skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point you are bringing up. There will naturally be push back. It is in our natural self-interest, and especially the self-interest of corporations, to not have to pay more. I did not mention this in my comment, but I will have you know that Professor Nordhaus is equally supportive of cap-and-trade. They are both equally effective in his eyes if executed to their potential. Which one is best is dependent on the country and its culture. For instance, Americans are particularly sensitive to rising taxation proposals than their European counterparts. Given this, it may be challenging to pass a carbon tax in the United States. It may be easier to have a cap-and-trade policy passed instead. It's nice to know we have this swift alternative, especially in this time of urgency. But something to consider is that the institutions needed to implement and support cap-and-trade are either non-existent or immature within the United States. Execution may be poor as a result. A carbon tax, however, will likely have greater success given tax institutions are well established here. Although American Conservatives are more resistant to the idea of rising taxation than their Liberal counterparts, know though that a portion of them do believe global warming is an issue that should be addressed. Given this, I believe a carbon tax or cap-and-trade is a winning strategy to win them over versus the popular proposals on the left, which is to reduce emissions through the means of overt regulation or government-owned projects.
I actually think it's something I hate as well, but I never tried going without. It's distracting, sometimes I drift just because lines are not aesthetically pleasing, and I don't really want to stretch concise python lines to compensate. Ed might just be the solution.
This article is misleading. Apple doesn't let you make a free app that references a paid service outside the App Store, which is what ProtonMail was doing. If they allowed it, every app would be "free", they'd all make you go to their own websites to pay so they could bypass Apple's cut, and Apple would make no revenue from the store / hosting / curation / platform they provide.
I am not sure your idea works for my goals.

My goal of reading others is to discuss with my "antiself" to quote CS Lewis and the linked OP.

I would fall into an echo chamber, amplifying and reinforcing what I already think. That is not good for me.

Alternatively if externally I continue to grow and change, depending on the rate of change, the pattern would provide more and more mismatching results.

In essence we are back to the same problem. I do not know think this can be automated in a simplistic way.
They did. In legal parlance, that's a method-of-operation, and the relevant case law was Seldon(?). In which someone wrote a book on double entry accounting, then sued someone for infringement of their forms. The process of using a two column form couldn't be copyrighted, since that would essentially be a patent, and the Court determined a book teaching you how to do a thing implicitly grants license to do so without jeopardy of infringement. API's represent the documentation and actuators to make a machine do it's thing, therefore, both by test of "is it a control or thing allowing one to control another thing?" (Method-of-operation in common parlance) or "is it a communicative work teaching you to how to operate a specific process?" It passes muster.

I thought that was rather straightforward.

What wasn't straightforward to me was Oracle trying to argue that somehow, it makes sense that everyone should be forced to write their own language runtimes, and that somehow you can separate Java the language and virtual machine from the entity hierarchy, or that that is even a tenable state of affairs. Goldstein should have been slamming the "in Java" point hard.

Further, why was no one arguing that programming languages themselves are the front-end manifestations of interoperability by converting high level linguistics down to machine code?

This isn't hard.
The vast majority of organisms cannot be profitably farmed. Are you suggesting a world devoid of all wildlife but with whole continents of corn and soybean monocultures would be "good for the planet"? Perhaps if your view of which species count is very narrow.
And IBM's is currently $117 billion.
The comments on this are great:

> Dear sir, I am looking for a person who owns master rights of SING ALONG WITH JFK."Let us begin beguine" was a smash hit in Japan in 1964.I would like to release CD of SING ALONG WITH JFK here in Japan. Any information will be very much appreciated. Best regards, Junichi Miyaji

> Posted by: Junichi Miyaji | April 21, 2010 at 10:28 AM

It's amusing to think recordings of JFK were extremely popular overseas. I suppose the 1960's were the biggest era of American pop culture export?

I think American culture is thoroughly pervasive to the point the international branches of its evolution are being imported again. K-pop, for instance.
> Firstly, people should have a right to know which entity is authoring these ideas, so that they can be held accountable and any past reputation and potential biases taken into account. Just as importantly, the public should know which ideas are being selectively broadcast by each campaign, as it is more than possible that a campaign presents mutually contradictory arguments to non-overlapping groups of people, which again should factor into the credibility of the campaign.

I agree with all of this, and it all exists in Facebook today. Political ads on Facebook prominently display who paid for the ad, and there's a centralized ad registry containing all active ads by campaign.
> The real problem was a lack of high-quality state-level polls

That wasn't even really a problem; the error in state polling was pretty consistent with the error in national polling; the problem with predictors other than 538 is they treated state variations from polling averages as independent, 538 correctly assessed them (based on past evidence) as highly correlated, which is why Trump had a nearly 1 in 3 chance in 538s forecast.

The problem is people taking (honestly or just for the purpose of after-the-fact criticism) "1 in 3" to mean "absolutely won't happen".
Not all of these issues were about "social equality", and not referring to qanon stuff exclusively.
Teal and Orange – Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness (2010)
really astonishing. wonder what google saw in him. the oracle lawyer was far more prepared and technically cogent.
On the opposite, startup has everything to lose. No other business lines
Why is it not valid to buy a better cpu to have a better dev environment? What does validity even mean here? I was never told I had to check in with you when making decisions. Before docker I remember spending tons of time setting up dependencies locally on machines when starting a new job, or maintaining puppet scripts to do so. And then since machines change over time, and run a different OS, your dev environment never quite matches prod. A $500 CPU is drastically cheaper than the bugs, headache, and time suck of maintaining a dev env.
We have a build farm. This is just for running the editor.
This is an overreaction.

We already are in the state you describe, except for patents. The doubly linked list is patented [0]. Selling something over the internet was patented [1]. The list could go on and on.

Every major software company has so many patents that they could find an infringement in almost any software company.

Why hasn't this happened? Because, like copyright, someone needs to actually bring suit. That doesn't happen that often. It happens more often with patents in the form of patent trolls actually, and there's no reason to believe api copyright suits would happen more often than patent suits... I think api copyright suits are actually going to be less lucrative and harder to prove on average.

So yeah, it seems like the current state of software patents is already far worse than APIs being copyrightable would be, and yet the sky is not falling, civilization is not collapsing, and business continues like usual.

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7028023B2/en

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5715314A/en
Slower to learn, but with a higher cap, and more likely to endure for four more decades than a given learn-in-two-weeks gui program.
Nevertheless, isn't the latest finding that many people already seem to be partially immune - perhaps because there are some similarities to other Corona viruses that the immune system can latch on to?
Thanks for that feedback, I completely agree. I've updated the linked page to mention this more explicitly.
You can buy it and get your hands on it today.
> What is the difference between an API (interface) and implementation? The algorithm.

Not the algorithm. The algorithm is essentially the recipe. The algorithm is merge sort, or depth first search. It's the contract the API gives you, more or less. "This function does merge sort." But there are unlimited possible implementations of merge sort and each one is copyrightable. And one implementation doesn't infringe the copyright of the other ones, even when they're the same algorithm, but you have to write your own. Copyright doesn't protect function, it protects works of authorship.
I hear a lot of people express this sentiment, and I honestly don't fully understand the frustration.

Why do you have to wait for them to type out the real message? Is there some social/messaging etiquette that I'm breaking by ... read and get back to them when I have time?
That's why Lisp has multiple return values, which are different from returning a tuple. It's great for refactoring. (https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/functions.html#mu...)
> A problem arises when the appetite for 'bad ideas' aren't merely trivial things like whether Rust is better than C++ but rather consist of ideas over which of ones neighbors should be discriminated against, persecuted, imprisoned, or killed.

Sure, but I don't think it's useful to argue about the extremes since a lot of contemporary contention applies toward arguably non-violent ideas. For example, is being in favor of Brexit beyond the pale? How about campaigning for it? How about anti-immigration messaging? How about anti-gun control or anti-abortion? The reality is that the vast majority of the divisive targeted ads on FB are around those hot button issues. Almost nobody sees Holocaust-denial or outright genocide advocacy.

> Submerging people in sealed bubble of misinformation that only reinforces their prejudices--as Facebook does through a combination of advertising, recommendations, and control over user timelines--does lead to radicalization and that radicalization can be weaponized in ways that are fatal to others.

That's not a Facebook problem, that's a human problem. You either let people consume the ideas they want in a society where information flows freely, or you force people to "eat their vegetables" (so to speak), or prevent people from reading/seeing things that we think are "too dangerous".
What you need to know about Zen 3 and AMD's Ryzen 5000 series Processors
Hey, thank you for your reply I'll try to make it more clear
Data shows that Tesla QA might not be good, but many other expensive cars are not great either.

Plus, Tesla has very high consumer satisfaction and low maintenance cost. Is that enough data for you?
Here's the nonpaywalled friendly link so the author benefits when you read it: https://medium.com/better-marketing/an-introduction-to-reddi...
I highly doubt the police could have traced this back to the criminal if he wasn't logged in and didn't use his normal IP, for example, if he had used in private browsing on a VPN it would have taken someone like the NSA to track him down.
Interesting in the limelight of pandemics in regards to the closing paragraph:

> Today, H. sapiens doesn’t have the possibility of quickly grabbing a load of diversity by mating with another group: For perhaps the first time in our history, we’re the only humans on the planet. It’s another reason to miss our extinct cousins, says population geneticist Carina Schlebusch of Uppsala University. “To have such a large densely spread species with … so little genetic diversity … is a dangerous situation,” she says.
Yeah, I remember having to use nonfree repos to enable MP3 playback on my Linux machine back in the day. I could not remember when it stopped being the case, but 2017 seems about right.
I’ve interacted with some of them directly when I worked on a bounty program. Definitely some of the best in the business (and actually pleasant to work with).
> Anyway, the real problem is people who ask “what were you typing?” when you delete your message. That seems so rude to me!

I've never actually had this happen to me, but I nonetheless fear it will 100% of the time I start typing something and then delete it. In any IM application that has a typing indicator (especially Slack at work -- I shudder at the thought of typing out a long message in #general), I've taken to drafting messages that require any non-trivial degree of thought to type in a separate box, e.g. a message to myself, and then copy-pasting it into the actual chat.
Energy from another, older universe is coming out of black holes
That's a completely different matter. The operation of exchanges doesn't have anything to do with the operation of a cryptocurrency. You need exchanges only for trading, not for using a cryptocurrency.
I'm not coinbase, so I can only speculate as to their meaning. While it's possible to define "political" so abstractly that it becomes all-encompassing, it's pretty clear to me that they probably mean to prohibit political debates that are unrelated (or only very tenuously related) to their core mission.

"We should hire a more diverse workforce because diversity improves our collective judgment, thereby furthering our mission" is on its face a fine subject for discussion provided you're evaluating the claim on its merits and not sneaking in overtly political implications like "we have a moral responsibility to hire diverse candidates". One could envision a fruitful, dispassionate discussion about how much return on investment the company could expect from a diversity initiative, how that ROI stacks up against other opportunities, how to measure the ROI and make sure the initiative is meeting expectations, whether or not it runs afoul of anti-discrimination law, what kind of diversity (race, gender, viewpoint, etc) is most likely to yield the highest ROI, etc.

Of course, it's prudent to stay away from these kinds of charged topics altogether because it's very likely that you have employees that will take this as an opportunity to pollute a potentially productive conversation with their overtly political opinions.

That some things are easily abused by bad-faith employees doesn't mean that we should let bad faith employees have free reign.
Hammer? Meet nail.

It's not a surprise that conservative viewpoints are biased against reality. They have been for a long time. I have no issue being partisan online, in work, or out of work, my job is not as important as stopping an American Hitler.
*at present ;-)
not sure where is "you like pytorch" coming from. Grid.ai is not limited to pytorch :)
While that might be true, it's not really relevant to the underlying point, which is the selection and arrangement of non-copyrightable material can result in a copyrightable work. You can replace recipes with any other example if you'd like.

> Even when applying copyright to an "arrangement" of items that are not copyrightable, as in a database, there needs to be creativity expressed, otherwise it will not qualify for copyright.

As the Supreme Court said in Feist: "To be sure, the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice."

This is not a very difficult threshold to meet (and Google has already conceded it has been met.)
It's a running joke in Dr who, where as humanity spreads into the starts there eventually ceases to be any pure humans (and many other alien species) because humans will mate with anything.

I think it's most interesting to think of how fluid what we mean by species really is. We've always known it was fluid, but I think many people never really consider that when thinking about ourselves.
> The pollsters take too much credit when they're right and deflect too much blame when they're wrong.

You are confusing pollsters with "forecasters using data from pollsters". These are not the same people.

Many of the forecasters in 2016 were very bad because of naive assumptions about how polls related to election results, particularly many making the assumption that polling errors were independent between states (also, lots did a really poor job of poll aggregation before those naive models.) The reason is Nate Silver and 538 had made a name for themselves in the preceding couple of cycles, and lots of people who didn't understand the process but saw the outcome decided they could do the same thing, because, hey, how hard could it be to compile a bunch of polls and model outcomes based on them?
Unrules – the other side of regulation – U Penn Law
It is just racism
I'm curious where you perceive academia as not a safe haven. What academics have been excluded for "wrong think?"
Their market share is already rising. They're not going to "take over", there's too much inertia everywhere for that (and there's business and tech considerations beyond raw performance), but the main reason Intel's stock didn't take a hit is that this was expected.
Boeing has 50 layers of outsourcing. Tesla is vertically integrated and they try to control the whole process. Their QA might be bad but they have the highest safety rating in the market and are technologically the most advanced in terms of EV.
Google broke compatibility with Java, so I don't think that the argument that this nullifies the right to reimplementation holds water.

If Android had been implemented in such a way as to allow pre-existing java applications to execute natively this would be a very different situation.
Even if they would pay a full $5.5 million, at 100k per issue, it seems reasonable for the breadth of the findings and potential losses prevented. The warehouse access alone could cause far more damage, while some of the smaller vulnerabilities are clearly not worth that much.

EDIT: see this comment thread for more info on the economics by people who know what they're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719656
How long do you wait for TTFB from HN on average?
Maybe, just maybe, consider for a moment that the BBC can only appear as left of center from a position ludicrously close to the cliff’s edge on the right.
Why use a special term? Just "racism" works very well. The idea that only certain races can "qualify" for racism is Orwellian.
So who gets to decide which issues to get involved in? Does everyone have to get involved in every issue?
PSA: If you're on the market for a new CPU, and have seen in the past that rr (https://rr-project.org/) didn't support Ryzen, you can stop worrying about it: Support for Ryzen has recently landed. It's not in a release yet, but it's on the master branch.
You have a credible source for this allegation?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/antifa-starting-fires-oreg...
I think America puts the bar at a different place than Europe on this topic.
I wonder how much XSS and others are automatizable.

Beating markup escaping for example. A program may be able to infer the transformation used by comparing input and rendition, then confirm when JS execution is achieved.
You’re misunderstanding your cookie analogy. You can’t copyright a single recipe that contains components of other recipes, but if you had written a book titled “My grandmas chocolate chip cookies from scratch”, where the first recipe is for homemade chocolate chips, the second is for how to grind your own flour for dough, and the third is for combining the previous two into a cookie, then yeah you can copyright that particular set of recipes. But someone else can use any one of your recipes independently without worrying about infringement.

Think of it like you put in the effort to curate a collection of recipes that work well together, and that curation is what’s copyrightable.

I don’t know what will happen with the law, and if APIs like this will be deemed a “curation”, but it makes a lot more sense to me from that perspective.

Ex.

Anyone can have a `Math.remainder` function, but the curation of an entire `Math` library might be copyrightable, since the effort was in collecting all of the correct things that work well together, even if they aren’t individually copyrightable.

A mega-recipe containing other recipes would be like making a `Math.AddAndThenMultiply`, which even if someone else had created the Add and Multiply methods, you aren’t stealing their API curation of methods, you’re just combining logic/algorithms (ingredients) from multiple methods (recipes) into a bigger method (mega-recipe).
This was not a concocted plot by the FBI. These guys had a plan, did reconnaissance, acquired supplies. It's crazy how close they actually got before they were arrested, considering how early on the FBI knew about them. Affidavit with more info: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/1...
Does the decentralized approach turn into a cost benefit compared to centralized solutions ?
So much less than the 0.01% of the variation in identical computers due to 100ppm crystal variation. Also less than the 0.0001% variation due to the temperature in the room changing 1 degree.
> copyright should not exist at all

Copyright is not just about software.

Imagine a world in which you write a novel, let's call it Harry Potter, and publish it. And then I see people liking it, so I publish it too, but I can sell it cheaper because I don't have to recoup the costs of having written it.

Or imagine you write and record a song, let's call it Revolution. A shoe company can use that exact recording in an advertisement without paying you.

I respect the radicality of your position, but I hope you understand you are proposing to burn the creative arts to the ground.
I'm curious if the Hush-A-Phone case is any precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_S... . It involved a company that made a device you connected to your telephone who got sued by AT&T and won. The compatibility with a proprietary phone network is vaguely analogous to an API.
Is the court breaking down?
There's not supposed to be "anonymous" donations, that's the entire point of reporting requirements. If Coinbase is hiding political donors, that's gotta be against election law?
My bad. I typed a portion of the title and I had mistakenly switched to Greek characters. Unfortunately can't edit now.
Copyright violation requires copying, and independent derivation is a valid defense.

Patents don't require proof of copying and are always infringed, even with no knowledge.

If you wrote that API, and I wrote that exact same API without having seen yours, you wouldn't be able to sue me for copyright violation.

All I'd have to show in court is that there's a decent probability that I independently created the same API, at which point we'd both have full copyright over our own (identical) APIs, and more likely it would be ruled un-copyrightable due to being too trivial / not creative enough.
The wikipedia entry for channel controller is literally the first response when I type "channel controller" to duckduckgo.
> can you prove in court you received a given email

Actually, you can get DKIM pubkey from DNS, and verify the e-mail. My mail server does that upon reception, and appends an extra header with validation results to the message.

So in my e-mail client I see:

Authentication-Results: ....; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b=sKwsgxpv

on e-mail from gmail users.

So unless Google claims I hacked the gmail or the account of the sender, I can't fake that e-mail message and make it validate.