skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do his comments add any value, regardless of how they are delivered? Or do they primarily serve to derail discussions?

Does he have any formal responsibilities at all or is he an éminence grise, probably with some patents or a major product under his belt, but no portfolio of products or services?

Does he do drive bys, stepping in just long enough to interject then walk away, or does he sit through and participate in the discussion?

It’s tempting to say to ignore him, the problem is that if he truly has no responsibilities but is still employed, he's valued by your company in some way for some reason, and he can knee cap your projects or career and you'll likely never know.

If his comments actually add value then you can try to interact with him. If he's just wasting everyone's time, get your immediate management chain on your side, and then knee cap him at the next opportunity that avails.

I'm now his (likely) age. When I was much younger (late 20s) I tried to tolerate and make nice with people like this and it likely helped end my career at that employer. I don't mean you need to be mean to him, but if he's wasting your time, and he's wasting everyone's time at these meetings, then he's wasting company time. It doesn't show up anywhere except that you're not getting things done as rapidly as expected, meanwhile he's off derailing another meeting. There's no OKR or PBC for "successfully derails meetings" and most company cultures don't measure negative impact until an employee is already on a performance plan. But these employees are toxic and need to be called out.

Tactically: get someone in your management change who is comparable or higher in seniority to him on your side who can either attend some of these meetings or be ready to “just drop in” if he shows up. Let that person make the call on whether or not it's a problem for the business, and address the problem. If you try to do so you're more likely to get flagged than he is.
I assumed you are a man so apologies if not!
> And Facebook is a monopoly that buys or copies (thus kills) their competitors

And yet competitors e.g. Snapchat, TikTok, HouseParty, Telegram, Line continue to appear and flourish.
Critically, if I want to use a smartwatch with an iPhone, I’m not limited to the Apple Watch.
This is great! It's informative enough to end users when a glyph is missing, and stands out for developer eyes when a web font subset doesn't include particular characters.

I am a native Sinhalese (that ක is from it), and there aren't enough web fonts that cover those glyphs. If the system fonts don't cover those glyphs (Windows, Linux, and MacOS versions do, but many feature phones, treadmill browsers, etc don't). I'd love to see this font (which appears to be only sub 500kb) instead of those ugly boxes that don't convey any information whatsoever.
I agree that unions have been an important player for worker rights and in some countries even the advent and enforcement of democracy.

However, unions really make sense when workers are a "commodity" and easily replaceable to the point that they are ground down into poverty. Steel workers and drivers would be a good example of such jobs.

In software engineering, you have plenty of options to change jobs and go to a better company. The market demand for software engineers is massive and you are definitely not in a job where you have to suffer through bad management.

A company in tech that unionized can only mean one thing

1/ The management is really crap

2/ The workers are so unskilled they can't find jobs elsewhere

Would you outsource work to such a company?
> House Antitrust Subcommittee

mmmmm, no looks like the legislative branch is reviewing what the executive branch does at all, thats whats supposed to happen.
If you want to hide the writing process, there's always email (and other solutions).

I will always ALWAYS prefer the instantly-visible option. In a world devoid of vital visual contexts like vocal inflection and body language, a visible "stream of consciousness" is so meaningful.

There's a steadily-growing norm where people freely ignore instant-messages if responding quickly doesn't benefit them, but sometimes the message sender has no other communication recourse for an important and time-sensitive topic, and if you have no idea if they have even read your message then it's very frustrating.
The Democratic Party has a lot more wealthy people, a lot more of the 1%, and a lot more six figure earners, than the Republican Party does today. It's not remotely a close comparison.

That's why Democrats (comically) fought so hard to preserve the SALT tax break for higher income earners - so many Democrats earn six figures in locations like SF, LA and NYC. It's comical because it put the Democrats in a position of fighting for tax breaks for people earning high incomes.

The notion that the Republican Party is the party of the rich is no longer accurate. The voting foundation of the Republican Party today is the middle class that the Democrats have increasingly abandoned over the last 30 years (which is entirely what got Trump elected; white, educated women are what cinched Trump's election, and the middle class voters in critical states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin).

The Democratic Party is largely hyper bifurcated between wealthier white people and poorer miniorities, heavily coastal in location. The Republican Party largely consists of the lower middle class up to the lower upper class, and is largely centered in so called fly over or red states, non-coastal, and almost entirely white. These are generalities (ie there are exceptions), however they are broadly correct.

Democrats dominate to an extreme all the high-wealth locations in the country, including nearly every major metro (which is where most of the high wealth individuals live in the US). Those metros include: Seattle, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Jose, Austin, Denver, Washington DC, Boston, and so on. There is only one Republican mayor among the top 10 largest US cities, with Republicans only having the mayorship of 13 of the 50 largest cities.

The richest people also tend to be Democrats: Gates, Zuckerberg, Buffett, Bezos, Bloomberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, MacKenzie Scott, Steve Ballmer, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Laurene Powell Jobs.

It doesn't get any more elite and money-representative than that list. Nine of the ten richest people in the US are Democrats. It's hilarious that the Republican Party is supposedly the party of the rich, and those people are all Democrats. I say all of this as someone that has never voted Republican in my life. I don't care for the party, however the old propaganda narrative that they represent the rich is false today.
Apple has dominated high margin consumer electronics for at least 15 years now. iPod, Macbook, iPhone, iPad, Watch, Airpods...

No one has the budget to compete
Roxy Music keyboardist, David Bowie collaborator, Robert Fripp collaborator, ambient music pioneer, legendary producer (Devo, Talking Heads, U2, etc.), creator of the Windows 95 startup jingle. Some great solo albums in the '70s, too.
Extremely similar, like i can translate japanese near verbatim and it will be a normal hindi sentence.

Hindi too has Bunsetsu Jars, so the fact that they can in any order is not required to be explicitly stated
An acquaintance of mine worked for a company that stocked tampons in the men’s restroom because someone lobbied for it despite the company having no female->male trans employees. My acquaintance, who is male->female trans, was baffled.
It's massively deflationary due to its user-hostile nature, irreversibility and lack of appeals authority. This leaves it prone to many kinds of loss (and fraud). An analyst suggests 1500 coins are lost per day, and so less than 14MM will ever be in circulation [1]. Currently, only (144 * 6.25 = 900) coins are mined per day, and 1500 are lost. Ergo, it's deflationary and will become more so over time as the block reward drops.

I also disagree that 3.4% is a "better" inflation than many national currencies. It's lower, sure, but I am reluctant to draw a value judgement as inflation has a specific and important role in the economy. I don't know enough to tell you authoritatively that 3.4% is "too high" and "worse" than the classical 2% US target.

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/analyst-1500-bitcoins-lost-every-da...
Do you want to try Martian framework
Martian is a Java development framework that does not require containers

No need for Tomcat, no Jboss, no Netty, or even Servlet. Based entirely on the JRE class library. The project lost weight again

http://mars-framework.com/
"we use less - because they accomplished the required goal."

Exactly.
Everyone who is interested in the current wave of hyper-politicization should learn about struggle sessions. These originated in Maoist China and were a bullying tactic used by red guards to humiliate anyone who had any opposition to the radical ideology being imposed at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
>Are anthologies of poems copy writable? I thought not.

Then you thought wrong[0]. While the poems themselves may be copyrighted by others, the editor (presumably getting license/permission from copyright holders of said poems) organizes the poems in the anthology. The resulting work is copyrightable in its own right.

Check out the link below and the copyrights on each anthology.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/03/top-10-poetry-...
Chaturbate
If the jobs had moved to Texas, I doubt it would have been challenged.
That’s a very interesting discovery.
The former. (again, only in a pejorative context! Compare "épater la bourgeoisie", shetexe da sut inya.)

Note that in this century, the mimetic middle class is much closer to the statistical middle class (the modal hump of the poisson distribution) than to the more historical middle class (those with enough property to weather a few years not working, but not enough for permanent leisure. Go back another century and one has the classes of Jane Austen, who wrote mostly about the upper middle, with a smattering of lower upper characters.)
What's crazy is it feels like no one's been keeping track of all the "Western chauvinist" violence in the past decade. Everything is pointing to some notion of a "last stand of the West" weird shit.

The Dayton, OH mass shooting[0]
The El Paso mass shooting[1]
The murder of an elderly Black man in Harlem as a prelude to mass murder of Black men with the express aim of inciting a race war[2]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/nyregion/timothy-caughman...
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724617.
Maybe there's demand for agents/managers for less famous/media-savvy bug hunters, quintupling the payout would easily pay for the agent's fee in a case like this.
I was about to comment on how Chicago just refuses to die, but then I noticed:

The Last Resort glyphs were drawn by Apple Inc. and Michael Everson of Evertype.
While problems like fake likes and election misinformation are real, that's feels completely orthogonal to me playing VR games. Making me jump through hoops to keep playing a copy of Beat Saber that I already bought is frankly insulting
awesome, thank you for the links
All: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That's what the More link at the bottom points to. Or click here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721734&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721734&p=3
Nobody is saying that the overall design of a system isn’t subject to intellectual property law. But it’s an area of patents rather than copyright. Amazon until recently held a patent (it just expired) on the concept of having a button on a webpage that you click to buy something. IBM at one point held a patent on the concept of sending data from one computer to another computer. One of Google’s arguments in the case is that Oracle is trying to argue a copyright claim on something that is actually covered by patent law (and which was already found in lower court not to be a patent infringement). If you invented a fancy new way to couple together electrical wiring, or train cars, or drivetrain to a motor, then you would file a patent for it. My take is that Oracle is banking on the fact that an API is written in words (especially in Java...) to muddy the waters enough to obscure the technical and thus not copyrightable nature of an API.
Big distinction there provided by the National Firearms Act. Pipe bombs are classified as "destructive devices" and would require submission of Form 1 to the ATF, along with fingerprints, etc and a $200 tax stamp.

And that's just federal law. State law may have other restrictions.

So bringing a legal rifle to a protest might be legitimate (though not exactly prudent), but possessing an unregistered pipe bomb will get you prison time even if you don't bring it to a protest.

Tannerite is exempt as it's a binary explosive which apparently has special rules.
Makes me think about Milton Friedman's talk about airline pilots and the American Medical Association, rebranded as a union, and his question of

Who are the strongest unions in the United States. Which unions in the United States are strongest in the sense of having been most successful in raising the wage rates, the earnings of their members?

https://youtu.be/_L69YcXsdEg?t=478
>Indeed. This was bad representation to the point that I'm wondering if it was intentional. Google might have recently realized that, as a monopoly, fighting for API freedom perhaps isn't in their best interest.

That might well be true. However, I'd be more inclined to apply Hanlon's Razor[0] to this, as it's usually closer to the truth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
You've found a spectrum!
The Incredible Power of Contentment
So about general computer programs does your argument mean, that the UML diagramm should be copyrightable but not the program, since it isna mechanical translation?
US man avoids jail in Thailand over bad resort review
I'm not fit to judge, but the 6138P with integrated Alter 10GX appears to connect to the main Xeon cores via a UPI2 link and dual PCIe x8 links. It exports an HSSI bus, whatever that is[1].

The thing is, I don't think AMD is going to have much of an advantage. Back when AMD64 was becoming a thing, a long time ago, there was a lot of excitement around HyperTransport (HTX), around an inter-processor bus that people could make interesting accelerators out of & connect fpgas with. It never... really went anywhere. It's still supposedly quite prevalent as the basis for AMD's modern Infinity Fabric, but AMD seems to have no interest, no energy to make Infinity Fabric or HyperTransport interesting to the world, anything beyond an implementation detail.

If AMD does want to start integrating FPGAs, they either need to go back 17 years & start pushing Infinity Fabric / HyperTransport, or they need some other plan to make the fpga useful. Perhaps CXL or CCIX or GenZ or just like they do now gobs of pcie is enough, is how an fpga can mesh with core complexes & peripherals, but wow AMD would be in a much better place to start integrating FPGAs if HTX has kept up steam.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalab...
And you forgot a big one - Pinterest, which is larger than Snapchat, thriving globally and worth $26 billion. Facebook has been entirely unable to slow their growth.

I think it's clear at this point that Facebook will continue to lose their social dominance, so long as they're prevented from acquiring any major competitors. Their old-line social network will likely remain as a foundation that everyone joins, because so many people are on it. New networks will keep popping up for the same reason TikTok did, young people hate being where old people are, where their parents and teachers are. That cycle will perpetually repeat (in 15 years TikTok 'dancing' videos will be viewed as laughably cringy by young people, like 1980s big hair and fashion trends were 15 years later). All that's necessary is to prevent Facebook from buying the new networks as they pop up.

Instagram might even manage to kill itself trying to be too many things as it clones competitors, turning itself into the F35 of social networks.
> Its kind of crazy how fast company values can change.

what makes you believe that is has anything to do with "values"? ;)
I like that the font they decided to use for the text embedded in this font is Chicago. It's a good choice, since it was designed to be legible at a low resolution. (I'm pretty sure it's Chicago and not just a Chicago-esque font because of the distinctive shape of &.)
Your first comment was about people "failing out" and now it isn't "about being able to do the work" but instead the problem is these students are "lower in their class". Those goalposts moved quickly.

But let's say your theory is true and that the lower ranks of Yale's graduating classes are full of Black students, why is that a problem? Is getting bad grades at Yale going to damage your life? Are people graduating low in their class from elite universities worse off than people graduating higher in their class from worst universities? Plenty of successful people weren't highly ranked in their graduating class. Getting bad grades at an elite university like Yale seems to almost be a requirement to run for president nowadays. And regardless of the admission policies, some people have to end up being the worst ranked in their graduating class. Why does it matter if it is a Black students or anyone else?
Yeah but doctors are a unique entity. There's little need for doctors to do collective bargaining because there's barely anybody who could take their job, so they already have a lot of bargaining power.

If doctors didn't require a medical license, alleviating the need for 4 years of medical school + residency, suddenly there would be a glut of competition and doctors would surely need to unionize.

Conversely, if software development required an arduous, expensive, hyper-restrictive license, there would be no need for software developers to unionize either
Interesting. I wonder what this means for requiring Login with Apple for things sold on the App Store.
So photons are at infinity already?
Just post right wing and qanon stuff and you should be safe. Half /s
There are very different laws for firearms and what the ATF calls a destructive device (which include pipe bombs).

Ignoring the protest entirely, you will do jail time if the ATF catches you with an unregistered destructive device.
MLK was a Republican BTW.
> Google will be surprise.

Probably not.

If you look at the way most Americans argue against unions they always argue against something about how they are implemented here. Then someone points out that unions don’t have to have the referenced property as if that was a gotcha. But here there are big unions and for some reason they always try to grow. For instance, why did they join US Steel instead of consulting with them to start their own union?
It is voluntarily formed at the top, but in practice labor is a required aspect of life in a capitalist society.

If there are only 10 companies and only one will hire you, with no capital you have zero choice but to work for that company.
You're joking, right? I'm not convinced any Tesla vehicle is a good choice for anyone, after seeing this album earlier: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136377865@N05/sets/72157658490...
I developed this locally with my adblocker on. I didn’t even realize ads were showing. Fixed it now :)
Sure, it's a bit more complicated, but the point here is that Waymo remains an Alphabet subsidiary, external investors are investing under that understanding and with full knowledge of Alphabet’s control of Waymo (which is why the blog entry you link to links to the Alphabet 10-Q reporting the external investments and the resulting “noncontrolling interests” in the subsidiary.

A “spin-off” within a common corporate umbrella is a different thing done for different reasons than a corporate divorce kind of spin-off like IBM is doing.
Wow, nice find.
Hahaha, it sure is. In the sense that a lot of ppl will not even consider picking up Oculus because of this requirement, which would make it the opposite of competitive — anticompetitive.

it's a joke
Well, that still works! (Just confirmed it in Big Sur.)
Isnt it amazing we need billions of dollars of investment in AI for that. If they could have continued with knobs instead of touch screen.
He’s not the source. You making that association for others was a character attack trying to undermine the credibility of the information I posted. A common psychological manipulation tactic to distract people from valid information. I don’t know much about these guys but based on their stated tenets they don’t sound like a hate group: https://proudboysusa.com/tenets/.
Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network
Ok I get that part, but surely Red Hat/RHEL itself wouldn’t perish as a result?
> This mixes up the functional aspects of designing methods with the stylistic aspects of API design.

I think the disagreement here is as a frequent API author I don't see any stylistic aspect in the design of API code. API code as an artifact itself is purely functional. This distinction becomes important because of the case precedent at hand.

Prior to creating any API, one must have a specification of the system the API is meant to model and control. If one skips writing the specification, that doesn't mean there isn't one, it's just largely in the brain of the implementer and possibly underspecified or inconsistent in spots. Every unit of API code therefore has an implied specification, whether or not a documented, written specification exists.

The API code is simply a mechanical translation of the specification into machine readable form. Parameter names, method names, those do not matter to the technical function of the system they are there solely to enhance use. The specification is possibly a patentable invention. A book describing the specification to a human audience is possibly a copyrightable work.

API code is neither of those things, rather it is an embodied practice of interacting with that specification in a machine-readable form and therefore IMO [IANAL] not eligible for copyright under Baker.

> For example, how to structure groups of functions for dealing with various kinds of buffers. Insofar as those stylistic decisions are expressed in literal code, that's the domain of copyright.

These structures are not inherent to the function of the API code, except incidentally due to implementation details. The purpose of these structures is to model the system being interacted with.

I think part of the misunderstanding here is the contemporary expectation that all code is self-documenting. Which is an admirable goal, but it obscures some important nuances about what an API as opposed to an API contract actually is.

API code, particularly old or highly specialized API code, has a TON of undocumented behavior, quirks, etc that exist. Where do they exist? Besides in the heads (optimistically) of the implementers, it also exists in the specification the API code together with its implementation translate.

> But what if you design the API by writing the declarations first, and filling in the methods afterwards?

Presumably it's the human and not the computer writing the API code so the human has some notion of what the API code is representing. The act of writing this code is translation. Just because the original is not always captured does not mean that it doesn't exist. It must exist for there to be API code in the first place.
> These posts always skip over the problem of the GUI.

And battery issues?
Amazon unveils its new electric delivery vans built by Rivian
Doctors have the AMA, which provides accreditation and artificially limits supply. This provides some of the value that unionization provides, although it technically isn't.