skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's about having paid for an iOS app and thinking that you now have the right to run it on a completely different type of device, and also presumably on many more devices (given how Apple allows installs for any device hooked to a given Apple ID).

You might think that with the "App Store" you were, you know, buying the App. You might think you could run it however you like, or even sell it to someone else if you wanted to (e.g. first sale doctrine.)

But of course the App Store isn't actually a "store" that sells "apps" at all rather but a "limited licensing service" enforced by Apple's DRM. You're getting a limited license to use the App, and if you use it on an Apple device then Apple's DRM will usually impose specific limits on how you can use it.

I like the App Store, but it's poorly named. I guess "App Limited License Store" wasn't catchy enough.
What is the current system is designed to let those who are connected get in first? Could the answer to “why does it suck” simply be corruption?
Also I’ve heard the SEC and the like has enormously reduced fraudulent/swindling over the last century.
Yes, but - playing Devil's advocate here, I'm a solid believer that vaccination is our best chance out of this - the opposite is also true: because the disease is so virulent we are willing to play fast and loose with researching long-term side-effects. And unfortunately, the conspiracy theory circles are already full of bullshit about supposed side-effects of the vaccines (one I've seen a lot is that 'women may become temporarily infertile'), despite every trial not showing any such side-effects.
The more I try to read, the less I know, the more I believe the answer is:

- eat few
- eat varied
- move more
- be with others
- sleep nice

Basically, avoid modern lifestyle advice.
This would be a better idea if the site it promotes didn't have overreaching terms of service. If they get sued for defamation, you, who posted a review, have to pay their costs.[1] Despite the site being run from Zurich, the terms have the line "In any circumstances where the foregoing Arbitration Agreement permits the parties to litigate in court, the parties hereby agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within Netherlands County, California, for such purposes." There is no Netherlands County, California.

[1] https://www.buyforlife.com/terms-of-use
Clearly it's a nice analogy. So there is a need for leadership. There are good leaders and bad (call em leaders or lords) but there is always a hierarchy. Let say there where no hierarchy by rank, there would still be a hierarchy in competence. It may shift as situations shift. Given that. But if someone is a competent leader he will succeed dominating evey hierarchy. That's what leadership leads up to: being a efficient and hopeful a competent leader.
So even if you are in a group of mercenaries you will and want to have a leader who makes a call in critical moments. Even if you vote who the leader might be you will choose the one who makes the best decision (could be yourself) or even persuades you into believing that the decisions he made are good.

On this grounding all the other systems emerge like nepotism, bad leadership, fall guys... and HR
> definitely possible to have two consciousness occupying the same brain

Based on the rest of your comment, I think that's quite a leap. The different parts of the brain are obviously not communicating normally with each other & the body, but I'm not sure that means two consciousnesses.
Oh please. They're removing people who have clearly violated their terms of service, not to mention many tenets of basic humanity.

This is like being worried about government overreach when people guilty of murder are caught and sent to prison.
It is not the whole point of patents. They at least ostensibly exist as a trade to eventually make the invention enter the public domain. Per Wikipedia:

> In accordance with the original definition of the term "patent", patents are intended to facilitate and encourage disclosure of innovations into the public domain for the common good

The idea is that to avoid companies keeping the details of inventions hidden indefinitely using trade secrets, the embargo period is set up as an incentive to disclose the idea. This is an incredibly important part of the entire social contract of patents. Maintaining a complicated legal apparatus (courts, patent offices, etc.) to defend and enforce these legal monopolies is expensive and is paid through public funds. Thus a public good is expected in return. A system that allows the most important inventions to stay locked up forever seems to go against the spirit of this entirely. Perhaps you think that this has its own merit, but it is certainly not the intended purpose of the patent system.
>It was in no way a good life to be a serf. Life was literally nasty, brutish, and short - even putting aside armed conflict and external dangers.

That's the "old wives tale" version.

Life wasn't particularly nasty or brutish, modern scholarship has re-evaluated the Middle Ages, and the "short" part was similar to 19th century levels due to infant mortality (and otherwise similar to 19-century standards), and has little to do with serfdom per se, and all to do with lack of 2-3 things we take for granted (running water, sewage systems, understanding of microbes, etc.).

Heck, even their vacation time was better:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idIN2854000020130829

>Lords would extract what they could

For most of history, there was a certain standard. Lords didn't take "all they could", but closer to 10% or so. If they got too greedy the people could align with another lord, and that would mean trouble. Medieval history has lots of such examples.

>even putting aside armed conflict and external dangers.

Which I already covered:

"If it wasn't for the lack of technology and modern conveniences and frequent wars and dangers from outside, it would be a pretty good lifestyle..."
he sure does sound alt-right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Monster#Politics
No, I said that the value created by bitcoin is not directly related to how much energy is used. Technically the same outcome could be reached with much less wasted energy.
Also, know the difference between honing and sharpening.

The edge of a knife is very fragile, because it is very very thin. As such, when you use the knife's edge, it will eventually "bend over".

A honing edge straightens the edge again. That's not "sharpening", its just pushing a stick against the knife edge to realign everything. It will cut better once you hone it.

https://www.globeequipment.com/learning-center/wp-content/up...

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"Sharpening" is when you remove metal from the edge of the knife.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0001/8425/4516/files/messe...

Honing should be done every time you use the knife. Sharpening should only be done every month (if you use the knife a lot) or once every year (if its a rarely used knife)
Yeh bit arbitration is something that has to be escalated to, and something one employee is not well versed or capable of paying the fees for in relation to the company. I wouldn't say arbitration is the equivalent of my idea which is access to external legal help by default with a fair assessment.

There are definitely metrics by which these parties could be ranked but sure there would be issues with gaming these metrics. For example if there as a legal requirement to accurately report across many companies how many times during an internal issue the person not in the superior position was fired vs the superior despite reporting something like sexual assault or racism or something like this, and the company says 100% of the time we agreed the superior did nothing wrong and 75% of the time the complainant magically failed their performance review and is no longer with the company within 6months of this.

Well that is a pretty bad metric.

There are definitely ways to report metrics anonymously and the results and legally can inquire if they reported the outcome accurately.

Carts is stating to do this with money. They are reporting how much money women and minorities have in equity vs white males, and eventually will break it down by position which means yeh if most women work in HR and I'm a senior engineer yeh probs women will have less equity, but next yr they will expand and show things like all staff level software developers, this is the breakdown of men vs women equity in tech companies....

That's a number I would love to see. And it would say alot.

So there are ways to make this better even if it's not an easy fix. Requiring companies to provide healthcare and 401k plans did not happen overnight Im sure, but noone would take a company seriously without these benefits for long.
Here’s an argument for successful program: “The CARES superdole was a huge success”

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-cares-superdole-was-a-huge-...
The coincidences keep happening to certain variety of people, especially those who do not belong to 'Corporate Left'.
1 always need to spend 30 mins educating everyone on the
"nil interface" on Go. Go lang is fine for small network services that do just one job but it doesn't scale up as an app programming language for large teams. It has far too many edge cases and gotchas. Also, loads and loads of boilerplate - making Java look elegant.
+1. I suspect many of the "I could _never_ listen to music while coding! The horror!" people are those who listen to "radio" or "playlists" they are unfamiliar with. While I almost always listen to a full album, start to finish, that I know well.
The purpose of patents is to give innovators a temporary competitive advantage, by forcing competitors to pay royalties for the patent.

The main problem is "temporary", as patents have a flat duration but fields innovate and turn over at different speeds - compare web software to aeronautics/NASA software. The former could potentially he outdated within months, the latter likely won't be used until it's been tested for decades.

So obviously a 30-year patent is potentially paralyzing in webdev, yet might even be too short in space tech!

The problem is there simply isn't any duration that can satisfy both fields.

Meanwhile, often patents don't benefit anyone because they're 1) more trouble than they're worth to actually enforce, and only serve to reinforce the incumbents who don't need them, and 2) are in some cases deliberately written to be meaningless and uncommunicative, which defeats the purpose of open publishing in the first place.

Every law might have upsides, but that doesn't change the fact that patents are fundamentally flawed.
Growth (when controlled for environment destruction and human rights) leads to helping the most people the fastest: https://press.stripe.com/#stubborn-attachments

You get that from proper incentives. Capitalism is mostly about creating an environment where people can leverage those incentives as easily as possible.

There's a deep irony that the system set up based on incentivizing and rewarding growth (and occasionally greed) has helped raise millions out of poverty while the systems based on altruism have led to the deaths of millions and massive amounts of suffering.
Assume my rhetorical question boils down to “is it possible to find a willing BTC lender with a decent enough size and non loan-shark rates”?

Or even “is there a consensus yield curve for BTC?”
>The main issue is that people who say Trump is lying is mostly Trump's opposition.

It is indeed an issue that not more people are calling Trump what he is: a liar. How do we make telling the truth socially profitable again?
According to the CDC: [1]

Yes. Due to the severe health risks associated with COVID-19 and the fact that reinfection with COVID-19 is possible, you should be vaccinated regardless of whether you already had COVID-19 infection. If you were treated for COVID-19 symptoms with monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma, you should wait 90 days before getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Talk to your doctor if you are unsure what treatments you received or if you have more questions about getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html

The underlying rationale is that vaccines elicit a more consistent immune response [2] and confer immunity with higher efficacy [3] than being infected with the real coronavirus.

[2]: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/people-covid-19-vaccine-doctor...

[3]: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/01/14/jo...
I'm assuming one underestimated facet is the nonviolent culture. Many injuries due to violence in the U.S. go unreported, leading to chronic health problems which can further cause mental health problems.
This "tulpa" thing looks similar to the standard meditation practice, which is imagining a small buddha, not as a statue, but as an alive, though still, being. Given the nature of the topic, it's not a stretch to mention that from the occultism's point of view, such practice creates a "nest" that will eventually attract a "bird" suitable for that nest and most of the time you wouldn't like the nature of that bird.
You mean like in a co-op (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative)?
> Some people don't seem to understand what the whole JS SPA thing is about, and it's quite strange to me.

Most people understand the promises of SPAs, but there are several forces that play against everything you said:

- Some websites don't need a desktop experience yet they go the SPA route.

- SPAs are -in my experience- significantly harder to get right than server-rendered apps. For sites that are a good fit for "the regular old web" we are speaking about at least an order of magnitude here.

- Oftentimes it is companies/products with significant resources that embark on the SPA ordeal. This usually means that they also have several teams demanding product analytics, A/B testing and what not, and hence their sites end up loaded with random shit (gtm, analytics, optimizely, facebook pixel and the kitchen-sink).

For all these reasons, it takes an extraordinary (i.e: significantly better than average) team, from the developers all the way to management, to deliver on the SPA promise.

As a result, most SPAs suck, and hence a lot of people cultivated an aversion to them. It really is that simple.
There weren't very many humans in the world back in the stone age. With a future catastrophe, there will be so many people that there will be a lot of them way out on the tail of the distribution, whatever is selected for.
Yeah. I've always been a big Virgin Galactic skeptic. It seemed like a sort of a stunt from the beginning. "Dangerous joyrides which briefly reach the edge of space" might appeal to some people, but is otherwise a spectacularly useless and ridiculously expensive activity.

It mainly seems to be a sort of playground for (originally) Bert Rutan to inadvertently prove that his ideas about planes and low-tech systems don't really translate to this sort of application. Nice work if you can get it, maybe.

Thank you for attending my TED rant.
This is more a problem of the US american healthcare system than one of the nature of the employer-employee relationship.
I think you can do this with nsenter?
I've read part of it, and really enjoyed it, and I would say: It breaks cooking down into four simple, basic principles (the salt, acid, fat, and heat of the title), then deep dives into each one and explains exactly how those things contribute to the taste of different dishes. This allows you to learn to cook without just following a recipe and knowing that if you apply those principles correctly to whatever food you have in your kitchen, you can make something reasonably tasty.

Of course, learning to cook also involves many other techniques and combining flavors in more complex ways, but if you're starting out and can't boil an egg, it's a great introduction to the basics of what makes food taste good.
Std: Isspace (Cctype) Considered Harmful
In Western Europe, serfdom was the exception. It's more of a Russian notion. Commoners in most of feudal Europe had an explicit "right of departure."
Yes they do.

The Bing API is actually open to anyone with a bank card but DDG has a specific deal to allow them to filter / sort results, to use ads not only from the Microsoft ads platform, and to skip the redirect link that records what the user click on.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis
He also takes apart tools that have failed on him. Recently he had a pair of videos on a couple of cordless impact drivers purchased in bulk that both failed after not much use. So, reviewing failed products.
As I understand it there's a "baseline" compilation, then after n calls it's specialized according to the types/values seen.
> Taken to its logical conclusion the alternative would mean that nobody is entitled to make a decision about anything without taking a referendum on the matter.

I think a much more generous reading would be that taken to it's natural conclusion this would mean that leaders in the workplace would govern more by consent and not by fiat based on their ability to wield economic power within the corporate structure as lever to coerce workers in to faithfully executing their commands no matter how ridiculous or counter-productive.

Corporations are constituted entirely by laws which evolve under democratic processes and those laws have already been used to limit, structure, and shape the power that corporate managers hold. They cannot defraud investors, they cannot imprison or lash their employees and so on. So is it really unimaginable that there might be some kind of democratic legal reform that would place other limits on their powers without requiring death by a million referenda? I don't think so.

In fact, I think there's probably every reason to believe that, if anything, shareholders would be even better served by preventing executives and middle management from building fiefdoms loyal to them personally which are often not really in-line with the goals of the institution.
I'm not even a fan and I can attest you that this is well known pop culture trivia.
It is disingenuous to say those tweets are "simply innocuous" without the context of what was going on and what the President did that very day.

I've posted this before, and while I agree that those are far from his most egregious tweets, given the fact of the insurrection at the Capitol, the ban doesn't seem unjustified at all. Especially since there are now many videos coming out from the insurrection of the rioters believing they are acting in accordance with Trump's wishes.
That's been fixed for... 10-ish years.

You can now mount a pool without the log device and only lose what was in the log, with just a flag to import.
What is the Tensor in deep learning?
While you might be true in that Apple tries to cater to a different band of Devs dedicated to their eco system, let's also not kid ourselves that they have had their experience at heart when making decisions about their platform. Are you telling me that dedicated apple devs have the greatest dev enviroment and experience there is? Or are you merely saying that they have a less shittier experience because they decided to drink the coolaid and get into a one sided relationship with Apple?
Just read. Great chapter. Highly recommend.
I tried a GNUSocial site and got nothing but spammers and hackers uploading photos to my site. I ran out of disk space, and had to shut it down. Moderation of such a site with just one person is a nightmare.
I think they're talking about goitrogens.
Shifting Modes: Creating a Program to Support Sustained Resilience
Maybe make it so that the patent royalties are paid by the consumer as patent tax. Then that tax is distributed among all patents in use by that product.
In “tell me about a time...” questions, the interviewer has some idea of how he would expect his coworker or report to handle such a situation. That idea is culture. The candidate’s response doesn’t have to be “toxic asshole” to be very different, and therefore a culture fit concern.

I have seen candidates rejected for telling stories where they were too cooperative with coworkers they knew to be wrong. Some interviewers in technical rounds will second guess the candidate on correct decisions to see if they stand their ground.
> Economist makes me feel like other countries exist, and there is enough going on outside the US.

I think it helps that the Economist is not headquartered in the US, but in the UK.

(The Financial Times has its headquarters in the UK too.)
As usual with dynamic linking, the use for plugins and dynamic program configurations keeps being forgotten on these kind of lists.

It isn't only about saving space.
Factory diaries: My life as an undercover student worker
Sigh. I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.
Historically New Zealand's government has found that compliance isn't massively improved by empty threats, and police resources aren't available to have an officer at the front door of every shop in the country and enforce such a law, so there isn't one.

What does improve compliance is an actual negative event. The change in public reaction to funeral restrictions in lock down when people attending a funeral got sick (and I think one died?) was noticeable. Reported consequences make the policy much harder to ignore. And if there hasn't been enforcement the way human memory works, if on Tuesday a human decides complying with a rule is good, they are now more likely to remember having complied with it on Monday, and retrospectively they will come to believe "obviously" they always obeyed that policy, it was the sensible thing to do.

That's cheaper and more effective than policing. But it may cost a few lives to provide the example.
Based on this reply I assumed the topic was all about context-switching in a kitchen-environment. What a weird way to strawman
Hehe, had the same reaction to the name, but when I think about the word for 'computer' in Brazilian Portuguese (which is the one I'm fluent in), it makes more sense: 'computador parceiro'. Still weird phrasing, but... less grammatically challenging :P
Also businesses and NGOs fail all the time. Businesses go bankrupt. NGOs continue funneling money into unproven or disproven programs. The world is complicated, and only more so when lots of people are involved.
I think it's an interesting idea.

Although, it does remind me of reading about the rush to judgment that killed Nortel. While not totally related, the inciting incident is something along the lines of something appeared a little weird in a financial statement. To avoid even a perception of impropriety, nortel hired a top outside firm to investigate whether there was anything wrong.

The resulting investigation according to the author led to a chain of events and witch hunt that led to the downfall of Nortel and needless criminal prosecution of executives.

Anyways, probably not so much a comment on the idea itself, but more just a thought on possible outcomes when the process goes wrong, whether internal or external.
I think what people don’t really get is that Facebook, Twitter, etc are basically broadcast mediums. They’re not really individual communication tools, nor are they just public utilities like phone lines or internet services.

Instead in many ways they’ve replaced TV for how many people receive news and information about the world. One or few people are able to broadcast information to millions and even billions.

If we look back to the role of the FCC for example, we see the concept of Broadcast licenses. These licenses have also come with content restrictions notwithstanding the First Amendment which have held up in court. On top of that you’ve also had the FCC established rules that limited national shares of broadcast ownership in order to ensure diversification in media.

All of this has suddenly been sidestepped online, and it seriously needs a rethink ASAP.