skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Totally unfair for the Windows UI redesign team.
> Also... I know nothing about wait loss, but surely a lot of the mass is in water?

Not really. Yes, you loose water (and its weight) when you e.g. sweat a lot when exercising, but it gets replaced when you drink. More generally your body keeps the amount of water more or less at the same level through intake (drinking, but also water in food), urinating and sweating. There are short-term variations, but besides exceptional circumstances on a day-to-day basis the amount of water in your body should be pretty constant.

Real weight loss is through loss of muscles (not preferable) or loss of fat.
S3 is an ACPI concept, not a hardware one.
The claim was that it's obvious that an AI can't patent something because the AI is an "equation." I'm claiming that if you want to establish a meaningful difference between humans an AIs, which would be useful legally, it can't be that one is an "equation" and the other is not, because "an equation" could equally well describe human behavior. You'd have to search for the distinction elsewhere.
I would have named it Secure HIBA, i.e. SHIBA
>when someone sells a T-shirt with their art on it without asking, attributing, or paying for it

The rest of your comment is talking about patents. Was this person's art patented?
I grew up strongly religious, and I still believe strongly, but left the organization due to the people in it. I did have an atheist phase, but that depressed me so severely that I almost had no choice but to reconsider my belief.

Without a religious structure, life has no set purpose. Sure, you can make a purpose for yourself, but it feels empty compared to a created, beautiful universe by a benevolent being who got lonely.
Remember when prime meant you got your package in two days, not that’s they’d maybe sometimes put it in the mail in two days?
The article spoke of exactly that - the entire study was based on anecdotal information, since there is no way to know for sure what is actually going on inside another person's head.

Their only solid point was that the voice in our head reads to us and talks to us in a similar fashion to what a child receives from adults during their formative years. But they even admit to not being able to tell even how often this is the case.

Interesting, but admittedly weak evidence, essentially. It seems there are a lot of studies out there on why we have an internal voice, why we have it, etc.
The United States considers any transaction in USD within their jurisdiction.

Huawei and Iran should have been doing business in a different currency, and frankly I don't understand why they weren't.
Federal income tax.
There's still time. Also it made the front page of Hacker News. So I'd say that's a success.
> It's only a risk if browsers start banning sites like the app stores do.

What if browsers start banning apps from their own app stores, though?

https://hub.packtpub.com/mozilla-and-google-chrome-refuse-to...
I don't think there's strong evidence that piracy even was an existential threat in practice, but regardless the new business models that have emerged are in fact far worse value propositions for consumers that want to be able to keep a copy of the thing they watch or listen to, access said things ever again without a continued subscription, or be able to find media that doesn't require being spied on by some company to use. It's also a worse value proposition for artists, who receive much worse pay for works on streaming services exactly because their reach is so massive, and they can spread their risk out across lots of artists and markets by making it much harder to make a living off their services for said artists. Technology will always change how business is done, but right now, the law is playing a role that makes that shift more toward companies having strong controls over and surveillance of their customers that can't even legally be circumvented in the name of protection of IP. A business model like BandCamp could easily have worked without the DMCA. A business model like Netflix couldn't, but I don't really consider that a good thing
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> Would my net worth suffer if governments allowed more housing? Absolutely.

This is the crux of the issue, not because it’s true, but because people believe it’s the case.

The value of the house itself would fall, but the value of the land would still increase with more flexibility in how it’s used. An 1800 sf home is never going to be worth $5 million. At some point, people will make other sacrifices to not have to pay that.

But I imagine that same lot could support a 10 unit building (just guessing). At $500k each, that property is now worth $5 mil, and each unit is comparatively affordable.

Even if the property owner doesn’t turn it into a 10 unit complex, others that do would cause nearby single family lots worth more since they could be converted, or kept for a super rich guy.

An underrated aspect is that most California leftists refuse to believe free market capitalism can solve the problem, regardless of the evidence. I think there are fewer people who are just protecting their property values than we think. We need to start talking about the issue with that in mind if we want things to change.
All raid. Your odds of a dual fail failure are too high.

Note, good raid6 should have x and y stripes with no more than 8 drives in any stripe. I have no idea what they do, so maybe they can restripe somehow on one drive. Hiding the implementation detail is good if they do this right. But I don't know how to tell if any do it right.
This is the one I'm referring to. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fugue-Bach/dp/B00000E2U0
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That link says "Known to work on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 21.04", although maybe Ubuntu is just the default selection when the page loads... still, I guess you won't be testing much new software if they don't allow you even using Docker!
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So, because you’ve done research that’s the end of it? No one else can possibly do better? Game over guys. The guy on hacker news did his best so everyone else should just stop trying.

I for one, as a person that swings around with depression, would love something like this on my wrist.
There's DeaDBeeF, which aims to be its open-source clone.

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
Back then we were moving a terabyte a week on one Hotline Server alone. Napster was already way way more popular (and accessible).
WFH? No Thank You
https://archive.is/X1L8f
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Apple's large enough to have other options.

They've been hiring risc-v specialists recently. I wonder why.
Yes - 60 minutes had a great piece on this
I'm pretty sure Hacker News is split on this topic. While I disagree with that conclusion I'm interested in discussing the balance.
Irrelevant. The comment I was responding to said the following:

"...I don't think many people here would be familiar with the day-to-day, mundane aspects of IP law which probably, for the most part, works fairly well."

I am responding directly to that claim, and have used as examples situations involving patents and situations involving copyright, with the intention of conveying that there is not a single facet of this whole area of law that seems to function well in practice unless your interests are aligned with monopolistic corporate power. Most examples of it not being that bad are examples of it simply not coming up
I’ve had “engineers” at my company push leadership enough to force me to create a build/plug-in system for react components to render a map of the US. I made the same map in D3 at home over the weekend in vanilla JS.

The excuse was DX. How can we test it and use storybook if we don’t use react and generate a giant dingus of a bundle?

Edit: so don’t just trust “engineers”.
Some of us are definitely as busy as to always be in a crunch. Stopping to think is exactly what might prevent this situation but it’s also excruciatingly difficult once there. I think that applies as a pilot too.
I mostly use the "close all windows" hotkey, bound to delete by default.
Sounds to me like you’re saying that churches are interested in brainwashing kids because their existence depends on it, while secular philosophy as a branch of science is not an agent that could act at all.

To compare apples to apples somebody should start a church of secular philosophy.
How Reliable Is Scientific Software?
"You don't get big by being bad at what you do."

I don't know, I could name a lot of exceptions. Many of them just have to be good a big client and unresponsive to smaller ones. Ben Horowitz named a top firm in his book for screwing them and they're still a top firm.
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But sometimes what needs to be fetched is determined by a "computation". And a computation might take a long time.

So I'm not sure if it's always clear what should be the perfect factoring.
Changing Careers? Here’s What to Put on Your Resume
From their FAQ:

> While being religious in no way means someone cannot be a good therapist, far too many therapists integrate or insert spiritual, religious or New Age ideas into therapy, even when they know their client is not religious.

> We cannot make any assurances about therapist qualifications or experience. [...] We would advise you to look carefully at a therapist’s qualifications, licenses, etc. once you have made a connection and the therapist has provided you with their contact information.

So why all the cloak and dagger? Why not just get a bunch of therapists to sign a pledge or join a public registry?
Ironically, the definition of busy beaver functions are in some sense code golfed! If the same output could be achieved in fewer bits, it would correspond to BB with smaller argument.
I hope that made you feel good!

Seriously, someone goes to the trouble of finding the archive link because the server is having trouble (note that someone else had mentioned it too, not just me), and it gets modded down. Why? What possible justification is there for that?

Then even mentioning the ridiculous modding down gets modded down further. Why? (and no, "because those are the rules" isn't a reason... did it ever occur to you that sometimes rules are wrong?).
False claims are endemic for classical youtube uploads. AI systems and human agents alike conflate different recordings of the same work more as a rule than as an exception. Both ability and incentives create a massive bias in favor of this state of affairs.
Yes piracy is bad and all but as a college student, Napster was such as life saver. You could literally download any song you wanted to listen to. I also remember another application called Kazaa that was popular as well (circa 2000-2002ish)
This is a well-known sampling bias. The number of interview candidates who can't solve fizzbuzz is very high, because those are the people who aren't in jobs and are therefore interviewing. Interview candidates are a skewed sample of the entire population.
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I doubt many here are still under the illusion that Telegram has anything to do with security or encrypted messaging. (It's just too damn convenient for UX reasons.)

That's not the same as a "wild west of free speech", though. I have no idea how well they do on the front of censorship, they're way too intransparent an organisation for that, but the USA also sees itself as such and it is not encrypted. Secure protocols and censorship are two separate things, even if one (in this day and age) helps the other.
Lawsuit: Thin Skyscraper Is Too Thin
Exactly. I have been a strong proponent of considering all possibilities of origin. It's exciting that we're getting closer. Someone elsewhere in the thread that 95% identical is a very close match.[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28657113
Ah, Hotline… 1998…
Those were glorious days. To go from buying CDs to being able to find and download almost any song you could think of was amazing.

I loved the ability to discover artists I didn’t know about by looking through people’s collections. Such a great discovery feature.

It was all illegal, but it just an amazing time.
Hospitals require flu vaccination annually. The only difference between that and the covid vaccine is politics.
The article and the statement are frustratingly light on details, but this appears to be an application of the primary author's prior work on navigating by observing the Doppler shifts in LEO satellite constellation frequencies: https://escholarship.org/content/qt9p86d5fk/qt9p86d5fk.pdf
Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A Cypherpunk History
Those were exciting times. I had dialup internet access back then. I spent a day hanging out with a friend who had a cable modem, downloading music all day long.
Agreed.

If drivers had to go through 1/10th of the training/certification a private pilot does, our society would look very different.
There's a down vote button on HN? I only ever see only the upvote one
Finding Bugs by Reading Documentation
A typical PNG screenshot of many classic games is often larger than the game it's taking a screenshot of.

Sure, you can save a lot of space building a custom simple indexed palette loader and using some sort of 2bpp format, compared to the standard 32bit ARGB PNG format, but is it worth the dev time cost?
There's this quote from the article: “None of Huawei’s products or technologies have been developed through improper or nefarious means.”

And then there's this WSJ article: "Huawei Technologies Co. said a small portion of its router software apparently was copied from Cisco Systems Inc., but the Chinese company said it is removing the tainted software from its routers globally."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000
> What exactly about secular humanism has caused this social problem? Do you have some research that indicates that walking away from "parental obligations" is in any way influenced by religious belief?

Religion (speaking about Christianity here, but Islam is similar) prioritizes marriage and family within the traditional two parent structure. Organized religion provides a framework for pressuring people to confirm to that structure. Secular humanism, by contrast, emphasizes development of the self, and discourages social enforcement of moral norms.

There’s many studies on correlation between religious belief and say fertility rate. There’s also studies showing the correlation between vibrant religious institutions and various positive family formation characteristics. In particular, if you compare geographically and economically similar places, those with healthy religious institutions where people regularly attend church (say certain Dutch parts of Iowa) are socially better off than similar places where the religious institutions aren’t healthy. (Tim Carney has done a lot of research on this.)

To be clear: I’m not saying that religion is the only way to achieve these goals. My thesis is narrower: religion is a social phenomenon that have average people practice healthy behaviors. Educational elites who similarly practice these healthy behaviors (say non-religious but highly educated Asians in California) may not need the support mechanism offered by organized religion. But those same people underestimate or overlook the support networks they may have, or cognitive advantages they may enjoy, which average Americans may lack. (My great grandfather was an imam. My dad didn’t raise us religious, but we had the same moral framework, and our Bangladeshi community enforced the same behavioral standards.)

The reason this is important is the research being done now, for example by Raj Chetty, which shows that single parenthood rates is the single factor most highly correlated with low economic mobility.

> I could make the equal assertion that religion turns men into sexual abusers of children (reference: the Catholic church). Are you comfortable with that?

I think it would be more accurate to say that hierarchical religious organizations make it easier for sexual abusers to hide. And that’s absolutely true.

But that’s not the end of the analysis. Our society has a tendency to focus on injustice to individuals created by social structures, which is admirable. But we are often myopic about the benefits of social structures to the majority.

For example, we focus a lot on abuses within the Mormon community, which undoubtedly exists. But if you go to Utah you can’t help but notice these people have created a thriving civilization in the middle of an inhospitable desert, next to a lake that has no drinkable water. And heavily Mormon areas continue to thrive even as other non-coastal areas, which aren’t full of educational elites, are collapsing.
I think this might apply only if you are married but filing together. Not separately. Not 100 percent sure about this though, so feel free to fact check me. We’ve been doing married filing separately and my wife has been getting the full amounts afaik.

Edit: did some light googling and yeah there was nothing obvious that being single parent is better than being married, financially. So I think the above claims will need some qualification.
I've had similar situations where what initially seems like a simple change between async vs. sync can turn out to be a major redesign effort. Therefore I'm starting to lean on the idea that I should use more async -methods from the start than what I'm currently doing.

Part of the issue is that 'sync' is the default. I wonder if it would be better the other way. Because sync is the default it is easy to "simply" write sync methods in cases where async might be a better choice, and, that decisions is often hard to reverse later.

I'm working with JavaScript but I assume the issues and questions are similar as with c#.

I think the question could be rephrased as "When should I NOT use async methods?"
Is that the really important thing? It’s a nascent technology.
I think you need to prove your claim that rnd would not work with out strong IP law. or that innovation would stop because of it

In reality we have TONS of examples of competition and rnd coming AFTER something loses IP protection

Everything from Movies to 3D printers can be cited as examples of this, Countless movies are based on Public Domain characters, books, and other works that have entered the public domain, and there is a strong case to be made that the reason studios keep remaking the same movies is because TONS of creative works are locked up in IP hell, there is a HUGE public domain hole due to increasing copy right lengths

For patents, look no further than 3d printers. The tech was there for 20+ years, locked away in various patents. The second those patents expired the industry exploded with innovation and plenty of companies investing all kinds of capital in 3d printers...
The science is extremely clear. 99% of people now dying of COVID are unvaccinated. Even if the vaccine isn't as effective as hoped against preventing infection, it's wildly effective at reducing severity.
There was something about piracy in the times of Napster, emule and the like. It really made you feel like you knew some incantation to get access to the whole world's information.

In practical terms, I have access to far more content now (music on Spotify, shows and movies on streaming services, tutorials, online classes, etc) and yet our reach doesn't seem as wide as it seemed in those times.

Perhaps it was just the jump from scarce physical media to digital abundance. Perhaps it's that I now feel like I'm being sold what others want to put on my plate, rather than stumbling on information by accident. Perhaps it's just nostalgia... but I feel we've lost something on the way, that we should have kept for the next generation.
I was like, “Is Napster still a thing?” Then I saw 2000.
Chesterton's fence comes to mind
I have a spot on my chest that when I pinch it I get convincing feeling of being pinched on my leg.

Which just tells me our abstract, layman understanding of how sensory communication works may be far from truth.
https://archive.is/Tq6lL
Fond memories of Hotline too.

Is there a replacement or equivalent for Hotline today?
This is a great example. Companies no longer wish to write performant desktop apps because it’s much easier to keep and hire cool young devs who think the syntax that you write your views in matters more than the experience as a whole.
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I’ve also experienced this with a different laptop.
There are no UN sanctions on Iran anymore. Stop with your misinformation.

Trump is the one that started the extradition. Biden is the one that ended it.

Stop pushing misinformation.

And by the way, every single US ally she visited except for Canada refused to extradite her because this is very obviously outside of US sovereignty.

The only reason the extradition wasn't refused (yet) in Canada is because, unlike in other countries, there is no mechanism for the executive branch to throw it out. So it has to go through the entire process as long as the US makes a request. In this case if you read between the lines above, you can see that the judges were very skeptical of the US claims, whether we would have accepted to extradite her to begin with is far from being up in the air.

The US exploited our unique legal system in Canada to force us to arrest her under false pretences.

Beyond that, US law simply doesn't apply outside of the US. Sovereignty is an exclusive war, the US deciding to impose it's law on foreign countries by force is only tolerated because the US is too powerful and it uses it scarely and officiously - a formal declaration by the US to that extent would not be tolerated by any country in the world - wars have been fought over much less.