skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Paramount claims copyright ownership of Klingon

Well, sorta. Not according to the Language Creation Society! From the fallout of the case where Paramount/CBS sued the Axenar guys for the temerity to make a fan film without paying them for it comes this Washington Post opinion [0] (I've added the links found in the text at [1] and [2]):

>It seemed a stretch to suggest that the plaintiffs were claiming copyright in the Klingon language itself, and the court agreed, taking the somewhat unusual step of denying LCS’s motion to file its brief [1], on the grounds that the court didn’t have to “reach the issue of whether languages, and specifically the Klingon language, are copyrightable” in ruling on the case.

>The LCS has declared victory — at least to the extent that the final ruling in the case will not hold that the Klingon language is protected by copyright. Its statement — with a translation into Klingon, for those of you who read Klingon — is posted here [2].

The situation doesn't seem as rosy as the LCS' statement suggests, but as a consequence, I feel comfortable in claiming that Paramount does not currently, successfully, claim copyright ownership of Klingon. That said, "not getting sued by Paramount in future" is a pretty good reason for Unicode to exclude anything.

Tengwar, the script used to write Quenya and Sindarin, however...

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmetJxi-p0VN0t5MWNPOTZ4SU0...

[2] https://conlang.org/axanar/#updates
> That goose is the tech industry and what may kill it is pointless, kneejerk political or regulatory action.

The only "geese" that will be hurt by this are those that feed on "engagement", illicit data collection and human misery in general. I'd say those geese can go and burn in hell.

The legitimate tech industry that make real, sustainable products/services in exchange for money will not be affected by this at all.

Only those whose "business model" (if you can call it that) is to get tons of VC cash and either end up as a monopoly or get bought out by a bigger fish is going to be affected, and again I'd argue that's a net win.
curl -v https://media.giphy.com/media/bKgCINrtZWQ39wZCxU/giphy-downsized-large.gif 2>&1 | grep set-cookie | wc -l
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Imagine when doing business in multiple countries, you need to follow the laws of each. MIND BLOWN. IMAGINE. IMMMMMMAAAAGINE.
Car thieves steal co-workers car and didn't know asset tracker was in backseat
Twitter’s Platform, Twitter’s Rules, which can be more constraining than legal or regulatory requirements.
I can't tell you quantitatively

But googling programming language problems, there's way more blogspam. A lot of crappy websites that seem auto-generated often rank higher than useful stackoverflow results. There spammy sites often have my search verbatem in the title, so they get clicked on...

It's pretty sad as IMO this is harming developers, blogging, and Google. I hope Google can fix the issue and reward useful content, not just content that's made itself look useful to generate clicks.
I'm not sure what that proves though. I got my last job well into my 50s and my approximate age was certainly no secret to the people hiring me given that I knew them personally. I guess my feeling is that there's generally not a good reason to hide things that are going to be obvious the minute someone lays eyes on you, especially if doing so might itself raise a flag in someone's mind.
I agree that plagiarism is contemptible and infuriating, but it's not the same problem copyright solves. It would be only barely more forgivable if I were to pass off a forgotten book of Mark Twain's as my own.

And, I agree that creation requires a lot of up-front effort, and that copyright still provides some creators with monopoly profits. It's just that evidently those monopoly profits are no longer needed to stimulate that effort — if they ever were.

The pain from eliminating copyright doesn't hold a candle to the pain of parents cut off from the research about their child's rare disease, or to the pain of losing the recordings of your grandmother's voice to DRM.
That's super neat but that is quite the price tag for a KickStarter lens. They're backed by a solid lens manufacturer but this is going to need specialized software for post image processing which is a risk of its own. I would need a really compelling reason to spend $2-4k on this lens instead of others I can guarantee I'll use.
The two supported FPGA families are a blessing for this kind of project, since they have hardware floating-point units. Unfortunately they are quite expensive, like the Xilinx ones with this feature...
We also built a Rust framework called FerrOS (https://github.com/auxoncorp/ferros) atop the formally-verified seL4 microkernel.

It has a similar set of usage idioms to Hubris it looks like in terms of trying to setup as much as possible ahead of time to assemble what's kind of an application specific operating system where everything your use case needs is assembled at build-time as a bunch of communicating tasks running on seL4.

We recently added a concise little persistence interface that pulls in TicKV (https://docs.tockos.org/tickv/index.html) from the Tock project you referenced above, and some provisions are being added for some more dynamic task handling based on some asks from an automotive OEM.

Also, sincerest h/t to the Tock folks.
24 is the right balance for a lot of things. Primarily

- cost (everything gets more expensive the higher you go e.g CG, grading etc..)

- lighting gets harder at higher frame rates since you have to be shoveling a lot more light in scenarios where you need to be close to open shutter

- style, because so many people are used to 24

Also everyone in the industry is used to 3:2 pulldowns and the like to work with indivisible ratios.
Wait till you hear what your Macbook thinks of you!
Or governments take care of people, businesses focus on selling products and services.
August Strindberg Federico Herrero 'El Ensueño' Teatro Escuela Central Año 1979
Because there was no new evidence, the only thing that changed were the incentives. The evidence was always there and most of the rest of the world that didn't suffer from mask shortages recommended wearing masks and made them readily available for their residents. The countries that were not prepared for this decided it was best to lie and spread misinformation that masks don't work, or people are too stupid to put a mask on properly, or that there's nothing to be concerned about in the hopes that COVID would not be a long term global lockdown type of pandemic.

Whatever disagreement you might have about the author of this website, don't give a pass to the people who were at the helm during this pandemic. They failed the public along numerous basic metrics and that doesn't change simply because this author may or may not be an asshole.
What's your impression of the Clathrate gun hypothesis [1]? Is this something to be concerned about?

Are there any other runaway processes that could take us by surprise? Peat bogs and permafrost hydrates?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
I didn't know dead comments was a thing. What is the correlation between dead comments and climate denialism being common on HN?
Exactly! The Latin character set is used precisely because Klingon fonts aren't standardized!! Nnh!

*hits inhaler*
I guess we need someone to counteract Soros, don't we?
yea but it turned into a machine that nerds by when they wanna automate something stupid.
The IP address and user-agent is enough of a session over time (remember that it loads every time you open your client as long as the GIF is in your recent history, so you get multiple data points to refine your search). Cookies or browser-specific state is on its way out anyway as more and more browsers impose restrictions.
How does Twitter know whether someone has consented or not? They don't. It will start with takedowns due to people claiming that their pic was shown without permission and end with a de facto ban of photos of people. Way it goes.
Great idea! I wrote some code to generate nutritionally complete, minimalist diets. It got some traction, but I never managed to integrate it with recipes/prices. lkm if you want to try to integrate it.
https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ and https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ are also nice, depending on which OS you're on
UN Backing a Floating City in South Korea That Can Withstand Floods
I mean, c'mon.....with all due respect for bongo players...reaching excellence in that field is also mundane as society doesn't exactly put bongo players on a pedestal
RPi has always been a Broadcom alumni pet project with commercial interest. I am not surprised.

As for the same intro to computers as the 1980s, you can give kids a trash PC and monitor running Linux for less than a whole RPi setup these days and that probably has a better e-waste and environmental outcome too. Oh and the HDMI connector won’t suddenly fall off or the SD card go awry.

The mission of the raspberry pi foundation is to leverage the rose tinted glasses of the past to push a marketing ideology that overlaps with the maker ideology. Everyone can build a business from marketing and label it as “for the greater good” with such tags as affordable computing tied to it.

Prior to marketing fronts like this existing, there was already significant interest in parties doing stuff like we did in the 80s. Everyone I knew had a PC with a parallel port with some random junk hanging off it. Some really weird people still had Amigas held together with tape. I was programming PIC microcontrollers off a cranky old Pentium 90 I found in a skip outside work.
This sounds like a nice way to make people play nice, but it's a significant departure from the way that the world and especially the news media has worked in the past.

I think figuring out these new rules are going to pretty difficult. For instance, one of the most famous images from the Vietnam war showed a General executing an alleged criminal in the street. If that general objects, will we be prohibited from sharing that Pulitzer Prize winning image?
My pet peeve is U+A66E (CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O, ꙮ) [0], a glyph that had literally been used once only in history by a 15-century scribe before making its way into Unicode. And when it did, the reference rendering (7-eyed) is different from the one originally used by that scribe (10-eyed).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O
That makes sense I guess. The rest going to charity is pretty good then.
Congratulations, now every browser (oh wait, there's only 1 real browser) will implement it slightly differently and you'll use a library once again to reconcile all of them. (Also old browsers, browsers implementing the non-final version of the spec)
It depends what you think their job is I guess. I never imagined that forum moderation would include helping brand management for forum users - in fact I'd say those two behaviours are in direct conflict with each other.

If your job is forum moderation and you do that well great. But if the same people use those same accesses to give some forum users help over other forum users without any transparency then there is no illusion of neutral moderation and this whole forum just may be undisclosed pr/ brand management whole people are discussing companies/jobs/tech in a way that might bias others.

I haven't read anything on the site providing brand management to some users. Was that disclosed somewhere? How could you trust any post talking about a new company or having to do with companies in general if some are getting assistance to boost their reception and others aren't?
Put another way, ignoring the risks and contining our reliance on CO2 and methane and etc emissions has put our economy and living standards in jeopardy, especially for the poorest people.

It didn't have to go down this way but certain powerful folks have been more interested in maintaining the status quo than making improvements, and that pattern continues today. Even basic economic concepts like externalities are ignored because folks embrace thought-terminating terms like "job-killing policies".
Some muppet will give you a million dollar if you say its an NFT
Although I agree with you, about 5 years ago the British electorate decided they wanted their own government to set all regulations within the country without having to listen to what foreign courts — specifically the courts of a friendly region with a much larger GDP than itself — had to say, so I doubt the UK electorate would act in a way you consider responsible.
Yes, that is also my observation. They will show content that completely does not contain your query words if that content is just popular enough. The result is that niche technical topics get drowned out by related popular discussions.

Also, I am by now 100% sure that Google has just stopped indexing the long tail. Like if I search for function names of public source code that I downloaded from GitHub, Google won't find it. But of course, it's still on GitHub.

Similarly, Google will sometimes not find a single result for some Windows API function names, despite them being publicly documented on docs.microsoft.com.
Twitter will not allow sharing of images without subject’s consent
So, they want to be paid off. The standard EU/UK MO.
This is a shameful article with really shitty argumentation starting from the title:

It is absolutely an old person problem predominantly. Mortality of youth is tiny so any order 1 multiplier is still tiny. Any discussion that tries to obscure that crucial point is trying to delude you.

"Now if we were to compute the effect on life expectancy, note that the effect acts across the board: a 30 year old loses more than 50 years of life, an 80 y.o. loses about a decade, etc."

What is this saying? I'm 30 so I should expect to die soon? Or I should have expected to live to 110 but now I will live to 60? Or maybe he's not got a clue how to apply the mortality weight integrated over time?

"If Covid is an old person problem, deserving to be ignored on that account, let’s treat cardiology, oncology, urology, and most of internal medicine in the same manner."

Who is saying this? Wild strawman.

"you treat the current elderly the way you would like to be treated when you grow older. For even psychopaths will be older some day."

I fully expect my savings to be plundered by the continued growth of for profit health care. What I do to my immune system today had better be with my own future in mind.
> Provide the names of ten companies of non-trivial scale who have operated with zero or near zero profit for, say, 25 years, without external donations or other financial inputs to make-up for the lack of profit.

Most restaurants. Many did, indeed, "instantly lay off massive numbers of employees, shut down operations, cancel leases and contracts, etc." during the pandemic as a result.

Amazon made basically no profit for two decades, as a fairly notable example. Every penny earned got plowed back into the business. Lots of revenue, lots of expenses, no profit. It wasn't until recently they turned the profit spigot on. https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-...

Uber didn't make its first profitable quarter for a decade. https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-posts-first-small-ad...

I think you're mixing up profits with revenue. A charity that brings in $1M and spends $1M has no profit, but they can (theoretically) remain a going concern indefinitely at that rate.
There's an old darknet wives tale about a certain person who did very much the same thing but kept the significant bitcoin downpayment.
Generally speaking, if you want to search for a job, Indeed is the better tool. If, however, you'd rather have recruiters hit you up then use LinkedIn.
They are. I've solved the problem for myself by setting the "Verbatim" option to true in search engines' settings google url of browser.
> the widespread rejection of JIRA

I wouldn't call a single tweet about an individual experience widespread rejection. Jira is a great tool in many ways and how much it sucks working with it only depends on what you force your employees to do with it.

For instance we use it to capture requirements and progress only and people are generally happy using it that way.
> Sure reusable rockets are cool but still way short of what we need to make it economical at scale.

That is exactly what Starship is attempting to do.

> People in 60s over achieved and it’ll be a long time before we surpass them.

They could easily be surpassed with the same amount of money.

> Maybe if there’s a breakthrough in propulsion, fuels etc that’ll give a 10x-100x efficiency improvement then we can hope for something in our lifetime.

Full and rapid re-usability is exactly that break-threw. There is a reason every other method of transportation is very re-usable and much cheaper.

Other fuels make it more expensive, not less. Cheaper then methane is unlikely whatever it is.
Follow along: Deploy erc-721 contracts and mint your own NFTs
Google has gone downhill since they started pushing searches towards approved sources.

Sadly your best bet when google is failing is to try Bing or other search engines.
I want to remind you that ur definition of monopoly would make every niche business a monopoly. Social media IS a single category.
I wasn't so much concerned with his technical skill as his method of going about it, which was about as eccentric as one can get.
Will We Ever Get Rid of Covid-19?
Hell, some states required land ownership to vote in the USA up to the 1850s.
Mozilla removed the embedding APIs in 2011. And they were incomplete and unstable before.[1]

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.embedding/c/c_NMcO-N...
Rescale advertisement via HBR.
I search using DDG by default. Sometimes by habit I'll throw a !g on the search to tell it to use Google, but more and more often I have to think twice. If my search touches politics at all, Google is a no-go. Joe Rogan mentioned this phenomenon recently. Searching for a specific event, he explained, it was easily found on non-Google search engines, but Google hid it behind dozens of Ministry of Truth results.

This is not exactly what you're asking, I know. My point is, if they're willing to screw around with some results, I have lost confidence in all of their results. Long gone are the days where the contract with Google was that you would provide some words, and that it would provide a list of pages with those words in them.
The specific concern here is the phenomenon where people post viral videos of others they had a disagreement with in order to try and publicly shame them. I don’t want to insist on calling this “cancel culture” if you don’t like the label, but it’s definitely a real thing and the targets face real off-Twitter consequences.
They are already restricting it with manifest v3. It is only a matter of time until it becomes manifest v4.
This is particularly hilarious and ironic when considering they are really punishing for cumulative layout shift in their Lighthouse tool - to prevent exactly what you are describing from happening! Seems like Google hasn't used lighthouse on their own site!
As someone who's worked on very cutting edge digital humans before, muscle simulation has a very poor cost to benefit ratio for facial animation.

It's almost always better to learn external deformations that emulate the muscle triggers than to simulate it.

The reasons are usually:

- setting up muscles takes a long time and isn't very scalable to many characters

- animators or even actors will do a motion that is needed for the shot that the muscle rig will fail at. Especially for things like high velocity impacts.

- muscles are really hard to art direct. Sometimes you want to end up sculpting a shape into something just slightly different.

- simulations need to run linearly in time and are slow. So for the situations where you need to be able to skip around in time or for realtime, you want an emulation of muscles rather than a simulation

Doing more superficial muscle emulations like https://zivadynamics.com/zrt-face-trainer give a better mix of control and realistic behaviour.

Of course, for bodies it becomes a lot easier to use muscle simulations ( and Ziva's own tetrahedral muscle solver is amazing for that )
There are cases when an applicant with years of professional experience takes longer to find a software engineering job, after similarly focused efforts, so I'd say it's inefficient job market.
Personal anecdote, but since Ogham has been available in Unicode, I've seen the odd person start being interested in it to write out names, exclamations, etc. It feels like a small previously-closed gate has been opened for a nice little way for people to connect and engage with an old part of our culture.
Ooh La La Someone's Going To Get Laid In College

- Rick
Socialism. Everybody matters. You don't have to go all the way to communism, just ensure everyone has food, healthcare, a home, heat, water, electricity and Internet access.

It's great.
A year ago the Russian-based Lingualeo (20 mln users) presented an article where they described their new architecture which has a similar concept. They have a simple proxy server in Go and all the logic happens in Postgres, i.e. frontend directly manipulates DB. Their claimed advantages were superior performance and less boilerplate/faster iteration times.

In a matter of hours, commenters were able to dump sensitive data (passwords and all) by constructing specially crafted queries. Another problem they had was that many core devs left because they perceived the new architecture a step backwards. Many also noted that they don't have adequate tools for version control anymore. I don't know how PostgREST compares, maybe it doesn't have such issues.
It depends on how much logic and/or arithmetic you can get away with encoding into the type system. We abuse the heck out of it to restrict things like register & field access, state-machine transitions, and also track resource allocation/consumption. That said, it's incredibly painful to develop anything that way, and it also doesn't ultimately prevent a different problem of the "model" you've written down in the types being wrong. So, it's not a panacea, and it's incredibly difficult, but it can winnow down the surface area of potential problems and bugs... or at least move them to compile-time.
This is like Gresham's law, only for information: bad info driving out good.

The same applies to Wikipedia sometimes, which, being free, achieves a degree of visibility and ubiquity (across search engines and voice assistants) it doesn't always deserve.
The assertion that other countries should simply abandon their sovereign regulators' powers is baseless hubris. The fact that the US seems happy to allow corporate titans to reach ever new sizes does not mean anyone else is on board.

If the US wants their regulators' decisions to carry weight in another country, they can pay for the privilege via trade agreements, same as it ever was.
> How confident can you be predicting 30 years in the future? Note that 30 years ago was 1991.

30 years ago, in the '90s, the company I now work for developed an important system for a very large customer. It replaced an older system that was developed along with the equipment it runs, introduced in the '60s -- another 30 years prior. My current project is developing a replacement for the current system. It's the exact same system, but written in C to run on a Cortex-M instead of Ada on an Intel.

In another 30 years, we'll probably be re-implementing the exact same system, but written in Rust to run on a RISC-V chip.
Foolishness.

It is purely a coincidence that "accidental" banning occurs overwhelmingly to people who put forth non-leftist viewpoints!

Similarly, there is no increase in healthy footballers dropping dead on the field. You are simply imagining things.

/s, for the ... slow.
For me it has, not probably Google's fault but especially coding related searches usually give me a lot of sites that just copies content from Stack Overflow. It's amazing that Google can't filter and punish those sites in the rank.