skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the government is actively killing it... they just aren't doing anything about the oligopolies and collusion that have always developed in these sort of situations. That may seem subtle, but many argue that we want to make the government do less to "keep them off our backs". Well, guess what these are the consequences. These markets may be "free", but they are not efficient, in fact they are arguably corrupt. The economists have also figured out what side their bread is buttered on.
How do you walk with 10 days of water in a desert? Towing that behind you on some kind of sled, or what?
Yes that sounds reasonable to me.
> a) IQ differences between individuals of a population are larger than between populations in the first place, and

What does this mean? I assume I am interpreting it wrong, because it just seems like nonsense.

The fact that IQ differences between individuals in a population is larger than the alleged IQ differences between populations seems totally obvious. Any given population probably contains some disabled people and also some geniuses, for, let's say, a 50-point spread. But it would be a meaningful population-level difference if the average Finn was 100 but the average Swede was 110. Or are there people out there seriously arguing that there are peoples out there totally consisting of super geniuses or extremely disabled people?

If you mean that there’s no evidence of a difference in iq distribution in different populations, I think it’s clearer just to say that.
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Show them the reduction to absurd of square root two. Tell them that one day their culture will eventually come to an end and but will be forever remembered like Homer’s Odysee, however large parts of it will be lost, therefore they should keep some of their best written manuscripts hidden on some caves which I will visit when I am back, to the future, lol.

Also I don’t like to change the past, but someone should pass a note there saying that aside of Persia eventually the Arabian peninsula will create an even greater enemy.
What does understanding systems analysis have to do with being a good politician?
95 years is FOUR generations. That's absolutely ridiculous.
> I'm not sure how facebook fares in big cities, but back where I'm from - a small rural town, facebook has pretty much replaced everything. It's the de facto digital community place.

I don't think this is a good thing. It means change won't be easy to implement because their customer base relies on it for a certain function, if that function changes too much or goes away, they loose what's left.
The link to gmane does not work, since the content is only available via NNTP: http://news.gmane.io/
Do you have any backup etc?
Creative Commons explored this: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Founders_Copyright
I don't understand what you're trying to argue about.
I wish this was a national law. For any remote friendly jobs or jobs based in Colorado I’ve noticed my employer, which is a S&P 500, firm does post ranges and is in compliance. I’ve noticed it only includes salary ranges and not TC ranges though.
> are the ones what have shown they can produce what other's like.

How do you show you can do this?

• Have enough money to fund yourself making the art in the first place.

• Actually be able to do it.

• Have enough resources left over to market it.

In an ideal world, you'd only need the middle one, but currently you need all three.
Don’t use a fancy tool to implement a simple tool? I’m sure that’s a rule somewhere.
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Intellectual property and physical property are entirely different. Intellectual property can be shared/multiplied/given away indefinitely while still being retained by the originator while physical property cannot.

After copyright expiration, the original author of intellectual property can create derivative works even after their copyright expires (in the same universe, etc.) or even updated revisions, which restart their copyright for the revision. Even if other could do so, I suspect the market for their derivative works will still have a preference for their works vs. others who create derivative works of the original, depending on the quality of the derivatives.

It is really hard to own land (or any other physical thing) after you've sold it but the same is not true of a novel.
Well yes, this is literally true for all search results.
I always liked the idea of using “m’lud” or “y’excellency”.

It makes HR emails sound more subservient I think.

HR departments are famed for their sense of humour so I’m sure they’d be fine with it.
heard a story of a nurse vaccinating a 16 yo kids crying and not wanting the vaccine and dying in the minutes after the shot.
It seems totally unbelievable, but the story was only n+2 (from someone knowing the nurse). Also said people in vaccine center had clear instructions not to mention anything happening there.

All this seems totally paranoid, i know. But i've also found numerus videos of actual doctors mentionning huge numbers of blood disorders in their own patients following the injection, so...
That's effectively how land ownership works in many Asian countries. Every holder of land is effectively leasing it from the public for a set number of years (100 years or whatever). Land sales for indeterminate times (in "fee simple") place an unfair burden on future generations, by denying to them the public benefits of increasing land values. It's effectively a hidden form of debt to a bunch of private rent seekers.
It's pretty funny that almost all answers are about how to get even more money, when the poster doesn't know what to do with the money he already has.
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Ah yeah, that's a totally fair critique. Everything in moderation, I suppose. :)

I must avoid those situations by making a new commit when I anticipate wanting to keep the reference to that point in work accessible.

I do dive into `reflog` maybe once or twice a quarter, but as far as I can remember, I only go there as an immediate reaction to tired-brain mistakes.
My Instagram feed has pretty much just ended up being soft porn. It's pretty easy to be replaced from this point on by anything.

The "AI" has basically re-created Sport Illustrated in scroll form.
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Yes. You can still sell prints of uncopyrighted stuff.

Your software argument is even better evidence that 20 years is a good idea. If the software is maintained, the new, derivative versions continue to be copyright protected. At the same time, abandonware becomes available for use without worry.

Here's another thought experiment. Assume Spiderman was first created in 2002 with the launch of the movie. It would be expiring soon. They've already made massive profits and such old movies are found for bargain-basement prices all over, so there's not a ton of money left to be made.

What does Disney have to lose? Just the idea of Spiderman himself, but would you rather see Marvel's spiderman or Warner Bros making yet another failed superhero movie? The latest Spiderman movie would still be available under copyright for another 20 years too. The only way Disney loses is if Warner Bros actually manages to make better content than disney makes. If better content COULD be made, but is stopped by copyright, this runs counter to the copyright's purpose according to the US Constitution.

Summed up, long copyright only serves to lock-in big companies and protect them from people who could do a better job with the ideas than they could. Everyone is worse off except the company's stockholders.
> So I'll personally still submit to journals without page charges and upload pre-prints on arxiv.

All the major journals in astronomy/astrophysics (ApJ, ApJ Letters, A&A, PASP, etc.) require article processing charges. The only major journal that doesn't require publication charges is MNRAS [1], but even they have started charging £50 for each additional page if the total number of pages is more than 20. Of course, article processing charges are ridiculous in the 21st century especially when the journals directly receive TeX sources from the authors. Other physics journals have also started doing this, e.g., The Physical Review Letters, which the is the "premier" journal from the American Physical Society now requires a $815 fee for a 4-5 page paper [2]. The trend is extremely alarming since it is highly biased in favor of researchers in large universities in rich countries, who are the only people who would be able to pay such ludicrous publication charges. Several scientific societies in the US and around the world have upped their "diversity" activism and have jumped on to the woke bandwagon. Yet, no one seems to talk about blatantly exclusionary issues such as this. And it's not even remotely difficult to run a high-quality open-access journal without any publication charges -- SciPost [3] and Discrete Analysis [4] are excellent examples.

[1]: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/General_Instructions#1....

[2]: https://journals.aps.org/prl/authors#pubcharges

[3]: https://scipost.org/

[4]: https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/
Yes entire radio net is moving through the shared pad together - so you when you send you consume a bit of the pad, and when someone sends to you they use the next bit of the pad, then you use the next, etc.

A new row per message means you don't re-use between messages (message is something like a sentence).

Each message should be short enough that you don't re-use (a 22-symbol message is already crazy), and you are not allowed to re-use if that means re-using a target symbol, but yes you might slightly re-use within messages if you're being sloppy.

In reality you don't get through the pad very quickly due to the 'compression' of a dictionary for typical parts of messages.

(This is all public info, not disclosing anything here.)
I have not been impressed by Apple, Google and Facebook during the last 4-5 years.

All of these companies are extremely rich and powerful, but they won't disrupt themselves.

They barely compete in practice, they are happy to live in a stable ecosystem they own.

They won't be displaced easily, but they will, at some point, in the mean time technology in their space is unlikely to progress as quickly as it could.
I've got to agree with this. While I am a fan of some of the assistances that come with vehicles, I am not a fan of the level of assistance some vehicles build in. I've lost power steering and powered brake assistance before (separate occasions), on different vehicles and while technically you still have steering or brakes (not drive by wire) , the loss of mechanical advantage is enough to mean you are effectively a passenger. While modern reliability has reduced the occurrence, the impact when that failure occurrs has only gotten worse.
I think they are picturing a “union of small companies” organizing to demand better terms from the large companies they do business with. (Without merging)
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why limit it to books or other creative creations - if you buy a house, you get exclusive use for 20 years - after that, other people just get to move into the unused bedrooms - after all, your kids are probably grown by now and you don't need them anymore.

How is this different - why should I be entitled to get, for free, something someone else created and owns.
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It's not an American concept. Pre-natal diagnoses based on unsound science is a bad thing regardless of if money is involved.

And bilking a medical system has nothing to do with if it's free or privatized.

Even with free healthcare the suppliers are still getting paid somehow... so them providing an unsound test is still making unjust profit.
Yeah to me this is an important distinction.

The _idea_ of Harry Potter and the Harry Potter books are IMO different things. It's like re-making a move like Wizard of Oz. It's just a new thing, but based on the same source material.
> This encourages killing off an author with a hitman so you can swoop in and steal extremely valuable intellectual property.

No, because the property rights ceasing to exist means that there is nothing to steal. You can use what would have been exclusive under them, but so can anyone else. Property rights aren't the right to use but the right to exclude; without the right to exclude, there is no property.

(I do think taking the author’s life into account is a dumb idea, just not for that reason.)
It does not if there are common interests and characteristics among users. Let's say for example I'm a young African-American girl who wants to learn how to code and I query "how can African-American girl learn coding?" and Google shows me Black Girls Code a non-profit organization that focuses on providing technology education for African-American girls. Considering that Google knows that I'm African-American girl and that I want to learn coding, how many other African-American girls want to learn coding? Probably many so caching doesn't break customization and personalization as long as Google knows my characteristics and interests and characteristics and interests of other people that are similar to mine.
> they're not saying the causes of height are simple, but rather that the output is simple to measure.

By talking about the dimensionality, they are saying both.

I agree that measuring height is easier, but I disagree that it’s causally simpler, and that is frankly what matters.

Is someone taller because of genetics or nutrition? Is there a nutrition difference because of culture, or because of racism, or because of wealth or because of IQ? Etc. Etc.

> … if it's possible at all.

It sounds like you are someone who doesn’t believe intelligence can be measured.
Raising animals is definitely not a weekend hobby. It can be a hobby, but it's daily work that you really can't avoid. When people start waxing poetic about how nice it is to live "out here" and how beautiful horses are, I usually mumble something about how it's nice until it's -20F and the snow is coming down horizontally and they still have to be fed and watered. Water freezes pretty fast at -20.

I'd say that the most substantial lifestyle change is that it becomes very difficult to go anywhere for more than a day. Depends on the animals of course: you can leave chickens with a few days of water and feed if it's above freezing. Anything larger and you have to at least have someone check in on your animals to be sure they haven't escaped: a few head of cattle/horses on a main road is a major hazard. And that's assuming the animals are fine with just pasture and you can leave enough water for the time you're gone.

That's best case scenario. As a rule of thumb, your animals will need to be fed/watered daily and that's usually when you have a chance to make sure that one of them isn't injured in some way. So going on vacation generally means that you either pay someone to do it, or you exchange favors with someone in a similar situation.
I think an underrated advantage that the online platforms have over the legacy studios is that the original content from Netflix, Prime, et al is available globally and the legacy content is not.

Netflix originals are available everywhere, the licensed content is far more restrictive. On Prime the only things available outside the US are Amazon Originals. Hulu won’t even let you log in if you’re outside the US. For whatever reason, legacy media decided they don’t want the rest of the world to be fans of their content and give them money for it. Disney is an exception since they’re starting to expand Disney+ overseas.
I'm sure that fans will actually love to argue endlessly if "Netflix Star Wars Universe" or "Disney Star Wars Universe" is the "true Star Wars", dissecting each one trying to find which one adheres to the original canon and author's vision.
That's exactly why the argument is that copyright should be shorter, not non-existent. When you publish something, 99% of the time are that you are going to make most of the profit in the first few years after release. If you're in the tiny percent that creates something that will last decades, then you'll probably get rich and successful enough that you won't need to extend the copyright any longer.
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> I'm hoping the next generation has a good take on this.

I believe the current generation has a good take on this: when your identity becomes enmeshed in a political religion, the creation of differences is mandatory to support your vision.

This necessity of finding a cause or something to believe in—the need for baddies and an existential battle of good vs evil—will exist in perpetuity on the left. If there are no baddies, they must be created.

The origin of "the left" in America is a road through the Darwinian origins of Progressivism which, along with its gross support of racial anthropology, believed in a better class of men to administer a society they believed incompetent. It then moved down the meandering corridor of postmodern Marxism in academia which took as an article of faith that dishonesty was required for social change. We're now at the weapons-grade, enriched version of that belief with Wokeness where the adherents privately believe they are better people, qualified to manage society's past ills but then publicly disown the idea when confronted.

Unless the cultural left in America wants to disown over a century of believing they are superior, the orthodoxy is here to stay. There is no difference between Wilsonian progressives and the modern day woke other than transparency and visibility into the worldview.
>Step 1: make art. Step 2: find other people who make art. Step 3: look at their art. Step 4: show them your art.

I would add one more step, and it MUST be step 1.

1) Allow yourself to fail.

The biggest detriment to your ability to create art is yourself. you'll always be your harshest critic. Failure is good, you never learn faster than when you fail. So fail lots and lots and lots.
> I have photographs that I took 20 years ago that I occasionally sell a print of. You are suggesting that that material now be part of the public domain?

Have you been selling the prints for 20 years? Then sure, that's probably fine. If you didn't make enough money off those sales, encouragement to go take new photos is a good thing.

> For that matter, you're suggesting GCC version 3.0.3, Emacs 21.2 and all prior versions be public domain and not have any copyright or copyleft protection on it? And thus, I could take the source code for them, modify it, close source it release my own version.

But you also get to take any closed-source program from X years ago and it becomes public domain too. I'm comfortable with this tradeoff. Though I'd like to go further and force companies to register a copy of the source code when they register their copyright, to be released upon expiration. And we could always add specific open-source legislation...

If you really don't like 20 years we can do 30. But I think half an adult lifetime is long enough to profit off any particular work.
Do you trust everybody?

It has nothing to do with politics. Look beyond your borders
> Meanwhile, does the art restoration world place a premium on using dissimilar materials, that prevent further disintegration while fooling the eye, but are easily distinguished by future scanning techniques?

Yes - as I understand it, restoration involves careful use of solvents to remove old layers of varnish/added paint, followed by a new coat of varnish to protect the original underlying paint, followed by inpainting/overpainting (filling on cracks and/or painting over damage). This is done using materials that can be easily removed by future restorers without damaging the original. I imagine these layers would show up on a sufficiently high-res scan, too.
> If a lack of basic income is why people are producing great works of art, then we should expect to see people on retirement to be the most prolific authors of great works.

Unfortunately getting old and retiring and having to make a living doing something else for 70 years first is a massive confounding factor for that hypothesis, otherwise I think it would probably be happening.
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Who is harmed? Creators. Consumers. Anyone who ever pined for access to something out of print, or in a vault, or otherwise squatted on for no productive reason. Anyone who ever had to guess what they could sample or what they could not; what would be legally considered derivative of some decades-old musical expression (many of which resemble each other superficially) and what would not.