skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, anyone who obtains a software patent is just a cheater, because they take advantage of the fact that now it is possible to obtain patents for things that could not be patented a half of century before.

If at the start of the computing industry it would have been possible to obtain the kind of software patents that are awarded now, nobody would have ever been able to write any programs without infringing patents, including those who now claim the right of forbidding to others to rediscover the same trivial methods for which they happened to file patent applications before others, mainly because nobody before them thought that such things are worthy of a patent.

If to their predecessors would have been granted the same kinds of software patents as today, none of those wanting to obtain software patents now could have been working in the computing industry, as it would have been much smaller.

Even the smallest physical design or computer program embodies numerous ideas that fortunately were discovered in a time when for anyone who discovered something new, the priority was to make it known to the public, without expecting many rewards besides the recognition of priority in advancement of science and technology.
I would hope it is obvious I am not talking about the period prior to the modern age in which the only people who could read were rich.

Because that says nothing about mindset, which is the claim I was replying to.

To test his mindset theory, we have to go to a period in which raw non-monetary resources - the most basic of which is the ability to read - is distributed among both rich and poor. And then you see - do the pours do anything?

And they do, across the vast majority of fields - including even science, which I edited my reply above to include. I'm shocked indeed that this is even being questioned. I'm coming from a humanities and social science background and so that's my primary frame of reference, but my understanding is that while it is not the rule of course they are widely a not insignificant minority among those who have made significant contributions. And obviously an even larger group if we include not only the poor but also the "non-privileged" which is who the OP to this particular thread was throwing into relief.
I know someone who makes tons of typos in their regular text, they don't seem to use autocorrect, and it's fucking annoying to try and read what they post. It's common typos like jsut instead of just. They just seem too lazy or indifferent to fix their shit.
Sure. I use the same ID everywhere. Let's talk, I have an open weekend if you want.
>"Async" is optimized for I/O bound programs.

Also works better than callbacks for single threaded/event loop scenarios like JS or some GUI framework (with the caveat that you need to make sure you are resuming on the event loop if environment is multithreaded).
Just to note: django-zen-queries doesn’t encourage you to execute querysets as soon as you define them, but rather just before you pass them to a template or serializer. This is a pattern we’ve found really useful.

(I’m the author of django-zen-queries)

I’m not a fan of the hyperbole in the article either. Some of the points are genuine problems but none of them should put off beginners.
That is also true for the police. Usually the police is incompetent if you want to be funny, or they are suffering humans. The police as a hero is also USA propaganda.
> file sharing: Your premise is incorrect, you can stream them as well.

Doesn't BitTorrent download the file in random order, instead of from beginning to end? I thought there was a good reason why it had to do that. I thought the only alternative was centralisation.
At least some adblockers work on keywords. I once made an api call called 'track' that got blocked as a tracker. It was for the pathway you were on after choosing something on that page. I had to rename it to get it to work properly.

It didn't matter that it was an api for that domain. It didn't matter that it had nothing to do with Google ads. It certainly wasn't on any list unless they were adding all newly registered domains to it.
I'm not counting arc furnaces for steel because they don't make steel - they recycle already made steel. Also, the recycling rate for steel is partly only impressively high because a lot of steel is wasted during the steelmaking process - so it isn't really recycling either, merely a loop inside the manufacturing process.
For me typing is the frustrating part, because when I know what I want the code to look like, having to type it in is just an annoying obstacle I have to go through before I can move on to the next thing, whether that's testing or thinking about the next bit of code or whatever. So yes, I do find it to be a distraction and frustration. Kinda like having to type a long random password and then dig out your phone and enter a 2FA code and then navigate a hierarchy of whatever before you can get to do the thing you're really after.

I always wish I could type faster and with less effort, or -- better yet -- just wish the code into the shape I want. ~100wpm touchtypist here.
> file sharing: Your premise is incorrect, you can stream them as well.

Of sorts, when there's enough excess bandwidth available that fairness doesn't really matter. By design bittorrent randomizes download order to improve the ability of peers to be of mutual interest to enable tit-for-tat.
They need competitions and lots of lawsuit. This is why people needs to find every opportunities to sue. And also individuals working there. They will only response to money...or in this case lost of it. Anything else doesn't matter.
Same for me, although I thought about Spotify who get 10 Euro/month from me.
You need to provide some context.. You procrastinate, but WHY ?
Not everyone will answer this the same way, and so the solution will differ.
I do it, because the only time I'm alone with my computer is in the evening after the day's done, and I steal my time from my sleep. It's clearly a problem, because it negatively affects my health and ability during the day, but if I can't have even this time, I wouldn't have any time at all and I'd not be able to go on. There are multiple solutions to my problem, but they've all been worse than the problem.
The act "geoblocked" propaganda that was ment e.g. for us European's from being received in the US. I think the argument is by "unblocking" it for US audiences there is indirectly a legalization of national propaganda. Particularly as such propaganda is excempt from the freedom of information act, it might be rather hard to prove that such propaganda only targeted an international audience (which is quite aware that Hollywood movies are all propaganda for the American way of live, I guess)
You might want to consider how much the people who are (not) paid to maintain them make.
Well, the society is what it is.

If a person can't e.g. talk to someone to buy food, and the huge majority of people can, then they have a problem. That's not severe - it might be not perfectly accomondating, but it's reasonable. And of cource society does try to help in many ways (consulting, people being understanding, parents, school experts, medicine, etc)
If you're not the CEO you're not leaving like a boss!
incidental, have you donated to putty?
Chinese tokamak facility achieves 120M-degree C for 1,056 seconds
I agree 100%. Even if you don't need it, these lines don't hurt you, but most of the time, the additional model is put to good use. I usually add metadata, such as additional timestamps, flags, tags, custom user settings, consent or preferences.
Yup, cold start problem is one of our main challenges, and we'll be trying out a variety of approaches to solve it.

Actually the Netvyne extension can be used in conjunction with FB (and other social media platforms, for that matter. Netvyne is a tool/utility). The native screenshot capability of the extension is particularly useful when discussing what you see on Facebook with friends that might not otherwise have those items in their feed.

Personally, I find that the FB feed doesn't have much value. There's really not much that you have that is worth sharing with your entire friends list; sharing with specifically selected sets of friends leads to a higher quality experience in my opinion. The fact that FB still by default has you post to your entire friends list indicates that they are most likely going for maximal engagement at the cost of relevance. With regard to URL sharing specifically, most people I know would just send those links via Messenger. My hunch is that this is because there is no alternative, and that the chronological feed format for sharing URLs is superior.
Function is async and you want to run it synchronously? Create an async runtime and use its equivalent of `runtime.block_on(async_fn())` to drive the future to completion synchronously.

Function is blocking and you want to use it in an async context without blocking the async worker thread? Use your runtime's equivalent of `spawn_blocking(|| sync_fn()).await` that will run the function call in a threadpool dedicated for blocking tasks.

(Both those examples are for tokio.)
We've seen many discussions around the decreasing quality of Google in the past week. This part summarizes the conflict of interest between advertisers and search engines very well:

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."
It's a type-think-type-think cycle (or type-test-think-type-...) and the more time and effort you spend on the typing part, the more it distracts you from the rest. Typing for a few minutes isn't any better than compiling for a few minutes before you can test. It just interrupts the more interesting work.
Ehh, this has been standard fare for China for decades.

It is always comically obvious (like in the videos you posted above). Pick any movie and you're likely to see something similar.

On the other hand, consider the last time you saw an Asian male in a Hollywood production that wasn't:

a) a kung-fu caricature
b) the joke

Western propaganda is more subtle and effective.
Still, as a non-programmer, if everything is so "easy" isn't it surprising that there are very few actually working (free/low cost) JPEG recovery/repair programs?

A very minor corruption in the file and poof you can retrieve nothing.

Many years ago there was a single program[1] that could, in a very small subset of cases, "fix" corrupted JPEG files (manually/inteactively), now (AFAIK) there is almost only [2] and [3] and this (service) [4] that actually produce (in some cases) good results.

In my (admitted) ignorance on the matter, I would have expected that with progresses like increased computer power, AI, deep fakes or whatever the problem by now was - if not solved - at least solved in a number of subset of cases.

[1] https://directory.s2services.com/jpg-bmp.htm

[2] https://www.jpegmedic.com/tools/jpegmedic/ https://www.jpegmedic.com/tools/

[3] https://www.hketech.com/

[4] https://www.disktuna.com/
What's the DAU of all browsers combined? I'd guess something like 2 billion. Given the stats from the OP, Brave should account for <1% of usage. Them managing to pay out .33% especially given how immature their business model is sounds incredibly good.
That’s something clients can control.
Can you please link me to the API that you are thinking about ?
I assume you are American? As resident of one of the dozens of countries that suffered US led coups our opinions differ. The US has influenced with undemocratic methods a lot more countries than the USSR even before the 90s. Just compare Europe and US sphere influence (Latin America and Africa) with USSR sphere of influence (Eastern Europe and Caucasian) Also look what happened Foreign interventions in the USSR sphere of influence for Freedom (Syria, Libya and Yugoslavia, Former USSR naval bases in the Mediterranean) those were rebellions against dictatorships. All the others are insurgencies against democracies.
There might have been some improvements in this area but I still haven't seen any (male) IT guy in a movie who is not portrayed as some kind of weirdo and relegated to the side. Even female nerds are at the very best assisting the hero.

TV lawyers and doctors however get to hold jargon-filled monologues and be in lead roles.

/rant
This brought back memories. The first money I ever made from software as a teenager was through Kagi. It was some Mac utility shareware apps written in REALbasic around the year 2000.
An interview with him from 'Talking Sopranos' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ptez22AkA
It downloads them in the order you tell your client to do.
I'm more than happy to pay for movies or shows and currently subscribe to 5 streaming services but often find I need to resort to pirated content for a few reasons:

1. Frequently movies I want to watch are simply unavailable to stream or purchase in my country (Australia). Often they are available on the streaming services I subscribe to but only for users in other countries.

2. Being hearing impaired, I need subtitles but these are often unavailable on the streaming services. I can almost always get them for pirated content. So often I will pirate a movie that I could watch through a streaming service just so I can get the subtitles.
The author is well read in philosophy, and the article (what I read in the first 1/4 or so) is a work of philosophy. I have a minor degree in philosophy. To me it is interesting and at a good pace.

For example the author doesn't descend into shallow made up lingo, they aren't too formal or abstract, the ideas are organized into sections, there's a development of the ideas, there's poetic illustrations interleaved with stories, etc.

I liked some of the themes of taking responsibility and venturing into the unknown.

EDIT: I read the rest. The spiritualizing and financial stuff is a bit clumsy. Mainly from lack of context. Based on this writing alone, the author could be anywhere on the spectrum from absolutely insane to level-headed trying to focus on spirituality qua creative pursuits.

I also spot another lack of context in the audience being considered responsible elite, meanwhile belief in bountiful surplus and the audience needing more materials. I guess he may have a different article regarding "non elites" and the bountiful surplus, or maybe he believes the bountiful surplus is only for the elites.

All in all interesting and kinda lukewarm, if only because possible craziness hides behind ambiguity.
That is possible, I have never used this feature. Though I’d guess that something new or old enough for it to matter, can’t download fast enough to keep up with a stream anyway.
Async is pushing Rust where it shouldn't really be going anyway: to be a Node.js replacement. The actor model is far better suited to solve these kind of problems to begin with.
> I can't speak for others but I generally turn to piracy when legal options are unavailable or unviable.

I do this too.

But I asked whether copyright enforcement was necessary for films to get adequately funded. I'm assuming that the problems you've described with region locking aren't there. I resort to piracy when I have no other options.
Not sure if it makes sense, but after the christmas holidays I made a bad habbit of sleeping to much, which also made me tired.

So, get enough sleep, but not too much. Don't start another sleep cycle.
A second redditor has reported the same behaviour, although it's in the same (seemingly inappropriate) subreddit and was posted 4 hours later so it may just be a copycat:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/ry0cnr/d...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220107101132/https://old.reddi...

Edit: The thread has now been deleted, so both reddit threads about this issue are deleted.
My guess is it reminds of Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, but that’s just based on what I’ve picked up from documentaries (I haven’t read this book or anything else by her).
Well, that's pretty identical, this guy knows Perl.

But for me it's still hard to continue the search after those two, when you have s///, and stackoverflow is few years in the future. I believe that most Perl programmers felt similar.
Since it is written in Typescript, can parts of Browsix get compiled to Wasm instead of JS via AssemblyScript? Then at some point Browsix could run inside of any compatible wasm env and not just a browser tab?

https://www.assemblyscript.org/
It's been there for some time, and there are various mirrors in certain places.
It's arguably not a tangent but simply a more holistic view.

Twitter is a lot of posturing, and the tweet is posturing "look how progressive/ethical/whatever I am". GP is simply pointing out that yes, supporting gay rights is a good thing, but the person overall is still a piece of shit for all the atrocities they implicitly support. The gay rights stance, even if genuine, simply can't balance that out.
I agree with you, but you aren't answering my question about funding. The question is an existential one about whether copyright should exist at all, and be enforced too.
I would agree that for the (majority parts of) populations of the main countries that is likely the case. I certainly am happy to have grown up in Western not Eastern Germany. That said things get murkier beyond that quite quickly. I'm not sure I would have preferred to grow up as a black teenager in e.g. Baltimore over being a teenager in Eastern Germany and I certainly would have preferred to grow up in Estonia in the USSR over Guatemala.
It's similar to what I see in France
Anyone here remembers datahand? Both of them seem to have similar input space of 4-5 directions per finger and could use similar input methods for mapping that to actual inputs.
Isn't this the plot of The Last of Us?
As an experienced Django developer, I found django-zen-queries very good for hygiene, and I'm going to start using it. I should also pay attention to django-debug-toolbar's query view more often.

I generally don't need to optimize my queries because my apps are small, but I should do that by default, because otherwise it's wasteful and it's not hard to do. It's just that Django's default doesn't encourage you too, but hopefully with Zen Queries it will.
High-performance Java is indeed basically writing C in Java, including using you own byte array for memory. It's amazingly un-idiomatic though, and you'll get (rightly) roasted by fellow Java developers for doing it without a clear and compelling need.

In other words, you've missed the whole point of the article. Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you'll end up doing it.
A lot of people find it hard to believe other people enjoy different lifestyles than themselves.
A couple of comments here show confusion about who can use defibrillators and in particular whether a doctor is required. I thought I'd add my personal experience.

Specifically, I was defibrillated by bystanders when I had an out-of-hospital Ventricular Fibrillation episode. The staff at the UK building I was visiting had a defibrillator in their office and one of them had been on a training course.

When I collapsed with no warning, there was (according to my wife) about a minute of confusion and then one of the staff grabbed the defibrillator and used it. The device itself plays recorded instructions and itself conducts diagnostic tests to determine whether or not it should be used. If it can't detect a treatable condition it doesn't just blat you with electricity for the sake of it. If it can treat you, then it gives clear instructions to the users and delivers shocks as required.

In my case, the visitor centre staff had saved my life before the air ambulance arrived with trained medics. I was then flown to hospital where the critical cardiac care team confirmed that the bystanders had done exactly the right thing. They had also administered manual CPR which had kept my brain supplied with oxygen at the cost of two broken ribs. So here I am today writing this comment, thanks to the immediate availability of a defibrillator to bystanders.

I was lucky. My VF episode happened just as I had entered the lobby of the building that coincidentally contained the defibrillator. If I had been a 20 minute walk away, I would be dead (or brain damaged). Would a drone-based defibrillator have saved my life? Don't know, but it would certainly improve my chances.
That's what I was clarifying with 'Yes, it's in the list of guessable words - however it's not a valid answer word'.

They have two lists of words: one is a list of possible answers, and another is a list of extra (valid) words which can be guessed (in addition to the words in the answer list). Sometimes it might be better to use a non-answer word as a guess: the best case gets worse (since you cannot win immediately) but the average case and worst case both get better.
I subscribe to three different streaming services, and if I really like something that isn't on them I'll buy a Blu Ray or DVD. I also rent stuff on YouTube.

But I have no qualms about pirating things that simply aren't purchasable without jumping through hoops (or at all as is the case for most older TV shows that are even a little bit obscure).
Kazakhstan internet shutdown blow to global Bitcoin mining
a game that my parents like to play:
never have i ever:
- owned an emerald mine.
- been born to one of the largest landowners in Texas.
- looked on as my child swindled their friends out of a project to get rich quick and kept looking when their business model became a danger to democracy.

i dont think musk, bezos or zuck are good benchmarks for people taking risks.

i imagine them having about as much anxiety about which project next to fund as i have choosing socks. the striped ones that go over the knees but slip a little and have to be tugged upwards every now and then, or the short cute kitty socks that are a bit cold though?
No, it can download files in order. Almost all clients have that option.
This was so well written, an eye opener indeed! Thanks
Less likely yes, but the publicly accessible defibrillators are pretty easy to use.
They have big prints on them where to place the pads and after pressing the big green "On" button they start talking to you, explaining what to do.

They are also included in the standard CPR first-aid courses nowadays.
> 1y sounds like a long time, esp for smaller companies (like if you have say 5 ppl on a payroll). I wonder if they can insure against such a risk (say if an insurer can cover the salary if absence longer than a month).

Yes, there are insurance packages available for this. In the Netherlands, for instance, where the support period is two years, it's common for businesses to take out verzuimverzekering or 'absence insurance'. It usually only applies to line employees though, not those are director level or above.
I have never had the patience to wait for it.
Could google work around this by having individual adjustment of the speaker amplification but also provide an EQ functionality that works on the audio stream before it is sent to the speaker?
This EQ interface may, for convenience have a "lock sliders" feature, so that the user can attenuate all frequency bands at the same time, this is not an adjustment of speaker volume, but an equalization of the audio signal.