jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
ProTools? Sibelius? Sure, there are free GNU/Linux alternatives, but (last I've seen) they are pretty weak in comparison to the proprietary tools that run on OS X and Microsoft Windows.
What's it matter if something is popular before copying it? If anything it's more of a dick move to copy something relatively unknown.
Those points are all reasons I get closer, every day, to switching to Arch. However, OSX still has a lot over the Linices. To name a few advantages:

Great applications/uses that require a Mac:

1. Todo lists (Omnifocus or Things): I manage far too many things, and need to rapidly move through my data in a way org-mode doesn't allow. A GUI, a beautiful one, is key here.

2. Interfacing with my iPhone.

3. 1Password, Alfred, DaisyDisk, Delibar

4. Honestly…I'm struggling to come up with a lot more. I really like my calendar application (BusyCal or iCal, depending on the year). Mail.app is nice, but I just haven't taken the plunge to command-line applications yet. I wonder which I'd prefer if I put in the time required.

What is holding others back?
I submitted an article just for you.
I generally prefer to use Linux on a desktop myself but honestly I really haven't had any issues using macvim and the default terminal on my MBP and doubt i'll ever buy a non-apple laptop ever again. For laptops having a *nix interface on reliable hardware that works, the MBP just makes sense.

I actually refused to try it for a long time and stuck up for linux but after yet another hardware issue and a laptop lasting for a year I decided to open up my mind and try osx out. I don't consider myself a fanboy in any sense but I have found osx to be a suitable workstation running on laptop hardware for both working as a sysadmin and doing web application development. I do use homebrew.
The accounts seized were for Mutum Sigillum, their US subsidiary. The claim is that MS transferred funds from Mt Gox's Dwalla account to Mt. Gox's overseas account, which fits under the definition of a MSB in the US.
The industrial usefulness is an irrelevant byproduct when considering gold and silver as an investment.

Put another way, if people lost faith in gold as an investment tomorrow, and the value fell to the economic value of the industrial use cases, investors in gold would be ruined.
> Copyright is not like an AGPL software license that claims/poisons everything it touches.

Obviously, it is, since the only mechanism copyleft licenses have to claim/poison things the licensed material “touches” is the copyright doctrine of derivative works, and the licensable exclusive rights the original work’s copyright owner has to create derivative works.
Remember when Facebook Security added SMS 2-factor verification and promised to never use the phone number for anything else, but then they were overridden and it was fed into the social graph, leading to their CISO resigning ?
Putting aside the complaints people have that this feature was flakey and didn't really work, this one use case isn't sufficient, as I usually switch to a new phone because my old one was destroyed... and I imagine this is the only reason people poorer than me get a new phone. Users need the ability to do non-transfer backups (which it sounds like this feature doesn't support).

The reality is that my iTunes (encrypted) backup should include my chat message history. That the Signal client on iOS (and maybe even on Android, as while it has backup I think it is a bespoke backup) has decided that somehow Signal chat message history isn't something one can backup at all (much less do using the user's standard backup and restore process) is kind of ridiculous.
What if his kids will make it worse, and yours would have made it better?
Learning CSS selectors and HTML structure, inspect element and the other dev tools builtin to your browser, and something like BeautifulSoup (for static/non-JS heavy pages) and Selenium (JS and other complicated pages) is pretty key imo. My background in web dev helped me with the HTML stuff. Basically, you fire up the page in a browser, inspect element to see how you can use CSS selectors to uniquely identify that data, then using BeautifulSoup or Selenium to parse and interact with the DOM will cover most web scraping cases.
To the extent you're suggesting you can easily live outside of NY but collect tax-free NY income, it's not really true. Any NY source income remains taxable by the state. In practice, this covers remote work too, despite the safe harbor provisions of TSB-M-06(5)I.

[1] https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/memos/income/m06_5i.pdf
It’s myopic to assume that other countries have identical values and that their news souces wouldn’t be influenced by those values.
the fact that there is such a thing as a 'public beta' for moving two tons of steel through pedestrian areas at lethal speeds seriously makes me question our collective sanity. Imagine if gun vendors did public betas where random police officers just get a beta testing gun.

"It might fire in random directions at arbitrary intervals 5% of the time, but that's just how innovation goes folks. You don't like that, do you hate progress?"
And why not integrated circuits, the instant photography was invented? Some interesting steampunk science fiction could be written around that.
I'm quite surprised at the level of 'upmph' that has been given to this announcement... we all knew it was going to happen one day but to be honest, it makes no difference to anyone.. most people already had the beatles on there iPod years ago...
Beat that, Google.
I'm not convinced until the thread is labeled "Definitive." ;)
That was it? One more thing?
For me at least the iTunes page is still showing the grandiose message "Tomorrow is just another day. That you will never forget." so I don't think this is the announcement. If it is, then someone got the big scoop on the story before the announcement was even made.

Edit: disregard this, I was wrong. I cleared the cache and now I'm seeing the Beatles announcement.
The phone in my hand is a miracle of cool shit technology. And a large fraction of the population of the world owns one.

We take the miraculous for granted when it’s frequent, sigh about the things we don’t have, and declare its all terrible.
I know it's a parable and the objective is to send the message that "customers value complexity". In the enterprise we see lots of news where a business spend millions in a certain solution and we sometimes think it was overspend.

But I see another point why the story reflects the reality in some aspects: experienced developers tends to overengineer a problem, and I recall the 'hello word' joke about programmer evolution. But at the same time, the novice, rarelly will deliver a good sollution in the first time.

In my point of view, the simpler solution, will just work, could have lots of technical debts and could be hard to scale, while the complex one, could turn costly to support. Its very hard to find an optimal point between both.
How feasible is it to radically refactor an operating system? Would it be possible to gradually incorporate all the insights of operating system research into Linux/BSD/$otherProductionReadyOS or is it always necessary to start again from scratch?
The surgery marketplace is way too ignorant to be a real marketplace. Nobody has any idea how long my mother-in-law was under actually under the knife and nobody involved other than the surgeon, has any idea what the going rate is for gallbladder removal. Two minutes? Two hours? No one involved on the "purchase side" of the market can even guess. Without a functioning marketplace, numerical metrics don't mean much.

Another interesting issue is she shopped for a GP a long time ago, the GP referred her to specialist who referred her to the surgeon, can't have much of a marketplace if the participants aren't making any decisions. The only decision she made was a decade ago she picked the guy who referred her to the guy who referred her to a surgeon.

The craziest part of a crazy "market" or whatever you want to call it, is it mostly works. Something this screwed up should predictably kill everyone involved, but most of the time, it works, other than blowing a lot of money. It is the truly shocking part of the situation, at least from a "free market capitalism is the only system that, in practice, actually works" mantra. Maybe that's not so true, given the observational evidence.
Maybe not to capital-L Libertarians, card carrying members of the party who buy into an ideology, but I interpreted that statement to mean "civil libertarians." That is to say, people who are concerned with all manner of personal rights but not necessarily members of a specific ideology.
One thing the author doesn't mention is np-completeness. You need complexity theory to introduce/explain the concept of np-complete problems and I would argue that knowledge of those are necessary for a good programmer. Otherwise you might waste a lot of time trying to find a polytime algorithm for something which (arguably) doesn't have one.
Rolling back a commit is punishing, but saying you'd fire someone who did so (if they actually worked for you) isn't?

That's just not reasonable. Going straight from "teaching moment" to pitch-forks is not going to help anyone accomplish anything productive.
>vibrations in windows to get the sound inside a building

That is a totally unrelated problem. Recovering sound from a series of still photos compared to recovering sound from vibrations is a completely different issue altogether. Actually executing and doing it is even more different, as you run into all the implementation issues and physical bugaboos. When someone doesn't just have some vague notion, but actually implements a wholly new technique to do something previously impossible, whether it was imagined by others or not, is a patent really that absurd?
The value proposition for the user is very weak - too weak to get people to spy on each other.

What are the odds that I'm going to get a payout? That someone out there is interested and willing to pay for one of the license plates I've seen? Probably very low. Do I really want to waste my smartphone battery doing this? I'd rather have maps and music on.
I'm sure there are various tracking networks that track browsing across websites, it is sort of a logical extension. UPS or Fedex could easily build out a big tracking network.
Maven doesn't work so well when there are loads of small self contained 'micro-libraries' (yes, sub-projects, but they are so involved to set up they almost defeat the purpose).
Was considering pants -- which doesnt seem like it has great adoption? -- but this seems like its substantially more fully featured.

Presumably will also make opensourcing internal projects easier. That can't be a bad thing :)
Elm looks awesome. The problem I have is every demo is some game that looks like it was written in '82 for the VIC-20.

I'd love to see some awesome looking demos that show widgets, charts (maybe SVG and/or Canvas), with some Ajax calls.
The problem with the analogy (as I see it) is that A->B->C may be 'worse than' than A->B (because place C may be undesirable), whereas that isn't true for halves of a sandwich (because it is ok to not eat the second half of a sandwich).

Oh, and the airlines sell you the full sandwich for $3, but the half sandwich for $5.

It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's the airlines right to set their prices and try to defend them; they may succeed or they may not. I doubt this particular lawsuit will be the test case that breaks them.
Just to jump on the point of being physically co-located: I've done both. There are pros and cons to each. What I've found is: it all depends on the people in the company. Some work best when they're right next to you, able to share a drink after work to decompress. Others want to run to the beach to go surfing right after a meeting. Both can be equally talented, but vary significantly in their modus operandi.
none, it's all BS.

the only real point they have is that if many people buy A-B-C tickets, their calculations will expect many physical people to be on the B-C flight.

Here is a contrived situation that they might present:

Aircraft are fueled to certain amounts based on the number of passengers they have.

If an airplane takes off from SEA to LAX, it does not want to stop right away and land, minutes after taking off. The landing might be too "hard" since the plane weighs too much. Normally what happens is the plane will either take off with less fuel, or it has to circle around in the air, burning off excess fuel before landing.

If you have an airplane flying from SEA to LAX to DFW, and too many people get out at LAX, and don't make the LAX-DFW flight, then the weight calculations on takeoff and landing at LAX and DFW will be very different.

Now keep in mind in the real world, this probably won't make any difference, since more than 2% of travelers don't do this. Also i have not looked up what kind of weight impact the actual passengers are supposed to have relative to the actual airplane.
Is it dystopian? There are plenty of bad arguments one could make on this very site which would get your post hidden or removed or even your account banned, and it doesn't feel very dystopian. I wouldn't come here if this site didn't have that kind of filtering and moderation.
Pretending Obama wasn't born in America is pretty deplorable
I would argue that your SQL statement should match the information that a user put in. It would be pretty rare for a user to directly input a single field change and their id. More likely, there would be some "personal information" submission, where all fields are available to edit. I would have a separate "customer_personal_info" table that gets UPSERTed with the entire contents on the submission.

One impact of this is that is forces the changes to be atomic. If an object-oriented interface updates a database whenever properties are changed, then it results in many single-column changes. In the example below, if there is a network failure between the two commands, then changing the name from "Jane Doe" to "John Smith" could result in an unintended intermediate state of "John Doe".

customer_obj.set_forename("John")
customer_obj.set_surname("Smith")

(Again, I am by no means an expert, and in part posted this so that I can be corrected if/where I am wrong.)
CxJS[1] offers a nice set of charts and widgets (disclaimer: I'm the author). Svg component could be used to represent an interactive BP diagram with coloring, tooltips, selection, etc. Seems like an interesting UI challenge.

[1]: https://cxjs.io/
So why would you inflict your morality on others just because they belong to another species? With the impact of consumption by privileged people hitting the poorest and most vulnerable people the hardest, why would you inflict harm on those people by using morals that don’t help?

There’s always a “can be” for everything. The question is whether you’re willing to take personal responsibility in doing something while you can or not.
I wasn't part of the curious, and I don't know where/when defiance comes into the story but... There's enough in this article to make me curious. It feels a little mean to assume "only for publicity" without hearing some of these people commenting on it themselves.

“One of the oarsmen taking them ashore was a chap from Tanna called Chief Jack,” former Buckingham Palace spokesman Dickie Arbiter recalled to The Post. “He thought Philip was a warrior from a long time ago who had come down from the mountains and gone off to England in search of a bride."

This part of the world has some very unique culture, particularly their takes on politics, religion and such. At first glance, it's easy to be derisive of (literal, original) cargo cults. A more nuanced view takes you to interesting questions about the unique political philosophies of people with a deep island and mariners' history.

If they were wearing suits and commenting on these same ideas in a philosophy journal, in some cases it might be brilliant outsider thinking. A lot of it relates to an assimilation of outside political cultures outwardly, but with a totally unexpected internal meta.
There is most likely much more than a week of work behind this.
I don't want to be all doom and gloom, and should add that some of these problems are potentially solvable, even if the solutions themselves have trade-offs.

For example, aquaculture can be moved offshore to large farm, mobile farm vessels, so the pollution is spread about instead of being concentrated at a small section of coastline. These vessels are new though, and an accident or freak weather even could result in millions of farmed fish being released to the wild - farmed fish are not the same, genetically, as wild fish, so the effects on wild stocks from that many escapes could be significant.

Another new solution is closed-containment aquaculture, where the fish are placed inside a sealed sphere in the ocean. This approach allows all waste to be collected at the bottom of the vessel, and then turned into fertiliser. There are welfare concerns around increased stocking densities, and shutting hundreds of thousands of fish off from the outside world.

Another solution that is (inexplicably, IMO) seeing huge investment are land-based, RAS (Recirculating aquaculture system) farms. These too can collect all fish waste, and it's touted as a way to prevent disease. There are concerns here too though - using arable land for fish farming doesn't seem like a very good idea, RAS farmers use horribly high stocking densities (they must, to be profitable), and there have been several incidents where disease has been inadvertently introduced from the outside (in such close quarters, the effects are of course disastrous).

OK, so that still all sounds pretty gloomy - realistically the only way for things to get much better is through regulation. But better welfare increases farming costs, and like anything, there is always going to be a race to the bottom (e.g. if Norway increases costs too much for farmers, more move to Chile etc).
Glad to hear the came through on pay. But a major part of compensation, if you are paid enough, is job satisfaction.

If you can get the SAME or better pay, with more job satisfaction then I would consider doing that. But if your current job does not have you doing that, then they clearly do not believe you are ready, especially if it is 2 levels higher.

From a boss perspective, why would they pay you a nice salary to do work below you, that is a waste of money ....

I wish you the best.
Pretty cool. The next step is, of course, porting Doom to it :)
NYC bureaucracy is on a whole different level from KS, TN, etc. NYS in general has ludicrous amounts of regulation compared to most states, and NYC is the creme de la creme.
And that would be obsolete by 1994.
Not clear what stereotype you're invoking here.
I don't quite know how to say this but, is it possible to be happy about the outcome but have a feeling that it was probably legally not quite straightforward. I mean everyone (or most) on here is probably pleased with the outcome, but extremely biased?

Also if Sun was still around would people be rooting for them instead of Google? Oracle isn't exactly easy to love.

I'm not looking for pound keyboard replies from people that disagree, I'm just curious if there are others that have the same feeling.
The military is a federally run program where you water supply is municipal, usually city or county. If the citizens of the municipality want that data they can push their local governments to gather it. My county for example creates yearly water quality reports : https://www.cobbcounty.org/water/customer-service/water-qual...

However, it is important to know how the water is being sampled. If all you ever do is report water quality as it leave the treatment plant, then your data is not useful unless you only use the water at that point. To get good and useful data, you need to sample at various endpoint(house/business locations). You want to randomize these testing locations to avoid selection bias but you also want to get several data points out of them to both eliminate and spot irregularities(i.e. spike in chlorine due to heavy rain, spike in lead due to corrosion in pipes.).

Lastly and perhaps most importantly, would you trust the government if they are telling you the water has no issues?
The columns are even in the same order. Looks like a copy cat.
You should take a look at the Wayland book https://wayland-book.com/
Written by Drew who is the author of wlroots, a fairly popular Wayland compositor library.
The purpose was clearly commercial, not educational or a parody.

This is addressed in the decision on page 27. The Court wrote:

The text of §107 includes various noncommercial uses, such as teaching and scholarship, as paradigmatic examples of privileged copying. There is no doubt that a finding that copying was not commercial in nature tips the scales in favor of fair use. But the inverse is not necessarily true, as many common fair uses are indisputably commercial. For instance, the text of §107 includes examples like “news reporting,” which is often done for commercial profit. So even though Google’s use was a commercial endeavor—a fact no party disputed, see 886 F. 3d, at 1197—that is not dispositive of the first factor, particularly in light of the inherently transformative role that the reimplementation played in the new Android system.
> Amazon's lawyers are probably expensive right? They also have to risk setting precedents and future cases not being so easily intimidated. Seems like they would have a lot to lose letting this go to court, even if they intend to drag it out.

But that's the thing: they don't need to let it go to court, they just have to drag out the pre-trial proceedings for a few years until you've either moved on with your life or forgotten enough of the details. Most cases settle out of court, but before that happens there is due process that a good HR defense attorney can absolutely stretch out for years.

As far as their lawyers, it costs a big company like Amazon very little, since the lawyers are likely on salary. They would probably hire an outside attorney to represent them in person at a trial, but since the vast majority (>95%) of cases settle before they make it that far, their internal HR lawyers would probably handle most of the grunt work of filing paperwork until someone actually needs to show up at the court house .

Also it's probably not as much money as you think; unless it can be proven that the company's actions were malicious and intentional against a protected class, you probably won't see much more than 6 months salary. The problem is in gathering the evidence to prove this and keeping track of it over the course of a few years.
Apple should buy them - this would be an amazing asset for their health platform.
Would a plasma cutter be able to permanently destroy the engines in each truck rapidly beyond repairability, so that they’re “disarmed” and can be relocated safely without malicious driver interference? I assume these are going to be taken out by demolition crane anyways, and it would provide a simple and immediate on-site tool to turn them into worthless scrap metal.
You've got to ask marketing to who though? For example supporting BAYC only nets you 10,000 people at the very most after all. Which is less than 1/5 of the peak concurrent users on Second Life.

Also looking at where NFTs are supported Twitter Blue takes an expansive view. As long as you've minted on a platform they support you get the PFP. That means people can easily clone others paid for pictures which has already caused friction. So owners of expensive NFTs don't really get the exclusivity they might feel entitled too.

And ultimately even if the holder does get a broad IP license they still need to actively defend it for it to mean anything.
>>> As a cyclist, I enjoy having good situational awareness, and electric cars can definitely be surprising when they pass you.

The car could have a bell and "on your left" speaker. ;-)