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Copyright isn't the only thing that can keep people from having those freedoms -- even without copyright a developer could choose not to distribute the source code. It seems likely that less proprietary software would exist without copyright, though.
So uh, does this have any effect on THC uptake from cannabis edibles? Asking for a friend...
Title is actually "39 Shirts - Leaving Mozilla".

Has something to do with HN title debaiting or something IIRC.
This isn't brought up enough when people talk about FireWire and "good engineering". Good engineering means practical engineering. It means things like choosing a sane, common voltage that is well suited to the already-existing real world. Picking 8V-30V is the kind of decision that sounds beautiful to a utopian engineer working high in an office tower, and I'm sure it would be lovely if we could have instantly warped into a world of full adoption, but here in the real world your standard is going to have to be useful today, and it's going to have to be useful with more than just brand-new top-of-the-line freshly designed kit. Any engineer who would willingly forgo access to the entire world of already-existing 5V ICs is not a good engineer in my books.

To be fair to them though, it's very easy to get caught up in the beauty of those theoretical designs and forget that the best-selling car is a Toyota Corolla, not a Lamborghini.
> I think it is quite likely that we as a society would be better off without any kind of copyright or IP.

Well, I don't agree with that. Music, games, movies, need those kind of protections otherwise look at what happens in China...

This case though, it's only Oracle being Oracle. A stupid greedy corporation trying to profit on other's successes.
Further up the thread here I mention a friend with a Hobart professional under sink dishwasher unit in his home

Follow the clearances, supply the 240V 50 amp power, install a catch pan under it, soften the water if needed, etc. None of it rocket science if you are mechanically-minded, but requires to educate yourself and pay attention.

My friend is from a large family, and they had a proper commercial kitchen in their house growing up, so no big deal for him.
Are solar panels considered cutting edge? I've had some installed almost a decade ago and it was nothing special.

I would be 100% shocked if I payed $25k today only to have my roof destroyed and find out it was their first time deploying a solar panel.
APIs shouldn't be copyrightable. European courts got that right.
My 4yo doesn't know how to read yet, introducing him to programming is definitively out of the scope for now.

And yet.

We have been doing videogames together. (Maybe spent 4 or 5 hours total, distributed in several months. I don't want to overwhelm him or anything).

I found that pico-8 is an excellent platform for doing this kind of collaborative thing. I can do the programming (for now) and draw basic sprites (for now). He's the art director, and provides game design ideas. It's fun, although he gets frustrated when I am "writing" too much time. But I think the idea that "games are made out of letters and graphics" is already permeating into him. I would love to teach him the programming part, but I will wait for him to express some interest on it first (after he learns how to read). If he prefers the graphics (or doing something else) that's fine too.
I don't disagree, but there was no mention of rescuing the children from the line of fire. Maybe that's obvious from context in the states, but it sounds like the guy went "wild pigs are attacking my kids, I need to shoot the wild pigs that are very close to my kids who may or may not be moving erratically and unexpectedly due to them being attacked by bloody dangerous wild pigs"
Since when is asking for sources to ridiculous claims taking it into a flamewar? Extrqa ordinary claims requires extra ordinary evidence.
Then treat yourself here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perf...!

Also, this is a power tool: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet.... I regularly use ^ and * to get right to what I'm looking for. % is gawd-sent when you've too many tabs open.

Ctrl+0 (on Linux, Alt+) goes to first tab; Ctrl+9 goes to the last tab.
right, that's why i put "if" there :P
Honestly it would be nice to stop beating around the bush and declare your end goal: communism. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

"Meritocratic equality" is an oxymoron. You can only attain it if what you are measuring applies to everybody, like, say, having a pulse.

The world is hyper-competitive. I don't believe the US will fare well with this excellent strategy.
I don't especially enjoy my work, but the people I work with are decent and it pays the bills.
Consumers drive this by buying the cheapest device that just about works.
As a little guy, I can't afford a lawyer, copyright only hurts me.
> It was only the fifth documented fatal wild hog attack in the country since 1825.

Welllllll those odds aren't terrible
> My point is that it's incredibly unfair to take something with which you're obviously quite familiar with and claim it takes longer than buying an app online, just because with experience you can do it that fast.

You're kind of right and kind of not. It is indeed incredibly unfair to claim that anyone can do it in 2 minutes if I could, especially considering that I did it this fast after mentally preparing to do it fast to demonstrate that it can be done fast.

But also remember that I really do believe that we should all participate in the development of the software that we get to use for free. Fixing a bug in some piece of software should, in my opinion, be the most normal thing you do every once in a while. Just like everyone can use a screwdriver at home, every programmer should be able to modify, build and run the software they use. If we did live in such a world, this wouldn't be specialized knowledge, this would really be something most people could do under 10 minutes.

Yeah, I realize that we don't live in a such a world. But please don't take away my hope that if we all try hard enough, one day we just might. :-)
Basically. Check levels.fyi and see for yourself. It's only silicon valley "FAANG" companies that pay $400k total compensation for senior engineers, but principal / staff engineers at the big firms make up to a million.

AWS is spinning up a dev team in Auckland though teaming up with Vector on some IOT stuff in the energy space apparently though. I would hope the comp for those positions would be at least $140k NZD, but still that's nowhere near what the fellas over at Google HQ are making for writing protobufs all day.
You may be right, but can you supply a citation for this? I believe many open-core software vendors work around this idea by doing exactly what you suggest: creating an API barrier where the proprietary software lives on one side and the GPL'd software on the other. It requires some care so you don't cross GPL'd software into the proprietary side, but it's fairly common. I think the Linux Nvidia GPU driver works this way.
>they don't get to save and live paycheck to paycheck. It's not a better lifestyle but just lack of financial education.

Expense will expand to cover whatever income you have. It doesn't matter how rich you are, if you are not careful you can spend your entire income and have nothing left. There are some very poor people in the world saving surprising amounts of money (for their income - when you make a dollar a week saving a few pennies is amazing)
gag, pet peeve of mine. Religion is, to quote TeMPOraL
"Religions based on the Bible tend to be half faiths, half community management handbooks."

you can generalize that statement very far; religion is one of the key "technologies" which allows communities to scale past 5K people. Think "city".

Thus religion has a very different purpose than physics. It is about psychological health on a community and individual level.

The stories of physics, on the other hand, "eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable,..." don't really tell you much about how to handle things when your neighbor's barking dog is frustrating you.

(insert snarky comment about engineering a force field to solve the problem)

Even assuming that the bible is the literal word of deity, it is inconsistent to believe that the creation stories of genesis are descriptions of actual physical processes. because that is not why deity put those stories there. because deity was talking using a language which is 1.5-3K years old (let's agree to not argue dates, I'll accept the date you prefer), and words like "world" and "universe" meant something very very different back then than they do today. So if it is deity's literal word, then it must literally mean what it meant in the context of that earlier culture.
I was going to comment the same thing. It can be fixed by addding a conversion in the if like this:

if int(guess) == lulu + boonie:

instead of

if guess == lulu + boonie:
To me, the author is trying to express a feeling that I've also experienced before. It happens when someone in a discussion appeals to the spirit of freedom of speech, and the other guy shuts it down using the argument in the Xkcd comic.

I hate seeing that happen because it shows how little people value their ability to freely express their minds on a public forum. Or if they do value this, it shows how they're willing to disconnect that notion from the one that gave rise to encoding the freedom of speech into our constitution.
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Hmm perhaps you should buy one of the competing cheaper laptops that have no built in encryption then?
Funding Models in Life Sciences
https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=...

I believe there are low FC varieties in development, and already extant. TBH if you're taking statins, you should really reconsider - those things are terrible for you like the underlying symptoms you're trying to treat. Maybe just not eat like a hog?
It's shocking to me that two jury trials spent months considering arguments from lawyers and experts from all sides and carefully came to a decision only to have the appeals court throw that all away and impose the opposite ruling, twice. What was the point of the trials? I don't know why the Federal Circuit court is so biased towards maximalist interpretations of IP law but I really hope the Supreme Court slaps it down hard. Again.
This is very interesting and all your points are well-considered.

I guess I just don't see the advantage of this over ranked-choice voting, and I agree that asset voting is easy to corrupt.
Have you tried going for a 20 min walk or something like that after work? I have a dog so I find that taking him out after helps with this.
For example there were many instances, were people were telling their boss what an idiot he/she was and I know of many cases were it even came to push, punch and shove. They did not loose their jobs for speaking their mind freely. On the other hand - while the west was allowed to tell their government what idiots they were, they boss was spared, because he/she could fire you (more or less) at will.

Also the freedom of social upwards movement was way greater in eastern Germany than in western Germany. Also the freedom of a better educational system (propaganda was massive in both systems none the less).
Based on the same thing happening in my family, this morning I came to the conclusion that I would pay for my wedding video (1990) to be upscaled just to rejuvenate the interest of my kids in said video.

The thing with "modern" quality is that it distracts so much less that it becomes far easier to consummate. And that does not just apply to young kids but to me as well.
Basically seems like a report designed to justify Elizabeth Warren’s populist policy.

This seems like an ideologically driven move rather than an analytical/pragmatic one.

For example if US companies are forced to separate markets from services but other countries companies are not, it just seems like a way to damage the country’s influence over technology.

I’m not against the idea of intervention - e.g. forcing certain kinds of openness, but I believe it must be done through principled laws that apply to every company rather than targeting particular companies via antitrust.
Does anyone have any indication as to how long the ruling will take for this? It's not articulated and this is a very big ruling.
You split your data into chunks, say 8-bits. The main thing is that you can guarantee there will be a transition every N bits and you can guarantee that the average number of ones and zeros is the same (you can't have a DC component in your signal due to AC coupling).

For example let's assume that the block size is 4-bits, if somebody wants to send 0x0000 rather than sending this:

0000_0000_0000_0000

You'll instead send this:

10000_01111_10000_01111
Lots of great sentiments in that article.

You don't have to love every day of a job to love the job. You can love the organization even as you need to let it go (or it needs to let you go).

He's proud of the arc of his career and understands that sometimes a good thing needs to come to an end for a new good thing to begin.

Endings are bittersweet. You can focus on the bitter, or you can focus on the sweet. He seems to be doing the latter.
I understand what you mean by serious development, large complex projects youre working on for an extended period of time, but that's not all development. For example a few years ago I needed to do some coding exercises for a job application and I did them all on the train during my commute on my iPad in Pythonista. There are now several excellent coding apps, git clients, decent editors etc available for iOS you can even use to develop apps for publication on the App Store.

Until the iPhone 6+ I'd have said coding on a phone was really awkward, but nowadays on the modern large format phones it's quite workable.
But that’s not what’s happening... every H1B holder I’ve personally worked with, while being incredibly nice people, required immense oversight to get any useful output from. 1 U.S. developer/manager to 5+ H1B hires seems to be common.
A lot of Mech/Civil Eng is done with computers these days and to be blunt working in CFD for example is higher skilled than CRUD webdev
Medical devices, wireless headsets, phones, drones, various pro-grade cameras and gear - there are many devices where expensive batteries would still be economical.

For some apllications, you need fixed amount of power, perhaps you could have 3 times less batties, at 3x the price. That frees up space and reduces weight.
IP was never about society. It was a tool for the rich to create a monopoly on a product.

IP disproportionately helps organizations rather than individuals. And the major owners of those organizations are the 0.01% class
I've wanted to build a Sci-Fi themed Bed & Breakfast for a while. The idea would be to build the "ship" under ground, in a hilltop in the middle of nowhere. It would isolate the rooms from the outside sound (trees and wind and animals can still be noisy). Lowerdeck portholes would have large, LED lightboards shadowboxed behind them to draw stars streaking by (I know it's not physically accurate, but it's still part of the Star Trek visual). The "bridge" at the top of the hill could have an observation skylight/porthole like the Enterprise has. On a clear night, you'd look up and out and see nothing but stars. There'd be at least one, large, CAVE VR system for a holodeck. We'd hire one of those bartenders who mixes dry ice into drinks. Maybe even setup a 3D food printer.
There is a documented situation where Getty attempted to charge an artist for their own work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340178).

The only reason we know of that particular case is because they happened to charge the original creator.

The dynamic is ripe for corruption. If Getty failed to report all the works they were collecting for, and instead siphoned money off on the side, how would anyone know?
I actually find it fun to listen to. Generally because the argument process and retorts are always well calculated. Wishing I could be that good.
In college, I used to always order cocktails with grapefruit juice in the hope that I'd get more drunk for my money. Was I only benefiting from the placebo effect? Does grapefruit affect alcohol metabolism?
I did the math though and I would likely be clearing 100k in the bank even with the high cost of living there.

Auckland is pretty expensive, and senior engineers here make a lot more than regular 9-5 jobs but I'm not remotely close to clearing that much money in a given year.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201007125029/https://davidwals...
I seriously thought this was going to be a guide to small talk - as in how to start conversations and keep them going.
How do you believe that would work? Do you think the average person is capable of operating a robust PKI management system? I want to like the idea but it seems most likely that this would just mean people having the keys on the device which was stolen (because they don't have redundant storage in a separate location), having a compromise mean that someone now has persistent control of all of your devices, and a spike in the kind of social engineering attacks we saw in the desktop space for decades where someone convinces the user to compromise their security because 99.99% of people using computers do not have the experience needed to understand the security decisions they're being asked to make.
getting a 500x, did hacker news broke your site?
Yes, THC is also metabolized by the CYP3A4 enzyme that grapefruit inhibits
For the most up to date COVID information there's this from WHO:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

> These materials are regularly updated based on new scientific findings as the epidemic evolves. Last updated 5 October 2020.
The author is obviously enthusiastic. Smalltalk is undoubtedly impressive. However, many heroic sagas are rather marketing hypes than based on true facts.

> The Smalltalk galaxy was at the origin of the Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Well, the operating system of the Alto and the first groundbreaking WYSIWYG desktop applications were written in BCPL. Sure, Smalltalk did also run on the Alto, but the responsibles apparently have not considered it suitable for practical use. See e.g. http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/xerox_alto_file_system_....

> And since Java was strongly influenced by Objective-C, Smalltalk’s legacy amplified even more.

A bold claim. Actually Java was the implementation of the Simula 67 object model with a C syntax. Smalltalk was not involved here (neither Obj-C). Gosling is quite clear in this respect. The HotSpot JIT eventually was implemented by the folks who were already involved with the Self JIT, but it would be far-fetched to attribute these achievements to Smalltalk.

Even more points, but I'm running out of time.
Didn't know rsync has free cloud storage.
Thanks for sharing a wonderful news.
Exactly this. I would have loved to go for a physics PhD but everything I read about academia in the US strongly discouraged me from pursuing it. I went into tech instead.

The academic system in the US is incredibly sick. The best and brightest students are certainly not lining up to squander their youth being treated like slaves when they can make top dollar in another field.
Agree, one thing that is missing now is the total numbers for the selected date interval. So if you select last 2 weeks, you see the graphs, but it doesn't show the total visitors in those last 2 weeks (unless you go to the main domains list). If I implemented the interval comparison and the display of visitor totals, it could also show +24% (compared to last interval) for stats like visitors, conversions, etc.

I am planning to implement both of those features really soon (this month), but I am currently working on releasing a simpler analytics platform for WordPress, based on userTrack (https://wplytic.com), as the current pricing might be a bit too high for some WordPress users and they might also not need all the advances features of userTrack (heatmaps, session recordings, multi-user, multi-domains, A/B tests, etc).
I wonder how they handle retries with backoff? It's something that Redis backend is pretty good at with sorted maps but kinda hard to implement in Kafka.
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Hypothetically, if that (ie: maximizing free speech on the social networks) created a world of superstition, poverty, violent social unrest, unchecked pollution, and war, would you reconsider your position?
Richard Stallman would like 30 year copyrights, and to unbundle copyright.
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It is different. In the GPL case, you are distributing the software, not just using the API.

I don't know if it's different enough, but it's not the exact same issue.
As someone noted in the comments it's because on RabbitMQ one queue uses only one CPU core by design and the whole benchmark is based on using one queue.
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I remember slightly earlier on in my career as an intermediate level engineer earning $70k living in an area (not in US) where the median house price is $1m+

An extra $100k would have been really nice.
The right thing to do is follow Responsible Disclosure

https://www.bugcrowd.com/resource/what-is-responsible-disclo...
> I think it is quite likely that we as a society would be better off without any kind of copyright or IP.

I agree with that. IP also doesn't make any sense to me from a philosophical perspective. I don't understand why making one thing once should give me a monopoly on making things that are similar to that thing.

The fact that the question of how similar a thing must be to fall under my monopoly is so arbitrary and ill-defined also leads to an enormous amount of resources being wasted on litigation and designing around the law.

Non-disclosure agreements are sufficient to allow an inventor to be first to market. They should not be able to use the government to enforce a monopoly after that.
Who here has actually read these “QAnon” posts? Any thoughts?
This post touches many topics I learned in a MOOC about meta-learning: focus time (there's also the important diffuse time, eg shower thoughts), recall, practice, forming long term memories, resting. I highly suggest the MOOC, it's free without certification, and you can start any time:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
You've excluded a huge amount of middle ground. There's a comprise somewhere in the middle that allows compatability but stops blatant copying.
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> After all, wouldn't you expect most digital ports to be binary: either be plugged in or not?

It's always a good idea to have a known-good extra cable or two and laptop that you know has good ports. All the time and frustration you will save is definitely worth the hassle.
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Truths Untold About Peanut Butter
All really impressive but the "exit" WebXR game stands out for me. The usual refrains here are: "I can't believe they did this in 13 kB, in plain old js, in the browser" ;)
> She designed her first model in the shed behind her house in Shelbyville, Ill. Her lack of formal engineering education, however, became an obstacle, so she sought out someone who could help. Mechanic George Butters agreed to assist her in building the prototype.

So the engineer did all the actual hard work here in coming up with a working prototype, but the wealthy funder takes almost all of the credit, and puts the patent solely in their name.

A much fairer framing would be that the two of them were co-inventors.
The Remarkable Life of Roxie Laybourne
> There's a comprise somewhere in the middle that allows computability but stops blatant copying.

Did you mean to say compatibility rather than computability?
Developer Experience as a Competitive Advantage
What does "39 shirts" mean? Doesn't mean anything more to me than "shirts", heh.