skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to the Plano tx location this month and it was incredibly depressing. Felt like a ghost town. It looks like they've stopped restocking everything, so it's felt pretty useless to go in person since anything I've needed they don't have in stock. Sound rooms to listen to different speakers in the back completely gutted, only cheap netbooks in the laptop section. None of the tablets I was interested in on display to try out in person. No motherboards as far as I saw. Entire isles 90% empty. Nothing even in the center big isle walking spaces to grab your attention and make going there to walk around and browse for fun worth it.

Was really sad because I grew up going to this store and it played a big role in my interest in tech. As a kid it felt like a technology mecca, I could easily spend hours wandering the store with my dad. It's where my dad and I bought everything to build our first PC.
Went to the Fry’s in Concord last weekend. All the shelves were bare. All the shelves in the cages behind the registers were bare. It literally looked like a store that was going out of business and marked all the remaining things to 70% off. You know the really crappy things. In this case all they had were karaoke machines, as seen on tv things, security cameras. It literally was depressing seeing only a dozen motherboards total in the PC components section.
Software licenses still work exactly the way we've always thought they do if the federal circuits ruling is shot down. Copyright still works exactly the way we've always thought it done.

No one has ever thought that you could stop people from copying APIs. If they did all sorts of things like Linux (hi Unix), Wine, Windows Subsystem For Linux, AMD x86 CPUs (ok, Intel might have licensed them to avoid anti trust issues), Intel x64 CPUs, and so on would not exist.
You notice basically everyone funny is raging against outrage culture
Those are too abstract as described. Could you copyright an implementation of those? Yes. And if someone did you shouldn't infringe on theirs you should write your own. But that's not new, you can find tons of different basic data structure implementations out there, with a variety of licenses.
That's only some meetings ("Many regular, internal meetings") which are speculated to be mere demonstrations of authority. Not all meetings fall in this category, and it seems useful (and good for your happiness) to be able to discern these when deciding which meetings are worth your time to attend.
The destruction of interoperability wasn't the goal in mind with Android either. Java ME sucked, and SE is somehow even a worse fit for phones. The fundamental process model destroys battery life, hence the switch in Android to that model that'll shut the app down basically at any time and allow it to save state, so it can come back to where it was later. In addition to that, an IPC system was added (which basically doesn't exist in Java ME), and a bunch of support for devices that are only accessible in Java via 3rd party libraries anyway. Oh, and the lack of swing. But come on, even Eclipse doesn't use swing.
A Variant of Zombieload Flaw Hits Intel's Newest Cascade Lake Chips
No apps

Wrong: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/japantaxi/id481647073

Need to communicate destination.

Not with the app.

Primarily use cash

Wrong, you can pay by many means, including the IC card, this is a good option and can be used with Apple wallet, super convenient.

Expensive

Compared to what?

Paper receipts

Not when using the app, you can just say you don't want a receipt.

No real-time status tracking

Wrong, the app does this too.

Hard to get back lost items

Call taxi company, get it back? Tokyo taxi drivers usually inspect the taxi before you get out too, I notice they do this every time I get a cab.

Another benefit IMO is there are cabs driving around everywhere, you don't have to hail and wait for a cab, if it starts raining, you can just jump into a cab usually in under a minute.
Great work, Jake Albaugh. Needs one critical revision, though: I, V, VI, IV in major MUST NOT be allowed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
That’s also an interesting point. People have an aversion to those innards, or “by-products,” being included in food, but our disgust isn’t rational, and cats don’t share it. Just because a cat food includes meat by-products doesn’t make it any worse than just muscle meat, and it can be cheaper because of that. Cats like the flavor and it’s good for them.
Eh, that's nitpicking. "class Stack<T> { void push(t: T); T pop(void); }" is not too abstract, and has been written down many times.
There is an interesting analogy. Two uranium hemispheres remain peaceful only until they are joined.
Maybe a better word could have been chosen. But in perspective, almost every team on average has at least one person with an alcohol problem of some sort.
> "Playing videogames" isn't enjoying your life "in full", especially if you're smart and could do things that are really meaningful instead.

Why is "playing videogames" considered not meaningful? I have a group of friends that I have played video games with for over 10 years. We have shared a number of life ups and downs together and have met up in person numerous times. I would argue that we all bonded over videogames and it was the door that opened a broader friendship among each of us. Oh yeah, to be a bit a dick, we all make over 200 on average, with one way north of that. Every one of us is well-adjusted and now married.

That's really what you wanted to measure, right? How "successful" one is. Stereotyping isn't helpful. It blinds you to things that exist as they are.

Grow up.
Found it!

https://youtu.be/1xWg54mdQos
It's not people intimidated by email. It's people intimidated by configuring their system to programmatically send email.

Residential ISPs, for example, usually block smtp ports. You can send via gmail, but that still requires some fiddly configuration. And at least the way I figured out how to do it, it involves a cleartext password sitting on my filesystem, which I'm not too happy about. (It's a password limited to sending email as me, but that's kind of a big deal.)

I would much prefer to push patches to people's projects via my revision control system. It's ok with me if that requires some sort of push-only account.
I think rather, it's on you to explain why the software industry doesn't have to respect property laws like every other industry.

The industry wouldn't have to grind to a halt if it had been respecting those rights from the beginning.

If companies want to provide their code, API's, or any other intellectual property to the world at large, a la public domain, they are free to do that. No one is stopping them.

But if someone in the software industry wants to protect their IP, they should have those rights, just like any other inventor/writer in any other industry.
I agree with you, but I want to add some precision to this. In some meetings I feel powerless, and I find them absolutely horrible. In other meetings I have a voice anytime I want to use it, and I feel powerful, and I wouldn't miss them for anything less than a diarrhea poisoning incident.

Edit: In most meetings I feel neutral and disaffected.
Apple is worth something like 1.1 trillion dollars , I assure you there is more to it than hype
To add some precision: doesn't lead to consumer price inflation.

Increasing the money supply has caused massive inflation; the price of gold isn't where it is because the colour yellow is in fashion. Asset prices are out of control.
I always treat slack as asynchronous.

I find phonecalls less disruptive, they happen once, and the issue is addressed. If it is dragging too long, we move it to a meeting.

A chat session can continue indeterminate amount if time, keep flaring up and distracting you as different people chime in from half-afk half-paying attention standpoint.
The serial ports make me feel very Zentronic.
Besides that:

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/video-display-terminal
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal

So not entirely incorrect ;-)
You didn't read https://invidio.us/privacy
Professional Hackers, What Books You Read?
I'm an academic in Information Systems, and I want to become a infosec professional. But in this question, I'm not asking only technical books, also other genres of books you've read or want to read.
There’s Finally a Decent Smartwatch for Android
If badging in for a free meal (which is "required", but not enforced) is one of your top complaints, this comment will only reinforce how ridiculously entitled some tech workers have become.

Not sure what office you work or worked in, but where I'm at they regularly go over the top with decorations during celebrations. It's pretty awesome.
> This is a bad analogy. You don't need to copy title and chapter names to allow other people to "interoperate" (read, scan, and index I guess?) with the book.

Bad analogies are inevitable, and aren't the commenter's fault. It's the Federal Circuit's fault, for trying to blur the lines between functional matters (the domain of patents) and copyright matters. Any analogy that's simple enough to quickly understand will suffer from basically this same flaw, or else not apply to this case.
Yes and no, I guess if that's what they meant then yes I was nitpicking but I took it literally (lots of folks confuse concepts between patents, copyrights and trademarks. Less common on HN but still happens. )
They can be progressive too: [1]

> A direct, personal consumption tax may take the form of an expenditure tax, that is, an income tax that deducts savings and investments, such as the Hall–Rabushka flat tax. A direct consumption tax may be called an expenditure tax, a cash-flow tax, or a consumed-income tax and can be flat or progressive...

> This form of tax applies to the difference between the income of an individual and the increase/decrease in his savings. Like the other consumption taxes, simple personal consumption taxes tend to be regressive with respect to income. However, because this tax applies on an individual basis, it can be made as progressive as a progressive personal income tax. Just as income tax rates increase with personal income, consumption tax rates increase with personal consumption. Economists from Milton Friedman to Edward Gramlich and Robert H. Frank have supported a progressive consumption tax.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax
I wonder if the authors plan to get this merged into commonly used implementations of UTF-8 validators so that folks can benefit from their work.

Anyone have any ideas about which open source codebases UTF-8 validators exist in?
This case clearly shows how taking something from the public and making is private is essentially a greedy and harmful activity. Unfortunately, our economy is based on this idea.... it doesn't have to be though.
Old tech is cool to me because so much of it was human scale.

One can just see the parts. Love it.
It's the principle. Other people shouldn't have to be sent counterfeit items like I was after I make it clear that I was sent a fake item. Amazon certainly shouldn't profit from it, either.
I second this. I have Keratoconus and was going crazy for a year due to extreme vision problems about a decade ago until I was properly diagnosed and treated.
What Is This Link?
Very few things in economics are resolved theoretically; they're more often improved empirically.

Take for example stagflation. Previously, economists assumed a simple linear relationship between inflation and unemployment (Philips curve). That failed to hold in the 1970s.

And now, economists assume a simple linear-dynamics relationship between expected inflation and unemployment (augmented Philips curve).
What is the frightening part to you?

Sincere question. I am just curious for perspective. I like old tech and am always interested in others general take on it.
> I think rather, it's on you to explain why the software industry doesn't have to respect property laws like every other industry.

Those "property laws" you allude to don't cover software. Software is covered by separate laws that are designed to function similarly in many ways, but the differences are real.

> The industry wouldn't have to grind to a halt if it had been respecting those rights from the beginning.

There's no legal precedent establishing the existence of those rights, and quite a bit to the contrary.

> But if someone in the software industry wants to protect their IP, they should have those rights, just like any other inventor/writer in any other industry.

No. Copyright doesn't apply to every kind of idea or writing. This has been explained elsewhere in this thread, and in most previous discussions about this case.
Makes you wonder what secrets he took to the grave. Thus the military security right up to the very end.
Don't forget Google Toolbar.

That was the product credited with getting him noticed for better or worse. A strategically vital and utterly boring piece of software which aligns well with how the company has changed.
My Apple 2 has 100ns RAM. I am pretty sure slightly faster machines used 80ns.

This old memory speed seems fairly respectable for the time.
After much outcry they have reversed this decision, but it’s not encouraging. One of the employees was very dismissive of concerns on the Ubiquiti subreddit.
For anyone to care you'd have to be an adversary of the manufacturer who published the specification. Generally they publish these details in order to encourage people to port OSs and compilers.

If a tree infringes in the woods and the silicon manufacturer doesn't hear it...
WPP alone is 130k. There are a few at that scale, just like the vast, vast majority of tech companies aren't Google's scale.
> Recordings and videos could get leaked at any time by an employee to the media or on social media, which will further blow it up (ahem, like with Facebook)

Worth clarifying a point. The leakers didn't make Zuck say stupid things.

I can understand that having scrutiny on every single communication is probably pretty hard, but people often neglect that the best PR scandal avoidance mechanism is to not do stupid things.
Your beef is with open source licenses.
I guess that’s true to a certain extent. Unfortunately, today it is very apparent that the former example is conflated with the latter all the time. The “status quo” for the noisy people really is “white privilege and class alliance” (I’m using your terms to try to not inject any other value statements into this obviously contentious issue).
Patreon:

You have too many employees. You are trying to do too much. You are not a tech company. Your business model should be that you facilitate transactions between multiple parties. To do this, you take a small cut, on top of the transaction fees the banks take that you pass on.

Stop being greedy.
Sounds like his app is for people who already are using stripe (existing online store, etc) and want to start using Stripe for in-person too.
WOW ;o; speechless ;_;
Amazon.cn has been shut down.[0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/amazon-china-marketplace-clo...
The moment your REST API includes any kind of validating schema, that will be the copyrightable "code API".
> If you support the idea that APIs can’t be copyrighted, and ignoring the evilness of Oracle and Google, what’s your reasoning?

The reasoning is quite simple and obvious: We have long-standing statutory and case law that defines specifically what is or isn't eligible for copyright protection, or patents, or trademarks. Your gut feelings about whether your API deserves protection because of how much effort you put into it are completely irrelevant to that legal framework.
> From a purely technical point of view, APIs being free to reuse is an awesome thing that makes for a more vibrant and competitive software ecosystem

This is not merely a technical benefit, it's a practical one and represents the status quo. The fact that there's no precedent isn't because it's new, it's because no one ever thought it was infringing before.
The Wine case is particularly amusing, because WSL (v1) would be equally infringing in the exact opposite direction.
I automatically replace that with "the best place to work (for me) I know of". Someone who isn't into software or hardware but loves dancing might be very bored at Google, someone who loves animals might be happier as a vet, and people who enjoy organizing information and making it accessible to humans will probably be better off as a librarian, and so on.
How is that supposed to be determined? By hiring more lawyers, no doubt.
You seem to be arbitrarily setting the scope for substitutability to Java as a whole, but why? Why can't it be e.g. individual classes, or even methods on them? Two pieces of Java code pretty much never need the entirety of J2SE API to interact.
>They’re they hard part

Are they though?

Implementors aren't piggybacking on APIs because they can't come up with anything better, they can ... easily. They are implementing those APIs because they want compiled Java programs to run on their runtime.
I write tests whenever something breaks. That way I have a record of what has broken in the past and nothing breaks twice.

Don't tell anyone.
Couldn't stripe just add this feature in their mobile app? Why haven't they done so?
I think you're confusing the "fixed text" requirement with the question of whether the Java language constrains the declaration of an API to a unique textual representation. The latter is more or less true, but the declaration that the compiler ingests isn't the only way to describe a Java API in writing.
And, most blatantly, C# pretty much used the Java API with only a change of case. Microsoft is the next logical target for a lawsuit after Google.

Remind me: Did Microsoft file an amicus brief in this case? If so, on which side?
It's ridiculous this is being decided by the courts instead of legislatively.

Fair use doctrine was obviously never intended to apply to reimplementing API's either way because it didn't exist yet.

Rather than have a court make up some kind of ultimately arbitrary precedent ruling either way, Congress should be debating the ramifications of whether reimplementing API's is explicitly fair use or not, considering both pros and cons to the economy, with opportunity for all tech companies to weigh in -- and then pass a good law.

Courts interpret law, they aren't supposed to make it, and the Supreme Court certainly isn't even remotely qualified to determine what's the best policy for a healthy dynamic tech economy here. The law is so ambiguous here that Congress is shirking its duties by not establishing relevant law here.
I mean SATA 3 has a bit more than 500MB/s right, and PCIe SSDs run at between 1-4 GB/s? so a machine today (at least 8GB of RAM maybe in the hundreds) would have an even bigger ratio between memory size and disk transfer speed.
You're right, maybe it's from an eTrex not a Nokia 3650! I found it in a scrapyard, and like it because of the metal clip. I had a few different ones before with plastic clips, but they broke eventually.
Yes, please see some experts.

Optometrists and opthalmologists have different training. I always assumed the MD was better, but for my condition optometrists were more help. See both. Get a second and third opinion. It’s important!
this is a pretty discussion but not a very good one if you don't already know some things.

for example

>the holes of dimension 0 are unconnected components

in this sentence

>the holes of dimension 0 are unconnected components, the holes of dimension 1 may be surrounded by a loop, whereas those of dimension 2 may be enclosed by surfaces

stands out because it's the only classification that's formal (i actually don't know what the meaning of unconnected component here is but i suspect it means a point?).

then C(X) is defined informally as

>The set of "objects of dimension 𝑘" will be denoted 𝐶𝑘(𝑋)

but this informal definition doesn't say explicitly that it's the set of objects in X (until later).

then orientation is defined in a very confusing way

>for now it will be some additional property that takes two opposite values ("one the negative of the other one")

but i will say that the discussion of quotienting was kind of an aha moment for me (about why you'd rather work in the quotient than the set itself) and i've been dipping toes into algebra for a loooooong time.

anyway you kind of have to read it like a poem (in that you should try to get a feeling rather than a precise idea) but that's not very useful.

also i'm interested in how the diagrams were created. looks like latex + tikz?

also it would've make more sense to show

>im ∂𝑘⊂ker ∂𝑘-1

instead of

>im ∂𝑘+1⊂ker ∂𝑘

to stay with the notation in the previous sentence
Red Hat spreads FUD about community open source software
It's not hard to see why people are not understanding this correctly.

The HN link text:

> Training algorithms on copyrighted data not illegal: US Supreme Court

The sub-heading for the article:

> Training algorithms on copyrighted data is not illegal, according to the United States Supreme Court.
> Like their shuttle looks like a prison bus but is labeled "disruptive thinkers transport" or some such.

You're joking, right?
Cellular Survival over Genomic Perfection
Google copied Java's API, but not the implementation. The question at hand is whether that matters - a question that you are assuming the answer to, as if it is absolutely straightforward and clear. I really doubt your interpretation of the situation.
>> So, for example, homeless people and very sick people and disabled people can join the conversation and their personal problems can be inadvertently disruptive in a way that’s very hard to deal with both humanely and effectively.

I feel this is worded extermely clumsimly and it puts people who are homeless, sick or disabled (!) on the spot for causing trouble.

From my experience on HN and other internet message boards, people who are healthy and financially well-off can do a fine job of being disruptive and engaging in flame wars. I don't see the reason to single out homeless, sick or disabled people as being particularly notable for being disruptive.
Diff their ToSs and then focus on whatever equals (Stripe minus Square).

Or maybe he ranks #1 in Google for 2% of the search terms that relate to processing credit cards.
Complaints of gang-stalking: an exploratory study (2015) [pdf]
An Overview of Clang – 2019 LLVM Developers’ Meeting
In 1958, A. W. Phillips discovered an empirical relationship between inflation and unemployment, now called the Phillips Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve) -- the higher the inflation rate, the lower the unemployment rate.

Milton Friedman argued that the trade-off only existed for unexpected inflation. Once everyone anticipates that inflation, it will have no impact on unemployment. That's what happened in the stagflation era.

The New Keynesians use an expectations-adjusted Phillips curve, which take into account this effect on expectations. In New Keynesianism there is a short-run trade-off, because prices do not instantly adjust, but there is no long-run trade-off once prices actually do adjust.
Which deal? Are you saying about Dragonfly?
This whole thread is a dumpster fire.

Sadly most even remotely political topics have started to turn into one, even on HN.

It's getting to the point where I wish moderators would just downrank such topics to position 20+ or outright ban them front the frontpage.

Or at least slap some clear "POLITICAL" tag on it and give users a filter option.
I would argue that the purpose is not tyranny, but to make you feel like you are part of a team, and that people's progress is being checked on.

If tou start feeling "whether I do honest work or slack, it makes no difference" you might start losing motivation.
Um, you started that analogy...