jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First, The only thing most companies have they could use against facebook, if facebook were to sue them, are patents.

Second, "saying, "We don't actually infringe that" does not trigger this clause."

This is false.
Such a claim is a claim that facebook's patent claim is unenforceable against you.
This falls directly into the "unenforceable" language.

Also note that you claim it requires lawsuits.
Actually, as worded, it does not.

In fact, it says "
The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or
other action) alleging".
It specifically says "assertion or other action". It does not require lawsuits.

So arguably, just by posting a blog post that says facebook's patent is invalid, you'd lose rights, because that is an assertion that a right in a patent of facebook's is invalid.

If it's not meant to cover this, it's not at all clear what the difference between "an assertion" and "a lawsuit" are supposed to be in the examples, or what "other action" would constitute.
I don't always agree with Mark Cuban, but I think he makes a good point on this when he talks about the folly in the adage, "follow your passions." His point is that you should follow your efforts as that leads you to be better at something, which in turn grows your passions in it. You can read his words for yourself: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-....
I'm assuming that your SOCKS tunnel endpoint is on a VPS, or some hosted solution, if that's the case, this probably explains it since those IPs are not the source of typical "user" web traffic. I get the same when I use a VPN.
What if the idea of work itself is what you dislike?

There are plenty of activities I can enjoy, and some, quite a few of them in fact, are profitable.

Once you shoe-horn them into the power dynamic situation of a traditional job (with the bureaucracy that entails unless you're dealing with Actual People as opposed to corporations), suddenly a lot of the luster disappears.

As a ridiculous example - I enjoy reading. It's not really work at all, right?

Ask me to read 9am-5pm and I'd start to find it frustrating. Or add in a commute, or very low pay.

The actual job itself is very rarely the issue for me. It's what you miss out on, and also the fact that it invariably involves submission, acceptance of being subordinate, etc.

edit: To be clear here; I'm not talking about work ethic in the sense of 'pushing through something you find difficult'.

More the general idea of not wanting to be a part of a machine, a construct that you don't agree with. Large corporations and their 'policy documents', for example. I don't want to work for a company in which my boss doesn't have the autonomy to speak to me as a human being - this stands regardless of whether my job is backbreaking labour or eating chocolate bars.
Here's my anecdote: Sprint took too long rolling LTE to Phoenix - a major market - so I switched to Verizon.
It won't work that way. Nexus 4 was not sold through a carrier, Google sold it unlocked through their website.
Mac installs support all compatible Mac hardware for that OS version.
https://archive.is/1i0Ab
Mildly interesting fact: the USDA issues grants for broadband development (in the US, obviously): https://www.usda.gov/reconnect
I smell an ironic business opportunity in the ".status " TLD...
My Macbook Pro from 2019 is utter garbage. Overheats for no reason, horrible keyboard, very limited ports and touchbar, lol.

But I am excited for the new 2021 MBPs. If rumors are to be believed, Apple has undone a lot of these things that made recent MBPs so poor. Of course ARM chips are exciting too. ;-)
For those not wanting to click to Twitter:

> We're experiencing a DNS issue, causing the site to not resolve for many users. We are actively looking into this issue.

— https://twitter.com/NotionStatus/status/1360220589743480838

Also down: https://status.notion.so/
Wow so it's okay to go after people that are politically unpopular right now. And when they decide people with certain ideas are dangerous or people of a certain ethnicity are dangerous?
That explains the unfortunate fact that the raspberry pi foundation silently added a Microsoft repository to their main OS silently a while ago.

It makes sense for the educational target of the desktop version, but it would have been nice to keep it packaged inside their own repositories, giving Microsoft the ability to insert themselves into the packaging chain of a Linux distro used by millions is not something I am very fond of.
I don't feel confident enough to actually represent any group, but
what you are saying is wrong, it's just that no one wants to listen when "we" say that the grip of megacorps on the internet is too tight and that we need more support for free software and open protocols instead of walled gardens.

We are here, it's just that this is only a part within the things we have been talking about for years, even if it might come as a surprise to the kind of people that probably cheered when things like net neutrality were crippled in the US.

I certainly won't defend far right and conspiracy portals that make a career out of harassing people and that don't know the difference between free speech and "freedom of consequence no matter what I say"/"everyone should be forced to listen to me".
However at the same time Twitter does not deserve any praise for such a decision.

The part we all should agree on (and hopefully do) is that Twitter/Facebook/Google apply their rules pretty much arbitrarily at this point, they might as well remove them because in prominent cases they clearly don't matter.

Majority of discourse on the internet should not be subject to the pure arbitrariness of only a few corporations.
At my company, the analytics APIs are provided by a platform team.

I think there’s some utility in a company owning an abstraction away from a third party.

Supposing if Amplitude (or Heap) were to ever go under, or if we were to want to change Analytics providers for whatever reason, it would be extremely helpful if the code didn’t depend directly on these third parties.

On a smaller app, I would mostly likely directly use the Heap or Amplitude APIs.

(Late reply, apologies)
No worries. I figured it was, but thought maybe Twitter was making up numbers somewhere.
> ..whole departments needing to throw everything out and build something totally different..

The big reason for that is any overseas research center like SRA (Samsung Research America) works on future, whereas Korea works on current. When working on future features or tech, it is all about bets and experimentation. And these are wont to fail or be wrong quite frequently.
Services didn't allow racism and the like from the start not just a few years ago.
Well, the reasoning is that the machine is our property, our resources are used to run it, so we should be able to decide what runs on it. We can, of course, waive that right on a per case basis and run proprietary software, but we shouldn't, or at least we should be wary of it and avoid normalizing it.

If you decide you will not run any software on your machine who's source is unavailable to you, that is your right. It's your property.
Nice work! convenient to use!~
A ruling clique spreads quasi-religious beliefs that boil down to "we're the future!" to prospective followers. The ones who join up, are inspired and push ever intensified (yet even more honest) versions of those beliefs onto others "we must get rid the old thing". In one or two cycles of evolution, their evangelism provokes hostility from the unconverted. Unwilling to confront their own motivations, the rulers ignore how the spirit of their beliefs implicitly sanctioned their adherents misbehavior "technically, no one said they want to destroy the old thing".

A simple pattern that rulers to turn a blind eye to the connection between belief and action.
If you are an indie developer and have never worked with C++ before, don't even think about UE5, if you plan on ever finishing your game. Stick with Unity.

Unreal makes money from royalties. Think about the odds of indie game developers generating more than $1MM vs an established studio who has shipped games/films before.

You've been warned.
Reminds me of "I, robot": to provide public safety, just throw everyone in jail.
That person died before this guide was made
>the strong force and the weak force.

Is there a reason we're leaving "nuclear" off these forces' names now?
John Ruffo who stole $300 million still at large after 20 years
Not having to use the horrific hack known as CSS spritesheets just to load a lot of images quickly is certainly to like.

I'll miss easy wire debugging too, but it's been obvious for a long time that HTTPS everywhere is the future... and when you go to the effort to use a MitM proxy or whatever for debugging TLS, you may as well throw in a tool that understands the protocol.

Edit: I agree it would be nicer to solve many of the goals of HTTP2 at a lower level, and from the little I've heard about it, that solution already basically exists in the form of QUIC. But server push is a useful feature even with a perfect transport layer, so meh...
Well, I thought I was mostly discussing science, especially with the first two footnotes (and in light of how these issues usually come up on Hacker News), but I appreciate your thoughts on how the comment was interpreted by other readers.
From what I can tell, this is due to designers cargo culting low contrast UIs. Whenever I've asked designers for citations that grey-on-gray UIs are better than black/white or white/black, I haven't gotten any good responses beyond some subjective answers. It's considered "general knowledge" but I haven't found hard data supporting it.

There are good reasons to avoid bright white backgrounds in certain cases since it can be hard to read in dark environments as your eyes switch between the bright screen and dark world. But in this case, pure white on pure black is still the best option for contrast. And the correct solution is to dim the backlight of the display to reduce brightness.
And you need to find some buried comment on hacker news to figure out that partitioning is the problem! Thanks!
Indeed, if you've ever had the chance to compare serifs on a 96dpi and a 170dpi monitor, or even 300dpi, it's absolutely incredible. At those resolutions serifs are absolutely awesome - but I'll never use them at lower resolutions again.
This doesn’t really make sense to me. Sex segregated prisons exist to stop sexual violence but the majority of trans women are attracted to women, and they can easily overpower cis women. I would expect cis women to be more in danger from lesbian trans women than trans women are in danger from men. The gender segregation isn’t for identity reasons!
Already asked below

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450521
Reminds me of the quote:
"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." — William Butler Yeats.
Sadly, very few institutions seem to understand this.
This App is a side-project of mine as I was looking for a simple App that would allow me to visually track a handful of things that I want to improve on (e.g. my current 10 rep. max in the Gym for various exercise). Looked at a lot of other Apps for that purpose out there but found none I really liked, wanted something that:

- is as simple to use as possible

- allows me to record a value in <10s without jumping through
a lot of hoops

- is not pestering me with Push Notifications

Details:
Native Objective-C App, spent ~18hrs total including design, submitting to App Store etc. Uses https://github.com/Boris-Em/BEMSimpleLineGraph for charting and flat csv files as database (exportable too!).

Inspired by Nathan Barry's Commit App for iOS which I really like.
It sounds crazy, but apparently some places have it. In Australia it's even more common.
I know the author's entire argument doesn't stand or fall with the simile, but it still needs to be said: blueprints are more necessary for physical construction than they are for software because things made of wood and concrete are hard to change part-way through.
>Historically, the only way countries have been able to lift themselves out of poverty is by burning fossil fuels for energy

I think this is only because historically, the only realistic way to produce energy for a lot of nations was by burning fossil fuels. No poor nation 70 years ago would be able to construct a nuclear plant or build a massive dam. Now, we have renewable sources available for a much lower upfront cost than what was available historically.
No offense, but this logic makes no sense to me. It's like, most studies are flawed so let's try random things I saw on the internet in hopes they might help. I don't get it. Don't really care if someone takes Vitamin D but don't get this argument/logic. That's ok, I'll move on.
It looks dope but 9/10 it won't do multitouch right. Shit like that is why I can't wait for the Apple car. Asian reliability with Apple's design chops mmm mmm
Hmm, seems more common than you might expect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krebs#People

A mildly interesting website ranking last names: https://projects.newsday.com/databases/long-island/census-la...
It distributes more wealth to you by taking opportunities from those with less than you and giving them to someone desperate. Ethical actions are "rising tide lifts all boats" situations where either you help everyone make more money, or instead of taking from others, to make an extra buck, give of yourself. Within reason, of course.

Then there are the second order effects, such as the dissolution of the middle class in your own country that everyone who outsources and automates is/will be partially responsible for.
Works just fine with a 6-piece Panasonic DECT set from Costco. It's technically a landline phone, but you don't need to plug it in, or can use one of these Chinese Ethernet-to-phone-line boxes.
Even big orgs in decline have done this.
Mind-bending man. At this point, I should just intentionally pay PMI and sock the rest in the stock market.
> I don't want some "relationship" with a company just because I buy their product.

You've never needed warranty support before? I'm not aware of ways in which that works without them knowing who you are, or where they should mail the repaired product back to.
There is that too.
Once you reach the top there's much less reason to keep playing. It doesn't have a great way to handle multiplayer situations. It doesn't handle confidence as well as some other systems ie it takes a while to skill test a player.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system#Practical_is...

Trueskill and many others are often used instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill

The biggest issue is fun is not the same fair and its a lot more complicated to tune for fun.

You could, for example, play 100 matches where you were given the closest opponent but at a disadvantage for every single match. There's a lot of other scenarios around how you want to fold in ping based match making and how that smaller pool effects the fairness of the matchhing.
I drive a beater, which is enough to commonly be pulled over with police starting off with a disrespectful demeanor from them. I've gotten "are you employed, son?" as the beginning interaction even before "do you know why I pulled you over?" multiple times. You can watch them re-calibrate in real time when they get the answer "yes, I'm a software engineer".

So initially I don't present as middle class, but once they get a hint of the fact that I am, you can watch them change their behavior nearly instantly. Other times, they don't ask questions like that and have then for instance lied about my drivers license being revoked, taken it, and then pretended like that never happened later, requiring my dash cam footage to even get them to admit they pulled me over.

My friends of color aren't typically even given the chance to re-calibrate their class position to the police by being asked questions like that.
> Just what is the conclusion of this market insanity?

That this is all a game. Stocks are completely decorrelated from value production and are mostly purely speculative vessels.

We're in a weird limbo state that will probably crash hard sooner than later.
Maybe VLC app can read them?
For anybody who's interested I also wrote up a whole bunch of notes on this at https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/linux-vm-notes and superceded by far more recent https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/linux-mm-notes

I have made a few patches into the mm subsystem some simply inspired by researching for the articles.
It doesn’t solve the issue of JS but NestJS feels like a more robust way to make a server in JS - and the docs are great.
It’s arguably misleading to even call it “waste” — it’s recyclable. Even if you don’t recycle it, the little ceramic pellets weigh two hundred fifty-three thousand,
one hundred and sixty-four (.55696202531645569620 ±) times less per person than gas and coal (and the difference in volume is presumably many times larger):

https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html#howmuch

> If all the electricity use of the USA was distributed evenly among its population, and all of it came from nuclear power, then the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 39.5 grams. That’s the weight of seven U. S. quarters of waste, per year! A detailed description of this result can be found here [https://whatisnuclear.com/assets/waste_per_person.pdf]. If we got all our electricity from coal and natural gas, expect to have over 10,000 kilograms of CO2/yr attributed to each person, not to mention other poisonous emissions directly to the biosphere (based on EIA emissions data [https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/ghg_report/ghg_car...]).

> If you want raw numbers: in 2018, there were just over 80,000 metric tonnes of high-level waste in the USA. Between 1971 and 2018, nuclear reactors in the USA generated 3000 GW-years of electricity to make this waste.

> For comparison, in 2007 alone the US burned 948,000,000 metric tonnes of coal. This means that coal plants made 32 times more waste every single day than the US nuclear fleet has made in the past 45 years! Granted, coal made a higher fraction of the country’s electricity, but the numbers are still crazy impressive for nuclear.

> The astoundingly low amount of nuclear waste is thanks to the near magical energy density of the atom.

More: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html

Edit: replaced “containable” in second sentence with numbers
There is a lot of noise. A lot of data virgins seem to do it for audience building/"enthusiasting"/Tweeting/YouTubing/Mediuming/motivating/inspiring/what's holding you back"ing"/ML in production.

Similar to people "teaching" martial arts/"self defense"/Close Quarters Combat: "And your attacker will hit you with his right hand, and you'll grab his pinky, and step on his toes to hurt him. Repeat until he says owie!".

It appears that most of the content about the deed is produced by people who never did the deed. That content theng goes through human centipedes.

However, I think that it is a spectrum. If all content about disciplines was only extremely technical and legitimate, it wouldn't spill over and reach people on the outside.
How about just what a giant pain mixing hooks and older code is? So far I've only used react with a side project where one developer knew and loved hooks and the others didn't. The number of difficult to understand integration errors related to hooks and other (older) react techniques was impressive.
And which executives are going to be criminally charged? Boeing has $77B in revenue, this is a negligible 3% fine. That's like the average American with a $36,000 revenue receiving a fine for $1,080.
I agree with a lot of this criticism. Babel is a very gnarly beast and while it once served a very critical purpose, it's time to start sunsetting it again now that most browsers support modern JS.

As another alternative to React that's very lightweight and doesn't need much tooling, checkout Mithril[1] which is my go to for most personal projects. If you happen to really like JSX, you can use it with Mithril with ease, but you can avoid JSX entirely and use Mithril's very convenient built in alternative.

[1]: https://mithril.js.org/
However, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-857.pdf about Raft's pitfalls in environments where the network is being difficult.
Thus empowered by our fair use rights, we decided to
embark on a journey to reverse engineer the Mediatek
MT6260. It’s a 364 MHz, ARM7EJ-S, backed by 8MiB of RAM
and dozens of peripherals, from the routine I2C, SPI,
PWM and UART to tantalizing extras like an LCD +
touchscreen controller, audio codec with speaker
amplifier, battery charger, USB, Bluetooth, and of
course, GSM. The gray market prices it around $3/unit in
single quantities. You do have to read or speak Chinese
to get it, and supply has been a bit spotty lately due
to high Q4 demand, but we’re hoping the market will open
up a bit as things slow down for Chinese New Year.

No shortage of them on aliexpress.com, and I don't see any requirement for Chinese literacy...
B: Yeah, but … yeah, we could’ve. But I like single-page applications. They feel more responsive.

It's not more responsive when you break the basic functionality of the web. Open in new tab has basically never worked with Instacart's site. I see that they attempted to remedy it a bit since the last time I placed an order (about a month ago). Now instead of generating hashbang URLs that the frontend completely ignores, it just generates broken URLs instead such as: https://www.instacart.com/store/whole-foods/departments/whol.... I get that there are a lot of challenges involved in building a business like this, but a frontend that's had basic functionality totally broken for months shouldn't be one of them.
I'm reminded here that JPEG includes arithmetic encoding as part of the standard, but almost everyone uses Huffman because up until a couple years ago arithmetic encoding was patent-encumbered (the patents are expired now). Is anyone aware of a study like Mozilla's that considers JPEG-with-arithmetic-encoding? Or perhaps it does, and I failed to notice?

Most competing file formats seem to beat JPEG by only a slim margin, and what I've read on arithmetic encoding suggests it gives a ~5-10% gain, which would make that difference slimmer still, perhaps vanishing into the uncertainty of the usefulness of these quality benchmarks. Of course, there would be inertia to overcome to support it, as with a new format, but recompiling everyone's libjpeg is surely less work than adding support for whole new file formats. At the very least, it seems there might be a better effort/payoff ratio.
This is how it works in all browsers and is useful because more people on average will click the url to remove all the text so they can type something new
Yes, that's true. It depends on how the interview is structured. I would not excel in an interview that relies on whiteboard coding, algorithm problems, and CS trivia, but I can talk for hours about the projects that I have worked on and real problems that I have solved.
So what about something like SpaceVim ?

https://spacevim.org/
>I have to assume AWS is better.

Lol no. AWS NEVER updates its status page unless it is a massive incident that everyone notices.

As for support, if you pay for the most basic plan you will get a basic answer within 48 hours usually. Its decent. The more you pay, the better the support.
It seems the hack started in 2018, so you should be safe. Note that all the procedure of incognito tab, disconnecting from the internet, etc., wouldn't have helped you, as the key has been generated on the server before you loaded the page :(.
So which browser do you use, because Chrome has the same behavior?