skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best attempt at thought monopoly I can think of is religion. Even that is a general failure: no single religious narrative has ever stood constant. They have all evolved through the participation of their adherents. There is no one true Christianity: there are hundreds.

I most certainly do mean to call out copyright as willful, but it's not a deception, at least not a successful one: everyone knows it is false. That's why it's enforced by law! Instead of people being deceived, people must instead pretend to be so. Each of us must behave as if the very concept of Micky Mouse is immortal and immutable; and if we don't, the law will punish accordingly.

Every film on Netflix, every song on Spotify, etc. can obviously be copied any number of times by any number of people at any place on Earth. We are all acutely aware of this fact, but copyright tells us, "Pretend you can't, or get prosecuted."

So is it truly effective? Millions of people are not playing along. Millions of artists are honestly trying to participate in this market, and the market is failing them. Is that because we need more people to play along? Rightsholders like the MPAA say that piracy is theft, and that every copy that isn't paid for is a direct cost to their business. How many of us are truly willing to pretend that far?

What if we all just stopped? Would art suddenly be unprofitable for everyone, including the lucky few who turn a profit today? I don't believe that for a second.

The only argument I have ever heard in favor of copyright is this: Every artist deserves a living. I have seen time and time again real living artists fail to earn a living from their copyright. I have seen time and time again real living artists share their work for free, choosing to make their living by more stable means.

Every person living deserves a living. Fix that, and we will fix the problem copyright pretends to solve, and more.
Slight quibble that it's not gangsta rap.
Typo - “many people ARE comfortable…”
Actual facts instead of unsourced opinion: plenty of profit is being made - by the distributors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/t5illb/comment/hz57d...

Also, you seem to be terribly confused by "the company is not making much profit on paper" and "the people in management and running the company are paid plenty." You think management is paid as lowly as the animators?

This is no different from hollywood where studio management make plenty of money and the army of people actually doing the lion's share of the work, especially GFX/SFX, are poorly paid, and accountants make it look like the film barely breaks even.
although we don't need to go that far. people regularly wash their faces with soap..
They didn't have access to the cyber truck?
Thank you! It makes a difference.
Offshore centers are cost centers
Most important projects are done at the HQ
This response should be gilded
along with also a flood of subpar publications
This is a problem in all industries.

There's media companies literally trying to starve out striking workers: https://www.lendingtree.com/personal/medical-debt-statistics...

There's the biggest kind of theft, wage theft: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-u...

On and on, this applies to everyone in every industry.
A local restaurant did this. However in making you pay for your order up front they also ask for the tip then. And they play the usual games to try and get you to pay more than the typical 20%. The server drops your food off and you never see them again. It's a horrible experience.
I'm leaning towards there being no causation between skin microbiome and wrinkles.

Did anyone in the study have botox? Crow's feet wrinkles are generally caused by two things: UV damage, and movement of facial muscles breaking down collagen. Which naturally tend to increase with age. So that's where I'd wager the causation is.

If a person uses factor 50 every day on their face and gets biyearly botox injections on their crow's feet area, they'll likely have no prominent wrinkles but they will still be old and with a greater skin microbiome.
Yeah I saw that. The article I linked to points to the tools found used as knives, scrapers, borers and axes. The only new thing I saw was the use of graphite but besides that most of it was already happening 350,000 years(!) before that point which is why it didn’t seem all that remarkable to me.

What I found especially remarkable was that the hominid that made all those tools in India wasn’t even Homo sapiens and it is kind of unknown who made them at this point. What’s even more interesting is that these tools were found significantly under the layer of deposits left behind from the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago. There’s so much we don’t know, it’s all very interesting.
I would clarify here that it’s Congress that is doing the taxing. IRS is just implementing what they asked them to.
L’Oreal wants to make money by selling products that improve a person’s appearance. Having a better understanding of the biology behind aging skin could aid that endeavor, so I wouldn’t write this research off as a matter of course.
Right, it records the inside of the cover I put over it. Apologies if that wasn't clear enough.
In this post I share actual numbers from my experience buying solar panels as an alternative investment.
Wow, he died in pretty much the same way as Owen Hart…
Hell yeah. Congrats!
My mistake, I presumed incorrectly, that the argument you were making came from a place of defensiveness, rather than a more holistic framing of evolutionary success. Thanks for providing further clarity.
I still haven't gotten over the fact that most of these corporate employees think that the majority of the population literally became crazy over the past few years.

They must think we all got long COVID with brain damage and that the vaccines protected them from this.
The article is about the implications of Google sacking its Staff
Correct me if I'm wrong but I understand image generators as relying on auto-labeled images to understand what means what, and the point of this attack to make the auto-labelers mislabel the image, but as the top-level comment said it's seemingly not tricking newer auto-labelers.
The XKCD comics do not at all suggest that we are supposed to treat the unexpected longevity of the missions as spin from NASA.

One is a playfully satirical exaggeration of capabilities. To the extent it offers a commentary, is fully crediting a rover for it's toughness and longevity.

The other approaches the longevity from a perspective of sentimental affection for an innocent rover who grows increasingly lonely as it's mission grows longer and longer. It does not imply prior knowledge or PR spin on the past of NASA.
What is 'subjective experience' in your view?

Multi-modal models are clearly the future, if we provide models with a robot body - sensors, motors, the ability for locomotion - would that be subjective experience?
> If you can't pay a living wage, comply with regulations, and be profitable, your business model is not valid and your business should fail and close.

The required amount of money to earn a "living wage" is extremely high because of government interference in the economy! And whether you personally find a business model morally "valid" is not a good reason to make economic changes. People deserve a cost-benefit analysis before their livelihood is taken away. The economic consequences of increasing the minimum wage will be just the same as previous attempts. More automation, less customer service, more unemployment among low-skilled workers.
Process Mining for Growth
Has anyone explored Process Mining for Growth in startups? Particularly looking at processes to optimize Acquisition, Retention, and Revenue.
Hi - first of all... congratulations for putting this together.

I have some reservation about the whole concept of making weekends the focus of the whole planning.

Maybe it's because I live in Europe, but if one of our Bank Holiday falls on ... Tuesday, let's say, it is pretty normal to take a day off and enjoy a 4-days "weekend".
This also applies to other cases were the national or bank holiday happens to be on Friday or Monday (e.g.: Easter).

In other words, some weekends are more "relevant" than others, but it is not so obvious if you do not also see potentially relevant dates of the week.

(I di try to plan my vacations/activities as early possible in the year, but I could not do it without a more complete view of the whole calendar.)
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Alas, Bullshit, CNN.

Archive works: https://archive.ph/QBLuG

Now, as to the courageous woman, I want to say, as others here have posted, that “The DEFINITION of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result” is also bullshit. It only applies when failure is a certainty. This woman defied a 100% fatality rate by three other people and won.

Another example is the pilot who flew through a volcanic dust cloud and after repeated failures to restart the engines, restarted the engines.

And then, there’s physics since quantum theory overthrew the billiard ball model of the universe.
When I need shell-like utilities from my JS scripts I've previously used shelljs [0]. It's neat that Bun is adding more built-in utilities though.

[0] https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
Exactly, that's actually getting more bang for the buck.
The Federal Minimum Wage was last updated in 2009. Since then, costs for food have gone significantly up and costs for rent have skyrocketed.
The biggest benefit by far in my opinion is having the opportunity to learn how to listen to one's body again. Most of us aren't very good at recognizing the signals our bodies are sending us, from low blood sugar to adrenaline. Real-time monitors can really help people listen what those more subtle feelings might mean.
Damn bro, that sucks. You should quit and get a McJob.
I just wish they would use real rifles. I don't get the point of target shooting with air rifles. Dealing with the characteristics of an actual gun is a core part of marksmanship.

To me, competing in target shooting with an air rifles is like competing in a marathon using a treadmill.
> I can imagine a smart pointer that actually accomplished the stated goal.

Can you elaborate on that?

If it requires you to free correctly, then you can just use plain C and the smart pointer isn't accomplishing anything. If it doesn't require that, how does it work?
Lisp is great for creating your own domain specific languages. S-expressions are basically abstract syntax trees written as code. Thus you can take any code written in any language and "lispify" it into an S-expression. Then you can apply various transformations/analyses on this expression to achieve various goals:linting, semantic modeling, compiling to machine code/bytecode, transpiling to another laguage, interpreting, optimizing, etc. Common Lisp also has the possibility of on-the-fly recompilation of classes and methods/functions which can be useful for debug and incremental development.I don't have much experience in the web development area but I would incline to think that you won't get much added value from using CL compared to other languages/frameworks. It can be useful if you want to develop your own framework with custom language constructs and features. But if you want to fast prototype a webapp idea you're better off trying the more popular solutions.
I usually just hit >> and then <<.
Same. It's been proven time and time again that hard problems can be solved by simply walking away while the brain keeps working on it in the background.
> It obviously is a joke, but at the same time it's actually a viable approach for the right problem.

Define "it" here.

Because "just don't free" is pretty different from what's in the post!
I kept sacing my queen, and it kept on working!
Also, why is "under promising and over delivering" a bad thing? There's a missing step in the argument where it would be necessary to explain why that is bad.
Or maybe a wake-up call that something is off. Shell scripting is a domain where impertive/procedural code shines.
You raise an interesting point, but you also seem to be conflating two things. Having children is more expensive than ever, and purchasing power has continued to drop for decades. Not to mention the drastic increase in specific "raising a family" essentials/barriers like housing costs, medical debt, educational debt, and childcare expenses. I don't have numbers to back this up, but my intuition (based on observation and casual reading) is that more working class people who actively want to have children are not doing so because they are stretched too thin than we saw in the 1970's (when people could work part-time to pay for all 4 years of college and expect a high paying career out of their degree).

Also, a 15% drop in 50 years is nothing to scoff at. In America, we are below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman. Currently it is at 1.7, so our population would be declining without immigration. [1] This is not a bad thing in my opinion, but it is extremely significant in terms of politics, culture, and economics. If our fertility rate continues to drop expect to start hearing about it more often and at higher volume from many different corners.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr028.pdf
Perhaps we should not look to The Atlantic to make medical treatment and standards recommendations. The article is a good summary of the situation, makes a good case for complicating factors (comorbidities in adult adhd, rogue prescribers in telehealth), and is largely fact focused.

That said, the answer to "what is the solution" is that it takes time to figure out what the best treatment plans are and feedback success and failure into diagnostics. It is a process of never-ending improvement. For example depression was known to Hippocrates and despite that multiple thousands of years of history we still don't have a 100% success rate diagnostics and treatment for it. Adult ADHD is only about 10 years old. Odds are by the time it grows up the current symptoms will lessen. But in the meantime, people seeking treatment for it should be aware that they are part of an ongoing experiment, i.e. they are in the Wild West.
NASA seems to be on Mastodon as well, but has stopped posting (?)
> For instance, the British military planners allowed soldiers to die on the battlefield, who they could have saved, in order to protect the secret that they had cracked German encryption during WWII. That was a place where the needs of the many, were deemed more valuable than the lives of the few.

This is not a very good comparison, in my opinion. Military is rarely about the "needs of the many" far more than it is about the "powers that be". Once you understand the dynamic at a play, it is rather clear that the soldiers died for what soldiers almost always die for; the regimes that pushes them to war.
> You want hand tracking data from a human doing a real thing.

You want pressure and force information too, for helping train the robot to be dextrous.
And this is only for a 1D cake. In the real world cakes are 3D. I wonder how much worse it would be.
A perfect example of this was back when I had my breakthrough with Scheme and Lisp.

I always struggled with fundamental terminology used in this family of languages, particularly lambda. Lambda as a term does carry historical baggage. The term wasn’t picked out of thin air. And casually looking at Lisp and Scheme code, if you don’t know that baggage, lambda is (at least to me) an opaque term.

But I luckily stumbled upon a book “Simply Scheme”. And the first thing they did was redefine a bunch of terms. No more CAR, CDR, CADR. Instead you got things like FIRST, REST. SECOND. Importantly, they redefined LAMBDA to FUNCTION.

Well, Shazam. Ding, ding, ding. This was an “aha” moment for me. Boy did a lot of stuff suddenly fell into place.

So, simplifying the vocabulary can be very helpful for introducing gateway concepts.
It'd be cool to give something like that a try, but I love that we have so much technology to monitor our bodies but I'd never use anything if it required a cell phone app since you'd have to worry about who else is collected/selling that data. We need more devices that work entirely offline, but they're hard to find because companies know they can make so much more money by collecting/selling your personal data and pushing ads
I just read the entire guide. The section about meetings is only a small part; there’s much more about sabotaging buildings, manufacturing, transportation, etc. It looks to me to be a genuine document, prepared when much of Western Europe was occupied by Germany and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services was trying to encourage civilian resistance to that occupation.

The Project Gutenberg version is probably the easiest to read:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

The very end of the document is also entertaining:

“(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

(a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

(b) Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.

(c) Act stupid.

(d) Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

(e) Misunderstand all sorts of regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation, traffic regulations.

(f) Complain against ersatz materials.

(g) In public treat axis nationals or quislings coldly.

(h) Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.

(i) Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.

(j) Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.

(k) Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.”
Seems like a mitigation for this kind of issue would be to simulate the inputs to the system for the expected flight duration.
I agree with the guys that said they have to accept the industry to shrink, by paying animators what they deserve. I think that the government is failing here. They should be the ones that defend the worker even if the worker wants to get paid $5/hr. I don't agree that people who want to be animators can't because competition for the fairly paid jobs is high. There should be some kind of non-profit level business for people who want to intern and get paid a few bucks if they really are in love with the industry. But corporations should not be allowed to underpay their staff.
> Palestine being colonized by a non-arab population

Colonized? Jews are the indigenous people of the region. Arabs are the colonizers.

> there are Jewish Arabs too.

Not any who identify as Jewish Arabs, no: https://k-larevue.com/en/arab-jews-another-arab-denial/, https://www.jimena.org/who-is-an-arab-jew/
People have to rely on complex chemistry and physics they don’t understand too.

Given a choice between a simplistic economic system with worse outcomes and complex system with better outcomes, I’m choosing the better outcomes every time.
The number I know is about 500,000 years ago.

https://askananthropologist.asu.edu/stories/chipping-away-to...
Not calling free can bite in short running programs also if memory allocation is done in a loop.
Kernel drivers, too. Especially the DMA buffers for devices that don’t support scatter gather: if you don’t allocate them at driver startup, you might not be able to find enough free contiguous regions later. Although maybe that’s not as big of a deal these days, since both Windows and Linux can relocate physical pages.
> Furthermore, our society demonizes families, especially large families (perhaps in part stemming from Protestant attempts to restrict Catholic populations in the US)

I think it has a lot more to do with feminism than any Protestant/Catholic divide. In the Protestant church I attend, having 6+ kids is pretty normal. Certainly many evangelicals don’t value large families but I think they’re getting that mindset from the culture, rather than sacred Scipture.
Above and Beyond: State of the Art of Uncrewed Combat Aerial Systems [pdf]
Autonomy is painted on the wall.
Tragic way to go, on the job. We're all meant for more than the grind. Peace and love to the family. A(nother) reminder to hug yours.
Could you clarify what you mean by 'there is nothing new under the sun' when referring to programming with Common Lisp? Are you indicating that Lisp has already introduced many of the concepts and features that are now found in modern programming languages, implying that contemporary languages have largely assimilated Lisp's ideas and paradigms?

Your comment left me with a strange sentiment. I'm somewhat disheartening because it implies that learning Lisp might be redundant given that contemporary languages have already incorporated its best aspects.
They are involved in helping their queen produce new offspring that also contains part of their own genetic material. In bees and ants you have to think of them as one single individual. Each single worker is not able to reproduce but they still will indirectly still reproduce through their queen. Not sure what being good humans has to do with this.
That’s Oldowan. Levallois was a more advanced technique found starting in the later Paleolithic.
You don't even have to worry about the government (it seems unlikely that most of us will see a "10min showers only" law anytime soon), but it's usually private companies collecting and selling the data and they're happy to use that data against you in any way that they can.
I don't speak or read Korean, but I think kekeke might be a transliteration of ㅋㅋㅋ - I've seen that frequently enough in Korean language comments on YouTube that I've looked it up before. A quick web search led me to more Korean lols and hahas... https://domandhyo.com/2017/07/lol-in-korean-%E3%85%8B%E3%85%...
The whole reason why people think of it as being an incredible amount of longevity is because of the NASA spin. Both of those say the planned mission was for 90 days, and so you get things like the exchange in the Opportunity comic of "11 years, wow."/"Wasn't the original mission 90 days?"/"This is starting to get weird.", or things like the Spirit comic having "Day 1944 of 90."

Neither of these really work if NASA says, "We're hoping for a decade, but our minimum goals are 90 days." It works because of the NASA spin, "Wow, this was only supposed to be a 90 day mission/5 flights, but we can't believe how much these things have exceeded our expectations!"

If people are continuously telling you their work is so amazing that they're blown away by how much the results have exceeded their expectations, you should probably question how honest they're being with you.
Dr. Russell Barkley's brother who had ADHD ended up becoming homeless and dying.
He is biased and has a negative outlook on ADD. He talks in a very authoritarian manner.

You should look up other prominent ADHD experts like Ed Hallowell who have a more positive take.

Richard Feynman famously wrote "Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of the Experts". He meant, and explained that "science - a.k.a. research - is in the making, belongs to the (unknown, yet to be discovered) future, while expertise is based on the past, with in-built obsolescence".
Resources are allocated based on return on investment. If estimates are inaccurate, so are ROI projections. It's not just this project, but others too: How do you compare ROI of multiple projects all with inaccurate estimates?