skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably depends on your deal size and risk. If you are selling puppy photo software for $10/month it is a different situation to 200k enterprise deals.

Your contracts and insurance coverage exists to protect yourself from risk. Identify your risk (severity and probability of adverse events) and act appropriately.
I 100% agree, but in this case it's just another type-A guy making an observation perhaps so he can feel good with himself but not really doing anything.

These people like to pretend they are poor empathetic souls but with no power, which is bullshit. If their ass is on the line or their business has an existencial threat, all of a sudden they know how to make the right phone calls and make things happen.

I buy what he's trying to paint, but I don't buy his hypocrisy.
While I resonate fully with the ideals encompassed by free software, I find that the "logistics" of supporting them "in real life" are a completely different story, that has little to do with the ethos behind them.

This comes as a singular, personal data point, or course. There's wider context behind my trials and tribulations, but, succinctly put, starting a for profit company around my 5 year-ish old OSS project was the only way I managed to find to safeguard its continued existence and development. This road involves a lot of uneasy compromises that don't fit in the original discourse around free software.

Perhaps, what I'm lacking, is a "how to get there" guide - the ideals are clear, the way to achieve them is not so much so.
Really? It's not clear if you mean equivalent in the sense of showing as much skin or for wearing in similar circumstances.

But here are some things I think are equivalentish..

https://www.asos.com/au/asos-design/asos-design-regular-fit-...

https://www.asos.com/au/one-above-another/one-above-another-...

https://www.asos.com/au/asos-design/asos-design-t-shirt-in-b...
Does Apple have some nefarious reason to do this? Because on the surface it makes little sense why Apple would take this action.

While I can see a couple of similarities between Apple's and Prepear's logos - they're both 2D images of fruits - they're almost completely different in every other way: one is a pear, one is an apple; one is green, the other is black; one is outlined, one is a block colour; one has a chunk taken out of it, the other doesn't; one is rotated slightly, the other is upright.

Given that I'm not sure how anyone could mistake Prepear's logo for Apple's, why would Apple be concerned about this, or even dedicate the time and money to go after Prepear? Not to mention the risk Apple is taking of attracting bad press for aggressively going after a small company in this way.

Is this just a case of a legal team trying to justify their value by bumping up the number of trademark violations they've managed to prevent this month? Otherwise what would the motivation be to do this given there is obviously no trademark risk here?
Tactics, it's like saying i'am the CEO of McDonald and being vegan, but i understand every meat lover out there, now both sides love you :-)
And that's despite the brief window of nice weather we're now having.

It's lovely up here in Sunderland in the North East.

And by lovely, I mean it has stopped raining. It's nice and grey now.
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If you only compare the burning stage.
Would highly recommend coding on Buckfast!
That's why he links to the definition.
China imposes sanctions on U.S. lawmakers
It's counter-intuitive, but if you think about it, less develop countries are in a better position to deploy fully integrated systems.

E.g.: Portugal has a great, free, cross-bank, ATM system since the beginning [1] because Portuguese banks were late to the party in regards to deploying such machines. They could learn from other countries and create a more resilient system, which has since been expanded to be able to pay various services, from utilities, fines, tolls, phones, withdrawals without cards (with phone), etc. Countries that developed earlier have to suffer with a lot of baggage and the Banking industry is not known for it's desire to innovate its tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibanco
That's an unrelated problem. A person who follows an illegal order, whether in violation of law or ethics of practice, probably won't retain visa sponsorship long enough for that argument to matter. It also won't prevent them from suing their sponsor for wrongful termination and fraud.

At any rate ethics is a hard sell to an industry whose professionals are completely unaware of what ethics are or how they apply.
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Then protect it with a non-disclosure agreement and don’t make it public. But certainly you can’t copyright it.
Maker of the video here.

For a moment, I though this was about my video and article, but reading the comments, it's more about everyone sharing their stories. Few of the comments reflect having read the article. Fair enough, sometimes it just takes a link to give theme for a discussion.
_Bool is a relatively new addition to C, those operators return int results that are either zero or not.
He walks back the 36 hours claim which he recognizes is a completely unjustified extrapolation. And the 'subtract 7 minutes' is a very dubious answer to a completely different question.
Keep in mind that inter-imperial conflict arguably led to two world wars, and that the first world war produced the Bolshevik Revolution, making the Cold War possible. There are a lot of counter-factuals involved in claims like this.

Another problem is that settler colonialism exterminated the populations of the Americas and Australasia. The inter-generational comparison in those cases is primarily between two separate populations: the genocide of natives against the wealth of the ancestors of settlers.
Easy to find stories on the origins of India Pale Ale and how it survived by ship through the tropics...
"Since 2017, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer protocol is enabled in Europe. Which is basically what FedNow will be."

The UK has had instant interbank payments (FASTER) since May 2008 ;)

https://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/our-achievements
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Unless the first character was null, in which case it would be ignored by the condition... Also, you don't need to dereference a pointer in order to increase it.

The grandparent post's code is just nonsensical.
What Have The Romans ever done for us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ

Colonisation was wholly inevitable. Japan, as per your example, had a big freak out when Perry forced them open - realised that "dutch studies" were a matter of national security - and modernised at absolute breakneck pace as they happened to have had all the social structures already in place to accomplish this.

And no sooner had they closed the gap that they turned around and became ruthless colonisers themselves. Such was the game for all of human history until the 20th century.
Python is really easy to use. I don't get what's the troubles?

git clone https://example.com/myproject
cd myproject
/usr/bin/python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install requirements.txt
python3 src/myapp.py
New Zealander or Kiwi. Our sense of being a nation distinct from "Home" as Britain was called really took off after World War One.

While we weren't technically independent, we'd been self-governing since 1865, although it took us a lot longer to cut all of the apron strings, and well, the Queen is still our head of state, so who knows if or when we'll go full republic - most NZers don't really care. But hey, in the 2000s we stopped using the Privy Council in England as our highest court.

http://www.firstworldwar.tki.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Images/Y5...
I don't think so. Craft beers have been pursuing hoppiness and hence bitterness for years and have totally swamped the other flavours for me. A decent bitter should be warm and comforting, not in your face like some of the craft beers go for.
The instant trasfer costs money in Italy. I saw fees from 5 to 50 Euros.
If Trump bans WeChat, people in China could ditch iPhones in droves
It's a tree with people near the top being all experienced devs. It's actually quite amazing how the whole thing works to produce high quality software.
I was just talking to my transgender friend and she much more frequently gets questioned after she changed her name which is a bit frustrating for her.

I'm not saying that it can be used as a tip-off for extra verification but the real solution is to use a strong authenticator in the first place and not worry about these "softer" details.
Then go and find some new ones with the $100k in your bank account
That is nothing like an apple. Srsly!
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"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would
ever consent to write a `DestroyBaghdad` procedure. Basic
professional ethics would instead require him to write a
`DestroyCity` procedure, to which `Baghdad` could be given as a
parameter.

--- Nathaniel S. Borenstein, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Borenstein
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Databases have protection under EU law. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/protection-dat...

The EU is also interested in Google, and this looks like a slam-dunk case on the face of it.
This page is also worth taking a look: "Fred's ImageMagick Scripts" [0]

Fred seems to be an Imagemagick Expert who has written a lot of free shellscripts, over the years.

There are examples of multiline scripts for complex tasks (e.g. improving bad (greyed, inclined) scans or prints from a copymachine). Scroll down for illustrations, its a rather long webpage.

[0] http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php
It could. But like any floss projects, anybody can fork at anytime. If people have different visions they can either settle the difference or fork.
> Has anyone asked the Irish how they feel about the great British Empire?

Indeed they have. If you’re ever in the republic I recommend it as a great way to burn an hour or three.
This will not work unless the CEOs of all of these companies take the same oath too ... along with the shareholders.
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But if the brine is not frozen at the working temperature of your freezer, it's completely ineffective compared to water.
Current year hooks for fairly standard PR/review to promote a new book.
Focusing on ROI means that they deal with less savory companies, sometimes creating obvious conflicts of interest with their mission.
The "it's not illegal" game is what every dominant company or powerful mobster wants you to play. Because it's their game and they spend a great deal of money to ensure they always win.
The books under Fiction, Culture, and History - meant to demonstrate our "current culture" - include a number of pretty bleak titles.
The Mongolian Empire was very different in operation from the British or other colonial empires. It was not set up with the aim of wealth extraction and economic dominance of subjugated territories back to the parent country. You could not call it "colonial" by any widely accepted definition of the word.
Databases do have copyright protection under EU law if they are original.
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> he works at wants to use the MCAS for a non ethical purpose (namely operate and hide the existence of MCAS even when it is unsafe to do so).

You think a programmer, handed a spec and asked to implement it, can be expected to know that their employer (or the employer's customer) wants to use it for a "non ethical purpose"?

Again, I can't know for sure, but I doubt the programmers who wrote MCAS (who most likely didn't even work for Boeing, but rather some subcontractor) actually knew, or could have known, how the code fit into Boeing's larger purposes
His looks were 100% approved and encouraged by the left in 1970. Most leftists looked like that.

Sorry that the new, rich pseudo-left with their stock options and identity politics no longer approves of that look.

So much for diversity.
In germany the sliding top door is standard in almost all supermarkets, ranging from ALDI to Edeka, it covers "normal" and "budget" supermarkets. The only places I see non-transparent doors is bulk supermarkets.
Most people are looking at this cynically, and I agree that it's a stall for time, he's trying to justify paying people the minimum because otherwise all the other greedy pigs would undercut him, etc etc.

However, my cynicism goes a level deeper. It is in Uber's best interests for laws to change and make the scene more complicated, so that all operators in this space - including Uber - have to pay more to their workers and have more encumbrances.

Why? Well, Uber is an established operator. They have made their bucketloads of money off the back of underpaying their workers, got themselves out of startup status in a way that - if they play their cards right - no other gig operator will be able to replicate. Less competition, less disruption.

I think there is an argument that says that "gig economy" should be enveloped in laws that protect the gig worker rights and ensure fair pay and a safety net, without introducing laws that enforce restrictions on the workers. Governments should work to simplify the burdens on individuals, without creating new loopholes for the wealthy. "It's hard" is a valid statement, but not a reason to reject the concept.

But I would continue to be fully cynical of any solution that has the top gig economy CEO's seal of approval.
I am not trying to defend Google or its practices.
But how is the activity of CNW researchers different from what is Google doing? Unless the author elaborates on their method, "Educated guess" sounds like scrapping content without sourcing the author in the first place.
When Scott Alexander posted his final blog entry, someone on the HN thread linked to internet archive which I used to read the first 10 or so blog posts since I had never read that blog before.

Now some 6-8 weeks later I go back to continue reading and I found that any posts dealing with social issues from those first 10 was no longer accessible even though I read them on the internet archive on those same links not more than 2 months ago
Mirror:

* https://archive.is/E9LII
> but might not be illegal, since simple numbers like a dollar amount can’t be copyrighted

It might be the case in the USA but there this thing called "Database right": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right

In the case of the business in question, they employed people and spent resources to create that database. It's only fair if they get compensated for their work if the numbers that they collected is to be copied.
Taking someone else's copy written content and presenting it as your own can be seen as content theft. Imagine if a book author did that to a chapter of a book.

When the one doing it can essential present the case that they should be allowed to do it or they will destroy your business then it's an abuse of power. When they are in a position to actually do it because they have so much of the power in the space it can be argued to be a monopoly and abuse of monopoly power.

Google isn't just copying a number. They are copying text from other sites to present.
Step 1: sabotage any worker rights established by pushing workers into freelance/self-employed work.

Step 2: keep the money for labour costs in your pocket and become a unicorn because people with cash want to bet on the removal of worker rights.

Step 3: profit

Step 4: do some lame PR, still keep the cash. Change nothing. Because others have to do that. Just not you. All you needed was the money.

Companies following that model should not have a high valuation because they exist on borrowed time. Extorting money from a system does not make your business profitable at all, it just prolongs death.

Also... is it just me or does Uber seem highly ineffective in operations considering the amount of engineers needed for running the business?
To be fair, anything you can add whisky to is good.
Problem is, freezers typically run 40% of the time. If you let it get up to -10C, the duty cycle will be a fair bit lower, but still quite high, while only drawing about 100 watts.
But that's a lot of money to spend protecting food hoarding. Dry goods would be better for emergency cases.
"Gig workers want both flexibility and benefits."

Times have changed. People don't want stable jobs anymore. That's why the industries where workers have a modicum of power (law, medicine, finance, tech) are dominated by "flexible" work schedules.
How do you form an understanding about what it is and isn't recording and/or streaming? What evidence do you consider?
In order for System76 to save us, Clevo would have to save us, first (since the former sells rebranded laptops manufactured by the latter, last I checked).

Dell and HP already offer TrackPoint-equivalents on their Latitudes/Precisions and EliteBooks (respectively) and have been doing so for more than a decade now, so it seems the patents are definitely expired. I feel like the IBM/Lenovo version is higher-quality, though.
> Even the name, colonialism, is chosen to paint a very one sided contemporary political view.

You're projecting. The word "colony" doesn't by nature have any negative connotations; the reason "colonialism" sounds negative is because it is associated with the enslavement and extermination of native populations.
It's still kind of disputed, that's why I left that out of the conversation.

Forgetting for a moment about the English term "slave", it's interesting that in Italian slaves are called "schiavi", with the singular "schiavo", while in old Romanian we used to called Slav people (who were different from us, Romance-speaking people) as "șchei", with the singular "șchiau/schiau", the second form at singular pretty similar to the independently formed "schiavo" from Italian (which means "slave", like I said).
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I was reading it more like "I am the CEO of McDonalds. Workers at McDonalds deserve (a) better (CEO than I am)"
Throughput would suffer. At some point needing multiple weeks to copy the contents of one tape becomes impractical.
People should stop being ageist. If anything, sexual predators are of all ages. Especially these days when Internet allows any bored idiot unrestricted access to any number of children from the comfort of their homes.
> What's the point of the long scale?

AFAICT, the long scale was the original one. It was the short scale that was "invented" later, so the question should be: why was the short scale created?
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If you offer people stable work, with good pay and benefits, pension, healthcare (in the US), you won't have a shortage of applicants believe me. This myth being spread that people want flexible work is perpetuated by the people who benefit.
Yup I feel like it would do the same. Adding money to the equation can ruin the fun in many things, unless money is your primary motivator of course.
The necessary regulation is imposed and enforced via licensing. An example simply look at every other professional industry.
>"But the new laser beams don’t follow this basic law of light. And it’s not just Snell’s Law either – the team says they also ignore Fermat’s Principle, which says that light always takes the shortest possible path.

“This new class of laser beams has unique properties that are not shared by common laser beams,” says Ayman Abouraddy, principal investigator of the study. “Spacetime wave packets can be arranged to behave in the usual manner, to not change speed at all, or even to anomalously speed up in denser materials. As such, these pulses of light can arrive at different points in space at the same time.”

PDS: Or, quite possibly the same point in space at different times (think out-of-order as a possibility, since different points in space at the same time would imply this to be true as well...)

[...]

>"That’s because they’re not messing with the oscillations of the light waves themselves – instead, they’re controlling the speeds at which the peaks of the light pulses travel. This is done using a device called a spatial light modulator, which reorganizes the energy of each pulse of light to intertwine its properties in space and time."

"“Space-time refraction defies our expectations derived from Fermat’s principle and offers new opportunities for molding the flow of light and other wave phenomena,” says Basanta Bhaduri, co-author of the study."
I recommend the book "Digital Minimalism" for some excellent advice on exactly those sort of questions
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I didn't provide any anecdotes but I would point out that even if evidence is just an anecdote, it doesn't mean it's wrong.
The fact this claim has been at the top of this Hacker News thread for hours piqued my interest. So I did some research.

I read the New York Times "Overlooked" obituary for Dr Liang Sicheng but found no reference to this event. [1]. The closest thing I could find was [2] which writes the following (and links to a currently-unavailable article hosted on the government of China mouthpiece China Daily):

> During World War II, as Japan occupied Beijing and most of coastal China, Liang Sicheng was working in Sichuan. According to Luo Zhewen, a former student who frequently assisted Liang Sicheng in his research, Liang heard that the Allied forces were planning on bombing Japan and Japanese-controlled areas in China. Liang began drawing up a map of the major Chinese cities occupied by Japan as well as Japan’s former capitals, Nara and Kyoto to help American military planners avoid destroying important historic sites and buildings. Liang then traveled to Chongqing, the wartime capital of the Republic of China, and passed the maps to the US Army liaison stationed there.

The NYT article suggests Dr. Liang Sicheng was later in life sent to re-education as a counterrevolutionary of Maoist China, but that he has had his reputation revived by the CCP which turn him into a folk hero. I don't doubt that he passed on maps and messages to the US Army in the hope of sparing culturally important sites from bombing, but without further evidence the claim that he was an advisor to the US military that convinced them to spare Kyoto and Nara appears overblown.

I am happy to be convinced if independent historians believe Liang Sicheng had a part to play in the decision, but right now this claim feels like highly-upvoted CCP propaganda.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/obituaries/overlooked-lin...

[2] https://radiichina.com/did-chinese-architect-liang-sicheng-s...