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So, going back to the max() function example: I believe, based on the way the courts are looking at it, that the parts that are essential to its function are the fact that it takes two numbers and returns the greater of the two, and perhaps also the fact that it is named "max".

Its being placed into class named java.lang.Math, though, is not. That is a product of the way it is arranged, which is a matter of design, not of necessity. It's hard to imagine any particular reason why a function would need to have "java" in its name in order correctly calculate the maximum of two numbers.

The crux of the case, then, is the copyrightability of those design decisions about how the API members are arranged. The set of specific functions it performs is, as per Baker not the focus of the argument.

To take a hypothetical that cuts much closer to the accounting analogy: imagine if H&R Block came out with tax preparation software with exactly the same capabilities as TurboTax. That would, I believe, be fine, in and of itself, because the functionality itself is not copyrightable. However, if the interface to their tax preparation software were arranged identically to TurboTax's, to the extent that a set of automated UI tests written against TurboTax would also work with H&R Block's app, then we would likely be looking at a case of copyright violation.
That seems absurd! You can't use Alexa without Amazon, Chromecast without Google, iWatch without Apple. Why can't Facebook make a headset that requires Facebook?
We fully support using Doppler on bare metal servers, VMs, and just about any other cloud service via our CLI [0]. This would be identical to how you'd access your secrets locally when developing. You'd wrap your command with our CLI so that your secrets are injected into the process's environment (e.g. `npm start` becomes `doppler run -- npm start`).

Client certificates are an interesting use case that we'd be open to, but admittedly the request hasn't come up a whole bunch yet from our customers. Same with Kerberos tokens- this would definitely be used in the Enterprise space, which is an offering we're still in the early stages of. Other forms of identity-based auth would fall into this category as well.

[0] https://github.com/DopplerHQ/cli
> It also wouldn't surprise me if "can reproduce with" isn't a transitive property

"Can reproduce with" is not a transitive (or even a permanent!) property among individual humans. (For a more general transitivity allowing for the fact that it doesn't make sense to ask whether males can reproduce with males.)
> The mission of the company is not disjoint from the society it is embedded in.

If it cannot be disjoint, then it seems like it has become a requirement for it to be aligned in only one acceptable direction - hence why Coinbase's move is apparently controversial. Failure to actively support the standardized and approved message is apparently not acceptable!

> This is just one more step in that direction.

One more misstep. The combination of this effect with polarization means it's only a matter of time before someone realizes there's actually going to be a market for legitimately countercultural companies that reach out to those who don't walk the new party line. Since there's enough of them to elect a president, it's probably high time for some brave company to take you up on your suggestion that everything be political.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
While this is an area a bit outside my expertise it looks like a slam dunk for AMD to me.
Something I noticed in the FBI interviews was the emphasis on how the group was using highly-encrypted communications to plan and discuss the plot.

It isn't hard to imagine US congressmen/women and senators looking differently at the EARN IT and Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act bills when the FBI laments how it hampered their investigation.
How is this any different than the iPhone and Apple Id?
What do you propose would be appropriate in the hypothetical scenario in which science conflicts with basic human rights? Say for instance in the extreme example, there are too many people science suggests we need to depopulate. Or maybe such and such person is genetically predisposed to engage in disruptive or criminal activity therefore eugenics or pre-emptive incarceration. Reality may or may not reflect that but it wouldn't be the first time a powerful few used science to impose draconian and/or racist policies for political purposes.
Dell desktop workstations have custom cases and mobos and power supplies, at the very least. Laptops are custom cases and often SoC.
So if you have a job you like, at a company that up to now has been only making products that you have no problem with, and they started working on something that you found morally reprehensible and assigned you to work on it, either you would work on it without bringing up your concerns or you would quit?
The post only commented on size and thread. There is far, far more than that. Also some connectors are patented for what it is worth.
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LOL. FA Hayek debunked that nonsense in the 40's.

We simply need less government.
That's OP's point. Anyway DNS-based ad blocker can't block such ads (delivered from same host name as content) but browser extension can. I'm curious why DNS-based approach is such popular even for PC browser.
A lot of updates do make software worse, although there is some FOSS stuff that does get better, but I do not really know if they are sufficiently popular, such as: ImageMagick and SQLite.
The stock cooler on the 3900x is basically the same as the one on the 2700x. It reviewed well on the 2700x but the 3900x was too much for it if you cared about noise levels. So I wouldn't count the box cooler as a huge plus for the 3900x though a revised more capable version could have been for the 5900x
To an extent, yes https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxinsiders/comments/cj5b0a/what_h...
There's the possibility of a Xilinx Zynq with AMD x86 cores instead of the ARM cores in current Zynq versions, though I'm not sure that would really be interesting to anyone.

Beyond that, there's been research in the past that envisions using a FPGA fabric as an execution unit within the CPU itself: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emips/ Intel hasn't pursued such a thing but that doesn't mean AMD couldn't.
> Maybe if Waymo demonstrates that they can drive on and off all major highways in the world without hd mapping of them. Then i might believe they are ahead.

So, can Tesla do this right now?

Also, why should Waymo not use HD mapping when they clearly have the ability to do it? Seems like a weird criteria.
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I don't know. Sowell is a controversial figure, of course, but highly respected and educated. He served as a professor at Cornell, where he said this dynamic was extremely apparent, and it saddened him because there were many such students in his class who would've been top of their grade at a "Tier 2" university.

I'll try to find the source, from one of his books.
I had this same experience yesterday. Tried to create a new account and it was insta-locked until I started providing personal information. I hadn't even used it.
I always wondered if there could be some sort of in-world explanation as to why all the aliens in star trek/wars are so ...humanoid.
Just this one. I don't usually open that many, and often do not have the web browser open at all. (It would be better to eliminate it even more, by using better protocols and file formats and user interfaces etc.)
I said “science based government” in the HN title, but really it's about adding a relatively small science-based check and balance to an existing system. Not replacing what we have just inserting something to keep it from going totally off the rails. To tug it back to reality. Political differences are fine. But someone needs to step in if a branch of the government, any branch and any party, goes so drastically far afield of what is known to be true.

Next time it might be 10X worse. We need to patch the OS and not just say “boy I’m glad that will never happen again!”
Oh yeah, for sure. I've seen some scala code that appeared quite palatable. I just meant that I don't know very much about writing it.

There's been some times where I needed python for systems that weren't so lax about what I was able to install, and python was already there. Other than that, I've never really come across a reason disqualifying scala, barring know-how and time to learn it.
I'd have assumed that it's largely because humans can spread to new niches via cultural evolution, which happens vastly faster than the old-fashioned biological kind. Much quicker to make a fur coat than evolve one.
Nope but your console might get banned from xbox live in certain cases (all consoles have similar).
The Apple ID isn’t a separate business that you are being forced to use if you want to use your iPhone.

Imagine Apple owned Comcast and required you to have a Comcast account to use your iPhone. That’s what they’re mad about here.
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If you are in contact with the person ask them for their managers email address or contract information and email them.
No way! Look at the book

"Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them" by David H. Freedman

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-cons...

to see why. Experts and expert organizations, scientific or otherwise, often provide wisdom about all aspects of life - and all wrong!

The Covid pandemic proves this point: we can't get agreement on most anything. We'd do better to shitcan the CDC and most other academic and governmental institutions, forget about WHO and start all over again but with an eye to our failed past.

Sure would save a lot of money too, even though it would put a multitude of incompetents onto the streets looking for jobs.
In theory, yes. In practice, it is an API commitment, and so it is not inferred, because you as a library author have to decide if you want to commit to it or not.
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> Lastly, and likely most importantly, the individual consented to his phone being searched.

No, the individual did not.
This is a police-state lie that needs to stop. There is no way to "consent" to anything requested by someone who has a right to kill you at any time if they feel you might be a threat, and who is allowed to lie to you about your legal rights.
And that the one after was the worst. Moaning about the youth today goes back to at least the ancient Greeks.

Moaning about the one before is also popular. I have a pet theory that the reason that we hear so much about the offences of the boomers and millennials is that leadership positions are mostly gen x right now (when did you last hear anything about gen x?) In a couple of decades everyone will be complaining about gen x and gen z, instead.
Does the report say that? The article doesn't mention it and the report is 449 pages long, so I haven't read it.
I wonder what the impact will be on free/GPL compatible ZFS implementations. If Oracle wins this they won't hesitate to weaponize the ruling.
Both of IBM's current chip architectures, Z and POWER9, are indeed interesting.

Apple hasn't shipped their "desktop class" architecture yet.

Perhaps you are frustrated by the design constraints of low power mobile chips. Ok.

But if you're paying attention, architecture wise, it may be of interest to note that Apple's ARM chips, so far, have delivered good performance in their handheld applications by careful attention to sustained memory bandwidth. Competitors went with more CPU cores.

So there's some fun chip architecture to be had, even in 2020.

A desktop Apple architecture might use something like HBM for main memory, rather than DIMMs.

There's lots of room to innovate, out there in consumer computing.
You could return your brand new 3900x and borrow your friends 2600x while you wait for the new 5900x. If this sounds oddly specific, it's because it is exactly what I am doing. Returned the 5900X a couple months ago while I wait.

Obviously this isn't a serious suggestion as I know most people don't happen to have a friend with a spare 2600x.
you know they literally snatched innocent people off the street right? calling them criminals isn't just a stretch it's propaganda.
> Extracurriculars are supposed to show that the student is well-rounded and driven - attributes that have been shown to be positively correlated with success in college and careers.

If extracurriculars are so important then why doesn't colleges require them to graduate? Why is their admission criteria so different from their graduation criteria? They ought to look similar.

If grades are enough to graduate they obviously don't value other things and therefore should just look at grades of incoming students. If however grades aren't enough to say that a person is a good individual then why do they choose to graduate unbalanced people who only got good grades but suck at extracurriculars? Don't they care about their output at all?
Standalone absolutely is a separate product cateogory. It's the difference between a computer monitor and an iPad: even though they both have screens, they are different in kind. They target different market segments, have completely different software ecosystems both for end-users and developers, orders of magnitude more R&D requirements, higher switching costs, etc.
Open source licenses have often included terms that were for other jurisdictions, or because the status of something is actually unknown, or just in case some future law changed the accepted belief.
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Na it's about deviation of flow of attention AFTER the product has already been acquired and UNNECESSARY to the core function of the product.
Yup. Usually no hi-DPI and never DCI-P3 or Adobe RGB gamut coverage. The chips have great performance for rendering, but you can't get wider gamut colors to see it.
Have you actually had problems making/keeping a Facebook account? I have several throwaways which continue to work fine.
That already exists:

https://e.foundation
He compared it to Dropbox...
It's a reference to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy novels.
I think one of the key differentiators is that an Apple ID isn’t required to use an iPhone. There are other differences, but I believe this is the main relevant one.
My gut feeling is that allowing this at a workplace is a (rather perverse) variation of the "employee of the month" nonsense. I.e. instead of rewarding your subordinates monetarily, you give them a power to bully their peers, but not to compete with yourself.

It is also useful in pushing out "troublemakers". People that will not call BS on the unsubstantiated political claims are also less likely to call out corruption/nepotism/inefficiency of the middle management.

In the long term the company will stagnate and die, but we live in such a wonderful time of government bailouts, low interest rates and desperate investors, so it may take a long time to unravel.
Why isn't it domestic terrorism when the police are breaking in and killing people in their own homes?
I would agree that in a society that basically measures political success on who is a better liar, we need a truth counterweight but how do we ensure that this does not become a tool of corrupt governments or officials to impose thier ideologies as absolute truth with selective reporting?
> Perhaps I should not have used the recipe analogy as it might be causing unnecessary confusion.

It's hard not to use it when it's the one from the case law.

> That's not quite the same thing as curating a set of recipes into a cookbook and thereby exercising creativity in the "selection, coordination, and arrangement" of those recipes.

Exercising creativity can't be the hook if recipes have that and aren't copyrightable. You exercise creativity in choosing whether to specify chocolate chips or peanut butter chips or licorice bits etc.

APIs have hierarchy, but recipes have that too. You make butter from milk. You make cookies from butter. You make cookie crumb topping from cookies.

It's all already there in a recipe without reaching the result you want. You choose chocolate chips over peanut butter chips. You combine them with cookie ingredients to make cookies and brownie ingredients to make brownies. Selection, coordination, and arrangement. But the end result is still just a list of facts about how to make those cookies/brownies.

So why look at those things sometimes but not others? Because sometimes it applies to a work of authorship, but sometimes it applies to function, and you can't copyright function. So the functional part shouldn't count.

And that's what an API is. It's a formal functional specification. It's a list of facts about how to call those function implementations. It's the exact piece you don't get credit for.

Anything required for interoperability, is functional.
I own an Oculus Quest. I do not have a Facebook account, nor will I get one. For me, this will eventually deprive me of a product I bought and enjoy once they start enforcing it.

It’s an attempt to force people like me to use another product of theirs so they can extract value from me.
Yes and I am on the Google side of this argument. I just wanted to point out that API design is a very creative area of programming
Explain how RH could vanish even if IBM fails/falls apart. I don’t see any scenario where that would happen, sorry. I’m not sure you understand just how entrenched RHEL is in ISP/telecom/Enterprise/finance/banking/insert-pretty-much-anything-here is..
At around the time this article was written some friends of mine managed to get a musician that was primarily active in the 50s and 60s on the phone once and a lovely conversation was had. (I'm omitting the name because he's still alive and I don't want to create a thundering herd).

There is some portion of famous people, particularly ones that have passed a bit into obscurity where a bit of fan contact would probably be welcome. Unfortunately it's hard to tell who and "a bit" would almost always be far less than the amount received if it got out that they didn't mind fan contact.

I've sent an occasional no-response-expected messages of thanks to the creators of stuff that I've liked-- as I've always appreciated receiving those myself.

I thought Eno's message in "exhibit 1" was thoughtful, well written, and worth the read.

I one read an insightful comment on reddit about the perspective of a youtuber about letting fans down at conventions because they didn't live their "on" youtube personality 24/7. It discussed how easy is is to disappoint people by just being human and what a tremendous responsibility having fans can be. From that perspective it isn't hard to see how just minimizing contact might be best for everyone. [Alas, I can't find it now to link to it here, as google has become substantially useless for searching for specific reddit comments]
It's like when you see a dozen Glassdoor reviews for an employer where the only recommendation to management is to "keep doing what you're doing" and that any complaints are "sour grapes" or from employees who can't handle "growing pains".
Jack Welch has definitely fallen out of favor considering the results obviously illustrate his failures.
A popular press article with numbers and facts and clear exposition. The solution is elegant and culturally appropriate to the country in which it is being implemented. Whether climate change makes the solution more needed or not is irrelevant, the growing population density will make it more necessary. Kudos Bangalore and BBC...
Completely wrong.

Since there's supposedly money to be made by investing in the homeless, there is no need to provide baseline needs - private sector can't do that.

Why would the government need to get involved into something so simple and profitable (at least according to you) and unnecessarily use our money to compete with for-profit enterprises?
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It’s not pedantry. People think that because the word is “reverse” or “anti” that it means “the opposite of racist”, but it doesn’t. The distinction is fundamental to our national race conversation.
> Do you anticipate typing private info, backspacing, then replacing it with some bland query about switching internet plans?

I anticipate people accidentally pasting something from their clipboard that could be private/sensitive.
With modern JS toolchains, arguably JS devs care more about top single core perf than C++/Rust/Java devs.
Being annoyed by small things isn’t a recent invention. For instance, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27ll_Do_It_Every_Time
I think this very view is likely what made the coinbase workplace so toxic and uninviting. "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with. "Black Lives Matter" is a political organization with political objectives, including the de-emphasis of the nuclear family, socialist economics, and explicit financial funnelling to the Democrat party.

It's a moral "package deal." The idea being that if you reject BLM for its bad politics, you reject that black lives matter. And if you accept it, you also accept a bunch of other shit you're not actually for.

BLM should be recognized for the moral "package deal" that it is, and vehemently rejected. It's dishonest.

It's not Coinbase that is conflating anything, BLM itself is a conflation of ideas.
> have, in fact, been able to come up with phones that work just fine without engaging in this kind of copying?

Which, of course, is completely false. All of them have many, many reimplementations of open APIs in their many layers of software. It's just that no one was stupid enough to copyright those APIs and try to sue someone else for implementing an API before.

Oracle's actions threaten to upend the common understanding of software ecosystems and throw everything into disarray.
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