skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know about UPI, but those concerns can be mitigated by not operating on public networks. The SWIFT payment network for example is private[1] and is only accessible via dedicated routers.

[1] https://www.exalog.com/en/swiftnet-network-banking-communica...
There was a girl I liked years ago, maybe 15 years ago, and I bought her a domain name that was her name, with hosting for a website and her own email name@name.com

She had no idea what this meant and did not care about it at all, and nothing romantic ensued.

The domain expired and is held by one of those spam exchanges now.

Love finds a way, even if that way is to an ad exchange.
I used a pinch of code to propose to my wife.

First, I had friends and family of my (then) girlfriend send me videos describing what makes her awesome.

Next, I generated a dozen or so 6 character alphanumeric codes, and had Zazzle print them out for me.

Third, I built a web site that made it foolproof to type in codes and then play the videos. It had a huge textbox, and it turned lowercase into uppercase, and only accepted valid characters. It played the videos full screen. A few seconds before video ends, it has an overly with a hint for a scavenger hunt.

On the morning of the proposal,I made her breakfast in bed, gave her a gift and an envelope with the (very short) URL and the first code. After she watched the video and saw the hint, we got ready and I drove her to the location. Then gave her another envelope!

And so it went, until we arrived at our favorite waterfall hike, and at the foot of a waterfall, I handed her my camera and while she was distracted, got the ring out and got on one knee.
This isn't a legal case. It's a trademark application.
Tell the rats that the Mars bars are off limits and they can stick to the Cadbury chocolates.
Studio Ghibli was mentioned a few times, and for good reasons.

A favorite that I keep returning to is Howl's Moving Castle
Regarding the retaining US lawyers part - I think it would fall under FARA:

https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
Re-Imagined Child education during Covid 19
A distinction needs to be made between test accuracy and test sensitivity. Antigen tests or similar rapid testing may not be as sensitive, so may only detect very high viral loads - but if they are cheap and easy enough to test daily then this is not a problem, so long as they are taken every day.

Apparently viral load ramps up really fast, like hours, until the immune response kicks in, and it is at that high titre that you are most infectious. If everyone tested everyday, and isolated on a positive, then this could all be over by Christmas.
I don't think it is as simple as civil vs common law differences. The fact that legal professionals charge so much money for glorified word processing and petty arguing is the problem. Especially given the over supply of legal graduates and ever lower quality of judges you will face.
Concrete example: The slightly more frequent instances of fireworks in neighborhoods across the country leading up to 4th of July being a “psy-op” by the police targeting neighborhoods of color.

This was believed by a Canadian friend who has a PhD, who is also addicted to Twitter.
You are definitely correct. I meant that the instruction was nicer in a holistic sense, not better for implementation. (RISC is the way to go if you want to make the implementation easy. It's remarkable how straightforward the ARM1 chip is, for instance.)

I encourage people to read about the i432 processor, to get an idea of how wildly different a processor design can be. Among other things, objects are built into the processor. Object pointers are created by the processor, so you can't make an out-of-bounds pointer. (In other words, many current security issues don't exist.) The processor includes garbage collection, in hardware.
I suggest you consider reading a book called A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. It's about a lawyer suing a large company over the deaths of children. Hint: He was vastly outspent and crushed. Don't watch the movie, the book is much better.
Thanks, I think I've noticed that me too, and it's nice to see that others are noticing the same patterns.

Lots of CCP critical comments getting downtown, and the discussions slightly derailed

Didn't know about that word before, only "troll farms".
I live and in work in Japan many years now.
Its not even just HN. Its everywhere English language is used. Its entertaining seeing these.
Japan is this place where everyone can parrot any stupid thing they heard on the internet endlessly.
Its the place for which you can draw conclusions out of your ass in an attempt to understand this "exotic different culture" and people will do the same and everyone circlejerks happily.
There is no balance and normal people. Its either paradise or hell depending on the subject and the speakers feelings toward Japan.

I am happy there are people who understand this idiocity and I am sad there are not enough globalized people from this country to say something back in these forums.
There is the interesting Pelemay project: https://github.com/zeam-vm/pelemay

By using macros it’s relatively trivial to create sections of code that can compile to a computation graph and have a compiler create native code/nif for it.
Sebastian keeps mentioning how all these different kind of tools could re-use the same infrastructure for the things they all do, but... It's still not quite clear to me what benefit that brings to me as a non-contributor? I can see how it could be beneficial if the entire ecosystem would rally around the same tools and then be able to move faster, but given that that has not yet happened... Why would I use this to lint my code? The nicer error messages?
They have deep legacy ties with DoD (aka lobbying), but they do launches for the military.
ah, a random guy who says we can't take a phone dispute and compare it to an existing political dispute. thanks for your on-topic comment, you really improved a conversation about phones.

you, literally:"you are taking deaths as a percent of population. you can't do that"

i just did. twice.
The concern is whether the elevated positive tests that we are seeing is due to false positives. This is probably the case if it is the antigen tests that were administered.

Thus there was/is an emphasis on positive test rates rather than number of positive tests. However this distinction probably has been hard to get across to the public at large.
Thanks, I tried this with tinyurl.com, and it worked!

The NYT paywall (and many others) can also be bypassed by blocking cookies and/or JavaScript using a browser extension such as uMatrix. (That doesn't work for WSJ, however.)
Ask HN: Are you skeptical about the official corona narrative?
Stanford professor John Ioannidis called the pandemic a “once in a century evidence fiasco” because there are multiple strange problems with the data presented to the general public:

- The total number of positive test results induces fear but is pointless.

- Number of positive tests without a relation to the testing volume is pointless.

- More testing, more false positives. There are few true positives so the effective false positive rate is relatively high. At this point, perhaps even more than 50% of positives are false positive.

- Everyone who had a positive test is counted as a “covid death”. Irregardless of the actual cause of death.

- Without random sampling we cannot measure the actual severity.

- Multiple independent studies have shown that Covid-19 is comparable to the seasonal flu. There is no extremely deadly killer virus.

- Lockdowns damage the economy brutally, unemployment rates and suicides increased drastically

- Trillions of dollars are printed to “reduce” the damage

- Hospitals aren’t full but rather empty.

What do you think? Does all that make sense to you?
On a slight tangent, back in the day it was easy to knock up a Java GUI for an app, only to present it to a client who would then mistakenly think it was the finished product.

There was a pluggable look-and-feel for Java Swing called the NapkinLAF, which presented the UI using a pseudo hand written font and irregular lines.

Clearly writing Java GUIs have been dead for a while, but the project lives on at http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/ and has some screenshots of what it made the GUI look like.
> The real problem is most banks backend systems are still old mainframes where this isn't possible.

The rest of the world manages it. Do they not use mainframes?
A universal 3D imaging sensor on a silicon photonics platform
Thanks for your advice. I have been dog-fooding myself by using https://rewq.app and its pretty useful for me. Not sure if the appeal is universal though.
How is that racist? I’m talking specifically about the cultural aspects of growing up in China.
Curious what is the worst case outcome if one were to just put minimal effort into the legal process, basically just simply state your case and hope judge thinks other side is crazy?

For example, in breue's case he had enough money for lawyers, but pretend it was the same scenario only breue was an 18yo still living with his parents (who are not wealthy theoretically)

Does the judge just blindly believe everything Twitter says since they have lawyers?
PF is three levels of XOR gate delays. Not a big deal.
The story enough fishy to look like a scam even by Chinese standards.

1. Doing business in China? Do it without govt. involvement. The less you see those guys the better.

2. Never do any joint ventures. Never deal with stocks, and public companies.

3. See a well wisher popping up on your doorstep with a business proposal? Turn the guy around, he is a scam.

4. Don't be public about your business, be as obscure as possible. Operate on online platforms. Have disposable shell company structures.

5. Don't ever get sued, and this is why you keep shell companies. Chinese legal system is almost as "sticky" as American one, if not more. Once the legal "casus belli" is established, and the court takes on the case, the plaintiff can keep suing you for all eternity.
I always wondered if Apple employees embodied the same cold outlook on the world as Steve and Tim. Except for Bob Mansfield, the entire management team seems to have that cold force about them..
Sure, CF is garbage, I won't try to argue otherwise.

There's this though: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-enabling-py...
Human beings have existed for several hundred thousand years.

The idea of a separate objective truth outside ourselves is a relatively recent development.

We generally credit the Ionian Greeks with adding this idea to human civilization and there has always been push-back against it.

I remember watching this as a child and thinking it was the least important episode, but upon reflection I realized it was the most important one.

https://youtu.be/AiYGFZcD1h8
I would love to see the CEO of CloudFlare come to your wedding. Your prank article was a nice read and I had a good laugh.
The article looked great until the introduction of the NPCI system. It's essentially a single point of failure, and the best place to observe all the transaction of the whole country. It's controlled by the Government so it will be really tempting to peek into it.

> Imagine the pain that everyone has to go through in reaching a consensus when configurations or infrastructures change. It would be chaos.

Welcome to the Internet.
> You lock that permission set in for future runs

Thanks, that was the important bit missing from OP's description.
Yeah, never. I have $1500 worth of alcohol in my house, had my first drink 19 years ago, have close friends who a) own bars, b) own vineyards, c) own breweries and d) are execs at major international spirits companies, but yeah: never drank with a buddy while video chatting.

Alternative idea: maybe my remark wasn’t to be taken as black/white, but instead was exploring social engagement in 2020.
How to set up container network properly?
The loser should pay all legal fees, but they should also be capped to something reasonable.
What? Since when do doctors not tell people to lose weight?
Because they're cheap, low powered devices.
I think US (and other western countries like Canada, European countries etc) are VERY different from the Indian market. In US, Canada etc, everyone has an email and banks allow interactive payments already. I have yet to have a single time where I had problems paying someone for something. Interac etransfer works well. Even iMessage, FB messenger etc allow payments. Other services like PayPal, Stripe, Patreon cover the rest of the base.

India is a completely different market. There are millions of people there who don't even have a bank account, nor do they have email. The road-side vendors use cash.
Make sure to also see Dark City
It's aggravating when people tell me what I meant, when I chose my words with intent.

I've never been a SWE or developer. Communicating with lawyers and PMs is what I mostly do.
If you still have any of those XCMDs lying around, it'd be great if you could upload them[1] to the HyperCard stacks collection[2] - particularly if you still have source code. (Of course, only if not covered under NDAs, etc...).

If they're still on old media (floppy disks, SCSI hard drives, etc...) contact me[3] and I'll do by best to help get them transferred.

[1] http://hypercardonline.tk/

[2] https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks

[3] HyperCardOnline@gmail.com
In Germany, their rough equivalent of a Civil trial guarantees representation for the sued in most cases.
Has anyone here ever even read a post by Q? Is it really a conspiracy that powerful pedophiles are protecting people like Jeffrey Epstein? Pretty established fact at this point
When I was in High school I was crushing on a girl who was really into video games. Old fashioned Zelda video games to be exact. Myself, knowing absolutely zero about game programming took it upon myself to create a 2d game for her in the 3 weeks before Valentine's day. So I crammed all the c# game tutorials I could possibly find until I made a top down game where I character collected hearts that spawned randomly on the screen. It turned out pretty crappy to be honest. It flickered because I didn't have rendering correct and the character teleported because I didn't fully understand smoothing motion using the game time delta. But it got me started on a path which lead me to today. She really liked the game, but in the end we weren't meant to be.
I mean, there's good reason for this. Air pollution is manageable because it's known, the market and people can take it into account and try and make informed decisions. Terrorists attacks do not have this property and the variance of the people they kill is quite high. This makes it hard to ignore.
I have a font that I made based on my own handwriting that does this. Three variants is really not enough to feel organic, five or six is.

Spending a while tweaking kerning in Glyphs helps too. When I’m using it in something, then every time I notice some bad kerning, I’ll dump the text into Glyph’s preview window and tweak things. It is an ongoing process. Still needs a bunch of characters, too, I think it’s missing numbers and some important punctuation...

(Also looking at my blog the last time I fucked with it was probably around 2015. https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/tag/font/ )
Seems like an overreach to sue a company that actually sells apples
I can't let a topic like this pass by without mentioning commercial (often obsolete) FPGA-based products that are repurposed as development boards. They usually offer FPGAs with much higher capacity for rock bottom eBay prices.

* Pano Logic G1 board: https://github.com/tomverbeure/panologic

* Pano Logic G2 board: https://github.com/tomverbeure/panologic-g2

* Colorlight 5A-75B: https://github.com/q3k/chubby75

* Cisco HWIC-3G-CDMA: https://github.com/tomverbeure/cisco-hwic-3g-cdma

Playing with these has been a fun hobby of mine and while I have a box full of 'real' development boards, I usually find myself going back to the Cisco board for my personal projects.
Bubbly Parasympathetic Thinking
go to lineageos, click on your phone. this'll get all your old phines the same type of android.

it's not what i do -i used a fairly weird build.

the generic steps for ine way of doing it: download a recovery program, install it on the phone. pick the android rom you want from the recovery program. click install. it'll reboot your phone and install it. this is the way a gramma can do it.

a prefer hooking it up to my laptop with a usb cable and just typing the commands in the android shell. that is the way gramma cannot do it.
Are you talking about some kind of an "NDA" on employees? I work for Google. I am being frank when I say you are full of it, and you will not find this message in any script.

Shit, I fed a troll.
Based on the legal TV shows I've seen, you can get drowned by motions. If the other side files a motion, you have to respond to it. If they have a large legal team, they can pull more legal manoeuvres than your side can even read, let alone respond to.
Without needing to be a citizen or resident, or having conducted the activity inside the USA. I find treason extraordinarily widely defined.
Ideas for Refocusing When Working from Home
In fact, Ian's Shoelace website mentions several lacing and tying methods used and prescribed in the military of different countries.
If the government can afford a crime lab, expert witnesses and a team of prosecutors then why not the equal amount for public defense? Then they can do a cost-benefit analysis whether it's really worth to indict someone even though they have to pay for their defense. It's essentially the problem of only optimizing to keep false negatives low but ignoring false positives.
There is reasonable limits on how much in fees can be recouped.
True I think.

But remember that Norwegians also have maybe the worlds largest inferiority complex ;-)
I can give a perspective. I was filing a trademark (US) for an application that I am developing on the side. A gaming market place company opposed the trademark claiming possibility of confusion. They filed the opposition, I was determined to go to discovery with it.

After I filed my response denying all allegations, they blinked and we made a small change to the description of the trademark. (Something that I had offered them from the beginning).

From my perspective the worst that could happen is I would get to the point where I needed a lawyer (actual discovery) and could determine if it was necessary to continue.

Filing an answer to an opposition is not difficult and a little online searching goes a long way to help you avoid making mistakes answering the opposition suit.
The birth rate differences between high IQ and low IQ sections of the population have been suggested as the primary driver of this. The fact that it's been suggested at all is amazing due to the western world's strong avoidance of any topic that resembles an argument for eugenics.
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I'm genuinely curious as to why Apple is doing this, from a business perspective.

I'm well aware that companies need to defend their trademarks legally, or risk losing them, so in most cases like this the company is just following the law.

But it always relies on a certain level of consumer confusion, e.g. that some demonstrable percent of consumers see the logo/name and genuinely assume it to be associated with the opposing company.

But "Pear" has zero confusion with "Apple", and the logo is likewise completely different.

Companies generally do their best to NOT pay their lawyers to do frivolous things, because there are more important things to be paying their lawyers to do, and companies aren't charities.

So since Apple has no legal necessity to go after Pear here in order to protect their trademark, and they clearly have no business interest in harming a meal planning app since Apple's not in that business...

...what gives? Why is Apple spending money on this? Apple's a business. What's the business incentive?
I learned about that knot (and about how the directionality of the traditional shoelace knot we learn matters for how secure it is) a year or two ago from HN. Unfortunately, I probably haven't worn anything with laces in more than 9 months. I'm a flip-flip kinda guy most the time, and when you combine that with me getting some boat shoes a while back and shelter-in-place...
Food shortages are caused by natural disasters and political problems such as wars, not by lack of places to grow crops. We have plenty of farmland and farmers. If your vertical farm is caught in the middle of a war or flood then it won't be able to operate.
I mean it's pretty easy to prove that's not true. Just stick it on a network and check the network traffic.

The bandwidth required to do that would be immense anyway for basically no benefit.
FedNow is exactly this system [1]. What’s more it’s an initiative by none other than the federal reserve which can, to an extent, twist financial institutions’ arms to adopt it.

[1]

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/announ...
As a highschooler, sites like Calligraphr and this advice have been a blessing in circumventing arbitrary "you must handwrite this" requirements for assignments.
Two immediate potential benefits:

- Only one tool to configure, instead of many

- Many tools revolve around parsing your code and generating an AST, then manipulating / processing that AST (Prettier, ESLint, Babel, TS, Webpack, ....). That's a lot of extra processing that has to be done. In theory, doing all that processing _once_, and reusing the AST, would potentially run a lot faster.
It's clear that your parents have different values from you regardless of what you tell them, an obvious point that seems to be lost on many commentators in this thread who perpetually oscillate between "you don't know what you're doing!" and "how could you use such a device?!"
They're not widely available to non-medical buyers because they're still not easily attainable for medical buyers. N95s aren't the easiest thing to manufacturer, so ramping up production to fully satisfy current demand would require a significant investment in time and capital. Companies aren't going to do that without some certainty that they'll actually be able to sell enough of their extra production to cover the initial investment. Nobody has provided them that certainty, so they haven't made the investment. Instead they're (mostly) just maxing out production on whatever equipment they already have.

I work for a hospital and have been heavily involved in our COVID-related supply chain efforts. Six months into this we are still struggling to find a reliable source of high quality N95s. Our standard suppliers are getting us 100-200 per day, but we're using 10 times that every day.
Much needd!
Reminds me of that time when Caterpillar was suing a coffee shop for the word "cat". (original story: https://smashnotes.com/p/cat-cloud-podcast/e/being-sued-by-c...).

I can understand why big companies do it, they want to protect their brand and make sure they are the only ones who are associated with any words remotely close. As a business, it makes sense. But then again, for the rest of us, it's really weird that one company want to own a fruit, and another a house animal.

Could it be that trademark system, when establish, simply did not see this coming? What's a good solution, from a legal perspective, something that gives companies a way to defend their brand, but within "reasonable" powers, where simply gobbling all words in the space is probably no longer reasonable?
Well, there's the answer for whether Estonia is a Nordic country.

For the reference: https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aj6MYgw_700b_v1.jpg

https://external-preview.redd.it/UMjBaFaE-dFYMu_VZ8nKO4_tj0E...

http://www.linkbcit.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Finland-bu...
Probably better to think of it as eating mushrooms rather than trying to chew on he bark of a tree.

Chewing on bark will work, if you have enough bark, but it’s significantly more effective to use a fungus as an intermediary.
I wonder if you would feel the same way if someone violated an open source license....