skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They cant under the current system, and I see no reason for that to change.

They might have marginally more protection over their ideas than a than a big company can due to leaks, but I dont fundamentally believe that ideas should be protected under the law, assuming a just legal system. I'll break this into 2 parts.

I don't think governments have a great track record of protecting interests, and a theory why. Whatever political system we have, power will centralize in an elite that uses it for their own purposes. Slavery in America was not funded on its merit, it was in fact heavily subsidized at the expense of working americans and the states were turned into fortresses to imprison the slaves. This occured under an arguement that the government should protect private interests. Whatever power you give the government, the elite will steal; an aside, even when the elites are killed in places like russia during the soviet revolution, it was at the behest of a newer and much darker elite; anyways, a corrupt intellectual property system, because government power is prone to capture.

I disagree with the concept that ideas can be owned, as opposed to merely possessed. Allow me to cast abducto absurdum on this, taken to its logical conclusion, does this idea create absurd results? If we were chronically dehydrated in africa, and I figured out how to make a pump to get water, and im willing to make more pumps for trade, would it be reasonable that the rest of the village is going to die of dehydration because you, fully capable of recreating and innovating on the design, were instead bound by intellectual property laws? If that is in fact absurd, then I would like to know what the line is and why.
I'm not taking a side either, but seeing as drug companies are shielded from liability w/ vaccines, if I was a drug company I would be motivated to lobby broadening the definition. it would just be good business.
This is very neat. A thing that's a little crazymaking in all of these maps though: one of the most important things you're looking at in a zoning map is the distinction between single-family lots (exclusively for detached houses) and multi-family lots. You have to zoom in to the single-neighborhood level to see that distinction here (between paler green and darker green), and it's subtle.

It's nowhere nearly as bad as my neighboring municipality's zoning map, though:

https://www.oak-park.us/sites/default/files/zoning/2021-02-2...

I'm convinced this map was colored specifically to obscure that distinction.

The links to zoning variance documents in the planned development (red) zones are a really nice touch!
I'd settle for that too!
A Reddit post by me:

>A Detroit News columnist playing the city-management computer game SimCity "found that Godzilla attacking the city in the 1972 Detroit scenario caused less destruction than the mayoralty of Coleman Young". <https://www.reddit.com/r/Detroit/comments/3r3dtl/a_detroit_n...>
Mining hardware is really expensive still, and they are constantly replaced by better models.

I have a massive surplus of solar in summer, and on my local auction sites some old miners became available. I considered picking them up and putting them to use using up my surplus "free" electricity.

I gave up when the mining ROI calculation came back with multiple years, even when you factor in a $0 electicity cost.

This might've worked 3-5 years ago (maybe more), but I don't see that happening now to be honest.
Everyone knew the leadership at GM was clueless. Nothing handed down to the assembly line made sense. They would jerk to a new course whenever an article in the Wall Street Journal made fun of them.
More like a 100 million, from a quick Google search. It seems highly unfair to complain that a small company can't match Amazon's pricing.
We used to say "Once it is released on the Internet, you cannot get it back."

I guess that still holds true - then: you can't (easily) contain its availability, and now: eventually it'll just disappear like everything else.

Fans of all that is blockchain will probably disagree with the current meaning, and hold steadfast to the earlier meaning.
Contentment with one's lot in life is easier to fake than income. These stories are popular because they provide a fantasy outlet for people who work hard but are unhappy, to justify their choices by villainizing the path not taken. It is a form of therapy. This therapy would not be needed if the general sentiment of those who pursue careers that many in this thread call "prestige" were actually fulfilling. In reality they are (on average) less fulfilling than simply having any somewhat high-paying job that offers security for oneself and one's family.

There are of course exceptions for people who are true artists, who could not live if their soul was not developed through creative work. But again, they are the minority. The "prestige" we allot to very average jobs is superficial, a social formality we perform as polite society because we perceive it as needless to have people constantly reminded that they did not achieve as much as they could have.
I think you're missing the point. The s-expression thing was just intended to be an illustrative example. I'm not actually advocating for it (at least not here). All I'm saying is that asking specifically why things are the way they are is more likely to lead to good ideas than just "asking dumb questions".

(And note too that even with a heuristic that improves your odds, coming up with good novel ideas is really hard and happens only rarely.)
Old Kobos were awesome, I had one for years running Kohreader. Sadly I lost it. Then when I researched new Kobos, about two years ago, it seemed like the quality has gone down a lot as the company has been sold several times. Is that still the case?
Although the ULEZ only charges a vanishingly small number of vehicles, and the congestion charge only affects the most central part of the city.

Driving in most of London is no more expensive than other UK cities.
Recently started trialing Walmart Delivery Pass to get next day delivery from local stores. Actually pretty convenient to get my fresh produce, meat, dairy, etc… delivered along with whatever stuff I’d normally order from Amazon with Prime.

I was planning on keeping prime for video but the free shipping is less valuable to me now, but if they’re gonna make the service worse and charge me more for what I had before then I’m just gonna cancel.
I just noticed that complete series of shows can be fairly cheap. I was in Best Buy and happened to walk by the DVD section for example and saw the complete "How I Met Your Mother" in a 28 disc boxed set for $32.99.

Unfortunately the world of DVD and Blu-ray seems to be overrun with too many editions. For example besides that particular HIMYM set (here it is at Amazon [1]), there is also this one [2] which is $49.99.

The pictures for the two look identical. But the release date listed for the $32.99 is about 9 months later, and the media format descriptions differ between the two. The $32.99 one says Subtitled, NTSC. The $49.99 one says NTSC, Widescreen, Box set, Subtitles, AC-3, Dolby. The $32.99 lists language as "English (Dolby Surround)" so does apparently have Dolby. The $49.99 one doesn't list language. The $32.99 one says it has English, French, and Spanish subtitles. The $49.99 just says French and Spanish subtitles. Does one of them have better sound? Do either of them have commentary, deleted scenes, or other special features. Does only the $49.99 have widescreen?

Some comments mention that there is commentary, but (1) Amazon considers these two sets to be variations on the same set and so they share comments, so there is no way to tell which set the comment is talking about, and (2) some of those comments are from several years before either set was released--they were definitely commenting about HIMYM so my guess is that they were for early releases of specific seasons or something like that.

If I were interested in buying that complete HIMYM I'd have no idea from those Amazon listings and comments which set to buy.

I've also seen similar things when considering buying movies. There will often be one or more of a DVD, a DVD + digital code, a Blu-ray + DVD + digital code, a 4K UHD Blu-ray, a 4K UHD Blu-ray + digital code, a 4K UHD Blu-ray + DVD + digital code, and probably some that I've forgotten.

Online listings often don't say if the digital code is for 4K, and often don't say much about special features. It is confusing enough that my impulse to buy the movie does not last long enough for me to figure out which to buy.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Met-Your-Mother-Complete/dp/B07GJ...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/How-Met-Your-Mother-Complete/dp/B0747...
> I mean there are 4 people on the ballot for POTUS, or you can request a write-in ballot. If you vote for anyone outside the D/R establishment, they reject your ballot.

Two of the four parties on the ballot are “outside the D/R establishment” (the four parties being the Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Greens.)

Additionally, its possible for other parties to qualify for ballot access, neither the number nor the identity of the qualified parties is fixed.
Office or no office, productivity is largely a function of the state of the labor market. When mgmt has the upper hand, productivity soars. And vice versa.
> De-centralize and de-nationalize schooling. It's clear the feds have no idea how to make the education system work. Let the states have ~50 different curricula, or individual schools to have ~hundreds or ~thousands of different curricula. Even if they're bad on average, some of them will probably figure out how to make an actually good US school by sheer luck. Once we have that, the others have a model to copy.

Sadly, we already know what works, individualized/custom attention that exposes the kid to a lot of fields. A worse way to put it, more money == better education. And this is largely true even if specifically wrong.

But once you try to scale that up, everything falls apart.
> I know this is HN but not everything needs to be monetized.

It's not whether something should be monetized, but rather about whether it inevitably will. It's not a question of "if", but "by whom", "when" and "how much". Either you do the monetizing, via crypto or otherwise, or you hide your head in the sand, pretend that the issue doesn't exist and let the scalpers get all the profits.
You can only fit 1-2 graphics cards in a “normal” ATX case (each card takes 2-3 “slots”). If you want 4 cards on one machine, you need a bigger/more expensive motherboard, case, PSU, etc. I haven’t personally seen anyone put 6 cards in a workstation.
You can not compare a 1993 car to a 2020's car.

Today's LS4 and LS5 V8 engines produce much more horsepower and get better fuel economy.

I might as well compare a Tesla pickup to a VW bug from the 1960's and say that pickups produce less tailpipe emissions than small cars do.
Easy solution - can someone create or add to the existing ad blocker to work on Amazon Prime ads as well please?
I was in the same boat. If I hadn't already cancelled, this would have definitely pushed me over the edge.

"This deal is getting worse all the time." --Lando talking about his Prime membership
Maybe, but that's not US law.
We need a good balance between pirates and merchants.

If the former get too strong, it would stifle innovation and disincentive people from investing into improvements, technology, slowing the humanity’s progress towards a better world.

If the latter become too strong, (as it is right now) all those benefits risk to fall in too few hands, making this world even more unbalanced and unjust.

Let’s not give for granted the freedom that we have had until right now, it’s more at peril than we think.
That's not really fair; he was mayor from the early 1970s all the way into the 1990s, a period that captured the peak of panic selling and white flight (not just in Detroit but across the midwest) and the deindustrialization and hollowing-out of the Detroit auto industry.
This is a good line of reasoning, and it would make an interesting legal case.

I suspect it won't stand because the removal of the DRM provisions that potentially allow to retract access to the media is the point of, well, backing it up.

When you buy media DRM-free, you don't have to pirate anything, you can just peacefully make a copy.
Most of them are awful but only in rare cases do they cause permanent damage beyond what is already happening with the cancer and usually the patient can recover after the treatment is stopped.

Anything that stimulates the immune system runs the risk of increasing its sensitivity too much till it attacks normal cells and at that point, a lot of horrible things can happen ranging from a new mild allergy to neurological disorders like multiple sclerosis to acute organ failure.

Since the point of the therapy is to get immune cells to attack the cancer cells, there's the very real risk of instead targeting the tissue the cancer evolved from.
yeah because the wealthy/lucky want to just imagine that we all live in a meritocracy so they can blame the poor and feel self assured that they deserve their place in society. whereas its mainly luck and circumstance.
The solution is to have a prior regulatory review that cuts off all the bullshit lawsuits at the knees. Say, "if the EPA says this project is environmentally good, you can't get an injunction on the project, you have to sue the EPA first."

Bureaucracy is the sort of thing you can plan for. You can't plan for lawsuits.
I'm on SCE in California and I pay about $0.73 per day in "Basic Charges" (about $23/mo) if I use zero power. There are also grid-related charges (including a wildfire fund charge) that are usage-based on the order of $0.03/kWh. For my usage (about 1MWh per month) that means half the grid charges are flat and half are from usage.

For comparison, my TOU energy rates range from $0.06 to $0.25 per kWh depending on the season and time of day.
How does "not enough street parking" creating legal problems? Most of the north side of Chicago is mixed-use, medium-density, and street-parking reliant; it works fine (these are some of the most valuable and economically vital in the city).
What if I want a rice-based ready meal, but don't know exactly what kind of meal yet (I'll know when I see it), so I'd like to search rice and see what's on offer?

Oh! Chicken and rice soup, I could go for that. Cart.
> No plausible buyer of a large traditional American sedan is concerned about engine specific output.

Everyone I ever knew who owned a traditional American sedan knew exactly how much horsepower their car was rated at. They knew exactly the displacement of their engine, and what the part number for it was. Was it an LS2 V8 that put out 260 HP (10 HP less than the LT, but much more torque.)
Where's the Disasters menu?

I think I found Godzilla!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSYNfFh24i4
GDP per capita in the UK is on-par with France and within a few percentage points of Canada. It's really not an outlier at all.
While I love the idea of this, I can't justify the effort and time required to get it to work versus just using a tablet, or even a normal display connected to a home server. If you want a less shiny display you can get matte screen covers, or even just de-saturate the colors in the settings.
If you drop Prime and then go to order something on Amazon, more often than not, you'll be offered to have a "1 week trial" of Prime for $1.99. Sign up, get your delivery faster, and set a reminder to cancel it immediately or at least after your order ships.

If you spend enough, you'll sometimes be offered a full full month of Prime for free. Same thing, once your first order ships, cancel.

I did this all 2023. I had Prime for nearly every single shipment over the year, and it looks like I spent a whopping $14 total for all of it.
> I spent many hours trying to figure out how to bypass those issues, and I can't remember if I ever succeeded.

Might I suggest “got-restore-mtime” for this, upstream in Debian and Ubuntu already.

Did you really spend hours on this?
I mean the US has some of the highest wages and least workers rights if you come pare countries.
I've been using "Feed me up Scotty"[1] in combination with GitHub Actions (free) to periodically fetch and build my RSS feeds.

The only part that is still inconvenient is creating these xpaths which requires some trial and error.

1. https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/feeds
It facilitates the violation of human rights. It created a system that does more to harm speech than it does to protect it's proliferation. The large corporations who profit the most from this "law" are the least in need of it's protections and it's bizarre that they're entitled to raise the specter of FBI investigated criminal penalties for what should be a civil matter.

The cultural appropriation, to the extent that it does occur, is simply profitable within this framework. It's more like cultural maceration, the guts are thrown away, and the brightly colored chitin is all that remains.
We dropped Prime over a year ago. When it stopped giving you a ad-free Twitch experience that was a serious downgrade for us.

Many other retailers have free shipping these days. Rarely do I need something next day. Rarely is Amazon able to deliver things next day anyways. You can very easily get free shipping from Amazon with a minimum purchase order. Their infrastructure isn't able to handle slowing down your package just because you aren't Prime, so you basically get just as fast service.

If anything, we've found way more value out of Instacart for quality of life these days.
- I predict that we will see the tangible effects of AI eating into non-technical areas (insurance, content creation, chatbots via RAG + agents) more and more.

- We will continue to see price gouging in utilities and rent, driven by corporate greed.

- Tesla will continue to dominate the electric car market, and Rivian will also make it.
Sorry in advance if this is too much detail, but you seem to be interested in the nuance here.

"Unfortunately." here is a sentence fragment. It's idiomatic (conversational + informal) English to modify a preceding sentence with a sentence fragment. ("We could have some iced tea. Or lemonade.") There are cases where a sentence fragment can be used to introduce a sentence ("Delicious. I ate the whole thing.") but this is never an adverb (you can say "Unbelievable. You've done it again" but not "Unbelievably. You've done it again").

If one were trying to write "Unfortunately, there has been an error" with a long pause, you would write "Unfortunately... there has been an error", never "Unfortunately. There has been an error." The latter looks like a typo.

That's why (as a native speaker/reader of American English) I don't see any possibility of interpreting the text the way you're describing. Hope that helps!
I agree with this. Likewise, I unfortunately witnessed some colleagues who got certified through test leaks, and they sucked at their job.

Btw back then, Microsoft was suggesting to get the certifications after few years in the industry. I received most certifications because my employers required them for some projects or customers. The last (MS) certification I got was around 2009, and I didn't need any of those during my developer years.
Can you do that?
Cable TV once had the same allure: Freedom from ads. It was even hard to explain kids 10 years ago, at a time when kids still watched cable, that there was once a time when cable TV didn't have ads.
It's 100km per week, or 14km per day. At a 6km/h pace it amounts to a 2h20m walk each day.
Also consider that the devices you mention are probably heavily subsidised.

The kindle is a gateway drug into the rest of the Amazon ecosystem, and you probably need some form of subscription to get full use out of it, or at the least you need to buy ebooks on Amazon for it.

The $90 phone probably comes with facebook and other social apps + bloatware pre-installed, that no doubt ended up there because of some commercial deal.
I notice their message says something like there's only a 3% chance you'll see the message - but I see 3 different versions of it almost every time I use Wikipedia. So either I should by a lotto ticket, or they're not really doing math when they cite a 3% chance of seeing the ad.

Having said that, I did donate to them this year. Every year I choose a different site I use often, or a charity that grabs my attention in time, and donate. There are so many, but each year I choose one, and give them a nice lump sum.

It makes it easier for me to contain how much I donate, but also lets me give sizeable donations just the same. I haven't donated money to archive.org, but I have donated code which they did include in one of their topical collections.

I might pay up some next year. But I never decide until it gets close to the holidays, end of year when I have money set aside for exactly that purpose.
> At what level should that commanding share be?

Whatever the courts in each jurisdiction decide. Also, actions by the corporations are considered during the judgement.
No it isn't - UK productivity is on-par with Canada and Australia, and consistently above New Zealand and Japan.
Step 0: Have a crappy ad ridden platform

Step 1: Create an ad free "premium" experience for a price

Step 2: Raise prices

Step 3: Create a cheaper tier which is "ad supported"
> if this company goes out of business and shuts their servers you are left with a $150 paperweight

Wait, this doesn't work offline or just in a local network? Why does this has to phone home?
To your edit, I’m not claiming that piracy is good or a moral right. Nor am I claiming that it is legal.

Yes. People should pay for both software and media. But piracy is not stealing regardless.
The video does go further - it contains some interesting content around how this concept relates to the earth's orbit around the sun, the discrepancy between the duration of an earth day and a 360 degree rotation about the earth's axis, and why astronomy days are not the same length as earth days.
Dunno, but it looks like someone built an arcology at Marina City.
Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis is different because it's made up of several components: human rabies immune globulin (HRIG) and the vaccine. The vaccine takes a while to work so HRIG is the first line of defense that prevents the virus from entering the nervous system until the immune system is able to fight the virus.
What alternatives for MS Office exist from Apple? Also, I will get lots of hate here: If you are a regular MS Office user, LibreOffice is just terrible. Try to use it for a few weeks... ugh.
Yes, but there are limits. 14A specifically calls out indentured servitude as one of the things the Constitution does not tolerate. And 14A is one of the few amendments that actually does tie private hands, unlike the rest of the Constitution.
> An assistant professor is higher class than an upp quartile software engineer

That isn't even remotely true in the US, in the general case.
try being born into a family of psychological or physical abusers, or perhaps into a poor family with no tradition of education and tell me you didnt get dealt a bad hand.
OK, that all's great, but what specifically is NPR's agenda? What specifically is "their desired narrative?" Are you saying that NPR is in the pocket of the Oil and Gas industry? Or are they in the pockets of someone (who?) against Oil and Gas? It's hard to tell.

You said:

> NPR/PBS, just like e.g. SVT/SR in Sweden, the BBC in the UK, NOS in the Netherlands and ARD/ZDF/NDR in Germany are better characterised by the term agenda-driven journalism - they tailor what they publish and how they publish to fit their desired narrative.
rss bridge [1] seems to do the same, but it's not coupled to any rss reader

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge