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> we are not forced to pay their debts, yet, we're somehow entitled to any riches they may have left behind?

Uh. The debts are paid with the riches before any inheritance is passed on. That’s part of the process.

https://www.dummies.com/personal-finance/estate-planning/how...
Usually there is an IP agreement. Also, ever notice the media calls it “Oxford study/vaccine” for good news and “Astrazeneca study/vaccine” when it’s bad news (like a few weeks ago when they had to shutdown to multiple people getting an unknown illness).

I work in an area where we make agreements with university’s. It’s often shared IP or publicity. Alternatively, one can publish, once the other makes profits. Or it could be something in between.

In this case, I bet everyone is doing this pro-Bono from a future profit perspective, because the government is paying for all of it.
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dude... you just dug your own grave with your statement:

"Hagemeister's comment establishes that minimal copying is performed..."

bottom line... they are still downloading and copying the file, regardless of what for or how much which is exactly what the RIAA is claiming. you can cite whatever it is you want, the fact is that youtube-dl is DEAD wrong in what they are doing.
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> Allowing propagation of such fabrications is to be complicit with the bad actors responsible.

Years of "sources says" later disproved. Russia this, Russia that. And it's only now that we should stop propagation of unverified stories?
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> Collusion is a very specific charge.

Yes. And Russiagate was the belief that the Trump org colluded with the Russians. Which was debunked.

Not that citing Wikipedia means anything, but from the main article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...:

> there was insufficient evidence to bring any conspiracy or coordination charges against Trump or his associates.
Last I checked Sweden had 110k cases and 5.5k dead. That's an almost exactly 5% fatality rate. Compare that to neighbouring Denmark with 40k cases and 700 dead gives you a 1.75% fatality rate.

Seems to me that there is good basic evidence right there for Sweden's approach being much more deadly.

We can argue back and forth about the relative value of freedom vs lives or whether Denmark will ultimately have as many dead etc. But right now, it seems that controlling numbers saves lives...

https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+covid+deaths&rlz=1C1G...
Do we know it keeps working after a year or two? Or do you need a yearly shot?
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Thanks.

I guess the thought is that a really unlucky evolutionary accident would be when the other virus capable of replicating and the vaccine meet in a body, and by chance transfer some of those instructions across. I presume that's rare or never seen, but I don't know, and (with a safety-engineering mindset on) I'd automatically consider that a "chance" unless it is ruled out by something.
That was tried (recording the oval office for historical purposes). Then it was immediately weaponised by the political opponents and the recording system promptly removed.
Meanwhile the general populace cares less and less, so we may be back to normal in the spring regardless.
Just ordered. Hope they reach the minimum quantity!
It doesn't help your website if your own server has issues while the CDN has the best experts ensuring its 99.999% uptime. The probability of a failure is still a multiplicative factor of both uptimes, so it's strictly worse. Your user won't care if the CDN serving JS files is up while the website itself is unreachable. The only uptime that is relevant is that of your own server.

Edit: Typo
What are you using for your beacon machine?

Do you have a static IP or a domain that your beacon uses?
Check that you're getting enough uninterrupted sleep. I think it's a hugely underestimated way to gain mental clarity.
800 for the dose, 300 for a list of other things on the bill, and you're required by law to get the injection today. if you can't afford it, that's prison time, where you'll get the vaccinee but also need to work for the bill, probably producing maga-caps or substituting sick/dead medical personnel.

eagle screeches

are we there yet?
You burned Amiga magazines? Heretic!
We talk about the software a lot, but we mustn't overlook the hardware. Talking about, say, the next 10 years, we need to find a way of making Open Hardware truly affordable: I can't afford a Purism device but I could probably afford a PinePhone. However, that would probably not be powerful enough for me nor the average user. The Raspberry Pi is looking tempting again but it incorporates non-free BLOBs. What we need is a Open Philanthropist who'd be willing to recognise the problems and throw money at them. We recognise the problems and have ideas about solutions, but I get the feeling we're missing the tools to get up on the next rung of the ladder...
Well yeah, but you're Walter Bright, aren't you.
Nobody had it long enough ago to answer that. SARS-CoV-1 (1) patients have suffered years afterwards, see e.g. this article from 2010:

https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2010/09/02/sars...
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Also telnet/ssh to vert.synchro.net, it has a HUGE software library for DOS/W31.

If you need to upload/download something with zmodem, use qodem or syncterm.
Tunneling diodes are extremely reliable for signaling, which is why they've been used in early high frequency applications such as UHF TV and satellite communications they exhibit "FTL" tunneling just like any other case of electron tunneling.

The reason we don't often use tunneling diodes today in most devices is that they are expensive to make compared to many other modern diodes, they are still used in more unique applications including very sensitive scientific equipment and space applications.

In general there many types of semiconductors that employ a Quantum Well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_well this means that these SCs do RELIABLY utilize quantum tunneling by either inducing it under very specific conditions, or averting it.

I'm really not sure what you are skeptical about, without use being able to utilize QT reliably we wouldn't be able to make modern semi-conductors they would either not work because we can't make tunneling happen when we need it too, or won't work because we randomly induce it to happen.

It doesn't mean we fully "understand" Quantum Tunneling as in understand exactly why it happens, but we know enough to predict and control it, Quantum Tunneling is to the SC industry what fire was to humanity in general for milenia. We still probably can only roughly model the physics of fire, especially since at the end it's governed by QM effects, but we don't need that in fact we don't even need to understand combustion that well to utilize it.

But if you want single electron tunneling then yes it's possible there have been papers about it for a few decades with the latest ones also including some experimental work https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1204/1204.5539.pdf

Single electron transistors are also being actively worked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-electron_transistor
Who wants to test it, it is implemented in the great library and works perfectly
https://github.com/idiap/fast-transformers
Just taking a very brief look at this and it seems like a great idea! They've basically "unbundled" something like Shopify and are selling the individual parts (embeded Buy Now button, data export, etc.) separately for a monthly fee. It does seem like adding all the separate fees together could cost more than Shopify for some small stores, though.
$50-ish is a very small monthly price if you're making money using those apps.
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Do you use some internally built tool? Or something like Notion? Maybe GitHub Wiki (or BitBucket Wiki)? Confluence? Slack? Readme files inside of project repos? Nothing?
This is not collective punishment. There are already laws where children have to give up inheritance because it was created with illegal activities. There are laws against illegal dumping of dangerous chemicals. It is not too far fetched idea that existing laws can be used to recover some of damages caused by this.
Even if we vaccinate every vulnerable group, no vaccine has 100% success rate. That's why every vaccine we ever had relied on a huge majority of people having it to prevent the virus from reaching those whose vaccine failed.

Not to mention that we already know about long term side effects that have nothing to do with a specific age group, and that there's a chance of re-infection.
No, the letter they sent almost surely doesn't create any liability. It's carefully worded.
For "internal" macros, I think it's important to stop thinking about them as magical abstractions. It's better to instead approach both constructing and using them as an exercise in making invalid states not expressible.

A macro lets you build a domain-specific abstraction that not only is extremely readable (matching the domain), but also ensures you just can't produce things that don't make sense domain-wise. In this way, such abstractions are much better than boilerplate you'd have to do with classical languages (though Haskell-like languages can probably get a similar effect through judicious use of types).
Because a vaccine that provokes an immune response isn't the hard part. It's making sure it doesn't make people sick, and then scaling it to producing and distributing hundreds of millions of doses.

I mean, its better news than the alternative, but I think "Oxford vaccine produces zero immune response" would be a far less likely outcome.
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In Spain is very common to take 2 year sabatical while enjoying the welfare. Most of them go away and sign online through proxies or use family members to do that.
Well good? The federal government has no obligation to bail out the states

That's a political decision and the gop has decided to let the states that need bailouts diy it.

I don't think it's wise, but it sure is within gop policy aims
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Awesome work Marat.
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I'm in the fortunate position to be at a company that is quickly growing from small/startup size to mid/large size. Unfortunately I've seen too many "startup" CTOs that have difficulty making the transition successfully with the result that they either fail their company or are replaced.

Does anyone have suggestions, books, mentoring programs, or advice they could pass along. I love this company and the team we have built and want to give us the best possible chance for success.
Now that all races and events are collapsing under Covid, we could hook in pro cyclist and pay them to cycle. Win win situation
On the other hand, I don't think it's unreasonable that the remaining assets of the Montrose Chemical Company should be used to help pay for the salvage and proper disposal of their DDT wastes.
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Who cares. I'd gladly give this company a couple of billion if it means they can get us back to normal.

Oxford develops the vaccine with public money. We also, god willing, need to manufacture billions of them and transport them around the globe.

For that manufacturing, give me a solid existing multinational with a proven manufacturing record and base please, not some non-profit startup.
Sorry you lost time on this!

We took a long time to get Thinc documented and stable, because there was a long period where I wasn't sure where I wanted the library to go. The deep learning ecosystem in 2018 was pretty hard to predict, and we didn't want to encourage spaCy users to adopt Thinc as their machine learning code if we weren't sure what its status would be. So we actually never really got Thinc v7 stablised and documented.

This actually became a real issue in the previous version of spacy-transformers. It meant we were pushed into a design for spacy-transformers that really didn't work well. The library wasn't flexible enough, because there was no good way to interact with the transformers at the modelling level.

Pretrained transformers are interesting from an API perspective because you really don't want to put the neural network in a box behind a higher-level API. You can use the intermediate representations in many different ways, so long as you can backprop to them. So you want to expose the neural networking.

Thinc v8 was redesigned and finally documented earlier this year: https://thinc.ai . We now have a clear vision for the library: you can write your models in the library of your choice and easily wrap them in Thinc, so spaCy isn't limited to one particular library. For spaCy's own models, we try to implement them in "pure Thinc" rather than a library like PyTorch or Tensorflow, to keep spaCy itself lightweight (and to stop you from having to juggle competing libraries at the same time).

So, it's not quite true that we removed the docs for Thinc v7. We actually didn't have a good solution to do the things you needed to do in the previous spacy-transformers, which prompted a big redesign.
As an alternative, you could put it on a public mesh VPN. I use ZeroTier for that so I don't have to host an explicit beacon.
>This is simply not true

That is exactly true.

>All of the rights that corporations have stem from a public-interest grant by the state.

That's right. But that's missing half the equation. If property rights weren't enshrined to corporations, and corporations could be arbitrarily raided by any two-bit socialist politician, nobody would incorporate. And those property rights come from the property rights of the owners because if the owners own the corporations, and if the corporations property rights are violated, then it follows the owners property rights are violated. If I own a corporation, that owns a local business (maybe a grocery store, or a autobody shop), and a looter steals from the store, I, the owner lose. Remember those videos of store owners in tears when looters and rioters destroyed their stores - some (all?) of those business owners are incorporated, so why are they in tears if it's just corporate property that was affected??????
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So we need something like Fedora organization to make trusted distribution of javascript libraries for the web. As bonus, these libraries can be precompiled to native code ahead of time.
Y'know, I actually made a Pinterest account once because of one particular picture I really wanted. Guess what, even with an account you can't have it. Oh well, guess I'll just let it go.
That option was apparently actively considered by the UK Government's scientific advisory group, but rejected on the basis that it would not actually be possible to prevent transmission from less-vulnerable groups to more-vulnerable groups. Reference: https://archive.is/43ir5
Thanks, I guess people do get mild flu after the flu vaccine so it would make sense for it to be the same.
Unfortunately security and efficiency are at odds here.

We faced a similar dilemma in designing the caching for compiled Wasm modules in the V8 engine. In theory, it would be great to just have one cached copy of the compiled machine code of a wasm module from the wild web. But in addition to the information leak from cold/warm caches, there is the possibility that one site could exploit a bug in the engine to inject vulnerable code (or even potentially malicious miscompiled native code) into one or more other sites. Because of this, wasm module caching is tied to the HTTP cache in Chrome in the same way, so it suffers the double-key problem.
They're very similar. Some people prefer Standard ML's syntax, though I actually prefer OCaml's (most likely just a result of me learning OCaml first).

The module systems have some small differences, but are very similar (I believe OCaml's was inspired by SML's).

Standard ML is also standardized (hence the name), and there are multiple implementations, whereas OCaml is basically defined by its single implementation.

But OCaml does have a larger ecosystem, Opam, more features (first-class modules, polymorphic variants, etc.).
Knowingly buying stolen property is illegal and may result in jail time.

Unknowingly buying stolen property still comes with a risk that if LE ever find it, they can take it away from you without compensating you.

I had my TV stolen and sold to a pawn shop. Detectives found it at local pawn shop and they recovered it for me. These laws exist so that when one is engaged in business, they have to do reasonable due diligence that they are not dealing with stolen or illegal goods.
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Sorry for hijacking this reply, but I happen to have an acquitance (former friend) with some of those symptons. He has almost no interest in people except for his partner and sometimes his family, although I'm not sure if this is self-imposed or he really has interest in these people. He laughs and feels comfortable some times, but he doesn't express love, not even his family, except for his partner (sometimes?). He has suffered previously from a psychologically abusive partner who has made him cry and suffer, but during his relation with her, he has not showed any symptons whatsoever, and insists that although he cried back then, he insists he has never felt happiness or sadness.

During our friendship, I tried to make him feel better and support him, maybe helping him feel something. The truth is that it ends up being just psychologically exhausting, and despite being the only person he trusted, once I decided to insist in having contact with him, he just didn't even try. For long I have thought he was just a jerk who doesn't care about people, but your comment makes me wonder if there was something wrong with him (not trying to be offensive, I just don't know how to make a difference between being a jerk vs. having some kind of dissability/difficulty/handicap).

Seeing that you (may) be knowledgeable about asperger/autism, I wonder what would be your take on this thing.
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Computers aren't things I enjoy. They're things I stomach. I think I'd use OpenBSD if I were confident that after setting it up, it worked reliably, without changes, for the next few decades, with transparent system upgrades.

Part of that is working Bluetooth, power management, webcams, video conferencing, OBS, and similar. Historically, OpenBSD was behind Linux on working reliably.

Debian used to do this before:

1) It fell behind on hardware support, as laptops took over desktops; and

2) Ubuntu/Fedora started putting out massive numbers of half-baked technologies, and everything building atop those.

I switched to Ubuntu, without Gnome, but increasingly, things don't work without Ubuntu's UX, and snap shows a future I don't want to head down anymore.

I'll look into arch linux, as someone suggested.
Can anyone find any data on how often cache hits happened for shared resources from CDNs anyway? How useful was this actually? I'm not confident it was a non-trivial portion of bytes fetched by a typical session. But maybe it was. Has anyone found a way to measure in any way?
Even cvs and svn was easier to use then git. Git was created for a reason, it is good tool for some use cases.

However, its user interface for simple projects is step back against what existed previously. By step back I mean much harder to use.
That is still not a crime.
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We got a user complaint about this thread containing doxxing. I know that word means different things to different people, but generally we try to err on the side of avoiding such things, since it's not in keeping with or necessary for HN's mandate. I've redacted this comment accordingly, to take out personal info.
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>This could be argued as intentional, deceptive, and hence fraudulent.

Fraud requires a false statement, generally. The letter clearly cites 1201 and never cites 512, and is missing essential elements of 512, (e.g. it never claims direct infringement). There's no way 512(f) applies.
I’ve literally seen first-hand GJS lose track of paren matching while lecturing on Sceme/SICP. It happens very rarely sure, but certainly not never. Probably about as often as experts in any other language/profession make silly mistakes. Perhaps you’re a better schemster than him, but I have my doubts :)

I think no matter the language the syntax will disappear over time and your brain will learn to look at the character matrix and directly see logical constructs, moreover this will always apply cross-language to other languages with similar syntax. Fit example, I primarily work in TS, I have decent amount of experience in other C-style, and to me Rust is easily readable with very little experience actually using it.
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Do you have examples of this or is it just a guess?

Anything in its own compilation unit would be isolated. Anything written using C++03 should compile without too much trouble in a more modern compiler.

Also threading is part of the C++ standard library.

I don't know what you mean by sharing dependencies on telemetry and logging. That sounds like adding questionable complexity to libraries that are simple and modular.
Since when did fair use mean "no copying at all?"
Yup. Unless your site is so unreliable that it is likely to fail between serving the homepage and the assets the CDN will only hurt your availability.
This is a bit of a misunderstanding of the C++/C way of doing things. It makes sense in some ways but clearly there are better ways of doing it.

Which is precisely why C++20 has modules support.

Further, C++ does have a central package manager - whatever the system distributes. C/C++ programs constantly link against the operating system and thus have to get those system headers from somewhere. This means a universal package manager (like Conan) requires buy-in from OS vendors or at least someone who can manage those packages with conviction, else the package manager doesn't make a lot of sense to use.

This is contrast to Node, Ruby and Python as they are inherently Cross-Platform in nature and are not coupled tightly to the OS.

This is why C/C++, historically, have not had a strong centralized package manager.

Anymore, I see less and less package management being used anyway. Most C/C++ projects I work with either vendor in dependencies or use git submodules (the latter I prefer very much).

This is because, unlike e.g. the Node community, micro-dependencies are generally not worth the effort to bring in.

The usual exception to this sort of structure are codebases that will be distributed via a package manager - in which case, they generally rely on the package manager supplying correct versions of the dependencies.

These header-only libs work OK usually because they are able to be included with trivial linkage (something else you normally don't need to care about in scripting environments). Linkage is something you have to care about regardless of if you're writing C, C++ or machine code and since these languages give you pretty much free reign on the flexibility of all of these parameters, it's hard to generalize everything into a nice package like scripting languages can.

Usually the functions inside header only libraries will be static inline, and will almost certainly increase compilation time (noticeably so if you use the header in many places).

There is work being done to improve this situation, it's not like we're all just sitting here going "yes, we love the way things are and have no idea how to make things better." That's far from the case. Shit just takes time.