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It's not obvious that the losing party should have to pay the legal fees. (By that, I take it you mean lawyer's cost, not court costs.) To a measurable extent, success is based on ability to pay. If an individual is sued by someone with corporate counsel or a relatively poor person is sued by an incredibly rich person, should they be made to pay twice?

It also would invite too many disputes into the courts, since an aggrieved party could feel it's almost free - the person who hurts them to the tune of a couple of hundred dollars will have to pay tens of thousands and they get nothing. It is possible that some disputes have a genuine good party and a genuine dodgy party, but in many cases they're just people who life happened to. The loser should compensate the other party but not necessarily get punished. If the loser was being malicious, they should be made to pay. But we shouldn't assume the loser is malicious, just that they lost.

It seems to me if you want the loser to pay, you'd have to create a regulated system for costs in order for them to be fair. A clever lawyer might have a way to take additional payments, but they'd have to be outside of the system, not recoverable by the court. But doesn't that end up in exactly the same situation as before?
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/doc/gccint.t...
I'm now getting this site blocked by Cisco security Umbrella :(
That’s not true: systemd gives you tools to not just lift the lid but actually effectively find what broke.
I don't mean to read minds here, but the only way I was able to parse your message is that "something" refers to suffering, and it seems you're implying that suffering exists and is common, but is not necessarily an important topic?

Or did I misunderstand something?
Ironically, the linked web.dev/fast page took way too long to load for me.
My understanding, after reading the memoir of Bernal diaz Del Castillo[0] (who was an eye witness of the conquest of Mexico), is that it was Montezuma II who purposefully spread rumors saying that the conquistador were returning gods so that people would stop fighting them and start trading with them.

It was not superstitious belief from ignorant savages, it was a political move.

[0]: which I highly recommend, they are available on project Gutenberg for free: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm
Cheers for the link, that's an amazing page.
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Sure, but I was also asking myself what sort of problem does this solve that towing the boat doesn't - it doesn't get the boat quicker to a dry dock than towing would for example, nor does it allow it to sail to places that it couldn't otherwise. The answer is in the details - the nearest dry dock where it could moor for repairs is unavailable due to recent damage, so this entire platform serves as a kind of mobile dry dock while the repairs are carried out.
If the court determines that someone is improperly using them for a shakedown, that person goes to jail. Best fix I can think of.
Germany has fixed attorney fees to solve this problem. There are other measures to reduce this problem. I don't understand them fully, so I won't be more specific. But it kind of works out in the end. You can't just hire an oversized army of lawyers and dump the bill entirely on the losing party.
Your argument works at small scales. My company is working with a vendor who quoted us $10mil for an e-commerce solution. Our execs are now toying with the idea of upgrading our existing solution with a few in-house additions, which might total $2-3mil over a few years. When you scale up, sometimes in house is the only option.
It is most certainly more complicated. We were ok to be put up with that additional complication because service reliability (especially tolerating single AZ outages with ease) was higher on the requirements than avoiding complication. :)
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Ralegh? Raleigh is the capital of NC named after this guy
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How do you choose what to focus on with structured mentoring?

It feels like current issues are too short term for this, unless it is a fundamental issue like no having enough domain knowledge.
Googling and/or a quick discussion with your colleagues should suffice in most cases.

If it is a more general subject, how to choose which one?
Obviously there are a lot of things I don't know, but it's quite hard to pinpoint what would be the most beneficial thing to learn right now; otherwise I would have researched it already.

Maybe reviewing the recent work with the mentor, and trying to extract pain points from there could work?
As with all rules, the trouble pops up when it's taken to extreme.
Modern scholars put pre-Colombian American population somewhere north of 50M people[0]. This number has been hard to measure as most of these people were presumably wiped out by European and African germs well before settlers arrived to most areas and no/few pre Colombian written records exist. Imagine demoralizing and disorienting effect of losing up to 90%[0] of communities population to mysterious disease. I’ve sometimes wondered if the lack of this wonder weapon is reason behind why Vikings and others that reached American continent before Columbus did, never established permanent lasting and expanding colonies.

Imagine if it would have worked the other way around - indigenous Americans carrying a germ that would have traveled back to a Europe making great plague look like a child’s play.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indige...
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This is the case in my country as well, it make sense that the car owner should be responsible for whatever actions that car takes if the driver cannot be identified.

Even if it is stolen it works, as you would obviously file a police report for the theft and so that would indemnify you of any crimes committed from when it was stolen.

The only issue is what happens if your bookkeeper gets drunk, borrows your car (because they know where you keep the keys) and then commits a crime?
Losing party paying everything is perhaps even worse than each party paying its own costs. The correct solution, as implemented in some countries, is that if a party was behaving unreasonably, for example by refusing a fair offer to settle out of court, then that party pays the reasonable costs of the other party.
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Just that you know - it's ok no to post, if you have nothing substantial to say. Spreading hateful slander adds nothing to the board.
It’s quoted in the link you posted yourself.

Maybe you’re reading too much into it? I think he was honestly amazed by a 10x jump, and we hadn’t learned yet that programs will naturally expand to fill all the resources available.
Nope. I think he simply used that notation to keep things simple/concise and focus on the important pieces.
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Your #1 is a good point, but it emphasizes the relative normality of things. This is symptom of change and some distress in society. However, the narrative is 'west is burning' collapse of society. Society changes. Immigrants change things. People with lower education and soci
al status are more likely to be criminals.

#2 The destruction of trust is trough propaganda narrative pushing moral panic, not by the actions themselves. There is clear ill will and bigotry that tries to make this problem into question of survival.
You noticed how evil that sentence is, same as me. And you are getting downvoted, also like me. Start-up culture has no soul. They think having soul is a weakness. They are interested in getting rich, and nothing else. It's an empty, greedy culture.
WASM3 Brings WebAssembly to Arduino, RPi, OpenWRT and Other Embedded Platforms
Previously, on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508339

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508401
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Providing updates with a switch to opt out would be no problem to me. However they seem to be pushing the update without notice or consent, without a way to disable telemetry or automatic updates.
> Usually the output and behavior of a program is well specified enough that we should have a checkbox (test?) for it.

lolnope

Or at least, if there is such a specification, it's never in a single organized form but scattered around the tickets, emails, postit notes and memories of the team members. And filled with assumptions on what's expected.

Only the most complicated, expensive and safety-critical systems get that kind of treatment. At which point people start realising that the requirements engineering is actually one of the most difficult parts for business applications. Some projects have collapsed with millions spent before writing any code, simply trying to untangle the requirements.
If the patent is where significant value of the company lies this will be an big issue for investors.
Previously, on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21508339
The tor.js file is probably generated by that PHP script:

<?php
header('Content-type: text/javascript; charset=utf-8');
…
Well in sceintific projects you are working in HPC platforms which docker doesn't exists and there are many reasons for it (it is not just technical).
Rust came out in 2010, of course it’s not going to have the same numbers as one released in 1985.
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This Twitter thread goes into some detail about how much he dodged the court. It looks pretty bad.
https://twitter.com/obarcala/status/1192193882844532736
I went down that path as conceptual learning for building a voice controlled website building system

- you can't count on making much money just reselling the software on larry pages computer because he is counting on making much money just reselling software on his computers ... https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/

Also.. more seriously, the latency to the google servers and back makes serious applications out of reach.

for ex. combine the concept with this https://comma.ai/shop and theres a geniune billion dollars waiting to be thought out

another ex. https://www.indus.ai but powered with many cheap https://amzn.to/2Xg4JkB

the path forward is to write a learning algorithm and recognize your work as one who creates virtual computers
- screenless computing is a big deal, microsoft surface earbuds will have basic office integration, but imagine if you could your pipeline communicate the contents of pdfs,websites etc. without a screen around

theres the obvious consumer products but also imagine being able to work with a computer in new environments
theres also the non obvious: imagine one smartphone camera pointed at a room, every person in that room can access their virtual computers using camera or voice
You can sell kits that that transform rasberry pi's into useful robots

- 3d reconstruction is cleaner and more powerful then deep learning
- stitching together screenshots of websites
- learning as environment mirroring

its also useful to think of the practical economics of the distribution of the technology ... android phones can go around $70 - $1000 but they essentially run the same free software opensource software

so there is not much of dollars that any individual can extract from the distribution of "AI" software

What I would do is delve into the technical software reasons behind Googles acquisition of Fitbit.

Spoiler: How does fitbit allow developers to build with javascript and css without running a "browser"

The point here is Larry Page is eyeing the virtual software developer opportunity and so are you! in order to extract value from the vision recognition opportunity you must spend a lot of energy writing rules

it would be efficient if the end user could program their camera on the fly using natural language without internet connection on any device

this north star is the makers definition of an agi .. and as a independent business you can't afford to work on a subset of the problem
Actually no if your building a site to be searched you want to reserve h1, h2, and <table> for their sematic use.

H1 for main page heading h2's for sub headings and <tables for tabular data eg a list of ingredients or technical data

One use I have seen for table of the basic details of a yacht, displacement, speed , length etc
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Re:"Show me an alternative to systemd that matches its functionality and consistency."

This misses the point about init diversity. Let me show you one that has _less_ fuctionality, and is thus more suited to LXC os containers.
Right, so if I'm understanding correctly, I'd need to pin the whole nix-pkgs system to the particular git revision which contains the version I need?
So, just kinda look past the rich and powerful gathering in Davos annually to gin up fresh means of rooking the masses?
Thats not really what I'm saying. As a late 30 something you may be willing to work long hours, but the company may not even consider you due to your age. That is ageism.
When I am working on large projects like this and the miryad of problems which python and its friends bring to us, I tend to see if projects like "nuitka" can solve those problems. For example if you need to scale you jobs ust imagine how many sysopen_at syscalls one single python script causes, and usually multiply that to the number of cores your job will have. Nuitka solves most of those problems by packaging everythin. It is almost as staticallly linking your code to run in the cluster.
> the complexity wears me out

This! The complexity of so many modern games turns me off from them. Have to learn a bunch of complicated systems? Sounds way too much like my day job.
Microsoft embraces California data privacy law. Extend protections across US
Drafts by Agile Tortoise for iOS and Mac. Syncs very well.
There’s a limit on the number of books in a library, but the internet has allowed information to replicate as needed. I don’t need to wait a week for someone to return the Car Maintenance for Dummies book, the internet let’s me get the information very quickly.
Mux is hiring across the board to build Netflix-grade video infra for all
"These growers are trying undercut the legal market by about 50 percent and of course a lot of the product that they're growing is filled with these poisons," McIntryre says, "and it's likely finding its way into the market in various forms - flower, oils and vape pens."

The legal market in California is too expensive (due to taxation) and this is a symptom.

California’s illegal market prices are equivalent to legal prices in Colorado.
Not connected to google, WhatsApp sideloaded (though cannot guarantee google doesn’t get a copy...).

The only data on this phone are contacts who have contacted me on WhatsApp; it has about 50 contacts compared to my main phone that has an order of magnitude more, and which ttbomk no FANG has access to or a copy of; the war is lost though, because every message/call has at least one more party and almost all of them do give all that info away to google, Facebook and Microsoft (giving Skype access to contacts)

Alas, where I live, NOT using WhatsApp would put me at a much worse disadvantage than the $80 I paid.
>Google are both measuring, and rewarding, website performance, as well as designing and distributing the principle tools

Also given their market share as a search engine, they also get to decide which websites you will be able to "discover" additionally incorporating their performance metrics into their website ranking. So not only a website will get a "slow badge" but will also be downranked into oblivion.
As always, for any article that starts with a question, the answer is no.
As others have mentioned, there's a big gulf between "works well enough that you don't notice the problems very often" and "never fails". Screens work OK in the happy normal path, but as soon as you look into things like DisplayPort chaining and HDMI-CEC you find all sorts of incompatibilities.

> Transistors don't misfire, CPUs don't miss an operation

This relies on a lot of testing. We throw the misfiring ones away at the factory. This may be over half the chips: https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/zen-2-ryzen-3000-cpu-yield-70-p... (AMD are doing well at 70% pass rate but Intel are throwing away more than half their dies!)

In aerospace or high-alpha-radiation environments, people can use "lockstep" processors (e.g. TI Hercules) that can cope with misfires.
#2 How can you be so sure? What makes you so confident that you got it right that its not the incidents itself that destroy trust?

Imagine you live in the area in Linköping where this big bombing happened. You don't need to be exposed to any "propaganda narrative" to look at your neighbors and wonder if he/she is involved in something or has enemies.

That is eroding trust. Propaganda narratives might amplify this in some cases for some people. But it's important, in my eyes, to be honest with the order of things. The problems are there. That they are used by some bigots doesn't justify talking the problems smaller. This has been done for the past decade. Meanwhile, hundreds of mostly young men have been shot in gang violence.
As was said, the countries where the losing party pays usually have tables where you can find the legal fees and the maximum amounts that the losing party has to potentially pay.
Oh, thanks - I'll give it a whirl!
He said exponential returns on effort.

i.e. Hunting a rabbit = 1 unit of effort and 1 unit of meat

A boar = 4 units of effort and 16 units of meat

A mammoth = 8 units of effort and 256 units of meat

So it actually kind of makes sense here
If true then it highlights a deeper problem in your justice system (litigation power outweighs correctness)
Developers hate to buy stuffs. thats why they build stuffs. Few weeks your tool is out in market, some outraged developer is going to release a free version.
This IS a worstation segment which likes cores.

But also Zen 2 core at 4.5 GHz is faster than Skylake core at 4.5GHz (about the peak boost in Intel HEDT) also in single threaded tasks.
I'm surprised not to find any mention to the diseases brought by the conquistadores.

Quick glance at literature seems to indicate a consensus on the outsized importance of diseases in demographic changes in the Americas. Just over 100 years before the arrival of Cortés, Europe was going through similar epidemic disaster with the Black Plague also brought through intercontinental contact between people's. Then, the plague was also seen by many as divine intervention.

While it does seem self serving to propagate the message that Europeans were seen as gods it does not seem unusual for people to turn to religious explanations when faced with existential threats.

edit: misspellings
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Hey HN!

I made a service to share passwords easy and secure but never promoted it.
It's called instapass.io
I noticed that people besides my friends and clients actually started to use, so maybe it will be helpful for you too!
You share one-time self-destruct message using one time links and I won't even be able to see what you wrote.

How does it work?
When you generate a message the client-side makes a random password and use that to encrypt the message.
The password is appended as an anchor tag which all modern browsers never send to the server.
This way, I don't even know what you shared.
Why this and not one of the fancy solutions that exist?
Time and complexity.
In my experience, people never get around to setup the services especially if you're a consultant like me.
And then comes the part of trying to explain to a non-technical person how a master password is and how to share it and signup etc.
Instapass offers high security, zero setup time and works for non-developers.

Martin.
I'll strongly disagree there on the shooters though. Old shooters has a plethora of weapons with inventory (perfect dark, goldeneye, half life) modern shooters have primary, secondary and sidearm. That's simpler, if anything. The shooter experience has been heavily streamlined.
Why do most laptops and monitors use 19 Volts?
How is the systemd project any different in that respect than the GNU project, or FreeBSD? If you don't want systemd-boot, or systemd-networkd, or literally anything other than core systemd and the journal you don't even have to build it, let alone install and run it.

The only part of systemd other than core init that you have to run is the journal and even then you can configure the journal to just forward to rsyslog and not store any logs even just in tmpfs.

Stuff like systemd-nspawn wasn't even developed to be a container management solution. IIRC the main goal was just to leverage the existing namespacing features in core systemd to allow booting up a minimalistic container in order to make developing systemd easier.
That's just depressing…
That is not that easy as the availability zone numbering is account-specific.

Doable, of course, but it is not just a matter of putting it into the issue description.
When i started working web IE6 was still far far in the future, i also learned the semantic use of html JADAJADAJADA table-layouts bad JADAJADAJADA and i most of the time enforced myself to apply this 'best'-practices - truth is - i never saw this providing value in any kind. The web is so full of shit and abuse of 'best'-practices - nothing will every really on this and work. I would often have saved myself and my clients a lot of headaches/time and money if i had just used table-layouts instead of css-layouts and other crap - but hey whatever 'float's your boat.
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> I am curious who paid for the patent application. Usually this is a lengthy and expensive process. I am also assuming that the inventor was employed somewhere while they developed this stuff - have the employers signed away their rights to the IP?

This is also an important point. Everywhere I've ever worked has requested all patent rights. If the company is successful you may have to deal with a lawsuit (merited or not) from the founder's previous employer.
ah; because another user could overwrite this value breaking the invariant. If the invariant is maintained server-side, then multiple users can gracefully coexist (without auth)
Easy solution; fix attorney fees to a reasonable value, then the payout is done adjusted for 1 attorney. So if you loose against a large company, the worst that happens is you pay twice that of your lawyer; once for your lawyer, then for theirs.

That's the solution in germany and it works quite beautifully (sans people intimidating others into believing they'd loose).
Is Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Insecure?
I personally love to use jekyll its too easy and powerfull.
The Bloomberg article doesn't seem to touch on what specifically is going on with the Trent 1000 (but my understanding was that protective coatings weren't holding up to air pollution). In any case, General Electric is having problems specifically with the air-cooled blades that Bloomberg's pinning Rolls' troubles on. Keeping the blades solid at those temperatures is almost wizardry. Fascinating stuff.

A Thai Airways lost an engine (GE90) on one of their 777s recently due to problems with the air cooling. As a result eight GE90 engines are now subject to an additional inspection. Here's a video touching on the GE problem by a tech who works on GE turbines for a living:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GxvEQZil2U