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I don't think so. It is just something that people who want others to have children project into childless people with pet. It is something to invalidate/insult childless people with. Or childless in general. And occasionally to those with one child and pets.

I have never heard childless person say that they have pet instead of children. They don't have pets instead of children.

They just don't have kids and have pets. Not as replacement tho.
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If it's text it's code. The fact that it doesn't do anything doesn't enter the argument.
I was typing something in response, but I think the best advice is advocating mental health services. Sorry if that violates the rules.
Ask HN: Has therapy helped you figure out major life conflicts?
Hi

Going through career midlife crisis. Not sure where to turn for help. Thinking of going for therapy or psychologist.

Wondering if anyone would recommend this ?
I think the answer is pretty clear. If you already have a channel to customers you can focus on the product. If not, increasing reach can be much more beneficial.

That can work for others too. Maybe building an audience via a blog can be worth more than paid advertising, depending on the target audience.
> However, I do have problem with your statement "without any consideration at all for the social impact". I fear this statement goes to an extreme which would never be hold by any judge in real life.

A lower court judge?

Absolutely not. They have huge amounts of discretion in making their judgements.

The Supreme Court justice?

Absolutely yes. In cases where the Supreme Court is exercising it’s appellate jurisdiction, the only authority it has it to determine constitutionality, and interpret existing legislation. If the legislature passes bad legislation, as long as it doesn’t violate the constitution, then the Supreme Court has no authority to over turn it. This isn’t an extreme position, it’s the constitutionally prescribed role of the Supreme Court.
Here is a novel idea, why have student loans?

As a society we managed to have universities before universal student loans, why must we have them now?
Or data, you can copyright presentation but not facts. Those facts can take a lot of effort to calculate, etc. - but ultimately they are not a creative work.
40 tons is about 80 thousand pounds. The above poster said "a few" thousand. 80 is usually more than a few... But, What is the scale of the problem? How much trash is there?

Maybe it is correct to think of 40 tons as not a big dent in the problem, but I'm not sure.
Copyrighting API means there no longer is operability allowed, not only between proprietary and open source software, but also between incompatible open source software. For example ruling in Oracle's favor means no ZFS on Linux.

Your concern about Amazon implementing proprietary solutions using open source API I believe is not an issue. I actually can't see it being one. It's like a proprietary service using TCP/IP. I don't think it would be easier to write an open source client, if there was a proprietary stack that copyright would prevent you from implementing anything compatible with it.
From the article:

> The satellites’ orbits are configured such that one of the three passes within almost every point on the globe every three hours.

So these cover Europe too.
Has anyone experimented with forums that require verified identity? The forum would have to add a hell of alot of value to get people to do it, but I'd imagine it's the most airtight way to stop trolls and spammers.

It wouldn't scale particularly well, but most forums have a relatively small group of posters adding all the value anyway.
> You're allowed to tell lies to protect your health and safety

That's like a basic survival instinct. It transcends morality. I'd tell people that Jesus really was the son of a god if it meant living to see another day. I'd tell people other lies in order to guarantee I receive life saving drugs.
> it’s basically an expected outcome given what we think we know about pi.

There is a massive gulf between searching deep into random digits to find something, down to completely unimaginable depths, entire universe-fulls of digits discarded...

and having it be right there, near the surface, in one of the most common numbers that exists. The book talks about the latter.

What this page is about is a third option. It's not searching through primes or other math-derived numbers. It's constructing a number that already has a pattern, which is trivial, and then it's searching nearby numbers until it hits a prime.
I live in Thailand and always get the Thai links first. Hate it because can't read Thai.
I've only looked at the readme for gpu.js so far but from that I guess it's doing some sort of transformation from the subset of JS it supports in to GLSL, and then running that as a shader in a WebGL context. Presumably there's a not-significant overhead in both starting it up and getting data back from the gpu.js function. Is there a way to "compile" a gpu.js function to remove the translation step? That could be really useful.
A: this is fantastic. B: why don't all streaming services simply have a by-language option? It's kind of a guaranteed "long tail" for any audio or audio-video presentation: people who want hear language X language spoken.
If for convenience I search for "Amazon product X" on my browser bar instead of directly on Amazon, that means that in order for Amazon to generate a certain amount of profit on that product they also have to pay my search engine now, which means all other things equal, this costs me money.

Of course in real life it's not that simple a situation but it's easy to see that everyone behaving like this ends up with the consumer essentially losing money.
> Could you give quotes to support the claim that he "justifies examples of violence and intimidation against women in the industry"? I read the article - did I miss that part?

It's a cultural thing. Some people (particularly among the younger generation or in the trans-community) seems to equate having their opinions challenged count as some form of "violence" and intimidation. These people don't want a discussion, unless everyone up front agrees to only agree to their point of view.

And somehow they are gaining ground, killing rational debate and freedom of speech, one tiny little step at a time, all in the name of tolerance and freedom.
I'd like to diversify but I'm pretty tied in at this point. iPhone, iPad, Macbook, Apple Watch, Apple TV, big iTunes Movie library, Apple Card, photos, contacts etc etc. I'm pretty happy with most of these but the switching cost is legit.
Companies are doing this all the time and not prosecuted (or prosecuted and not found guilty); they just do not make it obvious. So the ‘will’ is not that cut and dry really; even in countries where bankruptcies are not normal and frowned upon (like NL), there are many companies only created to spend money and killed off when it runs out. On paper they look like real businesses. Also it is not unusual to put employees in a separate llc and kill that when the money runs out; again that happens a lot, even with the intent of doing that. As long as it looks good on the outside, it works. I cannot stand it personally but there are not many solutions to resolve it; you cannot read the minds of the founders to get their real intentions.
Wouldn't it be better to do that over S3 / cloud storage? And would be much smaller once minified and compressed
College students are increasingly finding ‘sugar daddies’ preferable to loans
How is this "HN for tech podcasts"? Are there comments somewhere that I can't see? I would love it if there were a way to annotate/comment on specific statements in podcasts, because I think podcasters (and their guests) get away with saying untrue things more than people who write blog posts/articles.

It's super easy to tweet out a quote and evidence that it was false. There is much more friction involved in quoting a podcast, noting the time stamp, and packaging that up with evidence in a tweet. Wish there were an easier way!
> Indigenous people is still the catch-all term.

Perhaps that's the case in Australia, but that term is very rarely used in the US. As the parent states, it's "Native American" or "American Indian" when reaching for a catch-all, followed by a tribe name when specifics are required. "Indigenous people" just isn't used really at all here.
How do you determine which tenured professors aren't pulling their weight? How do you pull your weight as a professor of some non-employable field of learning? Higher learning isn't vocational training, it's about creating an educated workforce.
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> also between incompatible open source software. For example ruling in Oracle's favor means no ZFS on Linux.

Can you please elaborate here? I don't understand what you mean.

It is already the case that you can not relicense software under and incompatible license.

> I actually can't see it being one.

Let's say I write an amazing database. It's open source, and my license dictates that any modifications to the source code get contributed back.

Someone else clones the repo, guys everything except the APIs, and reimplements what's inside. They then release this under an incompatible, proprietary license.

Why is that ok? It seems like a clear violation of the intent of my copyright. And it's already what we see AWS doing, so this is obviously a lever that large companies are willing to pull.
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Still not sure how that is related to inclusivity. Who is getting discriminated?
For a proof of correctness, you can consider the operation of a circuit, treating it one full adder at a time. The output carry bit is monotone in the inputs, so if an unknown bit could affect whether the input carry bit is set, it will be 1 when all unknown bits are assumed to be 1 and 0 when all unknown bits are assumed to be 0.

The output non-carry bit is unknown if and only if at least one of the inputs (a,b or carry) is unknown. The first 2 cases are covered explicitly (a.unknowns|b.unknowns), and if both a and b are known and input carry is unknown, the input carry bit will differ between min and max (by the above argument), hence min will differ from max at that bit.
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I read before that student debt is not dischargeable, but can anyone explain me please, why? I mean, what makes it so different from any other kind of debt?
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By showing that you made no reasonable effort to pay it off. They’ll just ask why didn’t you work and pay it off as normal.

What do you think at the moment stops graduates taking out a credit card, blowing 100k on it on holidays and then declaring bankruptcy? The same fraud laws as would stop you from clearly never intending to pay off your student debts.
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Forget discharging the debt. Make the universities pay it back. Go after the endowments. The universities committed widespread fraud against an entire generation.
Funny how he would criticize users who want to use spaces in their file names, instead of shells that make it practically impossible for programmers to support spaces in file names.
If an indigenous land acknowledgement is so commonplace, then the institution should simply make the decision for its teachers and require its inclusion in their documents.

Being compelled to include something you may not actually agree with is onerous.

And it opens the door for other things to included as well. What if two different groups of student activists demand that you include contradictory statements?

I can understand why an instructor would opt to not include ANY political statements.
Algorithms work fine on countable subsets of real numbers, as long as the set you use is discrete at some finite resolution. You only run into trouble if you have no lower bound for separation. It's the same problem even if you have only a countable number of numbers, but you have no lower bound for the smallest positive number or upper bound for the largest number.

Even integers are non computable in finite time, one one of them might be arbitrarily large.
My recollection was that size_t and ptrdiff_t were present in c89. size_t was the type yielded by sizeof. This draft appears to corroborate my recollection:

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#3.3.3.4
Dunno. I finally left VLSI design because it was effectively a career dead end. Sense a trend? :)

While I still regard myself as a vastly better VLSI designer than programmer, my ability to wrangle software the whole way from assembly language on a chip to just shy of the top of a full web stack pays far better than my ability to wrangle transistors. And, in my opinion, attacks far more interesting problems.
I've never understood the appeal of this sort of thing. The idea is create a common interface to a bunch of different databases. But you still have to write or generate SQL that is specific to whatever database you're actually using. Outside of a very narrow range of apps (eg SQL-IDE kinds of tools), you're going to be both coupled to a specific database and limited by lowest-common-denominator design constraints in the interface library. Ugh.
> At what age should someone be held to a 100k they took out in loans?

Are you proposing that we get rid of bankruptcy completely and hold everyone to their loans?
BZZZT! You have just violated the Principle of Least Astonishment.

https://uxplanet.org/the-principle-of-least-astonishment-bc3...
And this is loan is made contingent on the promise that graduating from university will grant you a middle-class job, which in the case of being underwater in student loan debt, means they failed to provide. People wouldn't take these loans if they didn't think college was supposed to pay them back. That's the only reason 99% of the population would go into debt attending college. And that's the lie we've hammered into kids since they were in first grade like a cult.
Funny how you just say these things as if they were true, without them being true, or any evidence.

If you want to be pedantic, Unix has ALWAYS allowed ANY character in file names, except for "/" (unless you have a GatorBox).

You once said: "Raw spaces in filenames are an abomination that make shell scripting unnecessarily difficult."

No, bash is an abomination that makes shell scripting unnecessarily difficult.

Prohibiting spaces in file names seems to be an obsession with you. (How about tabs? ;) You've said you don't see why people should be able to name their files anything they want, and that your reason for prohibiting billions of people from doing what they want is to make your bash scripts simpler. Then simply don't use bash, instead of trying to change the world. Read what I replied to you when you said that 7 months ago, and tell me if the world has changed so much since then that you're right this time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19952668

Slash is the ONLY character you're not allowed to have under Unix. There are no good reasons to disallow spaces. Disallowing characters in file names that you're allowed to have solves absolutely no problems, it only causes them.

There used to be a bug in the Gatorbox Mac Localtalk-to-Ethernet NFS bridge that could somehow trick Unix into putting slashes into file names via NFS, and Unix would totally shit itself when that happened. That was because Macs at the time (1991 or so) allowed you to use slashes (and spaces of course, but not colons), and of course those silly Mac people, being touchy feely humans instead of hard core nerds, would dare to name files with dates like "My Spreadsheet 01/02/1991".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GatorBox

I just tried to create a file name on the Mac in Finder with a slash in it, and it actually let me! But Emacs dired says it actually ended up with a ":" in it. So then I tried to create a file name with a colon in it, and Finder said: "Try using a name with fewer characters or with no punctuation marks." Must be backwards compatibility for all those old Mac files with slashes in their name. Go figure!

If you think nobody would ever want to use a space or a slash in a file name, then you should get out more often and talk to real people in the real world. There are more of them than you seem to believe!
If you could plant some muscle in the ground and sprout a cow, muscle would be also be so complex we wouldn't expect to synthesize it soon either.
The results are only absurd if you hold absurd axioms like believing that uncomputable numbers can be computed, or that the real number set is real.
Do you have an objective (or at least intersubjective) measure for search result quality which could provide some evidence for your claim?

Right now you are grounding on anecdotal evidence which is generally accepted to be a quite weak form of argument.

I am asking out if interest because I am a happy user of ddg and wonder what I am missing out on? Are my needs so different from other users that I don’t have the issue that you are describing at all? Are you sure it’s not just a “this is slightly different so it must be worse” type situation?
> perhaps comparable with a poem.

Like in: The implementation are the words and the API is what makes them rhime?
Bug free is a not realistic but if you are a programmer and definitely if you are a tech founder you definitely should be willing to bet your financial future on writing reasonably low bug code.

If you are a programmer, I kind of find the comment puzzling; maybe I am reading you wrong, but you seem to be saying that you are writing code for some company while being happy to commit it and not care if the company loses money if your code is bad? As you would not bet on your work yourself, but you do not mind your employer paying you for it and as such betting some of it’s financial future on your work? Sorry if I misunderstood your comment.
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My thought is the truth requires two people, one to tell and one to listen. If a teenager has to lie to protect their health and safety the guilt isn't on them. The guilt is on those that won't deal with the truth.
Do you have a link to this story?
I don't know how I would get a $100k bill from a spike. That ignorance is enough for me to avoid using the service - unless I know how the billing works, what my maximum monthly bill is going to be (with a hard limit that cannot be crossed), and exactly where all the gotchas are then I won't use the platform.

Auto-scaling magic is lovely in theory, but in practise it is hard.

Annecdata - a video streaming startup here in Newcastle that enabled DJs to stream live sets was used to illegally stream some football games. The subsequent bandwidth bill killed the startup. Yes, they got some things wrong with their tech, and security, but that's the danger that put's people off using "clever" services.
I agree with everything except,

> Don’t add a co-founder after the fact

Late co-founder makes a lot of practical sense to me.

- It's less risky for the incoming person to join a small profitable company instead of joining an idea

- You broadly know the problem space you will be working in (market, customers etc.) and the vision/direction of the company. Less likely to have fallouts a year or two down the line

- More informed equity negotiation than just splitting it equally
Virtual cards with limits are an answer to this. Works very well.
That's what organisational transformations are for
Been using this extension for a bit now. Turn on machine translations. The default translations are translating the meaning but not word by word. The machine translations are the latter. Which is way better for learning, which is why I assume it's a premium feature.
why on earth is this not covered by some sort of fund?
Absolutely don't do a chargeback. They will lock out anything that requires payment, and possible more.
Wouldnt they need to check this based on location, and not on user interface language though?
Prime video shows all subtitles. Even if we assume it is licensing, then Netflix's own shows should show more subtitles, but they just don't. I think they see showing tons of subtitle languages being shown as an UX issue.
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I think you were right the first time.
A few relevant points regarding copyright law.[1]

1. Copyright is generally held in "works of authorship", which is to say, the work of an author. Whether or not a computer program (AI or otherwise) is an author is the first question in this case.[2]

2. Copyright law provides protection against unauthorised copying of a work. Independent creation is not a copyright violation, for all those who've suggested composig all possible (or for the more efficiently-minded, probable) works of a given length. If another party independently creates a similar work (in whole or part), there is no copyright violation.

3. Copyright persists only in expression and not in the meaning or function of a work. This is in particular contrast to patent and trade secrets law.

The Chinese ruling, as described, fails multiple tests and would not qualify under present general copyright law. Though the possibility of the law changing given changing uses and practices does exist. I don't expect in the near term that this case will have much significance.

By way of highlighting the ... interesting dynamics ... posed by increasing use of AI in creating content -- various systems creating de novo faces, images, audio, or video, as well as text, as examples -- does give some pause. What are the implications of creating such content via AI where the content itself is entirely outside the scope of copyright law?

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Notes:

1. US-centric, though generally applying to WIPO / Berne rules. Not legal advice.

2. 17 USC 102(a) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102
They have added more streaming features in recent months, so perhaps this is their pivot.

Their idea of patrons is boosting servers for perks which is sort of similar but the price of boosting is far higher than Patreon sponsorship and there's no way afaik for servers to customise what the booster gets as reward (the whole server gets the reward)
Afaik, they are profits on some exceptional schools and financial loss everywhere else.