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> Of course, not everyone follows this line of thinking; due to their cheap, accessible hardware there are innumerable people with Arduino/ESP8266 experience, which might lead people to attempt mass produced projects with them.

That was my experience exactly. I've been working on an embedded project for work and since I'm so used to using the ESP32s at home, I chose them without much thought for work as well.
No, we shouldn't. I don't want my tax money being wasted on people getting a better place to live. What's next, loners and the elderly should be outcast to the outskirts?
In fact, the article does recommend using 'numeric' for dates!
I understand that if the low salary workers are employed via a subcontractor, that workers salary is irrelevant for the average salary you are paying.
Very true.

I think the focus has to be on the spirit not the technology. Saying to a lawyer/judge/jurist "hey, this script can generate every possible melody!" _feels_ quite different from saying "every single melody is already written down, on this hard-drive I am waving at you! Look!"

Tangent: reminds me of the Hutter Prize for compression (hey, they prize pot recently increased to €500K and I submitted it to HN but it didn't get any votes http://prize.hutter1.net/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize).
> Why have copyright at all?

You need some amount of copy protection so that people/companies with large platforms can't immediately rip off independent authors and sell their work before the author's version can get any word of mouth. (Where "sell" probably means "distribute with ads" since there's no copy protection.)

4-5 years of copy protection would prevent this, and that's on the very safe end.
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> Moreover, while the Electoral College system does give an edge to certain places, no one has ever made it a political issue to get this changed,

Yes, they have, see the National Popular Vote movement. Also, it's not just the electoral college, it's also the Senate which is actually a bigger problem, and exacerbates the EC problem, and whose antidemocratic character is actually the one thing the Constitution prohibits altering permanently (the slave trade had a similar, but temporary, protection.)

Of course all the EC is protected against popular change by change mechanisms which distort power in the same direction as the distortion in the EC and Senate do.

> so that means the majority is OK with the system

No, what the actual failure to implement a change despite a substantial movement directed at it means is that the minority which is advantaged by the system and which has a veto over change because it's also advantaged by the mechanism which is necessary to use to change the system is okay with it.

> They've had well over 200 years to change it now...

No. They haven't; other people (facing similar barriers) may have, but even if failure to overcome those institutional barriers implied acceptance, the failure of people in the past wouldn't imply acceptance of the present majority.
Basically any combination of linefeed and carriage return may denote a new line.

I've encountered some very old files using LFCR instead of the more modern CRLF.
the last thing of your sentence isn't true anymore:
https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office/dev/add-ins/concepts...

it really depends on your platform/version. Keep in mind that they try to use chromium in 2020.
4 dollar democracy. It is all a show to get people to pay their taxes. I have noticed a pattern in all the versions of the human experiment. The man says give me your money because than I will do X. After some time X is not relevant or mentioned by the man himself and because the man now has a gigantic cashflow he also has the means to defend what he think is his share of everything.
Scheduled for Q2 - https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/3481
> Copyright depends on copying

Copyright claims have been won by arguing the song was so widely available that it’s unreasonable to assume the defendant did not have access to it, which is why they’re trying to spread access to this as far as possible
Linked website is nothing but religious apologetics. Very disingenuous, definitely not science. Shame on whoever posted it.
I followed a similar route where I eventually got to blaming bad (ECC) RAM, even sending it back to Crucial. In the end though, it wasn’t bad RAM. It was a bad RAM socket. This is one reason I’m now allergic to hardware and prefer to have someone else look after it.
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Downvoted for complaining about low vote count...
The boss who put everyone on $70k
For the same reason(s) the common flu is more prevalent in the winter. Wikipedia has some proposed explanations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Cause.
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> You do have to share a country with them, and may rely on them some day to save your skin, so it would probably be a good idea for you to treat them like equals, unless you're looking for a civil war.

Interestingly enough, this argument works equally well for immigrants. Some fascists have no problem with the idea of a civil war in that context though…
I'll spend more time trying to automate that, than renewing it for a 20 years manually.
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I think it's the same outrage as when someone uses a telephoto lens to takes pictures of the inside of your home from the street. It's all technically possible, legal(ish), and should have been anticipated by anyone who leaves their windows unblocked, but it's still a clear violation of expectations of a home and of the purpose for those windows.

Difference is that we've had hundreds of years to reach consensus on home windows, but barely a decade for social media. Laws are not keeping up with society's expectations, which in turn aren't keeping up with technology.
VW is investing 50 milion € for software school (with help from Microsoft)
I've always been concerned about the centralised model of SSL. But interestingly whenever I mention that the model is broken and web of trust is the best thing we have I get downvoted and shouted at here on HN.
Let's insist on

> On their face, the benefits of using exceptions outweigh the costs, especially in new projects. However, for existing code, the introduction of exceptions has implications on all dependent code. If exceptions can be propagated beyond a new project, it also becomes problematic to integrate the new project into existing exception-free code. Because most existing C++ code at Google is not prepared to deal with exceptions, it is comparatively difficult to adopt new code that generates exceptions.

Also let's note that there are more new C++ projects being created today that at any previous point in time.

Propagating the -fno-exceptions meme is harmful to the whole community.
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It's clearly done on purpose: the third graph is explained as "Here’s a bar chart of the number of cases by Chinese Province." and it includes Taiwan in the list. So it's not clearly not a mistake. This is of course inacceptable, and people (including myself) are in their right to point it and complain about it.
Why do you think it will never happen? It did happen and is happening in several places, like Brussels at the moment.
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Takes any algorithm that can generates the digits of pi. It is proven that all the sequences of digits are present somewhere in these digits. Can you claim copyright on all the books of the universe because you can show the algorithm that can generate every possible books ?
You had a bad ram socket that silently corrupted data while you used ecc?
Ideally, to maintain maximal correctness, it would be in a symbolic representation until an inexact rendering was called for, but simply resorting to floats for irrationals is not entirely unreasonable though it's still a premature optimization, but not as bad as resorting to it for rationals.
Why do you have such a big issue with doing someone a small favor? It really greases the wheels of society a bit if people help each other out in small ways.
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I can't understand why anyone still shares TechCrunch links. It's inaccessible without accepting their cookies.
You can trivially write a program which will enumerate all the possible byte sequences in the universe. So you can claim that this tiny program contains everything including god. So you can claim copyright for everything.
Don't be too pessimistic. London has seen big improvements in the last few years [1]. It's still early -- many journeys won't join up, so they're less appealing for many people -- but I was surprised at the improvements last time I visited.

They've removed car lanes on some fairly major roads, and successfully ignored protests from taxi drivers etc.

[1] https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/evolution-cycle-superhi...
In Hungary stores have many different brands of lard one can choose from and one can easily find tasty ones. Meat shops also sell lard.

I recently moved to the UK and I didn't find decent lard yet, typically each store sells a single brand and they are pretty horrible.

Good lard should taste good on its own.
> The metrics he was held to were extraordinarily demanding: about 35,000 lines of code per week

Even if those are quality lines of code (and they won't be - quality code will be smaller by at least an order of magnitude) explicitly attempting to maximize your rate of code base (and associated technical debt) growth doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
It will have an impact on congestion. For instance in Brussels, a 10% reduction in number of cars on the road translates to a 40% percent reduction in traffic jams.
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Again, there is a gradation and you've not answered the question.

What is the intent if a human provided 1 bit of input by flipping a coin and chose all the odd numbered melodies? What if a human provided 1 bit of input by flipping an unobservable mental coin? What about 2 bits? N bits?

What if a machine generated all the "interesting" melodies via a neural network?
Ask HN: Is your company doing anything to prepare for outbreak related issues?
The company where I work is checking VPN servers to make sure we can handle unusual traffic.

It is a preparation for a possible scenario where most of employees are working from home.

I wanted to see what are the activities that companies could do to prepare for similar situations.
The big issue with your reasoning: racism isn't an opinion, it's a crime. You're talking about freedom, but for good reason you wouldn't give the jihadists the rights you're claiming.

Neither fascists nor Muslim terrorists deserve those rights. And if you say it's not comparable, please reminds that for the past 12 months, there has been more terror attacks committed by white racists than Muslim jihadists in Western countries.
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And how will that TI chip work when hit with space radiation?

And how far down the dbm sensitivity scale are those TI chips?

You completely missed me pointing out that a cubesat-type project failed miserably for reasons relating to all this (Ah, found the link):
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/24/lessons-learned-from-a-cubes...

They call it "rocket science" for a reason.
You can't beat hand-picked content that's for sure.
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Well, of course. While the Devil promotes web SaaS solutions to entrap mortals in sin, Hell itself runs on Excel and VBA because it works.
"It is proven that all the sequences of digits are present somewhere in these digits"

This has never been proven for the digits of π. Of course, there are other digit-sequences for which it is trivially true. For example, just concatenating together every finite sequence of digits, in some suitable order.
Partly down to the branding of the project, and the perceived added complexity which was not required, I just wanted a a simple extensible RPC mechanism, not a "Infinitely faster" "cerealization protocol" with "time travel" and "distributed objects". Cap'n proto is a lot to take in and wrap your head around.

Edit: I didn't "stop" with cap'n proto, I never started because the project rubbed me the wrong way :/ maybe I should have given it a go, but heh, I made a thing instead.
The creativity is of the charts with the naming Plus. I'm just make a wild guess but they have probably spend more than a million on this one. Consultants, commissions more executive time about a word that looks like prime and starts with a P.

They should have called it Walmart Pleasure.
Perhaps 30 years and then make it a yearly auction?
There seem to be a few schools of thought - one is to mix some egg through the cold rice before frying, one is to add egg mixture near the end, one is to fry the egg and like an omelette and chop it up and add.
Haven't flame retardants in clothing been banned?
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I live in Japan and have only ever seen people putting the egg first, then rice, then seasonings and toppings
The only redeeming feature of that part of Market Street remains the subway.
> Robots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs – They’re Becoming Our Bosses

Robots are, in fact, displacing nonsupervisory employees in a number of areas, but even when they are displacing supervisory employees they are still taking our (in the broad sense of “human”) jobs. So, the headline is wrong on two levels.
Came to here to say thank you for this comment, this made me understand what everyone was talking about. I know some photography so your comment made my mind "click" and understand. And I also agree with the comments the same level as this - they didn't understand these things back then. I couldn't at first understand why they'd believe the stars must have been huge.
I am not sure why I have been downvoted, but it is a fact that Feyerabend discussed that the Church was acting reasonable and rational in Galilei's case. This was well before this book, so I don't think the book's claim is entirely new.
Why pay programmers at all? Your labor should be free too, and I'm sure we can make some awesome business models if you get paid five bucks an hour or less. You can go make money getting people to support you on patreon.
Yeah, I'm really surprised more people aren't bringing up the lawsuit aspect of it (and the accusations of domestic abuse) while saying he's a 'nice guy.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gravity-ceo-dan-pric.... https://www.hundredeightydegrees.com/investigation/2018/2/27....
Let's see how many people are going in those Starbucks outlets.
Those are a dying breed. In 2 years there will be no phones shorter than 15 cm in height, at all. I know, I keep checking...
Even if the views presented in the site are not "good", this whole discussion on HN was very interesting to me and I learned a great deal. Indeed, I had a very simplistic view of the whole Galileo affair, from the science of it to the politics. Probably because I learned about it at a very young age and never researched more into it.
Why is it that they haven't been exposed to CR/LF? Is it just that modern IDE/Editors detect this automatically? Windows still uses CR plus LF no?

I feel like every now again I still open some file with ^M characters in it.
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> But also someone else here was speaking about constant temperatures of 500F that is still well over the oil smoke point.

Not “well over” for many refined oils (smoke points of 450°F+ are not uncommon for refined oils), and not even “over” for a few (e.g., avocado, safflower.)
tialaramex did a great job answering the second part of your question, so I'll take a swing at the first.

I don't know of any public cases where an org has disclosed that an external attacker exfiltrated key material from an HSM. That being said, there have been a number of disclosed vulnerabilities against HSMs/vendors that could allow this sort of attack to happen. CVE-2015-5464 is my favorite of these. There are also plenty of attacks that compromise the servers that talk to the HSMs, which usually would give an attacker the ability to perform arbitrary crypto operations using the keys in the HSM with no restrictions and little-to-no audit trail. I also know of attacks where the compromised "servers" are part of the HSM itself, but outside of the crypto/FIPS boundary.
It was extremely easy. For awhile, I used naming conventions to keep everything organized, but then found RubberDuckVBA and there... I found enlightenment.

The codebase was clean and extensible. I built out a standard lib (I/O sync/async, networking, array methods, dictionary class, XML utilities (DOM/SAX). Then built out database functionality that included auto exporting to various formats, many tabs and with optional conditional formatting. Built the UI from the ground up to be async by building all UI components to be ‘reactive’ and have standardized interfaces. Started with just the frame & label and made my version of the modern web design in VBA’s user form. All components were reusable—from buttons, checkboxes, custom filterable drop-downs, tables, and the ability to display a subset of markdown (which allowed end users write their own documentation for the workflows they’d end up owning)

It had standardized parser interface that allowed for quick buildout of a new parser class; same for full pages. The navigation was completely dynamic and handled by the routing/navigation module. The permissions for all users were in a hosted database and the ui would only build out what the user had permission for and nothing more. SQLServer would handle user authentication as it would get the users name from the connection metadata.

I handed over the project a few months back to a former colleague, one who has only been programming for about a year and one who only knew how to do macro recordings. Since leaving, the application has thrived and is used all across the country, supporting hundreds...

Just before I moved on, I started working on a VBA native toy browser that supported basic HTML, but ended up leaving and not finishing it.

One pain in the ass was custom :hover functionality over ui components. Tried a lot... even tried hooking into window messages, but that messed up some async events...

I think I went off topic, but it wasn’t really a problem.

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I'd rather take away "pictograms need labels" from that.
> Here is a small library for fluent matcher system

It doesn't seem like Literate CoffeeScript lets you reorder the code blocks which, as I understand things, is the fundamental part of Literate Programming - code follows documentation, not the other way around.

(Although, to be fair, 99% of things I've seen labelled as LP aren't either. There's only WEB, CWEB, and noweb I can think of that'd count just now.)
.. what?
DoT would also mitigate it in a similar fashion. In both cases mitigate doesn't really have much meaning since, sans VPN, ISPs that are inclined to do so will quite happily continue to find ways to infer where you're browsing to (IP address and CT log correlation being the obvious choices). Ergo, if last mile privacy is you're issue, the best bet is a VPN or some improved regulation so that consumers have a choice if they want an ISP that doesn't spy on them.
That's one of the most ridiculous takes I've read in quite a while. There's no way the probability of the market starting rapid recovery in the next few weeks is 50%. Just wait until it's officially declared as a pandemic, which is almost certainly going to happen.
Yep!! You need to be able to rely on what you're sharing if you're going to have any part of your social marketing strategy automated!
I know it's many orders of magnitude more difficult.. but if I got a printer to print out one of every possible art and published it, CC licensed it, etc wouldn't that have the same legal status as these melodies... probably none?

I showed this article to a musicologist (in the UK) and he said:

> I assume that somehow lawyers can refer to a precedent of "this is too ridiculous to be taken seriously"
I've never seen this happen on Italian locale. Maybe it's with non-latin languages?
You always needed those. So why is it that you could build the first homes and roads and sewers and power plants and hospitals and schools, but not more of the same?
"If things are mispriced, the trade is going to happen. There is absolutely no way it could not."

That's fatalistic. The only way the trade happens is if someone places the trade. If you see the trade as immoral, don't place the trade. If someone else profits from it, so be it, but at least you didn't. Please extrapolate the consequences of your trades. If it feels even slightly dodgy, it probably is, and no matter how you justify it, it was a bad thing to do.
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As the number of cars drops below critical saturation, the flow can transition to intermittent to smooth
Just to quickly add, I think the project is cool, it provokes interesting discussion and it doesn't need to be legally watertight or achieve what they say they set out to, to be worthwhile.
It's an excellent story.

But what works in a group smaller than Dunbar's Number[1] may not quite scale up.

Don't let that Politician Obfuscating Near You (PONY) con you into believing otherwise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
> within couple of decades

We already do.
The syntax highlighting helps a lot

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TIL, tr does not support utf8
Total misinterpretation and tangent, but I do feel on the long timeline, Earth is at the center of the universe. In terms of primitive people this is true. In terms of visible universe this is true. In terms of the eventual interstellar expansion, I think it will once again ring true. Modern era is too focused on the quirks of the language. Gravitation center is not the only center!
I was curious and looked it up - according to Wikipedia, that happens on Acorn BBC and RISC OS. I never encountered it, guess they were not popular enough :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
I think there's a different focus with JS vs VBA or C#. JS is the future because of Office365 ie. Cloud/online apps are the future.

I don't think C# integrates with the o365 codebase, but I'd consider both JS and C# as attempt to move people to good dev practices, C# with IDE/versioning/debug etc and JS with the approach of funneling data in and out of excel eg. Cloud compute, and then using excel for basic functions that don't involve using macros etc.
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I've tried Semantic, MUI, and Ant now for 3 separate projects.

The one I gravitate towards now is MUI - it's got the easiest drop in to an existing project, and the most predictability.

Semantic seems to be stuck in a weird place where the main project is barely maintained and a fork (Formantic) is superior, but there's no React version for the fork so you have to make your own React components if you want their new features.

I liked Ant but the integration into existing apps took far more effort than I would've liked. In the end with Ant I gave up and made a fresh project and shifted my existing codebase across.

The only thing I wish MUI had that Semantic was superior in was forms - Semantic has a far better built-in form component, including error/warning/success & loading states out of the box.
Have you tried freelancing alone, and of you have for how long?

After working at a company, initially it felt quite nice but after some months/years I started feeling different. I have been working intensively at a companies, and then as a freelancer/solopreneur, alternating both modes along the years. Currently working mostly alone I have to admit that I crave the workplace - kind of the place where you go work and meet other people and share some kind of mission.