skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
really? I know many people who "got omicron" shortly after Christmas... by which I mean, they self-tested daily and eventually the test came up positive, with symptoms ranging from literally nonexistent to that of the mildest of colds—a far cry from my mom's ten-day absolute misery (and very real fear for her life given her immunosuppressed state) back in early 2020 that I personally witnessed & took care of her during. if that's what we're dealing with now, I don't see any reason why someone like myself who hasn't taken any of these vaccines or boosters or whatever to start doing so now. what part of my own personal risk assessment here is misguided?
I just remembered an Onion post from a long ago that speaks to what I'm saying. People can and should do something even if the depressed person says to go away and leave them alone. Nobody wants to be rude or be a bother, but sometimes it's an emergency situation and people should give themselves permission to act.

Parents Of Suicide Victim Saw It Coming A Mile Away

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Ok, maybe then that was how it was sold (and I meant "intellectual property" in general, that was not clear, sorry).
Completely different part of the stack.

UPS delivers the end product from a warehouse to the customer's house.

But first the company selling that product had to get thousands of units of the product from the manufacturing facility to its warehouse. Before that they had to get all of the components or raw materials for that product to the manufacturing facility. Many of those components would have been manufactured by a different company that had to get its own components and raw materials to its own facility, and on and on down the chain. And these could be huge quantities of materials that require heavy machinery to transport and a lot of coordination to make sure that's available at the right time. They can't just get dropped off at the front door like a UPS delivery.

As far as I understand it, Flexport is basically building the rails for all of the different logistics and freight companies involved in this kind of commercial shipping to talk to each other more efficiently. Apparently many of them are still using phone calls and fax machines to organize these kinds of deliveries.
See also the "Sokal Affair" [0] and the "Postmodernism Generator" [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

[1] https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
A family is typically called an "Instruction Set Architecture"

Main ones in development today would be:

x86-64 / AMD64 / Intel Architecture - modern Intel and AMD processors

i386 / x86 / IA-32 - older 32-bit Intel still widely in use

aarch64 - 64-bit ARM in nearly all phones and new Macs

aarch32 / ARM32 - 32-bit ARM in majority of 32-bit microcontrollers and older phones

RISC-V comes in 32 and 64 bit as well and is popular with startups and education due to its relative lack of legal/IP encumbrances

6502 is a classic vintage processor used in original Apple, Nintendo, Commodore 64, and early radiation hardened medical devices. It is resurgent with vintage enthusiasts, tinkerers and YouTubers due to its noted cycle for cycle advantage over other early microprocessors.

IBM 360/370/390 and z-architecture is surely running banks somewhere but you won't find much on that on HN
A lot of problems are also due to old systems. Ask any plumber. The plastic pipes are smooth inside. Old pipes weren’t only rough, they degrade. Cast iron sloughs off into itself. There was a kind of pipe that was used that was basically tar paper; it broke down and clogged itself (like cast iron).

A new building with new toilets should work very well. Replacing your toilet may not help if your pipes from the 60s are basically nonexistent.
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“Some hits and quite a few duds” is how every Hollywood studio operates, isn’t it?
Twenty years from publication; the holder can pay the Library of Congress $2 to extend the copyright by one year. This fee doubles every year thereafter. So the 30th year only costs $1024, and the 40th year costs $1048576. If it remains profitable, you share the proceeds of rent-seeking with the public.
Of course they do,

But I would assume that once some of these mega franchises hit the public domain, we could see Sony (just a random non disney example) make a big budget Star Wars movie and try to create their own Star Wars universe that is separate.

This may or may not actually be a thing since by the time Star Wars hits public domain it may be irreverent. But if we had a shorter period, I would assume that could happen?
Yes. I said that in the 4th paragraph of my parent comment.

Some people might choose not to create works for that reason.

Works will become available for masses of artists to build upon sooner if copyright ends at death.

I think the latter option will likely create more newworks than the former so I see potentially sacrificing the former as being worthy.
One thing I haven't seen used much is a license that effectively voluntarily shortens a copyright term. There's a lot of people here who might want to license something either commercially or as Creative Commons, rather than dedicating it to the public domain immediately. But why not add text to the license that dedicates it at a future date, corresponding to however long you feel the copyright should last (say, 30 years)?
Working at a startup that focuses on automating the underwriting process for freight factoring has been an incredible insight during the supply chain crisis of 2021. Something that's also interesting is the data that companies like Flexport have to work with. Freight contracts and lending adjacent to these industries are a treasure trove of early indicators of economic ups and downs for the US economy.
> I have the right to not be enslaved because the government and broadly society deems that valid. But that's a consequence of government force preventing people from enslaving others. Without government intervention, slavery emerges.

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that you do have the right not to be enslaved, just by dint of being a human being, but that sometimes, someplace, because there are no laws or government to enforce your right, you might be enslaved anyway.

In this second perspective, you have the right not to be enslaved even if you happen to actually be a slave; it's just that your right is being violated.

That is, I think, what is meant by a "natural" -- or, if you are American, in a perhaps more familiar term, "inalienable" -- human right. You always have it; it cannot be taken away (or "alienated") from you.

Yeah, I'm also a bit confused as to why the "Founding Fathers" left out healthcare. But maybe they didn't -- I mean, can you really be "happy" if you're ill...? So maybe they meant for it to be included under "the pursuit of happiness". (Hey, in their day medicine was less advanced -- you couldn't be as almost-certain of a beneficial result from medical care as we can today, so that, too, was more of just a "pursuit".)
Deal, 10 years from publication.
If you check out something where people just ignore copyright, like fan fiction or ROM hacks, you'll find something that's not very hard to follow at all. Easier to follow than what particularly reboot-happy studios do with their copyrights, since people generally come up with more descriptive names for their fics/hacks/etc than "Star Wars 5."

90% of that is garbage, of course but that's true of anywhere.

If you'd like a specific timeframe where it's useful for a franchise to be controlled by a single entity, I'd say 5-10 years. Anything more than that and, even if you still have the original artist in charge, they'll be in a completely different place in their life by then.
Interesting - I wonder if it would feel different, with conservation of momentum being a bigger portion of the effort than gravity vs. on Earth.

What I mean is it would be something between lifting 100kg and pushing a car in neutral and stopping it.
> A few people do this, but since we don’t have basic income ...

We can imagine a society where everyone is given an amount of money to produce whatever they like by taking money from people who are producing what others like.

Instead we have a system where people are free to produce what they like, but the people who can do it full time are the ones what have shown they can produce what other's like.

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.
Maybe there's a recessive gene that causes some tone difference. Maybe there's some historical war that caused the blahblahblah migration of the whoseits to the whatsits. Or maybe it's not part of the story at all and doesn't need to be.

When I meet a new black person they don't spend a bunch of time explaining to me why they're black. That would be pretty weird. It sounds like you have some real hangups about race that just isn't shared by the writers.
There's really odd undertones in a lot of Netflix shows

Big Mouth (a cartoon) is about child sex

Emily in Paris, character lead has sex with a 17yo on screen.

There are more, I just can't bring them to mind at the moment. Perhaps I should begin to document them.

Hmm... Black Mirror (the Netflix episodes) had child sex in, End of The Fucking World had child sex in it; although both with negative consequences so poor examples.

Maybe it's coincidental, but it is something I've started to notice more and more.

Keep it in mind next time you watch some shows on Netflix and perhaps it will stand out.
This seems rather clueless. The party line was they have not found a way to implement it in a way that satisfy their requirement. Now they have found a way to do so. So I see no contradiction. Also what breaking changes you are talking about I am not aware of any. Also there is no golang 2.0 yet.
Those selling the land to the developer profit but there are lots of examples in which home values around the new building decrease due to blocked views/shade/decreased privacy.

From a societal POV we should be building higher density and the drawbacks are worth it, but it is also in the rational self-interest of those building neighbors to vote against the new development.

NY has alleviated this somewhat by granting all existing landowners some air-rights that they can choose to sell to nearby highrises. Something like this might be the right way to go so that the nearby owners receive some recompense.
I'll admit that I was assuming that since many civilizations at that time knew how to make gold and silver filigree, that copper wire was also possible. One can probably replace the copper wire with gold wire, but you might have a hard time convincing the locals to loan you some for demonstration.
As copyrights are honored across multiple nations... this approach would encourage me to register my copyrights in say... Canada or England instead.
Like anything - there's startup costs and then maintenance costs and a lot of it can be automated. But, tl;dr not much at all (10 mins/day for the bulk of the time) after infrastructure/a system is built.

I'll give you a simple example with chickens. On average, we eat a whole chicken once per week. So to be 100% self sufficient, lets say we need to grow 50 chickens.

A common cornish cross chicken goes from 0-5/6lbs in 6-8 weeks. If you want to be fair weather, then you buy in march/april, harvest in may/june. You can buy them online and they'll ship them to you direct, or in our case, to a nearby post office and we go pick them up. They cost about $1 each.

So, you have 50 chickens arriving, what do you need? A place to put them (fairly small space requirement, actually,) food, and water.

The baby chickens arrive, and you need a place to put them before they can survive the evening.

I made a simple brooder box (2'x6'x3') using 1x4 douglas fir, osb board, and some steel mesh / simple frame for a lid/roof. This took me about 2 hours to build because I didn't use any plans and kind of just winged it. I could make it in 30 mins now.

Next, I made a basic chicken tractor. This is a place for the chickens to sleep at night. Same idea as before, a simple box with some ease of access/cleaning stuff, and put it on wheels so you can move it about.

During the day, depending on your ethics, they need a place they can stretch their legs and move about that is protected from predators. In my area, I have bobcats, racoons, opossums, and hawks. And I live in a residential area, so effectively dealing with them is a huge hassle and I have to work around them. A combination of movable electrical netting and making sure your chicken tractor is raised off of the ground at night is very important. I learned this the hard way, there was a lot of very unsettling things the racoons did.

Lastly comes harvesting. It takes a couple of minutes per chicken when you're in a groove. The most time consuming is de-feathering and then vacuum sealing. You can do this all in 1 day with some friends, or spread over a few weekends if you're by yourself.

So direct answers:

> This all sounds pretty labor intensive to me

There is effectively 0 required labor until harvest, which you can outsource too. You can buy all of the stuff I mentioned for higher startup costs if you want.

> About how many hours per year do you think goes in to this?

Let's be very conservative and say 20 minutes/day for 8 weeks. Then 10 minutes per chicken. 8x7x20/60=~19 hours, +9 hours for processing, 25-30 hours a year

> Like is this something that could be a weekend hobby?

A small daily chore like working out or taking a shower. The downside is no (long) vacation during grow/harvest.

> Or does it require more substantial lifestyle change?

The biggest lifestyle change I have seen is people understanding where their food comes from and coming to terms with the fact that in order to eat meat, an animal has to die. If you're over this hump, and have a little space that you're willing to dedicate to this, no change is required.

Sorry for the essay, hope this helps.
It's very different when you want to quickly reference a dozen books in any given field, as opposed to just "reading" any one of them cover to cover. That's where copyright restrictions start to become very painful. Yes, libraries exist to make this kind of scholarship easier but not without restrictions of their own.
Absolutely.

Would you not have taken the photo or sold it had you known the timeframe for it's value would be limited to 20 years? I suspect that, yes, you'd still take that photo. So long as the timespan is long enough to benefit the creator (and thus, encourage creativity) but not so long as to forever lock up the creation, then I see no harm in a much shorter copyright timeframe.

Why should I care if a 20 year old compiler or text editor ends up having closed source versions? And, on the flip side, wouldn't it be neat if we had Windows XP source code in the public domain?

Now consider the fact that with a 20 year lifespan on copyright every streaming service would have access to everything published in 2001 and earlier. 1 service could give you a bonkers amount of content.
Yep, this is certainly noticeable at higher bit-rates, for instance when you watch on a real blu-ray or a raw blu-ray rip. It's incredible how much color depth you lose with x625 encoding even with their purported "10-bit" color depth. My blu-ray library never disappoints even if it feels like 2013 actually loading discs into a player.
So if I'm understanding BATCO correctly, there's an average key reuse by a single sender after 13 messages because of the how the traffic key rotation selects a row? That, combined with the sense I'm getting that the cipher sheets were distributed widely (auth tables imply multiple senders using the same cipher sheet at the same time) seems to imply broad reuse of key rows, making it a pad, but not a one time pad. Do my assumptions filing in the blanks line up?

I'll give it that's it's definitely way better than DRYAD, which is pretty universally not considered a OTP because of the much greater key reuse (like how auth uses the same cipher tables as encrypt, leaking tables). So it boils down to the practical use case on whether it falls into OTP.
Honestly, I don't see the problem with a 20 year copyright term.

You made profits off the prints for 20 years, and the state enforced those rights. You didn't pay for them, at most you paid a token fee to register the copyrights.

That's the bargain of copyright, I think. Yes, some folks lose control after a period, but everyone else is enriched.

Excuse me, I've got to go order a Miskatonic University sweatshirt.
>My platform of choice is instead the Amiga 1200

I was honestly expecting him to mention vintage (ie. IBM/pre-lenovo) thinkpads. Those have a cult following behind them, supposedly for their serviceability, durability, and features (nice keyboards/trackpoint). They're certainly more useful and easier to repair than the Amiga. Speaking of which, can something really be considered easy to repair if replacement parts have to be custom manufactured by "hobbyists and small scale businesses", and parts need to be reimplemented via FPGAs? At that point you're probably creating more e-waste than using a raspberry pi or something.
I couldn't agree more, the article is hopelessly naive and assumes that the partner simply has an unlimited amount of (mental) energy and patience to try and handle somebody with a mental illness. And worse, you're not "allowed" to actually help, you should leave them in the dark and absorb their negativity.

The fact that this negativity reflects on yourself seems to be of no interest to the author.
I would love for Star Wars to be taken in a ton of different directions, and the current toxic part of the fanbase that is obsessed with canonicity to be smashed into pieces. Let's make this a proper mythology.

Fans already take Star Wars in a lot of different directions in their cosplay and roleplaying and fan-fic, so it wouldn't even be much of an adjustment in that respect. Nevertheless, a world where fans are free and empowered to make a living creating Star Wars characters and stories, without having to pay the Mouse or get his say-so, would be a healthier place.
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I believe that's what the GP is saying. Perhaps I'm wrong, but your tone seems to indicate that you think doing doing so is completely preposterous. And while you're allowed to feel that way, instead of dismissing the GP entirely, I'd be more interested in hearing more about your position based on your totally valid personal experience.
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It's more that it's not the right frame because it ignores the elephant in the room. It's the difference between the fantasy of liberal economics and the real world.
The people who wrote the clause of the US constitution that enables the government to grant a temporary monopoly to authors and inventors argued over whether to do so. It was not like ownership of land, structures, etc. The phrase "intellectual property" dates to the 19th c. and was not initially widely used.

What we call "copyright" is, as it is referred to in the constitution, a monopoly granted by the government. All your other rights are assumed to exist because it would be outlandish to say a mere government could "grant" them. They are protected by the government, or so it was intended.

Unlike real rights, Congress could pass a law setting the term of such a monopoly to zero and there would be no civil rights argument against doing so. Patents and copyright are nothing like your actual rights.

This applies to the way copyright law is authorized constitutionally in the US. YMMV.
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>>90+ years is really WAY too long.

Way too long for who? I don't own any copyrights - probably never will - but why am I supposedly owed the right to use something for free that someone else created after some arbitrary amount of time?

You might be able to make a case that it is in the public's interest to only patent life-saving medicine for X number of years, but who is really harmed when the author of a book retains the rights in perpetuity?
> The writing is completely unrelated to the actors being black.

It is just as unrelated to them being White where the actors chosen are White. “Black needs justification but White doesn't” is a recipe (long followed, btw) for White favoritism in casting.