skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Framers were skeptical of enabling government to give out patent and copyright monopoly grants. Jefferson wrote:

Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

It is notable that patent and copyright are not natural rights. At no time was it assumed that people have such rights, nor that government, without explicit authorization could grant such limited term monopolies. Calling these monopolies "good" is definitely not uncontested, nor was it ever.
I was working on billing systems in 1999. For our company at least, the danger was in autobilling these amounts to a customer's credit card (I actually accidentally put a bug into production that increased rather than decreased the balance due after a payment, causing exponential growth in the amount the customer owed, so I saw what happens in this circumstance). End result, angry customer, reputational loss and likely the loss of a minimum of one billing cycle's revenue (assuming customer didn't cancel outright).

From the customer's perspective, they would lose the use of their billing credit card for typically a day while until the charges were reversed. This was less of an issue in 2000 than today as far fewer regular payments happened via credit card, but would still be a major disruptor.
"Not the government" ooooh. As if AV vendors have been completely idle on that front.

I just find this article very fitting as Microsoft is right now running an ad campaign on reddit for their security services.
A few differentiators:

* More issue coverage — for Python, we detect 520+ issues. We also enable you to run things like type checking (if you're using type hints) just by enabling it in the config.

* Custom issues — we have an analyzer team that keeps adding new, novel checkers to the analyzer for common bugs and anti-patterns.

* Fewer false positives — we've optimized our analyzers for reporting less than 5% false positives. On the lowest level, we write augmentations to each checker to remove known false-positives and noise. On the application level, we enable users to very easily ignore issues (for a file, all test files, some file patterns), and also report a false positive. We monitor all false-positive reports and proactively improve our analyzers to resolve them.

* Autofix — we just released this, which allows you to automatically fix some commonly occurring issues directly from DeepSource. In future, we will add more autofixers for issues, so at least 70% issues that we detect can be reliably autofixed.
I know that. I'm trying to point at the difference between experiences without much tooling set up.
Cryptography Pioneer Seeks Secure Elections the Low-Tech Way
a lot of fortran fixes!
You guess wrong.
Yep. This whole discussion just seems like a C vs C++ styleguide slapfight.

Having the functions that operate on the struct attached directly to the struct declaration, vs having some functions that the first parameter is the struct on which the function operates, doesn't seem like a particularly meaningful distinction to me. OK, you like C-style programming in favor of C++-style programming, congrats. It's still a class either way.
Slackware... they still active? No new stable builds in 4 years but seems to get security updates curiously. Their store leads to an error page in what looks like Chinese, confusingly.
Can I pay my rent in startup ideas?
*Bradley
More than those that can afford iDevices.

I target devices that customers actually have, not what they might have on local store windows.
+1 the old homeostasis argument. In that regard viruses are definitely life.

Maybe they actually are vastly superior to us and the hosts are just their air to breathe.
> This will spread to a large number of people. It's too late for containment, you can only hope to flatten the curve.

Follow the logic through.

South Korea is detecting ~100 cases per day on top of a total of 7,700 and 66 deaths. Total population is 50 million people.

How long do you shut down the economy over a disease where you are detecting 100 cases per day with a CFR of 0.8%?

Seems like this is a perfect example of the curve being too flat.
The circle from Norway is in the middle of Sweden. It seems it should at least touch the border...
Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All
Fair point, but I'm looking more to add noise to a car's data than to make my body less identifiable
No, they shared it with university researchers for academic purposes which is what users agreed to. Said researchers turned around and used it for commercial and political purposes.

Sharing the data with Cambridge Analytica (for the purported use) wasn't the problem. Cambridge Analytica lying about what the data was uses for is the problem.
"solves differential equations" doesn't tell you anything about which differential equations. "minimizes action" gives you a way to get the differential equations corresponding to pretty much every scenario.
I was fixing Y2K bugs at a company founded in 1997. Unless you never touched date stuff, I can't imagine being oblivious to Y2K issues working in IT in 1999.
I agree that encryption is "unbannable" in the same way you can't really ban a word or basic math. However, that won't stop the government from passing laws that make it hard for businesses to operate legally using things the government doesn't like. For example, there are certain arrangements of letters which are considered illegal[1], and if you operate a TV station you can't use those arrangements of letters without getting fined by the FCC.

There's also the famous illegal number from AACS[2].

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/obscene-indecent-and-pr...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
Ever since I discovered Julia a few years ago, I’ve found I can’t stand using classes any more (particularly in Python). Multiple dispatch just feels so much more elegant than trying to dispatch everything on the type of an implicit first argument.
Thank you and parent posters, this makes it clear to me!
And what about an expression like "accounting department chair"?
Nullability in Android 11 and Beyond
I agree it probably isn't patentable. It's an analogy that a lot of software tech companies these days can make a good business by putting some frameworks together with a database and solve real problems that used to be solved by other tools, and make good money and valuable products in the process. But depending on your opinion of battery powered coffee grinders, it's not necessarily new technology.
Speaking of SD cards, phones really should begin implementing support for UHS-II and UHS-III MicroSD cards since right now the transfer speeds are lagging behind that of internal UFS storage
We were all on Y2K jobs, in the sense that for the decade of the 90s you'd get looked at very weirdly if you tried to produce code and systems using two digit years.
If you don't want to watch the whole thing, if you skip ahead there is a really good explanation of PID control systems towards the end.
The Mac in its entirety is less than 10% of Apple’s revenue. The number of people buying them just for iOS development is even smaller.

You only have to use Apple’s in app purchases for digital purchases. For instance you can buy physical goods in the Amazon app.

Most digital content providers are already forcing you to buy via the web. The only app that I can think of that still supports digital content that you buy in app like books, videos etc is Udemy.

I doubt anyone chose to buy AppleTV+ over Netflix because they had to go to a website.

The Apple Boookstore also isn’t doing to great.
I'm glad this is getting coverage, but this is nothing new to Microsoft- they've been doing this for almost a decade (see for example https://www.zeuslegalnotice.com/). DCU has a great reputation and they're doing great work (in conjunction with law enforcement and legal authorities) to make life better for all of us on the Internet.
Eh, I think you're just using a different definition of "rich" than the OP. A person who makes $350k/year and is a millionaire would be considered rich by quite a few people, though not everyone. A person like that would benefit quite a bit by avoiding state income taxes.
It’s not exponential: An economist’s view of the epidemiological curve
The point of this kind of custody is to persuade someone to comply with the court. That the person in question would literally rather die means it isn't going to work.
I'm not making these claims. A senior doctor in Western Europe is making these claims[1].

> Fatality is the wrong yardstick. Catching the virus can mess up your life in many, many more ways than just straight-up killing you. "We are all young"—okay. "Even if we get the bug, we will survive"—fantastic. How about needing four months of physical therapy before you even feel human again. Or getting scar tissue in your lungs and having your activity level restricted for the rest of your life.

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/young-unafraid-coronavirus-pandemic...
Plenty of ergonomic chairs don't have a backrest.

There are also ergo chairs that you "kneel" on instead!
> Taking advantage of people's weak economic situation

Wouldn't it just be simple supply/demand? What about all those jobs the gig workers have access to, which otherwise wouldn't exist?
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=x86_64

The changelog seems to be, uhh, changing, so that's good I guess. I'm not sure they have many users left though.
Why the generic description? Are you unable to say which retailer?
look at the monster that C++ is now because of this as well.

I think this is why people are turning to Golang, Rust, and Swift. But these languages could follow the same path.
Ok, look at the differential equations on this page about the Kermack-McKendrick model: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kermack-McKendrickModel.html

Notice that the rate of change in the infected population (dI/dt) is proportional to the current number of infected (I) and the current number of susceptible (S).

In the early stages, when S is large and I is still small, this acts just like an exponential function in I.

For example, think about what happens when you double I the first several times. S stays relatively unchanged, and so dI/dt roughly doubles each time you double I.

Does that make sense?
I expect so, but I don't expect Elliott to scale back its expectations significantly after that happens.
Good questions worthy of a response if asked by someone with less negative energy.
Regarding the principles:

>>

3. Writing down and recording knowledge over verbal explanations.

4. Written down processes over on-the-job training.

5. Public sharing of information over need-to-know access.

6. Opening up every document for editing by anyone over top-down control of documents.

7. Asynchronous communication over synchronous communication.

These remote work principles have the direct, or side effect of breaking organizations that are "moral mazes," and hyper political bureaucracies.

The reason organizations suck is because managers just talk instead of producing data, which is basically conspiring to steal value instead of creating it for the organization.

I see this today, where I make an email request, and the person follows up with a phone call, then misrepresents what was agreed to on the phone to others. At one site, I literally stopped answering my phone for anyone I didn't directly work for, because I knew those people were just using the verbal channel to create uncertainty about what was said and leverage the resulting confusion.

The WIFO rule solves a lot of org problems. (write it, or f-off).
Okay, I think you're right here. But then why when I calculate compound interest, it's (1+rate)^time ?
This is the best part of TS IMO (structural typing).
This paper confirms the finding (google search: droplet transmission "winter"). They're uncertain of the mechanistic cause, though. They summarize:

> Cold and/or dry conditions impact the stability of influenza virus particles, the innate defense of host nasal epithelia, and the production of infectious bioaerosols. Each of these effects contributes a plausible explanation for the impact of [relative humidity] and temperature on respiratory droplet transmission, and more than one mechanism most likely contributes to the observed transmission outcomes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4097773/
I think how true this is depends on how you're starting your business (specifically, how you're funding the startup).

I've personally had greater success with starting business when the economy is down than when it is up. As near as I can tell, it's because the field tends not to be as crowded. It's easier to get attention to your business when there are fewer startups competing for attention.

Since I've always avoided using investment money or loans to fund ventures anyway, a down market doesn't impact me as much as it does with many other approaches.
In _this_ economy? Bahahahahahahaha
The problem is that it would be possible for a Rust 2015 module to encounter an Error defined in Rust 202X, so what would happen if that Rust 2015 called `description` on that error if Rust 202X didn't require/allow defining the method `description`?
Total confirmed deaths due to Covid-19
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/young-unafraid-coronavirus-pandemic...
if you listen to the accompanying news reel, she was only suppose to be in there for a maximum of 18 months. it's been 2 years so with the hearing coming up on Friday, there should be a good chance she can go free fingers crossed.
Damn, IBM has changed a lot. From major tech company to patent troll. Sad fate for them, and whoever still works there.
I think the last point is the most important - if there really is a difference between those two pieces of code, then the article does make some sense. If there isn't, the the article's pout is weakened.

The reason why I think they are equivalent is that other_function may well be really reusable and have many different use cases, of which only one is right in my current use case. For example, it could be the 'if' special form in Lisp. That means, I can know for sure that other_function is itself perfectly correct, but still be calling it badly, so I still need to test whether my function does the right thing for any possible value of a, b and c.
> And re applications - have you tried to google? No, I really mean it. You complain about me being condescending but you have posted an obviously unfounded comment, post another showing that you don't know much about the subject - and it is somehow my fault that I didn't spoon feed you with the information.

I stopped reading your comment after this, because you are being a condescending ass. If you want people to listen to what you have to say (and it's clearly a lot) you should try being more friendly.
The average selling price of an Android phone is $250. How many of those have decent GPUs or perform well enough to run web apps as well as native apps?

Ironically, iPhones do better on web benchmarks than almost any Android phone.
I imagine you fill it out as accurately as you can with the information you have at the time.
I'd argue if it wasn't for the media "doom and gloom" a lot of companies (maybe even the vast majority), would not have had their C level folks divert money towards fixing the issue.

The simple reason is that any one company may have been liable for a very small portion, which if it failed, would not have caused much trouble. But that failure combined with many other failures down the entire chain of connected and unconnected software would have added up to something much greater than the sum of parts.

We saw similar stuff happen with Flash, Silverlight (which wasn't as reported a concern since silverlight usage was so low, but I saw it within my company).

The media pressure was a significant reason why every company needed to have a plan to deal with it.
Do you know where the word meme comes from?
OOP has come to mean different things at different times. For a time, OOP definitely meant tightly coupling state and behavior. Same as inheritance, this practice seems to have been left behind some time ago.
Software patents are a joke that the tech industry has relied upon to give it relevance.

Why should “using commonly known syntax patterns to enable mechanized organization and display of text and images in any number arbitrary configurations”, which is a reasonable enough description of what we’re doing from a user perspective, be protected?

That’s ALL software work is. “Feeling” ephemeral things are real is not a good enough justification for shackling us all with such laws.

That’s ripe for abuse. No less than being told we have to make laws this way because people “felt” God was telling them that’s ok.

But money makes laws change so they can collect on our innate agency and curiosity for these things.

They own the land and the ideas.

Sorry, mate, read a bit more than contemporary politics & economics books.

A philosophy that undoes all this captured emotional energy to prop up correctness of winning favor with stern old people who don’t literally contribute except via condescending approval is right there.

Society will instead kowtow to daddy despite all the now dead philosophers writing that we should avoid just that, lest they reign over us with their feelings of what is appropriate and emotional wanky tales of grandiose pipe dreams they want to achieve for themselves via our effort. More real gains for them, inequality gains for those of us that prop up their emotional castles.

Adam Smith was right: the extreme division of labor has created a society of ignorant humans whose agency has been boxed in by the state apparatus.

I’m not talking about anti-science and well argued positions. Politically the people are not existing in one. They’re existing as scared children too afraid of the ruler their fifth grade teacher who died years ago, keeps in her drawer.

Childish paranoias literally etched in these brains forever. Thanks neuroscience for showing us the long life of our childhood anxieties and paranoias.
I was thinking the same. His arguments seem thin at best and suggest a misunderstanding of what OOP really means.
Are there changelogs for gcc point releases? gcc.gnu.org has a 'changes' link but it is actually a 8->9 changelog, rather than 9.2->9.3
"Classes are the best way" is a much stronger statement than "Classes may not be the best way".

Why do you think classes are the best way?
What are you trying to express ?
A Netflix show beckons....
It also had the problem where it was larger than my arm, but some people like that?
This blog post accurately describes my semtiment:

https://drewdevault.com/rants/2020/02/18/Fucking-laptops.htm...

I like Drew on the blog post use a Thinkpad X200, and it more than suits my needs for a laptop, and I even shelled out the money for one of the 51nb x2100s. If System 76 bucks the current trend and makes a laptop in the style of an old thinkpad (To quote Drew: "The integrated GPU, Bluetooth and WiFi, internal sensors, and even the fingerprint reader can all be driven by the upstream Linux kernel. In fact, the hardware is so well understood that I have successfully used almost all of the laptop’s features on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Minix, Haiku, and Plan 9. Plan fucking 9. It can run coreboot, too. The back of the laptop has all of the screws (Phillips head) labelled so you know which to remove to service which parts. User replacable parts include the screen, keyboard (multiple layouts are available and are interchangeable), the RAM, hard drive (I put a new SSD in one of mine a few weeks ago, and it took about 30 seconds) — actually, there are a total of 26 replacable parts in this laptop. There is a detailed 278-page service manual to assist you or your local repair tech in addressing any problems that arise.") I think they could easily charge a very healthy premium and get a lot of people to line up for it (myself included).
Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics
Thanks for bringing this up, I had not thought about epoch time overflow
I was under the impression it was heat, not humidity, that caused viruses to become less effective.
I see no advantages of going back there. If you expect more security, I doubt the wishes will ever fulfill themselves.

I'm going to repeat myself here: I'm not advocating for more surveillance. That isn't at all why I commented on this.

I commented because I think you don't solve a problem by spouting deluded nonsense and pretending the world works differently than it does.

The fact that humans have a long history of living with all the neighbors knowing their business may be part of why surveillance is a thing. Some part of our monkey brains may be going "We really need to know everything about everybody and this makes sense." Understanding that may help people articulate better mental models concerning "What's wrong with this picture and what do we need to do differently?"

I realize people tend to not actually listen to what gets said and they project their baggage and fears onto the words of other people, but I absolutely am not not not not not advocating for more surveillance. I find social stuff fascinating and my experience suggests that understanding the social and psychological context is step one in trying to put a stop to bad patterns and finding better answers.

(Five nots in a row is maybe not the best way to emphasize my point, but we aren't supposed to type in all caps and I don't know what a good solution is.)
Researchers Rush to Test Coronavirus Vaccine in People- No Animal Trials First
He's still dead, last I heard.
Honest question: what value does GCC have in 2020? It seems like llvm is the better designed compiler, more commercial support, more permissive license, etc. Pretty much everyone designing new languages today is using LLVM for backend codegen; and the people who aren't sure as hell are not using GCC.
Try 1 Billion
Sweat equity increases in value as the amount of money being invested in startups diminishes
About Unit and Integration Tests
Sounds like an idiot with opinions.
New developer dashboard and registration flow for Chrome Web Store
Yes it was. I worked on fixing y2k bugs in telecom systems.

(Shameless plug, here is my humorous take on it)

https://youtu.be/tbUg8-RdwXE
It's pretty uncommon these days to see a major tech company (read: one that has a reputation to maintain) actually litigate over a software patent in court, especially over something as established and basic as "ecommerce". I'm curious what the exact patent is for.
A key glossed over point is that the exponential curve only becomes am epidemiological curve with active and effective intervention (or completely skipped: a slightly different path with some biological bottleneck - e.g. running out of people to infect - we don't want that either). The flu is only regularly an epi curve because we already have reasonably effective standing measures against it.

On coronavirus, you can't just sit back and expect the exponential curve to transform to an epi curve on a novel virus without a lot of work and coordination.
If I understand, it involves changes to the DB server? That would be a show-stopper for me.