skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like ~any government policy, the reality depends mostly upon the competence, honesty, good will, and resources of the people & agencies actually implementing the policy. (Vs. the Official Rules, as written down by politicians & bureaucrats.)

Folks who really don't trust the government of NYC on the "competence, honesty, good will, and resources" angles may have plenty of evidence to support their distrust.
Totally, always happy to talk about this stuff. Making film/game/TV scoring a not-horrible experience is a fascinating problem to solve.
Speaking as a connoisseur of Game Boy (I write gameboyessentials.com) I have to say this is a very interesting project, since it allows video out, sort of, without modifying the device. Congratulations.

Would your device work with a Game Boy Camera?
My own procrastination boils down to this: fear of looking stupid.

From the outside, I've been praised on my "thoroughness", my "attention to detail" but those are all positive byproducts of avoiding the visceral feeling of being rejected. Nowadays, whenever I feel the procrastination or analysis paralysis feeling sneak in, I try to switch into "ship ASAP" mentality. Otherwise, it's easy for me to fall into the trap of doing anything but the real task at hand.
This is a lie. They were convicted and sentenced to prison: https://www.police1.com/george-floyd-protest/articles/man-se...

Also worth noting that the people who started the fire were there because they thought people protesting police violence was bad - they weren't dangerous liberals or antifa or whatever other nonsense you'll spew: they were far-right "bugaloo boys"
True. Fair enough.
I'm certain you didn't read the article. The link between the woman and the litige case is very tenuous.

She doesn't work on the case, and the venue has nothing to do with the case either, besides that a huge corporation owns both the venue and the restaurant under litigation.
I love the opening line of Neuromancer:

> The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
You might try googling Trevor Paglen, who wrote "I could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me" which is a book covering those patches and their history.
It's absolutely shameful that public domain has been pushed so far back. I say make it ten years max.
It's all you "need" from one perspective, but if the topic is "the future our grandchildren deserve" than a criticism of consumerism that seeks to eradicate it is relevant(IMO) and isn't equivalent to minimizing it with "tax and other means".
I've worked with plenty of languages [1] since 2001 when I entered the job market . Recently I've been doing coding interviews for developers for a Java shop who theoretically knew Java. It pains me to see what they need to do to implement what I ask them (simple tic-tac-toe game) using Java. Something that in Ruby would be: puts(row.join('|')), in Python would be: print('|'.join(row)) in JavaScript would be console.log(row.join('|')) in Java requires either a StringBuilder monster or a third party library [2] to make it bearable.

And like that, there are other crazy things that make me glad I don't have to write Java anymore (I worked 4 years with it in total in the early 2000s).

[1] (VB6, VB.net, C#, Java, PHP, ActionScript3, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript Python, Ruby, 8086 asm, top of my head).

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6622974/convert-string-t... StringUtils or TextUtils
I've never understood the "not wanting to live 300 years" sentiment.

I've experienced extreme loss, but continue to expreience new connections, knowledge, etc. There's simply no small limit to what a human can experience, and hundreds of years is paltry compared to when it would take to even be on the verge of boredom/emptiness, if such a verge could actually ever be reached.
SoFi (IPOE) too.
Those "bad" protesters were from the "pro police" side: https://www.police1.com/george-floyd-protest/articles/man-se...
As a random tangent, this is an "exception pattern" (Java).

int foo() {
int i;

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
try {
throw new RuntimeException();
}
finally {
if (i < 5) {
continue;
}
else {
break;
}
}
}

return i;
}

Compiles. Runs. Returns 5.
Tauri seems like a low to the ground competitor to Electron. Binaries start at a couple MB. Completely cross platform. Rust.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. We want thoughtful, curious conversation here—not flamebait, unsubstantive comments, and swipes.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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> Also doctors raise similar complaints when PhDs call themselves doctors.

... what do they think the "D" in PhD stands for?
> There are also private nonprofits like churches that help with homelessness

It's honestly shocking that the US has absurdly wealthy churches and we have greater than zero homeless people on the streets. Helping the poor is the core tenet of the christian faith. If they practiced what they preach, it should be impossible to lay down on the street for more than five minutes and not be swarmed with offers for help.
Pssh... adults use JMP ;-): https://www.jmp.com/en_us/software/data-analysis-software.ht...

Trivia: JMP stands for "John's Macintosh Project".

Also, the entire semiconductor industry depends on JMP just like the entire pharmaceutical industry depends on Minitab.
Harpsichord is not for everybody, listening to it for hours on end can be quite grating. Glenn Gould has a very nice version that seems to me to strike a nice balance between being true to the original and using an instrument that is a bit gentler on the ear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CVlBSgj0bk
Carding has always been seen as a gateway to the more involved and nuanced types of cybercrime. Traditionally, it required only low-level technical knowledge and the funds to purchase material from the vast number of carding shops and marketplaces available on the dark web. For years, it’s been a recommended starting point for beginner threat actors.

But recent cyber criminal chatter indicates all is not well in the carding world. A combination of factors—law-enforcement action, increased defenses, the list goes on—has many threat actors predicting the death of carding entirely.
Oh yea, why criticize consumerism when we can just destroy planets and leave them behind to look for more resources to consume?
>Franz Kafka, Amerika

Looking forward to someone taking AI/ChatGPT and finishing the unfinished book.
Question about how public domain works in the US, specifically with regards to this comment in the original post:

> Here are just a few of the works that will be in the US public domain in 2023. 2 They were supposed to go into the public domain in 2003, after being copyrighted for 75 years. But before this could happen, Congress hit a 20-year pause button and extended their copyright term to 95 years.

Is the “20 year pause button” permanent, i.e. copyright term for all works moving forward will be 95 years? Or will that eventually expire and the term will revert to 75 years?
When the opportunity presented itself, I refinanced our mortgage with Chase.

A key goal was to get out from underneath WF.

Every mortgage that I've had has ended up in WF. WF is a mortgage black hole, they buy everything and it's pretty clear that a vast majority of the mortgage industry is to act as service bureaus for WF. I completely understand both business models, I just don't want to play.

When I got the new mortgage, I mentioned to the person handling our application that I was hopeful they would not be selling my paper to WF. Chase is not a mere broker, they're the whole kit. He said he couldn't guarantee they wouldn't sell the paper, and I understood that. But loans are Chases business too, so far they're holding on to it (typically they're sold in the first few months).

So, for the moment I'm out from underneath WF, and have been for several years.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Facts that happen to be personal information are very much protected in the EU.
As did I, my father had talked my grandfather into buying them as they were released in Norwegian in the fifties, so I had some fifty books on my shelves and read them all, some several times.

I adored them, but in hindsight: Gawds, how formulaic they were. I bet with some practice, a ghostwriter could probably churn out a Hardy Boys book in a couple of days.

Excellent childhood memories, though - along with Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings books, I spent more time with Hardy Boys books during rainy summers than I care admit.
The problem is the "funnel" is clogged. You can slip through with a referral, a degree from a tier-1 school, and/or some solid internships but everyone else just has to hope they get lucky.

I do agree about the under-qualified part though. We do some basic technical pre-screening that has candidates spend maybe 15 minutes answering 2 fizzbuzz-style questions just to save everyone time and there's a solid minority of candidates that can't do a question they didn't rehearse in leetcode training.
The question was what saved you 100 hours.

Functional programming easily cost me hundreds of hours without much to show for it. Monad transformers, free monads, final tagless... this rabbit hole is very very deep.

No regrets though, would suffer through this again!
> behind a Stanford login

It was only put behind a login wall after this made the rounds on social media on Monday, according to the WSJ. [1]

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptabl...
The Constitution wasn’t designed for this. The framers did an amazing job at writing documents and expressing ideals that have held up astonishingly well through insane technological change.

But if I want my face catalogued next to my social credit score why not go all in and move to China?

It’s not great but the only mechanism in sight that seems equipped to deal with this is restraint semi-enforced by social consensus. God knows Congress isn’t going to do anything: piss off both law enforcement and tech? Yeah I think that’s a hard pass from them.
Give me a few million years of life and I'll still have billions more to think about what to do in the event of a heat death of the universe.
That music will be played and played long after our societies are dust and forgotten.
In the US, yes (not willing to make a claim about IP laws in every country).

Although I'm not sure how big the market will be as it will also be completely legal to share and download them on internet for free.
I did read it. MSG notified the law firm of their policy while the litigation is ongoing, twice.

> "MSG instituted a straightforward policy that precludes attorneys pursuing active litigation against the Company from attending events at our venues until that litigation has been resolved. While we understand this policy is disappointing to some, we cannot ignore the fact that litigation creates an inherently adverse environment. All impacted attorneys were notified of the policy, including Davis, Saperstein and Salomon, which was notified twice," a spokesperson for MSG Entertainment said in a statement.
But it comes back to the number of chances. To wit, there's approximately 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe. We might be that one in a 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 shot where it all came together to create life but it's rather improbable. Almost certainly is other life out there.
I can empathize to a lesser extent. I’m on pretty high doses of antidepressants to keep myself alive. The world feels dead. I’m not sure that I prefer that to me being dead. But I do it for the people who give a shit about me. Am I going to live past 65? Probably not. But for now, it just the way things are.

I’m not psychotic so it’s of course easier to be reasonable about the situation, but it’s never fun to be on drugs like these.
No. It merely means you don't have any consideration for the health and longevity of your brain.

That's your decision. Be comfortable with that.
Blacklisting is something we already recognise as wrong; banning who you want from your own establishment is fine, but passing around a list of people and banning them on someone else's say-so isn't. Perhaps the laws against it should be enforced, or strengthened.
The source (https://www.trueup.io/layoffs) says 3750 FTE and 4400 Contractors were laid off. Which looking around the web seems accurate.
The dot com bust was a bit of a perfect storm, lots of people weren't needed because Y2K was over, lots of dumb ass startups with no product and no revenue disappeared and finally 9/11 gave everyone an excuse to chop heads because the economy was surely tanking. The first two were going to happen no matter what an the third just amplified the situation. Through all of it there was still hiring, the week I got hired the company that hired me laid off 12,000 people.
>But at the end of the day, teaching your kid to starve to death because stealing is always wrong is only going to erode their trust in you.

This is a misinterpretation of my point, though. When I brought up the "defense of necessity", it was a direct acknowledgement that sometimes stealing is ok (or is at least, the more moral action).

However, communicating vague heuristics based on shaky principles can set the ground for rationalization that leads to immoral behavior. When we read about abhorrent behavior (like in the featured article), it's more often than not the result of a line of rationalizations rooted in human biases rather than a principled moral stance. All I'm saying is the OP's guideline of "don't steal tools or a vehicle" isn't a particularly good first principle (for one, as the previous example shows, it could still result in starving).
If he owns it, he will want to recover his overhead and make profit beyond that to compensate for his risk and extra effort. That profit typically isn't shared with the other stylists. On the other hand, the owner will likely diligently pursue his own interest in making the shop as profitable as possible by attracting the most customers to the best service, which may greatly benefit the stylists (and make them willing to pay more for use of the chair).

If it's a co-op, all expenses and profits will be split among the members. (I'm assuming that the co-op members are limited to the stylists in this case.) The business is not likely to be pursued as diligently as it would be if it was a sole proprietorship, as an individual member will not be proportionately compensated for making an outsized effort. If the co-op is large enough to require a full-time employed manager and other staff, then it's just a privately held corporation, and will perform as such.
For now, yes. But they'll have to stop selling alcohol soon.
Calling it the "S Series" or "X Series" would make sense, but "Series" as the base name of the product line is just...I mean, what were they thinking? It makes absolutely zero sense.

Meanwhile Sony's over here with PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, and all the sub-versions make perfect sense (base, slim, pro, etc).
This. Because of 2008 and Covid people have a bias toward thinking that every economic slowdown is destined to be a massive dislocation.
What I mean is please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. They degrade discussion terribly, and your GP comment was particularly vapid.

If you want to post something substantive and interesting, that of course is fine. Otherwise, please don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"A camera pans down from high in a church to focus on a stone bust of a typically ill-tempered looking Johann Sebastian Bach. It’s 1962 and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is making a short film about the composer, presented by the pianist Glenn Gould. He’s playing Bach’s Fugue in E-flat major on the organ, initially off-camera. He completes the short piece, swivels round on his stool, and ad-libs the following:

Select and enter your email address"

I thought the Firefox Reader text was a AI piece. Haha
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Considering that everyone has a chance to make personal decisions, but most people won't have the opportunity to make philanthropic decisions, can you see why the personal decisions someone makes are really the only thing important to get a measure of how good a role model they are.
Any chance you'd qualify for Section 8?

https://hchatexas.org/housing-choice-voucher-program/voucher...

It can take a while to go through all that, though.

You can see available inventory here:

https://www.myhousingsearch.com/dbh/SearchHousingSubmit.html...

(Disclaimer: My day gig, speaking on behalf of meself only, etc. We are sponsored by the HCHA as their housing search provider.)
Can you explain how this is better? Also, how would we write a law to determine if something is "commercially viable"?
AB did this for sure before the merger. Working there during my prime, going-out-to-the-bars age, I was told that I should only buy AB products and make sure the label was turned outward for others to see. Thought it was weird but I only drink whisky so it didn't really affect me.
The number of Bach family people with their own Wikipedia page is probably some kind of record for a family that old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bach_family
Great find! Reminds me of this 2020 post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334339

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-con...
Seems like a replacement for MeteorJS.
I don't know of any laws against this at all, at least in the United States.
Yes. But they are black-and-white and silent, which severely limits the audience these days.

Some of these movies have circulated with more recent soundtracks, and those are off limits. In particular there’s a somewhat infamous 1984 version of “Metropolis” with music produced by Giorgio Moroder and Freddie Mercury. That won’t be in the public domain until 2079…
1 has nothing to do with Rails. Rails is a framework, Ruby is the language.

As for 2, I see this as a common complaint, but Hotwire, Turbo Streams with ViewComponent is a really power combination whose full potential is still being worked out.

As for client-side error checking... why? So I have to maintain validations in two places and ensure they always match?

I don't even understand your 3. Rails has no UI. Do you mean the CSS applied to the scaffolding views?
The movie TÁR opens with a music class where Prof. Tár plays the Prelude in C for a reluctant student who says he can't relate to Bach because he was a hetero white guy. All he can say is "You play very well."

I've played that, of course, since there aren't any conventionally difficult parts in it. There is something about that piece that just gets inside you. That has to be the definition of a really great work of art: you can't say what, exactly, is great about it, but somehow it's just there.

I always wonder what Bach would have said about it. "Oh, yeah, that. Just something I tossed off."
Reading that really makes you wonder what the hell (sorry if that offends some atheists or buddhists!) they are talking about in official meetings at the Stanford IT department. Gray beards? Pocahontas??? In my 20 years in IT, not once have I heard that anyone ever felt the need to discuss "hermaphrodites" in a meeting or document.
That's an artifact of what you happen to notice, which is considerably affected by your preferences. I don't mean you personally—we all seem to have this bias [1]. I can point you to hundreds of complaints saying that the bias goes just the opposite way. Some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870. Every passionate ideologue thinks their side is the one being treated unfairly, that the mods are biased against them, that the community swings in the opposite direction, and so on.

If you or anyone notice an account that's using HN primarily for ideological battle, we're just as interested in banning it (or asking them to stop [2]) regardless of which way they're firing.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] Whether we ban an account or ask it to stop, or how many times we ask it to stop before banning it, depends on other factors like how long it's been around and how many good things it's also posted. This is not a political or ideological question.
Geospatial Commission calls for better use of location in EV chargepoint rollout
Steamboat Willie, which was an early (first?) appearance of Mickey Mouse, is 1928 so this next year could be interesting for copyright law
Permanent. The term is 95 years now, unless Congress changes the law. And reducing it would be very difficult legally, with copyright holders suing for their theoretical losses if Congress "deprives" them of 20 years of protection that they now consider their property.
When I used IntelliJ, for the languages it understood best (then Java and Kotlin), it felt very little like editing text. The sense was much more like interacting directly with an AST. I rarely had to use standard 'text' editing features (oriented around word/sentence/para entities). This was an emergent affordance from all the many language-oriented facilities (all available via keyboard shortcuts) offered, rather than one specific feature.

I actually don't use IntelliJ now for reasons not germane here. I'm on neovim, mostly with Rust and javascript/typescript). This is great in many ways but the ergonomics of editing, even with LSP integration, are much more like editing text, which is more distant from my mental model of the code.
>When you apply for a mortgage you are informed in advance that it might be sold.

Ok, and where can I go get the mortgages that won't be sold and have comparable financing terms to the ones that do?

Oh wait, those don't exist (or cost way more)? Hmm. I see.

Here's the thing: free markets can only ever hope to work in a world where people have total freedom of association. If I can't take my business elsewhere, then I'm not dealing with a private corporation anymore. I'm dealing with government with extra steps.

Likewise, capitalism and free markets aren't interchangeable terms. Free markets are a system of resource allocation, and capitalism is just private ownership of an enterprise. There's been plenty of examples of brutally repressive regimes which still had private capital ownership, free markets be damned. Because free markets do not actually maximize profits for capitalist owners.

So I think it's fair to blame capitalism, even if there's some government floating around in there, too. Consider them joint-and-severally liable.
> [The Fermi Paradox] explains why we haven't been visited by aliens (the light-cone of our radio transmissions is small

I usually hear the Fermi Paradox brought up in opposition to the reasonable-sounding null hypothesis of "life is common but stars are far." The argument goes that technological development and galactic colonization should be a very fast process (millions of years) compared to variation in nucleosynthesis/abiogenesis/evolution timelines (billions of years). In other words, if the story of the Milky Way were an hour long movie, the Milky Way would transition from empty of life to full of life inside a few seconds, and landing at the half-way point of that transition would be an unlikely feat of synchronization. That's why Fermi Paradox speculation often doesn't distinguish between "waiting for a radio transmission" and "already here" -- the transition should be very fast on geological timescales. Aliens wouldn't stick in "waiting..." for 100 million years, they'd eventually send colonists to grab the free real estate.

In other words, I don't think it's a mistake that the article repeatedly threw in the caveat "unless civilizations are extremely abundant" because that would be a common objection to its thesis.

> if you fix the Drake equation, the paradox dissolves

Yes, it's possible to toss enough uncertainty into the equation to raise the probability of low N significantly above 0, but the whole idea of FP is that you have to work curiously hard to make this happen.