skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one can predict the life expectancy of a copy protected work.

I'd argue that software, and in particular operating-system software is perhaps one of the most predictable categories. It inherently ages due to gradual drift on hardware support and growing burdens of security risks and unmet compatibility needs. A 20-year-old operating system is probably only interesting for academic, historic/nostalgic, or special-case legacy support reasons.

For Windows XP in particular, it's interesting to remember that one of the motivations to cram Vista out the door was that they had to provide something new on a regular basis to justify the value of subscription-priced license agreements. Microsoft knew it had a finite shelf life from that perspective.

> You may disagree but it’s simply true given that copyright protection has only increased over the history of the US, not decreased.

I don't think you can draw conclusions from the behaviour of lawmakers, who are likely easily swayed by existing stakeholders who have a financial stake in expanded copyright.

I think expanding copyright got a free pass from society as a whole, until the late 20th century, because copying and modification was technologically gatekept until then. There wasn't really the possibility of "remix" work as we know it, and aftermarket reproduction was likely to be clunky, expensive, and inferior in quality. The villian for copyright was an unsympathetic commercial player trying to sell you a crudely mimeographed reproduction under the table.

It didn't matter in 1895 that we couldn't produce a remix of the top novel or song, because even if we wrote it out, most of us didn't have the facilities to make a commercial-quality printed product for mass sale.

Now, with digital content, the gates are open. An XP-Delta ISO is of similar quality and usability to a "real" XP ISO, and can be brought to consumers just as easily. The pain-point moves to the legal restrictions instead. We also have a new era of more sympathetic copiers: the archivists trying to fight the forever-loss of DRM content, the hobbyists trying to preserve or expand a product they loved, the remixers who are expressing themselves with bits and pieces of a shared zeitgeist that happens to be privately owned.
What do rabbits have to do with humans? Rabbits also die of GI stasis if they don’t eat grass 24/7.

You gotta test with omnivores, and even then humans are more omnivorous than most other animals (like dogs are poisoned by grapes, chocolate, onions…).
People should read the study, it's interesting: https://sci-hub.st/10.1111/joim.12496

There's nothing about race in there anyway. Don't get tricked into these identity discussions. Both ignoring anything that has race in it as well as getting angry when they bait you with it ultimately means they have control over you, because you're easily manipulated with a single word.
There are many people who cycle for transportation. In order to utilize cycling for transportation, people need to maintain higher speeds, or spend a lot more time commuting each way. Just dismissing their needs by calling them sports cyclists because they ride at faster speeds doesn't do anyone any favors.
They might if a bicycle helmet was an osha recognized protective equipment. But it seems like the company did their homework and said it’s not. If there’s some regulation for helmets then it’s a different story.

My work doesn’t require a helmet, even though it would protect me. If I wore a helmet and my employer fired me, OSHA wouldn’t give a shit.
Not just you. I don't get the point of this either. I'm guessing it has something to do with your existing reading method? My eyes naturally jump to the first letters and tallest/round characters when determining the shape of a word.

There is an accelerated reader I played with a few years ago, based on flashing the words for you with some letters colored in red. That increased reading speed mildly, but the lack of ability to quickly backtrack defeated any gains.
Cryptocurrencies have huge market caps though. If they crash (like the Luna disaster last week), that has to have some kind of impact, right?
> The American Academy of Dermatology recommends that all people, regardless of skin color, protect themselves from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays by seeking shade, wearing protective clothing, and using a broad-spectrum, water-resistant sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher

> “I think that sun-protection advice,” [David Leffel, Yale] told me, “has always been directed at those most at risk”—people with fair skin or a family history of skin cancer. “While it is true that people with olive skin are at less risk, we do see an increasing number of people with that type of skin getting skin cancer. But skin cancer… is very rare in African Americans… and although they represent a spectrum of pigmentation, [they] are not at as much risk.”
Agreed... I didn't notice the mention of racism in the title. I only realized after reading the article and seeing people ignore the substance in lieu of attacking a perceived slighting.
35 pounds of butter will provide enough calories for you to walk to space. Butter based diets make a basket life for even a family of 14 trivial.

Think about it.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/126/
Your argument is that is that body is going to re-implement all of jQuery with their own helper functions. I got that. It's just not a very interesting point. Was I using hyperbole -- yes. You got me.
It sounds like you're just looking for an excuse to complain about something.
Bike paths also tend to have more surface hazards because they're not designed following stringent standards that designers of roads have to follow.
This makes sense. I recently saw an article in the local news that said the same as the dermatology academy mentioned in the article: Any sun exposure is supposedly bad and has to be avoided. And the concept of building up tolerance was said to be nonsense, apparently any exposure is bad even when you don't burn.

What I've always done is build up my tolerance by getting tan during the spring so I can walk around without sunscreen in summer. Of course I don't go crazy with it, and I try to avoid direct sunlight in high-UV situations (e.g. walking on the shaded side of the street) but I take it when there is no option. It works fine for me, I rarely get sunburn and when I do it's minor, just a little red glow and sensitivity. Even though I have very pale skin I tan and burn very slowly, luckily. I lived in Australia a while in the early '00s while the ozone hole was still around and the same approach worked even there

I live in a country (Spain) that has lots of sun so I don't want to go out with cream every day. The only times I use it is when I'm outside for a long time and I feel I'm getting close to burning.

I get that it's totally bad what I see many Northern European tourists do: They stay indoors most of the summer and then take a 2-week holiday to the costa's where they lay in the sun for 12 hours a day. Obviously this is totally bad, even with suncreen you will get totally burned to a crisp.

In any case, I'll see. Maybe I'm wrong but in that case the damage is done already. But I don't think sun exposure can be as bad as they say.
What was wrong with you? Weren't you aware that a D&D MMO was available? Shame on you. It's free now, so stop what you're doing, roll an Artificer & grab a rune arm, take some initiative and go find yourself a Beholder to kill.

If you want to be traditional a then a fighter, thief or wizard is fine too, but roll something.
it's reversed here: the lighter your skin, the worse off you'll be
Agree. Would love to see some text even explaining what this is or why it's supposed to help. I just see a git repo with no explanation...
I remember using a RSTS system that was installed at a high school in Milford NH circa 1980. DEC, being based in Massachusetts, donated countless minicomputers to schools, museums and other institutions around New England.

They also were planning to build a new factory off a new highway offramp a mile from my house that had been opened in 1980 but never built the factory because the computer industry left them behind.
I'll go with "the sun is a deadly laser". I'll suggest anyone that disbelieves that to spend some 30min into a moderate/high UV intensity day outside without sunscreen. Especially around midday.

Sure, don't avoid the sun completely, but don't play with it

It's true that sunlight increases Vit D and Nitric Oxide, other claims are much feeble and holy mother of selection bias to claim all that is due to the sun!
Long list of cool maths resources
Echoes of Bluemars – Music for the Space Traveler
Are they less likely than non-CCW permit holders?
Im game for some friendly exploration of the topic if you are.

While I am a firm believer in immutable rights in the philosophical sense, immutable rights do not and can not exist in the physical/political world. Rights in the physical world are always dependent on the ability and will to exercise force.

I agree that you can establish constitutions which create barriers and make change difficult as long as people are willing to adhere to the governing constitution.

Ultimately, you still need to come up with a purpose of a political system and criteria for discerning a good one from a bad one, no matter what your selected criteria is.
The Simple View of Reading: How Kids Learn to Read
Something to keep in mind that's strongly in sunscreen's favor: Sun exposure has a dramatic (over spans of years) effect on how your skin looks. People who have low sun exposure, or high sunscreen look look noticibly younger. I can't think of a reproducible way to look younger than preventing UV exposure.
Because in the last couple of years was the first time there has been an open and widespread discussion of various forms of race-based discrimination that we've just been ignoring for our entire history - or worse - thought that we left in the past, but are still relevant to people not of the dominant race in our societies.

Has there been an overreaction? Are too many things being blamed on racism now? Possibly. But the motivation is good and clear about attempting to get to the root of how people treat one another in the world, and what structures we've created to reinforce tribal or instinctual prejudices and how they're not even obvious to most people going through their lives in the world today.

This all has meaning. I urge you to not give up on the concept, to not discount those talking about it as "woke", or "virtue signalers" or "social justice warriors".

Some of them are overly angry and vitriolic, yes. Some are tired of explaining concepts that are clear and for granted to them, thinking that at this point anyone that disagrees is simply an agitator. Not all show good faith. Some are in it for themselves, and the glory of being holier-than-thou. I'm not going to pretend that doesn't exist.

But most of the concepts being discussed are sound. And there is a lot of fire behind the smoke. There is a lot of past, present, and future "racism" that still needs to be understood, and addressed.
> 1. If 'art' is expression, then it should be judged by the 'quality' of the expression, not the tools used to make it.

What about the amount of effort it took the artist to make the expression? Doesn't that count?
> I know economics is called the “dismal science” but this seems to undercut even low standards.

That was invented by a slaveowner who was mad that economists told him slavery was a bad business strategy. (his response was something like “you economists just look at the numbers of me not paying them and don’t realize I’m teaching them the Christian values of hard work”)
Tether pays out $10bn in withdrawals since start of crypto crash
Actually the customer chose Elixir. They found me because there weren't many Elixir developers in my country when the project started years ago. I prefer Ruby for my own stuff which of course is way smaller than customers projects.
People love speculative fiction :)
Just type in something you feel in YouTube and you get that kind of music.
Relaxed coding music, tavern programming music, melodic slow dungeon music, dark church chill music. Celtic modern electronic lounge music, wizard fantasy medevil dubstep relaxed music, sad jungle music, back to 90s synthwave modern music, truckers traffic jam music. You name it.
I am amazed how many genres there are out there. I listen it all the time.
>do you know how to obtain the nucleotide sequences of c-MYC?

Check:

https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Transcript/Summary?db=c...

This is the main transcript, the remaining 9 are in the table
>Despite strong annual budgets, California suffers the highest debt of any state — $507 billion

Suspiciously missing the dept-to-GDP ratio. I wonder why that is?
they vote , usually against all stewardship bogus they like to signal [0].

[0] https://shareaction.org/news/new-data-shows-scant-improvemen...
Differences in speed and mass are largely irrelevant if collisions don't occur. You can minimize the risk of a collision by following the rules of movement on the road (right of way and positioning) and anticipate if someone isn't following those rules and take appropriate action to avoid a collision before it's imminent.

If passenger cars, large trucks and buses. and motorcycles can share the road, so can pedalcyclists.
It is very interesting that since the release of the M1 chip, CPU performance on Apple silicon has really come under a microscope. It leads me to ask:

Was Apple silicon always this best-in-class and we weren’t looking this closely as a community?
What books and advice would you give someone with zero knowledge that would make them a good investor such that they would be highly competent in managing a portfolio?
I was not aware I gave a definition for it. I didn't mean it as an antonym for 'readable', if that's what you mean.

Plaintext could be in a proprietary format but that's far better than proprietary compressed database that's a job to work out what even made it (if that wasn't proprietary itself!). Proprietary plaintext might even be better than open standard blobby format, depending on what you want to do with it. (Better for git and backup, worse for opening in competitor tools.)
Somewhat unrelated but in car culture aftermarket safety gear like roll cages, bucket seats, racing harnesses, HANS and helmets are seen as cool and badass. It's a good sight.

Though there are some problems, like if you start running the race safety gear, you need to go all out--you can't have a bucket seat and a race harness without also using a helmet and HANS, your head is vulnerable, and if you run a roll cage without a helmet your head is vulnerable. But in race events a lot of people run "cool" safety gear and people have a good attitude towards it.
Clickbait headlines have abounded over past decades from editors with SEO concerns dancing in their eyes. One would think those who are easily triggered by social justice invocations would be more attuned to it by now- they should view it as no different from any other form of attention grabbing, and no more indictment against the articles these titles disservice compared to headlines who incite other passions. How discriminating of these who see one subheading blurb and then refuse to read further.
I'm really not sold on the costs of digging down being all that high, long-term.

I'm 100% sold on it being expensive today, but I can come up with ways to drive them /way/ down with automation. The critical thing is:

1) You don't need materials.

2) You don't need to transport anything other than a digger

I agree it's hard, like engineering a CPU was hard, but I think Elon's got the right idea with the Boring Company. It's not /fundamentally/ expensive. Fundamentally, building in-place with available materials should, some day, be cheap.
Code smells are easier to spot in changes. When function/method arguments are added repeatedly and you realize it's time for a refactor. Or better, it's time to use monads (oh well).
Gravity in both situations may not be comparable but victim blaming is always reprehensible.
But Costa Rica is so rich because it's a western tourist state. It's entirely white settler colonialism behind Costa Rica AND panamas relative success...
I've lived through hyper-inflation -- spend your money on anything or take loans/mortgage.
> California’s heavy dependency on tax payments from the rich and on the continued strength of the tech economy makes the state highly vulnerable in the event of a significant slowdown

I thought we just spent like a decade poring over charts showing how the rich are least affected by any downturn.
>It's an investment that if done right could outlast any above ground home.

I would think this was true, but what I've learned so far suggests it's not...

Underground, you're not finding refuge from harmful forces on your structure; they exists there too. Things shift, things crack, things leak, humidity causes problems, the whole exterior now endures a chemical interface with the surroundings (and all your Vault-Tec steel will corrode at some speed determined by the nature of the local media).

If you're lucky enough to have near-surface bedrock where you are, digging into that is probably your best bet, but, even then, it seems like an uphill battle.
> when the spec is inherently broken an impl can't do shit.

Is your premise correct?

Is the conclusion even correct?

I feel like you're speaking colloquially.

> Don't you realize the absurdity of deffering the decisions of multi-domain highly technical topics to laymans that have an attention span of 3 milliseconds and a remarkable lack of erudition and critical thinking?

I believe I do, to a substantial degree. And yourself?

Do you realize the absurdity (and the consequences) of assigning this responsibility to who we currently assign it to?

> Epistemology isn't even taught in schools, the joke is at its peak

Here I partially agree, but I think you lack imagination - I think the joke is just getting warmed up (pun intentional).
It is undervalued because it only offer value to third party search engines and web scrapers. The site owner does not derive any returns from implementing RDF which is often a non-trivial amount of work. The biggest search engine on the planet has enough scale that RDF offers it negligible value. Academia won't be able to convince anybody soon until they can show improvements in $.
Not a direct response to the parent post but it had the most keywords in common with my question:

>The Fed is likely to hike rates much more aggressively [...]

I agree, and they're about to start letting the balance sheet run off too, though at half the rate they accumulated.

My question for the wonks here: will it be difficult or expensive to hold rates above, even say, 5% for very long if needed? US national debt is over $30T. Assuming inflation persists and rates are raised to 5%, the approximate steady-state cost of servicing the debt is $1.5T/year, more than pre-pandemic US discretionary spending, and more than 33% of federal revenues. I asked a friend about this and they said not to worry, it takes a while for the national debt to roll over, but looking this up it seems most US debt is in instruments with a horizon of less than a few years.

also, I imagine Debt:GDP is not the most appropriate stat here but in the 1970s it was 30-35% and now we're over 120%. Some other countries are over 200%. And in a recession, by definition the denominator gets bigger. Or maybe the broader question is at what point does national debt matter?

I sort of feel the Fed is playing everyone's expectations, talking to cool things off and even name-dropping Volcker while hoping to keep interest rates more at 4% than his 20%. I'm not crying conspiracy or complaining -- if it works they could get their soft (now "soft-ish") landing.
This excellent comeback currently being downvoted is quite a testament to this weird turn against California in the tech community. It seems too sudden and drastic to be just the result of the general ascend of the alt-right in the sector so I am wondering if there any other reasons? Elon Musk? (No it’s not the weird crime fantasies. Also, by the way, Sweden still has excellent quality of life and phrenology is probably wrong and definitely useless)

Maybe housing? But that’s almost literally the Woody Allen joke, “nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”.
This is why journalists need to learn some basic stats. The credulity with which he takes the pro-sun researchers claims, the ignorance he displays about the shortcomings of observational studies are as depressing as they are common. Not saying, by the way, that I don’t believe the sun hypothesis, I just think this article displays false confidence. Science is hard; when you present the latest theory as The Truth, all you do is undermine long term faith in science. Sometimes these new discoveries bear out, but most of the time, they don’t. See this pattern enough and it becomes reasonable to conclude that scientists are full of shit.
It looks like a lot of documentation is pointing to the wrong branch. It took me a minute to understand why I was looking at code that hadn't been touched in 2+ years. The docs are pointing to the "master" branch but everything has moved to the "main" branch.

ex. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/adaptive-cards/rendering-ca...
Rhinoceros is $800 and used for product design, shipbuilding and architecture. We’re currently getting permits and structural done on our family home with drawings created with it. It also comes with a parametric solver system, grasshopper.
Because at customs etc. you can be forced to unlock your phone for example. Or your government might force you to install root certs etc. (Hi Kazakhstan!)

So there is an argument to be made for “should it be possible”. I am saying this even though I would still prefer to be allowed to access everything in the system.
> It's all about managing entropy. Less surprising means you can use fewer letters.

I like this framing.

> The part where it gets tricky is when a concept is widely used, but is a complex concept. What if you have dozens of calls to cudaGetTextureAlignmentOffset in a function, and hundreds in a codebase?

You have to predict the knowledge of the developers (current and future) working on the system, and let that guide what you can assume. This is necessarily an art and you'll miss the mark sometimes. One approach is to always be overly verbose, but this is too simple: it destroys readability when practiced without restraint.

> There's a similar complication when you have several of these big names with slight differences. Made up example, say you also had cudaGetTextureAccessKey, cudaGetVectorAlignmentOffset, etc.

One technique here is to introduce a namespacing object/module/<whatever you call it in your language>. So something like "cuda.textureAccessKey", "cuda.vectorAlignmentOffset", etc. Sometimes repetition of a long name is the least of all evils, sometimes it's not.
If you started earning a living wage this month, kicking you out of your current home immediately isn't going to make it easy to keep it.
I’ve settled on https://www.brain.fm/ for this. I really like how I can dial the music in for the desired effect. For me, it’s more convenient and effective than searching playlists.
Sometimes. It really depends on the use case. Use the right tool for the job.
Please post screenshots of this!
I've never heard of this 'load balancing' being a thing. You can get totally sunburned on an exposed spot. Or do you mean in terms of vitamin D generation?
Why not just wear a hat if you don’t want cream?
Wouldn't fees go down as a result of more competition in the sector?
Blender is mostly an artistic tool (mesh modelling), which actual CAD software is designed for industrial engineering, accurate physical simulations, manufacturing, and architecture (constraint based modelling).