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the Doyle estate argues that, while they admittedly lost the copyright to all of the Holmes stories written before 1923—i.e., most of them—into the public domain back in 2014, it’s only in the latter stories that they still have the rights to that Doyle began to give Holmes recognizable human emotions. (A reaction, they argue, to Doyle wrestling with his grief over the loved ones he lost during World War I.) Said feelings—like, say, being worried about his (non-canonical) sister Enola—are thus a new element Doyle only introduced in those later stories, which makes them trademarked elements still controlled by the family

The fact that nonsense like this legally credible in one of those things where I feel the need to scream but do not have a legal mouth to scream with. It's strange how these rich people legacy estates can seem like such parasites. Looking forward to the Rowling estate attacking all of fantasy in the centuries to come.
Don't forget about patents, from their README:

> Please be aware of the patents US7627477 B2 and US6990453 and perhaps others. They describe techniques used in algorithms implemented within Olaf. These patents limit the use of Olaf under various conditions and for several regions. Please make sure to consult your intellectual property rights specialist if you are in doubt about these restrictions. If these restrictions apply, please respect the patent holders rights. The main aim of Olaf is to serve as a learning platform on efficient (embedded) acoustic fingerprinting algorithms.
He says he’s talking about the written language on signs.
FEMA Spends More Preparing for Terrorism Than Hurricanes
TikTok’s CEO, Disney Veteran, Quits Months into the Job
Only at dusk and dawn, and not when they have visors.
You are making excuses for teacher's & parents failings to teach so that someone understands the lesson. You are also by definition accepting that discrimination is essential for a successful society. My issue is where the state, parents want authority over someone but dont perform their basic requirements properly. Alot of people are stupid for even accepting the failings and accepting of the authority these entities have over people.
As someone who almost never makes IAPs I am fine with this being a side effect of this desire. I’ve been blocking ads and tracking since... somewhere around 2001-4, I think? and I am pleased to have Apple’s goals temporarily align with mine in this fashion.
> Does anyone know why his report is so different, and why the government would just let him go whereever, unsupervised? Do people here believe that his report is genuine, or do people here believe that it's fake?

Honestly, I would expect the report of a tourist to be genuine but not reliable, especially when it comes to political stuff short of a devastating war. They'll probably be honest about what they saw directly, but probably won't find themselves "where the action is." They'd also lack the context and are poorly equipped to understand the larger situation, and are more vulnerable to being mislead. I'm reminded of all the times in my travel journals where I overgeneralized from a small experience or uncritically reported what some tour guide or random person said about something. They could have been lying, mistaken, or leaving something important out, but I lack the ability to tell.

Also, IIRC, the restrictions in Xinjiang are more around journalists and diplomats (that have different visas that subject them to more scrutiny).
They elaborated on their choice for GitLab on https://octobus.net/blog/2018-09-18-heptapod-announce.html

"Gitlab has been one of the fastest growing platforms in the past couple of years. It has a strong feature set praised by many. We have seen all kinds of users switching from Mercurial to Git just to be able to use it. So the quality and the reputation of the product itself made us look into it.

Moreover, Gitlab has an open source version "Gitlab CE", provided under an MIT license. They have a healthy community with significant external open source contribution. It fits with our own open source philosophy and allows us to directly hack on the product core to add support for Mercurial.

Also, other open source communities, Gnome and Debian, picked Gitlab as their tool. Having such serious actors of the free software world trust Gitlab was important in our choice."
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Well, there's a third choice: police state, just accept that people will go crazy and be prepared to counter it with brute force. But this is too close to what Lukashenka does.
There has always been a struggle with UX design, people want simplicity but at the same time they want clarity and complexity of ideas. People want great knowledge, but they don't want to read about the nuances that makes it a great knowledge.

There are valid reasons for both sides of the equation, it is just difficult to find the balance to satisfied the myriad of different perspectives.
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I'm not sure if you thought my comment was an argument or not—it wasn't.

I was adding another experience to the pile.
It's because more people use chrome than use edge, which is clearly a broken situation. They're determined to fix it though, no matter how many updates it takes.
Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad
> And how many will where be, once 9/10 launches fail?

This is not a real thing that will happen.
As a counterpoint, I'll die on the opposite hill with, I suspect, the large majority of the public. And I say that as someone who has been a lifelong space enthusiast. Ubiquitous access to cheap internet has done more for humanity in the last 20 years by far than any contribution from ground-based astronomy. If the choice is between Starlink and more difficult ground-based astronomy, I'll choose Starlink.
Mixture of all of it.

On the one hand, university is changing a lot in Europe with less funding from governments and more and more fundraising from private companies.

Then there's the point that some professors (or universities at all) really have to leave their ivory towers. Cutting their funding (or secretaries) works wonders in getting those people to move and care about things again.

Then there's the point that one should really ask what needs to be printed and what not. My university life/education fits on a USB-drive and three file folders with notes I made. I know students who have a whole wall filled with folders. Did they really need to copy whole books and whatnot? I doubt it.

At last there's some ecological considerations, too. But that's not really forced, it's more a "nice to have" for the image of the university...
This was implemented ages ago in Voyager application server written in Java. It supported a concept of agents: pieces of code that could be sent to particular location, execute and come back with the results. That was way before Java app server got their standards. Not sure what was the ultimate fate of this particular tech.
D uses a garbage collector by default, but it has a @nogc annotation to mark blocks of code that get statically verified not to allocate through the garbage collector.
That is exactly what happened. It's clear even to the naked eye - people still freak out when power grids get knocked out at night. They see far more stars and think that's what caused the failure. To be more technical, the EM radiation signals that astronomers are interested in is very faint and barely above the background noise level. This is why they have to use large aperture and long exposure to essentially amplify the difference between signal and noise. They can resolve fainter signals (images) if the noise floor (light pollution) is less.

Compared to space telescopes, ground telescopes were limited by atmospheric interference. This has improved much lately with adaptive optics. Space telescopes are better, but it's too costly. You will never see a mega telescope constellation, because there is no money to be made. Ground telescopes still generate considerable valuable data (in scientific terms. corporates wouldn't care any less). Even individuals have ground telescopes that do this. Some projects like Sloan Digital Sky Survey (https://www.sdss.org/) puts massive amounts of data in the public domain. SDSS also does observations that are impossible with space telescopes.

Space telescopes are good, but are complementary to ground telescopes - not a replacement. When (some) people say that we should simply forget ground telescopes in favor of space telescopes, they are actually asking to throw away cheap, accessible, democratic, inclusive and sometimes unique way of astronomical observations in favour of an incredibly costly, elitist and closed methods which is viable only to big corps who have little interest in it because of lack of short term profits.

An aside, there are some people in this thread asking astronomers to stop complaining and just remove the streaks from the image. I would say that's incredibly philistine stance - science has long term benefits that is underrated compared to commercially motivated projects with perceived short-term social benefits. An approach suggested is to statistically remove the streaks from image. That's against the whole purpose of these observations - astronomers are interested in the details that cannot yet be statistically predicted. Another approach is to use multiple exposures and combine them. Again - the signals they are interested in often takes night long exposure before signal is sufficiently amplified above and noise. This can't be solved with multiple exposure. The third approach is to close the sensor (usually CCD) with a shutter when a satellite is in the vicinity. This is more viable. However, this is going to be hard and is going to waste a lot of exposure time.
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Hey all, Muse cofounder here. I’ve been on Hacker News 13 years but this is my first Show HN. You might know me from YC08 and as Heroku cofounder and author of 12factor.net.

Today my team and I are launching Muse, a thinking tool.

Engineers sometimes talk about “typing problems” and “thinking problems”; Muse is for the latter. For example: designing a distributed system, doing a deep read of an algorithms paper, or creating a product roadmap.

My colleagues and I spent a few years doing research at a lab called Ink & Switch. You can read HN discussions of our publications on software performance [1], the creative process [2], and local-first software [3].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506170

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20255457

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444

One research question for us was whether touchscreens could ever be as powerful as desktop tools like vim or emacs. That resulted a prototype we named Muse. We saw commercial potential and spun it out of the lab last year.

A founding insight for Muse is that deep thinking happens away from the computer. e.g. in a sketchbook, on a whiteboard, or just in your head. There are some up-and-coming tools for thought like Notion and Roam but they’re tied to the desktop/laptop form factor and primarily focused on text. We saw an opportunity for a thinking tool that blends together visual media, text, and offers spatial navigation on a tablet.

Since this is a technical crowd, you might be interested in some of the challenges building this thing, like maintaining 120fps at all times. There is no concept of opening a file or a loading screen—you just navigate to a document and it’s already there. Ink rendering is another ongoing engineering challenge, from point simplification to curve fitting to stroke masking for the eraser. Happy to talk about any of this in the comments.

We’re charging $100/year, comparable to other prosumer tools like Dropbox, Evernote, Roam, etc. There’s a generous free tier and you can export your data as a flat files (PNG, PDF, TXT).

We’re building in public on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MuseAppHQ and Mark and I talk shop on our podcast: https://museapp.com/podcast

HN is known for sharp critique, so bring it on. Will also answer questions or accept praise if you feel like doing one of those :-)
Once more: escape your TeX functions, folks! (In this case, use e.g. "\cos" not "cos")
I literally linked an article that says they've had to settle for half a billion (!) because Apple did this without informing the users they were doing it. And Apple had an obvious financial incentive to not mention it to users. People found out almost by accident that their phones were still working well, except for a part that is replaceable (and much cheaper than a new phone).

In what world is this not a valid example of planned obsolescence?
You’re really on to something with this query language for structured data idea! I’d find it super-useful as a dev to be able to think of a backing service not as a set of disconnected endpoints, but a base of operations for dealing with data.

If only such structured query language data bases existed, I bet they would get a lot of use.

(No but really: how is what you’re describing meaningfully different from SQL, especially with the restrictions you’d want to put on the code in practice?)
The economics of farming barely work out at market value. How are they subsidizing others and how can they afford to given those margins?
Any TV that won't work offline I'd consider defective and I'd send it back.
No, it’s not.

Starlink satellites are only visible at dusk and dawn, they are in the earths shadow during prime viewing hours.

And SoaceX has already added visors to make new Starlink satellites nearly invisible.
It's not necessarily a principled campaign from Apple, and others have raised anticompetitive concerns around the fact that Apple's own apps are exempted.

But, it's still a good move for users, and it's still better than no change at all. Privacy advocates can't afford to only accept help from ideologically pure sources. We need allies. I'm not going to bash Apple over a change that will be mostly positive for end-users, just because Apple might have a few non-altruistic reasons for doing it. The privacy benefits from this change greatly outweigh any anticompetitive risks.

Ironically, I've commented this to the same effect in regards to Epic, but I think the advice applies to Apple critics as well: if you're too picky about who is and isn't allowed to advocate for you, eventually normal people and institutions will just stop advocating for you altogether.
It would be news if that wasn't the case.

If black people or another ethnic group needs me I will be there, but it seems that black people should be deciding what black people will organize for politically.

Abstractly I'd like to see the mutual antagonism between police and black people get better in my community: implementing any particular solution is going to depend on a large number of details which are (i) outside my circle of concern but (ii) contentious for other individuals and I want to leave people space to work those out.

If police reform comes to my community I am likely to think "what does this mean for me as an amateur radio operator?" and be very concerned about particular details that matter to me that other people wouldn't care less.
Stripe’s TOS is there to protect itself. They can point to the “no porn” rule if they ever need to cut ties with OnlyFans, but until then, they will reap the benefits of their partnership. It’s a win-win for Stripe.
There's a book on TDD with an extended case study about developing a Swing application: http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/
Yep, before my inner eye I saw ethernet cables hanging over the streets. Businesses opening their networks and starting own DNS servers. Printed flyers how to change ones phone settings are thrown out of windows and driving cars.

But it's just alternative messengers and VPNs.

On the other hand this is probably a good thing. During the Arab Spring Egypt cut its internet lines and activist like Telecomix provided dial-in internet access. Nowadays even a dictator can't cut the internet access without causing massive damages.
I'm running Firefox 79.0 and Chromium Version 83.0.4103.61 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit).
> They are NOT using Stripe

Take a look at the requests their frontend is making and you'll see they are indeed using Stripe. At least they were last time I checked.

> Also there is not only Stripe out there!

Indeed, I listed some of the alternatives in my opening question, but is besides the point anyways, here we're discussing Stripe + OnlyFans.

> Btw. you are in the wrong forum.

Judging by the number of upvotes and comments, no, I'm not.

> Look on gfy.com forum for example

Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look there.
All you have to do is open their annual financial statement to understand where it all comes from.
Collection of Calculus Concepts and Symbols
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I can give another example use case.

Say I know math but don't know tf api. I already know how to matrix multiply with `@` but don't know the function for matrix power.

Then in theory it should be fairly quick for me to create a random matrix and feed it `mat @ mat`, `mat @ mat @ mat`, `mat @ mat @ mat @ mat`, etc until it spits out the correct tf function I should call for matrix_power.

This is even better than googling since it guarantees that the function it found is correct for your example (googling returns tf.pow tf.exp tf.expm, none of which are actually what you want!)
Province of Udine. Yes, Eolo has been my provider for the last 10 years, I was one of the earliest adopters in the province. The service has always been good, but worsening in the last 2 years due to too many contracts been sold without improving the infrastructure. IE, during the lockdown I had to rely on the 4G network (even checking email was not possible through Eolo) and somedays I still have troubles.

If I may, which provider offers you 4DL/4UL and how much does it costs?
Buried in the footnotes of the criminal complaint:

> CHS1 [Confidential Human Source] is cooperating with the FBI because of patriotism to the United States and a perceived obligation to Victim Company A. CHS1 has not asked for and has not been offered any form of payment, including consideration regarding immigration or citizenship.

Does that mean this person is a foreign national? Would it be risky for this person to return home (perhaps to Russia?) after assisting the US government in this way?
You have no authority with your opinion though if you are not qualified. The exam process doesnt give your papers back to check your results against the text books and what the teachers have stated, so using science and previous observations going back at least 12,000years namely the various religions invented over time, people in authority can reinforce their positions by making sure trouble makers fail even as kids.
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Vanta Black would make the satellites too hot. SpaceX is using visors to solve the problem .
> Bytedance is incorporated in the Cayman Island, its not a Chinese company. It has a subsidiary in Hong Kong that operates the Chinese business.

The location of incorporation bears no relevance on the control on the people and property within the physical jurisdiction of a country. Bytedance's physical headquarters is in Beijing.

> Bytedance's CEO is Zhang yiming, is a Chinese national. And its board has one Chinese national and three non-Chinese nationals. It's owned by a number of international investors, these investors likely have a say in the company as well. These people would not have built a company with Chinese government DNA. Zhang yiming himself has criticized the government in the past. Although he has toed with Chinese government lines in China because he has to. But he personally admires the US and its political culture. The management is also saying they are moving HQ to other countries. I think given the management's mindset, they really want to deal as little with the Chinese government as possible

Then it should be clear how much power the CCP has over them, when he says things like this:

> in April 2018 the government compelled ByteDance to shut down its popular “Neihan Duanzi” (“inside jokes”) app for good due to its “vulgar” content. In response, Zhang issued a letter of self-criticism where he said, “Our product took the wrong path, and content appeared that was incommensurate with socialist core values.” He also promised that the firm would in the future “Further deepen cooperation with authoritative [official party] media, elevating distribution of authoritative media content, ensuring that authoritative [official party] media voices are broadcast to strength.” [0]

[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/16/bytedance-cant-outrun-b...

Bear in mind here, I am simply listing reasons why the US government would be marginally concerned about ByteDance in comparison to domestic social media, not defending the mechanisms by which this current administration is handling things.
Help Scout have this discoverability problem with dropdown menus - there's no scroll bar when the content overflows, so I had no idea there were more options until a colleague pointed it out.

I felt absolutely ridiculous and ashamed after that. So, I make a point of designing all my software with visible scroll bars and other visible features that a user could reasonably expect to find without having to hunt or guess.

Sure, it doesn't look as "pretty" but it's so much more useable.
Sometimes I don't understand what advertisers mean when they keep reassuring that all the data they suck is totally anonymized with the objective of delivering more personalized and relevant ads. How can it be personalized if you can't pick me out of the anonymized lot? If you can, then what good is the anonymity? Probably its me who just doesn't get it.
"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

- William Gibson

Your comment adds a funny twist to this well-known quote. Usually it's said in the context of "someone has cool high-tech stuff that other people don't have." But the reverse is true, too; the Sentinel Islanders [1] have so far avoided the "future" of managing your inbox.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
im not sure if they will be commercially successful but the technology sure seems like it is much more valuable than actually building a plane and run operations
One thing I've found interesting is that the first time I do something related to tech as long as it isn't mind boggling frustrating cough Oracle cough I enjoy learning it. The second and third times it's tolerable, but if I have to keep doing something repeatedly the only way I can enjoy it any longer is by listening to an audiobook while doing it or by automating it.

As soon as I set myself to automating I realize that I like it again because now I am interacting with it in a new way.
A History of Section 508 Accessibility
I don't understand the difference between UI and frontend developer. What do you work on if you are a frontend developer but do not actually care about the UI?
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Works with chrome, make sure you don't have ublock origin, privacy badger or similar plugins working and should hopefully display properly.
> openSUSE has automatic snapshots with a fairly extensive retention policy.

Ah, so Fedora is limiting it's use of snapshots to avoid the need to have balances occur? Do you have some info on what level snapshot usage has to rise to before balances are needed on a regular basis? Is Fedora using snapshots at all?
Though it's bizarre to me what permissions require a pop-up and which don't. You think all you've granted is, say, looking at files, then you check the actual granular list and there's a dozen different ones including internet access.