skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but authors will scream blue murder and claim that you're depriving of their chances of any kind of security in retirement if you do so.

Do they have a point? There are undoubtedly some creators making money from their old works, but I'd bet the vast majority of creators who do make a living from their work at some point (a small fraction of those who write or compose) make the vast majority of the royalties from their work in the first 20 years of its existence. Even more so when you apply appropriate present values to future royalties.

But when I looked for actual evidence to support or refute this point the quality of evidence in the public domain is extremely weak - either anecdata from prominent authors, or very poor-quality aggregate data from economists supporting liberalizing copyright.

If I didn't need to earn a living would be fun and useful to do a PhD examining this question properly.
Ok, so suppose I've got a spare RPI sitting around.

Let's say I want to post text for a few people who follow me, and follow a handful of other accounts on mastodon or whatever.

What is the absolute minimum I'd need to connect to "the fediverse?" Is there a CLI thingy I can just run to fetch posts, or to create posts?
The recent Bank of Japan meeting and its implications for markets
From reading his timeline, it seems he felt major refactoring was the way to go, and it didn't seem like Musk was going to go for that.

Wouldn't surprise me if he was right, but MuskTwitter doesn't have time to waste on refactoring.
I think this should be explicitly labeled as Onion News. Otherwise many people will believe it, because it does seem like something Elon Musk might do.
"It is the ordinary human reaction"

Here is a novel idea that apparently never occurred to you, let's allow each ordinary human to have their own reaction.
Fair point! I'd say what I'm most aware of having saved me the most time is knowledge of the shortcuts and features available _in_ SublimeText though.
Ok so we can go one step further, which is that most speech is a giant marketing exercise. Some people use it to great effect, others less so. And the ones that do get a multiplier effect from putting that speech on the internet/social media, so the increased reach.
> A civilization could be born, evolve and die

I feel this line is doing quite a bit of heavy lifting there because this in itself is a solution to fermi's paradox. if a type-2 civilization could 'just die' then we should probably think about possible way in which they could completely (& i mean completely as in the last humans w/o the ability to bear & raise children) be wiped off. the only way I can imagine that besides an AI is a planetary gray goo scenario. but even that does not works for a type-2 civ. & if an AI wipes us out then there is a good chance that the AI itself will be around to take over the leftovers.

The only realistic solution for the paradox IMHO is that intelligence (not life) is really really rare and has happened here on earth with humans by accident. I mean Dinosaurs existed for about 160M years but the did not develop intelligence and we only developed in last couple of million years only.

the other rather handwavy solution I can imagine is that all intelligent civilizations ultimately give up meatspace and evolve into some hybrid quantum-foam dwelling semi-temporal beings because that gives them most amount of 'freedom'.
Relocation to the Bay was impossible for me to avoid as someone who graduated with 3 FAANG offers and a multitude of other big tech and startup offers as a 2019 grad. All SF or Bay mandatory. Don't know if that's changed post COVID though.
they have a feature to ignore Highways ..
maybe high time they had a feature "Avoid WAR !!"
Can you tell us what the both line solutions measure to using the first approach and the second approach? I'm curious about the effect of the curvature on the calculation. Thanks!
Why is everybody so scared that an AI can give you a reasonable answer when you ask it about the virtues of nuclear war or why crushed porcelain is good in breast milk?

Can't you do exactly the same by just going on Mechanical Turk and paying $5 (or whatever) and have 10 such answers written by humans?

Yet, nobody is making scary posts about what humans on Mechanical Turk can write when you ask them stupid questions.
First, it's an exercise, you don't get to use much of this functionality day to day, at least if you're a lowly webdev :(.

Second, the solution is optimized for speed of writing (you get more points in AOC the quicker you submit the solution), not for readability. I try to get the chain of calls in my Ruby REPL as soon as the challenge drops.

Third, if you so wish to debug this chain of calls, you can insert a breakpoint and get a REPL anywhere in it with Object#tap:

foo.bar(3).tap { |chain| binding.irb }.baz { |larodi| larodi + 5 }

And lastly, it becomes second nature to read and write these.
The article explains. They are using drone footage and AI to recognize likely patterns.

These geoglyphs (they think) are older than the classic Nazca lines as some of the designs are similar to people who were around before the Nazca people, around 200BC I believe, and the Nazca are somewhere in the 1000-1500 AD range. They are also on hillsides instead of on the plains, so they are susceptible to natural erosion. That's why they're using the AI to suss out likely designs from the "damaged" areas.
The parties are different in all the ways that don’t matter.
> Texas may have 2-5k wild tigers today

Texas is estimated to have 2-5K tigers privately owned in zoos and kept as pets. This is a terrible but legal idea, because Texas.

I can't find any estimate for a number of wild/feral tigers in TX, but it's surely not anywhere near that number.
I actually used to prefer CoffeeScript over JS because it allowed me to code more quickly and keep my code smaller.

Then I saw a video of Rich Harris demonstrating the Svelte tools in VS code. The TS typing enabled autocomplete and even automatically importing files. That's what got me to try TypeScript. Perhaps TS could be faster than CoffeeScript, now.

(By now, ECMAScript has borrowed most of the good ideas from CoffeeScript, and other devs are more likely to be familiar with JS/TS vs CoffeeScript.)

Some times TS helps catch simple mistakes, but other times I feel like I am "fighting" with the TS type errors. Overall, I think it is worth using TS.
The "long tail" of works makes practically zero money. Most of them simply go out of print and into a copyright-induced memory hole. Works that still make money decades after their creation are quite exceptional.
If you can use dig output, the next time you need to do something like this you might find 'jc' helpful: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
I don't think communities having brands is marketing. That's just community groups: communities have in-jokes, memes, vulnerability, sharing, cultures. HN links to that one dropbox comment. That isn't dropbox marketing or whatever that's just a self-effacing ingroup joke, only tangentially about the company.

Marketing might hijack these groups to sell things, but I don't think just the act of memeing to be marketing or selling anything.
Isn't this proof that the grading of companies is like the TV show "Whose Line is it Anyway" where the scores are made up and the points don't matter?
My bad on the sources, I searched for links to support my memories, and didn't pay close attention.
> they can be automated to generate misinformation at (approaching) zero cost

Then two things: (1) the identification of misinformation will likely also be detected at a massive scale, but/and if not, then (2) get off social media, go outside, and talk to real fucking people

This article is proof that as long as you have a smart looking suitcoat and glasses you can trick any old idiot on HN into reposting your moronic nonsense.
c2 is such a dumpster fire
Perhaps the right one.
What do you like about SurfingKeys over Vimium? At a quick glance, seems to have many of the same commands, maybe SurfingKeys just has a few more.
> You want to fleece your own... but others you let just... walk in ?

I don't recall the person you replied to mentioning that. Why is it impossible to levy property taxes on real estate in your own state from people who live somewhere else?
> To be completely honest, this is why I'm on HN: doing your own startup is one of the few relatively low risk gambles one can take.

This take is relatively…naive

Most startups fail and you would be much better off “grinding LeetCode and working for a FAANG” (tm r/cscareerquestions).

That’s just like people “starting their own business” and buying a franchise where their net profit is less than $70K a year and that’s only after the owner works 60+ hours a week.

Give me a cushy $BigTech job any day.
Does anyone know how to actually turn on this feature? I just made a new account and I can’t find this option…
Sam Bankman-Fried will fly from Bahamas to US Wednesday to face criminal charges
It would be OK, if they did not then try to force everyone to use the services of private actors.
Their ATMs are pretty handy. It does not require a physical card - you can just tap your phone on the ATM to withdraw cash. Also there’s lots of ATM locations in north California which is pretty convenient if you happened to need cash.

One thing I do not understand though is that when deposit via their mobile app, they ask you to write something like “Used for Wells Fargo mobile deposit” on the check, which is a pain, not sure how other banks do it.
I haven't had time to watch that video (though I will), but that sounds to me like complaining that the USB HID standard lacks proper support for ametric poetry. It's... not for that. Given a standard for how instruments work, MIDI's a reasonably simple event structure to represent them.

But the space of "what can you do with an 'instrument' to make music" is immense, and not feasibly susceptible to enumeration in a protocol like this. Music is art, and almost without exception every great musician ends up doing something that can't be represented by the algorithmic conventions of her ancestors.

MuseScore has the disadvantage of trying to live in this weird world of "typeset music", which has (for centuries) tried really hard to pretend that this disconnect doesn't exist. But it does, and it's not MIDI's fault any more than it is the fault of whoever invented the drum roll or pizzicato strings or anything else that didn't have a pre-existing notation.

Quite frankly MIDI isn't even MuseScore's biggest problem. Just look over the shoulder at any teenager playing with Garage Band with a big cacophany of effects and then ask "how do you put that in MuseScore". You can't, and you never will, and... that's probably a good thing.
The average enterprise dev in any major city in the US can make twice the median household income with 3-5 years experience.
Dendrocentric AI Could Run on Watts, Not Megawatts
I had no idea Mariadb was a startup. I thought it was an open source fork if mysql
Make sure you're using the most recent version. It should be present in v1.1.8.
It would cost me hundreds of dollars to create thousands of pieces of essays on how fizzes can buzz and doodads can dash with MTurk. Now it costs me a few
.

We’ve always been able to make up bullshit, the leverage needed to do so is what’s changing.
I’m leaving for Western Europe, all of the tools I need for advocacy and accountability work just fine from over there (laptop and mobile device are all that is required). I’m unable to run for office, I am not an ideal candidate for various reasons. I want the country improved long term, but am unwilling to suffer in the short term because of, for lack of a better words, the malevolent and troglodytes. In the case of voting, you can’t persuade some people even with evidence and data. You might just have to wait for old people to age out (1.8 million voters over the age of 55 age out every year) and younger folks (open to new ideas and mental models) to come of age, before there are improved chances of success. If you have to wait somewhere, don’t wait here if you don’t have to (life lesson: never suffer needlessly).

(I also contribute time to helping anyone wanting to expat out of the US get to higher quality jurisdictions, Europe, Australia, etc)
"Fresh" isn't how I'd describe the world following a general nuclear war.
I remember when OneCoin rolled around, it was one of the many obvious scams. But this was just around the first real "public" crypto bull-run, so most buyers probably didn't know what or how to purchase real crypto anyway.

IIRC, it was basically just a website where you could purchase OneCoins - and your account would show a balance. If you tried to withdraw funds, you'd get stuck in some limbo.

Like most MLM scams, they targeted people with extremely little knowledge. One hallmark of these scams, from that period, shared the aesthetics and strategy of old-school MLM scams: Hold some lavish show at the local conference room/hall, trick all the villagers and rural folks to these shows, and shower them in big hopes and dreams. Parade some successful "early investor" at the shows, wearing expensive suit and arriving in a rented lambo. Make him/her tell the crowd some emotional testimony on how to turn $1k into $1M, how it transformed their life.

The person is of course not some early investor, but an accomplice.

That's how these people went about it. They trawled countries in Asia, East-Europe, South America, etc. and went straight for the life savings of uninformed and naïve country folk.

It should also be mentioned that many of the scammers around that time came directly from the previous MLM scams. Sometimes they changed their names, often times they all knew each others. Think of it as some kind of grifters network that spanned across EU and North-America. Before Crypto they were shilling BS membership programs, MLM products, timesharing flats, consumer product subscriptions, and what not.
Are vapes as bad for kids as cigarettes?
Ok you very much misunderstood. I was saying that nobody would be forced to live forever: assisted suicide would always be an option for those who tore of life.
Good for them. If they wrote a book they should absolutely be talking about it.

If you don't like it, don't follow them.
This is one of the most amusing joke formats I have seen on this website.
the thing is that it's been shown times and times again (with chatGPT for example) that you can get really pretty good results by giving massive amounts of final results to the model. This approach is better by far than anything we've ever had in either text AI or image generation AI
> "The standard is 40 years old and good for another 40, it’s so perfectly suited to the task."

That's true, if you consider the task at hand to be allowing any piano-like keyboard controller to connect to any synthesizer and just work.

It starts to break down if you consider it as a protocol for general-purpose musical expression. No explicit support for any tuning other than 12-tone equal temperament. No support for unisons on a single channel. Some support for per-note expression, but there's not really a sane way to support volume swells that works in a predictable way across devices.

I think it should be possible to improve upon MIDI and make something that's a lot more flexible without adding too much complexity.

MPE is a pretty good temporary workaround, but it's not the kind of thing you'd do if you were designing for expressive instruments from the start.
Theoretically this is the case, but in my testing with several apps on an iPhone 13 Pro the results are underwhelming.
> Objectively, that makes him hostile to any non-corporate entity.

You can't just put the word "objectively" at the beginning of something and make it objective. He's not hostile to those kids in Africa who don't care about software freedom but are not dead because they didn't get malaria.

I get that we're on HN, but this idea that the good of software is somehow the most important good is just lunacy. I genuinely cannot fathom how anyone can see stopping software patents as more important (or even remotely close to the same level of importance) than stopping malaria.
Did you ever work with the Honeywell TDC-3000 ?
i just googled "animal farm" and the fifth sentence of wikipedia says that george orwell was a socialist...nice
I grew up in Western Europe. I intend to die in the US.
> they absolutely have not included making political opinions unavailable

This is quite an odd take... especially given one of the largest social media companies was recently bought in part because of overtly unbalanced political censorship on the platform.

Are there various political ideas on all social platforms? Sure... I guess if you look hard enough. You won't find everyone equally stifled in reach, however, which is the problem.
Spent many a Sunday afternoon wondering around that castle, did you find the knights mess hall, has an awesome echo, used to visit just to shout in there with the kids :)
that one does look beautiful! thanks for the pointer.
Theoretically you can. In practice I've never seen that done, and certainly anyone big enough to do that has their own store infrastructure already.
This article made me laugh, thank you for sharing more outlandish satire
Life + 50 was in much of Europe in 1886 with the Berne Convention. Germany had a copyright duration of 80 years after the death of the author at one point; blaming US corporations for this is absurd when Europe has had plenty of domestic publishers with entrenched interests in longer copyright durations.
Wouldn't it be easier to send the bus data to the PC and run the emulator there?
Or would sending the custom data via USB be a problem without a custom driver or something?

That said though, emulating it on the pi is way more impressive.
I got good use of the run-time type checking of typeguard [0] when I recently invoked it via its pytest plugin [2]. For all code visited in the test suite, you get a failing test whenever an actual type differs from an annotated type.

[0]: https://github.com/agronholm/typeguard/

[1]: https://typeguard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userguide.html#us...
So what positive discussion comes of the people that aren't involved in discussions on Steam? None, it's still just a circus for Lurkers. If the reason to keep it open to Russia is communication, that is ONLY happening for those that are visible, not for the lurkers.
I absolutely adore Gould, and while he's known for his Bach, I'd recommend his Mozart interpretations to better understand what makes him so unique and controversial.

The irony of your "player piano" statement is that his famous 1955 Goldberg variations were redone by a company called Zenph to demonstrate the power of their software to re-perform any performance. Probably Gould was chosen because he's so famous and I _think_ the recording was in the public domain and convenient, but also Gould actually has a lot of idiosyncrasies that make his playing instantly recognizable and if anything more human.
Of course not. That doesn't make what I said false.

Have you ever had anyone say "cars cost so much more now, they were only $800 in 1942" and be taken seriously? (or whatever similar example you want to use)
Hmm, how hard is Der Steppenwolf to read? I'm a (lapsed) intermediate level German speaker, but I remember reading the first bit of it in English in high school and liking it.

Also, https://www.fadedpage.com/ has stuff freely available under Canadian copyright law, which seems to have stuff from the 50s (70 years maybe?).
It's also more willing to confidently invent wrong answers than StackOverflow. Try asking it to generate a Rust function that uses the `ripgrep` crate to search text with regular expressions. The ripgrep create doesn't expose an interface to do that (as far as I can tell) but ChatGPT is happy to generate some plausible-sounding but totally incorrect code.
Or offering a polite fig leaf after saying "wait no f'ing way".
If this is your level of understanding of logic, reason, and debate, how are you even able to tie your own shoelaces?
The international standard is actually life + 50 years, but US and EU along with South Korea, Japan, and many others are at life + 70.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright...
If some psychologist made a study on people who believed Logan, that would be interesting read.

To me, it’s unbelievable.
Since Logan and his brother Jake has long history of scamming their fanbase over and over.
> This feels like thinly veiled advocacy for censorship and breaking the internet.

Marcus is arguing that the internet will be broken unless something is done. I think he is overreacting but he would argue there’s no going back from here.

> The misinformation problem is not currently constrained by lack of supply, so doubling or 10x'ing or 1000x'ing the amount of misinformation that can be produced doesn't seem significantly concerning to me.

Slightly flawed logic imo. A difference in quantity can definitely produce a qualitative shift in the internet.

The best analogy I can think of is in surveillance. The Soviet Union had a huge surveillance network. Something like 2-3% of the population was employed to spy on the citizenry. That’s extremely expensive, which limits the amount of info you can reliably have. But what if you could cheaply surveil almost everyone? That’s the situation only made possible with modern technology. It’s not that surveillance didn’t exist before, but it was very expensive, which was self-limiting. Only the most suspect individuals could be surveilled.
Really like this idea of considering it BTS. Going to file that one away for future use. Appreciate it!
Ahh, there's a familiar username! I was actually amazed at how long it had been when I finally built up the motivation to pick the project back up earlier this year. My GitHub linux repository is still forked from your silvermoon-linux repository with those original patches. Glad you stumbled upon this so you could see where it eventually got to!
Hmm that's a good show of Ruby's great built-ins for Enumerable, but can't any language with a findIndex and a Set achieve the same thing?

I.e. in JS:

myString.split('').findIndex((c, i, arr) => new Set(arr.slice(i-4, i)).size == 4)
Pretty happy with my loaded up Studio performance wise which has replaced Mac Pro's I've had for the past 3 generations.

Thunderbolt changes the upgradability by just plugging stuff in as needed. Only RAM is a concern this way.
Porn is legal in most countries. So what’s the problem?
Technically you could just employ CC to send extra info, say send CC with number representing how long the note will be, or the modulation type the note should get. We already have MPE abusing standard a bit to have per-note bending and such.

The biggest problem in MIDI is IMO the fact there was no possible option for any standard negotiation between devices.

You had MIDI IN and OUT, and at any time one or both could be connected to instrument/controller, you didn't knew where you were outputting it, and you didn't knew who send you control messages.

That utter simplicity had benefits from interfacing perspective but it also made it impossible to expand the standard easily.

There was no option for "MIDI 1.1" that would say improve some stuff but still had option to send MIDI "1.0" compatible signal if it detected that other side doesn't talk it.

There was also no option for simple "tell me what CC 85 does on you" so every mapping between devices had to be done by hand or by loading someone's profile.

It kinda had to be what it is, it was introduced in 1983 where extra transistors were pretty fucking expensive so simplicity of the protocol was huge benefit, I'm pretty sure simple MIDI keyboard could be implemented even with a bunch of logic chips without much problem.
And adapting Louise would be an interesting thing to work on for sure. Why is it called Louise?