skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Without these rules we'd be stuck drowning in an even larger and blander sea of retellings and reimaginings

This experiment has been run in the form of open source software. The point of the GPL license, and other open source licenses, is to remove the restrictions of copyright from a work, and encourage people to reuse it, copy it, share it, modify it, etc.

Has open source software ended up as a "larger and blander" sea of software "retellings" compared to proprietary software? Was the Xi Editor (RIP https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...) a bland remix of ed? Even moreso than proprietary editors like sublime text?

Has there been no progress in Haskell, an open source language, due to the lack of copyright's limitations? Is all non-bland (spicy?) innovation in software done under copyright, and licensed out to other developers so they may enjoy some type system or language?

Open source software to me seems like a very clear counter example to your fear.
> A globally coordinated reduction in production only increases the price of products for consumers.

Which is great. Higher prices = less usage.

We don't have to eradicate them entirely before we see any benefit.
>>You can't say what the gender woman is; how can GP just accept your made up term?

>A woman gender identity is someone who feels like a woman. A man’s gender identity is someone who feels like a man.

Wow, thanks for answering the question.

>This really is not difficult to understand

"A tefrad gender idenity is someone who feels like a tefrad, what's difficult to understand?"

"What, you want me to explain what that is in a non-recursive manner, as we would do for any other word? That is… really sad dude. Why do you hate tefrads?"
The OP message is made of ascii ordinals encoded in hexadecimal. That led me to some interesting ideas based on fooling your adversary into thinking they had cracked your code, when they had in fact missed a hidden message:

1/ In the above example the message was “one if by land two if by…” and the encoding base was hexadecimal. Does a message exist that encodes in a different base but looks like it is hexadecimal? For example the OP’s message decodes to utk"ol"h if the base was actually 17. We assume it’s base16 not base17 because only the digits 0-F are used. Is there a string of pairs of digits in the range 0-F (without G) that would decode to something meaningful in base 17 (0-G)?

2/ And what about a message that means two different things — something innocuous in base16, with the secret message in base17, say? Other bases might work: 15 feels like a good candidate too, but it is probably harder to make a readable message the more you deviate from the masquerade base.
Yeah, there would be mass and nothing visible. Like a black hole, dark matter, etc. :-)
The title is a little click-baity, I think they're really just saying current browsers don't handle subtitles adequately and should be improved. As in, "if you can read this, your browser captions are broken, because all browser captions are broken".

There's also some browser-specific bugs mentioned in the article, but I don't think those are really what the title is about.
Coding practices at Microsoft and Google versus a startup
Imagine, your company has hired you as an engineer to design software systems & write code. Your performance at the company is measured by your ability to design software systems & write code. You've decided to take on the job of a project manager instead and not write code. Your contributions might be valuable, but why would you get promoted as an engineer?
You think school bullying is human nature? It might transcend culture, but I think it's a direct consequence of school as an institution. I mean, a school's proposition to students is basically this:

"You as a student have to spend most of your time with these strangers that we chose arbitrarily. If a conflict arises, you gotta figure it out on your own. Your parents won't be there to help you. Your friends may or may not be there to help you depending on how we choose (arbitrarily) to split you all up. If someone attacks you and you defend yourself, you'll be punished the same as them. If you refuse to participate in this arrangement, you're a criminal"

If I had to design an environment that was optimized to encourage and allow bullying to happen, it would look a lot like a school. Writing the phenomenon off as human nature seems super naive to me.
Tesla valuation is a based on growing quickly, while having good margin and good profit. And that they will continue to grow pretty quickly for a the next few years at least.

> valued at something approaching its actual value

And you know what that is? I hope you are a billionaire. Please tell us what it is and how you calculated that.
Products can be banned in countries so even if China creates them they can't sell them outside China.

I don't get your argument, it's like "someone is going to do bad things therefore it's ok for me"?
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Why do you have to look at their credit history before allowing someone to rent from you? Shouldn't their income be all you need? Whether you realize it or not, you are a part of the system that enables a life of debt. Owning a home allows people to build equity and sets a foundation for a stable life. By being a land lord, you are preventing people from buying and building equity. Instead their hard earned money goes right into your pocket.
For a deep dive into the world of fluoropolymers (Teflon etc.) and their breakdown products:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c03244

> "We here distinguish between fluoropolymer substances, fluoropolymer products, and fluoropolymers in finished articles. A fluoropolymer substance such as PTFE, FEP, and PFA is a material of known chemical structure. A fluoropolymer product is the actual material produced and sold by a chemical manufacturer (e.g., Chemours, Solvay, Daikin, Asahi Glass, etc.), it comes in different grades (e.g., Teflon-granulate, Teflon-fine powder, etc.), and may contain impurities from the production process. These fluoropolymer products are sold to manufacturers of finished articles (e.g., PTFE tape, waterproof clothing with a PTFE membrane, PTFE-coated cookware, etc.) who incorporate the fluoropolymer products in their finished articles. The distinction is important, as there are many different processes of making fluoropolymer products..."

TLDR: The authors generally conclude consumer products made with fluoropolymers are going to leach PFAS & similar eventually via waste disposal, and suggest restricting use to closed-loop industrial processes (where fluoropolymer plastics are often used to contain highly corrosive substances in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes).
Does paying for the pollution really help fix the problem? Will the government use that money to filter rivers for PFAS?

I think a lot of this need also comes from other supposedly environmental choices. My work banned plastic cups and now has paper cups with PFAS which are more toxic. I think the plastic ones were the better choice if recycled properly.

And raincoats were really really horrible before Gore-Tex.
Musk says he’ll find new Twitter CEO but keep control of key divisions
There are nine thousand known PFAS. They are essential to many products and processes. Many don't have a clear alternative. Other countries will continue to produce them. But 3M is going to ban them all without any discernment. Am I missing something?
I read somewhere recently that Sweden or Norway or both has/have moose.
I guess that's where tor and similar techniques come in. Don't forget it was created by the DoD for just that purpose.

And it's not impossible to locate a shortwave listener (especially in the days when numbers stations were commonplace). At really short range it's possible to detect the local oscillator though modern direct conversion techniques make this harder.

In the 80s some countries were using this principle to identify people watching TV without a license.
You can add high DPI support to 2d canvas by using scale
This is often solved for by imposing import restrictions.
I'm pretty sure that if you have me interview with an AI instead of my prospective manager/team, you'll find that I find somewhere else to work?
I think I remember Facebook was pretty toxic even before it had an algorithmic newsfeed. Maybe not as wild as now, but people being mean to each other and saying awful things was very much a thing. Same with oldschool forums, too.
In my experience non stick pans are pretty awful, basically anything else is a better alternative.

You can't get them hot enough to sear a steak properly without damaging the non stick coating, and the non stick coating is oleophobic which means that oil pools rather than spreading out so you can't get proper browning on anything even if you do cook it at an appropriate temp.

Seasoned cast iron and carbon steel will be non stick without either of those downsides, and even regular stainless steel is perfectly fine as long as you let it heat up properly before using it.
1. Yes, but schools can be incredibly bad. They are largely funded by local taxes and tend to be playgrounds for lunatic educational theories of both right and left. You need a big dose of luck to ride this train.

2. Assuming you can get the grades, without a library, internet, or a stable home life, sure. And that you can navigate the fafsa and the rest of the college bureaucracy, potentially without parental help (and god help you if you have an uncooperative parent and cant get the data).

3. Sure, assuming your home life is stable enough to keep you out of this. Harder if mom or dad is already neck deep in weed, meth, or opioids.

4. Sure, if we are talking about shoplifting or larceny. But a teen can be pulled over for riding in a car on the flimsiest of reasons, and if the cop doesnt like you, you can easily get sucked into the maw of the justice system. I think we've all seen enough video of police acting badly to know that things can easily go badly wrong in a heartbeat.

5. Yes, except that not every plan covers it, and sometimes it fails, and it is becoming increasingly hard to get a plan B, like literal plan B or abortion. Plus we may have higher rates of sexual crime.

All the things you say are correct, but the reality of being poor in America is much, much uglier than straightforward theory suggests.
The same way people find out now - users not contributing meaningfully, or sabotaging communication by being obtuse.
The housing market was significantly different 7 years ago[1]. I'll agree that if you bought in your 20s as a millennial, you're in a much better position. Impossible to replicate that today though.

1.https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS
it's hard to evict people. missed payments means loss of $
A lot of famous writers today lived in poverty and obscurity and sold very few books until their old age. Seems like it would be unfair for them to not profit from their life’s work just because it’s more than 20 years old.
Why are they not working models?
> Why do you have to look at their credit history before allowing someone to rent from you? Shouldn't their income be all you need?

Am I missing something obvious? Isn't it just because not everyone who misses payments is low-income?
Bullying isn't exclusive to schools though.
> If you create custom controls and then enable native captions, unless you're Crunchyroll, your controls probably take up space at the bottom of the display area. This is the same area where the captions appear, which means that when the controls are displayed, they may overlay the captions. (Please don't hide the captions altogether! Unfortunately, I've seen this on some players that shall remain nameless.)

My previous job was doing digital distribution of advertising content. There's a thing called 'safe area'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_area_(television)

Where all text/legal content must be inside this safe area, we create a new player and got alot of upset customers because the controls overlaid on the video, this was especially annoying for them when they paused the video as the controls would stay until you unpause.

It wasn't until I was fixing this that I realised how annoying it is that the controls overlay on top of captions. Youtube does well by pusing the captions up if the controls are overlaid. But all streaming services put the controls over the top which annoys the hell out of me.

Edit: As a side note Unilever i believe it is, is doing a huge push for accessibility in Europe to support sign language, subtitles, closed captions, (and another one i cannot think of) in all their advertising. I think its a really good initiative.
How to Lead AI Projects
Many people who live paycheck to paycheck are not impoverished. They simply spend all they make. Giving them more money won't change anything.
A company is always free to do a direct listing.
What happens in your country if you move into a house and then just stop paying?
A large chain grocery store will usually have better prices than a corner grocer / convenient / liquor store. Some people have to do some grocery shopping there because they can't commute to a Jewel, Safeway, etc.
I would say that's a bad assumption. National intelligence services routinely collect and analyze Internet traffic -- especially international traffic. Most are unable to analyze everything, but they'll keep an archive so they can go back later and look at something specific if needed. Also, I would assume they've got some AI looking for trends and also flagging "unusual" traffic for further (human) review. These HF stations are perfect for untraceable one-way traffic to foreign intelligence operatives.
very very nice....

i've been following the devs closely for the last few weeks and it is fascinating to see them hack together fixes and document each step (i fail to do so every often)

would it be possible for them to look for a second "pleroma/akkoma" server which should be significantly better than mastodon in terms of resources utilization and user scaling-up.
Behold Japan’s Morning Banana Diet. Not a recommendation! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_banana_diet
An Ode to Unit Tests: In Defense of the Testing Pyramid
Being hired for looks, not just ability?
All people in a company need to do deep work to make it count.

Because if you are able to concentrate and find a solution for a problem, you also need other people to concentrate and understand your solution.
Blender and OBS can use MIDI controllers

https://github.com/JPfeP/AddRoutes
https://obs-midi.org/
You establish agreements over a large enough market that it actually makes a different so that competitors doing the right thing aren’t penalized or aren’t penalized enough that they’re disincentivized.

Sometimes that market is the US and you only need a local bill to do that. Sometimes you do a bilateral or multilateral treaty. But these things happen all the time even today. Eg if not for trump there would probably have been a new pacific trade agreement and Biden has managed to rally multilateral cooperation around security issues around Russia (eg see new applications to NATO as one example as well as related economic agreements and sanctions) and climate change.

The main challenge is that Trump’s behavior of cancelling deals that were on the finish line as well as backing out of existing agreements (Paris accords + Iran) means that partners are now more wary of entering into agreements in the first place.

This has less to do with globalization and more to do with USA’s increasing instability as a reliable partner that can execute on agreed-upon commitments across political transitions. So now countries are less reliant on commitments from the USA. From one perspective, that’s good - local autonomy is a powerful tool. From a different perspective, the USA frequently (not always and maybe not even a majority of the time) lead the way and set a global direction through unilateral action (ie even without treaties). Again, that’s gone less because of globalization I think and more that the world has grown tired of USA’s political weight throwing and realpolitik behavior rather than sticking to common principles (democracy, rule of law, not torturing enemies no matter what they’ve done, human rights, raising up scientists and facts even when politically inconvenient or leaders applying pressure to move their voter base instead of playing tail wag the dog, having principles about who we count as our allies etc). One set of behaviors engenders trust while the other degrades it and leads to whatsboutisim politics. Agreements in low trust environments are rarer and harder to maintain. Agreements in high trust environments are much cheaper.

So, while I agree that the “governments around the world coordinating” is harder I disagree that it’s impossible or that it was caused by globalization Val multi-generational realpolitik weight throwing and underhanded behavior that killed a lot of the good will brought about as the “saviors of WWII” propaganda that was wide spread + “golden city” aura post WWII and during the Cold War + technological and economically outpacing Russia. We’ve been leveraging that good will more than our finances because the former is completely invisible and impossible to quantify and measure.
Good. People buy less of them then.
Yet copyright persists a constant number of years after the author's death. Is there anyone seriously arguing that a person should profit from their life's work even after they're dead?
A few years back, 3M entered a near-$1 billion settlement with Minnesota for PFAS groundwater contamination. I suspect they have been working on a replacement since 2010 or not long after (when the legal action first started up) and, given the two year timeline to phase them out, I'm thinking they've got the replacement already and just need to get it to market.
I'm not disputing that, but humans can create new ideas from what appears to be nothing. AI is still limited in that the ideas they generate are essentially remixes of pre-existing ideas fed to the AI.
I apologize for the question, but I am not entirely clear where "split_sentences" is. Is it a separate script? I have been looking for something with that sort of functionality for a while, very often for this very purpose, splitting transcripts.
I didn't say it was easy. I said it was simple. These are all choices one makes.

The first step towards success is making the choice to own your choices, instead of blaming your parents, your school, etc.

Nobody makes people take drugs. They choose to.
> jq

Add xmlstarlet for anything that has to do with xml.
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I've always felt that Prelude in C major is Bach's prank to all of us. It's the start to Well-Tempered Clavier and makes you feel that maybe this set of compositions is approachable. And then you try out the fugue that's paired with this prelude and find that not only is it so extraordinarily difficult to master it at a technical level (your 2 hands have to play 4 different voices! And sometimes the middle voices require you to use your other hand for assistance), but also to be able to voice it well (your 2 hands have to express all 4 different voices clearly!).

Sheet: https://musescore.com/user/101554/scores/117422
Glenn Gould: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUJpXpCbNgw

The the rest of the preludes and fugues follow a similar schtick.
I've followed your comments in this thread. You'd benefit from educating yourself on the subject of food deserts it is not an unknown or new subject. There are hundreds of studies that explain how and why food deserts exist and why poor people make the decision that they do.
The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts Across the Globe (2014)
We need to ban cars, the major killer of all wildlife and people.
That’s what happens when we live well beyond our means for decades and trade dollars for real goods - those dollars come back to buy up assets.
After this week’s share price drop, Tesla’s P/E ratio fell to 42 (was 50 last week)

Contrast that to other car makers like Ford with a P/E ratio of 5 or GM with P/E of 6

Or contrast that with tech stocks like Google with a P/E of 18 or Apple with a P/E of 21.

Exxon’s P/E ratio is 8.71

Why is Tesla stock valued so highly, with a P/E ratio an order of magnitude higher than other car companies and twice that of Apple?
3M has been facing a raft of litigation that has prompted the move

Generally speaking, toxic substances are only "cheap" due to externalizing many of the costs involved, like increased healthcare costs and lost productivity. If you do a thorough analysis of the costs of using such chemicals, they aren't cheap at all.

Maybe someday humans will get that.
I don't know if I wasn't noticing the "Relaunch to install update" button or if I just needed to give it a while to download the new update, but after the update (to v1.1.8) the Canvas feature now works.
National parks with roads running through them.
What you say about locating SW receivers may have been true in the era of superhetrodyne receivers, but today, in the era of direct digital sampling, it's no longer true. Old superhet receivers would leak the LO through the mixer out to the antenna so nearby detectors could deduce where the receiver was and what it was tuned to (assuming a standard IF, which is a fair assumption given the plethora of high-Q 455KHz and 10.7MHz ceramic filters).

Nowadays with a good digital receiver, nothing leaks from the receiving antenna.
... and immediately get bankrupt by copyright litigation.

A lot of distribution of media is set in the previous century, where distribution rights are negotiated on a per country basis.

It sucks, and I wholly support copyright reform to address these issues, but making Disney etc into Pirate Bay isn't the way to solve the problem.
That's why you'll end up in a slum where repairs are minimal. (at least if you're in a large metropolitan)
> box office is complicated

It's really not. It either makes more money than it cost or it doesn't. If it does, it's considered a success. If not, it's a flop. That's how everything I've ever read about the copyright industry puts it. I don't really see a need to complicate this.

Yeah, corporations make additional money from licensing, merchandising and whatnot. Making toys and stuff is fine but this licensing bullshit really should end after a few years once the work enters the public domain. They've already made their money, they're done and it's time for the work enter the public domain.

> The problem that led to copyrights is IP theft, unscrupulous people publishing work as their own and rent-seeking all the profit they can.

And how is the copyright solution working out for them? Days ago I saw someone here posting about how their web game was cloned by someone else. Did they sue? No, it's too expensive. Meanwhile corporations will kill your YouTube videos and steal your advertising money if someone walks by on the street playing a song they own.

You might consider the possibility that this trillion dollar copyright industry has already coopted this so called "system". They turned it against the very same people it was designed to protect.
It's water weight loss.

Potassium competes with sodium.

You take enough potassium and it becomes a diuretic.
In WWII, censors were deeply suspicious of knitting patterns sent through the mails. These days, unless they find your decoder app, who's to notice if the numbers have been steganographically covered in a gigabyte or two of the internet's favourite: cat videos?

(and why does google give me a map of Latvia for an image search of "rule 34 russian woodpecker"? cf https://kartinkof.club/uploads/posts/2022-07/1657128790_10-k... )
You may already know this but you can request your house/face to be blurred on Street View: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7011973

Presumably this was requested by whoever currently owns the place.