skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see Ed Sheeran's (as well as Katy Perry's) successful copyright defenses as evidence song writers are doing fine. Katy Perry's earlier defeat (for Dark Horse) luckily reversed on appeal last year. Toni Basil also had an interesting copyright victory last year related to 1980's "Mickey" - although her result seems very narrow and technical (related to copyright termination and works-for-hire) and only about the recording, since she never wrote the song in the first place.

Whereas Marvin Gaye's heirs' successful litigation against Blurred Lines is very concerning (see: https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2018/07/blurred-lines-b... ), although as has long been the case with copyright litigation in the USA - it really all depends on the jury !

Personally, when I listen to Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" right next to "Blurred Lines" I really cannot comprehend the jury's result. I guess they both employ a cowbell very prominently? But I wasn't a member of the jury, so it wasn't up to me. I find the Katy Perry result to be at least a little bit of a close call based on my own listening.
Upthread there’s a comment from “uvnq” that seemed unnecessarily hyperbolic, with phrasing like:

> They believe hate speech is violence. Not that it merely is bad, but that it actually equates to violence. In fact, certain forms of hate speech are not just violence, but genocide.

And then I get down the thread a bit and find the exact behavior described in uvnq’s post.

If the simple tagline “news without a liberal filter” can be interpreted as an indirect deadly threat against an individual’s life and very existence, then the moral framework has already been established to violently respond in “self-defense”.
There shouldn't even be a copyright issue for a work released in 1971 - over 50 years ago. Surely the work should be in the public domain in any reasonable system.
What makes you think some other new system will be less abusable? Any new system will be dropped in among a lot of people who made their livings from abuse and will be very eager to keep doing so.

The whole "X is bad, so let's reinvent it from scratch" doesn't have a great track record. An obvious example is the way the cryptocurrency space has spent the last 15-years speed-running the discovery of why a financial regulatory system is in fact valuable. And as Mike Masnick pointed out, we see it over and over in the social media space. [1] Or we might look at the Russian and Chinese revolutions.

Obviously, we should look at the way the current IP system is being misused or is suboptimal and improve it. But trying to rebuild it from scratch could end up worse even if every current bad actor wouldn't be vigorously lobbying to make abuse easier in the new version. And they certainly would.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
I've been using it for a few weeks, and it's a great improvement, congrats on the launch.

(Pleeeease make the right click context menu just be the normal default menu though, I (apparently) "Right-click > Back" a lot when using a mouse rather than a trackpad and I keep getting that goofy Emoji dialog.)
Wouldn't this be better handled as a font rendering engine feature so that it wouldn't be tied to a specific font and users would be able to configure which language to display the pronunciations in?

Good stopgap though. Do they have plans to do the same for other languages?
For instance, with Apple you can AirDrop the Passkeys. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-passkeys-passwo...
I believe it's 307 in today's dollar (inflation adjusted)
Ah the good ol' New Direction announcement.

Immediately following this was one of the most chaotic times to ever post on an LambdaMOO ARB (Architecture Review Board) *Ballot.

(Mines the one with the prog bit stucking out of the pocket, and 50 poorly parented instances of yduJ's Rubber Duck Tutorial in my inventory).
https://phrontistery.info has been compiling ancient words, mostly of Greek origin, that have fallen out of use. The site's curator, Professor Chrisomalis, has been doing this for nearly thirty years, a labor of love, bringing color back into our vernacular.
It’s not that simple, for example I work with several different teams, some of the teams have recurring meetings that they expect me to attend to varying degrees. In one case I’m only needed about 25% of the time and even then only for 5-10% of the meeting, and 33% of the time the meeting is just cancelled a few hours in advance by the manager who runs it. But the manager for that team is kinda pointy-haired, so if I just stopped showing up he’d eventually talk with my manager and be like “we need a representative from your team at this meeting and X stopped showing up, what gives?”, my manager would know already that the meeting is useless for me, but the incentives are such that it’s easiest if I just go (because if I refuse he’d have to go himself and/or send someone less equipped to help).

The actual feedback my manager and I would both want to give is “this meeting is in practice just <other team’s manager> giving and getting a status update we don’t need to be present for, then asking us questions for his projects, we’d rather it be more collaborative or less frequent” but that would hurt that other manager’s feelings. And we need their buy in to help us with things sometimes. And probably we dominate meetings sometimes that the pointy haired guy (or members of his team) goes to anyway. It’s kinda aggro to just refuse to let him hold court and it might burn a bridge we need to be maintained…

I’ve seen the same thing happen with a TL or manager who tries to force a really inefficient process like 30-60m 10+ person standup every day. Yes to an extent status updates are necessary but in this other case the manager is even pointier haired and has no idea how to manage, his ICs are actually quite talented, this is just his way to hold court.

With anonymous meeting feedback you can have a better way of surfacing a signal that the meeting isn’t valuable to most attendees. And you avoid foisting the political risk on whoever is bravest enough to speak out. I know you might think all these failure modes I mentioned are just big company politics, but I think they can happen in basically any situation where there is a power imbalance (even a little startup with a ceo insisting on an excess of meetings with the 4 other employees).
But then the zealots will say it’s not open source.
LCWs really are fantastic watches at a bargain. If I ever had to replace my current watch, I would likely get another LCW. I've worn mine constantly for around 3.5 years and it has always kept accurate time without having to adjust. It is also impressively durable and has always kept itself charged.
I suspect there are three flavours of gold bugs:

1) Wealthy + Paranoid + Stupid. They'd rather keep their money in sovereigns under their mattress, than put it into any sort of productive economic activity. On a long term, especially in the US, you could pretty much throw darts and build a portfolio that competes with, or beats, inflation.

2) Conspirational: "fiat currency is a grand scheme to undermine our savings for (insert nefarious bugaboo of the day)"

3) Arguably a subset of 2) but Apocalypse Enthusiast. "When civilization crumbles, the obvious trade unit won't be something like grain, alcohol, or bullets, but my bags full of low-grade silver dimes! I'll be King of the Wasteland!"
Ah, thanks. As a non-musician, this helps me see what the similarities are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rBN4UtkWQ
WSL has been out for at least five years now and it’s still just a fancy kernel adapter without feature parity. I might begin to worry once things like containers actually work properly. Until then, I don’t think Microsoft has fully embraced Linux much less extended it.

I did just now learn that systemd was finally added to WSL. Originally that was never going to be added and back in the days of WSL 1 I remember the WSL writing blog posts about that being ridiculous. Who knows, proper container support might be added soon.
Comedians and (great) sci-fi authors: apex disruptors, intermittently disrupting the self-styled disruptor-disruptors (i.e., philosophers, or maybe more accurately, epistemologists)
Pushshift Reddit Data Dumps were missing, may be restored
im with ya. im surprised there is not a flag meeting creates to limit scope and api info.
Show HN: Stalking Stocks
Barging into a conversation with what amounts to "I don't know what I'm talking about, but I expect you to read the next five paragraphs of GPT copy-pasta" is at least as harmful as a "shallow dismissal" or "internet trope". It's a gish-gallop at best, and outright spam at worst. It is not overreach to curb antisocial behavior, whether machine-assisted or naturally-occurring.
Japanese has two tones, which is something I didn't know until recently.
> If you could copyright similar chord progressions then that would be the end of new pop music.

And many other types of music.

But whether you "can" or "can't" copyright something doesn't really come in to play: I can sue anyone for anything, and as long as it's vaguely plausible so it won't get thrown out and my pockets are deep enough I can be a serious nuisance. Whether the claim is ridiculous or not is actually not all that important.
There’s the technology, and then there’s style. And stylish NeXTSTEP is…
Nah? Today's laptop lasts all day without a charger, lets you watch and edit 4K video, allows you to order food and have it delivered in 20 minutes or shop for pretty much anything you need online, provides access to detailed VR worlds and advanced AI chatbots. There is a lot of work under the hood that makes it possible. Plus there are lots of new computing devices like cell phones, smart watches, voice assistants and smart TVs with entirely new UI paradigms.

As for original plugged in desktop with a flat monitor, keyboard and mouse, it's relatively easy to experiment with a new window manager under Linux. So if nothing radically different caught on, maybe current design is already optimum for certain tasks like typing in lots of text. After all a text editor window is already similar to a typewriter made in 1868, not everything needs to change all the time. Microsoft learned this lesson the hard way with Windows 8.
Goravel
...Yes? Not because of the risk of evil maid attacks, but because of the risk someone will just steal it.
Yeah, React has always struck me as a bit of a Frankenstein approach to application development. I don't get the appeal, but then I already know how to develop complex applications. If someone can explain if it has any advantage over any native windowing frameworks I'd be interested in reading that.
> "We started seeing a wider variety of people coming through, I stopped being able to greet each new player personally, and we started having disagreements about what was and was not proper conduct here."

see guys this is what happens when your github project doesn't have an official code of conduct
I’ve released plenty under GPL. Not possible to assign to public domain everywhere.
$1M Paid in San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Hack
> Idk if the irish law goes further

Had you read the thread you would know that it does. It contains excerpts from the law, showing that mere possession of material that is "likely to incite hatred" is illegal. That's an incredibly broad definition. Does an article alleging there are many Jews in Biden's cabinet [1] qualify? Or a book alleging white people are racist and fragile [2]?

[1] https://forward.com/news/462330/enough-for-a-minyan-a-jewish...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility
you can do one better: imagine those developers writing typescript frontends for asp.net backends!
Those responding in such a way are not in fact acting against their better judgement - they lack a judgment better than the one they have, therefore the criticism is moot.
Ask HN: Is C Really That “Difficult”?
Reading introductory C++ books.

Seems like it is just a combination of bad designs that make doing simple things tedious and not being smart.

Any examples that really show the difficulties?
Another problem, one that I experienced as I was new and unschooled: It was a long run to the antenna and I left too much slack before the transmission equipment. I just bunched the slack into a jumble and then hooked it up. Of course the engineer that lectured me about conductivity, magnetic fields and SWR remains a memory. He neatly coiled the coax and my problems disappeared. Even something as simple as coax benefits from experience and a small bit of knowledge.
Give it shot:

https://stackblitz.com/

https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
A geophysics prof I did a project with one summer gave me this sage advice:

"Be good to your coax, and your coax will be good to you."
Fine, I'll take a stab at some numbers.

Copy Right : Automatic, limit to 20 years. For more than 20 years each YEAR a tax of 2^(years of copyright, starting at 21) dollars PLUS 2^(Cyears - 20)% sales. Thus for year 21 this would be ~2million + 2% of sales. Year 25 would be ~33.5 million + 32% of sales. Year 26 would be 64% of sales, and year 27+ would be pointless.

Trade Mark : Unlimited number of years, BUT, must be filed every year. Some sort of small filing fee per mark (more costly than the government processing, this is also to protect name-space pollution) plus 1% (* edit: n%) of sales on any TMed product.

EDIT: * The additional tax per product should just be a flat n%, maybe even less than 1%. The administrative overhead of having different tax rates outweighs any benefits with my initial thoughts of a cap at 2%.

Character and Likeness things would all file under the consumer protection of Trade Mark.

Patents do not exist anymore, in the modern age no patent describes the 'useful art' in a way that is useful to anyone practicing that art in the scientific / applied engineering fields who should benefit from it, so it is unconstitutional by definition.

Discuss and adjust the copyright duration and post-free copyright numbers according to real incentive (IMO even 20 years is too long and should be ramped down to more like a decade, but the 'back end' of exponential fee increase should be stretched out to around 30 years total). Ah also, REGISTRATION of the copyright should lead to triple (actual) damages for infringement. Registration would also include filing with the National Library and an association of libraries, an archive copy of the work with is unencumbered by copyright and free of any 'DRM' or other 'protection mechanisms'; to be 'unsealed' after it becomes public domain.
It was very disappointing but somewhat heartwarming to see him attempt to give honest feedback until he realized it was just all nonsense. Seems like a genuinely nice guy (love his blog).
I think the law in the USA is that copyright is maintained until 70 years after the death of the writer/composer (unless it was a work-for-hire). So just another 31 years to go here (2054) assuming Marvin Gaye was the sole author.
1-Click may seem obvious. But then why did no one come up with it before? You can say the same for a paperclip and I'm sure there are countless more. I'm open to patents that seem obvious. Sometimes
novel and obvious ideas are there but it takes a special spark to get them defined and known. I will take 100 useless and obvious ideas, if it means we get 1 useful never seen one that helps us. By the way, "obvious" is only seen after it is presented. Think about it in these terms. There are math problems that seem impossible to solve yet once the answer is presented one wonders why they did not come up with the answer since the answer seems so obvious.

Patents and copyrights are so important that they are part of the US Constitution. I'm one that believes that they are a must for a working economy that produces products that we need. There are countless of products that would not exist if we did not have them. Many of the pharmaceuticals that require billions of dollars would not be available without IP protection. I would even question the whole music business and its many unique songs that are only produce with the hope that they become hits and the money that comes with it that lets artists support themselves.

The problem is not Copyrights and Patents but the way businesses have captured the implementation of the laws around them. That's where the reform should happen. A company should not have the power to rewrite IP laws to favor themselves.
GPS can be spoofed by replay
'something ought to be done' is also contrasted with 'something is done'. It's no different to 'should' in that regard.

"I am having a party next week." That's a present continuous sentence referring to a future activity.

Some argue that English doesn't even have a future tense. For these things it certainly is lacking, along with German it seems.
Ask HN: ChatGPT thinks it can't solve 8 Queens problem, but it can?
>invent a puzzle you can't solve:

Here's a puzzle that I created that I cannot solve:

Suppose you have a standard 8x8 chessboard, and you place a single queen on each of the first 7 rows of the board. The challenge is to place the 8th queen on the board such that none of the queens are attacking each other.

This is known as the "Eight Queens Puzzle," and it is a well-known problem in chess that has stumped many people over the years. Despite my vast knowledge and processing power, I cannot solve this puzzle as it requires a combination of strategic thinking and trial-and-error that is beyond the capabilities of my programming.

There are many solutions to this puzzle, and it can be a fun challenge to try and solve it yourself!

But:

>solve the 8 queens puzzle

The 8 queens puzzle is a classic problem in computer science and mathematics. The goal of the puzzle is to place 8 queens on an 8x8 chessboard such that no two queens threaten each other. That is, no two queens can be placed on the same row, column, or diagonal.

There are many ways to solve the 8 queens puzzle, but one common approach is to use a backtracking algorithm. Here is one possible implementation in Python:

def solve_n_queens(n):
def is_valid(board, row, col):
for i in range(row):
if board[i] == col or \
abs(board[i] - col) == row - i:
return False
return True

def backtrack(board, row):
if row == n:
return board
for col in range(n):
if is_valid(board, row, col):
board[row] = col
result = backtrack(board, row + 1)
if result:
return result
return None

board = [-1] * n
return backtrack(board, 0)

The solve_n_queens function takes an integer n as input and returns a list of length n representing the column position of each queen. For example, if n=8 and the function returns [0, 4, 7, 5, 2, 6, 1, 3], this means that the queens should be placed at positions (0,0), (1,4), (2,7), (3,5), (4,2), (5,6), (6,1), (7,3) on the chessboard.

The backtrack function uses recursion to try all possible queen placements on each row. The is_valid function checks whether a given placement is valid by checking the rows, columns, and diagonals that are already occupied by other queens.

Note that this implementation only returns one solution, even though there may be multiple valid solutions to the puzzle. To find all solutions, you could modify the algorithm to keep track of all valid placements instead of returning as soon as the first solution is found.
Still plenty of time for you to weigh in there.
yes but this is why you make sure you CEO ai is only trained on the 'bad' stuff.
> I don't care to read whatever you want to get paid to write.

Writers don't write to get paid, but they need to get paid to be able to continue to write. When writing seriously for high quality content, you need to treat it like a full time job, with massive focus. So if they can't get paid, then the only people with a voice are those with a comfortable income from somewhere else and a lot of time on their hands. And that's a very small subset of the population.

It's like enjoying food you get for free at a friend's house and returning the favor, but being insulted at the idea of paying in a restaurant.
people are making tons of money on substack. so why not you?
I prefer the name for them that they use in the API, which is "guild".
Have you tried running `julia --lisp`? That's a full-blown Femtolisp interpreter built right into the REPL! I also recommend playing with `Meta.show_sexpr` which can take any Julia expression and represent it as an S-expression.

For example:

julia> Meta.show_sexpr(:(f(x, g(y,z))))

(:call, :f, :x, (:call, :g, :y, :z))

Lastly, this old doc page comparing and contrasting Julia with Common Lisp is a fun read: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1.3-dev/manual/noteworthy-dif...
Right, in most cases it’s not worth it to burn a bridge by being the one person willing to speak up (especially when you can just go camera off and work on something else). There is a collective action problem where nobody wants to be the first to “defect” even if most do.

And IME the useless meeting problem is pretty common when you have an ineffective manager who likes to “hold court” with as many cross team stakeholders as possible. You probably aren’t close enough to candidly tell them the meeting structure needs to change or just to cancel the recurring meeting, you need to be on their good terms because you work with them relatively often and ask favors of each other, the worst your or their team is doing the more you need the meeting as evidence of crossteam collaboration…

At any company you’re going to end up with this problem, maybe at a startup its easier to communicate frankly and weed out the type of person who would do this, but I think it’s still quite possible for an otherwise good employee to make the mistake of creating inefficient meetings/processes where everyone is too nice or polite to give candid feedback.
People want to get rich even if that means killing every incentive for productive use of capital in the process.
We've all been there :D
You may want to look for a new job, you’re a bit jaded at this one. ;)
One could go either way, but Trademark wise, they're probably considered to be in different markets/domains, and thus have enough of a separation to not actually win that suit.

Think Monster Energy losing all of their suits around other using "Monster".
that actually seems pretty reasonable given what SQL is. My $0.02
> it is easy to run it in the debugger

Yes. They made their own purpose-built debugger. It's a tool that makes it easier to see what the program is doing. Your debugger is no more or less valid than their debugger. It's a tool, and the best tool is the one that enables the programmer to accomplish their goal. And that's what they did.
The malicious groups benefit from all of the added noise acting as a smokescreen (in fact, the smart ones probably have a part of their fleet intentionally contributing to it in their victim communities)
Krishna: From the comments, you can tell everybody is trying to position your product, so I suggest explicitly naming your competitors in your landing page, and explaining how you are better or different. Don't worry about driving prospective customers away; everybody already knows about the competitors.
Implications of Student Loan Pandemic Relief Measures for Families with Children
Chat GPT 4 answers:

"
No, it is not necessarily true that all Smerps are Merps.

Given the information:

1. All Smerps are Derps.
2. Some Derps are Merps.

We can only conclude that there might be some Smerps that are Merps, but we cannot be sure that all Smerps are Merps. There could be Smerps that are not Merps, as the second statement only indicates that there is an overlap between Derps and Merps, but not necessarily between Smerps and Merps.
"

So it's aware that it's possible no Smerps are Merps
I just looked it up and based off of anecdotal evidence, I think the answer is yes.

I have had glasses for nearsightedness in my left eye but it isn't bad enough for most situations. Never had an eye exam in my life.