skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has always seemed to me that a good analogy for the API situation would be the design of typefaces (as distinct from a particular implementation of that design through, for example, instructions in a font file), which receives special treatment in US law and is not subject to copyright in that jurisdiction.

As far as I can see (but please note that I am not even in the US, never mind a legal scholar) the relevant US law is 37 CFR § 202.1 about “Material not subject to copyright” (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/37/202.1). This enumerates several cases that are explicitly excluded from copyright protection. One is “typeface as typeface”, which was apparently interpreted as described above in a litigated case (Eltra Corp. vs. Ringer).

An argument has certainly been made, though I can’t immediately find the original source, that this exclusion is justified because of the utilitarian nature of a typeface design: allowing one party to control all use of it would be against the public interest, because ultimately that principle could allow for all printed communication to become controlled.

It seems to me that APIs fulfil a similar purpose. They are not useful in themselves, lacking a corresponding implementation. They are, however, an essential basis for standardisation, interoperability and communication between practitioners.

Under 202.1(b) of the law cited above, another class of works excluded from copyright protection is “Ideas, plans, methods, systems, or devices, as distinguished from the particular manner in which they are expressed or described in a writing”. I wonder whether a similar argument about the utilitarian nature of APIs as a specification distinct from its implementation could be made based on that.
Outline link https://outline.com/NPeWHR
I do mainly frontend work and am just shy of 10 years experience. My resume is solid and I can at least get my foot in the door at well known companies including FAANG. I'm not saying I'm going to get the job, but I feel like I can at least get a response.

I was job hunting earlier this year due to my last company (a fintech start up) shutting down and Stripe was the only company that just handed me an immediate "No" without even a recruiter call. I know one other engineer who is more mid level and she said she had applied and never even got a response.

I harbor no ill will toward them, but I'm really curious what their hiring criteria is and why it seems so different that most of the other major companies out there.
Ask HN: Do You Read Patents?
I was wondering to see where technology is going by reading patents. So I search virtual reality. Seems really messy to me compared to scholar papers.

https://patents.google.com/?q=%22virtual+reality%22&oq=%22virtual+reality%22&sort=new

What do you think? Do you browse patents. If so what could you recommend?
I'm after an 8/16 chip myself so that would work for me but Intel chips are DOA at this point.
To be fair, this can apply to a lot of young companies.

Fundamentally, the job to work in a startup is different from the job to work at a large company. The people that grew a company when it was small might not be the best people to grow a company when it becomes bigger.

I saw this at a previous company where the OGs were convinced they were untouchable because they created the entire technical solution with a handful of engineers. To their credit, it was an amazing accomplishment. Unfortunately, as the company grew, their solution ran into scalability and reliability concerns that couldn't be easily fixed. In every architecture meeting, there was always the disagreements between team "ten years ago, this product would have already been shipped with half the engineers" and team "but that product wouldn't work with the scale we need - it is an exponentially harder problem now"
Because that would be ridiculous.
Anyone know of a similar site that is not so US focused?
We control the information flow for billions. How the hell could that NOT be political?
Exactly as much as Trump's tweet to "LIBERATE MICHIGAN"?
Federal agents seem to be really good at foiling insane comic-book-villain schemes (with a glaring exception about 10 years ago) but really bad at stopping millions in damages caused by arsons coordinates on Twitter and Facebook over several months.
"The secret of Costco’s success revealed! (hint: no MBAs need apply)", https://washingtonmonthly.com/2013/06/09/the-secret-of-costc...

"... Costco does not hire business school graduates—thanks to another idiosyncrasy meant to preserve its distinct company culture. It cultivates employees who work the floor in its warehouses and sponsors them through graduate school." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ce...
What would the benefit to MS be to crush w
WINE. They have made a big effort to rebuild their reputation with developers, and WINE doesn’t really hurt their bottom line. They have no incentive.
You're right iCloud itself wasn't "cracked", per se, but the XSS exploit is (was) incredibly malicious and did not require any social engineering that I can see.

https://samcurry.net/hacking-apple/#vuln3
Thank you for the UI feedback. Are you referring to the text in the main cards, or in the modal when you click on “Read in context”?

Re: differentiating between titles vs topics, that would be a hard thing to do with the current setup I have, which is for doing keyword-based searches.
I'm still running an Ath 64 x2 6000+ for a web server, I think it's from about 2006. That with an old hard drive are running 120W, which would be nice to hack down.

I don't remember if I jumped straight to this from my Pentium Pro 200, but the role of this box started with that one.
I will cease to be a skeptic when it can actually drive anywhere but one, small geofenced area. When we're doing it in places with rain, and other poor weather and where roads are not all flat and in a perfect grid... And when we have to interface between old and new infrastructure.
Lots of "Live chat" customer-support type systems do it this way. You can see what your prospective customers are typing as they type. Every character, backspace, etc.

A bit creepy and violates privacy expectations, I think.
It isn't just talking to yourself that I mean, your childhood family will say things you wouldn't think of. In the same way the parent comment says that adults won't correct grammar because it's impolite, adult visitors to your house won't tell you to pick up your toys, or lift your arms up to put a sweater on, or brush your teeth, or how to set the table. You won't get constant feedback on the day-to-day minutuae of life - and the constant use of sentences around the vocabulary. If you don't know what "toothpaste is" you're unlikely to stop brushing your teeth and go and look it up. If you do, and you make up sentences and say them to nobody, outside a specific classroom environment nobody will tell you if you're making mistakes.

Just imagining a situation of child immersion vs adult immersion vs adult trying to make sentences up:

Adult making sentences up: "I am put on coat. Two arm".

Adult immersion: "What is the word for coat?" "'coat'", "Thank you. I am put on coat". "nearly, we say 'putting on my coat <blah blah>" "Thanks, I am putting on my coat".

Child immersion: "Come here and put your coat on, we're going out, you will get cold", "No I don't want to gone", "don't want to go, say it", "don't want to go", "ok but we're going, so blue coat or rain coat?", "blue raincoat", "warm coat or small coat?", "warm", "good, now put down what you're holding, how will you get your arms in?",...

It's so much more everything, more words, more contexts, more sentences, more connections, more interactions, more moments of feedback, more continuous through the day, through every day, more immersive.

It's tempting to make up sentences you know, using words you know, harder to make up sentences using words you aren't sure of and sentence structures you aren't sure of. Easy to do in situations where you have some free time and remember to do it, hard to have it ongoing even when you're busy. And with scant feedback. Surely more effective than not generating anything, but equally effective? Can it possibly be?
"Ruin my search history"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bmvv9w/ruin-your-google-s...
Show HN: An Open Source Reference Catalogue of All Things PKM
I wish Google had just licensed Java from Sun.
Hey, author here. The Open PKM Catalogue is meant to be a reference to all things personal knowledge management.

I run a Discord server (https://discord.gg/HzkFcs) where we talk about PKM. Most of the questions we get are about the meta process of how to take notes - "regardless of what tool i'm using, what are practical workflows and patterns I can adapt to effectively manage information?"

The open pkm catalogue is our attempt to collect and curate what we know on the topic.

It currently has the following sections

- methods: different ways of working with notes
- tools: different tools used to work with notes
- ref: a glossary of terms and features related to pkm

The catalogue is very sparse. like swiss cheese sparse. there's a lot that's missing. if there's a tool or workflow that you love, please contribute it to the catalogue
Did Donald Trump Record His Latest Twitter Video in Front of a Green Screen?
>but I'm guessing that a few big companies - like cough Google cough might be interested in supporting such an effort.

Microsoft also supported Google in this case.
Reading Too Much Political News Is Bad for Your Well-Being
In the above-linked GitHub issue, the Google TPU team is now giving an ETA of early 2021. At that point PyTorch TPU training (including on TPU pods) should be equivalent to TF TPU training. But I think my point still stands that as long as PyTorch TPU training is faster than GPU training, even in its current state, there's nothing wrong advertising TPU support now.
I get where you're coming from, but does it challenge the point that Google, Facebook and a few other tech giants have so much power because of anti-competitive behaviour, not just "because users choose them"?
Breaki̇ng: List of cocktail medicines given to Trump
Lark Health: $55M Series C to bring AI chronic conditions care to more people
Yes, of course. My point is that Schwarz isn’t an expert in copyright law, nor can his individual opinion be dispositive on a question of law that affects everyone.
Our language gets more and more influenced by USA "English" usage,

That's a two-way street https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/
Thanks for typing this all out. The idea that American liberals would be “right wing” in Europe is just plain wrong for reasons you’ve mentioned. There’s a lot of nuance lost and you can’t really compare the two. For instance Europe is full of Christian socialist parties: something unthinkable here in the states.
Judges are merely lawyers who have pupated.
Really? They just bumped the version 6 months ago, and the repo shows changes in the last couple of weeks:

https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes

Is there an official announcement somewhere? The website doesn't indicate anything.
Automatic vectorization for AVX512 would work on the simplest of cases and using intrinsics or writing inline assembly is beyond the scope of 99% of software projects.
Ask HN: What are some great specialist forums?
For example something like HN for tech/business or Nuclear Phynance[0] for quant stuff. Hobbyist forums welcomed.

[0] - https://www.nuclearphynance.com/
The Origin of the Word ‘Alcohol’ (2018)
Yes. There are other important factors.

But at least for the next few years, technology is the barrier. So Google can partner with Lyft, for example, to get a good brand, app, customer service, regulation, etc.

But on top of that, the brand in this market is the promise "our cars are safe". Google is in a distinct place to own that, because of all the press they had, they press they will have, and by really leading technologically.

As for this being a commodity ? I believe we're really far from that.
> I wonder if my general impression of the entire system, is similar to your impression of Donald Trump: ~a complete joke, no respect whatsoever. I can easily appreciate how people disrespect Trump, but I cannot appreciate when those same people respect the general state of politics in the US.

That's my general impression of the entire system too, but I still think Trump represents a radical departure from even that. The status quo serving entrenched bureaucracy ("deep state") had at least been performing basic non-partisan functions such as pandemic response. Disrupting that with no replacement waiting is a short path to a completely failed state.

If I were the type of libertarian that thought moving to the middle of nowhere represented the pinnacle of freedom, the thought might appeal to be. But IMO the true measure of freedom is how it scales with society, and collapses have a terrible track record for freedom.
Machine architectures are very much copyrightable right? That's why Intel license x86 to AMD.

Thing is, for chip manufactures it makes no sense not to allow others to call this x86 API. Things could get dicier for other who try and virtualize a machine instruction set.
> where surveillance seems inevitable/a foregone conclusion

To me, breaking perfect encryption by putting backdoors in computer algorithms is precisely the kind of place where we should not think that surveillance is inevitable/a foregone conclusion, but should draw a line in the sand and say that no, we're not going to accept this, law enforcement simply needs to up its game and figure out how to operate in this new environment where anyone who wants to can use perfect encryption.
There is also a direct benefit from riders who don't want to interact with a driver. Or want to have conversations that they would be uncomfortable subjecting a driver to.

I mean sure, there is a camera. But that is hugely different than a person (both positive and negative)
written in C++ not means it's compatible workload. Gaming performance is just gaming. For gaming, realtimeness is important and normally single thread perf is important even though some process is multithreaded.
Thanks for posting this AllSides site. This is one of the best and most honest segmentations I’ve seen. Often other sites set a news org like CNN as the center and then go from there, which doesn’t make much sense. Allsides call NPR “center” which I completely disagree with but still much more honest compared to others.
I’ve got a bottom end T495s which is mostly used as a terminal. The screen is 1080p but quite decent. I like the whole machine to be honest.

I wouldn’t want to bet on a 1” smaller screen for a decline in quality with the X395
That's not really what the article is about if you read the entire thing.

I almost didn't read the article either but it had surprising depth to it.
You only have so much time, money, energy and attention, and they are choosing that they do not want to actively spend that energy on active activism as a company outside of their company mission.
I see what you are doing. Now that you know that Google keeps proofs of your past criminal activities, you're attempting to create a plausible story that would explain communication with your accomplices as a 'joke'. Nice try.
Having an apolitical workplace is not the same as that workplace saying that all things are fine. It just means that you keep discussion of political topics that are orthogonal to the mission of the company out of the workplace. A company is optimized around its mission and the usual hot button political issues can only serve to be a distraction that saps productivity and effectiveness.
Technical interviewing is so extremely biased. This sentiment of “Coinbase October resume is activist” is a prime example of where false negatives come from, even when the candidate correctly inverts the binary tree on the whiteboard in C.
I think a lot of governments would be much quicker to regulate companies like Google and Facebook if they weren't also fighting for these political issues. At the end of the day, these political stances help further the companies original mission.
ARM has built a business around selling licenses for an instruction set, with multiple third parties implementing said instruction set in silicon.
This is especially difficult when receiving messages you can't immediately deal with. Yes I'm online, and yes I saw your message, but now is not a good moment. No I don't hate you, I'm just not currently available. I hate having to tiptoe around the notification to avoid marking it as read.
> And I’m always skeptical of these “I invented it” type posts.

FYI: I know most of the celebrity nerds in Silicon Valley, and generally the technical origin stories you hear about are actually true.

The most inaccurate stories are around who cofounders are - one is invariably "left out" later on. (See the recent reddit news.)

Because of my knowledge of above, when I worked at a unicorn and saw a slide listing 4 cofounders, and asked where the 4th one was, got silence. :)
I can not speak about how unions work in the US.

I have however been in unions my whole working life, and know of none who is a saleried employee who is not in a union, and what you describe is not how my experience of unions in Europe has ever been (nor have I ever heard such stories).

There are not, nor have there ever been any restrictions placed on how, where and when I can work due to unions. Any modifications triggered by how, when and where I was working are beneficial to me and soley the burden of my employeers.

The way unions have been warped in the US, either in reality or in the minds of people, truly horrifies me.

/edit: spelling
that makes sense. though it seems like many companies these days such as uber, palantir etc are actually worth less after IPO than before.
The cool thing about AllSides is that if you disagree with a bias rating, you can give them that feedback. They use votes from readers to keep the media bias ratings updated.
I'd become an apple music or google music user for life after that
I found Allsides to be extremely biased. In their media bias "analysis"

https://www.allsides.com/sites/default/files/AllSidesMediaBi...

they claim that NPR and The Hill and BBC are dead center. That's 100% false. These are all quite far left, especially BBC.
What's this?

ATTORNEE is evolving!

ATTORNEE evolved into JUDGEON!
I like it. But in the second example they've already finished typing the whole question by the time they said Hi in the first.. then we're told the second way finishes "minutes sooner"? Hmm. That appears to make no sense.

Not wasting the other person's time is however super-important, and a great fast test of whether someone is considerate enough to be an online friend or not.
You mean 19 years ago?
These are known as crowlers (can growlers) and are meant to replace the 1L and 1.89L glass growlers that have gone out of fashion somewhat over the last couple years.

Crowlers look like oversized beverage cans, and come with either a pull tab (like a normal beverage can) or a resealable metal cap.

Note that all beverage cans have a plastic liner (epoxy usually).
These companies don't need to innovate, just buy up the competition or small companies and absorb them into their own. Or if they won't sell, just copy all the features or clone the app and use their big name to push it out there and crush them.
I wonder what the difference in MPG is?
> Which brings me back to Tesla. My guess is their strategy is not just to develop self-driving - they'd lose on equal ground (due to not being first) - but to develop "2nd gen" self-driving which has a specific competitive advantage of not requiring lidar and thus having lower total cost per unit. This allows them to enter the market late but still have a significant edge in that market.

They'll be able to drive in the rain and snow.
Interesting take! Why does this perspective make you bullish on Uber/Lyft?

Isn't a large portion of their FCF tied to reducing labor costs by substituting drivers with self-driving tech?

AB5 and Democrats potentially gaining unified control of Washington don't bode well for their cost structure either.
Got a bottom end T495s here that quite happily handles an external 4K screen with Ubuntu.
STL C++ Course
> its about supporting interoperability

I think this is a very important point. I haven't read all of the briefs in this case, or looked at the arguments presented at the hearing, so I don't know if Google's lawyers stressed this point, but they sure ought to.
Amazing sound extraordinary
Hyperbole, meant that I never had any issues with how many containers I was running haha
I think I ran like 15 at most on my desktop
It’s way worse than that. Even centrists and liberals are silenced by the vocal mob for merely questioning the validity of certain policies or initiatives that claim to have some righteous sounding goal, even when there is evidence that the proposed policy is more likely to be harmful than helpful. For example, it should not be controversial to debate the merits of Black Lives Matter, but since the alternate reality that certain people want to project doesn’t hold up well against facts and data, it’s easier just to brand you a racist (or whatever-ist, depending on the topic) instead. There is a ton of self-censorship and coercion by these activists asserting their supposed moral authority, which is not a good road to go down.

In an industry full of data scientists and engineers, it amazes me how people go along with this narrative that disparate outcomes among members of arbitrary group identities is evidence of discrimination. We know that is not a valid application of statistics, yet people who know better still keep repeating it.
I never really understood the concept behind American militias. Do people really look at Syria and Somalia think that's desirable?
What the hell kind of comparison is that? You linked a human-doc-writer written documentation to auto-generated Java SDK documentation...
>Is there literally not a single HR Portal that tracks status? That flags 'pending'? Notifications for '2 weeks no reply'?

As a hiring manager, absolutely all portals/HR management software I have used up to this moment have this feature. Most of them highlight the application and put them in a visible 'No progress for X time' category; some even send separate e-mails for each long overdue candidate.

The truth is that - at least in the orgs I've been part of - the trend for HR is to be apathetic to the needs of the team they're hiring for and tone deaf in communication. Recruitment has been the least favourite bit of their job.

Over the years I have received Linkedin messages from a number of candidates whom I have referred to other teams/department after they interviewed for a position in mine. HR should've followed up with them; they didn't.
So my understanding from the nytimes article is that they surveilled her vacation home twice and tested an IED device.

So while the IED could be seen as a bunch of rednecks having a great time on a Friday night, the surveillance is I think another story.

There were embedded agents in the group as well as apparently recordings, so we'll have to see what the evidence the government has.
This is very true. It was even proudly stated in new employee orientation when I joined the company in the late 90's.

It was always sales oriented and engineering was something they had to do to deliver some of the things they sold. This may be the first CEO that was actually an engineer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O
This is an interesting idea! The problem is that you regularly get 8+ levels deep, so that's a lot of clicks. Maybe two buttons (for parent and for top-level parent) might do the trick?
...and alone, it's not a problem. BUT, if the police want to go after you for something else, they will use these searches to get a no-knock search warrant, and things can go very very sideways for you after that.