skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DynamoDB now has ACID transactions across tables.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transac...
MatPat of Game Theory & Film Theory says that his YouTube rep explained the company has a categorization internally for video game accounts, which means they can never be part of the VIP category.
If $200 is the difference between being blamed for a late release, and being praised for doing a good job, I'll pay the $200.. and work to make that cash up in spades by negotiating it back from the company in the form of pay and position increases.

You're correct that the company should pay, but not everyone is willing to martyr their career over petty cash.

Choose your battles, as they say.
Naive question: I think this makes sense, how do I invest? Is there an open call?
I should check out org-mode. It's been more than 25 years since I used emacs with any regularity.
True, but the punitive damages are set as a multiple of the damage done. I want them to be as a percentage of the revenue / valuation of the party at fault.

The current system is why PG&E has literally blown up neighborhoods and burnt down a city, but the investors only got a slap on the wrist.

In a system where punitive damages are a percentage of the valuation of the corporate entity that committed the crime, repeatedly breaking the law would force massive issuances of equity to the victims. For particularly lawless companies, this would mean the current owners equity would be diluted to the point where they would cede control of the company to the wronged parties.

To pick a different industry, this means that ownership of most coal mines would have been transferred to the miners and surrounding towns years ago (unless they stopped flouting safety and environmental regulations).
Why? Are you asking to be able to swear in front of clients too? Because the code isn't guaranteed to stay in front of favourable eyes forever.
This sounds more like the usual practice of categorizing people and putting them in boxes they can't escape out of. If he really has better design skills than the engineer then why did he have to go back to school? Why couldn't he just get a job as a mechanical engineer right away?
Experience: I manage the last Blockbuster in the world
of course, and many argue that conventional college isn't worth the money. Schooling has always been about jumping through hoops, weeding people out, conforming to the system. Those who play ball inside academia excel at it.

I did not study for my SAT. I did not do great. A long time friend who I consider to be one of my intellectual peers, did study, got a great SAT score, went to college, worked the system and now we both work the same job. None of this is scientific, this is just my experience, however I have always had the feeling that people who excel at following the rules of schools obviously do better in that type of system.
Socialism has been tried and failed. It's no 'bullshit' to state a historical fact.
Show HN: Long.af, the fastest URL shortener resolver in the world. Probably
The using OCaml aspect may make it of interest to some
8/8. you can detect the faux rogan because there are slight cracks in the audio, almost like a record pop but much more subtle
The recourse is to sue, and if the facts of the case are as they appear to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were punative damages attached.
thats why clout is important
Stupid question... Are there equivalent (in the sense of being fast and having nice interfaces) solvers for #SAT problems? A whole pile of inference in machine learning can be framed in this way which makes me curious.
> I don't understand how you can claim that vfork can't be used correctly when there are thousands of existence proofs showing that it works fine.

As libc implementer, you're inherently OS- and probably compiler-bound, and you can either fudge it to work on the system you're writing for, or have enough clout to make it so. It's an implementation detail.

As the author of a program which is not strictly OS-bound, you do not have this luxury. Even if you want it, you're probably better off calling clone(2) directly so that you won't get an unintended semantic.

Without counting indirect uses via libc popen/system/&c., I do not believe there are "thousands" of correct uses of vfork. If we count distinct hand-written code paths that call vfork, I'd wager closer to a few dozen, with at best a handful outside of a libc. It's a hideous interface.
Somehow related to this: I think that the linear way of teaching, first week you teach a, second week b.. it's inferior to showing everything to the student, in a very shallow way, the sooner the better, and then keep adding deepness.

In the same way that muscle need to rest to grow, knowledge need to rest to stay with you. Even if subjectively seems that nothing has been learned the first time that you are in contact with a subject, that is hardly ever truth. Even if only the name of the concepts are familiar that's some progress from where it's possible to build solid knowledge.
In fairness, the franchise or manager (not McDonalds) was at fault there.

They had the coffee machine set higher than standard McDonalds temperature, and had they been repeatedly cited by inspectors because it was a safety violation.

The burn led to hospitalization.
I would have gone with an out-of-band way to signal that the application supports a completion mechanism;

One way would be to add a new section to the binary (though that would only work with binaries), that could contain standardized data, such as a json tree of the possible completions, or the proper syntax to use the executable as a "completion server" as in your proposal.

In shell scripts, it could be one of the header lines starting with a magic comment such as "#!completion: shellac_v0.1

IMO having the shell detect that the executable supports a standardized completion format gets you halfway there ;)
> All of them work, but are prohibitively expensive to get started

Firestore has a free tier: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/quotas#free-quota
The only person using the phrase "evil totalitarian fascism" is you. It's entirely reasonable for an instance owned by a private individual to have higher restrictions on what they permit than the US does. Most countries, as a matter of fact, also have more restrictive policies.

Opting into using the blacklist is just that - an option, and you can customize the list as you please on your own instance. There is no problem here.
Relevant post from FM:

https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...
Very sad that "please retweet" is their best recourse.
I hadn’t seen it that way, but that completely makes sense.
Addressing that perception is always releasing the next "one true chat app". If they hear by not hearing - that whole "we hear you" blog post reads like it's been run through a comedy empty corporate speak generator, that's set too heavy-handed - I think hoping for self-awareness is a bit of a reach. Be thankful they aren't designing our mains sockets. :)

Also, did no one at Google ever get the memo you never remove APIs, you deprecate - precisely because people depend on them?
And here it is anyway:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190518135724/http://www.nitvcv...

Looks like a link collection and a video (which doesn't play). That video may hold the key to the judge's decision because ordering a takedown of a link collection seems like overreach.

On the current version of the site it's just an ABC clip from YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsufvxgLf0g

From the video:

ABC: "Has there been a single scientific study that shows that this works?"

"Dr." Charles Humble: "I don't believe that there has been an independent scientific study that shows that this works."

Yet it's been used by police around the country to elicit confessions and convictions, according to ABC.

This case is more complicated than the article lets on:

> This case involves two competing businesses that sell truth verification technology. NITV is a Florida limited liability company based in Palm Beach County whose members are all Florida citizens [DE 1 ¶ 1]. Dektor is a Pennsylvania corporation headquartered in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania [Id. ¶ 2]. Dektor’s President and sole shareholder is Defendant Arthur Herring III, who is a citizen and resident of Pennsylvania [Id. ¶¶ 3, 22].

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.532237...

Edit: Charles Humble was in fact lying, as the ABC clip shows. The Pentagon conducted an independent investigation and found the device to be no more accurate than flipping a coin.
I’d say the problem is less discovery as it is monetization.

The total bandwidth for one of these creators’ videos is not itself all that massive. Particularly if you are not live streaming, a few thousand dollars in hosting costs a year to get 100TB/mo dedicated servers in a couple datacenters.

But once you have the servers humming and serving a few million views a month, whose ads are you running alongside your content?
Why are conferences so popular?
Billion-dollar gamble: How a 'singular hero' helped start a new field in physics
Why is the NIH then saying you shouldn’t get more than 200mg per day?
this isn't useful for tunneling through a remote machine (which is what ssh does)
Rivian debuts a pull-out kitchen for its electric pickup truck
How about 3 fonts (serif, sans, and fixed) and color instead of monochrome? You're too quick to compromise :-)

Vector graphics would be adequate and could discourage huge binary dumps in the code, but you know someone would try to jam a photograph in there by inserting a square per pixel, and I can't really blame them. Postscript could work, but if you picked something explicitly line oriented it would cause less confusion in revision control.
I think it was this year I learned they exist. They told me a few to check out. I still don't have a list of applications. What areas were you thinking about when you said underused?
Culture and genetics are not necessarily related. Unless they still happen to speak Etruscan, sharing a little DNA with ancient Etruscans doesn't make them "Etruscan".
I think it’s a twist on the silent majority.
Not a bad idea I think. I had a voluntary communications class that I signed up for over 2 years in school. It helped a lot in preparing for interactions and presentations in the business world, but also life in general.

It was also very uncomfortable for me.
Revenue for the company behind Wordpress itself? Maybe.

Revenue for the end-user? No way. Wordpress sites are high maintenance due to its enormous attack surface and dubious code quality. I would never even consider it as it will just be a liability I don't want to deal with.
I hung around #lichess on freenode (where the wonderful dev team exists, including the founder Thibaut) a lot at the time (and I still do) and I was more or less definitively told about concerns of further splitting the userbase. The most recently added variant (Racing Kings) is not terribly popular, and they've made a commitment not to remove variants once they're added, so I appreciate the caution, but something in my bones told me then (which was about two years ago now) and still does that S-chess would be SUPER popular.
> Say you're doing a search input that filters a list of elements using fuzzy matching. No amount of optimization in your components or the framework is going to make the fuzzy string matching library you use work faster.
> Concurrent React would allow you to type while the fuzzy matching happens asynchronously.

Are you sure that is the case?

From what i gathered about concurrent React and Fiber is that it can split the rendering of multiple components into different time slices, and also give more priority to certain events, so that some re-renders are kept smooth and responsive (the input typing on the demo), while others can be split into multiple frames and delayed a bit (the update on the carts).

But all React can do is to split up multiple render() calls (or function component calls) into different time slices. It cannot "slice" a single render() call any further. So, if there's an expensive synchronous computation inside that render(), like the hypothetical `fuzzySearch(query)`, that computation will block the main thread no matter what, and the application will be unresponsive until that computation finishes.

There's no going around that if the fuzzy match function is synchronous. That function would have to be changed not to block the main thread. E.g., it could have a timeout so it doesn't take longer than, say, 10ms, and return a partial list of results on that case. Or be a generator, so you can consume its matches one by one and split that work into different frames. Or you could move that computation to a webworker, thus making it effectively asynchronous, and avoiding blocking the main thread.

I don't think there's much React, or any framework, can magically do in this case to make a synchronous expensive operation not block the app. But maybe i'm completely wrong and that's exactly what concurrent React does; or maybe i misunderstood your scenario entirely :)
>Any bad PR resulting from firing these types would be a one time thing instead of this ongoing situation.

Imagine if you could murder troublesome people because that PR hit would be a one-time thing and better than this ongoing situation. There's a reason reputation is a thing.
It seems likely one of the countless bombs detonated in the Pacific blew up a whale.
Title:

> U.S. Judge Orders “Immediate Removal” of Website Critical of Voice Lie Detector

It was a default judgement, the judge didn't "order" anything. If the other side fails to answer the case at all ("Dektor has not timely responded to either motion."[0]), the judge simply grants the claimant what they asked for.

You can apply to vacate a default judgement and get your day in court, but that requires you to take part in proceedings. It should also be noted that "Arthur Herring III" of Dektor has an interest history (just google it, I see multiple unrelated news articles/lawsuits), and that both sides are selling voice "lie detectors."

[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.532237...
If they perged or deleted enough content people would stop visiting. If content creators stopped making new videos the site would turn into more of a video backup/hosting service for sharing elsewhere. Wouldn't kill the site but it would reduce its value.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190519153139/https://antipolyg...
You're giving undue credit to wallmart. It was already illegal and it's been for a long time. I can find articles on Aldi, Lidl and Wallmart paying fines for that in 2000. My German is not good enough to browse the laws.

It seems prohibited in Spain since 1991, whereas France is at least 1986. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do;jsessionid=952...
The problem here has nothing to do with the DMCA. The problem is that Google has implemented its own system that has little to do with the DMCA.

If it were handled the DMCA way, here is how it would go.

1. Someone complains to the hosting service alleging that you are violating their copyright.

2. The hosting provider takes down the material and notifies you. If you do not want to dispute this, that is the end of it.

3. If you want to dispute their claims, you notify the hosting provider. It doesn't really matter, as far as I recall, if you dispute the claims because you say the claimant does not hold copyright, or you say that they do but your use is covered by fair use, or any other mean.

4. The hosting provider puts your material back up, and tells the complainant that if they want to take it down, they need to take you to court, and provides your legal contact information for filing said suit.

If the claimant takes you to court, and wins, following the above procedure absolves the hosting provider of any liability for the infringement.
It's important to be aware of motivations. Apple has demonstrated how it doesn't directly care about its users (batteries, antenna, throttling, keyboard, display wiring, and general right to repair). Privacy is only a business factor because it's working at the moment. As soon as it isn't I wouldn't expect anything.. Also anything not in the public record doesn't need to favor privacy either so I don't assume it does.
Not hardly the worst. Here's just a sampling:

https://www.robedwards.com/2010/12/the-soviet-environmental-...
People are likely downvoting you because the question was already asked and answered in the thread before you posted this.
>Would be simpler (and possibly more profitable) to use the dispute-resolution process

For each 1800 videos? The youtuber claims that you have to do it for each video and it takes 1 to 2 minutes each.

Though this case looks more reasonable then the idiotic case where white-noise gets a copyright strike.
It is up for grabs. Die as the victim of a violent crime and guess how much power your estate has to prevent an autopsy. Die of a virulent communicable disease and guess how much power your estate has to prevent your body from being cremated and the pathogens within rendered as inert as possible.

Your body is your possession like your house or your car, and I am sure you can image how often a clear legal directive like a will is placed before a state body like a court and judgement passed.
There's an important tradeoff going on between library code that is (in theory) trusted and library code that is less trusted but has other advantages like solving a problem better or being a solution to problems that the most trust code can't solve.

Right now the equilibrium in this tug-of-war is that a certain set of functionality comes by default in the python standard library and everything else is just a package that you can install.

Obviously from a dev point of view it's a hassle to have to decide which of two or more packages for X is best, the pythonic way would be that there should be one and only one package for X. Of course at the cutting edge there have to be competing packages because there needs to be room for innovation.

But obviously not everything can be in the python standard library.

Not really sure what the solution is, but maybe there should be tiers of packages, with "Tier 1" being standard library, "Tier 2" having some kind of official stamp that it has been security audited to a certain standard, that Python has some control over who gets to modify it and why etc. Then maybe "Tier 3" could cover everything else, i.e. any bob random can go make a package on PyPi and it's Tier 3.

In addition, the process of going from Tier 3 to Tier 2 would give people a chance to winnow libraries down to one way of doing each thing at the Tier 2 level.

This might not be realistic but it's what my gut is telling me. C&C welcome.
When legislatures come up with a penalty that depends on say a percentage of global turnover, HN lights up at the iniquity of it. Despite that being in a jurisdiction that demands proportionality in penalties, so it's a maximum that will rarely if ever levied, and only on the largest corporates.
This may not be a disagreement -- but I was under the impression they moved to Albuquerque to work at/with MITS[1], the manufacturer of the Altair, and Microsoft's first customer.

1 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Tele...
This reminds me of "RAM Doubler" from the mid 90s on 68030/40 Macs. https://tidbits.com/1996/10/28/ram-doubler-2/

I do remember the joy have doubling 16MB of RAM to 32MB.
It wasn't so obvious to plenty of smart and competent teachers and textbook writers, so if nothing else it's worth "rediscovering" to bring it to their attention. Not everyone has the time or energy to derive their everyday decisions from first principles.
It reverts the burden of proof. It is now on you and your family to prove otherwise.

> I find that doctors still "request" the permissions to the family because no one wants to deal with unnecessary legal trouble.

Until they don't need to. In argentina for example, the legal requirement of getting consent from family members was lifted with the introduction of the opt-out. Funny thing about the opt-out, its an online registration!

I've seen opt-out described as a "libertarian paternalism" proposal to say that you have the liberty to choose anything but that there is an opinionated default. I find such reasoning to always lead to a death by a thousand cuts: if every single policy was implemented opt-out, you would definitely be able to manipulate the population into something.

> with all the stuff the state decides over your life.

I worry about any of them. And I don't find it comforting at all to argue that because individual liberties are breached many times, whats does one more stripe do to the tiger.
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I say we still have to try. Mankind won't get another shot at it.
If you own tesla stock:
SELL, Sell, Sell today!
Im on my phone so will have to just dump links. Just found these in DuckDuckGo:

https://sites.google.com/site/marcthurley/sharpsat

http://www.ii.uib.no/~telle/bib/STV15.pdf

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fbacchus/Papers/DBaaai07.pdf

https://github.com/dfremont/maxcount
Twitch is poised to threaten YouTube. They have Amazon behind them financially, and their live streaming is beating YouTube's.
I replaced the lid of my toilet seat to one that has a bidet installed in it. It was easy to plumb into the existing cold water connection and cost around £30. It is the best thing I have ever bought.

In answer to your question: I find that the bidet gets rid of all of the poop the vast majority of the time. I just pat myself down with a small amount of toilet paper to dry myself off. If I see poop on the paper I give myself another rinse.

I can't handle dry wiping now. I save my poops for home.
I'm a huge fan of true crime, listening to thousands of hours of podcasts, endless TV shows and documentaries, I own at least 30 true crime nonfiction books, etc. But I don't have any formal credentials in criminology.

After all my listening, I believe that if I was law enforcement I would appreciate the lie detector. It doesn't actually detect lies, and a trained person or a sociopath 100% in control of their emotions and heart rate can beat it. And many people have.

However, the power in the lie detector comes from its name - "The Lie Detector" - and the common belief that it actually works.

The interesting result of a lie detector isn't that it actually detects lies. No matter what the result is, if I was an investigator, I would tell the suspect that it said they lied and it is 100% accurate. The reaction to telling the suspect this, and what they do next, could very well result in a confession, or at least meaningful information. It's a psychological trick that is quite useful. The lie detector is such an absurd piece of theater, and most people have never seen one before let alone had one taken, that they cannot prepare for the result. If you interrogate 100 suspects, you can use their reaction to further your opinion of whether they are truly guilty by comparing to your past interrogations.

Now, would I ever agree to take a lie detector test? Hell no! And they are also not admissible in court, as the law understands that they don't actually work.

But in an interrogation process, where cops are lying and deceiving and tactically revealing information, it is a good arrow in the quiver.
> On March 12, 2019, a Clerk’s default was entered against Dektor based upon its failure to
appear, answer, or otherwise plead to NITV’s Complaint, despite having been duly served [1]

Yeah..... if you publish allegedly defamatory claims against a competitor, are ordered to appear in court and don't even show up to defend yourself, then not exactly surprising.

Not sure what's newsworthy about this. At a glance, the title almost suggests the government is trying to suppress information critical of polygraphs, which doesn't appear to be even remotely the case?

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.532237...