bred every day this is not an uncommon occurrence which is I why I put that Searx [1] engine on my server, to be able to search without being pushed in a box by the incumbent search engine operators. This way I can use "politically charged" queries without marking myself as whatever it is I searched for.

As to a "republican" attack on free speech I would point to Michael Knowles last book, "Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds" [2] for some examples of a proposed limit on freedom of speech in the style of "just because you can teach preschoolers about kink does not mean you should be allowed to" and similar examples. Interestingly enough the book is the best-selling non-fiction political book in the USA at the moment but it has failed to show up on the "New York Times bestseller list", pointing at part of the problem discussed in the book. He calls laissez-faire liberals and nominally conservatives "squishes" who need to stand up for their principles. He does have a point, it does not make sense to call yourself a "conservative", "libertarian" or "progressive" or what have you if you are not willing to both talk the talk and walk the walk. It is also important for people to speak their minds and not be silenced by a vocal minority, even if this means they are likely to suffer consequences for their speaking up. Sticks and stones break bones but words break employment contracts, employment opportunities and social connections. If we in the west are to survive the increase in speech suppression we need to speak out. If you do not agree you should enter the discussion instead of calling for an online mob to get someone fired. As it stands the silent majority outnumbers the vocal minority by a large amount, it is time for these people - on all sides of the debate - to start using their voices in a constructive way. Just speak your mind, your own mind, not whatever pablum is being pushed by "your side of the isle". Not everyone will have a thought-out opinion on all subjects - the homo universalis has become a very rare species since the industrial and scientific revolutions - but if enough people dare to speak their mind it should be possible to come to a real consensus, possibly/probably straddling "party lines". Sometimes there just is no consensus nor should there be since "once side" is demonstrably wrong but even that should be allowed to be said, by anyone, from any "side".

[1] https://searx.me/

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55385983-speechless
Explicit hugepages on x86 are difficult to manage. Most people using off-the-shelf software can only take advantage of it by configuring, for example, innodb buffer pools to use them. However if your compute server really is a database, then you'll find the performance benefit is well worth the configuration.

For other processes you'll need a hugepage-aware allocator such as tcmalloc (the new one, not the old one) and transparent hugepages enabled. Again, the benefits of this may be enormous, if page table management is expensive on your services.

You will find a great deal of blogs on the web recommending disabling transparent hugepages. These people are all mislead. Hugepages are a major benefit.
So google and amazon will be scanning our houses with radar
The way that I would approach it is to try to take the strongest version of a given argument; particularly if that is the argument that the leaders/spokesmen in a movement are making.
Just go back to the history of anti-depressants 20+ years ago. Technically they don't work any better than placebo.
A key component of the hash algorithm used by blockchain is that difficulty can be adjusted, such that the algorithm ensures that the difficulty to mine the next block increases/decreases based on how long it took previous blocks to mine. In this way the network can attempt to maintain a predictable rate of blocks being mined as mining power fluctuates.

So for this to be a good computation for a blockchain to use it would have to have a way to modify difficulty in a predictable way.
Musk first appeared as what eventually became that universally loved company, PayPal. Which he was booted out of. Twice.
Here's tr in Perl: https://metacpan.org/dist/PerlPowerTools/source/bin/tr
Doesn't 130 degree water like burn skin or something? Would it be dangerous just to be outside in that condition?
>> With a couple of expert examples, an algorithm can learn to open a door effectively.

"A door". How about "any door"? I'm curious- do you have a link to a demonstration or something similar?
We had a very big steel mill here in Argentina that had it's own forest to grow eucalyptus, and make coal with them and use that in the steel production. From https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceros_Zapla_S.A.

translation> It had 15,000 ha of forest with 30 million eucalyptus trees to extract the coal necessary in the process, for which the town of "Centro Forestal" was build.
This book is absolutely incredible. I just read it recently. I didn’t expect to like it that much (the description doesn’t sound that interesting), but Kurson is such an excellent author that he totally hooked me. Highly recommended.
> When did the HN crowd become so defensive of copyright?

Copyright is good in limited quantities. The current multi-decade time horizon is probably what a lot of people are against, and not the concept in general.

And limited time period seems to be consistent through history. From the paper "Copyrights and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age":

> Comparing changes in the creation of new operas across Italian states with and without copyrights, we show that the adoption of basic copyrights encouraged the creation of new work. Moreover, we find that copyrights changed the quality of creative output by encouraging composers to produce more popular and durable works. These results generalize to a broader set of musical compositions and to librettos, as the literary component to the score of operas. Based on these findings, we conclude that the adoption of basic levels of copyright protection – not exceeding the lifetime of the composer – can help to raise both the quantity and the quality of new creative works.

> Importantly, we find that extensions in the length of copyright beyond the composer’s life did not encourage creativity. Performance data reveal that few operas were played after the first 20 years, which suggests that only the most durable creative goods stand to gain from copyright extensions. […]

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2505776
Copyright and patent are different. Also, while you can’t copyright an algorithm, your specific source code that implements it is copyrighted (assuming it’s sufficiently original).

In this case it’s not implementing the algorithm, it’s copying a particular famous implementation, down to the comments.
> Those local elites would have even more power if they were independent

No they wouldn't. Because they would face both their internal rivals and external rivals most importantly the empire itself.

> and imperial protection didn't mean much during the decades of civil wars

There was not as much civil war as you think and not in most regions even if there was.

During a civil war local elites had to pick sides. Often those choices happened above their heads.

> People tolerated Roman rule for centuries, during good times and bad, because they recognized that quality of life was better under the Romans.

Very questionable. Quality of life has little do with it. People for the most part didn't have much say in it, rather the elites. Their standard of life might get better because they get imperial titles, trade monopolies and things like that.

Maybe your point is true for the late imperial period around the med, but its certainty not generally true.

> However in late antiquity Rome stagnated, infrastructure projects weren't being built anymore and various tribes were no longer being effectively assimilated into the empire.

Yes, but what matters is the integration not the infrastructure. In fact, if you really track this, the falling apart of infrastructure does not at all correlate with the Fall of the Western Empire. Much of the infrastructure had already been having issues since the 3rd century.

> Rome's military was still very large, and the elites were more powerful than ever, but the empire fell because those elites and armies were no worse off setting themselves up as independent rulers of small kingdoms.

The elites with actual power (not just money) were no longer centralized or unified. If you actually look at trade pattern and urbanization they don't actually decline until much later. For the most part the Fall of the formal empire is a non-event.

The collapse of the Roman Med economy and the de-urbanization of Italy mostly happens later.
> The main issue is that evolution is both massively parallel and had plenty of runtime to get to human level intelligence.

How many entities are we talking about for substantial evolution? I know that there have been 100 billion "humans" (not that it's so clear-cut) alive, so guessing this is on the order of ~trillions of entities to simulate some evolution for (but maybe I'm really underestimating the early tail of tons and tons of microorganisms and small short-lived life that got us to this point).

Is the bandwidth of evolution that much larger than what we could possible simulate with computation, especially for a much simpler world/task than "generally survive"?
From what I remember of being that age, I think I just didn't notice things. As an adult (and as an older child) I often get a "that doesn't seem right" feeling/intuition. As a very young child I didn't know what normal was or what the important parts of experiences were so I was much more open to things and just went with them.
Nice, open-air sous vide. At a constant 130 F, after 2-3 hours the steak should be fully pasteurized and nicely medium rare.
I guarantee this is not Microsoft's announcement that they are forfeiting their copyrights. This is just them abusing the spirit of ours.
That's how I would describe my earliest childhood as far as I can remember it.
A significant amount of people don't like to move really far away if they don't have to.
4 friends of friends died in a flooded cave in my home town.

https://www.deseret.com/2005/8/23/19908025/4-drown-in-cave#8

I had been hearing about the cave, and had been invited to go there a couple of weeks before this happened. I decided not to go because it didn't sound safe. I was concerned about the oxygen content of the air pocket and decided it was too dangerous.
Yeah, seemed like a fairly reasonable question!

Thanks! I wonder if it gives as chilling a representation as this article. I will go find out!
Say your AGPL code is Copiloted into someone's new program and they decide to release that under a non-free license; that's the issue. We're defensive of copyleft.
Now THIS is the sort of high quality discussion I come to HN for!
https://archive.is/sMoL0
"3 joints" -> What are the 3 dimensions that joints move along? I naively would have thought one or two (ie. how much spin on one axis and how much spin on the other axis) just by naively looking at my elbow for a second.

For an arm of fixed length, polar coordinates have 2 dof.
Nice try, but ... Co-pilot can be sued for copyright infringement in specific cases. Therefore it doesn't mean you can get away with copyright infringement if you copy Co-pilot's model.
I used a Pi 2 as a desktop from 2017 to the end of 2019. Apart from using window maker, I didn't made many changes to use it as a desktop. Also, since it is an under powered machine by today standards, using it as a desktop gave me the feeling of a 90's workstation. I even compiled the latest available GTk 1.x version and xmms for a better retro feel.

It is possible to use the modern web if you keep the number of tabs low and switch heavier sites like gmail to the html mode. An ad blocker is needed and Youtube is watchable if you use the h264ify extension so it uses the hardware decoder and avoids modern video compression codecs.

I could even run libreoffice with Portuguese orthographic and grammatical checkers. It is slow, you can't run other tasks simultaneously but it works.

Want to watch movies? If it is 1080p or smaller encoded with h264 it is totally doable. Even streaming in 720p is doable. You won't be able to easily watch netflix though.

So, yes a 2GB Pi 2 is good enough for light browsing, light text editing, listening to mp3, watching movies and compiling software from early 2000's.

Things you can't comfortably do with it:

- Meetings: encoding and decoding with any codec that is not supported by the hardware is just too slow to be usable.

- Video editing: same as above. Also not enough RAM.

- Compiling large code bases: libreoffice and mozilla will probably fail on anything with less than 8Gb RAM. I could compile OpenCV on it, but it took hours.

- Keep many tabs open: you can if the sites are wikipedia-like. Anything more complex and the system starts swapping. Magic Sysrq-f is your friend in such situations.

- Modern IDE's: no way. Try gnu-nano or emacs/vi. Want to develop GUI apps? Use Lazarus-ide. Anjuta+Glade probably work stably with recent Gtk+3.x versions.

- Games: at the time I used it, the driver didn't support desktop OpenGL. Emulators for old consoles ran great, emulation station ran great, it is possible to run Quake but that is it.
This is the entire point of this command. It will update the rev attribute. What else would it be for?
If you don't make laws about it, I'm skeptical anyone would recycle unless theres a magic rare occasion where it's abaolutely necessary to keep profitable.
crypto scammers on twitter and youtube have been getting away with it for years. his mistake was tying it to his real identity
Edit: I can admit when I'm wrong. I stand by my assertion that it's absurd to call him a founder of Tesla, but his position in SpaceX seems to be legit.

~~He may be credited as chief engineer at SpaceX, but that doesn't mean he's meaningfully contributing to actual engineering efforts.~~ He's also credited as a founder of Tesla, despite not actually being involved in the founding of that company.
> .Net's LINQ comes close, at least for querying

It breaks down in really stupid and unintuitive ways. Now you're not just learning LINQ, but also the ideosyncracies of how LINQ translates queries to SQL and why sometimes your performance plummets even though you expressed yourself in the same way, but if you put some query in a variable first and then continue grouping it does a query that takes milliseconds. It's the best example of a leaky abstraction I've ever come across.
Im amazed that you come to the conclusion that the people who work with this and risked their lives didn't have these obvious ideas rather than there is reasons why they wouldn't work that you dont understand.
Scientific explanations of perception =/= scientific explanations of consciousness.
I always say it was the best and worst thing that happened to me

Totally worth it, sometimes you just can't have only the good parts
Yes, they are COM based APIs.

All modern Windows APIs use COM to great extent, anyone that uses pure Win32 APIs is basically frozen in Windows XP view of the world.

Mini-history lesson, initially there was DDE, which allowed for basic IPC on Windows 3.x, then came OLE 1.0, both required endless amount of C boiler plate.

Then someone realized that from all concepts, there was a set of central ideas and Windows OO ABI was born, which basically maps to structure with function pointers, naturally with the same layout as Windows C++ compilers organize their vtables when using single inheritance.

So then we had OLE 2.0, COM, OCX, ActiveX, mini-COM, which are basically all the same, IUnknown interface with three methods QueryInterface(), AddRef() and Release(), everything else builds on top of that.

WinRT/UWP is COM updated with some of the ideas that were actually behind .NET birth, so alongside IUnknown there is IInspectable.

So on Windows any language that understands COM ABI (not only C++) can make use of an OS wide OO ABI.

Then there are lots of things one can do with it, regarding in which memory space those components run, how many threads they use, security,...

Going back to the initial question, it is designed to be called from C as well, but almost no one does it.
That has already happened I think, but creating a new pipeline is hard.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/06/covid-vaccines...
there's another site that shows a series' ratings on a handy chart which is pretty cool.

https://www.ratingraph.com/

an example show: https://www.ratingraph.com/tv-shows/the-simpsons-ratings-385...
It looks like it'll beat that today.

Yesterday, it reached 130 at 23:54 GMT.

But it's trending hotter today: the current hour peak temperature is 127.4, and the same hour peak temperature yesterday was only 124.4. There's about two or so more hours of heating left in the day, which yesterday added 5.6 degrees in heat vs the 2100 hour peak.

If that happens - the same heating would cause it to reach 133F - it'll shatter the (reliable) world records.
Bitcoin miners already purchuased at least one coal plant.
I’ve never heard of honey baked ham the food chain.
> Do we have a replacement for coal in the steel industry?

Still in R&D admittedly, but micronuclear should do the job well.
It is certainly one way to solve that specific issue, assuming the program was written to take advantage of it. As mentioned, there are several other reasons a program may use a lot of virtual memory though.
Which is why Germany had the "Meisterzwang" for a long time in the trades - basically only certified masters of a trade could open up a shop. Unfortunately, EU laws forced Germany to drop that requirement for everything sans a couple of high-risk trade jobs (e.g. electricity, plumbing, meatpacking, roofing and hairdressers).
I don't remember the site, but it reminds me of the Girl Talk album called "All Day" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Day_(Girl_Talk_album). It was originally released as a free digital download.

> Greg Gillis composed the album using overlapping samples of 372 songs by other artists.

This article goes into it a bit more: "Girl Talk, Fair Use, and Three Hundred Twenty-Two Reasons for Copyright Reform" – https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/ledger-vol-1-no-1-4-pearl/
Well, for instance, there is no Google.cn, there is only Google Hong Kong.

Google Maps will still give you very basic maps in China, but at least in both Beijing and Shanghai the maps are unusable unfortunately.

You're correct that they are blocked by China. The reason they are blocked is because they haven't built a censored version of their search and don't provide China with data from emails, etc. - this is in contrast with Apple's approach. I don't know where it falls on censorship, since Apple isn't in the search business, but my guess is you would notice differences in Siri's behavior (for instance).
I have an iPhone 6 and while it doesn’t have the new iOS it still has all sorts of useful functionality. Apple does great in this regard compared to say, Samsung. With Android devices you’re also dependent upon the carrier for updates, which is obviously not what anyone sane would desire.
I use this all the time. One of the best ways to reliably center absolute elements.
On page SEO checklist and more
Void Linux, dude! I've been running it on my Pi 2 since forever.
How do you know that this wasn't the easiest/only option? (Since you said it was the hardest).
If you want "yes" answers there's a narrative book-length study an Israeli feminist did on the question, with interviews of some mothers who regretted it. I've not found anything on fathers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYUTO1A/
>so they were hooking up a few cryptocurrency mining rigs to a generator there

The generators can run off crude oil directly?
> It is seeking $150,000 (£108,000) damages and has asked for a jury trial.

...

> Lipa posted the photo to her Instagram account on 7 February 2019, about four days after it was taken.

...

> Integral Images had applied to register copyright for the images, and the request was granted on 20 February 2021 - after Lipa's Instagram post - according to records from the US Copyright Office.

They might have a hard time proving damages. Normally, a plaintiff would ask for statutory damages, which range from $750-$30000 per work infringed, or up to $150000 for willful infringement.

However, statutory damages (and attorney fees) are not available for infringement before registration unless registration occurred within 3 months of the first publication of the work.

It sounds like registration was more like a year after first publication, and infringement was a year before registration.

If that timeline is correct then to get $150k damages the plaintiff will have to show actual damages in that amount. I'm skeptical that they can do so.
"The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken"

Copyright is a horrible system. Microsoft has been one of the biggest proponents of that system. But now they've clearly violated it. They should either join in abolishing it, or face its consequences.
I saw the same with old chemical plants in Germany. Some companies preferred to keep an office active, just to keep the site open. Closing it would have meant clean up costs in 10s of millions.
Do not know how to answer this question. We raised my brother-in-law's two kids when he died. There were known quantities because we have been part of their lives since the days that they were born, and until he died, they spent as many days at our place as their place.

Personally, for various reasons, both my sister and myself and our spouses are zero-growth supporters, but I strongly support the efforts of good people to have and raise children and seek the joys of parenthood.

My biggest regrets about 'having' two children is the loss of their father (My brother in law was a good friend and good parent) and the loss of our lives' works and plans. We worked hard to get to this 'place' in life and were about to wind down to early retirement - that and much other stuff went away. Now at 64, I little to show for my years of sacrifice and working two and three jobs at a time after paying for the health and education and rearing of the niece and nephew.

If you are going to have kids, expect good stuff, but be responsible enough to plan for the worst. If you cannot afford to plan for the worst, then do not burden your remaining relatives with the weight of your excesses and selfish decisions.

Finally, not having children is not being selfish. It is the opposite. You are giving up much for living by your principles.
Allen Savory – What Is Science? (2020)
Occam's razor is a variant of confirmation bias.
Ventilators:

- are intended for use for a few days, not a few weeks. The artificial air pressure destroys lung cells and capillaries

- patients are sedated to avoid pulling out tubes. This weakens both their lung function and the rest of their body due to immobilization, including bed sores. Usually their trachea is damaged and they cannot talk after removing the tubes for a period of time, and must do physical rehabilitation afterwards.

- doctors and nurses consider patients on ventilators the sickest in the hospital, followed by recent ventilator patients

- being in a hospital for a month or more exposes patients to other infections, which are not immediately apparent in a sedated patient

- China warned about ventilator use being usually unproductive with corona very early in 2020, so it took a while for US doctors to understand that the low oxygen levels measured in corona patients was not a critical thing in most cases if they could still breathe on their own.

ER doctors are not researchers, so they follow previous recommendations until told otherwise.