skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presume you are referring to TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TC_Heartland_LLC_v._Kraft_Fo...

I’m not a lawyer and don’t really know the implications of this case fully but a cursory reading of that page as a layman seems to support what you are saying (note the “Impact” section of the Wikipedia page).
How do they do it in other countries? Is the US the only country in the world that protects their citizens rights? I'm pretty sure that's not true.

However, I do think the US is the only country that enforces laws by "trial by ambulance chasers". Too many ambulance chasers make good money bullying small companies, either through patent laws, minor violations of laws, etc.
If it doesn't negativity affect the quality of the code & doesn't take a significant amount of time to do, then sure.
I highly recommend the book “The cow went to the swamp”. It is illustrations of Portuguese sayings paired with literal English translations.
If you speak Portuguese, it is precious. If you don’t, it is so bizarre you cannot help but laugh.
I think you're under estimating how hard it is to actually get a proper seal with a piece of tape. The valved n95s I've seen are a bit fuzzy. You can certainly block most airflow, but there's still a small path at the intersection of the tape and mask that can't be properly sealed.

For the layperson, that's fine. For a scientific study, that's a problem.
There might an infinite amount of things to fix, but you have to first come up with one specific improvement to the workflow that is straightforward to implement, that can be clearly measured to improve rate of shipping features. Then convince your manager of that idea, usually by getting him/her to think that they came up with the idea on their own. Then keep on repeating this, and people will be able to accept more and more process improvements that have less and less direct ties to shipping more features, because they've seen the results of all the improvements along the way. And then eventually your manager gets promoted for doing such a great job on improving productivity in their team, and because they like and trust you, you get promoted into their vacated position.
This article discusses how common it is to have accidents/mistakes in these types of research labs, I found it pretty interesting but cannot vouch for it (perhaps it's already been debunked?)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
From inside FAANG, I have seen many projects over engineered to death. I think the problem is lack of experience combined with the selfish need to make the job more interesting.
Personally I just give everything the Trump administration says high scrutiny. Just lie after lie, mistruth after mistruth, so that it's hard to believe anything that someone outside them doesn't back up. Especially on computer security... the absolute level of obvious falsehood and idiotic statements from Trump and his supporters about election security would be farcical if it wasn't so destructive to American democracy and democratic norms.

But I believe that, while legitimate election security researchers have all basically said there is no reason to doubt the election or believe there was any sort of widespread fraud or abuse (and such statements conform to what was said in court, where lawyers can face consequences for stating falsehoods), legitimate computer security researchers outside the Trump Administration have pointed to Russia on the Solarwinds hack, so I give that claim more credence.
Ah, these are more for making standalone simple frontends. Think more landing pages with built in email conversions or some payment integrations and not front end connections to a back end API. I've had to make some backend api connections on the different service and it was a PITA.
What’s worse is when some of these make their way into a company that has barely gotten off the ground. Especially the narcissist.
It's actually really nice to have the good quality error messages that Go encourages when something goes wrong.
Concrete samples from inside and outside the structure showed strikingly different levels of calcium carbonate, which was rapidly being formed inside the domes as huge amounts of carbon dioxide reacted with calcium hydroxide in the concrete. ... Severinghaus said of the calcium carbonate. "It's 10 times more than outside."

From https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/05/science/too-rich-a-soil-s...
float/double data types have a hard requirement of periodic rebalancing to support unbounded repositions. Lexicographical sorting does not require rebalancing ever, though it may be performed as an optional storage/bandwidth optimization. That is a very meaningful distinction in my book.
Oh my, thank you for introducing this into my life lol
A lot of games have storefronts for DLC. I've seen these used as webviews, especially payment forms.
The relatively few times Obama has spoken out have been for respect of the office. T**, by contrast, will blather every day in feeble attempts to deflect, distract and divide.
It's not a political statement if it's factual. Or rather, it's 'always political between states' but the legitimacy of the facts give it credibility.

China's initial dismissal and coverup of the spread of the virus, and their subsequent misinformation and lack of transparency, and finally, their attempts to stop an investigation into COVID origins are really seriously bad things.

To boot - they've made a political appointment to the head of the WHO and have been trying to obtain leverage within that organization of years.

It's actually reasonable that the US demands expulsion of China from the WHO on those grounds, until China plays be the rules. They can't claim 'it's an internal problem' as they always do here. Much like with currency and other things, if they want to be a part of these organizations they have to follow the rules.
It's because most developers don't need multi-primary databases, which have downsides too.
There are a lot of anecdotal stories like these, but the idea that Covid was circulating widely in the US before January just isn't consistent with the evidence on the ground. Trevor Bedford has written about this several times [1], and he would know, the phylogenetic work he and his team have been doing is one of the most sensitive instruments we have in figuring out how this thing spreads.

So this basically boils down to who to trust, your friend's uncle who works at Nintendo, or a highly regarded evolutionary biologist.

[1]: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1249414291297464321
I might be missing something here, but I don't think the usefulness is particularly relevant.
I understand, and I am sighted. I don’t like asking strangers for help, either. But I love to give help, and I would be happy to help if you asked. I don’t know how to reconcile the difference.
Nobody is making claims, but everyone - except for one nation - wants a thorough investigation.
many many people in LA stay for the credits too. naturally.
I don’t know, I live far away from the SV bubble and Facebook has worked well for our local, annual paid event (we advertised exclusively there so attribution was not difficult, in a simple way). 5000 people over 2 days.

Is there another channel that will accept the money of a small business and provide the same results? Even with a compelling event we don’t have the relationships or budget to achieve the same effect through other channels.
Every time Javascript is discussed, the discussion turns negative. Fact of life is that the browser is THE cross platform app, and people have differing opinions on how things should be done.
This was addressed https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

TLDR: They are a business, and lot of FOSS projects get forked or raped by likes of Amazon. I love FOSS, but I understand they want to run a business. Big part of the product is open, but some parts are not deliberately. It might not be for you, and that is cool, pick what you want.
A single lawyer is not getting 110 million dollars. It's going to multiple _firms_, likely with multiple lawyers, paralegals and other staff all involved in the case.

And the rest of the settlement is still 540 million, so 5 times more than what the firms are making. If you divide the remaining 110 million between all the plaintiffs, it's an additional 68 dollars per plaintiff...and that leaves nothing left for the people that actually did the work.

It's the same bad argument that the McDonald's CEO makes 20 million dollars - but he can't pay staff 15$ minimum wage, even though that 20 million split up between the tens of thousands of employees is a one time payment of pocket change.
A tool to go from an annotated schematic of a motherboard to a booting linux kernel, with minimal human intervention.
Kotlin with Maven
Looks like Firefox 3¹, all the way back in 2008! There is a good description of fixes and workarounds on LWN².

¹ http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curvebal...

² https://lwn.net/Articles/328363/
I would put Laravel/PHP against anything else out there right now. Based on my (albeit limited) experiences with Node.js and Java/SpringBoot, I would choose Laravel for the vast majority of applications.
Cheney was Secretary of Defense during the first Iraq war, under the elder Bush: https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-V...

> After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cheney worried about the dangers of nuclear proliferation and effective control of nuclear weapons from the Soviet nuclear arsenal that had come under the control of newly independent republics-Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan-as well as in Russia itself. Cheney warned about the possibility that other nations, such as Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, would acquire nuclear components after the Soviet collapse.

and later in that biography:

> A draft Defense Planning Guidance issued early in 1992 envisioned several scenarios in which the United States might have to fight two large regional wars at one time–for example, against Iraq again, against North Korea, or in Europe against a resurgent, expansionist Russia.

Come Cheney's vice presidency, there was all of a sudden talk about an "axis of evil" - Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.

Anyway, obviously Pompeo hasn't announced, but there is widespread speculation based on concrete actions by him - see e.g. https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-12-09/mi... - so I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say "If Pompeo is running."

And the most direct way it would be comparable to Bush/Iraq is that it would falsely allege that al-Qaeda is linked to the government of a Middle Eastern country and use it as an excuse for regime change in that country.
> Those who experienced COVID-19 symptoms have shown a severe chest X-ray every single time, Bankhead-Kendall told Nielsen, while asymptomatic patients showed severe chest X-rays 70 to 80 percent of the time.

This is a really shocking statement to me. The claim is that 100% of symptomatic and 70-80% of asymptomatic covid patients have severe lung scarring?
What amount is fair? Is it a percentage of the total? In that case what? Is it billable hours? In that case at what value? What value wouldn’t be arbitrary?

And also consider that it’s true that the users could benefit from 50 bucks more but at the same time they didn’t do anything to receive this settlement. If the lawyers didn’t put the work in, they would get zero.

I guess I just don’t understand why that number specifically is unreasonable. Regardless if a user doesn’t like it they should be able to opt out and pursue a better deal on their own.
> There is an overwhelming amount of good advice, practices, tools, and processes that you should use to improve.

I disagree. Advice is contradictory, practices and processes are often orthogonal, and tools quite literally don't exist. I say this as someone that's worked in large companies and saw how lengthy not only process feedback loops were (especially developer ↔ product team), but also engineering feedback loops (testing, deployment, dev environment setup, etc.)

And I also say this as someone that works on side-projects by myself. The tooling simply isn't there. Setting up fast engineering feedback loops (multi-tiered deployment, test, dev, local, prod, etc. environments, heck even hot reloading or debugging) is needlessly difficult, or janky, or simply impossible. This goes for just about any language/framework out there: from Java, to Javascript, to Go.

It's not surprising that FAANG often designs their own internal systems that handle this sort of thing (from DevOps, to automated testing, to A/B testing, to deployment). I'm a believer that this is also a space that's ripe for disruption. I want environments to just work. I want code to just compile. I want containers to just run. Without me having to start digging through documentation, looking at thirteen Stack Overflow threads, and cobbling a solution that will inevitably break 3 months from now.
> What's the lowest churn web stack?

cgi-bin/ obviously. But sometimes you can get away with just public_html.
She got cancelled by the Left
> 200 line class which has no actual behaviour beyond boilerplate

A skilled Java developer might make a huge POJO have every variable private and then implement getters and setters to control or monitor access to every member.

But then some noob straight outta college will look at that code, not understand why it's being done so 'stupidly', and just delete all the accessors and make every variable public, so you don't even need any getters/setters. Said noob will consider himself a superior programmer until he looks back on it 10 years later, with enough wisdom to see clearly.
Sorry, I misstated my point. JSX is itself a data structure, not interpolated strings and values. That makes it closer to hyperscript. But it doesn’t necessarily return anything or have a runtime value at all.

The problems you cite are exactly what I meant to say are its strengths. Because it’s entirely undefined syntax that only corresponds to data, it can be used as a general purpose macro for anything from React.createElement to defining a web component to defining an output for a CLI to defining a test or an API endpoint or anything at all. It’s a general purpose DSL, and the fact that it looks like HTML/XML is just convenient for its most common usage.
It's about 10% larger than an Imperial assload.
What in your opinion is a better way of communicating with the database other than SQL?
Many Americans say they have more freedom than Australians, because (among other reasons) there are a lot more hoops to jump through in order to legally buy a gun in Australia than in the US (and the range of weapons you are legally allowed to buy having jumped through those steps are narrower, and the regulations around storage/carry/etc are more restrictive.)

On the other hand, in the US the government (federally and in 28 states) has the right to kill you if it can get 12 jurors to say you've done something so bad you deserve to die. So, it seems Australians may not have the same right to own guns, but they have a greater right to life. Why count one right and ignore the other?
The title of this post is utterly misleading. It should be corrected to reflect what the article actually says, which is that there is an elevated biomarker. A biomarker is not the same thing as "damage". A direct quote from the article:

> “We do not yet know the clinical implications of this elevated biomarker in children with COVID-19 and no symptoms or minimal symptoms,” said co-senior author David T. Teachey, MD

Moreover, the title of the release is clear:

> CHOP Researchers Find Elevated Biomarker Related to Blood Vessel Damage

Edit: on reading the paper, they're looking at a biomarker that is part of the complement system (C5b9), which is an ancient part of the human immune system, associated with many different illnesses. One of the reasons it activates is infection with viruses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_system

Claiming that this is evidence of blood vessel damage is a wild leap to an unsupported conclusion. It's a bit like saying that elevated a1c levels (i.e. a routine pre-diabetes marker) are evidence of organ damage.

Paper is here: https://ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/article/4/23/6051/...
Parler is just an alternative to twitter that doesn't ban anyone who says things that don't match Jack's orthodoxy.

Most of the content is nothing different than what people post on twitter. Perhaps there was more conspiracy content on it, but mostly if you followed mainstream people, you got the same feed on parler as you did on twitter.
Also to add to my previous post, the costs should be approved by a judge and they should be pretty detailed in their billing. So they are pretty much the opposite definition of “arbitrary”.
This article is bullshit and real virologists are angry it's getting so much attention: https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/13462321954305105...

You may or may not have noticed, but there are some real problems we should be thinking about, including the very real probability that the B.1.1.7 variant is going to be much harder to suppress, and how to get our vaccination program on track. Instead we end up talking about these distractions that have much more speculation than evidence behind them.
I'm still miffed about Andrew's response to DOS vulnerabilities in the standard library. I know that Zig isn't at a v1 yet (or wasn't at the time, at least) but that's no excuse to shut down conversation about security.

I also don't like that the discord is run like a cult. If you say anything bad about Zig, you're berated until you ultimately have to leave. It's the Rust community all over again.
Sorry, this what the word means in the mainstream. When you say 'punk' people think of blink-182 rather than the clash, there's nothing you can do about that either. Maybe someone should have thought up a name slightly less stupid than brostep
Not true. Facebook Chat was written in Erlang and re-written in C++. This seems to confuse a lot of people. And in fact, Facebook is working on a statically typed version of Erlang.

https://elixirforum.com/t/facebook-is-writing-a-new-statical...
Nobody has reeeally figured out how to monetize podcasts (eg, serve dynamic/targeted ads, track listeners, pay creators). It’s still more or less a cottage industry unless you’re in the top 5 or 10.
Can you share any keywords I can research for your technique? I've looked into string-based tree sorting before, but the only answers I can come up with involve recursive queries, or encoding the entire tree path into each item, which means updating many records if an item with many descendants gets repositioned.
Just getting into FreeBSD and reading through the Absolute FreeBSD book right now. Remembered that Michael states "The main use for swap on modern systems is to have a place to store
a memory dump should the system panic and crash."

I think this is reason enough to enable swap even if you do not plan on using swap for system memory. It's always nice to have a memory dump if the system crashes so you can check what the issue was and correct it. If you wouldn't want to fix those kinds of issues why would you be running FreeBSD anyway?
> Rust is a relatively new language

It is approximately the same age as Go and Node. Unless there is something fundamental to Rust that prevents the creation of what the parent describes as a convenient web library, then not putting in enough effort yet to this point is the only reasonable explanation. And a good explanation at that, as it is understandable why convenient web libraries has not been Rust's focus. There are plenty of good tools for that job already. The Rust project seems to be more concerned about creating good tools in areas where good tools are currently lacking.

If downvoting was supposed to send some kind of message, I'm not sure that would explain it. Of course, all downvoting tells is that someone accidentally hit a button when they were trying to scroll through the page, so this is all moot anyway.
> I often help engineering organizations that are in the midst of a transformation. This is typically both a technology transformation and a cultural transformation. For example, these organizations might be attempting to break a core monolithic system into microservices, so that they can have independent teams and adopt a DevOps approach.

It's amazing this fad of microservices still hasn't subsided yet. It is the bane of every company that isn't a FAANG but has management who wants to pretend they might someday have FAANG-level scaling/development problems.
> The question though is whether some other developer could, given the idea of "1 click buy", create this "invention".

I totally disagree with that. There's even apocryphal story that when 1-click purchase was implemented, developer actually couldn't resist of adding "are you sure" message box, because just click and buy is so against typical patterns.

I can give another example - socket wrench. Ratcheting wrench was patented on 1863. It took 110 years to invent quick change socket for it, although if you look at it you will say - well, everybody could create that invention.
Just don't count of The Greens putting any such pressure on them - you might as well rename them The Australian Woke as they seem more intent on just being politically correct on everything than actually focusing on environmental issues.
I manage a large sized Postgres farm with 100s of instances, and there has been one case where we need multi-master, and I went with Galera cluster for MariaDB. You can shard using the citus extension for Postgres.
so what, the TOS don't mean anything unless you make an effort to enforce them
Whatsapp has been banned in China for a few years now unless roaming on a foreign sim card or connected to a vpn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_...
I can't really see why Facebook would care; even if they drive off 50% of WhatsApp's userbase, that's 50% they get to keep, analyze, and monetize. If they made WhatsApp a separate entity, they lose 100% of its users. Half of something is better than all of nothing.

The acquisition cost of WhatsApp is sunk at this point—the only thing left is to wring as much money out of it as possible.
Doesn't swap adversely impact the longevity of one's solid state drive?
> By this principle, only a company that produces nothing could ever hope to sue the technology behemoths for patent breaching.

True, there's a fair amount of hypocrisy. Patent trolls (NPEs) suck for everybody, but they especially suck for large corporations as large patent portfolios and cross-licensing agreements (actual and potential) mean they usually don't have to worry about an endless train of trivial patents posing an existential threat to every line of product development. The rise of patent trolls has meant that the pain of software patents is distributed more equitably. And, of course, theoretically this makes it easier for individuals and small companies to monetize patents.

But patent trolls also pose a unique problem for smaller players because the ability of big companies to threaten small players is limited by laws and regulations that restrain anti-competitive behavior. Patent trolls almost by definition aren't subject to such restraints. Thus, while most large corporations lobby against patent trolls, it's not uncommon for them to sell to NPEs patents that they couldn't easily prosecute themselves. Patent trolls make it easier for everybody to monetize patents, but in practice it's the small players that arguably get the short end of the stick.
Now that has some potential to cause pain to my wallet. Gonna have to force myself to forget about it now...
I love how people get their panties in the bunch over FOSS, yet they are completely fine with tomfoolery like their browser hijacking links and inserting their affiliate codes into them.

I am talking about Brave. Skip it.
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...
New York Drivers License
pedantry -- but the word is "prescribed", "proscribed" means prohibited.