jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I 100% agree that this is the right outcome. Any other outcome would be a nightmare for software developers and would inhibit the development of products.

But the dissent raises an interesting point. I think it shows how the crafting of legislation by people who are wholly ignorant of technology can create problems. While programmers recognize the difference between an API and it's implementation, Thomas makes the interesting point that the relevant legislation does not (page 4 of the dissent):

> Copyright law generally protects works of authorship. Patent law generally protects inventions or discoveries. A library of code straddles these two categories.
It is highly functional like an invention; yet as a writing, it
is also a work of authorship. Faced with something that
could fit in either space, Congress chose copyright, and it
included declaring code in that protection.

> The Copyright Act expressly protects computer code. It
recognizes that a “computer program” is protected by copyright. See 17 U. S. C. §§109(b), 117, 506(a). And it defines
“‘computer program’” as “a set of statements or instructions
to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to
bring about a certain result.” §101. That definition clearly
covers declaring code—sets of statements that indirectly
perform computer functions by triggering prewritten implementing code.

While it clearly is in the Court's prerogative to interpret law, there seems to be a pretty good case that the court didn't provide an interpretation for a gap in the law, it instead fixed a law that didn't make sense.
Independent copyright when a work was independently created is a thing in most jurisdictions, as copyright covers copying and is not like patents in that regard.

However, that would indeed require a ton more work to prove that you did not copy any of the generated work and truly did create yours by yourself.
Reading the CDC blog post, it seems like an exaggerated use of "epidemic". An epidemic is something that has arisen, or is spreading, in some growing of transient fashion.

The blog article describes a problem that exists, and may have always existed. A behavior that contributes to bad health outcomes - well that's tremendously common. There are probably many thousands of human behaviors that have negative consequences. Would you say there's an "epidemic" of poor posture in the world? No, it just is a constant reality - something we need to work on continuously.

Overall, while it might have been an accurate source - it's not a very meaningful notion or weighty reference.
People seem to frequently forget that GNU was largely a GPL reimplementation of proprietary software.
For context (and for anyone who might read this and think "hey that's a lot of money!"), $500 amounts to less than a $10/week raise over 52 weeks, or $0.25/hour over 52 40-hour work weeks.

Yes, a healthy union can and will get you a lot more than $0.25/hour worth in value.
Sure, but you can't just close a milk bottle and expect the spilled milk to come back. Good or not, we have suburbs and rural infrastructure that won't just disappear in a decade.
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26699106
> I am avoiding Blackblaze as they don't allow you to do due diligence. Any requests to get security audit reports, pentest reports under NDA are all ignored.

What they should do is make you cut a half a million dollar check, refundable when you spend half a million dollars on services.

It removes so many headaches from dealing with people who think their $100 over a year is Very Big Money.
Also slavers from Africa (same color as the slaves) benefitted from the trade.
End of the day, locking your bike outside is a losing battle. Whether it matches up to an angle grinder or not is not really the point, it just prevents opportunist theft.

The goal of locking your bike is to ensure bits don't go missing. However, what you're really trying to do is protect your investment. Locks stop bits going missing, but they don't protect the investment. My bicycle was locked overnight at Bristol Temple Meads train station (which I wrongly assumed was a secure-ish location). The thieves didn't manage to break the lock, so instead they just vandalized the bike so that I couldn't use it either. I sort of wish the lock had just given way, at least that way the bike might have provided some value to someone, somewhere.
I wonder if something like Graphene would have any applications for bicycle locks? I would love a lock made from this Graphene paper, which is allegedly 10 times stronger than steel:

http://inhabitat.com/new-graphene-super-paper-is-10x-stronge...

New materials are giving us great opportunities to re-think old problems, which is why I regularly enjoy browsing http://www.inventables.com/
My experience was that it was genuinely small teams...and it was fun! It's one of the ways that Apple maintains a startup-like atmosphere despite being such a large company. Oh, and Apple remains a very flat company. I was 5 degrees removed from Steve Jobs, and I don't know anyone that was more than 8...including retail staff!
iTunes is not a great piece of software, but it does some pretty nice things for you. Backups of your phone, store integration, fairly powerful play list manager, syncing. All in one place.

Over the air updates are nice I guess, but how would I backup and restore 30Gb of data to my phone over the air?
Let's face it, Apple has let OS X stagnate while focusing on iPhone etc, so it's Mac revenues might have improved by more than 119% without the i trilogy. OTOH, many macs were sold as iPhone dev platforms and because of the halo effect from the phone.
We're hoping to help this a bit at Alt.Net 2011. I'm co-organizer and we've been pushing hard to get several quality OSS project leaders to come and use our conference as a platform to gain collaboration. We've got one last one to add from Cheezburger Network but see the list here: http://altnet2011.heroku.com/oss
>But indeed there were a few who stuck around for 4-5 hrs. At least one TA had to stick around too.

In one of our exams, there was supposedly a student who remained in the hall until 3 or 4am. It was unlimited time and s/he decided to take advantage of it. I took the class pass/fail (I was an Mech E so I didn't have a great background in the advanced EE stuff underpinning some of the concepts) so I always left sooner than I really should have since I didn't sweat the small stuff.
I bought it, just because I could get $20 off ExpressionEngine - and that's not counting all the other swag I get!

I'm a Windows user. :)
Not really, this is delegation, which was in the spec for 1.0.

To really host an openID provider on your own domain, use http://seige.org/projects/phpMyID. It's pretty simple to set up.
Well, I can determine if code is bad in that much real time ^_^.

It takes about 15 minutes for me to satisfy myself if it's good, and how good.
But otherwise, how do you, for example, listen to your iTunes but mute your browser?
When the student has more resources to give, then upping the difficulty will draw the best out of that student. If a student has reached the end of his resources, upping the difficulty just adds stress and diminishes the chance for success.

If I am in the army, have a wife and a kid and a job, and one of these demands causes me to miss an occasional class, I don't understand how the professor not helping me make up the work will contribute to my eventual success.
Single page (printer format) link: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/06/...
You could save on the disk drive and set up a PXE over HTTP boot configuration, then keep any data on the cloud. Just a thought
You should look into Gnome Shell. It's not copying anything I've heard of.
It is standard practice for Apple to request confidentiality from the FCC. But the request has been viewed as curious by some, considering that prototypes of the near-final iPhone 4 design were publicly disassembled, revealing many of the new device's secrets.

The letter was probably prepared months ago, or quite possibly is the same as previous letters. Other than the items on the second page, at the top (above the graphic), I'm sure it's indistinguishable from the ones issued for previous models.
Linksys wrt54g(dd-wrt) + s3
I think that is only if you have been for more than one year under the F1.
This is literally an inline CSS shorthand language now and I love it.
I'm part of a writing group that consists of 10 published authors. Of the 10, 8 absolutely despise writing first drafts.

Those 8 constantly groan about having to sit their butts in the chair and get the words down. There's a common mentality of, "I hate writing, but I love having written."

But those 8 members have landed several major deals, had movie rights sold, hundreds and thousands of copies sold, etc. And perhaps more importantly, they've gotten letters saying that their work changed people's lives for the better.

So although I personally fall into the "I love writing in all its stages" category, I have no problem with other writers talking about how much they hate it. Those people create some of the best work I've ever had the pleasure of reading. If it takes some moaning and groaning to make it happen, then so be it.

That being said--I will reserve my right to tease them about their moaning and annoy them with my undying enthusiasm. :)
> So you want the government to force private companies to continue doing business with someone they no longer wish to provide services to?

I don't think OP actually said this.

But yes, like most people, I want this to happen sometimes. For example, I want a hotel to have to lodge Indian people, whether they actually want to or not.

In other cases, I don't want this to be legally required, but still will complain if I see something that indicates a lack of character. Not everything I think is shitty should be illegal.
Docker / containers are necessary but not sufficient. For example, in a machine learning CI / CD system, there could be a fundamental difference between executing the same step, with the same code, on CPU hardware vs GPU hardware.
This course sounds really interesting. Do you remember if there was a text book or if there is any online syllabus for it?
Personally I find it hilarious that American conservatives who have for decades been advocates of silencing people for things like being against wars, sex/violence in music/film/video games, and homosexuality, are now campaigning on being victims of the "cancel culture" they themselves have advocated for.
Would be nice if we could judge Linux on it's own merits, without comparing it to Microsoft Windows. "Your Ferrari only goes 30mph? Well it's still better than this lawnmower. Stop complaining."
Of course proper escaping/parameterization can be enforced in a good quality library as well. So hopefully we will see SQL injections in the future as well if these safer libraries become the default.
I may just be being pedantic here, but isn't this AOT rather than JIT? JIT means the optimizer is code that ships as part of the runtime, which is sort of the opposite of what this does.
Did you not read the small print when you agreed to become a human centipede?
Very useful and simple to use :). +1 for the material design usage.
I think the article is actually quite readable. However, the fact that javascript is required to render any text does irk me a little. Edit: I may have jumped the gun: the site now seems to be loading fine without js.
Assuming China is not lying which is definitely up for debate.
A big raised middle finger goes to the developers who thought it was a good idea to make it impossible to opt out of akonadi, nepomuk, baloo, activities, monochrome tray icons, that fucking cashew icon and having an additional separate colour scheme just for the task bar. All of KDE is configurable and can be switched off, except these "innovations".

Still using KDE, because it's the least bad desktop environment, but these v4.x era additions annoy me to no end. v5 does nothing to improve this.
From what I have heard, a large part of the benefit is that it actively interferes with people casually, constantly and mindlessly touching their face.

Sort of like those cones we put on the necks of dogs to control some of their behavior when they have medical stuff happening.
MS does run at the heart of most businesses though. No ads, but potential for other sources.
Eric Weinstein calls this "high-variance". Individuals who are genius-level producers yet unpleasant to downright terrible to deal with.

The extremes of capability and intuition are sometimes bounded by similar extremes in other traits, and other times it's just an outcome of the different mental model.
Can someone please tell me what the name for the technology used to create the graphics is? The text for the place names over the image is highlightable.

I know you can handcraft these by having the text overlay over an exact X,Y on an image but that seems overblown for just these maps than having the text rastered into the image loaded.

So, is there some tool like an SVG creator that helps create these with the responsiveness and everything handled?
And telecom hardware, right? I think anything with high frequency requirements has been germanium forever.

I’ve always wondered why there wasn’t more germanium in my computer. I’m sort of wondering if that will change
with chiplets. Say for instance a germanium MMU or cache.
We are blowing it all on the stupid military when we could have been spending it on cutting edge medical research. We spend trillions blowing stuff up instead of spending trillions searching for ways to improve our health and lives.
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The last point is the strongest in this context.

The others are a bit too straw-man (Do you support Chinese interception against their adversaries? Are you happy to turn over your entire email history on entering a country?)

Not that I'm saying you're wrong, you're completely right. It's just that we need non-emotive and cool heads when we argue this.
Google owns the digital ad market with no real competitors, you would have to move to a subscription model to make money. Good luck with that, unless you feed another beast like Substack.
I am not sure I see the value over React yet, but the more experiments in the field we have, the better we collectively are. So thanks a lot for building and open-sourcing this.

Is there a non-trivial example of a Riot project that we can look at the code for? My confusion is around conditionals. The documentation says:

In Riot the HTML structure is fixed. Only loops and conditionals can add
and remove elements. But a div cannot be converted to a label for example.
Riot only updates the expressions without complex subtree replacements.

"Currently if is implemented with CSS display property as well".

Considering this, how would I implement a page that has to show two completely different components based on a form input?
See https://auth.startssl.com/
The diagnostic page doesn't appear to always be strictly accurate. For instance, it says "Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days." for many of my sites which it has crawled daily for years.
This makes for an interesting thought experiment, particularly when you compare and contrast it with the concept of the "waifu" (loosely, an animated character from Anime or videogames people associate as being their significant other).

One is a coping mechanism for handing external pressures, the other internal. I wonder how healthy either can be in the long run.
Android is even worse in terms of spying on you. At least on iOS you can go turn everything off.
great timing, doji just launched today too https://twitter.com/ianmendiola/status/1364974427419598851

trydoji.com
Great! The clear keyboard also sounds interesting as I could hack together my own Norwegian Colemak layout.

* I meant ISO, not ANSI in my parent comment :)
Apple famously "ignores" its users, partly because users usually can't see far beyond what is in front of them, often because they don't know about impending advances in technology or clever new designs. They'll ask for faster, cheaper versions of what they already have (faster horses, cheaper buggy whips as they say) rather than the next big thing. Faster/cheaper weren't the primary draws of the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. (though price/performance is a big draw of the M1, the big breakthrough is performance/watt which leads to all-day battery life and better thermals.) Instead it was a quantum improvement in design, usability, and functionality combined.

As another example, consider that in 2007 Apple developers were begging for an iPhone SDK, and Steve Jobs crushed their hopes by telling them to just make web apps. A year later Apple came out not just with an iPhone SDK, but with an entire App Store. (Though I suppose some developers [Epic] and users [HN] wish they had just come out with an SDK, and that the iPhone wasn't locked down.)

That being said, they do a lot of user testing of the next big thing before it is revealed publicly.
When I switched to Firefox from Chrome, Flash didn't come with it, and I left it like this. In the very rare case, I pop open IE or Chrome. Works great!
Chrome users: keep in mind that the builtin "click to play" is not actually a security boundary:

https://crbug.com/174963

Therefore the recommendation, if you can't disable Flash entirely, is choose "Block by default" in Chrome's plugin settings so that you have to right-click and "Run This Plug-in" when you really want Flash to play. You can still whitelist if you want.
This book was rejected for good reasons: it is a late and unhistorical production of a fringe Gnostic sect featuring unbiblical beliefs. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/1266-is-the-gospel...
"I don't know, maybe it took quite a bit of time and thinking to realize that the problem was simpler than it seemed."

That's also how I interpreted it (based on personal experience).

"Maybe Charles was playing games to occupy his eyes and hands while he was thinking about the problem."

Or he may have been playing games while taking a break from thinking.
Apparently(1) EMET prevents this Flash vulnerability from working. Might be time to install it from (2) with the extra "Popular Software" settings on your own PC and any you control.

(1) https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/55846182290312806...

(2) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/jj653751
Original author here.

I have a prototype model of my keyboard that runs a firmware written in Forth. It is built around an ARM Cortex M4 dev board I got for $19. The ATMega doesn't have enough ram for Forth or a real (non-subset) Scheme.

You can get bare ARM chips for practically nothing, but for this project I ruled out SMT since it's intended for a DIY kit and most people don't feel comfortable soldering SMT. An ATMega dev daughterboard costs a bit more ($9 vs $3) but fits the requirements of this project much better.
It appears the author agrees with you

> This is the initial commit, revision 1, and has a few issues, but it works and the computer boots! It will no doubt be obvious that I am not an engineer, and I certainly don't specialise in SMPS circuit design. I have used modular power options where possible and have tried to follow the recommended design for the -22V SMPS circuit as closely as possible. Please feel free to improve on this design. [emphasis mine]

More critical than EMI, methinks, is something he takes pains to point out:

> There is NO output protection (I'm not sure if there ever will be), so if you build one of these then make sure to check the voltage rails before using it.

Sounds like a nice, humble attitude. Despite the humility, the end result is a project that meets his needs and provides useful details for others to use or build upon.
If you use the wrong dictionary you will get the wrong results. No use of grep will solve that. You could replace the dots with [a-z] but that is unnecessarily verbose if you have the right dictionary.
How can we be sure of even a conservative estimate of current warheads. Why wouldn’t US/Russia have significantly more nuclear war heads than they are a) allowed and b) saying they have? Surely it’s in their interest to have more than the other.
Under certain definitions of "1" "2" and "+", 1 + 1 = 2. But it's completely possible to define mathematics where 1+2 doesn't equal 2. It just so happens that we have a universally-shared convention on arithmetic.

But that simplicity quickly breaks down when people don't share the underlying axioms, and "fact checking" regularly operates in that space. For example, does 1+1 = the number of human genders? Everyone where I'm from would say that's an obviously true fact, but a lot of the folks who run Twitter would disagree.
I, a US Citizen by birth - born and raised in the US, owe my career to the H1B visa program.

I’m self taught and got my first “in” when a local employer wanted to hire lots of H1B visa folks.

I was less qualified, but hired because they needed to prove they were willing to hire non-H1B visa folks in order to hire H1B visa folks.

More broadly, I suspect the program I worked at wouldn’t exist without H1B labor. At least not in the US - they might have run it overseas.

I’ve been offered insane sums of money at places that mostly hire H1B visa workers - far more than made sense.

They wanted to hire me as evidence they were hiring people like me. And they paid me accordingly.

The H1B people I worked with have became friends and mentors. OK, the ones who weren’t faking it.
Presumably its pronounced cock?
I know your excited but please don't put words in my mouth.
How about...Raymond Chen?
Lem is excellent. GP, start with "Tales of Pirx the Pilot". Short stories with a great mix of interesting story lines, pragmatic view of the world and dry humor.
I use Chrome, and GitHub's button text alignment has always bugged me. I chuckled when I noticed that this CSS framework of theirs has the same issue.
Yeah, the new price is really aggressive, and half the cost per node of VRay and Arnold (the two renderers that over the past three years have been eating into PRMan's VFX marketshare quite dramatically).
The other option I considered was syndicating MagicalMoFo itself to a bunch of those sites, using MagicalMoFo, then using their reviews as social proof back on MagicalMoFo.
Implementing account registration, collecting an e-mail, and then using that e-mail as a unique ID to append data to the data broker's database -- this is possible, but rightly considered PII, so no data broker does this without user opt-in. (In this case the risk exceeds the rewards anyway, but that's another discussion.)

If you're talking about setting a cookie with the data broker's user ID, which then can be read by the data broker on other websites - which is the standard way of shuffling non-PII data around in the absence of an explicit user opt-in - then this doesn't work due to iOS' application sandboxing. You can set a cookie with the data broker's user ID, but the data broker won't be able to retrieve it when the user's off elsewhere surfing the web, when it matters.
> When it comes up in American media, it is presented solely as an American achievement.

It's not. American media often focuses on the American aspects of the project, but that is not the same thing as excluding or denying the contributions of other nations, which is what would be required to present it "solely as an American achievement".
You're basically describing every PhD candidate I've ever met.