skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referencing any fraud laws in particular? They could be useful resources for folks on this thread who've received fake/counterfeit items.

As I understand it, although purchases are made through a single service (Amazon), products are sourced from a large number of sellers who list items on their marketplace. It could be useful to find out how the laws you mention are written and enforced in that kind of environment.

At the moment I'd suspect Amazon are keen to handle disputes/concerns directly which might lead to fewer regulatory complaints from customers and avoid scrutiny.
I learnt assembly language programming on a Vic20 in 1983, using this Vicmon machine code monitor:

http://commodore.software/downloads/download/211-application...

I like this explanation of "monitor", from https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n12/272_A_monitor_...

"The novice machine language programmer often does not have an assembler. Without an assembler, the programmer must assemble the program by hand, and then enter it by hand. Even a small program could require hundreds of POKEs followed by hundreds of PEEKs to verify that everything has been entered correctly.

A good monitor gets around these problems. It allows the programmer to examine memory locations sequentially. As each location is examined, the operator has the option of changing it or looking at the next one. A good monitor program also allows the operator to list a range of memory all at once. A third monitor feature allows the operator to move a range of memory to a new location in the computer. A final feature in a good monitor is the ability to execute and return from a machine language program."
Exactly.

EDIT - To be fair. Many of the geographical issues with Chicago, LA, SF and NYC are about being land/water locked on an adjacent side(s). Less of an issue in TX.
This would be allowed if Amazon was small.

Amazon gets >50% of US retail online sales (by total spend) and it's largest competitor (ebay) is almost 10 times smaller. Next is Walmart, below 4%.

His company can't afford not to be selling on Amazon and Amazon is strong-arming him into lowering prices from a position of power due to it's market share.

If that's not enough for antitrust laws to apply then what is?
I'm not advocating for or against accepting the patch. I'm saying that the tone of the refusal is inappropriate.
Long time reader of Bill Simmons, ever since I read his Book of Basketball. Also listening to many of the Ringer podcasts, they have the best analysis and news coverage of NBA. Great move by Spotify to strenghten their media offerings, kudos to Simmons and the team, it looks like win-win situation.
It's an error to assume any opinion is always right. Ultimately institutional sex discrimination is counter-productive to human life, so you will generally see a higher quality of life, lower violence, better health outcomes, reduced chemical toxicity, in places where both sexes have equal social mobility.
Thanks; I've fixed the link.
I can't wait until there's tooling that takes advantage of this. Tying sparse checkout into Gradle or Bazel would make this a lot easier.
The "boom" is relative to all of 2000s. Look at the number of permits in 2015 [1], especially in the outer boroughs.

My argument, as someone who grew up in Brooklyn and Queens, is that building new housing doesn't really drive the prices down. I have a lot of friends who had to move or shut down their small businesses because of the rising costs.

[1](https://www.buildingcongress.com/advocacy-and-reports/report...)

[2](https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/dob-development-r...)
My neighborhood is plagued with crime. Cars getting broken into repeatedly, stuff getting stolen from houses. Businesses getting broken into. This is around Long Beach.
Seems like much of the problem could be solved by just having the working world chill the f' out for women and for men. For example, a 32 hour workweek along with generous paid parental leaves. Everyone should have time for a life outside of work, not just women of childbearing age.

Also, The whole idea of having young people work like dogs in order to have a shot at making partner, or gaining tenure, or gaining a medical degree is both outdated and ageist.
He didn't. From what I can tell from reconstructed logs posted elsewhere here, he rejected a proof-of-concept the poster suggested someone else continue with.
I agree. The article says "What if it isn't sexism?" and then goes on to describe institutional sexism.
Legal documents don’t really make an affordance for what would be impolite versus what would be against the license. Usually I think the unwritten expectations work out ok (for example, in a project I help maintain I recently wrote out an apology for stepping away from development and ignoring contributions to fulfill these obligations) but perhaps writing it down in some sort of Code of Conduct style document might be beneficial.
If you have the 35s you can rebind the side button to change the level of noise cancellation. It will still default to full but you can switch it to half (which gets rid of the pressure imo) or off by pushing the button once/twice.
"Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago"

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-...
That's definitely true for the big companies with freemium services but I'm optimistic that the services that you pay for or the ones that want to spend less on engineering may find it simpler and aligned with their users to just send the relevant info in completion to your email and make a small plugin to visualize or aggregate it for you. That is of course only possible if this option was available to them...
> So many times I've had someone come in all butthurt and say 'I know it was in the contract, but I didn't think they'd actually enforce it'.

or the converse situation "I know I used liberal license but I'm still going to raise hell if people actually do what the license allows"
I think they're proposing that Henderson's lack of California-flavor gun-control hasn't caused it to be unsafe.
These are products that popsockets manufactured, sold to distributors, which then made their way to Amazon. It's not a copy, it's the real thing, just sold at a price popsockets doesn't like.

Per https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/8/18215313/popsockets-c..., they've spent over $7 million on lawsuits in 2018 alone. The article claims it's all about counterfeits, but if you read through the actual suits it becomes clear that it's not about counterfeits but mainly about what I described above. They want to protect their margins against discount retailers. It's nothing new, brands have always hated discount stores, and it's obviously extremely lucrative to get rid them if it enables your authorized sellers to get higher prices. There's a reason MAP policies (minimum advertised price) are so prevalent.
Mandatory pointer to Isaac Arthur's collaboration on this, Part 1 [1] and 2 [2].

I too find this a fascinating thought experiment.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UfQb_-XAuY

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrK9EaQRp2I
are you limited to those two cities?
You may want to update your HN profile.
So, it's true that refactoring isn't going to merge automatically with either feature additions or other refactoring of the same code. But if the code was improved by the refactoring, probably the person making the other change will want to merge it in before making their change. There are cases where clashes arise between different visions of what “improvement” means — XEmacs was born that way — but in those cases it's obviously best for people to have the choice of which version of the code they'd rather work on, rather than bullying one version of it out of existence.

In many cases of profound changes, different versions of the software do a better job of serving different groups of users. For example, EVE Online is built on Stackless Python, a fork of the CPython interpreter that enabled massive concurrency. This was really important to the EVE Online developers, so they were willing to accept tradeoffs that the core Python developers didn't think were good ones. Most people have gone on to use the stock interpreter, rather than choosing Stackless, so probably the core Python team made the right choice for most people. But that's no reason to deprive EVE Online of the ability to try a different approach.

Similarly, when I installed my first Linux box in 1996, there was an "NFS swapping patch" which made it possible to swap onto NFS, which was impossible with stock Linux because it meant that many operations that were normally "atomic" could no longer be atomic. (This was before SMP support, so the kernel didn't have locks; atomicity was enough.) The patch introduced a new "nucleonic" priority level and redefined the notion of atomicity, adding a lot of complexity to Linux to support the marginal use case of running diskless X-terminals and the like on Linux, rather than, say, SunOS or NCD's shitty imitation of VMS. This was not a good tradeoff for the majority of users, and it did not merge well with changes to network drivers. But for a certain subset of users, it was extremely valuable and worth the tradeoff. This complexity was eventually added in a better way when Linux got real SMP support.

Similarly, LuaJIT prioritizes speed (and secondarily minimality), while PUC Lua prioritizes portability and minimality (and secondarily speed), currently being about half the size of LuaJIT and one tenth of its performance. LuaJIT is, generally speaking, about as fast as C, but originally it was i386-only, later adding amd64, ARM, PowerPC, and MIPS support; it still doesn't support aarch64, which is what most new hand computers use. PUC Lua, by contrast, runs anywhere there's a C compiler and a few hundred K of memory. Losing either of these two projects would be terrible.

So, no, forking projects should not be a "last resort." Being able to fork projects is one of the core benefits provided to users by open source. It's the reason Tom Lord invented the DVCS as we know it today, in the form of Arch, and it's the reason Linus wrote a DVCS to use instead of Subversion: to ensure that the users' freedom to fork their software didn't become merely theoretical.
LinkedIn does. The whole company goes on break for the 4th of July week and the last week of the year.
The problem with bias is it's not immediately apparent to people who stay within their bubble that they are biased at all. This goes for the left just as well as the right. But let's it put it this way, if we were to do a survey of all journalism majors at universities over the past 20 years, which side of the spectrum do you think they fall and what would be the magnitude of that slant? I would guess it's at least 3:1 if not 10:1 for left-leaning graduates of journalism. Whereas, if you were to take a survey of say, plumbers or firefighters, the slant would probably go the other way. Now, with ratios like that, you're not going to be able to be "middle of the road" as much as you try. Unless the industry itself is relatively balanced. It's not by far, though.
I think the way people vote tends to reflect their beliefs. And generally, beliefs don't change often or drastically.

I see a lot of people who vote based on how they've always voted, rather than based on their actual beliefs. It's part of the tribalism of it all.

Three data points:

In West Virginia there is an expression called Yellow Dog Democrat, which means that the person would vote for a yellow dog before he voted for a Republican.

In Chicago, for the better part of the last century, the policies and positions a lot of the so-called Democratic Party politicians would be considered to be very Republican in other states.

One set of my in-laws lives what would be considered by many to be a redneck lifestyle, deep in the woods, surrounded by guns and beer and American flags, and cobbled-together vehicles, and talking smack about Bernie Sanders being a Communist and such. But guess what? When they go to vote, they vote Democrat simply because they always have.

It's the reason in some elections in some places you have the option (or sometimes the requirement) of pushing one button and voting for everyone on that party's ticket, rather than being forced to choose each candidate on their own merits.
> Th e artifacts of these little meltdowns are exactly the kinds of things your upper management will cite the next time you suggest using FOSS vs. whatever vendor they're about to push down your throat.

Yes, this is what I don't understand - we spent decades fighting the perception that open source could never be as good as proprietary commercial software. Now that we've mostly convinced our bosses, we want to turn around and say, no actually an open source maintainer who writes buggy code, rejects patches, and takes down their project when called on it is doing exactly what he should do?

Of course he has every right to do that, but this shouldn't be (and fortunately isn't) the norm. Defending this outcome as the expected outcome just means that the bosses will quite justifiably say, suppose we use this software and I let you publish patches back, you're telling me to expect that the upstream author will take their code offline? Why should I use this software at all, let alone let you waste your time on patches? I'm gonna buy from Oracle.
Thank you! Some areas are definitely more up to date than others. But overall, we've tried hard to build a strong userbase, and we're happy that people are so into updating it.
To be honest, at the time, me leaving the workforce never crossed our minds. I was a hotshot dev in those days and I barely even paused when our first kid was born.

And, as I remember it, my wife intended to go back to dev work after a couple of months. But her return never materialized. It didn't seem like a reasonable option to us when the time came.
I pointed out with raw data and sources. Simply calling it a conspiracy theory without pointing anything wrong with my actual point or data isn't worth debating in good faith.
>Care to share some examples?

Unfortunately, the only example I know of is confidential, with a provisional patent filed. But what I can tell you is that we are already solving non-trivial problems some 3-6 orders of magnitude faster than FDM/FEM. Not quite navier-stokes tier, but still in the realm of PDEs.

Sorry I can't be more specific, such is the nature of cutting edge industry, as I'm sure you understand!
Gallup coming through with some big truths! But the ire should be directed primarily at the media, who compulsively deliver nonsense numbers as gospel without background or explanation, almost implying that we would be stupid not to take them at face value.

Whereas Gallup seems to be attacking the federal government, and without mentioning the other metrics used by the US government to measure employment (there are at least 6 released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

I once read that the U-3 is used by the media because it compares best across different countries. Such that using the more meaningful U-5 or U-6 would make those comparisons invalid. Does anyone know if there is actually truth to that?

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
They almost certainly are, they have a patent on the accordion design and they are vigilant about defending it.
Now that I live in Houston which does not have zoning in the typical sense I prefer that things get done ASAP instead of people arguing for years for the right to build more housing on a lot that they already own. This contributes to the obscenely high cost of living in certain parts of the country.
That or they give you a dozen tubes that will expire next month, or have already expired. Luckily I only bought 3 expired tubes of toothpaste.
but for the one store owner

What's the story behind that??
Suicide, a Review
I was actually going to comment on how much I like your communication style, so I'm glad to see it getting praise from other HNers.

Besides the lack of BS, I think I can learn a lot from your sentence and paragraph structure. Well-thought-out but to-the-point sentences. Short paragraphs. Direct communication on a difficult subject that shows empathy but doesn't try to sugarcoat.

Thanks, I bookmarked this page just as a reminder of effective communication.
Congressmen love gaps. Sadly I do not think the NSF is a force for good in US science. It's panels are merely mechanisms for old scientists to slow down the young and the top five universities to cement prestige. It's puny hard won grants are like millet turning doves into ravenous pigeons.

It's been sapped of all virtue by decades of neglect, malice and deprivation.
The first time I put them on, I was in a room with a fan, and I thought it'd lost power because I didn't hear it. Took me a second to realize, nope, it was the noise cancellation.
moving away with a million dollar check in your pocket sounds so terrible.....
same things happens on stock markets - shrinking number of mid-cap (and overall number of) companies,and growing influence of the largest corporations leads to inequality of stock markets.
few winners, much more losers.

as mediocre companies go bankrupt, people who cannot catch up to changing job market leave job market as well, or remain underemployed & overworked on several low-paying jobs
Obviously "center" is an ephemeral term that oversimplifies a complex spectrum of political positions.
Minor detail: C919 somehow strikes me as a non-impressive-sounding moniker. The sound of it is somehow "off".

Does it "sound" better in Chinese?

Not sure how to explain it better.
I do remember exactly what happened back then and what you state couldn't be further from the truth.

> The reason Chrome even exists today is because the US & EU governments forced Microsoft to support other software and companies better.

Chrome came well after Firefox (2008 versus 2002). Many people were fed up with IE due to poor security and performance and were evangelising Firefox online.

> Mozilla has produced its own browser, called Firefox, that is enjoying a surge in popularity as increasing numbers of people and organisations tire of the security problems that plague Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3680942.stm

You could always install your own browser on Windows. There was nothing ever stopping you from downloading another browser and running it on Windows (in fact Opera at the time IIRC was doing well in Germany). Firefox was simply better than IE and people started using it.
Bose can't get over inflicting the annoying beeps or voice prompts on customers when earphones connect or disconnect from source.

It's impossible to turn this stupidity off. If you turn off voice prompts, it get replaced by beeps. And vice versa.
If you have few devices - earphones either beeps or talks to you non stop.
I recall as a kid seeing in electronics magazines in the late 70s some ads about a clock kit everyone could solder in a evening thanks to a then new module called MA1001. Some searches confirmed it was introduced in the mid 70s.
Reminder: Most of the seminal accomplishments of this era's AI wave were actually developed in the 70s-90s. Yes, even GANs and RL. This industry has been riding on the NVIDIA welfare program for the past 10 yrs. How long until the hardware gets maxed out?

http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-miraculous-yea...
Yea, I would second this.

I've always enjoyed Heroku, but feel like I'm paying a premium because I don't know enough to do "real" cloud work.

"If I were a more experienced developer, I could run this on AWS for pennies on the dollar".

Honestly, I don't know where that sentiment comes from exactly. It's at least partially coupled with the fact that all of add-ons you would need to pay for to run a small business site add up pretty quickly, from what I can tell.
Yeah, I was wondering how that'd apply to getting accepted in YC... Maybe you intend to go back home after the 3 months or locate to another city big in tech like Austin or Boston. Wonder if California would try to say you were a resident, however I feel like YC would be more similar logically to how college students are treated since usually you are still a resident of where your parents live, unless you intend to get a job and live where you went to school after graduation.
The social contract is generally not written down anywhere. Here's what we're all on about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

I consent to let other people make demands of my OSS because I wish to make demands of their OSS because together we can build a better world than either of us could on our own - because I am consenting to be part of a community. I have security-sensitive Rust code on GitHub. I'm careful about unsafe, and I welcome people filing bugs, because I want the entire ecosystem to be good about unsafe, and so I need to do my part in that.
Painkillers do kill pain, but pain itself is rarely a problem. And as there are different kinds and causes of pain, as many types of painkillers exist. Pain is only a symptom, but better quality of life is often worth the side effects.

As much as I appreciate a technical debate (and before I fall off Mount Stupid [1]) I feel like maybe we're approaching a non-question at different ends. Questions like "What is Pain?" "What does it mean to 'kill' pain?" "What constitutes working with the body?" and "If a head is cleaved in the forest, does it make a noise?" are all questions I'd love to spend hours debating, but the answers to these probably have little bearing on my original point.

The only reason I piped up is that I know how crappy it is to be downvoted with no explanation, because what you said sounded perfectly reasonable in your own head.

Apologies if I accidentally promulgated a misinformation bugbear!

I will be more careful with my analgesics and my broad general anaesthetics ;)

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mount%20stup...
Oh I don't think things are great in NK, and they're probably dire for the peasants, but her story specifically is very shaky.
[Warning 1] nothing will happen because oldDirectory already contained "?.vvvvvv" file in the first place, and in windows both combined couldnt be longer than 260 anyway. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1880321/why-does-the-260... Unsurprisingly this piece of code sits behind #if defined(_WIN32)

[Warning 2] "variable assigned values twice successively" "vivid examples of this error" remnants of prior debugging at best, no error there.

[Warning 3] "Overlapping names is a rather rough error" in reality variable not used past that point anyway.

[Warning 4] "Decreased performance." oh no, our one call per run to getOSDirectory will have degraded performance by around 100 cpu cycles .. in debug build :-)

[Warning 5] finally something which potentially could be bad, if those werent "oldxp, oldyp", irrelevant for new entity.

[Warning 6] bad habit

[Warning 7] "integer type is implicitly cast to the char type" actual bug

[Warning 8] "pretty serious mistake" is a harmless printf leftover from debugging

[Warning 9] "redundant checks" meh

[Warning 10] "cyclomatic complexity" reminder, Its a sole dev indie game. "if I made it any nicer you couldnt afford it" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T_Ubrys7vE

[Conclusion] "above errors" Single actual bug, and even that one is not manifesting in any way during usage. All in all if I was trying to sell static code analyzer I would pick something with actual harmful bugs for marketing material.
There are two questions here: why is some work not recognized and compensated?

And: why is one sex doing less paid work and more unrecognized work?
Yep, and it's been reported this way for a long time I bet. We have this same issue in Canada.
Jacksonville, Fort Worth, etc...