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When it comes to trademark, companies are compelled to act. Failing to defend your trademark will make you incapable of defending it in the future. The DMCA can NOT be used for trademark disputes, however. The DMCA exclusively deals with copyright.

Normally, the "interoperability" defense is used to protect instances of circumventing copyright protection mechanisms, not for copying itself. For instance, that was the defense in the case where Lexmark brought a DMCA claim against a third party ink cartridge manufacturer, claiming that by making their ink work, they circumvented protection mechanisms Lexmark claimed existed to protect their copyrighted firmware code in their ink carts. The court didn't buy it, Lexmark lost, it was established that you can do that kind of circumvention. But this copying of the word list... it's different in a couple fundamental ways, and I don't know if there has been a case that has dealt with this sort of thing.
If you're unfamiliar with navigating the fabulous Pouet.net, the relevant background is in the so-called "infofile": https://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=83222

(or click [nfo] in the right top)
My son lost a chunk of his thumb joint to a router accident. The doctor saw the mess, and bandaged it up for 6 days to let the bleeding/soft tissue damage resolve some.

When unbandaged 6 days later, the thumb cartilage in that joint was back, and the thumb worked fine. No surgery; no more attention needed. Still working 10 years later!
I can't answer the technical side of that really well (IIRC something about targetting different things or something), but I wanted to comment that the name (Coreboot without the C) is genius. There is an Oreboot sticker on my fridge.
Driverless cars are stuck in a jam
There is. It’s called geohash.
Android is closed source. AOSP is open source (and pretty useless).
My laptop (1Tb MBP) is backed up via both Carbon Copy Cloner (for a bootable backup) and Timemachine (for a snapshot backup) to a USB-C external RAID enclosure:

https://www.raidsonic.de/products/external_cases/soho_raid/i...

I have one at home and another in work (both encrypted)

My laptop also has an encrypted, snapshot cloud backup to Backblaze B2 storage using Arq Backup:

https://www.arqbackup.com/

I use Resilio Sync to sync my documents folder between my laptop and a Synology NAS (with RAID). My NAS also downloads periodic backups of AWS S3, email, Github etc.

This NAS is backed up locally to a standard external drive as well as Synology's own cloud backup service "C2" using Hyper Backup

https://c2.synology.com/en-global

Although this seems extreme, I've actually had to make use of all the services at one point or another.
I know it isn't as mobile, but you may want to consider a Mini ITX with a portable screen.
FTC restraining order on 'real estate flipping' ZURIXX of Utah [pdf]
Honest question: if apple software engineering has structural problems that sacrifice quality for splash, what is the reasonable alternative OS? Is it Windows 10? Is it Ubuntu?

I suppose it depends on the user.

I'm lucky, I'm an academic and presumably I can deal with any option.
Is violence in war decreasing worldwide? Or is it more street crime?

And, are you counting something like what China is doing to the Uighurs in what you count as violence?
AFAIK all mass-market automakers in the US and Europe trace their history to automotive startups in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and Japan and Korea's automakers all formed in the mid 20th century.

I guess China probably has the newest automaker startups outside of Tesla, but they don't have much volume outside of their domestic markets.
> there are triplets (programmer, language, task)

Well, any data on any such triplet will be highly nontransferable, to the point that it's useless. The challenge is finding minimum maps of generalized knowledge.
Newly Decoded Great White Shark Genome Hints at Why They're So Indestructible
Why shouldn't a political app be allowed to make purchases? Why does that make the app's political position any less legitimate?
Ask HN: Do your product managers have access to GitHub?
BPF at Facebook and beyond
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Absolutely. Big thick A pillars have increased survivability in crashes (embedded airbags, stronger structure) but that doesn't come for free - they cause some accidents (hiding bikers, also cars when pulling out of junctions).

I'd love to see a transparent A pillar but I can imagine the parallax issues (talked about in other comments here) would make them a bit weird.
> If you don't want bugs, don't upgrade right away.

And what about people who buy new laptops? They're just screwed?

And, your new laptop hoses your iCloud so you lose functionality on your old laptop.

And, 10.12 claims to be supported, but you can't run the latest versions of some software (like Xcode). So, it's "supported(don't read the fine print)".
> Assuming you didn't sign a deal with the devil by noncompeting your way into being stuck.

Well, in California it's basically impossible to enforce a non-compete, so there's that going for anyone who wants to do this as a current Apple employee.
I used to drive an old 1979 - that car had few electronic conveniences, but left me sitting on the side of the road more than once. It had also developed a problem where it couldn't idle for more than a few minutes because the engine would stall (mixture to rich, maybe?). My current oldest car is a 2003, it has electronic fuel injection, as well as a number of other electric conveniences - remote control mirror, power seat, cd changer, etc. I've only done routine maintenance and replaced a leaking engine seal, and that car has been 100% reliable and has never left me sit.

My much newer 2007 car has a lot more electronics (more airbags, automatic breaking, adaptive cruise control), but so far, still has had no problem, but it's only 3 years old (bought in 2016), so time will tell.
The update to users.html was merged and will be there shortly: https://review.coreboot.org/c/homepage/+/35957/1
I used a lot of mixed screens with KDE, from 150 DPI laptops to 30 DPI tvs to my main desk setup having DPIs of 105, 125, 155, and 115 respecitvely.

GTK3 and Qt5 software works great, anything else is a pot shot.
Chinese firms are taking a different route to driverless cars
I'd guess they'll occur in reverse order. Or at least fusion last. There are some serious engineering concerns to work out. And even if it were to become economical and reliable overnight, there'd still probably be a few decades before it replaced enough existing infrastructure to be the primary energy source.
On top of the other recommendations, you could replace the separate "wget the page" and "cat it into the pipe" steps with a single "curl https://url.to/webpage.html" (assuming you have curl on your machine, which is practically guaranteed nowadays).

More to the point, though: the junior data scientist might not have been entirely on the wrong foot there. There's a tradeoff between "I need to do this thing quickly" v. "I need to do this thing repeatably and robustly"; whipping up a quick shell one-liner to do it falls into the former category, and also can drive some ideas for implementing the latter category (where you'd almost certainly want to be properly parsing the HMTL, properly accounting for commas in the email addresses (and yes, email addresses can have commas per RFC 5321), etc.).
The source of harming police officers, is not Apple.

It's Chinese censorship and bots/hired humans that give 1 star fake "user reviews".

Perhaps read this, found it after commenting: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live...

Or does Quartz also harms police officers?

https://twitter.com/jkeefe/status/1182023843725971457

You have 2 eyes and a brain, use them :)
I love this and I don’t care if it’s bullshit. Such a great story.
> including going into my keychain and trying to allow more permission to some items

This almost certainly is not going to help, because it’s granting access to other things.

> Sometimes this mean 5-10min of allowing things access and typing my password over and over for each prompt. Things usually work after that, but I don't even have a clue, often times different apps seem to be asking if they can access system programs.

It’s interesting to see how we’ve already degrade to the Windows Vista-esque experience when you just approve everything. None of the security benefits, all of the usability downsides…
Except the rest of the ecosystem is constantly egging you to get on with it. I upgraded my phone to iOS 13 and right away it wanted to update the format of my Reminders, which would require I also update my mac.

I will “resist” Catalina as long as I can, for the simple reason that it will kill tons of much-loved software (from major games like xcom to small little opensource apps that may or may not ever get an update). But I already know at some point Apple will tell me that I have to move on just to keep some stuff working as before.
GTk has zero out of the box support for mobile.
they have OSS firmware for some devices, but not recent ones it seems like?

https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
QFT, the new ether basically
No, but a comparable unlocked phone is $300.
I love the rear parking cameras. I do not like the idea of replacing a simple working system with more technology.
Jeff Bezos's Master Plan
> I'm beginning to think the average employee or middle manager has even more perverse incentives to make poor short-term decisions.

Quite a lot of that, in my experience, is driven by fear of losing their job in an at-will employment environment.
The Open Firmware Working Group's website at https://www.devicetree.org/open-firmware/home.html mentions the OpenBoot(tm) trademark, but uses Open Firmware without any signifier. (and they should know)

Given that there's apparently no protection at all, I see no reason why I'd have to adhere to your wish to use 1275's way of writing O and F in upper case. So yes, I _can_ call it open firmware.
From what I understand about Steve Jobs - he the great integrator. He got lots of disparate folks to work together.

I mean, he got music folks talking to computer folks.

But I think he did this on a smaller scale every day and that might have been his secret sauce for apple.
It’s an article talking about bugs in the OS and the new privacy features being too onerous.
I read it and came to a similar conclusion as the parent poster.
Qt 5.14 is now in beta and has a toggle switch to do per-display scaling based off DPI on all platforms.

I've had a 4k 27" monitor mixed with 1080p and 1440p monitors of varying sizes for years and have managed to get 90% of software working great, and whenever I dip into Wayland get to use the fractional scaling there it goes up to 99% of software.
How durable are those laptops when compared to other brands? Do you engineer those laptop a little like ibm did for thinkpads (if I remember, some of them had military rating for dust, temperature etc)? How repairable are they?

How difficult was it for those companies to provide components that were OSS friendly? What is the main hurdle? Does it increase costs? Did you experience fightback from providers to make this project happen?
Classics of Cyberpunk Noir
Yes, it's one of the reasons Wayland was created. Screensavers didn't exist when X was designed. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTI5MQ

> Right now with screensavers under X it's basically capturing the input and continually redrawing over the display.
> With Wayland, Kristian plans for the lock-screen to be part of the Wayland compositor. In having the compositor handle the screensaver role, it can ensure that no window can appear atop the screensaver surface, it can properly detect idling and grabs already, and has complete control over the screen. Unlike the X design, there wouldn't even need to be a screensaver "window" that's on top but the compositor could just keep painting a black screen. For those interested in a "fancy screensaver", a plug-in could be used or an out-of-process Wayland client for drawing whatever you desire.
This used to be true, but since Qualcomm bought them out, they have done a complete 180 and basically reverted to totally closed designs (closed firmware, closed drivers, no spec sheet). The 9xxx chip-sets (which are only 802.11n) are the last ones designed before Qualcomm took over, the 10xxx chip-sets (802.11AC+) are closed and completely locked down, you cant even change your MAC address its all stuffed into a giant psuedo-driver firmware blob.
I just restored from Time Machine after getting stuck on the “Estimating time remaining...” screen and then googling some other peoples' experiences. Three hours spent restoring from backup seemed like a better option.
This reminds me of the Bomb Israel and Bomb Gaza Apps

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_confl...
I've worked with both and while Bazel definetely has a learning curve, mostly because is very different than Maven and Gradle, I actually find it considerably simpler than those two. Maven dependency management is really complex, and I'm tired of dealing with dependency hell. And Gradle doubles down on Maven complexity where you stop having declarative XML config and instead have actual Groovy/Kotlin programs.

So, please consider the difference between complex and unfamiliar.
Yikes. This comes across as really arrogant, and speaks to the author's point. What led you to believe anyone needed or wanted your empathy or approval?

Just because someone shares their perspective on a personal experience they had doesn't mean it's an invitation, and doesn't mean they want or need any input.
Well, yes of course, there's probably an ripe untapped market there. Lot's of potential!
> "The moral distance a society creates from the killing done in its name will increase the killing done in its name."

> Then why is violence worldwide decreasing?

Actual violence mostly occurs when one side is willing to use violence and the other side has enough belief in their ability to resist (including in that belief that the first side will back down before resorting to force) to compel the first side to actually resort to violence to achieve their actual aims, to which violence is usually merely a means. States becoming more willing to use violence and gain greater capacity to accurately (at least, avoiding false negatives) target that violence might plausibly result in populations becoming more compliant without actual resort to violence (or, at least, more quick to capitulate on an issue once the state first responds violently on it), reducing total active violence but increasing repression through the omnipresent threat of violence.

(Also, violence done “in [society's] name”—mostly state violence—and violence in total aren't the same thing; it's also plausible that total violence might decrease while, perhaps even because, state violence increased in a way which eliminated more non-state violence.)
Well, that's why Barry Marshall is exactly that kind of guy who will be remembered as a great scientist for doing stupid things. And I doubt there were 10 certified professionals looking to replicate his experiment either.
Gallows humor is a coping mechanism. I'd be more worried if they acted like everything is normal.

Clay Shirky said something really smart about teenager's usage of public social media: They're talking to each other, not you. So stop listening. You wouldn't eavesdrop on teenager's at the local food court, would you?

I'd only start worrying once the inside jokes become agitprop, bumper stickers, or campaign slogans.
except that the "good reason" tended to be that such cultures valued perceived bravery and martial skill as amongst the most important traits of a leader. Since this was best demonstrated by waging wars of aggression, such cultures certainly didn't tend to fight fewer futile conflicts, or offer social advancement opportunities to pacifists. The theory that leaders' proximity to conflict leads towards decisions being made with caution and/or compassion for one's potential adversaries is not one which survives contact with history.
Methane has a residence of a decade in the atmosphere. "Methane trigger" is short for the clathrate gun hypothesis, which is the rapid release of methane sequestered in methane hyudrate deposits at the poles. Those are very large deposits of methane hosted in water ice, currently estimated at roughly ten times conventional methane reserves. If ambient temperatures exceed the melting point, the methane is released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis is a much more detailed summary. It is strongly correlated with mass extinction events. It is also appears to be beginning: https://www.newsweek.com/methane-boiling-sea-discovered-sibe...
Hah, sure: They found there was still some minimal blood flow, so it was kind of an in-between case. It means that with physical therapy, I mostly recovered, and if I strain it a bit I don't have to worry too much about tearing it again, I just end up in a bit of pain, wearing a brace for a few days. Of course I'm still overly careful, so that helps too.
WeWork’s Neumann Loses Billionaire Status. It’s Unlikely He’ll Get It Back
A couple of examples spring to mind... and the URLs should be adequate in hinting at what the constraints are :)

- https://itch.io/jam/cga-jam

- https://itch.io/jam/fantasy-console-game-jam-3

- https://itch.io/jam/2-buttons-jam-2018

- https://itch.io/jam/procjam

- https://itch.io/jam/1-bit-clicker-jam

- https://itch.io/jam/gbjam-7

- https://itch.io/jam/musicgamejam

If you can think of a constraint, there's a good chance a jam already exists for it. If not, hosting one is easy, and very fun / fulfilling. See https://itch.io/docs/creators/game-jams.
I’ve been using a Mac for years and I agree with most of the points in the article. (I’m still using Catalina, FWIW; I have a high tolerance for bugs and annoyances.)
Does it auto-correct preferred pronouns for you?
Yes, sorry - since we just launched this week, it's only available for people in the U.S. and Canada. However, we do plan to expand globally down the road - I can let you know when that happens!
> enjoying a Bohmian lifestyle

That is a truly splendid turn of phrase.
You can also curve mirrors for a wider angle, see it on trucks all the time.
Right there with you... can we please find a way to trigger this regrowth in my knee that I had a meniscectomy on! :)

It is next to impossible to do any jogging any more without having a multi day recovery period from the inflammation.

Doesn't seem to be any tangible methods in this article, but I've heard some promising stories of successful stem cell treatments.
The Entrepreneurial Business of Tom Brady's TB12 – Podcast with CEO
The key bit is what is credible. Because it looks like it's the very same organisation which is against the demonstrators.
I absolutely agree with you - let's quantify why it's bad - "processed" food is a meaningless term. It has a bunch of implications (salt, sugar, scary chemicals), but those are the bad guys, a food can be processed without those, or unprocessed with them.
They do, when you go to trade school gymnasium is in it, just not that high level as one would expect to from a person preparing for uni.
I think the issue is that culture at Apple is very much not supposed to be this, and this probably isn’t what the C-suite is intending to push. So you’re not really going against them; rather, you’re going with them but against the current status quo.
No marine scientist with any credibility is suggesting that sunscreen or plastics are a larger threat to coral reefs than climate change. The articles you yourself are citing from ICRI call out that studies on sunscreen are ex-situ and do not reflect what occurs in nature. Agricultural runoff makes the impacts of climate change worse but the main drivers of bleaching are temperature and ocean acidification.
I very much doubt that it's faster than Gradle, but Gradle does do quite a bit more than Gradle.
I don't think you understand how this works. My calling it "Open Firmware" has nothing to do with its trademarked status. It is a proper noun.

Open Firmware != open firmware.
Awesome, thank you for clarifying!
I guess they hope someone will buy them. Like Apple to do easy navigation for the apple maps app.
Demos of new products always have golden paths, and even demos of production grade software have golden paths very frequently because maintaining complex software in a demo-able state is hard (i.e. historical reports need to show a plausible history without anyone actually using the system).
Dyson ends its electric car project
I appreciate the effort you've been making to inch a bit closer toward the intended use of the site. I hope it isn't too annoying if I say so.

The tag HN uses is not [removed] but [deleted] and yes, if the post has no children, we don't bother displaying that. It's just there as a placeholder in comment trees. More importantly, though: mods never delete posts unless the author asks us to. The most we would do is kill a post, which shows as [dead] and is visible to anyone with showdead turned on in their profile.

There have been a handful of exceptions to that in 10 years, a couple accidental deletions and a couple that the legal department told us we had to do, but it is as solid a rule as we have on HN.
> To ensure that we did not violate the What3Words company's copyright, we did not include any of their code, and we only included the bare minimum data required for interoperability.

Yeah copyright doesn't work like that. You don't get to violate it just because you need to for interoperability (unfortunately). An example of this is console emulators which aren't allowed to distribute boot ROMs.

Whether What3Words has anything that is copyrightable is another matter.
50-something here. I was bullied a lot in elementary, jr. high and high school probably because I was the nerdy kid who was into science. We also moved a lot so I was always the outsider. While my home life was fine (my parents were great) I do suffer from anxiety and difficulty staying in a job for more than a year or two. I've only recently started to make the connection with the bullying I received. Back in the 70s & 80s when I was in school the attitude was that bullying made the bullied stronger so adults rarely intervened (as they thought that conversely, doing so would make the bullied kid "weaker"). Even the response of my parents was to put me into Karate classes - I think that did help some as I did gain more confidence, but I think the policy now to stop bullying in the schools is much better.
"A Differentiable Programming System to Bridge Machine Learning and Scientific Computing"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07587

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477873

From the abstract:

> We describe Zygote, a Differentiable Programming system that is able to take gradients of general program structures. We implement this system in the Julia programming language. Our system supports almost all language constructs (control flow, recursion, mutation, etc.) and compiles high-performance code without requiring any user intervention or refactoring to stage computations.

Just linking to this for those who haven't seen it.
There may be an alternative, but Geohash is not it. Geohashes look like "u4pruydqqvj", which is questionably useful for situations very different from situations where you'd want "pinks.haunted.graves".
I found a dog about 7 months ago in the streets on the beach in my hometown in Brazil and moved to the Netherlands three weeks ago with him.

After a couple of weeks taking care of him (and trying to find the previous owner - who might have abandoned him or not), I was very attached. Actually, during my last job interview for my current job here in NL, I was cuddling him as I spoke with the interviewers (my current coworkers). Not sure if that helped, but for sure, I felt more confident and calm. Once I accepted their offer, I knew I just couldn't leave him behind.
Seems like a sure-fire way to get bought out is to build a web-scraper service...