skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your privacy policy is completely blank except for the phrase "WIP", which isn't very reassuring. [0]

On the other hand, I like how with your Terms of Service, you have the actual terms in one column and then summarize/simplify them in a second column. [1]

[0] https://waldenpond.press/privacy
[1] https://waldenpond.press/tos
Stock market does not always follow marketing narratives. Single thread speed is important for gamers and high end desktop. Intel doesn't care that much about those segments, it is a small part of their business. Their money is in server CPUs and laptops, where they have and will maintain majority of the market.
I have his book "A year with swollen appendices" - has he done anything similar more recently wrt keeping an online diary? I can take or leave his music but I did enjoy reading his thoughtful daily entries.
Gotta love those anarchists.

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1314267058339819520
It looks like horrible censorship.
The 2014 decision, for one, hinges on it being a whole package structure and not just one method:

Google copied the declaring source code from the 37 Java API packages verbatim, inserting that code into parts of its Android software. In doing so, Google copied the elaborately organized taxonomy of all the names of methods, classes, interfaces, and packages — the "overall system of organized names — covering 37 packages, with over six hundred classes, with over six thousand methods." Copyrightability Decision, 872 F.Supp.2d at 999. The parties and district court referred to this taxonomy of expressions as the "structure, sequence, and organization" or "SSO" of the 37 packages.

The Baker ruling is specifically addressed in that one, and they call out exactly how it is relevant to Oracle v. Google: The Baker precedent says that the parts of a design that are strictly essential to its function are not copyrightable. But the parts that involve some art - such as - according to this opinion - the taxonomy introduced in a package structure - are copyrightable.

In other words, you can think of SSO as shorthand for, "The things that aren't covered by the Baker precedent."

We also have, in the same opinion:

When assessing whether the non-literal elements of a computer program constitute protectable expression, the Ninth Circuit has endorsed an "abstraction-filtration-comparison" test formulated by the Second Circuit and expressly adopted by several other circuits. ... This test rejects the notion that anything that performs a function is necessarily uncopyrightable.

(Disclaimer: This is not meant to imply that I think that Judge O'Malley's 2014 opinion is the final word on the case. I'm just picking some highlights from an opinion on this case that might shed some light on how the Courts are approaching the issue.)

(https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20140509135)
On average: calendar, communicator, application, documentation / search. It gives 4 cards open. Why not more? Because:

a) they drain memory and slow down the system
b) but more importantly: more cards distract you and make it harder to find what you are looking for = worse productivity and quality
> In 1856, Rabbi and historian Morris Jacob Raphall used the abbreviations CE and BCE in his book Post-Biblical History of The Jews

Older than you’d think.
> China or North Korea could easily allocate a much larger team to something like this

Chances are they already did, and are just sitting on the vulnerabilities.
Just that new and shiny is here doesn't mean the old system became slower. The compilation improvement of 9%, for me it means that most important thing didn't get significantly faster. Unless the Phoronix tests on compiling Apache show better results than AMD:s GCC compilation. (Apache scales badly with threads so, I use that as rough approximation of making change in a file or two and then recompiling only what's affected by the change.)

Using 4k 60hz tv as monitor means CPU gaming performance improvement doesn't matter for 99% of titles as it is limited by either the Screen or GPU.

On the other hand people who have older CPU:s this is really nice increment in addition to previous improvements. A single generation improvement doesn't feel large enough to really matter. Except for professional Gamers with ultra fast GPU:s and monitors, trying to compete for prizes.
NNTP, which can be decentralized. I have wrote a NNTP server software, although it may help to implement some other things to go with it, such as: federation with other NNTP services (which might or might not use the same software; the protocol is the same regardless of what software it is using), web interface (I have some requirements, such as requiring the NNTP server information and message ID to be displayed even if scripts/CSS is disabled), email subscriptions (many people prefer mailing lists, and this is a way to make such a thing to work), etc.
These anecdotes are backed up by empirical observations:

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator5_19.asp

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/tables/table_19_1.asp

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...
Which is why the "but Free Speech doesn't protect you from consequences" attitude needs to stop.
Perhaps I should not have used the recipe analogy as it might be causing unnecessary confusion. But I don't think the situations are all that similar. If an individual recipe is non-copyrightable because it describes a "process, procedure, or method" then a mega-recipe created by combining other recipes together will still be non-copyrightable for the same reason. 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.
I like these monolithic Muslims that appear everywhere. It's like the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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If ycombinator and their mods are more concerned with the promotion of one of their own investments, over discussion of its merits and feedback from the people who _would_ be the ones adopting and promoting it in their own companies if it indeed lived up to its own marketing, then I invite a ban for trying to keep hackernews honest and driven by community discussion, over a place for them to advertise, self promote, pat themselves on the back, and pad their wallets.
Yelp launches alert to identify businesses accused of racist behavior
This outlook strikes me as narrow.

The behavior you're describing is amplified in technology corporations, and while I do agree that there is nonsense, there are also real social issues that are worth solving for.

The most polarizing and extreme voices will often be the loudest or most visible, but rarely will they be representative of a group at large.
Frustrating for sure, but you're comparing access to limitless knowledge and literally life transforming technologies that people even a few decades ago would have sold their soul for... to a home product that I think Google would refund you the price of. Keep things in perspective.
239 in 26 windows. This year the highest was 510 tabs in 72 windows. Of all time I have a session that had 2982 tabs in 127 windows.

Note that this session and most sessions anywhere near 500 tabs to have most of the tabs' renderers killed so really it never actually had all of its tabs loaded.
Two verses from the lyrics to Limelight by Rush come to mind:

Cast in this unlikely role • Ill-equipped to act • With insufficient tact • One must put up barriers • To keep oneself intact

[...]

Living in a fish eye lens • Caught in the camera eye • I have no heart to lie • I can’t pretend a stranger • Is a long-awaited friend
The danger lurking in an African lake
> Do they just glue things together

In my experience all enterprises I have experience with do this. There’s just something about the whole process that makes everyone worry about security later.
Could it also be you only care about transaction cost because everything else works so well? The time I spent on customer support with paypal/visa/plaid, ridiculous documentation from other payment processors and payouts snags make me appreciate Stripe even more.

EDIT: As in I haven't touch my stripe code for 2 years. They still work.
It depends how long since I last restarted the browser.

Today, 87.
"The practical reality that a lot of people will have a suboptimal experience until we (both "we Stripe" and "we the industry") figure out more scalable ways to assess people."

It is not inevitable and there are company that do recruiting better and other worse. For example, asking for a cover letter at Stripe and then ghosting people liberally even after multiple rounds of interview does not sound tremendously good to my ear. That is a not a sub-optimal interview experience, like being in a coma is not a sub-optimal life experience.

I understand that working with recruiters is hard (who ever said: I know a recruiter who is a genius? Or even the lesser: I know that recruiter, they are brilliant), but respecting candidates should be a priority of any organization.
What does it control on the CPU? Overclocking? I never needed to control CPU via a software...
I don't agree that the steps of an implementation are copyrightable. Different versions of an algorithm are different algorithms. One merge sort algorithm may perform much better than another despite both being merge sort and having the same asymptotic complexity. You could patent a particular version of merge sort.

Copyright protects how code is written not what it does. And the how applies just as much to interfaces as implementations.
> licenses would be a pointless gesture otherwise and the very fact that they are offered with such frequency tends to dispel the idea that there is a common understanding

This reasoning would also make valid those silly "I hereby declare that my photos on Facebook are my property, with all rights reserved etc etc" posts.
" (Almost) everything is political. "

Serving coffee is not political. Planning the network installation is not political. Code reviews, cleaning your office, optimizing the VM, getting a bandwidth deal, negotiating the SaaS pricing, choosing ingredients for the new dish, figuring out how many loads of gravel are needed for the landfill, picking a guy to fix the fence ...

It's 99% not political.

Google search is barely political, ads are a little bit.

Social Media is political and not that-that much more.

It's 100% fine for you to 'work on something consistent with your political views' but at the same time just 'pick the place' instead of 'making the place' inherently political.
Nope. It means: I came here to program, not to listen to you drone on and on about why Trump is the greatest candidate ever. (I quit a job partly because of someone doing this constantly.) I also quit a subsequent job because of a leftist guy who was simply unbearable. I get paid to write software. When I go to work, that’s what I want to do. If you want to annoy me with unrelated trivia, work is not the place.
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I disagree, it's extremely common to ask "what was the actress in that movie we just saw?" (so it's clear they are not asking about the male protagonist) or for awards "who you think is gonna be the best actress this year?" or for castings "what actress your think should be casted for the new remake of Romeo and Juliet?"
Nah, to be fair, the most compelling application is: https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_e...
If you'd be willing to explain in more detail what "sense of privilege" means to you personally, that would help a lot of us understand what you're feeling here.
Wow, I like that article. This line really struck me as an excellent point: "...if you believe you’re a meritocracy and you have numbers like everybody who has released their data, the implicit message is that Caucasian men are better than everyone else. Because that’s who is overrepresented. It’s endorsing a notion that these other people aren’t as good, and therefore that’s why there aren’t a ton of them."
No, they don't have to get involved in every issue, the point is merely that inaction, or excluding yourself from politics, is itself political.

That doesn't make inaction immoral. It just means that it's not apolitical.
He's right. The entire premise of open source licensing is that the work is copyrightable, so it uses the copyright system to enforce the authors distribution requirements.
I will provide the following as it sums up the issue better than I can.

https://heterodoxacademy.org/political-firings-left-leaning-...
I agree that part of the reason open source software is so popular (particularly for programming language implementations) is so that there is no ambiguity about the fact that people can make adaptations/alternatives without worrying about copyright lawsuits. However it seems very perverse to use the fact that so many people think it would be a bad idea if these interfaces were constrained by intellectual property laws to justify constraining them by intellectual property laws.
140 total tabs across 14 windows spread out over six virtual desktops.
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Create the crisis, assuming you're drug and drink free, and the only thing missing is motivation. In 2013 I was three months in to a new house I purchased when I got into a horrible clusterpuck at work, and ended up having to walk out. Not pretty. What I thought was going to be my saving grace never materialized. So I was then a) jobless, b) with a mortgage, and c) royally screwed. I became severely depressed and suicidal. What kicked me out of the rut was that I finally realized (nick of time?) that I WAS in a crisis. If you're broke without motivation, then you need to put yourself into a crisis, survival mindset. Move out of your parents house and on to a sofa. Get rid of your car. Cancel Netflix and everything else you care about. Do something that will make a significant impact on your ability to pay the bills and take care of yourself. It won't work for everyone, it's extreme, but once I realized there was a crisis, and the significant impact was homelessness, I got to work fixing my situation.
It’s a real word, but archaic.

For an even weirder example, see ‘priestess’. No-one ever refers to modern female priests as priestesses, but historians often refer to, say, female priests in Ancient Rome as priestesses. On the other hand, historians never use the term ‘doctress’ for archaic female doctors.
> Are you willing to learn all those 20 different language/runtime/tool chains?

No, and that's exactly my point. Because it would be impossible to support everything, developers and corporations might have to aim for more limited reach. I imagine that would lead to a situation where we have 20 different widely supported kernels, 20 different up-to-date web browsers, 20 different modern OSes, etc. I would love to be able to choose from such a diversity of software alternatives - wouldn't you?
I gently disagree. I believe this is a sleeping giant and the analysts/market have not priced it in. I'm laddering puts.
You seem to have left off a part of your quote (unless you believe that "if the federal government engages private contractors to repair damage to the White House" constitutes a sentence...?)

Would you find it unusual or outlandish for a law to place contractors employed by the government in the category of "entities receiving financial assistance from the government"?
So no, this is definitely not true within this context.

You have life outside of work where you can be political.

I believe it's the job of companies to be 'good citizens' and only to be active politically if it's either really part of the mission statement - or - unavoidable, perhaps in the case of NFL, they had a huge communications issue.

Beyond that, protest at your hearts content, just not at the office.

Finally - you can make a political choice in your work if you want merely by choosing disciplines/companies. If you really want to 'push green' then getting into that industry might be a good personal choice.
I believe it was this thread where someone mentions there used to be radio broadcasts transmitted over cable:
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31563033-Broadcom-Chip-Spe...

And this page confirming they can still be detected:
https://www.kg4cyx.net/the-oddball-embedded-spectrum-analyze...
Not just recycling but rubbish too, often disguised as recycling.
I just upgraded an Athlon64 x2 to a Phenom II x4 because I could get the chip for $20 and a cooler for $30. Heck of a speed boost on that box, which was looking a little long in the tooth otherwise.

It's now beefy enough to run a modern OS and GUI and even do some light gaming on, but the mobo has serial and parallel and PATA and floppy ports so it serves as my media archiving mule too.
Very interesting - can you link your source? I wasn't able to find that quote myself, and wanted to read more.
Yes, you can do that. That's how things work in a pluralistic society. The only point being made though is that that "we" it not acting 'outside of politics' or 'avoiding politics' or being apolitical.

When I go to work I focus on things to the exclusion of other things. That's fine, but we shouldn't think that on entering the office of my employer corporation I am somehow exiting the political realm. That would be engaging in a blindness to the politics of my employer's business practices, and the politics of my office workplace.
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Wait, really? Dont many (most?) 501c3s have highly political missions? E.g. EFF, ACLU, NRA?
“Who was that actress in Sex and the City?”

This level of specificity probably only works for media in which there’s only one main female character.
No, we are undercounting the number of people who have it (asymptomatic or not) by a huge factor. at one point it was by a factor of 10, but I doubt that is still the case.

This is why I watch florida like an eagle, because if it stops going up there we know we got a very good estimate to know when the top is.

~2.5-3% (730k/21.5m) of Florida has had it and it's slowed dramatically (use to be like 16k/day now down to 3). It feels reasonable that herd immunity starts slowing down the virus pretty fast somewhere around 25-30%. It seems reasonable it may come to a complete halt by 47%.
"Died"
Brain available for autopsy.
"Suddenly"
Cause of death was not a chronic condition that could be the source of abnormalities in the brain.
I am a software engineer and it is certainly NOT open and shut for me. APIs are code definitions just as are interfaces, custom types, classes, and so forth.

I don’t think APIs should be treated differently than other code only because you need it to be so for your convenience. If APIs should be treated differently they need to be defined separately and licensed differently. Other languages and platforms makes this very clear by externalizing most APIs from the language and then adding support for the API to the language as though it is a foreign technology, because it’s definition and license are separate.
Of course it is. And so is their purchase of Instagram, Whatsapp, Giphy, and the entire way they've cornered the market with abusive and coercive practices
If the court decides that the lower court was wrong to have disregarded the jury’s decision they’ll definitely decline to answer the question about API copyright. The court pretty much always gives the narrowest ruling possible.
The difference is that Baker didn’t involve literal copying of the accounting tables. Baker is treated as a merger case, but it’s more a case about the difference between copyright and a method patent. Baker claimed that copying the general structure of the tables was infringement. The court essentially held that the structure that was copied was the structure dictated by the method itself. And Selden couldn’t copyright any table that had the same structure because that would give him a monopoly on the method.

Here, the Java APIs were copied literally. For example, say you’ve got a function to append an item to a list:

Append(item, list)
Append(list, item)

If you changed the order of the parameters, you wouldn’t be literally copying, even though it’s the same basic signature. That’s the Baker case. You can’t monopolize the method of appending an item to a list by extending copyright to all possible permutations of the limited ways to write the signature.

But what happens if you do literally copy? That’s this case. Then, the question is whether these choices of where to put the parameter reflect any creativity.

I happen to think they do—I strongly prefer the first form, which is how it’s done in the Common Lisp standard library.
Ask HN: I want to praise an employee to an employer. Any tips?
I want to praise an employee to an employer. The employee is a location manager. Due to the nature of my problem, I ended up listening to the employee manage that location for about six hours over three days, which is a fairly unusual customer experience.

I am fairly confident that this employee is known by name several tiers of management upwards for exactly the traits I would like to point out, but I would like to remind them of that yet again. This is one of those people who you sure can pay, but you can't get the value that they contribute just by paying someone enough money. Sort of like the 1000x developer, in a different industry.

Any tips? Any dos or don'ts? I don't need to deal with companies or workplaces in my regular life and am pretty gormless.
That’s might be all they were able to prove, although in practice the results may be much better.
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This website is the kind of stuff we need to convince people about why privacy is very important.

"You may not get that dream job if your data suggests you're not a very positive person."

Ever since I had access to the Internet to downl- I mean stream songs, I was always afraid of people finding out what I was listening to and corporations building a psychological profile based on what I listen. Oh you listen to some Japanese songs, hmm could mean he's into hentai porn, could be a liability. Death metal? Oh repressed emotions, possibly suicide, not good long term. Rap music? Criminal.

Now this doesn't seem so far-stretched but with more facets of daily life being affected. The worse that could happen is them monitoring the life of the people who will grow up to become our future politicians, if it's not already taking place considering that most of most politicians lives is much more private compared to other people.
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> I've spent 1% of my remaining life under lockdown so far, and expect to spend an approximately equal amount before a vaccine. At what point is it not worth it?

If you understand that vaccine won't solve anything, i.e. it'll be less effective and more dangerous than the crappiest mask. Then it's pretty easy to just accept that you have to wear a mask around people for a long time, the rest of your life if you prefer, and live a normal life. We had lockdown only for two months in april and may, after that it's back to normal, but in masks.
I guess when you combine all of them they still in the lead. Unsure how it's gonna play out in the future tho. Pretty much every manufacturer got an EV car now and it's not built in a tent in California.

I kinda feel Tesla should licence their strong suits (infotainment, batteries and motors) or outsource their weaknesses (voice control, body/panel, service).