skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Totally violates the spirit of the GPL.

In the specific, I think the relevant part is whether the kernel component and the userspace component are an Aggregate or not for the purposes of GPL virality. From the gnu.org GPL FAQ:

> Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged). If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program. By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.

I agree we're somewhere murky within the last paragraph. The mechanism is separated well enough - the kernel driver is just IOCTLs over a pipe. The semantics are certainly carrying complex internal data structures, however, those data structures aren't part of any GPL program at all.

So perhaps it's not really anti-GPL - but it is certainly useless in a fully Free environment.
Meanwhile China said fuck this shit and developed[1] own standards, AVS/AVS+/AVS2, and is already running 4K broadcast tests.

https://goughlui.com/2020/05/17/c-band-adventures-looking-fo...

https://goughlui.com/2020/05/21/satellite-more-avs-avs2-head...

[1] Seemingly no source code available for AVS2 decoders, dubious claims of beating HEVC without independent tests, and China history of "independent" development by copy&paste notwithstanding
I don't get it. The ticket wants beacons/pings to be classified as the same request type as xhr, and it's marked as WONTFIX. Isn't this a good thing?
Rudolf Steiner
Heh, sounds more like there were two 45 day talking retreats per year.
What is the difference between RPA and macros? edit: It seems fragile in the face of any GUI changes.
> This might become the law, but how would it be enforced?

By a few token measure that wont scale, just like current existing income tax structure. The main enforcement mechanism now is heavily reliant upon employers withholding on the behalf of employees and banks reporting on their accounts (the same entities that consider fines for felonious dealings just a cost of doing business); without it, existing tax enforcement would be toothless to most.
Ok you're right, let me just go back to the 60s and inform people doing sit-ins that they have it all mixed up.

> Everyone is fine with signs in parks ...

Yes! You're getting it! The point is for people to NOT be fine with it. The point is to turn heads, to inconvenience, to get people talking, and to demand that attention is placed on injustice.
"Certain rights are outside the ability of any social contract to restrict to allow minorities protection."

This is a bold oxymoron:

"The law is the law, except where it is not the law because you have other constitutionally guaranteed laws that enable you to break said laws"

This misunderstanding underlies a lot of the commentary here lamenting police breakup of ostensibly 'legal' protests which are actually, totally illegal.

If the city has a curfew for protesting, that's literally quite lawful in every sense, and you don't have a legal or constitutional right to protest at that point.

I mean, you could take up with the courts.
RIP the 4 innocent people Dorner murdered.
Nit: Mitchell is their CTO. Dave McJannet is their CEO. (source: https://www.hashicorp.com/about/ )
There is a big difference between a newspaper and Facebook (with over a billion users) spreading misinformation.

This is like comparing a match stick to jet fuel.
> They deploy tools like tears gas and poorly tested “less lethal” ammunition

Let's stop using abstract passive words like "deploy", and say what the police are actually doing - opening fire on crowds of protestors. I guess they're being nice by using ammo other than lead bullets like at Kent State, but fundamentally they're still shooting projectiles and innocent people are still being killed and maimed.
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> There’s no way you can say with a straight face that the police have committed more acts of violence and destruction than the rioters.

By this logic, the George Floyd death shouldn’t even be a controversy because the public at large commits more crime in aggregate than the police do.
> I’m afraid the two cops weren’t even fired, they had only been suspended pending investigation

Your point still stands but fyi they were charged with assault today:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/buffalo-offi...
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it looks more like an alternative to AutoCAD than Sketchup. It’s only a side gig so it’s not critical at the moment.
Did they stop teaching civics in class?

https://chanzuckerberg.com/grants-ventures/grants/

"Grants are awarded via three funding entities: the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, a 501(c)3 private foundation; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy, a 501(c)4 organization."

Now please do check how money needs to be spent by 501(c)3:

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

He still has significant control and influence that can be exerted by foundation. Yet, buying lambo or yacht with this money is harder.
Tear gassing pregnant women, shooting at an old man on a wheelchair, attacking journalists, pepper spraying 10 year olds, etc.

All this crap while covering their name, badge numbers and turning cameras off.

Police unions and their code of silence have enabled all sort of abusive behavior.

Also, this: https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/nypd-anna-chambers-rape-...

Technically in NY and a few other states, the police can legally kidnap you and rape you without any liability.
His talk on Quantum Sensing a couple of years ago is a great presentation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNV_CzCeA0 ... RIP, irreplaceable.
Computer-assisted driving and self-driving cars are an obvious application of low-latency high-speed cellular networking, what else is there? Drones?
The amount of data you can transmit over a radio link is proportional to the span of frequency you use. Your bandwidth. Satellite operators used to have almost all of C band's frequency span. Changes were recently pushed through to give half of this to mobile telcos. So now the satellite operators have to push the same amount of video/media with half the physical resource to do it. So they need to send half the data. The FCC has literally told the incumbent sat users to switch to HEVC to accomplish this.
Is the comment meaningful if there's nobody that it describes?
Era hatches Meething, an open source browser based video conferencing system
Them too, but I think medical professionals are a better comparison because they’re in a position of trust and authority, like police are (supposed; obviously the ‘trust bit’ is dubious) to be.
Fun talk by Paul Fenwick from a long ago OSCON about various particularly bad engineering failures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkoyVPPXt5w
Either he was severely incapacitated and needed medical attention, or he wasn't and lettit him stay behind the line was tactically dangerous. Either way, they were in the wrong.
Cool, but they chose pretty obscure (to me) titles to demo with.
Warning, this page does the annoying chatbot thing, but with the addition of sound notifications.
My understanding is that they’re more autonomous, more extensible, and generally result in more widespread gains in efficiency than standard macros.

https://www.uipath.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-rob...
I wanted to add a response here for every aspirational algotrader: you can lose a lot of money very quickly. I hobbied in algotrading through my twenties, learned a lot more than I expected too, worked out the math, and made $600 in a matter of 15 minutes on my first day before losing $1000 the same day. That's when I decided to pull the plug. I already knew that it would be more profitable finding contracting gigs then inevitably writing off 100s of hours I spent researching, doing the math, and coding over the years, but decided I would regret it if I never tried.
We’ve also started to implement this with a new task dependencies feature in the latest release. Check out:
https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/preview-of-nomad-0-11-ta...

https://learn.hashicorp.com/nomad/task-deps/interjob

There’s more work going on there to further improve the feature in upcoming releases.

Disclaimer: I’m an engineer on the Nomad team.
>Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm

Those three have one funny thing in common, they dont produce any content.
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I’m also fairly sure it’s not brotherhood, as much as self interest.
For tips Brave would keep 5 cents and give you the 95.

I have seen a lot of commenters speculating about how Brave works. It is possible to look these things up before posting.
> you will not have to fear a mature yet useful product going away because their demand dries up.

Now you have to fear it much more. With perpetual licenses, you never lose access to your work and your files. Maybe you have to keep a computer working with current version of Windows, because the software does not work with the next one. But you can continue using the software, well, in perpetuity. Many people are still using the last non-subscription version of Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. Some people are still using Lotus Agenda and WordPerfect.

In contrast, with subscription software, if the company does not do well and goes out of business, or does moderately well and gets acquhired, or if for any reason loses interest in continuing providing the software, you get an email about their incredible journey and how proud they are and oh yeah, the service will stop working in 20 days and your files and years of work locked in a proprietary format will become inaccessible.
We don't have to pin the problem on anyone. But we can agree that the (lack of) solution to the problem lies with the person in-charge at the moment.
If you turn Javascript off, the only information the website can get is user agent and IP, which would narrow it down much less than using Javascript even just among the pool of non-javascript users.

Keep in mind that there are a lot of services that load sites without Javascript enabled (scrapers, mail, preloading).
I won't respond to the debunked claim as I did not read enough on it.

That said, the fact that bricks may have always been there does not take anything from my argument. The perception of the existence of spontaneous bricks appearing is already part of today's audience.

Lie can go around the world faster than truth can put its shoes on.
$60953 self-sufficient loft-style tiny home on wheels can be towed anywhere
How are those similar? What about this story leads you believe that these people are claiming to be hearing frequencies outside of those known by science to be audible to humans?
That requires infrastructure changes, which is pretty much impossible as nobody has a vested interest and its herding cats. P2P means over existing networks.

I forgot to write though: I am not convinced this is that big a problem in the real world, and there are other mitigations. One would be a "poor man's Tor," onion routing over just 1-2 hops. Since you are propagating and aggregating P2P anyway, its not going to be that expensive. Doesn't make DOS impossible but makes it tough enough to deter amateurs.
Medical costs are pretty high in the US. I don't imagine it takes many injured people to make the police damage more expensive than the rioters
Even if they were making $250k CAD total compensation in Toronto, as a senior engineer at top companies in the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, etc. you can make $350-$400k USD ($470-530k CAD). We're talking about earning $150-$200k more. Working just 5-10 years with savings like this would be life changing.
I thought the one lesson we all learned from Clippy is that this kind of interruption is more annoying than useful, I guess the new generation of developers have never experienced Clippy?

Also why would I need help when reading a blog post??
I guess I have been spared by never garnering many likes, hence I could not develop the social media addiction
The scaling of wireless bandwidth is one of the under appreciated technological miracles of the 21st Century.

I wonder: Would even the most ambitious of telecommunications researchers in 1990 have thought it likely that in 2020 we’d be rolling out gigabit wireless speeds to handheld devices over nation-spanning networks?

The scaling of Moore’s Law was clear by then, and certainly fiber optics represented a practical path to near-unlimited wired bandwidth. What were the radio folks thinking at the time?
Has it backfired? To my knowledge the cops are all about fine? They're not worried that people are going to kill them in the street with no consequences like black people are
Always a balance with a tradeoff, I'm not sure if to uninstall here or come to terms with the business model.
Company converted a shipping container into a mobile tiny 'rustic farmhouse‘
Why did I just watch this? Fascinating but I don't even know what a speed run is. In terms of the statistics, heat map and mini game breakdown - pretty slick. I just don't understand why so much effort was put into unpacking this game within a game :)
Imagine isolated anectdata determining people's opinions of police! One of the first rules of understanding the world is to not let emotionally charged anecdotes, isolated events and individual mistakes determine how you judge groups, trends and collectives.

What's happened in the last week is that targeted propaganda has flooded people with a few isolated examples of bad things happening and letting people's emotional response mechanisms do the rest.

Did you know that tens of thousands of people die from medical malpractice and medical errors each year? There are many thousands fewer people suffering from police brutality, yet somehow the police have an infinitely worse reputation than doctors and surgeons yet your chances of being killed by a surgeon is far higher than being killed by a cop.

The police do one of the hardest jobs in the country, dealing with the worst elements of society every single day. It's shocking to me that there isn't far more "brutality" every year than there is, and I commend the police for keeping us safe while having to deal with people that hate them and want them dead every day.

The judgement callously meted out on police on HN and elsewhere is completely unjustified.
Indeed. There is no absolute moral principle, or absolute policy, or absolute form of government, or absolute ideology. The presumption is that people want to get to that absolute end of history, but every indication says they don't.

Hegel was full of shit.
Yeah, at least the two national guardsmen (stuck behind the cop line) check on him as soon as they get a chance.
Nobody made that claim. Your straw man cannot stand.

There are many examples of unprovoked police violence nationwide. No amount of looting and rioting justifies unprovoked attacks on peaceful protesters.

This isn't a game, there is no score.
Indeed. The original version was C#/WPF and worked on windows only. I got so many requests for a Mac version and knew it was decent demand. So I switched to electron: 1 code base works for Mac and windows plus has automatic updates for when bug fixes are released etc.

And sure enough Mac users account for 30% for the revenue today.

Another advantage is that it runs completely on the user's computer. So I have no database or back-end to maintain. There is only a small server to generate licenses + handle some analytics the app emits both built on ASP.NET. The only data I store is in a Microsoft Azure table. I pay around $2 a month for all azure costs.
I do architectural modeling as a side thing. My needs in more marketing materials rather than construction documents. Would blender be a possible replacement for Sketchup given the recent announcement that SU is going subscription only?
The biggest benefit is that Pinboard has a solid track-record of NOT going out of business.
Trump and former Senator Sessions hit the brakes on the police reform efforts that Obama initiated with 26 departments. Please do a modicum of research before posting vague pablum.
SAP paid that well when I worked there five years ago, and they're right down on Hamilton street.
It’s elder abuse.
I use Brave because it's a "degoogled" Chrome. Having good blocking built in is a plus. Being able to use Chrome extensions is also a plus.

I've tried Firefox many times over the years, and only recently has it gotten to a point where it's fast and nice enough on macOS. There are still corners of the app I dislike (it doesn't always feel like a native app, for example), but this may be a reason to finally switch.
plotting is a huge amount of fun. i've built several large drawing machines [1], [2] and gotten some old HPGL plotters working including a Roland DXY-1150 and a HP DraftPro DXL (7575A)

I'm currently working on using brushes and paint pens in a CNC router table converted to holding pens. [3] [4]

Lots more plots here: [5]

I strongly recommend getting an Axidraw - it's great fun!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rGjyPqcVbg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKsTr9XfFU

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/CAjLfOwJa5j/

[4] https://www.instagram.com/p/CApODjhpeIp/

[5] https://www.instagram.com/jodhus/
This is fascinating. A key belief that it reinforced for me is the importance of breaking up large entities that tend to form oligopolies - increase competition, reduce tendencies for regulatory capture, and now: a fairer income distribution.
Don't judges and juries decide if things are lawful? If the protesters leave, you'll never find out.

The law is meant to be tested
Kiwi Browser does support extensions. It's what I use.
Anyone that showed up to an 11pm “protest” the day after looters and rioters commandeered the previous night’s gathering knows exactly what they’re enabling and and the risks involved. At that point you’re aiding and abetting the actions of the small minority that are directly causing the damage and in doing so you can’t complain to be caught in the literal crossfire.

If a crowd of 1000 people has one person throw a brick at the police. I think it’s well within their rights to tear gas the entire group to disperse them.
Or data bearing enums, which bring some of the best of all of those worlds, with (value declaration, not usage) exhaustiveness enforced at compile time:

https://github.com/klaviyo/matrix_enum

My colleague and I started making use of that pattern last year (before open sourcing the package) and found it very useful.
He does not need to buy a Lamborghini or a yacht with that money: there are plenty of other ways to use money to secure power or influence that do not involve the purchase of physical things.
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I think this fence was explicitly designed to block wind.
I would say that in this case, that's a reasonable decision.

If a physicist can't patent superconductivity (you can't patent discoveries and laws of nature), should it be possible to patent compression algorithms? The case for patents in software, as additional protection on top on copyright, is not clear to me.

Frankly neither copyright nor the patent law is actually suitable for software. Software deserves a tailor-made IP law that actually recognises the difference between compiled code and source code, the rights of the consumer to modify his device and keep it updated, etc. There should be an escrow-type system, where protection is granted if code is hosted in a public repository, and is made public after 20 years or so.

All executable should be treated in a standard way, and there should be no EULA outside of enterprise systems. A consumer person does not need to read EULA when they buy a book or a car, why should they do so when they buy a PC?

Until this happens, I feel developing nations shouldn't even recognise software patents - copyright is protection enough.
Can't this guy call all these delivery places and explain to them his situation. Sure it's annoying but seems worth it given the circumstances
The police are happy to kill people with police present. Having police around is also not good
There's no uBlock (assumedly Origin) port to iOS, because browser extensions are not permitted on iOS, and they don't allow other browser engines so every alternative browser is a Safari skin. You can't just install Firefox to get around that restriction.

IOS does have native content-blocking, which is reasonably effective but nowhere near uBlock Origin. It's similar to the manifest v3 stuff where Google is castrating Chrome. And yeah there are tons of them available for free, which makes sense because they're all just using pretty much just using Easylist[1].

[1] https://easylist.to/
50% investment return in a year sounds like just running a business?
I think it did backfire. Too much negative attention to police lately. I hear it on the radio, it’s on TV, it’s all over the internet.

I think police will see some funding decreases is some places and lots of discussions about police demilitarization are currently taking place. That can have consequences.

I think their morale is also affected and it’s horrible that because of some bad/unprofessional officers other good ones have to suffer the bad image. This may help some good internal change as well. One can hope at least
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That is the date of an ISO resolution to split MPEG into several separate working groups, a political decision (which doesn't disband MPEG in any way). A bit more detail: https://twitter.com/enginetankard/status/1269409381495365632
The Fed does not want to do credit analysis. They do not want to be the primary purchasers of debt. As a lender of last resort, they want to buy debt from primary purchasers in the hope that they valued the debt correctly.

Of course... Everyone with poor debt quality would LOVE to sell to the Fed...

One of the big lessons of ETFs the past year has been whether the underlying "fake" liquidity of ETFs would cause problems for the underlying real poor liquidity of bonds. The Fed is buying ETFs because the price of the ETF goes into the underlying bonds. The Fed is buying bonds. They think it's close enough to buying the bonds.

It's really bizarre to me that you think a poor definition of liquidity is that you personally cannot sell bonds. I don't care if the market is bad or your phone is too broken to make your sell order. Complain to your boss that the market was fine but you couldn't make the trade. See what they say. You cannot trade. Your liquidity is bad.