skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the wording implies that it’s not that the judge found from the evidence that they were an invited party, just that the claim failed to properly lay the foundation in their briefs

The Wiretap Act complaint has bigger problems.

“‘Electronic communication’ is defined, in relevant part, as ‘any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce . . . .’ 18 U.S.C. § 2510(12)” [1]. It would be tough to claim the Bluetooth connection between the phone and headphones are engaged in interstate commerce.

“Moreover, Zak’s Brief in Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss (‘Opposition Brief’) further clarifies the FAC’s allegations6 and makes clear that in fact ‘Bose Connect is part of the listener to music provider communication[,]’ indeed ‘the App is supposed to function as a leg in the listener-to-music provider communication pathway—one that can be used to request new material or view audio track information.’ (Opp. Br. at 7 n.5, 8.) The Opposition Brief further explains that ‘information is . . . routed to the App where track information—e.g. song name, album, and artist information—is displayed.’ (Id. at 1.)
It is clear from the facts alleged in the FAC, and clarified in the Opposition Brief, that the App is in fact a known participant in—and intended recipient of—the communication of the Media Information.”

[1] https://f.datasrvr.com/fr1/319/48563/Bose_Memo_and_Order.pdf
I'm from Germany and what the article doesn't tell you is that a large portion of antisemitic action comes from migrants. Ironically, Germans won't call out antisemitism conducted by migrants out of fear to appear racist.
* Structural typing
* Uniform access
* Lazy evaluation
Using Anki and Spaced Repetition
Soy is consumed in great quantities by Japan, the country with the longest life expectancy in the world. The evidence against soy would have to be pretty dramatic and clear-cut to base decisions on it.
My experience as a pro artist is that drawing from reference and “learning to see” is a large part of how one develops that “more comprehensive visual library”.
While true technically, it doesn't matter if (a + b) ≈ b. The parent's question is essentially about that.
May I add to this with a third: difficulty in creating a strong system of mentoring?

Many companies have a formal mentorship program but it is often in name only (at least in my experience at 3 companies).

In a formalized apprentice program, a worker can feel okay about not knowing things and asking the person for whom they are apprenticing. Despite formal mentors, I believe many junior devs do not have a person that they feel comfortable not knowing things. Moreover, plenty of senior engineers do not make good mentors (either don't want to or don't have the strongest of communication and mentoring skills).

You'll have a crop of engineers with 0-2 years experience that don't feel comfortable not knowing something because they feel it can be a sign of technical weakness. Perfectly valid questions go unasked and a young engineer may spend 3-4 days trying to answer something that his mentor could help him/her with in 15 minutes.

Great knowledge isn't transferred optimally in this scenario.
> Cattle can eat grass, but most of them in North America eat very little grass. They eat a lot of grain that is intensively farmed. That feed farming has a significant impact on the environment through regular agriculture practices.

You obviously missed my explicit position against corn-fed cattle and went on to attack some straw man. Please re-think and re-state your argument such that I don’t get an urge to dismiss it based on irrelevancy from the very first statement?

In fact in your following two paragraphs you just repeated the same things I already said just using different words.

We don’t disagree on much.
I'm not sure how many people that would work for. If malicious.example.com were some pithy little domain on a trendy ccTLD like bit.ly, I think most twitter users would ignore it, assuming it was yet another URL shortener.
Thrice doesn’t really fit the sentiment of the sentence there. It would be best to replace “both” with nothing in that sentence when moving from two to three items.

“Both” itself isn’t necessary when dealing with two items (not that it hurts, IMO). It could serve a rhetorical purpose if you particularly wanted to emphasize the equal relationship between the two items. E.g., if one item might normally be perceived as significantly more important than the other, “both” is a way to address the surprise or skepticism the reader may feel seeing them placed together equally.
This touches on another thing, which is “Thing X is known to be imperfect, Pat says thing Y is better. Nobody else on the team has tried Y but we have all these aphorisms like ‘no silver bullet’ that lead us to think Y can’t be that good.”
I've gone the other way. I'm using mouse gestures so that I can control my browser with a minimum of mouse travel, making keyboard shortcuts obsolete. Rocker gestures (hold left then click right and vice-versa) control my history, scroll gestures (hold right then scroll) scroll through my tabs, and regular gestures (hold right then draw a small figure) do the rest.

It's a very convenient and quick way to browse one-handed, like when lied back in a desk chair.

But on my old laptop I used qutebrowser for a while, which is a lightweight browser which also is focussed on vim-like controls.
English has many terms with multiple meanings which we use with the express intent to imbue our words with adjacent meaning. A hard decision is difficult but also unyielding. A hard man is unyielding but also strong. A strong decision is controversial but also tough.

These dual meanings are often so ingrained we cannot see the inherent issues with their usage. They are often somewhat Orwellian in their duality. The hard sciences is one of those terms. Hence my joke about the easy sciences.
Fun fact, properly managed cattle herds can sequester carbon on an industrial scale! Techniques like rotational intensive grazing can help build up the top soil and rich root system that used to cover the plains, sequestering carbon and making the soil far more fertile.
I think the issue is who pays. If it ends up as consumer tax only it will take awhile before change is reflected. A business tax would accurate change.
Author here. This was the first article I ever published. I was 16 years old when I wrote it, and reading it today makes me cringe a little. AMA.
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Carbon taxes work by encouraging a switch to alternatives and by encouraging efficiencies. When there aren't alternatives, many would just choose to pay higher prices. That's what your study found.

Luckily most carbon intensive activities have alternatives.
The thing that seems to decrease birth rate isn’t capitalism, it’s education of girls and women. These things often go together along a “modernist” axis but they don’t have to.
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Mentorship at the highest level (principle to senior and below) is desperately lacking. I vow myself when I reach that level to pass it along the best I can, but something I desperately searched for when I was starting.

I pair programmed for 3 months (which I consider apprenticeship / live action mentorship) with someone who was a way better engineer than me at my first "career job" out of college. I learned more in those 3 months about software engineering than in my previous two.
That’s a pretty specific implementation detail of a few specific democracies that doesn’t really refute anything that the parent comment said.

Like, for example, in the UK (which entirely lacks a formal constitution) the right to govern is literally derived from the most divine source: god himself, through his agent, the Queen.

In practice, despite the quasi-sacred and divine foundations of our government it doesn’t mean jack. If the Queen where to exercise any of her divine powers over the will of the current Parliament it would cause a constitutional crisis and she would have those powers immediately stripped.
As an organically grown business, rather than investment funded, we live on credit. We flex through an overdraft every month and we make all purchases larger than £10k on HP.
You don’t. The last pair of Bose headphones I had came with instructions to download the app which I just ignored. The headphones worked perfectly fine without the app.
The guy was a serious eccentric who's wild antics are the stuff of legend. Just google for some of his images and you'll get a full sense of how out there this guy was. Bob Pease even corobberated a lot of these so they are more true than legend. Though he apparently was a master at his craft. Pease recounted how Widlar would disappear into mexico following some bohemian crowd for many months, come back to work and design a revolutionary circuit, get paid big bucks and disappear again like a wizard. True genius.
I don't think the comparison to cigarette taxes is completely fair. Cigarettes are relatively inelastic w.r.t. price as they are addictive, and have no real competing product.

Electricity and power generated from carbon emitting sources on the other hand have a much more elastic demand curve. E.g. if your energy bill is cheaper with renewables, no one would choose to go with fossil fuels. Likewise with electric vehicles. If the cost of tanking up an EV is significantly lower than an internal combustion vehicle, people will switch for purely economic reasons.

You can look at the lack of a carbon tax as an incentive on fossil fuels which socializes the externalities.
> Think about a nation going full green and the effect it could have on neighbouring countries?

Besides the domestic unrest others mention, yeah, they do think about the effect it could have on neighbouring countries. The immediate effect would be tanking one's own economy and significantly reducing the country's position as compared to the neighbours who didn't implement such change. Countries compete with each other too, just like companies do, and they are hesitant to change much for the same reasons companies are.
>I’m thinking through how Twitter would combat something like this.

Display the real link domain by default, but offer custom domains for manually verified advertisers. That obviously involves some degree of cost, but it's worthwhile to preserve trust in the platform.
Centralized orchestration is certainly a possibility. I think it's far from certain though, because the observed effect of uniform messaging could also be explained as emergent behaviour. Centralized coordination is probably more likely in some countries, and emergent swarming seems more likely in others.

But either way, the end result is pretty similar.
I would myself advocate for looser patent grants. It seems wasteful that separate companies must redundantly spend resources treading down the same worn pathways. However, a system that circumvents that redundancy would require radically different & collaborative R&D arrangements to function equitably. In its absence, and in the presence of a system where single entities spend their own resources on development, IP theft is damaging. It assists in undercutting the bottom line and even driving out of business those companies that have been stolen from.
firstly, the upcoming version of GNU Make will indeed support multiple outputs in non-pattern rules (pattern rules always supported this, but pattern rules, uhh, have their own problems), using &: instead of :, resolving a bug from 2004. don't you just love the solid pace of those old GNU projects.

secondly, working around this was never very hard, albeit ugly: pretend your rule builds just one of the targets and have the other products depend on that one and simply touch themselves up to its timestamp.
The latest IPCC report says we have just 11 years to halve global emissions or we'll be seeing massive destruction to civilization. This is what is spawning organizations like Extinction Rebellion, which forced the UK government to declare a climate emergency. A tax now seems like too weak a measure. Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion and others are talking about 15% reductions annually in industrialized countries. Any other proposal accepts doom or millions of unnecessary deaths as options.
I interpret this as using the binary operation "both" in a reduction over a list of three items. Kind of like how you can add a list of numbers through e.g. (PLUS 1 2 3 4) in LISP, although addition is actually a binary operation.
I did read the article and their views. But I'm not sure I missed anything. The students in question sound like classical Marxists: one literally takes photos of himself with a clenched fist.

Obviously the Chinese government is rotten to the core. It's a late-stage communist government, it's how all such governments turn out. The very important question which needs to be answered (and so far, nobody is even trying to answer it in this thread), is why does a student who lives within that system want to double down on it?

I suspect the answer is simple and doesn't need much analysis. One of the most common stereotypes about communists is they always claim that the failure of communist states is because they didn't do it right - that they were just fake or hijacked socialist revolutions. Qiu is making that very claim in the article. But there have been many attempts to do communism right, so why do these people not accept that the lack of any success cases means the ideology is wrong?
It was a little bit of both.
It would be even more fun if you could search for other Telnet BBSes over Telnet.
The "solid" program, from Sir Tim Berners-Lee may be a solution to freeing up people to communicate a bit easier.

https://solid.inrupt.com/
You know what's bizarre? Amidst all this drumbeat of news about cybercrime trashing government, and with the clear evidence that the US 2016 turned, at least partially, on cybercrime:

NOT ONE of the candidates for US President has undertaken any effort to boost their own infosec. (Or if they have, they keep it quiet.)

What can they do? The same stuff we do in any SaaS business:

Rudimentary security training for everybody, including bigshots and candidates. (Podesta got phished, twice!)

Make sure their laptops and office computer equipment are up to patch levels and the malware detectors work.

Engage one of the large-scale email providers; they have topnotch dedicated infosec people, good spam traps, and a lot to lose if they visibly mess up.

Adopt strong multifactor authentication.

Hire compentent pentesters and remediate any vulnerabilities they find, fast.

Let their donors and the public know they're taking action (not WHAT action of course, just that they're on it.)

Governments should do the same for their constituents and taxpayers.

Now, maybe candidates will argue they don't have time for the extra security. But, in 2019, that argument shows they're unfit for public office. One candidate learned that the hard way in 2016. No more of this.
Chinese people must unite now! China has started putting Uyghur Muslims into camps, censoring internet etc. violating human rights. If you do not have your voice today your future will be doomed.
I've been reading lobster.rs for a while, and it seems great!
Unfortunately, I can't find anyone to get an invite :(
InSpectre only disables part of the mitigations. Another part is microcode update via BIOS or OS updates, another is binary updates containing workarounds like retpoline.
After propofol I came to mid-sentence. I immediately asked how long I’d been talking, as I had zero recollection of being awake or talking, and was told I’d been telling jokes non-stop for the last 5 minutes. When I say I have no memory of that, I mean like I have no feeling I even existed in the period between telling the doctor I was going under up until I apparently woke and was well into my spontaneous comedy routine.
Killing the bear isn't the objective, stopping it from killing you is,the same goes for legitimate self-defense against humans. And it turns out that's frequently possible, even with human self-defense handgun calibers. You might discourage the bear with a wound, pain is a great motivator and works half the time with humans, but for bears disrupting a shoulder for example works well. Here's one study of 63 cases with 95% success rate: https://www.ammoland.com/2019/03/pistols-or-handguns-used-to...

And in serious bear country, serious people carry serious long guns, a 12 gauge shotgun with slugs, or a centerfire rifle with a significant payload. And it's easier to shoot those well under stress.
I believe this was only later added after it became public that Bose was data collecting.

(I own the QC35 ver. 1)
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of information that's locked up only in books. The more obscure or specialized your need, the less likely it is to be found on the web. Countless books will never be digitized because there's no profit motive to do so. And HathiTrust, while useful, keeps most of its PDFs behind a 'paywall' so that you can only download them if you are physically sitting at a partner University. I can't think of a dumber restriction on a digitized book than making you drive to a university campus to download it.
Please reach out to us in the future, we will definitely have some discount, or be free, for serious non-profits.
Not cracked in half or pummeled to space gravel.

But even if you wanted to be less strict, life on Earth will be fine too. It's humanity - and in particular the technological civilization - that's in danger.
A level playing field is more important than any hairbrained theories I might(do) have about IP law. Far worse than tech patents and copyright are tech patents and copyright that only apply to some companies but not others.
"Reducing energy use is putting the whole country on a diet, and shrinking GDP would cause more pain and suffering than climate change in the short term."

this really seems to be the root of the matter. unfortunately the wording isn't completely clear.

are you saying that we'd have to accept some economic discomfort in the short term to mitigate some serious long term issues? that seems like a tradeoff worth discussing.

or are you saying that the consequences of economic contraction are so dire that we'd better just learn to deal with the environmental consequences. maybe we can find some market solutions (i.e. shifting to electricity) that reduce emissions somewhat without harming whats really important.
The idea is that people on the lower end of the economic spectrum are compensated with the taxes on the higher end/businesses which are emitting the most.
To add to that— adjusting the diet of cattle to one of red algae has proven to reduce their methane emissions dramatically.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612452/how-seaweed-could-...
They put up a petition on the website I built to get Vanguard, the largest mutual fund manager, to support the Carbon Fee and Dividend. There are over 500,000 shares of vanguard already supporting, with a goal of 1m. If you have Vanguard shares, want to support this to move it forward? https://www.yourstake.org/ask/vanguard-vanguard-endorse-a-na...
Yeah, it's not a surprise that this happens. I'm just wondering why the system is designed to allow and encourage that, instead of blocking it. I can't see anything good coming out of it.
Political control of the economy by a vanguard party leads to an enormous concentration of power, I agree. But I also disagree that is about all socialist nations: I can only argue that countries based on the ideals of both Republican Spain and the Free territory of Ukraine should be attempted again, this time without the extreme conditions that characterized them the first time. If they really end up as you say, then we shall conclude that socialism as a political theory is irreparably flawed, but until then it's wrong to conclude that.
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>> The human brain is the most complicated thing in the known universe

Really? It is more complicated than the Orca brain? We aren't magic. The differences between our's and the brains of similarly-sized animals are slight. I'd say our brain isn't fundamentally any more complex than an ape's or a dogs. But if you want to compare numbers, Sperm Whales have 18-20lb brains, far larger and more complex than ours by every measurement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_35_03_05_Brain_siz...
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An observation.

On the micro scale these aren't mean or bad people. A lot of people I know back home (Missouri, middle class, many of them baby boomers) follow this brand of logic and the accompanied tough-guy/cult-of-the-dollar ethos.

Not one of them applies this ruthless logic in their daily life. They are compassionate with the people in their lives, some to the point of enabling people with substance abuse problems as opposed to letting the authorities 'deal' with them.

The complexity and scale of these problems out-strips the empathy required to solve them for many people. The experiences(no health care, mental health issues, prejudice) do not match their own experiences which makes those dealing with them the 'other'.

The way to getting some traction with these problems probably lies more in bridging the empathy gap than in the solution space.
If only there was some kind of telnet google that would hunt down telnet bbs's, crawl them and make them searchable.
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Simpler for what it does? It's an unfair comparison. You could say that walking is simpler than flying, but that's not true if you're trying to get from New York to Beijing.
It's probably the map + the chat thing (only things that are third party, and won't stay there for long), we will fix.
Agreed. Problems with make:

1. Rule with multiple outputs are problematic. Stamp-files work as a hack, but the build ends up harder to maintain as developers need to figure out which stamp controls what files

2. There's no good solution to handle changes in the makefile. Particularly, if a make target disappears, there's no way to delete the output file. If another build step later on grabs the supposed-to-no-longer-exist file via a glob pattern, build failures or run-time fun can result.
Workaround: attempt a clean rebuild whenever the build does something weird. This is especially problematic when switching between development branches.

3. Recursive makefiles suck because you can't have fine-grained dependencies between parts of the sub-projects.
Non-recursive makefiles suck because it's just textual includes: there's no scoping, so name collisions between different sub-projects cause trouble. And all paths have to be relative to the top-level makefile, so there's no way to write a makefile that can be included in arbitrary other projects.

4. Some features have weird semantics that makes them unusable in practice; e.g. the "target: export A=B" syntax looks like it's setting an envvar locally for a single target, but actually also sets it for other targets "invoked by" the target. Of course, which dependencies of "target" are "invoked by" it ends up being non-deterministic in a parallel build.

Fun fact: even "target: private export A=B" doesn't work reliably; the "private" modifier in GNU make only fixes this problem for make variables, but not for environment variables.

So is there a build tool that fixes these problems, instead of just replacing the parts of make that actually work well?
An under-represented argument for a carbon tax is the fact that it would encourage companies to innovate, both with respect to efficiency as well as using renewable energy.

I predict that industries in countries that adopt a carbon tax earlier will end up with a competitive advantage.
Trade and Real War can hurt people as well!
whats the server, have you posted it on alt tech
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