skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the line should be drawn at problems that are formally proved to be unsolvable? Retrying network calls is essentially a real world approximation to the Two Generals Problem [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
"Royalty-like payments do not have the same legal force that royalties; they're enforced through the normal means of resolving contract disputes rather than through the application of copyright law."

DC did use the term royalties in their work-for-hire contract as of 2008:

http://jimshooter.com/2011/09/few-more-thoughts-regarding-ar...

At any rate it's not clear to me what you mean by "normal means of resolving contract disputes rather than through the application of copyright law". Once you have a contract between the parties it's going to be resolved primarily as a contract dispute. It's not going to be resolved the way someone posting something on the pirate bay will be resolved.

I'm not saying what you wrote is incorrect so much as I don't think it's going to make much of a practical difference whether you call it a royalty or not.
May it be worth having another question before survey starts: when was the survey taker last sexually active (to orgasm) to see how/if selection changes?
Feel free to put your own spin on the law (not to mention, the English language) but the courts don't see it that way.
Same thing happened when the analog cell system was shut down nation-wide. Lots of home alarm systems suddenly had no way to contact the monitoring company that people were paying $24.99 a month for.

I've got a similar problem with the navigation system in my Lexus - the last maps for the DVD-based system were published in 2015, and there won't be any more updates. I now know what it's like past the end of the sidewalk.[0]

For a vehicle as old as mine, technological obsolescence isn't really a concern - it will still start & run, the windows will go up & down, and I still have a real metal key. Will there be lawsuits around electronic modules not being available for newer cars? Probably. But I also expect that there will be small businesses that specialize in repairing these modules. There's one that repairs the Mark Levinson amplifiers [1] used in Lexus vehicles. $1500 + labor for a new one from the dealer, vs. $400 for a repaired one from them is pretty attractive.

[0] The underappreciated Shel Silverstein

[1] I believe most of the repairs are just replacing dead output transistors. Easy thru-hole soldering.
I'm an old fogie & will just be setting a huge terminal font size.
I recommend just writing a Docker container instead. That's the ultimately portability and you can run in much more efficient environments (Cloud Run, Fargate, DigitalOcean Apps, Fly.io) and still scale up to large Kubernetes-based clusters if/when you need it.

Docker containers avoid the lock-in of a particular platform or CLI, and they can also be used as cheap CI/CD with multi-stage builds within the container.
So... that's fine, then? Telling people "you get an SD card connector and an m.2, you can't use both at the same time" seems perfectly reasonable to me. Have them overlap, done. Now people who want to use a $5 SD card with the slow speeds that come with that can do so, and people who want high speed but with the higher cost of a reliable m.2 drive instead can do so, too. No one loses.
Ugh I bring this up too often, but I really wish someone made a (sizeable) e-ink monitor. I can’t stand reading on backlit screens, and most e-readers are designed for smaller proprietary format than large PDF’s. I get why it’s impractical to build such a display. I’d try to make one myself if the company making the panels were assholes about who they sell to.
Especially in CDK you can spin up a service in fargate in 5 lines of code with ApplicationLoadBalacedFargateService
If this is remotely true, it's the best indictment of our economic system that I've ever seen.
I probably shouldn't have picked that one in particular, it's just front of mind at the moment.

That one might be better updated than others - but if it is, they don't seem to update the version number making tracking difficult, a lot of the vendors will stop providing updates to old devices. The other problem is that if you have a Mediatek, Broadcom, Ralink, Hisilicon vulnerability (all have their own kernel forks and driver forks) then every device downstream using that kernel or driver is vulnerable, and not all devices will get fixed. Even if the vendor or upstream fixes it, who upgrades their router firmware?
They are both quite different as its an internal DSL vs an external one. Just give them a try.

A major difference at the minute might be package availability. Nix has more packages but some are broken, e.g. Julia. Guix has very clean and reproducible packages, and a slightly better CLI interface.
I don't see anything that indicates his desire to carry a weapon has anything to do with the fact he is an Apple employee. Some people like to carry concealed weapons for protection.
I generally agree. I hate the use of the word hungry though. You probably didn't mean it this way, but to me it implies being taken advantage of as a worker.

Perhaps I'm just disillusioned and bitter.
They are different mostly because of different standards that libraries support - C90 has a baseline list of %-specifiers, but C99 added a bunch more, and then I think POSIX also has some now? Plus extensions.

But I can't think of any implementation that doesn't conform to C90 in that regard. So long as you don't venture into implementation defined / UB category...
Agreed, I bet one of the first things modders will do is figure out how to add a hinge, both for better portability, as well as to help tilt the screen. (assuming it ever ships...)
I reckon part of why it works well in this case is, because they are relatively popular (tens of thousands to millions of views) songs in somewhat niche genre. So maybe more similarity between users? In more mainstream genres, say Hip Hop, Rock, Metal, EDM i feel it is much harder to break out of the loop of sameishness although the genres have much more to offer.

Also in either case, I'm pretty sure, the vast majority of songs out there have sub 10k views and basically never get recommended. Just top of mind a few songs, that based on the list above you might like, but I think I would never have discovered via algorithms, unless I already happend to start quite close.

Roel Funcken - Balaklavskiy prospex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7WVGwb-9x8

Subheim - Foray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ7IHYSrquc

Klez.E - Nachtfahrt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi-8wkccjsw

Altın Gün - Cemalim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_J3-yr9GNI

Ok, the last one is fairly large, but it came to mind :) I do discover quite a bit of new music on YouTube, but only when I deliberately select a starting song and go from there, on the main page there is rarely something interesting. If there is music at all. I'm sure it would get a lot better if I'd listen music primarily via YouTube.
Definitely getting some Powers of Ten vibe to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Unscheduled airbag deployment is a terrifying concept if you're trying to lean in to access a person.

Why do military aircraft have RESCUE --> levers that disarm all the pyros but we can't make that a thing on cars? It wouldn't have to be a big red sign but it could be a standard.
Sure, but they're stock character movie and video game villains. They're in Zorro. They're in Red Dead Redemption. They're in Bioshock. They're in Boardwalk Empire. They're always violent goons, sneaky goons, or violent, sneaky goons.

I think maybe the answer is that their name recognition is mud with employees, but that's a selling point to management. Do you really want to try to form a union when you know your company is employing Pinkertons? After all, you remember how scary those guys were in (insert Western movie).
He says in pretty much literally the opening sentence that it's for DRM: "we want to prevent the piracy of games", and then goes on to justify that their business model involves making a loss on each xbox sold, and wants to ensure that the CPU only runs Microsoft code against the wishes of the Xbox owner. A later direct quote is "the fundamental difference between Windows security and Xbox security is that the owner _is_ the bad guy".

That's not something I want in my general-purpose computing device where I am the owner.
I feel like the headline is misleading. The more straightforward headline would be that the sheriffs of Santa Clara county withheld concealed firearms licenses to multiple applicants unless they were offered bribes.

It sounds like this has been going on for years. Apple's security chief was one of those applicants who paid the bribe to get the permit. But putting "Apple" in the title is more clickbaitey.
I'll add to that list with two of my favorite games ever
- A Short Hike
- Donut County
Another "it worked for me" story; Lisinopril.

I started taking it for mildly high blood pressure and my (almost daily) headache's disappeared. I've since found a couple studies where Lisinopril was tested for headache relief.

https://blog.joeldare.com/migraine-headache-solved-by-lisino...
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You cited a source which proves you were wrong in exactly the way I pointed out. Your entire original comment hinged on a bizarre metaphor you created out of your false premise that in protection rackets, the "threat" is fake or choreographed. It isn't, so your comment isn't an intelligible critique of the comment it was intended to respond to. Yes, that's my point: your critique is wrong. I told you how: it is based on a false premise.

> (i'm citing them, you are not)

You cited Wikipedia, and you haven't cited a single source for any proposition other than the one you were specifically wrong about.

> I'm sorry i'm not basing my arguments on movies i've seen.

Deliberate obtuseness. The obvious implication of the reference to gangster films is that anyone who has even a passing familiarity with protection rackets knows that harm from the racketeer is not the only threatened harm. The third sentence of the Wikipedia entry you mentioned confirms this: "Through the credible threat of violence, the racketeers deter people from swindling, robbing, injuring, sabotaging or otherwise harming their clients." That means that the analogy between the CIA and a protection racket is perfectly tenable—in the parlance of your Wikipedia entry, a "broader protection racket" rather than a "pure extortion racket."

Not sure how to spell it out any clearer than that. I'm not implying you're getting concepts wrong. You got them both wrong.
The one thing iOS does not have call recording.
I want to be able to record some of my calls, which is something I discovered when I got a call from a man threatening me, would be nice to have in court. It would be a really nice feature.
> How do I retrieve certificates on my servers? Do I have to use the Certera API for that?

Yes, and it's very simple & basic. A single CURL to get it like so:
curl https://<your_certera>/api/certificate/<cert_name> \
-H "apiKey:<your_api_key>"

You can pipe that out to a file directly as it's in PEM format by default. More info here: https://docs.certera.io/#certificates-api

The thing that's unique about Certera is that it's not opinionated on your existing setup. It doesn't care whether it's Traefik, apache, nginx or IIS. The "glue" is a standard PEM file format, the way it should be. It's up to you how to tell whatever system cares about the PEM and do the "reload" of the cert.

I'm not sure how Traefik would communicate with it as I'm not familiar with Traefik in general. I'm assuming that you'd like Traefik to simply say: "gimme the cert for xyz domain" and have some endpoint/system take care of the rest, right? Don't hesitate to create an issue in GitHub and we can discuss further. Sometimes I lose track of HN comments due to a lack of notifications.
Seems like that is once a week and not recommended for databases for performance reasons.
How is it misleading when that is exactly what happened? Of course "world's largest company involved in bribery scandal" is more relevant to people than "random town's sheriff department is accepting bribes".
I think it's kind of annoying that 90% of the comments here are about ergonomics. Undoubtedly this is a relevant issue, but also seems like the least interesting aspect of this creative gadget to comment on.
Another nice example of that is the engine used in Ubisoft's Splinter Cell games. Technically it's Unreal Engine 2.5 (and some of the file formats are similar), but every single subsystem was replaced by now that only some of the tooling is still Unreal Engine 2.5 (which is arguably the important part to keep intact for game designers). Even the renderer isn't UE2.5 anymore.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar. It makes discussion dumber and nastier, and we're hoping to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are so many little things that just piss me off to no end when I'm on a non-Jailbroken iPhone.

• Google search results lead to AMP pages. When Jailbroken, I can load a userscript that turns this off.

• Random apps have stupid names on my homescreen. Either the name is in all caps, or it's too long and Apple puts a big ellipses in the middle. I can't rename them unless I'm Jailbroken.

• Stock iOS has two separate low-battery alerts, the first of which occurs when there's still a fifth of my battery left! I'm well aware of the red icon at the top of my screen.

• The stock iOS keyboard has a dictation key I always hit accidentally. I can disable it when I'm Jailbroken.

There are many, many, many more examples, these are just off the top of my head. It's been long enough since I set up my Jailbreak that I don't actually remember most of them, but I use a ton of let's-call-them annoyance fixers, and I don't think I could live without them.
That's the only one I'm aware of, as well, but it's hardly feature-complete compared to OsmAnd mobile apps, and there are no new releases for well over a year.
I realize that you just cited two particular issues as examples for a deeper problem. But still: The command `nix-shell -p firefox` spawns a subshell in which Firefox is in the PATH. (In case Firefox has not been downloaded before, it will by this command.) Others shells are unaffected by this command, and in fact, it is possible to have different versions of Firefox available in other subshells. This feature might be especially useful to web developers interested in gauging compatibility of their sites with different versions of browsers.

To enable KDE, you put this into your configuration.nix:

services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;

Perhaps you are also interested in the following cheatsheet: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Cheatsheet

I've been using NixOS since 2017 and don't ever want to look back. I agree that NixOS is not anywhere close to modern GUI distros, but do like the documentation, and the friendliness and speed of the community.
Either it's a dupe, people don't like seeing negative press about Apple, people found the article misleading, or they don't like the publisher in general
> IMO Mao was more than 30% bad, but he maintained territorial integrity and the conditions for PRC to thrive

And ceded 1m+ square kilometres to USSR.

> The generation he fucked over have nothing to be thankful for, but the generations that came after does, 30% bad is going to shrink with each year as Chinese comprehensive power grows

Unless the country is not steered back into the abyss, which is seemingly is the case. They blew it all.

> China to credibly deter against external forces, situation is still far from good for many, but it's better than what most countries could accomplish, and considering sheer Chinese scale, many Chinese are thankful for the outcome.

Every Chinese citizen I know, hates the party with deep, deep passion, and that includes not so few party members themselves.

> CCP build modern China to credibly deter against external forces

You have to really turn on the TV.

I feel, you are in denial of objective reality under influence of virulent Xiism.
Is it just me or do the new generation of HTML5 based games fail to match the feel and engaging attributes of old Flash games. Maybe it’s just nostalgia blinding me.
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Neat trick: Agents of the state demand quid pro quo for the performance of basic and necessary state functions, then the state prosecutes citizens for complying with these demands. Heads I win, tails you lose.
I worked at a defense contractor. We didn't have security guards that were armed. It was hard to get into the facility, but still.
Wow the sheriff’s office is asking for bribes openly like this? I am really surprised. I wonder how common bribes are at that level of the government.
Not surprising. They can’t keep obviously fake product like this off their site:

1000GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive 1TB Metal Design - Silver USB Flash Drive 1000GB https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0859Z28C2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc...

Despite alerting them, more fake product appears. Obviously 1TB for $29 isn’t a real product.
Boiling frog stuff... We complained about this 20 years ago, all these moves were known back then, yet here we are.

More to come - TPM required to connect to the Internet and access news sources without any ability to store information on our own devices. Followed by rewriting historical articles to properly "sanitize" content.
Don't get me wrong, seeing the layout is great if you don't mind the requirement for a GUI, but the fdisk UI is actually pretty good, too. It also queues and executes a lot of changes to get to your desired state, and it can show all the sizes and offsets that define the partition layout. It's not actually a command line tool, but dialog-driven (you give it commands on-line, get built-in help, etc.).
It would be illegal to intimidate a person with a firearm.
> A grand jury alleges that Thomas Moyer promised to donate 200 iPads worth $70,000 to the Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office in exchange for four concealed firearm licenses for Apple employees.

Shilling much? It was a corporate sanctioned move. Very clearly. Yet you try to make it pass as a single individual that could have been employed anywhere.
The article does not say that CO is unique to battery fires, nor does it present a comparison of combustion byproducts. The authors occupation is relevant because it can help you determine the perspective from which the article is written. A tort lawyer is interested in the culpability for a wrong. And in the case of someone being injured by chemicals, they'd want to establish that the substance was harmful. Certainly, if the byproduct of battery fires was bubblegum and gumdrops, training might not be as important. The point of the sentence you're referring to is to establish that this is not the case, and therefore, the situation merits training.
> Santa Clara County alleges that Mr Sung held back issuing concealed weapons permits to Apple's security team, until Mr Moyer agreed to donate $70,000 worth of iPads to the sheriff's office.

Armed security is common at datacenters, for example.
Seems a bit odd that Apple's Thomas Moyer is getting charged or at least that the headline suggests he instigated the whole thing. Unless Moyer was trying to bypass some process or law to obtain the permits, it sounds like the county police are more at fault for demanding the bribe and Moyer just made the bad call of agreeing to pay it.

The article notes that the county/police had been doing this racket for years so it seems likely Apple/Moyer would rather pay the bribe rather than get mixed PR of being a whistle blower (e.g large news outlet runs a piece on how many CW permits Apple requests).
> emergency crews can spray water on the battery

Here's what happens when you spray water on the battery:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36212/reminder-electric-cars-c...

> every battery cell could have a built in discharge circuit

A better idea is solid state batteries. They can be damaged without catching on fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-cNNYb1Ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOubFHO1I3o

And explosive fuses can be used to disconnect the battery automatically after a crash:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bosch-electric-car-explos...
I think his point is that the world's largest company is not actually involved in bribery. It's just kind of there as window dressing in this case.
> if fail, reset and try again

It's always going to try again, though, even if successful the first time. Perhaps you forgot parentheses?

if (turn_on() || (reset(), turn_on()))
You know, except the part where it is clearly stated in the article:

> Santa Clara County alleges that Mr Sung held back issuing concealed weapons permits to Apple's security team, until Mr Moyer agreed to donate $70,000 worth of iPads to the sheriff's office.
It's unfortunate that constitutional rights are in constant tension with surveillance, isn't it? Technology and people's irrational fears have been pushing that balance in pretty much one direction only.
That’s what I said in my comment.

50 billion is a made up number.

The fact is, this isn’t really theft. It’s a change in wages that has occurred after you switched jobs, only instead of saying “actually we’re going to pay you $X, now that you’ve started,” they sneak in lower wages through other means. That’s not a good thing, but it’s hardball negotiation, not theft.
> principles matter

To whom, though? Everybody is praising Apple for their (admittedly quite excellent) M1 hardware and no one seems to take issue with that either.

You cannot have truly open hardware as long as (software-) patents and IP exist, simple as that. Companies need to protect their investment, since the days of comparatively simple CPUs are over and a lot of "secret sauce" is actually software and licensed IP blocks.

Since patent holders are free to select who their licensee is, they'll always target the ones with the biggest margins (see for example [1]) so mainly consumer products and thus those won't be free (as in speech) anytime soon.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/nokia-see...
> Santa Clara County alleges that Mr Sung held back issuing concealed weapons permits to Apple's security team, until Mr Moyer agreed to donate $70,000 worth of iPads to the sheriff's office.
Please follow the site guidelines when posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
From the article:

> Santa Clara County alleges that Mr Sung held back issuing concealed weapons permits to Apple's security team, until Mr Moyer agreed to donate $70,000 worth of iPads to the sheriff's office.

So they most definitely are.
IIUC, it’s more nuanced than that. The shared library would be specified as a dependency to the packages that rely on it. Pushing a fix to the library would trigger a rebuild of all the downstream packages during the next upgrade. This also means updates to a popular dependency will cause long upgrades.
I'm skeptical that an X230 user is somehow signaling any less than a user of this device.
The only way to be exempt from a waiting period is to become a LEO or by getting certain categories of FFL (federal firearms license, which can come with a lot of stipulations).

At one point there was a court ruling saying that the waiting period was unconstitutional for people who already owned guns or had CCWs, but it was appealed
I’ve got a policy: If something is a general-purpose computer for someone else, but not for me, that is not a device for me. iPhones fall squarely in that category: They’re general-purpose computers for Apple, but not for the ostensible “owners” of these devices.

Of course (as I wrote here three years ago¹), a non-programmable dumb/feature phone without updateability would also be adequate for my personal needs for what I need a phone for.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15358342#15366260