skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If someone owns something then they are free to ask whatever price they want, up to refusing to sell it at all. That's what ownership means.

Yes, I agree this is what ownership means in principle. I think the more practical view of ownership is what the current monopolist of violence will let you do with what you possess. The monopolist of violence in most cases being your local government.

There are many real-world examples of being regulated in what you can or can not do with what you ostensibly own. Whether that's real estate, natural resources or intellectual property. Even IP has expiration dates defined by regulators. Do those expiration dates incontrovertibly define what is morally right or wrong to do with said IP? Were the regulators directed by divine mandate when setting those expiration dates?

> It's not to corner people into an easier target so much as to restrict the debate to the issue I take actual exception with.

Just so I'm fully aware of what we're currently debating, is it this?:

> This idea of labeling something as "price gouging" as a moral defense for anything really.

In which case, here's an example in which I personally believe theft is morally justified. Let's say your family is caught in a natural disaster, and you need fresh water to survive. A local opportunist saw the disaster coming and stockpiled all local water sources at low prices, and is now attempting to sell you water for the reasonable sum (when compared to the alternative option of death) of your life savings.

I'm curious about your position on this (intentionally extreme) example. Not as a trick question, but because I'd like to know how rigidly you adhere to the concept of ownership being morally just in all cases. If you still believe theft is morally wrong in this case, that's fine - it just means we believe opposite things.
His leadership roles were in Chrome, Gmail and Android, not any of the four products mentioned.
^ Exactly this. They can sell the premium version for however much they choose to, but the cheaper one - the affordable, the one that should be given out for free - is simply not available enough, it's being suppressed by the pharma industry in favor of their own premium, expensive product.

I mean what are people else going to do, die? Oh wait.

I don't understand commenters in this thread coming out in defense of pharmacy companies using their monopoly or influence to deny health care to people that need it. It should be considered a criminal offense. It's anti-competitive. I mean with insulin it's a massive hole in the market - why hasn't anyone else been able to jump into that gap and make a killing?
Then it isn’t shooting the messenger because they’re also an actor? Being a messenger doesn’t grant someone immunity from being critiqued for doing unethical things.
I have currently 375 repos under my user, plus about 20 more under different orgs.
What's the exact problem to solve? Just avoiding to pay per user per org?

I even have some crontab's to update all issues via git bug bridge locally, so that I don't need an internet connection to github.com to work on tickets. Clicks are not easily automated, so I avoid them for my workflows.
Same for almost daily rebasing. (all feature and bugfix branches are automatically rebased to master, when master moves). This is 90% automatic.

All my repos are public, I pay nothing. I find that better than paying for it and keeping them private.
Yeah, typesafety alone makes a HUGE difference.

Personally, I'd go to something like haskell or f# though, because of a even better type system IMO.

Altough, for learning it, typescript is probably easier and more applicable in the real world.
But to be fair, the US pharma sector spends roughly as much on marketing as it does on R&D. And a huge chunk of that R&D budget goes into analogue drugs to either sidestep patents from rivals or maintain profit margins when their own patents expire (they can then use that huge marketing budget to get the newly patented drug to take over for the old one with the nearly-expired patent, despite small or non-existent benefits from a medical perspective). So long story short, there's a pretty good case to be made that public research with somewhere between 1/10th and 1/5th the budget of big pharma is all it takes to match or overtake them in innovation, as measured by actual benefit to the patients.
I’m still waiting on one of these applications to actually have vim keybindings for their iPad app - there are quite a few applications that I think use code mirror which for whatever reason doesn’t seem to support it.

At least I’m assuming that’s the reason, given the feature is notably absent from every note application that supports a vim mode on desktop on iPadOS. Please, someone implement this.
Id say fixing up a fairly minor issue and apologizing for it takes a lot more backbone than the blatant fear of having made a misstep that your comment reeks of.

I don't usually agree with the pro-social-justice, everything-is-offensive PC crowd. But sometimes, a joke is in bad taste. It's not the end of the world, it's not a horrible joke the author should be ashamed of, it's not a huge deal, and "sorry, you're right, fixing" is a perfect response.

Your response however is full of severe insecurity. "Grow a backbone", as they say.
Related: Orbital Sciences (Northrop) developed the Pegasus airborne launch capability in 1990:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus

It is now being redesigned and considered for rapid tactical launch of satellites…and perhaps other applications?
I consider natural diamonds specifically to be a scam, where paintings aren't, because both the symbolism and the scarcity of them were created by a single company, through a very long and thorough marketing effort.
I recently found requests for gig voice jobs where they were tricking the applicants into having their voice cloned. It really is the wild west, and people can easily have thier voice cloned without permission.
It looks just amazing. I hope that this thing will not fail in the case.
> He didn’t even try the app once before presenting it to the investors

Ah ah, so classic. It just happened to a client I have (I only manage hosting for them)

<slack alert> : we have this one page down with an error, but it's the landing page of a mailing we just sent !
<me> : do you had the error when testing before launching mailing ?
<client> : mmmm.....

Problem was solved by the developer in a matter of minutes, but it's always a good lesson.
It's a little bit too pat in its conclusions.

When watching livestreams of riots, it's really evident that the chaos they produce is rather like little bursts of action, and not so much a sustained pandemonium. These bursts are a thing that can actually take place anytime and don't gain special value because of the riot, they are just more common, more easily prompted. Everyone gets behind on their narrative of events in the process; though the observers'll say something is happening according to their beliefs, it's not literally the thing that is happening.

And that isn't so far removed from just an ordinary "wild party" that hurts people or gets stuff smashed. It's riotous specifically because of the context and political impact. There aren't "sides" in a party, unless there's a gang fight or something of that nature. But a riot always expresses some politics.
a 231-byte Brainfuck-to-C compiler*

It's still an impressive feat, and very informative on the assembly details - but doesn't feel as incredible as the headline makes believe as the core logic seems to be a string search-and-replace of the strings in the "reviewing brainfuck" table.

Seems to me, you could write the next brainfuck compiler in sed.
> I'm no economic, but we've seen time and time again that lowering prices boosts volume sold to the point where eventual profit is much higher.

The current system has whoever can afford it pay the high price, whoever can afford less pay a lower price, and whoever can’t pay anything doesn’t pay anything.

Lowering drug costs won’t change the number of people taking drugs. That already based on need. All that changes is the amount of total profits.

The only politically and morally acceptable answer for this is to raise the price of drug costs globally to soften the change in profits.
Ok, so the account still exists, but it's now in a different OU and so the healthcheck that looks for it in the Office of the CEO ou fails...

Again, a joke, but I've seen stuff fail in other dumb ways because of some assumptions that were made about things that never change (until the day they do).
E.U. countries are very close by. Apple products would likely be in duty free in force.

Trade in used devices would be brisk, fed in part by what is brought in.

Then, Apple begins running ads for sympathetic members of parliament, with astonishing levels of cash.
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"What is your day job, Kyle?"

"This is my day job. I'm a media artist, I just write a lot of code. I spend most of my time making open source tools with other people."

"But how do you make money?"

"I get commissions, grants, and live off artist fees from exhibiting work. I fly to conferences and festivals and do workshops and presentations. Sometimes I'll do residencies."
<<<

This agent and I are both having a ‘Deuce Bigalow’ moment over this. But seriously, is this just bohemian speak for some other source of financial support, or is it actually realistic to make a big city living this way?
If you spent twenty years being called a "smart kid" and then went to a job where all the smart kids end up, then you may have a rock-solid self-image.

Growing up as a smart kid interested in computers from 1976-1996 was a very different experience than the same from 2001-2021.
> Nobody is particularly happy about having to edit the XML directly

I wouldn't mind editing a concise XML dialect (XML really doesn't have to be monstrous, a dialect it can be designed with humans in mind). A visual designer producing XML files as its output doesn't actually solve the problem. VisualStudio's developer experience (where you can change everything on the fly, go to the relevant piece of code in a click or two, refactor something and get it also changed in the designer etc) feels really seamless and fluent while PyQt with PyCharm+QtDesigner seems nice but not nearly like that. It seems to me nothing can be considered a serious and worthy improvement until we have an actual integrated visual RAD IDE. I would immediately buy the paid version of PyCharm (I'm using the community edition if they built a good and well-integrated visual designer in it, for whatever a desktop toolkit they prefer).
While it is a coincidence that e+moji sounds like emotion, that is their purpose: to communicate emotions. And it is the origin of emoticons which preceded them.
I'm generally skeptical about all such news but a few things make me cautiously optimistic:

- Lina Khan: I had heard about her a long time ago before she even got into politics. She is known for her academic work on antitrust and big tech so she definitely understands how monopolies work and how they are unfair.

- Biden saying "Capitalism without Competition is Exploitation"; simply the acknowledgment by a sitting president that what we have today doesn't look like capitalism anymore is in itself a huge achievement and lays the groundwork for real improvement. Now, everyone knows that something needs to be done and everyone knows that everyone else knows that!

- Biden is getting old and probably doesn't care about a second term in office. It's possible that he decided to make as many powerful enemies as necessary to secure a great legacy for himself.

That said, I think that people have such low trust in government and media nowadays that I don't expect anyone from the right to warm to Biden until we see actual results.
I have been happy enough with SimpleNote - great cross platform markdown note sync. You can link notes and publish them. Not open source but no cost.

Just tried the Obsidian mobile app - it is fast as well. I am tempted to switch for the vi key bindings.
I am thinking of the children; especially so - of their right to choose.
You can use LogSeq[1] if you'd like to continue with org-roam. It supports both Markdown and org-roam, stores data locally, and has a good community as well.
It is still in beta though.

[1] https://github.com/logseq/logseq
They haven't been accepted in shops for over 10 years now. Cheques still see some use elsewhere, but are slowly being replaced by cash, cards and bank transfers depending on the use case. The Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque#United_Kingdom) sums it up pretty well.
> because people like me would watch it almost continuously

I would, too. Only this year I've completed another end-to-end rewatch of DS9, and continued with half of VOY (got interrupted by life) and then half of ENT. And I feel like the time to re-watch TNG is approaching again. Lord help me, if they had SG-1 on Netflix in Poland, I would have been watching it just as much.
Hardware accelerated encoding is usually lower quality anyway so you probably wouldn't use it for this sort of thing.
Thanks ! I thought about this but then I read "Providing remux/RAWs for cough." and it didn't make sense to me anymore
Most drugs appear first in publicly-funded research, but so does every other compound that can get past a p value of 0.05.

The main value proposition of big pharma is that they take those results, find the ones that actually work (very few of them do), study them for side effects, and characterize them. There is a LOT of work between the published research and an actual drug (there is actually significantly more risk and cost to go from a paper to a drug than to write the initial paper).
Æ looks like the blank face of shame. Somehow I'm picturing E being the mouth's shape in that expression
“Signed a big client!”

“Things are looking up!”

“______ got a promotion to ___________!”

“Releasing our new version/marketing campaign/product tomorrow!”
Computing power might be donated by volunteers.
If there are volunteer software engineers, there must be volunteers to run a container.
So I guess the next scientific milestone becomes doing the inverse of this challange...

Ie. Given a structure that you'd like a protein to have, develop a sequence for it.

If we could do that easily, we could start making molecular machines for all kinds of tasks. Rather than co-opting enzymes from nature, we could design our own.

So many industries could benefit from that, even if you exclude all the biomedical applications where such an approach might be considered too high risk. We could for example begin with dishwashing tablets which actually get burnt on stuff off...
Restrictions were lifted while most people under 30 weren't even vaccinated once. It was announced as "the summer of love", but unfortunately it's starting to look more like "the summer foreign holidays are cancelled due to travel restrictions".
That's a fair point I suppose. Kanji started as pictographic too. It's just really strange to me that anyone would choose to add such a complicated feature to language use that they didn't inherit from a time before syllabaries and alphabets.
The article implied that it was for 3g and 4g radio-related patents.
any example of a decade old driver that will install? not even the .cat signature algorithm will be the same, and windows enforces signed drivers these days.
I want to use a tool like this but I dont like using Markdown for taking notes. Its far too restrictive. Which is why I keep coming back to plaintext. These days my formatting is just deep tabs. Anyone know of tooling around this? I created a plugin for now here
https://github.com/jonocodes/vscode-tabtext

but I'd still like a better tool. Worth a try to ask, I guess.
I found myself laughing at this but also feeling uncomfortable. The way he calmly evades people's questions and just continues on is impressive.
Especially if your problem domain is determined by those two people.
WinUI Community Call – June 30 2021
I don't see this as defending myself from an attack but as debating the logical basis of an ethical position that strikes me a purely emotional. In my initial comment I already pointed out trying to pick cheap textbooks. But people wanted to go after the easier target of expensive textbooks, so fine.

The more people pirate textbooks the more publishers will pivot to a business model where they can make money. Such as with online software instead (they're already doing some of that with software like Pearson's MyLab, which forces students to buy the book anyway to get a license). At which point we're back to the same argument about the freedom to set prices.
Windows 11 design refresh: Microsoft’s WinUI 3 ditches UWP for Win32
What's inside a non-EU country's vaccination QR Code?
> Apple laptops [..] objectively last longer than the competition.

Massive citation needed. Especially if you're going to talk about software support here since MacOS kills software support for old hardware long before Windows or Linux does.

The comment of "check eBay" isn't very compelling. Check it for what? What's your hypothesis and methodology here? Especially since you're claiming it's objectively longer lasting?
You're right about the imports. Not sure the lobbying campaign would go like that: party discipline in the UK is too strong for picking off sympathetic MPs to be a useful strategy, and political advertising is very heavily regulated.
The rising price of Insulin is not funding the R&D of new drugs.
The ugly side of 5G: New cell towers spoil the scenery and crowd people’s homes
Taler is a pretty great system. It is anonymous for the payer, but doesn't facilitate money laundering because the receiver of the money can be identified. It's also fairly cheap to run. I hope it gets adopted as a digital currency.
A Look at Corona-Tech
I think that tax should cover that. Of course that raises the current problems with international firms and taxation.
Maybe I'm too old, but in all these cases, the exclamation mark is doing all of the job of expressing elation, and adding a rocketship icon would be redundant.
Introducing a Dark Web Archival Framework
Champagne embraces direct to consumer sales
Sounds like you're in luck with Working Copy, as they mention this as being the only (known) application supporting background-sync for specific directories.

https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/iOS+app#Sync
How to Make Animated Loading in Harmony OS-Huawei Developers
> There is no fundamental difference between compilers, code formatters, preprocessors or transpilers. Anything that takes a program and outputs another program related to it by some semantics is a compiler.

That is arguing semantics and, while not wrong, I think it muddies the waters: By that logic, sed and awk are compilers.

In the end, only machine code can be executed, so you'll need something at the end of your chain that produces machine code or at least executes your DSL in an interpreter loop.

So I think a distinction between "compilers" that generate machine code and "compilers" that don't is worthwhile.
Heroes get their hands dirty, and risk their lives. As opposed to certain CEOs who see the world as a nice background for photo opportunities to boost their own ego.
Then we can accept there's not an ML solution for it, since sufferers haven't built it yet.
The reason we can afford universal health care in my country is because there are hard caps to the prices health professionals can legally ask, be it for fees or medication prices. If the prices are kept closer to their real value, and not inflated prices, then it's already much more affordable to consider paying for universal health care.
Wow Soundcloud only lets you listen to three of the sounds before it tries to force you to download their app. You might want to host the sounds elsewhere.
"People will simply import iPhones from elsewhere" is not an option - if there's a patent decision, then it would also mean that imports are a patent violation, all iPhones would have to be seized at the customs. Not-for sale items in personal luggage might be exempt, but bringing a new iPhone in a box for someone else would literally be contraband in this situation.
If you don't have the right to determine how you will use your money, as you see fit, it's not your money anymore.

Governments can just piggyback on your work as much as they want. The productive portion of the people can be enslaved for the benefit of the political and the managerial class, with some alms to the poor so they will vote for the right candidates.
'Black Widow' Proves That Disney's Theaters and Paid Streaming Strategy Works
Pay x or I'll break your legs.
Should be able to see a significant uptick in BMI across the population between 2019 and now if this is the case...
I find for myself that internet addiction, in all its many forms, is more of a symptom than a cause in itself.
When my life gets busy or when I make an effort to be busy with stuff irl, I don't even remember to do my usual round of internet time wasting.
Also papers do not follow any formatting standard, as a human that does not bother us too much, but OCR will have a hard time making sense of multiple columns with random text above and below, figure captions that are separated by the main text with only a little bit of vertical space, etc...

There are some projects that try to automate that, but so far all I have used needed some manual intervention.
Not updated with Visual Studio 2019?

C11 and C17 are supported, minus C99 features made optional in C11.

ASan is now in the box.

And Visual Studio definitly provides a better experience of coupling static analysis with code being written.
Smart person. You have the risk/reward thing figured out.
Neither of those examples have anything to do with if a publisher was given access to the source. Those seem to be more about those games being developed in a time when source control and backups were handled more loosely within the industry as a whole.

And that does not only apply to games, certain parts of MS office do not have source available anymore so MS has done binary patches to fix bugs, pixar almost lost part of a movie but an employee happened to have a offsite copy at their home.
Exactly, they don’t seem to respect others’ legally enforceable IP, the engage in tax avoidance schemes…why would Apple pay a court ordered judgment for damages? Wait is that not what you meant?
GPL does not require that.

E.g. you can develop closed source code that runs on top of the Linux kernel.
How is this different from the origin header? Does the origin header not tell the webbserver if the requested originated from the same website? Is the origin header flawed in some way?
After a year+ of using Roam, I discovered https://mem.ai a few months ago and haven’t gone back to Roam. Mem is invite only beta I think. Raised 5.6M from A16z. It has bidirectional linking, tagging etc. Easy workflow via “mem spotlight” - you can capture websites or highlights into mem, or paste from mem into other apps (e.g snippets)

https://get.mem.ai/faq

But very intrigued by obsidian. I briefly tried it before but will give it a go again
I'm sure there are command-line tools that would take a picture and save it as a file. Put that in a loop with a "sleep 60" in between (or whatever delay you want) and you're done.
Why do I have to pay the same tax rate as someone who literally got tax payer money injected into his budget, while I have to use surplus profit from the past?
How 'digital nomads' are ruining tropical paradises