skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't at all unusual. You might have been taught in school about the courts "interpreting" the law, but a lot of American law was inherited from English common law which does basically come from court decisions, and a lot was created by court decisions since then.

In times like these where Congress is often deadlocked, someone needs to make decisions. Congress can pass a new law if they can get their act together.
"It costs $12.99 a month"

Yeah, not for me. Maybe journalists or news professionals can be interested, but it better has to bring value.
Pretty neat. It'd be nice to be able to choose more chords. For instance with some inversions the voice leading can be improved. Also it'd allow for using secondary dominant and other chords with non-scale notes.
For a one-dimensional shape, a boundary point is one you can stand on and move in one direction, but not in the other. So for an open line segment 0 < x < 1, there is no boundary, since at every point you can move in both directions. For a half-open line segment 0 < x <= 1 the point x=1 is the boundary, since you can move left but not right.

For a two-dimensional shape (or more formally "manifold"), an interior point is one which locally looks like the plane (you can move in all directions), and a boundary point is one which locally looks like a half-plane. All the boundary points taken together will be a one-dimensional manifold _without boundary_, which is pretty neat. For example, take an annulus (a 2D shape like a CD-rom). The boundary of the annulus is two one-dimensional manifolds (the boundary circles), and those circles have no boundary.
What a negative spin on a pretty neutral result. Here's the actual link [1]. The latest results are for 2017 and the prior ones for 2012/14. The government's conclusion is:

"Between 2012/14 and 2017, there were no statistically significant changes in the percentages of adults performing at each proficiency level in any of the three PIAAC domains"

So, how can you spin "no statistically significant changes" into something more click-friendly? You say U.S. workers show little improvement. Nevermind that this was in no way restricted to "workers"; the survey covers all adults ages 16 to 65, in a representative fashion.

How's the US compared to the rest of world? Here's the relevant documents: [2] for 2012/14 and [3] for 2019. Note that the format is slightly different, the first doc contains only OECD countries, while the second some more countries.

* literacy. before: the US well below OECD average, just below England and Germany and above Poland and France. Now: the US slightly above average, still just below England and Germany, and just above Poland, but well above France

* numeracy. before: well below average, only Italy and Spain worse than the US. Now: exactly the same.

* computer numeracy. before: a notch below average, wedged between Japan and Korea. Now: well above average, well above both Korea and Japan.

So, overall, either neutral (numeracy), or slight improvement (literacy) or substantial improvements (computers).

Should I dare to conclude that the most improvement the US workers have shown was in the area most relevant for 21st century?

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/current_results.asp

[2] http://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Country%20note%20-%20United...

[3] https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/publications/countryspecif...
How does the US Social Security system compare with Japan’s when considering keeping the elderly out of poverty?
If you have positive return on cash invested people will be happy to keep giving you more money for decades even if you plough all your profits back into expansion. Amazon has had the option of returning profits for decades and has always aimed to just barely make a profit.

> Amazon was founded in 1994, first traded publicly in 1997, and didn’t turn a profit until 2001.

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/031414/amazon-ne...
Baby (category) is tricky - you can bet that she's getting all sorts of approval things because some cheapass Chinese product poisoned some kid and now Amazon has to really put pressure on all the legit existing vendors to have MSDS sheets and whatever relevant testing sheets nowadays.
Selling fakes has been Amazon's business model from the beginning hasn't it?
Also, Oracle just sucks in general. Larry Ellison is a notorious jerk and philanderer. Oracle's entire business is based on the success of one expensive database product from the 70s, which is mostly still in use due to decades-long vendor lock-in of stagnant enterprise giants like SAP, IBM, most banks and a good chunk of the DoD.
By that logic, would WINE be fair use while winelib is infringement?
More like “real production workloads, can’t wait for vendors to catch up syndrome”.
Why film fans are returning to physical media
Yeah I mean to build out whatever necessary to move away from Stripe and process payments internally.
> innards, or “by-products,”

the tasty innards you're talking about and the “by-products” that are in the industrial cat food are 2 very different things. The “by-products” is hide, horns, hooves, etc. with very heavy dose of strong preservatives, desinfectants and other chemicals.
If APIs aren't copyrightable, then that solution is open to you as well.

Turns out, inventing a whole language every time you need to write a new library is an enormous pain in the ass.
Graeber is also the person who wrote this sentence:

"Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages..."
He is referring to QE not causing inflation. The truth is that it did cause inflation, but in asset prices not consumer goods.
But are you expected to exceed expectations? :)
Would like to see the author’s rebuttal, if he does decide to rebut.
That's a good thing right? I mean, I'm not implying that Google is on the opposite side of this, but still, I'd wager most people on HN would love to be a Larry Ellison (riches aside), where you get start a product today, and still be relevant with that same product 40 years from now.

I honestly don't get the Oracle hate from HN people, even if I do understand it from the Slashdot folks.
APIs are functional, not artistic. They belong in the domain of patent law, not copyright.
They do. 4% triggers an automated-ish warning and 10% triggers a serious notification which usually gets scrutinized by some Amazon member -- this happens inconsistently on low volume long tail items too which cause sellers massive ammounts of grief (example: we sell a bath robe from XXXS-XXXL and sold tens of thousands of units, but 5 XXXS items of which 2 were returned and labeled as "not as described" (which puts the return cost on us instead of the consumer), this triggers a Performance Notification and suddenly our entire account - 40M in sales in 5k SKUs is now at risk of shutting down.

It's weird that it happens very inconsistently; we've also had store accounts which have 20% return rate on 1000s of items (pallet got damaged somewhere along shipping and crushed 20% of product) and just get an automated notice and no followup.

source: Amazon seller
UPI must be the single greatest thing that have come out of India in recent years; digital payments made absolutely simple.
When Stripe eats his lunch, he'll just find something else to simplify/solve they offer that's too complex, and probably still make money. They may even try and hire him as a product manager or something.
Poe's Law is strong in this one.
I wonder how long that reactor would provide useful energy. U-235 has a half life of 700 million years. If it were to last that long, they'd be dealing with thermonuclear Long Now-type problems.
ip lookup seems like a weird way to do name lookups...
I enjoy Reddit for small communities, with content matter expert moderators, etc. The default subs are effectively useless other than entertainment.
I didn't know this project was posted before; that's my fault and I apologize for it. I have contacted the mods to remove the post if they feel so. That said, I have never tried to spam HN, just posted links from our site which I thought the community might like, I'm sorry if it came across as spammy.
Oracle isn't complaining about their software copyright. They are complaining about their API copyright. They believe that they own the idea of a tool os where one tool is called "println" and another tool is called "math.sqrt". Their work was never copied, only their naming scheme.
We can’t say anything with certainty in science. It’s all inductive reasoning. Maybe the errors bars are bigger in some fields more than others, but that’s all we can do. I doubt archaeological evidence will ever determine the sleep schedules of teenagers from the pre-agricultural days.
Good point, thanks. I jumped the gun based on the title and end of day fatigue.
> mere machine transformation does not qualify

That minimises the contribution of thousands of researchers in designing the models and their training regimens.
Tldr

“””

"We think the snake is essentially operating in a model that control engineers would consider 'open loop,'" said Goldman. "It is setting a particular motor program on its body, which generates the characteristic wave pattern, and when it collides with the obstacle, its body mechanics allow it to deform and move the posts without degrading its speed."

“””

Edit-I feel like this is essentially 99%/“a vast majority” of my routine but otherwise complex behaviors like walking, breathing, sleeping, etc.
I would also highly recommend the Travis McGee novels by John D MacDonald.
But there once was this Diamond Mountain in Lower Pomerania...
What absolute nonsense. Interestingly you refute the idea that intelligence determines someone’s “worth,” yet from the start you read that into the original comment even though the commenter said nothing to suggest that viewpoint.

Your second paragraph is wholly unrelated since the OC isnt saying that every programmer is smarter than everyone else. And your first is trite humanist garbage.

“Just happened to luck out and be good at a talent that pays well”

And, coincidentally, that “talent” (abstract thinking, clarity and extended focus of thought) “””happen””” to be highly correlated with higher IQ.

Still rats in the race, just rats with a slightly higher score on a particular dimension.
Do they offer data enrichment? I wonder what effect will knowing things you didn’t learn directly from your friends have on the relationships.
There are eye tests where they use optics rather than dilation. Go get that.
Keeping transparency for each and every information would go a long way in helping you achieve their trust.Lookout for tools which can help you to achieve this.
The existence of those works that run on both means you really need to start coughing up evidence for your repeated assertion that Google's motives were strictly about something else.
I did mean actual heat, but the commenter's observation about WASD also probably contributes to why those keys in particular go bad. I don't know whether the heat source underneath them or the WASD gaming use is more of a factor though.
California bans government purchases of most gas-powered cars
There's not as big a niche as you might think. A lot of the software that needs valid UTF-8 don't validate upfront, but do it as part of a parsing process. An example would be something like an XML or JSON parser.

For more mundane uses like opening a big text file, you often want to tolerate invalid bytes and show a replacement character. You could use the technique, but you'd have to modify it to work for that usage.
I wonder how those idiot judges on the appeals court would feel if a bunch of programmers with Sharpies ran rampant through their law books, altering the long-established order of things with essentially no knowledge of what they were doing. It's a shame the universe doesn't provide for karmic retribution at this level.

Downvote if you like, but there's no other way to describe the absence of de minimis exceptions besides "idiocy." These judges are essentially monkeys in a machine shop.
Sorry if it wasn't phrased well, but that's what I was meaning by it being a serious question: does this lawsuit cover code written by Oracle engineers? It's my understanding the lawsuit was based on code developed by Sun, given they announced the lawsuit almost immediately after acquiring them in 2010, so it seems disingenuous to claim this is about their innovations, rather than Sun's. It feels equally rude to those Sun engineers to act as if Java in 2010 was their innovation. Buying something makes it your property, but not your creation. Whatever Oracle contributed after the acquisition, certainly would count as their innovations, but that was not the original basis for this lawsuit.
I always considered Sir Alec Guiness's role in "Tinker Tailor ..." and "Smiley's People" to be the pinnacle of acting in a short run series - he really became George Smiley. Since viewing the recent series "Chernobyl" I for the first time haved added Jared Harris to that pile of excellence for his portrayal of Vaverly Legasov. As troubling as some days seem to be in the world I find comfort that people like Guiness and Harris can still make me lose myself in a complicated character and a great story.
I won’t ask what company you’re at, but have you noticed a correlation between size of company and your happiness? Is this new Valhalla a significant smaller organization than Google?
And the obverse is r/sanfrancisco with moderation that has turned the sub into a sunset travel pic slide show punctuated by golden gate bridge pictures. What a wasted opportunity for something interesting. And it is leaking into r/bayarea ruining it as well.
I find ownership to be motivating. Good leaders inspire me to own results, but also empower me to own the “how”. When I do not own the method of obtaining success, I do not feel like I truly am responsible for success.
The truth is, with more complex work, good leaders realize they’re at the mercy of those that do the work, because of the complexity only the people actually doing the work have complete understanding of the system. Therefore, the best card to play is to be very clear about the desired outcome, including the whole strategy and context behind it, and hope the team owns it all.
I personally like this one where the scale of the solar system is demonstrated instead of described:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4524AAZdE
You think physics doesn't have warring theoretical perspectives? I suggest reading about the history of string theory, or MOND versus dark matter.

Progress in economics is slow, but there is progress. Questions do get settled. We don't mull over issues indefinitely. Most disputes about macroeconomics were settled by the financial crisis. We have all new disputes now.
The lawsuit was filed less than a month after the purchase went through. Oracle's engineers hadn't touched Java before their lawyers started attacking Google.
I see what you’re trying to do here, but I would be surprised if this helps in getting feedback from users. By far the main reason users don’t give feedback is because they don’t care about the product. This doesn’t help to address that issue.
I like the heat map to both encourage me to do more and to at a glance see when people are active.

I’ve never seen it as a competition not heard anyone and it would be foolish to think so as changing lots of lines has nothing to do with quality of my work. It would actually be nice to filter out contacts with idiots who might think that.

The stars are also something I just ignore and personally use it as a bookmarking tool.
Oh, the Dimond ring translator.[1] What a hack.

As I've pointed out before, the early history of computing was a struggle to get enough memory. Any kind of memory. IBM had an electronic multiplier in test before WWII. Eckert, at Columbia University, built some incredible semi-programmable kludges out of IBM tabulator equipment. (He went on to be one of the designers of the UNIVAC I.) But memory remained insanely expensive, more than a million dollars a megabyte, into the 1970s, 30 years after the first all-electronic arithmetic unit.

[1] http://etler.com/docs/Crossbar/articles/30-AMATranslator.pdf
> to do things that put your awareness into your moving body as much as possible

Could you explain it in simpler terms?
I'd argue that that is the wrong question, motive doesn't come into play in this law (specifically: The merger doctrine). You should rather be asking the hypothetical version. If someone tried to make a second system that could run the software, would they have had to copy the API? If so the API is not copyrightable.
A good opportunity is here to rep my favourite band, with a relevant song: Daredevil, by the Tragically Hip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K1EnQeAviU
What did Zuckerberg say in the leaked audio that was stupid?
They know nothing about Google culture. What they know is from HN threads and The Intercept.
Oh man, everyone who was involved in the making of this movie should be committed. The more you learn about the production the more insane it gets. From the lack of animal trainers, to the financial and production issues (took 11 years to make), to the injuries suffered by cast and crew (approximately 100 in total), lions and tigers escaping into the greater Los Angeles area, it just gets more crazy the more you look into it. The movie itself is also pretty terrible which is the icing on the cake.

Do yourself a favor and watch the trailer, and the cast and crew talking about making this move. Pure insanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cny_D50Rr44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGMOLyYKUA
And many companies unlike Google don't let you take food home. Or serve it very late, so you are working late. This is not the case at Google at all. The parent comment is so off the mark. These kind of posters have an image in their head from HN threads and keep propagating it in their comments.
https://git.esotericnonsense.com/pub/linux-raspberrypi4-aarc...

Just got the 64bit kernel compiled and running, now on a 64bit userland in case anyone else was interested. :)
I previously worked at Oracle for years in the dotcom era and I can tell you the company culture was horrid. It was completely sales driven, sales people would often lie to customers and promise the product had a feature which it either didn’t have or was not well supported and then have to fly in expensive consultants afterwards to fix the resulting shitshow.

I accompanied Sales Account managers with fellow female engineers to client meeting where they, and I’m not kidding, discussed which strip clubs they would go to after the meetings.

If Apple is a designer culture, and Google is an engineer culture, then I‘d say Oracle is driven by a hierarchy of sales culture.
Having done a UPI integration for a well-known multinational tech company, I consider it a mixed bag. For the end-user it's a great concept and continues to revolutionize payments in India. It's convenient and it will help India transition away from a cash economy. UPI is clearly the future.

However, UPI currently has a lot of problems. Number one is that to use UPI as a payment method for your product you have to integrate with one of India's banks, which in my experience are almost uniformly technically very bad. They provide almost no documentation, have frequent and often severe service outages, and don't even come close to meeting their availability SLAs. I'm sure over time it will improve but as it stands many of India's banks are not technically capable enough to support UPI with the level of reliability that most businesses require.
Not everyone strives for a relevant product just because of vendor lock-in, I'd wager most of HN would rather make good, portable products that only stay relevant due to continued hard work and incremental feature upgrades.
The opposite is true. Before the mathematics, everyone in macroeconomics was hopelessly confused. The mathematics makes the claims people are making much clearer. People still argue about what Marx meant in Capital. Nobody argues what Kydland and Prescott meant in "Aggregate Fluctations and Time to Build" (an early mathy path on macroeconomics), because it's all right there in the math.
You do your best on your projects. No one thinks day to day how their perf will be. What a stupid way to live.
Yeah. That's great!
Um no.

I show you this to prove to you that 1 eth confirmation isn't equal to 1 bitcoin confirmation. If it was anywhere equal in security, there would not be a >10X difference. And also multiplying confirmations by average block time and seeing that it is lower than bitcoin doesn't mean coinbase thinks it is more secure. It can also mean that the value of the average eth transaction on Coinbase is lower.

A 51% attacker will be able to churn out 100x the number of confirmations if confirmations were made 100x smaller. It doesn't matter how fast you make them or how many tricks like GHOST you add.

These are some helpful websites/articles on understanding confirmation security.

https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurance...

https://howmanyconfs.com/
Inflation was fixed when the Federal Reserve (led by Volker) increased interest rates to over 17%, causing the early 80's recession. [1] We've had other problems since then, but not inflation, so it increased confidence that the the Fed knows what it's doing.

But I don't know what Friedman had to do with this or how it affected theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession_in_the_U...
The company is also on track to pay out $500 million to content creators in 2019... 90 percent of funds are paid directly to content creators. Patreon takes 5 percent, and the remaining 5 percent covers transaction fees.

By my rough maths, that suggests Patreon runs on $25-$28 Million a year. I'd love to know what is costing them so much to be unsustainable (Customer support? Fraud department?)
I’m not sure how else you’d describe a vector than something that lives in a vector space. The approach of a mathematician might be different but I do believe the idea of scaling and adding things (and then stuff like inner products) is a lot more important than axioms. And at least to me the rules for manipulating them fall out after a huge amount of technical work and details.
I imagine the correct read is 'the innovations belonging to oracle', rather than 'the innovations performed by oracle'.
Very well written and reasoned paper. Thanks for sharing t_serpico!
Apple 'surprised' by Germany's new law to open up mobile payments
Not only are the keys fairly consistent and logical but the override mechanism is very good. Simply by using System Preferences (Keyboard), you can customize pretty much everything. For instance, I use that to change things I would rather not trigger easily, e.g. not using command-M for Minimize. And on the Mac you don’t really need “features” like Chrome’s “hold command-Q to quit” because you can simply change the key equivalent to anything you want to make it less error-prone, e.g. shift-control-Q or something.
The most recent econ Nobel was given to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer for experiments in development economics. Most of these assess the cost-benefit of different policies.

Kahneman and Smith also won the 2002 econ Nobel for experiments -- Kahneman for decision-making under uncertainty, and Smith for experimental markets.
It's funny how he knew this from outside Google.
I mean this respectfully - why are you owed transparency?

Google is a company, not a collective. Companies typically have various controlled ways of disseminating information, both internally and externally.

Internal transparency (at a company of Google’s size) effectively means public transparency... ie all of the inner workings are known to everyone. I’m not aware of any for-profit organization that can function effectively that way.