skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but this just reads as vague pessimism to me

> Lawyers are paid to defend their clients. Every politician is a lawyer by trade.

No, that would be true if "people paid to defend their clients are Lawyers". Lawyers offer a specific service to client, distinct from bodyguards and others who provide defense.

Politicians do want to get reelected, but there are many ways for that to be.

Nothing about politics is inherently sublimely, or sleazy things like ALEC inevitable. It rather the due to very specific problems in the US such as terrible voting systems.

> This is the expected result, anyway

To whom?
Microsoft's luck was that IBM gave them the license to make the OS, because they thought the money is in the hardware.

That's one of the biggest business mistakes ever.So that's a huge amount of luck.

So I'm not sure Microsoft is so unique with regards to "return on luck".
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

? In the commons, there is limited ability to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' ideas.

Among the crowds, the craziest ideas usually win.

Individuals are intelligent, but crowds are dumb.

Most people who push for ultra freedom of expression think of it in intellectual terms, you know, people having reasonable discussion, but it's not that, it's yelling, cursing, death threats, crazy ideas and 'actual racism' (and I mean the bad stuff like 'kill all those XYZ people, they are cockroaches').
>Mucosal or systemic microbiota exposures shape the B cell repertoire

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2564-6
When you Cmd-Tab to an application with no open windows, press option as you release Cmd, and it will open that application's default window (as if you clicked on it on the Dock.)

Useful when you like to leave apps "open" even with all their windows closed (ie. not using Cmd-Q), but still want to use Cmd-Tab to get to the app instead having to click something.
The nicest thing is that it auto-escapes the path too so you can safely type a command and then drag any file as an argument without worrying about spaces and shell characters.
It's sad, but I am probably going to be one of those that won't be able to trust a vaccine that comes out anytime soon. Some countries are just too focused on "being the first", rather than getting it right.
GP's point comes off like an argument against pro-maskers which makes the point disingenuous. Their criticism is that scientific discussion stopped when the topic became politicized, but they're taking a political shot at the same time.
>> someone’s shoes trying to identify slight variations?

If you have a military background it is completely normal. Beyond boot polishing, how one ties one's shoes can identify their nationality, background and even trade. They don't think twice about looking at someone's shoes.

There is an old method for spotting a US marine: Ask them to change their socks. The guy who takes one sock off at a time, changing one sock before even untying the second shoe, that's a probable marine. The guy who doesn't actually tie his laces, that does a strange wrap-around-then-tuck thing... US army. The guy who skips a few holes in the middle: air force.

Think I am exaggerating? search youtube for military shoe tying vids: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=military+shoe+l...
I wonder how that electricity usage compares to bitcoin mining. And by wonder, I really wonder, as I have no idea.
Studies have found no significant correlation between intelligence and bias blind spot (inability to detect bias in one’s own thinking). Smart or less smart makes no difference in rational behavior.

http://careymorewedge.com/papers/Scopellitietal2015BiasBlind...

Education may help, but it needs to be focused specifically on bias blind spot reduction. There is some evidence mindfulness training is effective. Mindfulness is presently not taught in traditional education.

https://medium.com/inclusion-insights/mindfulness-bias-liter...
Defaultdict and Counter in Python [video]
No one cares if you're the original if someone is offering the product for half the price because they paid $0 for R&D.

This is a really pathetic viewpoint to hold and I wonder if you actually live your life by these standards.
have barely been heard at all

1,601,808 views.

That's about 1.6 million more views than I would expect from "Zelda remixes". So we both see artistic injustice in the world, just from a different angle.

I will grant you it is better than 1982's "Pac Man Fever" though I suspect that made more money.
I doubt they intend to actually succeed but are just making sure to set down that they’re protecting their trademark So a company doesn’t start with one fruit branded trademark and then expand into more fruits before expanding into an Apple trademark to complete the set.

This is a consequence of the “use it or lose it” trademark system.
'Give me your attention'.
Rebranding is extremely expensive.
Three finger drag :-(

Thank you so much for telling us about it, but I expected that I can drag the window anywhere. Turns out I can only drag it where it could also be dragged by clicking normally.

But I turned it on anyway, we'll see if I'll use it.
Rotten. It's going to go pear-shaped clearly.
Why are you equating Facebook with books?
Dead Poets Society.

Quotes from Mr. Keating.

"Why do I stand up here? Anybody? I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."

"Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!"
Great Retsina, an Oxymoron No More
direct sunlight kills everything eventually
There are many posts online on how to sideload the APK on Amazon Fire TV sticks, etc. Though I'm not personally looking forward to a future where I can't use a web browser but instead have to run iOS or Android apps on my laptop...
Other way around. Smart playlists (iTunes 3; July 17, 2002) came long before smart folders (MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger"; April 29, 2005), and solve a simpler problem due to dealing with a single file type and a pre-existing existing centralized database of standardized and relatively homogeneous ID3 metadata. Spotlight was created to extensibly generalize these capabilities to the while filesystem.
Do you have a citation supporting the claim that old bugs don’t affect users? That’s certainly not true in the Windows world.

Similarly, “updates that deliberately slow down the phone” sounds like a conspiracy theory. The closest we’ve come to that being real would have required a caveat “… when your battery has degraded to the point that the phone would otherwise crash”, which is an important distinction.
Your parents sound stupid
No, it isn't. Also, censorship is bad, and the fact that there's so much public demand for it nowadays is sickening. Even here at HN there are plenty of people who'd praise FB for this move.
Apple has unlimited money. They're terrorizing a mom and pop.

Apple needs to lose, and they need to pay $10-50M for torturing these poor, resourceless people.

This is so asymmetrically unfair it hurts.
It’s not about what’s in his mind, it’s about what’s not in it, that is sophisticated legal knowledge or experience in healthy and normal legal disputes. Typically, these people want to push extreme or even infinite punishment for mundane things that personally annoy them or feed into some narrative they have.
This isn't a copyright dispute, this is a challenged trademark. This is not a lawsuit, it's an administrative opposition.

A different set of laws, policies, and procedures are in play here.

> I'm kind of fascinated to understand what must be in your mind or experience that you think such penalties for normal legal actions are warranted.

Please don't cross-examine. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It appears almost instantly when you mouse over where it used to be. I've been living on it for the past few weeks and haven't changed my muscle memory at all.
I literally walked away from that movie and said to my buddy, that I watched it with "WTF, I feel like I just got mentally raped", it is really that powerful of a movie. It disturbs me that a human mind could conceive of that story.
Let's not fantasise that every legal action is normal. This one certainly isn't, it's frivolous, if not legally then definitely morally. I don't know how to draw a defensible legal line separating one from the other, but this particular case would certainly be on the wrong side of it.

Apple doesn't own all the rights to all fruit in trademarks. They know it, and they know they won't win, they're just using the courts to wage a war of attrition to get what they want. This bullshit should not be possible.
We (https://teller.io/) hire remote Elixir engineers. https://jobs.lever.co/teller/2215bd6e-a1ae-461b-80a9-0b786b6...
For what it's worth, back in the day Acorn Computers had an acorn as logo and manufactured both computers and their own RiscOS Operating System, and their name was chosen with the intended purpose of appearing before Apple Computers in a phonebook.
I don't recall of any lawsuits from Apple; probably because back then that would have been painful for them as well.

It's easy to bully others when one expects no retaliation.
I know it's popular to hate on big tech here on HN, but I'm willing to bet there's more going on here. There's literally dozens of companies with fruit logos on the Apple Store: pineapples, bananas, lemons, and many more.

Either this is a PR stunt or there's more at play.
This is how stupid companies are. Those 4% may not be a viable demographic of itself but by not supporting that 4% you explicitly tell them to pirate.
Android Beyond Defragmentation
"I don't see what that has to do with threatening emails though"

Every time I've seen a story like this, it's accompanied by excerpts or screenshots of letters, emails, or court docs...or at least short quotes. I suppose in this case, the relevant text from Apple challenging the trademark is what you would expect to see.

Edit: Okay, I found the dispute by trawling records myself. Appears apple is disputing it: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91254886&pty=OPP

You can follow the links to find various documents from Apple.
The Endgame of the Olympics
To equate anyone who supports Facebook's actions in this case with the sort of people who support book burning, obviously.
What OP was describing sounds like anti-SLAPP legislation, which many states have adopted. Essentially if you file a frivolous slander/libel suit with the sole intention of harassing the target, then the other party can file a countersuit, in which the judge can throw out the case and award damages to the defending party (triple damages in CA!). It's both restitution for time and reputation lost, as well as a deterrent against targeted legal harassment.
It's not a linux app, I don't think there's any native code involved, the reddit poster was just running it in Firefox.

It's likely this is either a Firefox/platform bug or some sort of mistaken platform whitelisting on the part of HBO. Or plausibly it's a non-mistaken attempt to blacklist Linux users, but that seems rather less likely.
Cmd-` inside the Cmd-Tab modal cycles apps in reverse
Some people are perfectly comfortable giving up some privacy for convenience.
Procrastination Matrix (2015)
This is something I made as entertainment for my significant other: https://wasd.ch/keyboard/

I had some spare time and decided to code something small that would be a fun timewaster with some inside jokes.
> milk-industry propaganda at the time said it was important for kids to drink a bunch of milk for bones and growth and other stuff that was never true and was known to never be true.

You seem to be saying that the human body cannot make productive use of the calcium from cow's milk. Do you have a source for this?
Well that hardly seems like a discount for cutting out the Googley middle man! Perhaps you do indeed value your privacy a bit more than you realize?
> More or less every country other than the US looks at America as a train wreck now.

A substantial portion of the US views the US as a train wreck too, maybe even a majority.
This is a response to an argument I did not make. I could choose to spend 24 hours a day replying to misinformation. This won’t get the misinformation off the platform even though it’s against the rules of the platform for it to be there in the first place.

They need public-facing mechanisms to report content so it can be removed, just like all the other disallowed content which can be reported. It’s not good enough to plaster “get the facts” banners above the comments section or in users’ feeds, or occasionally take sweeping actions against highly visible groups/accounts. My frustration is that no option exists to report misinformation even though (1) it’s banned content, and (2) the reporting mechanism is already there.
I am looking forward to all the new AI startups that launch when the OpenAI GPT-3 API goes out of beta. Their secret sauce will be nothing more than a handcrafted prompt, which would be like launching a company based on a fancy SQL query used to query a 3rd party database.
If China does it to the US it's bad and newsworthy but the fact that Germany is the most spied country worldwide by the US for industrial espionage this seems like hypocrisy at best which is what the US is known for anyway. At least China is consistent.
What in the world, that's been here the entire time? I've been looking up how to do it in bash every time I've needed to do it. It's so strange how macOS has this appearance of simplicity but just below the surface you have stuff like this
> Title: HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers

Is there some acknowledgment that this is actually official, a statement from their support or anything? Or did they just push some change and not check that it actually runs on all the platforms their customers use?

Neither would surprise me but there's nothing in TFA which says either way.
Just common sense laws about who pays the legal fees in cases where it is a small entity against the Goliath. Here in the Nederlands, the loser of the lawsuit pays for the legal fees of the winner. This makes sure that someone who files lawsuits that are doomed at the start will think twice about that because it will cost them a lot of money.
It was weird that Disney settled that one, since deadmau5’s branding certainly would make branded products appear to be from Microsoft given that it looks like a cross between Mickey Mouse and the Xbox logo.
> And by forcing them to actually file renewals, the forgotten works in buyouts will slip through to the [public domain].

I can’t see how that would work now that the data is digitised and the filings are completely automated. At best it might work for some older music, but it wouldn’t work for anything produced after the rule was introduced because services would be created to automatically do the filing for artists.
Since, unlike copyright law or patent law, trademark law is the one that does require plaintiffs to actively defend their mark or risk losing protection, there's always a bit of a gray area where two marks may not look terribly similar, but one can reasonably justify taking action.

This instance, however, falls far outside that area.
The rule about bullying and harassment seems to be selectively applied. It doesn't seem to matter when the target has the political views that oppose those of the Facebook employee base.
In days like these I'm glad I have chromebook (then again, I haven't checked if HBO's android app supports such devices). Then again, I wish this didn't happen...
Or fruits are just a really common things in the world...
> It is cost prohibitive to spin off anything because it has to be ported to a completely foreign platform.

Completely foreign platform is moving the goalposts here. I said in my original response that everything Reader depended on is very likely to be available on GCP, and is very likely to be in a form that is very similar to its internal versions.

Besides, the giant leap the OP and you make is that cost prohibition is the reason these spin-offs don't occur. I've been arguing not only the cost is not as high as you make, it is also unlikely to be the reason for us not seeing spin-offs. To invert your premise, if cost of giving the keys of any killed Google product to someone else was less than the money they could get, would they really transact away all of those products? I voted a strong no since my first reply to OP.

> the internal systems are usually more flexible than the external ones (they have to be, they're what the external systems run on top of)

Once your internal infrastructure is serving thousands of different engineering teams, there is only so much flexibility you can offer. As I stated, that accommodation game becomes combinatorially explosive. Which means internal infrastructure already has to be as general purpose as the variety of products a company has, which for these companies is pretty large. Which is why the internal and external versions of could offerings don't diverge but converge too, their infrastructure is general purpose enough.

> it just proves the point that the infra isn't the same today, and that as of this moment such a migration would reasonably be cost prohibitive.

I explicitly stated multiple times that I am not claiming 100% API/service parity, so you are fighting a strawman here. Not being identical, while being are sufficiently convergent, doesn't prove cost prohibition at all.

> Yes, you claim this, and you were and continue to be incorrect.
> But these aren't opinions. You're just factually, demonstrably wrong.

I don't hear any demonstrations or facts, only your willful assertion that "it is so". Which is fine in a pseudonymous forum, because as I mentioned we don't need to spill our credentials to just win an argument, but also like I said, don't ask people to ascribe any more authority to it than mere opinion.
This kind of claim needs a citation. The article we're discussing does not support it.
Well that sounds like a very specific scene.
> Facebook is not a 'communications infrastructure', is not a 'public square' and they have no obligation to do anything other than act lawfully

De-facto it is both a 'communications infrastructure' and a 'public square' - due to the simple fact that it is used as such by hundreds of millions of people.

The fact that they get away with pretending that they aren't is unfortunate. The fact that so many people are eager to defend this is sad, to say the least.
Scroll zoom is also great for giving live technical demos! I picked this up after watching some WWDC videos and it's so much better for drawing focus during a live demo than using something like a laser pointer.
Apple is experienced in bullying small businesses outside of their industry [1]. They sued a cafe because of its name "Apfelkind" (apple child) and its usage of an apple in their logo. Luckily Apple lost that case.

1: https://dw.com/en/german-café-owner-takes-on-apple-and-wins/...
230 protections protect companies who make editorial decisions from being treated as speakers of the remaining content they do allow on their platforms. It's entire purpose is to sanction and protect exactly what actions happened here. It's design is to have your cake and eat it too.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

In short: (C)(1) - publishers are not speakers (C)(2) - publishers can remove content at their discretion.

How did the law come to be understood to do the exact opposite of what it does? There is also no requirement for them to be transparent or fair.
This is thanks to how extremely optimized V8 and Chrome is for string manipulation. It is faster in the small cases but doesn't scale to, say, 10000 rows in a table. Then it becomes several orders of magnitude slower than React and virtual DOM. On low memory devices it could crash and never render. This should just be kept in mind when choosing WCs. WCs are perfectly fine for the Settings page in Edge, for example.
Honest question, does linux support HDCP or other protections they feel they may need? Or is that not even at the OS level and could this be the reason for the dropped support?
You are aware that 20 million users in a population of 80m total is way way way more than 30 million out of a 300m population?

It seems amazing how clueless people on hn are yet they post their middle class thoughts.
For me it was watching pfs:Write do spell check, which of course involved a status box showing each word as it was checked to show just how fast computers are :-)
We have plenty of land for growing crops. Land is not an issue.
HN "censors" posts all the time. There are moderators who go around deleting posts, and even the users here dare to downvote, suppressing the speech of others!
It doesn't.

The sun provides about 300W/m^2 on average at temperate climates, that's 7.2kwh per day. Wheat takes about 4 months to grow and nuclear power costs 0.77c/kwh.

That's 665.28$/m^2 at wholesale.

[0] https://ag.tennessee.edu/solar/Pages/What%20Is%20Solar%20Ene....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing#Price_comp...
Probably none of those apps filed to register their trademark though.
Every day that I do programming for a living, it's coding for love.

Not sappy honeymoon-period love (eros), but the long-term-commitment version of love that requires sacrificing my personal preferences in exchange for providing for my wife's and children's material needs (storge / agape).

Obviously I'm not unique in my willingness to do this. But looking back on my own life, the honeymoon-period love is bush-league.
Do you spell it the "Nederlands" or was that a typo?
This is likely the reason. Not going after these kind of cases can it harder for them to defend against more clear violations.
I think you skipped a few beats here. Julie explains, first, that even though she cared, her reports didn’t always believe that she was showing care.

Then she goes on to explain that it’s easy for people to miscommunicate, even when they have all the right intentions. She tries to avoid these misses by understanding, for each of her reports, what made that person feel cared for.

Then she explains that this can help in the reverse, too: creating a “how to work with me” guide helps reduce the miscommunication from above. She didn’t “immediately react” to her team’s feedback by creating the guide, but built up to this over time.
Disclaimer: not an FPGA expert

I think really any task can benefit from being ported to FGPA, but FPGA clocks tend to be slower than CPU clocks and large logic will force you to lower the clock as components become more spread out on the chip (assuming all the logic elements needed even fit on your board). The caveat is that it's expensive to do things in hardware, and some things are already designed very well -- if you need to design a whole CPU from scratch on an FPGA to run your code it'll obviously be slower, but it will also take way too much time to get it anywhere near real world performance per clock. Since TCP/IP and SSL are mostly pretty specialized, the answer is yes. If you're interested, there's some open-source projects that do part of this https://github.com/fpgasystems/fpga-network-stack)