skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They spoke out because legally they were allowed to do so. Our government is founded on things like this. We have courts and representatives that we ultimately control.

It had nothing to do with "power" or positions of strength. They simply acted in the political environment they were in. Surprise surprise it's different in China.
The common argument "copyright period should be shortened from 95-120 years down to 10-20 years" is compatible with a criticism of the described activities because the described activities took place in less than 10 years.

The common argument "there should be no anti-circumvention provisions" is compatible with a criticism of the described activities because the described activities would violate other provisions besides anti-circumvention provisions.

The common argument "patents should be weaker" is compatible with a criticism of the described activities because the described activities would be illegal due to copyright laws, trade secret laws, trademark laws, and contract laws. It's not even clear if there were any patents involved in this situation.

The less common argument "copyright should be abolished" could still be compatible with a criticism of the described activities because the described activities could be illegal due to trade secret laws, trademark laws, and contract laws.

I don't often hear criticism of trade secret laws or trademark laws.
Model checking is based off of mathematics and can be verified or, with some elbow grease, proven.

I'll take a TLA+ specification over a diagram any day.
Rdl - anytime u say trump can be remotely right in hn, u get down voted by tyrany of left liberals.
We use Matomo in containers, you can write configs with the incoming hostname and it works pretty well.
Yeah it's going to sound ridiculous but there are occasions where I really feel like I'm sculpting with information when I'm using Splunk...and that's with me using maybe five different commands from this list - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/SearchRefe...

I'm fortunate to work for a company that invests 8 digits per year in their Splunk infrastructure, it's a travesty that I don't leverage more of its capability.
If making a change to a shared library breaks half the services, should it have been shared in the first place? It still smells odd to me there’s so much interdependence amongst the individual services break at will.
> For many they are stressful, and they don’t represent any real life scenario as you will always have access to reference material on the job.

Good. They should be stressful. I don't want people who can't handle stress being doctors or engineers. Out in the field they will have to make decisions that will not just be "look it up in the reference manual."

And it's not like you can't have reference materials on exams. All of my engineering exams were open reference. It didn't matter.
Managing Open-Source Docker Images on Docker Hub Using Travis
If you were curious about the Open Source part (I was) - https://github.com/bitwarden/
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I guess that's the thing, a lot of us who are ignorant about such things have the benefit of hindsight now that we know he did it, and detection beforehand is just not that easy.
Thanks for the info. My comment was mostly coming from a place of having read articles like this about how antibiotics don’t really make money for pharmaceutics companies:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/01/02/antibiotics-ar...
With ligatures you can just use ?! and make it look that way.
U can help with dockerizing Java application and running it in nomad cluster
There are also two Bitwarden-compatible API implementations in Rust[0] and Ruby[1]. Their main advantage, IMO, is them doing away with the requirement of Microsoft SQL Server.

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

[1] https://github.com/jcs/bitwarden-ruby
Nice, after doing a bit of electronics, I realize how much todays pcb work is unfit for hand soldering (unless you want to enjoy frustration). Having geometric help is never a waste.
Ek-Dusre Ke Bure Naam Na Rakho – Short Quran Quotes
With the last sentence, we now award the best hypothesis to dictation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJfowXTXOfU
I love Bitwarden. I signed up when it first launched and happy to see it continue to add features. One of the only projects I pay to support the project rather than to get access to the additional premium features.
I haven't heard a good defense of tobacco producers. For decades they suppressed evidence that their product caused lung cancer, which seems a rather bad thing to do. Even ultra-libertarians seem to agree that dangerous products should be labeled as to how dangerous they are, so that consumers can make an informed decision.

Can you summarize or link to an argument that tobacco producers did nothing wrong?
The example you provide about the US highlights the issue I am talking about.

I was referring to the objection, at least historically, by Muslim nations (i.e, governments based on Islamic theocracy in some form): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...

I personally believe that no government should be based on Islamic theocratic values. But even the quickest conversation with legal scholars from those nations will highlight the fact that they believe that their system is "universal" (because it encompasses all of humanity in it's legal system: muslims, dhimmis, etc). There are very strong quranic reasons for them to believe this.

So it boils down to beliefs and values. Most of the world indeed signed the UN declarations. But lets say a country that is opposed to that concept ends up creating a "human centric AI". They didn't sign the declaration. How will we enforce the UN declaration on them?
They would have helped regardless because it was in their interests anyways. Especially in the case of Canada the PM's popularity now comes from standing up to the "mean Americans". Where before compromise was possible its a lot harder now that nationalism has been stoked.
Isn’t brown just a reddish green. Or a greenish red.
I was an alcoholic for over a decade before I found my recovery.

But I couldn't turn around and tell a distilleryman that he has to brew his liquor a certain way.

Maybe the world would be a better place without booze. I would've had an easier childhood, maybe. I don't think addiction is necessarily the fault of production.

There are certain exceptions and scenarios, like cigarette marketing to minors, marketing in lower income neighborhoods on purpose, stuff like that.

Regulation is and always will be a very slippery slope. Even a small step down the slope can eventually compose into cataclysmic effects. It also makes it easier for regulatory bodies to make their case fallaciously once the first steps are taken. "You trust us with your credit card number, why not give us your location info now?"

I'm rambling, but the video game industry could be irrevocably injured by trying to regulate addictive content. Maybe that's not a bad thing, but we should aim for fairness when possible, I think.

Maybe awareness for individuals that are already more vulnerable to addictive behaviors? Like a surgeon general warning or something.
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I think it's because it's private property, so they can. I mean they can't just install scanners on a public (gov't) freeway, for example. Some jurisdictions, like Tiburon, in CA, scans every vehicle entering and exiting (only one way in and one way out of town.)
Once upon a time Hacker News used to be a community for developers and startup/technology news. Political stories were quickly removed...
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China has invented nothing. Look it up. Very sad.

Hence, the lying, cheating, and stealing.

The West has now seen this behavior, and China will be walled off/bombed if things persist. We've already occupied the forbidden city once (100 years ago). We'll do it again.
Perhaps make an argument using some data. Do Chinese companies engage in IP theft or corporate espionage at a higher rate than other countries? Is there a cultural point of relevance rather than race? We don’t hear of many stories of ethnic Chinese Singaporeans or Taiwanese doing this sort of thing — when it comes to Chinese, it’s almost exclusively related to mainland, Communist China. Is it racial to point out that there could be some validity to the argument that mainland/communist Chinese engage in this sort of behavior at a higher rate than Indians or pretty much every other Asian country? Do we know that not to be true?

I’m not looking at data, so I don’t know the answer, but dismissing an apparent cultural/political tendency to engage in IP theft or espionage as “racist” is simplistic. HN loves to generalize about Americans and American companies and their practices, yet to do that with China is somehow racist? Regarding Chinese students — how do you think they get permission to study in the US? Chinese people don’t have unlimited freedom of travel. You have to be “approved” before they’ll let you study abroad. That “approval” has a lot to do with the political reliability of that person. So while it is fair to say all Chinese don’t agree with this sort of thing, it is fair to say that the Chinese that end up in US graduate programs represent a set of those who have demonstrated adherence to the CCP mindset.

Race doesn’t have anything to do with the discussion; it’s a cultural-political question and, culturally, mainland communist Chinese have a different viewpoint than international IP law upholds.

You rarely hear of a British person stealing secrets or British companies blatantly stealing sensitive IP. Is that because it happens far less frequently or because it doesn’t get reported?

It seems as if the Chinese way of doing business supports these sorts of situations and it seems that the Chinese cultural attitude towards IP is at odds with the very idea of IP. It’s fair to point that out. Flagging a legitimate story because you don’t like the racial implication is itself racist — you seem to be suggesting that we ought not to discuss this if the perpetrator is of a certain nationality because it might reflect badly on the country and it’s people. Censoring something because you object to the conclusions that might be fairly drawn is to limit the range of intellectual discussion.

Despite the seeming cooperation, China views the US as an adversary. It would be naïve to discount the critique of Chinese practices as simple racism.
You'd be surprised how many people play it on an iPad. You'd also be surprised at how many middle-aged to elderly play it. These two things may be correlated.
Cigarettes, at least around WWI when they originally gained wide popularity, weren't engineered to create addiction. It was just a built-in property of tobacco, enhanced by the instant gratification of pre-rolled cigarettes. Would you make the same argument there?
This is great ammo for answering when anyone asks why Bitwarden (or OSS in general) is better than LastPass or 1passsword...
The old world order was the US would be mostly fair to its allies, and in return everyone would turn a blind eye as it pursued whatever it wanted in the third world. Because the west would never seriously challenge the US it never had to be concerned about the UN or any international body that constrains the actions of most nations. The US is the most powerful single country but alone against a united world it would not have nearly the same freedom of movement it has now.
Clocks go backward for DST.

It lines up with London time.
Lol, That resume is something. This guy is the equivalent of some medieval robin hood who can talk the talk then back it up with the walking of the walk.
It strikes me that people concerned with the risk of being charged for committing a crime like this are probably exactly who Apple is trying to deter with this messaging.

For all other employees, it serves as a reminder that this stuff actually happens, to be on the lookout for it, and that Apple will protect the hard work they've done with their full legal might should someone try to do something like this.
Can I take advantage of this on my mobile device or browser? Can I share with my team? It's not really apples to apples.
It took me longer than it probably should have to realize that the term microservices was made by analogy to the term microkernel. I think that part of my main issue with the "microservices" is that it conflates highly technical semantics with word forms that are a bit more wishy washy in meaning (i.e., a service is something formed more of human perception, not rooted directly in operating system abstractions).
Aren't there plenty of games that don't follow those pas patterns? I played PS4 God of War. It was amazing and had none of those features.
most languages wouldn't work properly with ?! as that could be already valid (unary ! operator meaning not, and ? being used for the ternay operator). So you can't distinguish between: foo ?!bar : baz and an interrobang like operator. !? on the otherhand is likely to already be invalid and be parseable as an interrobang since it wouldn't already be valid to have a ? immediately following a ! in many languages. Having both work might be nice, but is likely impracticle for backwards compatibility.
On the Python bits, see this blog post - "Reverse engineering AWS Lambda":

https://www.denialof.services/lambda/
High dimensional spheres are very counterintuitive! The volume of a n-dimensional unit sphere goes to zero as n increases, almost all the volume is contained near the surface.

Some interesting musings in this realm:
https://marckhoury.github.io/counterintuitive-properties-of-...
The speed of "fixing" the planet scales faster than the human load on it due to economies of scale - imagine today's population with the agricultural techniques of antiquity. It would be complete global annihilation of us and everything else.
> Holding Tobacco producers liable is paternalist & wrong,

Wasn't what they did with studies basically fraud? (Not sure that was what they were held liable for though)
I have really come to dislike the term "virtue signaling," since it seems to just be a more socially acceptable way of calling your interlocutor a sissy for caring about something. If pointing out the troubling moral implications of following a line of argument to the end is "virtue signaling" then the semantic space occupied by the word is so broad that it's meaningless.

As for the food supply stuff: animal populations can be constrained by factors other than food supply, particular when we're talking about a population which is capable of reason. You yourself seem to acknowledge this when you propose offering condoms, which would be a nonsensical suggestion if you truly believed that the only thing affecting population size was food supply. Therefore, I do not believe it is necessary for the sake of the planet to deliberately allow people to die of starvation.
It seems like their initial problems were:

1. Tests hitting 3rd party APIs are flakey & slow
2. The job queuing mechanism can cause all jobs to be slowed by a single 3rd party API outage/slowdown

Eventually they arrived at:

1. Replay responses to speed up HTTP based tests
2. Create a smarter queuing mechanism in house

I'm not sure what microservices has to do with any of this. Anyway, kudos to them for having the courage openness to share their learning from mistakes!
> This is horrible at scale.

This can work fine at scale, Google does it with however many tens of thousands of engineers they have these days. Having everything in a monorepo doesn't solve the communication problem, it doesn't prevent solving it either.
Thank you! This will help a lot.
> Why are they so keen on stealing IP?

That is how the game is played when you have nothing. You copy others, sell your product, use the profits for research and development and then come up with your own IP.

Indian Pharma companies do the same thing.
I like the stuff by Haircuts for Men a lot
What's the difference between racism and negative racial stereotypes?
> Most people act similarly clumsily towards "engineers"/"programmers", but because they think as the majority thinks, this is not called "social inaptitude", though it is exactly the same problem (perople talking to each other who are "wired very differently").

Even in smaller context where we are the majority it seems the onus is always on us to adapt our model to fit the greater societies, the reverse happening seems to be some unspoken heresy. How many times have we heard "programmers need to understand business needs", "programmers need to learn to talk to stakeholders" or "programmers need to understand their users" and similar? It's always a one way street, no one is telling managers how to talk to programmers, no one is telling users to think of the business data consistency.

As software eats more and more of the world I wonder if their will be a tipping point where the wider world has to develop a model more like ours?
I found KeePassXC to be fairly clunky and didn't work well on Android with regards to autofilling forms, but that was a while back and it may have improved since then. Also with Bitwarden I've elected to have them host my encrypted passwords so I don't need to worry about setting up my own sync provider. I don't know much about 1Password but I didn't trust them to put too much effort into their Android app since they were predominantly an Apple shop.
I'm a Python guy, but there are lots of things about JS that make me jealous. For example, the main implementations are quite fast, and the tooling is good. In Python, there is Pypy which doesn't get enough investment, or CPython where your only optimization lever is "rewrite it in C!". TypeScript also seems quite a lot nicer/less-broken than Python's mypy. Lastly, I like that JS has actual, multi-expression lambdas and a pleasant syntax.

Some things are more pleasant in Python--everything is sync by default, there's less churn, the standard library gets me a lot farther, it's less permissive (no 'undefined is not a function' nor '!= vs !=='), etc. Both languages serve similar niches well, but the feeling I get is that JS is quite a bit faster and nicer for IO-heavy workloads (JS just has a more mature async story than Python) while Python is generally more intuitive and perhaps better for general application development. But for most things, one isn't dramatically better than the other, and they're both a good deal more disappointing than Go. :p
Witcher 3, Nioh, Dark Souls, Elite:Dangerous, Dishonored, Dying Light, Kerbal Space Program, One Piece Pirate Warriors 3, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Yakuza 0/6/Kiwami, Bloodborne, Divinity, Gravity Rush 1/2, Hellblade, Monster Hunter World, Nier, Persona 5, Okami HD, Xcom 1/2, Wasteland 2, and more.

There are a lot of really good games that exist to be played for fun, and not just to suck your money and punish you. Avoid Ubisoft, avoid fee-to-play, and ideally wait for “complete” versions of a game.
My family has been directly hurt by addicts who have lost their lives to tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, and gaming.

Addiction is measured not by what or how much you do, but by negative impact it has on one's life.

It doesn't matter how much pot you smoke, or alcohol you drink, or how much coke you do, if it doesn't interfere with your life.

If you lose your job or steal from your family to hit the casinos, that's an addiction.

If you turn down a job because it's in a different city and you depend on a local doctor to keep giving you a prescription drug, that's an addiction.

If you flunk out of school and turn down any opportunity to be self sufficient because you spend all day smoking pot, that's an addiction.

If you flunk out of school and turn down any opportunity to be self sufficient because you spend all day playing Fortnite, that's an addiction.
Only one I can think of is NYC-DSA ( https://www.socialists.nyc/our-strategy/ )
Understand how people from a certain culture do things typically have nothing to do with racism.
The point is that people buy themselves absurdly expensive vehicles on credit. Assuming everyone with one of those vehicles had it bought for them is absurd, and reads as an indictment of the author's high socioeconomic status.

Outer appearance of a vehicle also means very little - my motorcycle looks great, but it has 50k miles and cost me less than a lot of the commuter bicycles I see people on.
> In this new era of micro transactions the games aren’t even fun anymore. There is only frustration, and then you pay to alivieate that frustration. You sometimes find yourself sitting there say, “why am I even doing this?”

This is one reason I've stopped playing most games that have any kind of online or multiplayer element. Ones that either have a really strong single player mode or don't engage in these kinds of tactics (see civilization games) have been the ones that I end up enjoying long term.

I've found that I end up preferring indie titles not for any philosophical reason, but because many of them don't have the teams needed to create these kinds of mechanisms (successfully anyway). Mobile platforms make it significantly easier to you see it there a lot more too.
There are some. God of War, BotW, etc. but they are few and far between and there are entire types of games that don’t even exist anymore or get developed.
The anti-Chinese sentiment on this thread is T H I C K.

May I remind everyone that not so long ago another guy was caught red-handed downloading autonomous vehicle IP from a major SV firm to take with him to a new company. He was a white American.[1]

I don't recall hearing much about rampant cheating at top U.S. universities as a cultural norm[2] where "note-sharing and consulting teaching fellows was widespread."[3] Or how lack of respect for academic conduct guidelines at top technical universities was so deeply ingrained in the culture that "many students... turned in identical solutions" while seeming confused by the very concept of "what constitutes cheating."[4]

I don't recall hearing anecdotes from ex-TAs about how while they are of course encountered tons of honest white guys, frat bros as a group have a reputation for being notorious cheaters that just don't seem to hold themselves to the same standards of intellectual honesty that we do. Must be the high-pressure, status-obsessed cultures they come from.

No, the commentary here was mostly focused on just that one white guy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski

[2] https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/1-in-5-harvard-gradua...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Harvard_cheating_scandal

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/22/technology/scandal-over-c...