skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think we read the same article. The one linked here talks a lot about lawyers and fighting and money and layoffs and makes it sound like Apple’s mounting a major offensive. And while I certainly wouldn’t want to be in Prepear’s shoes and having to argue against Apple, literally nothing I’ve seen suggest that Apple is doing anything more than filing one-off trademark opposition letters. For all we know at this time, the whole interaction may end at:

USPTO: Does anyone object to this?

Apple: We’re not big fans of it.

USPTO: Too bad. We’re granting it anyway.

Apple: Alright.

Sure, they may end up fighting this tooth and nail for a decade to come, but there’s been no evidence at all to suggest that they might.
It’s often part of being a “engineer founder”. You can go your whole career having the market side taken care of by your employer and end up overconfident about the business side.
Get an IgG antibody test if you want to know, should still be visible there
You say that like its a positive. It would be much more straightforward to prosecute an officer injecting ketamine. The medical "professionals" are catspaws.
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If it's just your word against theirs, they might as well be. Everybody is against you except for your low-paid advocate (the public defender) who's working on 100 cases at the same time as they're working on yours. It's different for the wealthy.
The rule is apparently phrased as being within 100 miles of any "external boundary", which doesn't just mean borders with other countries, but also the entire coastline, including the coasts of the Great Lakes. Most Americans live in this area.
I interviewed Sophie at Cloudflare's Internet Summit back in 2018. Lots of fun stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abrrsCOiMy0
> I would have done twice as much as solo founder.

so in the end, you remained a solo founder?
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Especially in the early days, the main competitors to online retail were catalogue services. I would think they have most business and logistics problems in common, minus running a web site.
So the blockchain I work on uses significantly less energy than PoW which is what you’re referring too - I agree they’re wasteful. POS doesn’t require the computational effort for blocks so doesn’t require more energy than a small server.

As to the decentralised question: as someone from the UK sure we have loans but these allow you to get them without a credit check and they’re accepted/paid immediately. Someone in a third world country might not have access to the same financial instruments we get to enjoy.
And then they can deny you entry into the country.

If you’re a citizen, I don’t know if they can seize property, but if they can, you won’t be able to cross the border with it.
So... nobody is going to ask why is the French Army in Africa?
For finding out how government entities work, go to their web sites - most of the publish their ordinances, regulations, and policies. In the US, if they do not, you can get them via FOIA.

As far as how to make your concerns and objections known, it depends on the scale of government. For small local entities, go to their board meetings and have your say in the public comment times. For state-level concerns, talk to your representative. For federal concerns, again talk to your representatives, respond when requests for public comments are sent out.

For all levels of government, vote.

If you want to put together a new site that compiles that all into one place and lets people know what their options are, that would be a powerful tool for change. But trying to make it into a decentralized discussion platform may run up against sunshine laws - you cannot open a dialogue with city council members on some topics, for example - they are not legally allowed to have private discussions about public matters, as it excludes the public. This is why board/council meetings are public and people are invited to attend and speak up - to make sure private discussions don't impact public decision making.
Is there also research available on applying this method to COVID-19 and the countermeasures?
That would be fair if you could detangle if from specific suspicious behavioral patterns. Like wearing a mask (pre-pandemic) in a neighborhood where robberies by mask-wearing perpetrators are common.
> Well, in theory, yes.

No, it's not true in theory, either.
Where did I make that argument? Most people here have no idea how law enforcement or CBP operates. Some full drives are not a big obstacle and they're not going to waste time without knowing who you are first.

As far as the data collection, searches without reasonable suspicion are already ruled unconstitutional. The rest has been policy for years. The only change is centralizing the data but this isn't big news and there are already movements against existing practices.

I don't support unlawful collection or searching law-abiding citizens but that has nothing to do with my work, or what would realistically happen in the above scenario. I'm not sure what you're talking about with the rest of your political claims.
Yes, very true. When you read marketing books, it seems very obvious. But trying to actually decide pricing, naming, positioning etc is a different story.
Yes, massively unpopular. Pew research found that 66% of americans opposed government data collection.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeawa...
That's just broadband though. My phone is my sole internet connection these days. We live in the future.
Misfeasance
How can I lend you money that’s repaid at the end of the month automatically, or by you beforehand, if I don’t know/trust you?
This would have no effect. “Call your congressperson” should never, under any circumstances, be considered useful or effective.

Policies are decided in the interest of plutocrats. Very occasionally when it would generate good PR or if disenfranchisement gets too bad, some retroactive number fudging will be used to whip up a press release or report on the number of calls or letters to a congressional office, as if to make it seem like a policy was affected by democratic consideration of constituents, but that is purely theatrics and publicity and has no bearing on or connection to the way congressional offices pursue legislation.
I imagine they would seize the drives and give you a receipt. And then, a year or two later, they give you a call to tell you they are releasing the drives and you can pick them up. Isn't that what happens to computers that are seized as a part of a police investigation?
Perhaps you’ll find your market overlaps largely with users of Brave and DuckDuckGo. It’s helpful to know where to find your people. Good luck.
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Qt (Widgets as well as QML) doesn't use native controls and it is fairly easy to customize (even Widgets, lookup "stylesheet").

For wxWidgets, there is wxUniversal, which draws custom controls, thus easier to customize - not sure how well it is maintained though.

I'd argue that dev time is quite fast for all - Qt, wxWidgets, Lazarus.
> Do those programs exist

If those programs don't exist, they are simply missing dependencies of the program.

In the shell, we might use the type command. Something similar could be integrated into this scripting system to detect whether some string corresponds to a command that can be found in the PATH.

> Is ‘tar’ calling ./tar, /bin/tar or some other instance of tar? And how do you find out?

PATH is actually used by low-level routines in POSIX, like execvp. If execvp is used as the basis for dispatching commands, then PATH is searched.

> A .rs file does not.

That's a fair point. Over the years, I have seen a fair share of C programs break because they were actually using system() or fork()/exec() to run programs that were missing or had some other problem.

I've also seen (and written myself) complex shell scripts that check for their dependencies up-front and
complain if some are missing, which is a good idea, especially if not all execution paths use every dependency, or if an unexpected termination could occur after a lengthy process that the user will have to recover from and repeat.

It can also be loudly documented as part of the system requirements of the program. "This program relies on the utilities tar, awk and expect which are expected to be in the PATH. It was tested with GNU tar 1.29, GNU Awk 4.1.4 and Expect 5.45.4."

If we are packaging this program into a distro, we can express those dependencies in the packaging meta-data, so they are pulled in automatically. The package manager has to be conscientious and to understand that program's requirements.
TED failed to proof-read this.
According to those docs:

> The WebView2 Preview is intended for early prototyping and to gather feedback to help shape the API. You should not use the preview in your production apps because there may be breaking changes.
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> These are the startups that fizzle out 2-3 years later

Is that really the most common problem? I would probably be one of those engineers (if I'd start a business) and I'm a lot more afraid to sell something that doesn't exist yet than the other way around. Because now in addition to your usual problems you have legal obligations to deliver a product. I think this is one of the reasons for the crazy crunch culture of many startups.

Instead of selling a fake MVP product it is probably more healthy to be upfront to customers and let them pay for your development time like a consultant... And then repeat the work faster for different customers until you can spin the process out into a actual product.

In the case of the startups you describe I always imagine they have great sales and marketing people but no actual product, and thus survive only until the VC money dries up...
Best to be deepfake granny & grandpa porn. Is there anyone working on that yet? The US legal system being what it is, I expect it will be necessary to prove the deepfakes are legal adults that consented to the filming.
There are quite a few languages that can do that... perl, ruby, bash
An interesting topic, but all I got out of this was to practice on 10FastFingers.com and 'make noise' by striking the keys as you type, which I already knew. Also no mention of alternate layouts.
Outsource parts of it:

- Content writers: Helps with Long tail SEO and building thought leadership; Ask within your network if they know someone.

- Website design and branding: Make a good first impression

- Banner and booth design for Conferences: Hopefully the folks from the design and branding can do this. caveat: Once this becomes a viable channel again.

- Ranking etc: Sign-up for a subscription of SEO Moz or something similar

- Adword: DIY

Honestly it's much much harder hiring for Marketing. If you do hire someone – find someone good at Project managing external resources.
When I was a kid in the 80s, I had a US flag on my wall. What happened to the US in the past fourty years? It became a country that I don't really want to visit anymore. Every civilized nation behaves differently, at least towards citizens of allied nations. We are no enemies. Ain't no reason to treat us non-US citizens like people without any rights. - I am deeply saddened to see the US come this way, and I have no hopes that this will change in the forseeable future.

Edit: Look at how non-US citizens exchange ideas for how to avoid handing over all their personal data at border-crossing. What a shame.
A “zip bomb” can be merely a very efficiently compressed file. That sound like a crime to you?
Yeah, it is a twofold task really: 1) devise & ship something that makes sense and actually adds some value somewhere for a good number of people; 2) put it in front of the target niche through the cheapest feasible means of any type, aka do not get into the social media marketing rat trap.

In my very limited recent case, I produced a Kindle booklets series earlier this year (20 academic literature reviews) and started selling some through targeted ads on Amazon.com, at $0.03 per click, on top of a very few thousand visualizations per day.

Ramen profitable, but a platform to start from for small incremental updates in the mid- to long- term, hopefully.
I used to work there a couple years ago and honestly this seems a bit silly. People are at Google are pretty product focused.

Sure you can go and use the items on this list. But I don't think they will be better. Google has spent a lot of time and money to make a set of best in industry tools and people use them as a result.
Why it's anachronistic is interesting. The bastion was dropped because attackers soon learned they could get artillery fire into the bastion, and ricochet shot in there.

Newer fort designs seem to be about accepting that explosions will happen inside of the walls, and avoiding reflections?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_fort
Those kids dolls are skimpy and slutty as hell. Literally marketing these barely-dressed dolls to little girls, while seeing this old man smile makes me sick to my stomach.
Game theory. If people vote for the party promising policies closest to (using whatever metric) their ideals, and there are only two parties, optimal strategy for each party is to move as close to the center as possible.

They wouldn’t lose voters with ‘extreme’ ideals because, if they decided to not vote, parties would counteract by moving towards the new center, which would be further removed from the ideals of those voters abstaining from voting.
It’s a very “academic” thing to do. Cite yourself as often as you can.
To add on, as a bi guy, the idea that who I am having sex with is somehow my employer's business is ridiculous; it shouldn't even be asked about or recorded by a company. The idea that me not being straight at all influences my decision making, reasoning skills, communication skills, aptitude at my job, or anything else having to do with my employment is incredibly offensive.
Desalination indeed is more efficient than what's proposed here.
And yes, nuclear power plants often offer desalination facilities.
I mean, no one is suggesting that it be used in a critical system yet, so your suggestion is kinda unnecessary
I'm just stashing cash until I reach FIRE. Don't care about the mission.
I can't stand the notion that a group consisting of white men is automatically not diverse. It implies that people who belong to the same race or gender all behave similarly. Also for some reason the "importance" of diversity seems to only go one way. I only hear "there are too many white people, this group needs more PoC". I have never in my life heard "there are too many PoC, you need more white people".
what and why? Specifically, what and why is insane and how is being an anesthesiologist relevant?

Note, I don't think police should inject anyone with a substance (personally, I'd rather get shot with a bullet than involuntarily shot with an anesthetic), but how is being an anesthesiologist relevant?

The question: "should cops direct paramedic to administer K shots" is an ethics, or a religious, question. Not a medical one. Certainly relevant medical questions can inform the debate; questions such as "how to determine safe and effective dosage of an anesthetic in field situations" "What does the person experience when involuntarily subjected to this drug?".

A very important medical question can be: "How lethal is this technique?" So that the technique's lethality can be properly classified for street use.

Subjecting the person to mortal danger is not anesthesiology. It's ethics, law, and religion.
That's not really accurate. The US, due to its historical position as a super power, has extradition treaties for many countries around the world. If charged with a crime in the US, your physical location might not matter.

It very case/situation specific. The host country might block extradition for various reasons, but often, the US has global reach.
Because they'd file the same suit if a Democratic president took similar actions. In fact, they already did[1]. They're not working for the benefit of either party, but rather for the general protection of the civil liberties of people in America, regardless of politics. They've historically represented many different viewpoints, up to and including literal Nazis [2].

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-obama-administ...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
> The best strategy is to simply comply with all relevant US law and orders issued by officials at the border.

The best strategy is not to travel to the US at all, if you can avoid it.

It's not even about not handing over data that they could have if they really wanted it. It's about sending a message that this behavior isn't OK and that foreigners are human beings too.

The US doesn't care about your privacy, but it does care about its economy and so voting with your wallet is still the most power you have. Continuing to degrade yourself at the border at their whims condones their abuses, however implicitly.
Startpage has changed ownership recently. I would look into the new owners...
I had a part-time cofounder in the end. He was really good and we buit and launched app. Make 2k/month but I had to go back tot he workforce due to family reasons - dad got sick.
I wouldn't say never. But it really comes down to how a business views their product. If they view it as a hardware product that is supported by some software, then it will be shit. If they view it as a whole end-to-end solution where the entire experience is the product, then they will more often do it well.

Photography is weird in that the people still buying cameras pretty much just want the same old Canon/Nikon controls and menus that they are used to, and have a workflow already in place. It is really difficult to get these people out of that mindset even though it would be amazing if you were able to take a photo, it would get automatically uploaded to the cloud, where you can access and edit/publish it through any device. Even though this would benefit a lot of professionals, many wouldn't want to change their workflow to allow this.
I've been living in the west my whole life and have traveled between Colorado to California through Nevada, Utah, Arizona, etc 7 or 8 times, so yes I've seen an empty western road before. Tumbleweeds was tongue in cheek but there's plenty of dirt, trash and other flying debris that will get baked onto a glassy surface out southwest.
==In 2060 the 2020 level of diversity in lieutenants should be reflected at the top.==

Your embedded assumption is that today’s lieutenant diversity reflects the overall military’s diversity of 1980. Is this true?
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It would be interesting to see the legal defense of what constitutes "knowingly" disrupting it.

For example, if I put a zip bomb on all my emails regardless of the border security but just as a general security measure, would that make me culpable if it wasn't targeted?

All hypothetical of course, because there's other hurdles to that as well like being flagged as spam in every day use.
I think their (the kernel maintainers’) position is that a single patch of 27000 lines of diffs is a bit of a nightmare to do code review on. I’m not sure if you took a look at the patch file (available at https://dl.paragon-software.com/ntfs3/ntfs3.patch ).

I think their point is ‘man, how are we going to divide this up amongst the maintainers? Who gets to check which function or call?’

Paragons response (more or less will fix in v2) https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/a8fa5b2b31b349f2858306...
Same. Growing up I was fascinated by the US but now I will avoid visiting there for as long as I can, mainly because it seems like such an insane, dangerous place
LKML post: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2911ac5cd20b46e397be506268718d7...

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170001
> You think all the other non-“notable” people executed in one of those things got the appropriate legal protections too?

Why bother even reading up on it if just making things up will work?

You think everyone in China is a saint? Why would somebody go through all of the time and expense to execute you if there weren't a reason?
Newton used emojis??
Props on pushing your edge with the post. Building or tapping an existing community of early adopters is an enviable position to be in for a solo founder. Very unsticking. The feedback loop provides much desired certainty. Whether Twitter, Discord/Slack, a forum, whatever.
The cops involved went back to where they killed Elijah McCain and posed for a group photo, reportedly re-enacting his death.

This is the behavior I’d expect from a serial killer.

Edit: they then distributed or showed this photo to the rest of the precinct. We know because a whistleblower notified the media. To my eye, this means that they expected the rest of the precinct to approve of this behavior, which is extremely alarming.
The easiest thing to do is to simply not take electronic devices with you anywhere in the world, otherwise there is a slight risk of someone wanting to understand the information contained within it.

If you think there is a risk, and you take a device, obviously FDE is a requirement, although, that could be seen as "suspicious".

The easiest thing to do is to fill up TB's of HDD's with useless information. Random pictures, documents, perhaps thousands of people's contact information downloaded from a public source. Store any "important" documents as random file names, perhaps inside archives or volumes that need decrypting. Or not at all, instead "in the cloud" but still encrypted so that you can travel without worrying about somebody accessing your information. Make deliberate "suspicious" file names, make them believe a file is encrypted (a 50GB file named "totally not a hidden volume.hiddenvolume") and maybe they will waste time trying to open the volume only to realize it contains thousands of pictures of naked molerats.

Clearly you need to be smart about crossing borders with electronic information these days, and not having any with you seems to be the best course of action.
Except that out of all the numbers thrown around only yours are unreasonable.
So can stuff you say after administering ketamin used in court against you?
That’s not true. A US court can order you to go to another country, retrieve documents, and bring them back to the US, even if you doing so is in violation of that other country’s laws. This is more reasonable than you might think, because otherwise companies and individuals could hide all of their incriminating data in such ways and evade accountability under US law.

Further, being involved in any violation of or conspiracy to violate American law is a crime, even if you never actually step foot in the US. Companies can be sued in US courts for actions they took overseas. None of this is particular to American law, the same is true in any advanced legal system. American law just has particular significance because of American economic preeminence. Some of the most vexing legal issues, both theoretical and practical, surround this cross-border application of law. And I guarantee you wouldn’t like the result if countries took a strictly physical, territorial approach to their legal authority.
Apple isn’t suing and there isn’t a case. It’s just a filing to the trademark office.
> So standard question when terrible stories like this are posted: there are many HN members who work at FB. How do you deal with stories like this and continuing to work there?

I’ve been interested in hearing a cogent response to this question as well. Obviously FB is held in regard as a tech company to work for and member of FAANG, but I believe their core platform facilitates more harm to society and democracy than good.

I’d love to hear from some HN members who work there and understand their reasoning better. I’m open to entertaining a different perspective.
It is voter suppression if it makes voting significantly harder for certain subsets of the population. Voter id laws tend to disenfranchise poor people.