skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised.

I stopped watching movies because it seems new movies are missing any interesting plot in them. It is like people making these movies and paying for these movies focused all on special effects and forgot that without an actual interesting plot these are just completely hollow.

So if your job is to "make a movie" and you forgot on a point on the TODO list that says "make the plot interesting" then I am not surprised sound engineers can forget "make it work in end user setting".
> I also don't like percent of revenue - that's basically taxes, people already pay that, there's little point in doing it via copyright. What's the issue you are trying to solve with percent of revenue, that is not also solved with a fixed amount?

It's supposed to be a tax. You're being taxed on holding something out of the public domain, which in theory is harming the public. Using a percent of revenue makes it more fair -- if it were a fixed fee, there is no fee you can make that Disney won't happily pay to keep everything forever that would be affordable to the small creator.

At the very least, if you don't want to do revenue, make the fee a percent of the total income of the owner. Of course Disney could again avoid that by making small companies to own things.

> Registration is a good idea, but I would do it different. Everyone gets 20 years automatically for free, with no registration needed. (Small players, for example I write an essay and put it on a website, need to be protected. You don't want to force 12 year old students to deal with registering their works.) After that you can pay to register a work, a fixed fee that goes up each year for the final 20 years.

If registration is fee I don't see why there would be a burden on anyone. But sure, you can make it automatic for the first five years or whatever. But that makes it hard to tell if a work is an orphaned work or just not registered yet. If you find a work you like, you'd have to wait in your system 20 years to make sure it wasn't unregistered.

> My issue with your idea is people holding things, and refusing to sell them - for example old software.

How can you set a fee that's high enough to stop Microsoft but not be a burden to a small developer?

> First I would drastically shorten the time, and not link to the life of the author, instead I would have fixed time from first release, with a max of 40 years.

My system is also not linked to the life of the author. We can certainly debate the number of years, but under my system, you'd be giving 1/3 of your total income from your work as a tax after 40 years on top of your regular income taxes.
That's great. Yeah, once the on-battery time is slightly greater than one workday requires, increasing it further stops being interesting.

For battery longevity, in general I would charge to 90% and then use it until 20%, then recharge to 90% again. This makes the most out of the battery charge cycles, and avoid the increased stress of close-to-0% charge (bad if there for longer time) and close-to-100% charge (less bad but still better not to go there often). But maybe M1 battery system is different for some reason, I don't know.
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Matt Wells who wrote the majority of the code for gigablast is someone I have been following online for a long time. I used to live for http://gigablast.com/rants.html updates. Gigablast being an amazing example of what one person can do given the time and effort. If you look around for articles and interviews by him you get some nice insights that would never come from the likes of Google, although Bing has some very good in depth technical discussions such as how bitfunnel works. It’s also nice to look through the code of it and see how things like porn filters were implemented.

It’s also nice to know that for a while in internet history gigablast was mentioned in the same breath as google. An amazing achievement at the time for a single person against the core google product.

I wish that someone with some design chops could work on it for a few weeks though. Or it was rolled back to the design from around 2006 with the rocket logo. I really liked that design.

I really wish I had the courage to strike out on my own like Matt has. I have written a few search engines, but a general purpose one from scratch on my own hardware is unlikely to ever happen, as much as I would love to do it.

That’s for inspiring me so much Matt if you do read this (notice me senpai!). Oh and sorry for abusing your XML api so much. I was poor at the time and needed some search results.

A few choice articles,

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988401
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-14/google-news-m...
Thank you for your information. It's helpful.

To OP: Define "complete failure" and if it is something we can agree on as "complete failure", I will have a deputy post $200 on longbets.org 1:1 odds (side chain $2k) on whether or not a coming "complete failure" will occur in all US states that perform neither option 1 nor option 2 stated in OP:

> 1) Mandatory vaccination, all age groups, boosters etc.

> 2) permanently reconfiguring our society to reduce social contacts such that with the vaccines, COVID is suppressed. If the vaccines work well, then small (maybe no) changes will be needed. If they don't, then large changes. WFH, no indoor hospitality etc.

If no such states exist by some date, we can just each take our money back. If my deputy can meet you and you will notarize your position, I will up my side chain bet to $25k.

If we can do that and you will post the collateral, I will up my side chain bet to $100k. I will meet all the conditions you have to.

I am willing to iterate down the sum to reflect any changing definitions of "complete failure" till we have agreement. I am not going to donate more than the $200 to longbets.org. If I win, I take your cash. If you win, you take mine. I am willing to travel to make this bet in a jurisdiction where it is permissible, subject to there existing an escrow service we can both agree on there.
Would you count Sidewinder missiles? They're "rockets" but don't go into space. If so, the answer is "yes."
it found this:
https://gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q=how...

Which is definitely a good sign of a competent search engine.
Or perhaps you would have found out that the best of the best are also winging it like the rest of us.
Would you please stop posting ideological battle comments and flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, and we ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you, because you've also posted about other things, but you're on the wrong side of the line right now (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for what I mean by that). Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.
Before the vaccine (less than a year ago) they prevented the spread by using n95 masks and ppe.

Knowing that the vaccine doesn't prevent the person from getting and spreading covid. Knowing that the point of the vaccine is to prevent serious illness in the person receiving it. I struggle to understand why you would not even question how important they are in that setting unless you are worried they have dropped that extra safety component.
> It makes people want to do it,

This is red herring. I doubt you could find a single musician who would tell you that they wouldn't be creating if they don't get a lifetime to exploit the work. Further, you can see proof of this through history. Copyright used to be much shorter and people still created.

Most people who create, especially people who make good music, do it because they love it, not because they will get to exploit it.
They are all in the car washes and laundry machines . . . .
It’s budget time again. Gotta get those billions!
Realistically, with the cost of developing this stuff only going up, only monopolies or duopolies are really going to exist at the cutting edge. That's the trend and I don't really see a way of reversing it.
Great point! So simple, but as someone who has never worked on this side of things I never thought about it.

How would legal limitations on data collection, like GDPR, influence the ratio? None? Only an insignificant degree? Or enough to actually influence business decisions?
It's not about the economy, it's about competition and consumer harm from the lack of it.

As much as it's easy to forget, the free market is supposed to be a tool for the benefit of consumers (through both price and innovation), and while it's not very common, every once in a while the government actually looks at that as important and steps in.
San Francisco has had less than 1/3 as many deaths per capita as the US national average, and somewhere between a third and half of the deaths SF did have can be attributed to one terrible policy mistake – re-opening indoor bars and restaurants in fall 2020 – which immediately kicked off 2–3 months of fast exponential growth. If the rest of the USA had been even as fast acting and careful as SF, more than half a million dead Americans would still be alive.

And there are plenty of countries around the world which have done a much better job than SF of testing, contact tracing, vaccination, etc. We can compare e.g. Sweden to other Nordic countries to see what an abysmal failure the Swedish “herd immunity” strategy turned out to be.

* * *

“We haven’t tried anything and we’re all out of ideas” is easy to sell to grumpy people tired of a really shitty year or two, on the back of an unprecedented wave of anti-public-health propaganda, but it is an absolutely terrible pandemic response.
chairs are the past.
couches are the future.
slouch away.
The worst thing Softbank did is selling Arm China stock to China local. This is serious failure for western world.
I’m sure they’re working on it. Databricks, however, also has Delta Live Tables coming out soon I believe.
I understand the sarcasm, but the point i was trying to make is that I would've never thought I was looking at it for more than 5.

I thought or felt I was just checking it few times, not even everyday, and yet that wasn't true.

So imho averaging 18 minutes on something you're actively trying to limit or avoid is quite telling of the time sink it is without you realizing.
Why is there such a thing as a convention with 53K attendees with a pandemic going on?
Kong Gateway - which is built on top of NGINX - provides frequent DNS lookups for free in the open source version, and we have implemented this feature a very long time ago (2017?) to overcome this limitation.

So if you need need this capability for free, check it out. Not only that, but SRV record resolutions too.
Amazon has competitors, a central government do not. If the central planning fails to deliver a product then there is nobody there to deliver the product, if that product was food then people starve. This lack of competition is both bad for robustness as I described, and bad for efficiency since it means that people has to get their goods from the government and can't choose to get it somewhere else, so there is no selective pressure to keep the government deliver goods people want. You could say that other countries pressured them via war, but the people couldn't choose to buy American, the competition happened at a way too high level to matter.

Or rather, ultimately the people made their choice, central planning was scrapped and people could but American goods. So in a way the competition helped, people ultimately picked the superior option and the inferior option went under. But it took a very long time for that to happen, capitalism is way faster.
I presume you’ve read The Egg. I work with some folks who, like me, love it and we have adopted an “Eggist” mindset. Do unto others as you would (and will!) do unto your future self ;)
Memory-safe programming does not need any special ISA extension compared to traditional, C-like unsafe code. Even the practical overhead of bounds- and overflow checking is all about how it impedes the applicability of optimizations, not about the checks themselves.
Where am I more likely to spread the infection? In a crowded city, or in a private cabin in the woods?
ARM doesn't sell chips. They license the instruction set. Ask Apple or Qualcomm if the final ARM SOCs they build and sell are cheap...
Another option is to not reconfigure our society, and accept the fact that life expectancy is now permanently slightly lower than it was in 2019.

I hate this argument I keep seeing, that we have no choice but to do whatever is necessary to stop Covid. Of course we have a choice, and it is a legitimate political question, not a scientific one.
As a German resident, I know anti-vaxers. They use fake paper certificates and they are accepted everywhere no problem. Unless it becomes mandatory to ONLY scan QR codes, they will not be stopped (I assume QR codes cannot be faked atm).

There are also lots of people checking who don't care and don't check properly. As 2/3 are unvaxxed, I imagine there are a lot of people who are anti-vax that check. I have been waived through without a thorough check most times.

On one side, I'm angry at them for being dumb. But on the other side, I respect their freedom of what to do with their body. Many of them resist because they don't like the government telling them what they must do to their body, or they come from countries where they don't trust their government. There are so many occasions in life where you don't want to do something, even though it may be for the best, because you don't like the person or group of people telling you what to do. Like when someone tells an angry person to "just calm down".

I think it's fair to place restrictions on them as long as the ICU beds are at an unacceptable level of capacity. But we should face the reality that unvaccinated people will always be among us.
Assuming you're trying to stop the spread of a communicable disease, yes. Do you disagree?

COVID spreads poorly outdoors. That was understood well before they reopened the public parks in my area.
Nope, only two or maybe three organizations in the world can do that. It's not just firing a rocket if you want to hit a car sized target that's 400km away and moving at 7km/s, you need satellite navigation and global radar coverage to even try it and you are getting cut from that infrastructure way before you reach your target if you perform an unannounced launch that even looks remotely like an orbital attack.
> Values such as politicians [...] not taking their rights away, [...] not forcing someone to put something in their body that they absolutely do not want

Vaccine mandates have been a thing for well longer than I've been alive. I wasn't allowed to attend public school as a kid without having been given several vaccines.

Sure, there were anti-vax people and people with religious exemptions then, but the vast majority of the people who are up in arms and crying foul about COVID vaccination mandates didn't blink an eye when told they had to vaccinate their kids against the measles as a condition for sending them to school.

Why the hypocrisy?

> Lockdowns end when we stop enacting them

We have lockdowns because we think they slow the spread of disease and save lives, not "just because". That's like saying "birthday parties end when we stop having them". Well, yeah, but that's a tautology and not a very useful point to make.

> there is no reason [...] to assume that everyone must be in lockdown until every last soul is jabbed and boostered whether they want to or not.

That seems like a straw man, though. Who is saying we have to lock everything down until everyone is vaccinated? What country has even tried to implement something like this? Some areas have certainly tied the relaxation of restrictions in some ways to vaccination rates, but the main concern for restriction levels is mostly other metrics, like new-case rates, hospitalizations, percent of ICU capacity used, death rate, etc.

> there is no reason (except governmental screw up) to insist that people who chose to take the risk must not get sick under any circumstances

Everyone who gets sick is a host for the virus to mutate in. Everyone who gets sick, or is even merely unvaccinated, runs a higher risk of passing on the disease to someone else.

I am really really tired of the "it doesn't hurt anyone else if I don't get vaccinated" argument. Yes. It. Does. Full stop.
that's what I ended up doing. I was looking at it, clicked to see your other projects, and then went back and couldn't view the results
> How would you fix copyright?

Mandate something about source code for software. For eg. Source code escrow with Software Heritage or your software isn't protected by copyright. The source code is automatically released under GNU AGPLv3 after 10 years or immediately if you stop developing it and escrowing new versions of it. After 20 years it becomes public domain.

https://www.softwareheritage.org/
> There must be a process for unpaid bills

They lock your account but keep all the resource active and the bill just keeps going up until you pay to get back in.
Arm design CPU microarchitecture. NVIDIA design CPU microarchitecture.
"Weaponized" is an interesting choice of framing. What if the article is just run-of-the-mill wrong to generalize?
Apple acquired P.A. Semi in 2008, under Steve Jobs' tenure.
That's my biggest complain about earthly as well. There is `.env` support that ease the problem a bit: https://docs.earthly.dev/docs/earthly-command#environment-va...

Worth watching the reported issue at https://github.com/earthly/earthly/issues/707
If you are almost 2 years into this and don’t know why IFR is a more valid metric than CFR, I doubt the media, nor the policy makers, nor most of the “experts” don’t either.

The profound lack of understanding the reams and reams of raw data surrounding Covid… no wonder people are scared.
Starting any GUI app development on Windows is very frustrating right now.. Winforms (dead, ugly), WPF (nearly dead), UWP (deprecated), WinUI2 (deprecated), WinUI 3 (buggy, maybe in a year), .NET MAUI (also immature).
"At this point in time, the only thing that could wipe out humans and their descendants would be a global catastrophe comparable to previous mass extinction events where virtually everyone would be killed nearly instantaneously and any survivors could not group up to recover. Is such an event possible? Yes. Imminent? Not at all."

Globally mandated experimental vaccines with no control group
That might work for you, but not everyone. They might even have legal trouble with such a system, if they delete data that was required to be retained for example. You're not thinking of all the edge cases.
Ok, I've changed the URL to that from https://www.numberphile.com/videos/deep-mind-podcast, which doesn't have much to read. The Deepmind blog post was submitted and discussed (a little bit) here:

Exploring the beauty of pure mathematics in novel ways - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380 - Dec 2021 (4 comments)
Yeah, some intern at Microsoft made the greatest type system ever /sarcasm

It’s alright dude, I’m not even hating. Don’t let a type system destroy the style of a language though.
Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app
I'm quite interested in Caddy. The last time I checked, things were in a rough spot with the v2 transition, but it looks like the documentation has improved.
Only $10,000? That's not bad considering that an "authentic" one from ~50 years ago could run you 60k+ on a bad day. As long as the redistributed models are built with the same components (a-la the modern Minimoog), I think this is a win/win for everyone.
I think each country should take responsibility for their own waste, just as each individual should take responsibility for their own actions. If we all do that and stop looking to our neighbors to clean up our messes, the world will be a better place. When Americans recycle, we certainly don't understand it gets shipped to Asia and dumped in the ocean. Let's not indoctrinate our citizens to believe it's their fault that Asian countries dump crap in the ocean, you're not doing the Americans who look to the media for training on what to think any good.
There are various antiviral drugs which are orders of magnitude more expensive, have mediocre efficacy and a worse side effect profile compared to any of the main vaccines, and must be started within days of initial infection to work properly.

They are a great addition (besides vaccines and non-pharmaceutical public health measures) for treating high-risk patients for whom the vaccines don’t provide perfect protection (e.g. the very elderly and immune compromised), but a poor primary response.
> Obviously failing first requests isn't ideal but for popular requests it quickly becomes insignificant.

The first request can also be called asynchronously, and display a message to the user that it is 'processing....'.
New ITA Matrix can be found here...

https://partnerdash.google.com/apps/matrix/search
I don't see that that really changes anything here.
Discussed (a bit) here:

Exploring the beauty of pure mathematics in novel ways - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405380 - Dec 2021 (4 comments)
Enforced uniformity is the law. You cannot have discordance in law. You can choose to either institute law via centralized delegates, and make it mandatory, which is tyranny imposed by central authorities, or through a decentralized protocol that achieves uniformity through opt-in global consensus.

apenwarr prefers the status quo, and ridicules the new cryptoeconomic systems which make the latter possible.
$300M button and other lessons
By causing hospitals to be overloaded so I or people close to me can't be treated in an emergency? Not to mention all the hospital personnel having one more wave of hell to endure. By giving, possibly repeatedly so much viral lead to old people I know that they might end up in a hospital even when fully vaccinated? By being essentially a petri dish for creating new harmful variants?
Thanks! I've been learning as I go and putting more effort into it and I'm glad the effort is paying dividends.
Assured Misery
Copyright term length should be scaled back.
This is always what I think of when I see "baobab": https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer