skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an excellent argument that IP law doesn't help society at large - that is why China is ignoring IP law. They need to grow their economy ASAP to protect themselves from the United States military, and the strategy seems to involve technical dominance. They can't do that if they weigh themselves down with IP laws; they already have enough problems with innovation.

That observation is entirely consistent with the US wanting to be exceedingly careful about IP exfiltrating to China.
Sorry if this wasn't stated clear enough. The advice here is for freelancers, where you have no boss.

If you are employed, then you need to get acceptance of possible outcomes from your management, before going into that talk.
That is the meaning of life question that has been asked since the day the universe became conscious in the form of human kind.
You need more than that, you need legal basis and resources to be able to load up the crazy homeless person into a van and get them committed out of sight to an institution.
> In embedded hardware I still don't see the benefit for memory safety.

If anything, safety considerations in embedded devices are even more important than elsewhere, if only for the fact that those devices typically don't get patched. It has to work right the first time. F*cking this up can have dire consequences, depending on what the device is doing.
Angry that old people have more time to accumulate wealth!

Government needs to step in and fix that!
Apple has been providing security updates for iOS 14, but so far no 14.8.2, strange since all other supported OS-es were updated today. Often the samen CVE’s get fixed in macOS, iOS, tvOS etc together. They are pushing iOS 15.2 though. I wonder if that means EOL for iOS 14?
Air goes around.
* They replace all 'cooling fans'. Anything hot can be cooled while reclaiming energy.

Nope, to reclaim energy you need a temperature difference. If you want that difference, best bet is to use a radiator with a cooling fan. Inserting a device between your heat source and your heat sink will decrease transfer of heat.
Next:- Weaponised toasters for use in space...
started building it in October 2020. full-time since then. beta is free and full featured, you can keep it forever. one day the prod version will be a monthly subscription of USD$3 a month.

not all the moves are there yet, so please ask on the GitHub repo and i'll most probably implement them.

- the videos (about two minutes each): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ZP3QFMhNn3ivJgqoEW4Ug

- the twitter (where i announce the releases. one coming soon!): https://twitter.com/kindaVim

- the site: https://kindavim.app
Reversal of kinship terms when speaking to a child
How is WebRTC doing and who is driving usage? (Hint: Google Meet)
Weird you can’t see the issue when the university he was a professor in AND the grants he received from the federal government explicitly forbid taking outside money without notification/approval.
Nope. That is catastrophism.
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The implication from your comment is that vaccination is preventing lasting repercussions, but it isn't (only reduces some of it, and no one knows what the long term vaccine repercussions are yet). So what was your point if not that?
Tim's Vermeer was directed and produced by Penn and Teller. While I loved it, I can't shake the feeling the whole thing was a hoax.
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I still think it's the right decision not to have kids.

I myself would prefer not to been born (while my life is relatively easy)

In dune there is a story part were the ruler knows what he needs to do but also realizes that he is not strong enough and knows that his son has to fullfil it (I forgot what it is about) but I feel as soon as we achieve the ability to self determine things like if we want to make kids, we should stop doing it as we might not have the right to create new life.

Don't get me wrong, this is not black and white thinking: have kids if you want.

Evolutionary everything and everyone is programed to stay alive and procreate. Fighting against it is hard.

It's easier to make this life easier, better etc than staying your ground and not making kids.

We tried actually and it didn't work out after 3 month. That made it much easier to not try again. But as you see, thinking about it and what you do is not black and white.
The propaganda is strong with this one
They are not trying to promote population growth. Rather avoiding a too steep decline.
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How this is not blatantly the issue blows my mind. I guess CCP international propaganda campaigns are working.
Changing currents in the Southern Ocean raise a climate alarm
Two things:

1) Are you me? I've done exactly this because I knew that my car fit a 10' board. Turns out when you're buying rough lumber 10' sometimes means 10' 2".

2) The windshield is laminated glass instead of tempered. It'll crack much more easily, but it'll (more or less) stay in one piece in the frame instead of shattering out into a million tiny bits.
The inline errors are life changing. If you use VSCode, ErrorLens package achieves same thing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=username...
It’s slightly weird and unnerving to realise that modern macOS is older today than classic MacOS was when it was obsoleted.
The author, Rami Ismail, is also great to follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/tha_rami
OK.

I think this comment is a good example of a type of cynicism that we're discussing, probably the type that most instinctively jumps out as "cynical."

Like pessimism and optimism, cynicism often boils down to a bias.

The key word is "just" (virtue signalling). Blogging, commenting, and communicating generally are various things as once. We're pursuing intellectual curiosity, showing off, participating in a culture, signalling virtue, signalling other things... to ourselves and to others.

Our bias and/or perspective lens dictates our focus. A lot of cynicism, certainly within my generational cohort, is also about signalling. Signaling that we're not naive, that we're cool, grunge, etc. If you hate grunge, hippies, Diogenes or whatnot, you're more likely to adopt a perspective whereby they're "just" bunch of virtue signaling posers.

You can always plausibly adopt this perspective. Grunge, hippies, Diogenes & whatnot are attention seekers. They are cultural figures, which is kind of virtue signalling by definition. They're also other things though. Reducing these to "just" virtue signalling is cynicism regarding these things.

You can also have a general cynical viewpoint, but it's pretty hard to do without also adopting arseholery. As a general cynic, you pretty much assume that base motivation for everything. OP is just virtue-signalling optimism. Drewcoo is just edgelord cool-signalling. Netcan is just cool-signaling.

I think what is true from reading reddit, HN & the internet broadly is that cynicism is very "in" right now, to the point where it's annoying. Hence, I suppose, why such posts do well.
Log4shell by the numbers- Why did CVE-2021-44228 set the Internet on Fire?
Legally speaking; no.

Morally speaking; maybe :)
I think GP was talking about honorific/humble o not the object marker o, and chose a poor metaphor. Because honorific/humble o is often a signal for feminine language... there was a trending tiktok video about prefixing "toilet" with "o" for example.
At the bakery I run we have to make a small number of extras of each product to account for issues (e.g. malformed roll, dropped on the floor while packing, sliced incorrectly, etc.). When we first investigated places to donate the edible excess products, most places wouldn’t accept it, were only open one day a week, required us to deliver the excess during the four hour window they accepted donations, and so on. As a result a lot of stuff goes to the trash, and is treated as the cost of goods sold. It sucks, but to avoid that we’ve got our in-house software dialed in to avoid as much waste produced as possible and we donate the excess whenever we can.
Slate Roofs in GTA Are Popular Due to Their Durability and Beauty
Because houses are designed around fireplaces, the chimney has an impact on the whole foundation of the building. To avoid damage from expanding, it's critical to get chimney repair in GTA for fractures, unattractive corrosion, or other small issues. Homeowners are often unaware of underlying deterioration and continue to use their fireplaces, putting them and their houses in danger.
This group will go extinct just by following their own philosophy. Brilliant.
I very much think the answer here is, in one form or another, "Amazon is a for-profit company: it is 'for' making a profit out of you".
Ask HN: Recommendations on Learning Italian
Hi HN, thanks for reading this.

I'm in Italy now and really need to learn the language fast. I had a lot of success in Mexico learning Spanish, but I had a lot of help from an online course called "Spanish with Paul".

This course in Spanish just put me on a very fast track to learning because of the order that it presented information, where you essentially start speaking right away, and you're constantly being drilled with more and more complicated sentences, as you introduce new grammar.

This was a system that worked extremely well for me, but unfortunately I have not found anything similar for Italian - like a good blend being comprehensive AND practical. There are many courses that are kind of gimmicky, which is fine and I appreciate them, but I'm really looking for something that I can spend 2-3 hours a day in focused study/practice that also lets me start building upon the daily practice I get from just living here.

I was planning on basically building my own version of the course I mentioned above, "Spanish with Paul", by essentially just translating the same concepts over, however very early on I encountered concepts that don't exist in Spanish at all, for very simply constructs. E.g.:

eng: I want \
esp: quiero \
ita: voglio \

(ok, simple)

eng: I want it \
esp: lo quiero \
ita: lo voglio \

(So far so good, perfectly smooth sailing)

eng: I need \
esp: necesito \
ita: ho bisogno \

(Ok, this 'ho' is acting like 'haber' in Spanish... I know this, not the end of the world...)

eng: I need it \
esp: lo necesito \
ita: ne ho bisogno \

(wtf... then I look up 'ne' and I am introduced at step 0. to the world of Italian pronouns and my face melts)

I'm sure it's just a temporary road block and in the future if I read a similar post to this I'll have great advice, but for the time being I'm in that awkward phase where I really feel like I'm wasting time by not doing focused studying because I'm chasing various rabbit holes.

So, something a little more curated would be great, and maybe I could eventually make that "course" I was talking about. Any help, would be very appreciated. My secret weapon with learning Spanish was really just studying a lot and practicing, and not wasting time doing other stuff.

Thank you!
There's no react dependency. You can combine it with React if you want to make a hybrid of server-side and SPA, but the standard IHP method is to do just server-side rendering with only a tiny bit of js glue for prefetching and such (IHP has its own HSX syntax that looks a bit like JSX, but is turned into html before being sent to the browser).
The problem isn't that nuclear is regulated, the problem is that nuclear power plants are big, tightly coupled things where iterating the design takes decades. No technology with that long a feedback loop can survive if it has any competition improving at a modern technology pace. If nuclear plants were as nimble as PV or wind turbines they'd be able to easily work through regulatory requirements. As it stands, the technology is paralyzed, or even regressing.
> The ones who fight corruption are the most corrupt.

> The ones who fight injustice are the most cruel.

> The ones who fight intolerance are least tolerant.

I have not found this to be the case; and this phrasing is needlessly reductive. See also the paradox of tolerance. And “tolerance” as a bar is pretty damn low; it’s not something you should be patting yourself on the back for. It’s just showing humanity to those around you.

Part of the problem is that we live in a world where “lie, cheat, steal” legitimately does make your material conditions better most of the time. So we’re all typically equal parts “good” and “bad”, and we even have different definitions (e.g. an evangelical Christian may legitimately feel like they’re doing good by shaming gay people).

Cynicism is a recognition that not everyone shares your values, and some in fact have values that directly conflict with yours. It’s often useful, and I disagree with the original article.
Could civilization actually end like this? Not in a big bang but slowly grinding to a halt because no one knows how stuff works besides some nonfunctional web forms?

No.

I'll give you a clear counter-example: my iPhone 13 mini.

Go read an iFixit teardown of any advanced product like that. Many state-of-the art chips, many suppliers, a huge logistics effort.

And yet Verizon managed to send me one of the damn things just a few days after I ordered, shortly after the phones were introduced.

Sure, some people trying to fund their product using kickstarter have problems, but the big boys can build and deliver hundreds of millions of "supercomputers" per year.
Jack Sams was the engineer in charge of software development for the IBM prototype and had plenty of experience working in BASIC: He had spent months wrestling with the language in an attempt to get it working on a minicomputer (the IBM System/23 Datamaster), delaying the project by a year in the process, and had no desire to repeat the same mistakes this time around.

I've always heard the story of Microsoft being selected to provide PC-DOS from Microsoft's perspective. What a windfall it was for them and how silly of IBM to outsource their OS to another company. It makes more sense in the context of IBM engineers pulling the giant company along to do something they had never done before. They really had to look for solutions wherever they were.
I'd not say React is big. Sure it's big in name. But compared code-wise to Angular it's tiny, and just handles the view-side of things.

Besides that I'm not sure what you say is correct. It seems IHP uses HSX, something similar to JSX, but not JSX itself, nor React. The only place I see React mentioned is as a dependency of their "Guide" (some documentation hub their run):

https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/index.html

The search widget in the top right uses React, but that's all...
Looking at some of the provided links in the article damages the credibility of the article. Some of them are clear misrepresentations of the links.

A couple of examples are:

> an active state/media campaign against early treatment of a disease

This contains a link to an article with a headline of "FDA asks people to stop taking animal dewormer to treat COVID-19". It is fine if the author disagrees with the FDA decision on the effectiveness of the treatment but this is not what they say about the link.

> It is the fact that these vaccines, whatever their efficacy in other areas, do not prevent transmission of the virus.

This links to an article about a study which found that vaccinated people who catch the virus are equally likely to infect other people as unvaccinated people who catch the virus. Reading further in the article it states "a fully vaccinated contact has a 25% chance of catching the virus from an infected household member while an unvaccinated contact has a 38% chance of becoming infected". So the overall effect of the vaccine clearly does reduce transmission by reducing the chance of being infected, and without being infected you cannot pass on the virus.

This makes it feel like the author is more interested in pushing an agenda than representing things in an accurate way.
Managers Should Optimize Job Satisfaction, Not Happiness
He was trying to break the side window. Tempered glass is super tough, until you damage the outer layer. Presumably the pick end of his fire axe wasn't sharp or hard enough to scratch that outer layer without a hell of a swing behind it.
Wow, what an interesting bug! Was it a case of parsing "1.000" vs "1,000" or something like that?
Maybe it's really only the men who actually care?
> Personally, I can't imagine someone would go through this much trouble just to ship a trojan

I agree it’s not very risky, but I can absolutely imagine this.
Ah, my bad — got thrown off by the original wording
That was my first assumption as well, but it seems like Alphabet is taking the traditional 'parent company' approach to branding, and not pushing a name change from Google to Alphabet.

It seems like Facebook is really trying to fully rebrand as Meta; even the Facebook 'about' page displays Meta instead of Facebook: https://about.facebook.com
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All my comment said was "the relevant metric is lasting repercussions, not cases or anything else". I didn't say anything about vaccinations at all. Reading anything else into it is the reader's doing.
> Find a better word for that feeling you get when you hear fingernails on chalkboards

Aroused?
The USA stole tech from the British Empire when the US was trying to build itself up. This is just the natural order of things, and I'm very anti-China and very pro-Taiwan.
This is basically Aristotle 101. If you like this sentiment, grandpa A should be on your reading list. Not that he’s objectively correct, but Nichomachean Ethics is the foundation on top of which the European ideas of “good” and “evil” are built.
Well quoting outrageously isn't a lie either, it's just a way of saying "you're not going to pay me enough to deal with you".
>Readers can also help protect birds by taking a few simple actions. An easy one is to install window screens or eliminate window reflections with film or paint.

The blame is on reflective windows?

>(A 2014 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Smithsonian study found that between 365 million and one billion birds die each year across the U.S. as a result of window strikes.)

That seems unreal. So I want to read said study.

https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/pdf/management/lossetal20...

Oh wait... its cars hitting birds? Why did they seem to exclude this important detail? And the study clearly puts it that around 339 million is max? So the billion birds number is made up?

This article also seems to dance around the actual problem?

https://abcbirds.org/blog21/wind-turbine-mortality/

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph240/scherr1/

The massive increase in windmills is the source of death. Every single typical windmill will kill dozens of bird and bats every year.

The gymnastics that OP is doing is to cover up the mass death by windmills.
In my part of aviation (not in the US) we have a person responsible for each subsystem, and they very much risk going to jail if it turns out they've been negligent. If it's not safe, you don't sign the papers saying it is. People wouldn't dream of doing the equivalent of putting a prototype car on public roads with an aircraft here.
This was meant in jest everyone -- relax. What happened to sense of humors in the West these days...
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There is a bug and I found a possible culprit (worked on Win 10):

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/9#issuecomment-9935004...
The React dependency is mentioned in the documentation linked from their code example: https://ihp.digitallyinduced.com/Guide/realtime-spas.html
We can only possibly gain from publishing the code, and lose by not publishing.

It's not like it takes a whole lot of time to just dump your code in a github repo once you're done and link it somewhere on the paper (if you wrote code at all while working on the paper).

Sometimes I did just want to run my own experiments with different datasets, and those algorithms aren't always trivial to implement :|
I'm not a fan of these "smart" languages in general. I'm one of those who believes that the syntax of the language itself should be dumb, but all the smarts should be in the standard library. Like in Java for example. It's much easier to reason about what the code actually does when the language is dumb and calls into its standard library are explicit. It's bad when some benign-looking syntactic constructs trigger some kind of complex behavior.

They might be committed to it, but I'm doubtful that it's at all possible to write e.g. parts of the kernel in it. And maybe, just maybe, they should direct all their efforts toward rewriting the OS in a safer language instead of making their UIs uglier with nonsensical paddings and messy-looking icons that pretend that there's no pixel grid.
This reminds me of something one of my history professors said. He's never really disappointed in life because he sets his expectations extremely low. If something exceeds those expectations, he's happy. If they don't, well, he didn't expect much of it to begin with so nothing really changes. He said it kind of tongue-in-cheek but it still sticks with me over a decade later.
> The essence of what Xerox taught was: to sell, find out what problems your customer has, and figure out how your product/service can help him/her solve the problem. That's it.

Oh, cool! That's the SPIN model[1], implemented by Neil Rackham at Xerox in the 70s.

https://books.google.com/books/about/SPIN_Selling.html?id=0n...
Are you located in the USA?

What you say is somewhat surprising to me. I would imagine the total flow of components would be similar, but would be concentrated to certain destinations/buyers.

If cross-border trade of chips are actually in the decline, that suggests the components are being manufactured in lower quantities (highly unlikely), or they are staying close to and being consumed by (or, maybe hoarded and stocked at) where they are being manufactured.
That's literally the original historical purpose, and some would argue still effectively is, but yeah patents have a great PR team.
> it is clear that standing in defense of the real is a battle that is being lost

Unfortunately so. As far as I am aware, there are no political movements in any Western country focused entirely on reality and the consequences of reality. We have become enamored, as a society, with abstract ideas and are sacrificing reality on an altar to our delusions.
Jest not allowed here

Or it has to be more cleverly disguised and passable as a substantive comment

Stick around, you’ll see
This looks very nice. However, the description mentions "lightning fast" and "powerful". Unfortunately, those things don't mean anything without further clarification. If you really want to show your editor is faster than other commonly used editors, consider posting a benchmark of cases where speed matters (like loading a large file, inserting in the middle of a large file, search/replace, latency of pressing a key and having the screen updated, and so on). It is harder to quantify "power" though.
That's very interesting and has the potential of impact as dtrace did but for the regular non-sysadmin person. Good that they were able to open it. The author posted their github in an answer down here: https://github.com/osandov/drgn
Computational notebooks are great, but only seeing what the author (or coder) wanted you to see is not enough to evaluate their work. In addition to data and code, we need to see the path they took, the exploration and experimentation that led to the final presentation of ideas in the notebook.

For this we can use cloud based environments controlled by funding agencies/universities that ensure every interaction with data is recorded from the very beginning.

Something like this would at least reduce the risk of p-hacking practices that would otherwise be there even if everyone used notebooks instead of papers.
For me, it's all in the licence that the content is under. I contribute to Stack Overflow and Wikipedia because the content is under an Open Source licence. For Quora and Reddit the licence is proprietary and so I don't contribute.