skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trademark infringement is a big one, and yes, it can be applied even if the trademark isn't registered.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1125#a

1125(a)(1) is pretty unambiguous in this context. If Grubhub is using a restaurant's name to "deceive as to ... the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods", that's cause for civil action.

California also has a new law explicitly addressing this issue:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

... and yes, there's an aptly-named website called https://www.grubhublawsuit.com/ describing a class-action lawsuit on this specific topic.

And no, that website isn't an infringement of Grubhub's mark if it's not likely to be confused with Grubhub's business. (It'd be a different story if Grubhub were a law firm in the business of filing class action lawsuits.)
Is it because Linux is optimized more for server purposes rather than desktop ones (For example, when it comes to process scheduling)? I’m curious.
It's tautologically true that for any X, if you don't try to do X, you won't succeed. But, you also have to weigh whatever good may come of success against the probability and potential consequences of failure. In cases like these, you're by definition dealing with someone who is a little off mentally, whether that's just a temporary condition (e.g. having a bad day), or serious mental illness. Such people can tend to be unpredictable as a result, which is dangerous in its own way.

So, yes, I agree with you somewhat, but I think the balance of consequences tends to favor not acting in cases like this rather than attempting to do anything.
Shameless plug: I had a similar impression when looking at nMigen, but wasn't super happy with Verilog either, so I wrote a new HDL called Wyre [0]. No metaprogramming, but a Verilog-like language with a focus on ergonomics instead. I'm currently making a basic Minecraft clone for the Lattice iCE40 with it.

[0] https://github.com/nickmqb/wyre
Then you'll be happy with a half hash rate card.
>as natural gas turbines are the only currently existing scalable solution which could potentially handle variable production of Solar and Wind.

Nuclear, pump back hydro and other storage solutions.

People like to explain how massively expensive and vast the storage solution would need to be, I get it, trillions of dollars. Sorta like how hard it is to produce all the oil and natural gas we produce with amazing large scale engineering projects like fracking and deep sea oil wells, supertankers to transport it, etc etc.
Facebook did the right thing here, and the Australian media meltdown about it only seems to prove that. For Facebook (according to their press release) news stroies account for about 4% of the content on their site. They cut all of this out for Australian users and stopped Australian media from sharing their links to non-Australians, too.

In the day since, the traffic to news orgs in Australia has dropped significantly. Early data shows that referrals dropped more than 90% in the 24 hours after the shift in policy came in. [1] The same source reports that overall traffic to the news sites in Australia dropped between 15% (local traffic) and 20% (international traffic) compared to normal.

If Facebook was really stealing value from the news orgs, then the fact that they have 'stopped stealing' should have been met with relief. Instead, there are articles all over the media about the hit that Facebook is taking to its reputation, the fall of Mark Zuckerberg [2], and how the Australian government is going to fight back.

I’m not convinced there is a lot that the government can do, however. The choice for Facebook was pay for the links to media that you allow on your platform, or don’t allow links on your platform.

Ben Thompson said it well in his piece on Australia, Facebook, and Google this week:

"The company was quite literally going to have to pay, say, 'The Australian' for 'The Australian' posting 'The Australian' links on Facebook!"

That they eventually chose what the government assumed was the impossible choice shouldn’t have surprised anyone - they had warned they might for months.

Additionally, the media response in the article linked by OP and the talking points from the government ministers on the recklessness of taking critical resources offline during a pandemic, bushfire season, and crisis periods rings holllow when you refer back to the text of the bill. See this Twitter thread with extracts - if it was information about current affairs of local, regional, or national significance, it counted as ‘core news content' according to the law. [3]

1: https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/in-australia-facebooks-ban...

2: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/the-rise-an...

3: https://twitter.com/NewtonMark/status/1362173580776148996
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We are just moving complexity from one place to another. And sometimes few things get lost in this transformation.
This mental health problem is called defense contracting.
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I think that's missing why so many people use and like facebook. Personally I can't stand it, but I know how to track down and use forums, discord servers, Reddit groups, etc for topics I enjoy.

However for a vast swathe of non-tech savvy ordinary people Facebook provides a simple, complete, highly functional way to keep in touch with family and friends and socialise online. For the vast majority of these people using special purpose tools, apps and forums is way too much.

I don't like it or the company, but it's massively popular for very good reasons and it's no point pretending those reasons don't exist.
Why do you think that less than half the panels will receive sunlight? Also, panels are very cheap today, so their placement doesn’t mean to be optimal. I believe the cost per kWh will be cheaper with panels mounted vertically off the ground than building a roof to place them on.
No, I can’t speak on their behalf on Hacker News, so it is important to me to stay disconnected from my employer.
Progress over perfection is what I keep telling myself all day. My brain automatically goes on to investigating something else when I’m faced with my projects. “Oh wait how do we get our terminal to look that cool?”.

I’m working on my first project involving a DB and a CRUD Java program that will talk to a website, potentially. I am too concerned about “am I doing this the right way”?
Things like how I’m setting up my db table, or “is one is enough or I should use more”, if people will look into it and say “wow this guy is dumb” or whatever.

They all prevent me from just pushing forward and improving later. I’m too scared of someone telling me to fix shit even though I actually enjoy learning so much I’d probably like that.

I wish I could just go in my brain and turn that off, I’d be living in the future.
I mean he could just be a shitty person who’s bad at their job? I think it’s likely there’s something wrong, sure, but sometimes I worry about this constant rush to associate bad behaviour with mental illness, when none of us are psychologists and we’re certainly not that persons psychologist.

Not picking on you specifically, just musing, btw
I see what we're saying, and you're right that it is a huge negative impact.

Perhaps, then, it is worth re-evaluating how much we allow our lives to be controlled by threats and mass media messages.
That’s because those things are only simple when they’re working.

Each of them introduces a new, rare failure mode; because there are now many rare failure modes, you have frequent-yet-inexplicable errors.

Dead letter queues back up and run out of space; network splits still happen;
Exactly! That's how I've built until now, a mix of databases. But it's also harder to manage. Database vendors notice this and that results in databases that start offering alternative ways of modeling.
There is now 3rd party library support for ada :

https://alire.ada.dev/
Interestingly I tried ParaSail just a few days ago.
Downloaded the src,
Followed instructions to make and the second attempt worked. (I got an error message about Gtk package linking, there is an option all-no-gtk or so for make and then it worked). This even on my Pinebook Pro with ARM processor on Armbian.

So if someone wants to try ParaSail, an interesting approach to have implicit (and explicit) parallelism in a programming language which also tries to be small (as in amount of language definitions and special cases) and readable language I would suggest to try.

Brand new discussion room here: https://gitter.im/parasail-lang/community
(Gitter / Matrix )
WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
In a similar way, hunger is the best spice.
Sounds like merit is is high, since people are happy to pay double what the gamers pay.
OK but Facebook users in Australia can still use Facebook for this.
It's the main facebook app, blue is a nickname for it in SV circles. It's to differentiate it from their other apps insta, etc
Having too long of a vacation (eg.: more than 5 days on the beach) makes has this effect on me.

It is not about having or not having fun, but being removed from the usual “i could work but also choose not to” environment.

On the beach I cannot work even if I wanted to, and it kind of make me want to work.
It doesn't have to be a humble brag. Some language ecosystems tend to have a lot of DSLs in them. I consider myself intermediate in Haskell because I don't grok Lens.

I also consider myself intermediate, because I often can't readily grok what are the compiler devs talking about when they discuss e.g. linear types.

I consider myself a Python expert since I can follow PEPs and DSLs with ease.

That doesn't mean that Python is a better language. It does not make the same value proposition.
Thanks, I'll have a look at that
This is an excellent approach that I wish was more well known/common. We use this first before going to a complete service, which becomes easier anyway once you have a few libraries that had been in use and tested by then. Works great for our clojure code and other languages.
Effectiveness of Voter Security Standard in Doubt – Or Is It?
We use zoom, and record important meetings.

All meetings must have an agenda and meetings without one can be safely declined. This helps keep meetings focused, and sometimes allows for async comms that can remove the need for the meeting.

Related, if pre-read material is warranted, provide it. Meetings are expensive. Any async work that can happen before the meeting should be front loaded to make the best use of the meeting time.

Appoint or get a volunteer for a secretary for the meeting. This should not be the presenter/facilitator; they are busy. This secretary/note-taker is responsible for emailing out the summary and important meeting details to the group and corrections can be made in replies. Ensure that note taking is spread out and no one person is regularly assigned the secretary role.

Meetings should end with assigned action items, and these are captured initially in the notes. Follow up on those items will usually be owned by a manager or team lead.

For 1:1s, have the reportee do the heavy lifting. They should have an agenda, and they should be taking their own notes.
> HackerParliament

The right honourable website is rather slapdash with its scripts, without which it cannot render well upon Her Majesty the Chrome.

Hear hear!
> Uber doesn't seem like the kind of firm where drivers might have a teambuilding excursion

Uber seems like the kind of firm that would actively discourage drivers from speaking to each other.
This is a legitimate point, and there is no 100% answer. I have a couple of points to consider though.

1. Most offices do not require any kind of formal qualification. Where requirements to be met the pool of candidates must be restricted obviously.

2. A benevolent clueless is probably less harmful than a dedicated competent working for their own self interest (imo there is very strong selection bias for these types of people).

3. If we are worried about certain people wielding too much power maybe no one should have it and positions with too much power should be diluted. At least I would not put that much faith in our current selection processes to act as gatekeepers.

4. I'm no American but my impression is jury duty is a real life example where mostly random people are put in charge of life and death matters at least on TV.

5. Sortition has some very nice properties for election compared to voting, such as fraud resistance. Majority voting inherently turns into a two horse race, does not favor diversity of thought and completely disregards the minority opinion culminating in what we have now, recycling the elites.

All in all weighing the pros and cons I'm in favor of sortition but probably because I'm part of the plebs.

As for examples: would someone who transition into politics qualify like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Ronald Reagan?
I'm no fan of Facebook here as both them and Google have some questionable practices here. But I do find the law questionable. As I have seen it described it focuses solely on two tech companies without remediating the issues that allow anyone to operate in such a way.
My understanding is that Murdoch essentially has monopoly control on the Australian media market and uses that to influence the political leanings of the country. The situation feels like that control is being exploited to protect his control and bottom line.
I believe you can be fairly experienced and realize there are many parts of the language and its ecosystem that you don't completely understand. For instance in Scala, I've never written any macro or used something like Shapeless in depth.

Spring is a good example too. I used it quite a bit in my junior years and felt like I would never come to master a framework that is so broad (and that felt over-engineered).

This doesn't mean you cannot be productive using a subset of the language. There's a balance in what you should allow in a codebase being maintained by a team of varied skillset. Maybe Haskell is on the extreme end here, but the other way (like Python, JS, Go) is even worse in my opinion.
> I have never once seen a browser make a misbehaving site wait

Isn't that what Firefox's "a tab may be slowing down your computer" (or equivalent) is doing? However it does not seem to trigger reliably. Good thing for me i disable JavaScript most times!

> I hit a wall of slowness, forcing me to press the power button and lose all my other work

So that's two parallel problems. First is browser is eating too much RAM. Second is OS starts writing to swap instead of triggering OOM killer, rendering the whole system unusable rather quickly. I personally systematically disable swap on laptops/desktops (but keep it on server).

Ideally, client-side scripting in the browser wouldn't be a thing at all (we'd have established, reproducible, secure software distribution mechanisms like guix's introduction channels). In a better world, a browser would for every page disable Javascript/WASM by default, but have a convenient menu (alla Noscript) to choose between different security/performance profiles: webapp for unlimited resources/permissions, simple for basic JS for minor interactions (like LibreJS does), etc..

In our world, the websites we consume decide what resources they're gonna eat, and how much network resources they're gonna load, leading to unexpected CPU/RAM/network usage (inducing €€€€ bills for cell phone data).
IANAL, but isn't this exactly why class action lawsuits exist?
Not so much a new driver, but here is an example of drivers being patched for mining. https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch
Predictive scheduling is an obligation of the employer, not the employee.
> Spring is a good example too. I used it quite a bit in my junior years and felt like I would never come to master a framework that is so broad (and that felt over-engineered).

I still feel this way. I work on all kinds of weird / cool technologies on the side and I can’t imagine ever coming to call myself in expert on anything because I only use a subset to solve a problem.
Yeah, I have a seriously hard time believing someone responsible for a multibillion dollar defence project writes that shit.
The law will apply to platforms at the discretion of the Treasurer. If he/she decides it will apply to Twitter, it will; if not, it won't.
Ask HN: What websites do you visit every day?
I've only recently discovered HN and absolutely love the community. I stumbled across it from a comment over on Ars Technica and it got me thinking: what other sites may I be missing out on?

People on here and Ars resonate with me, so I figure ask and see if there are others that might interest to me or other members of the community.

I'll start. I religiously check these sites, in this order, maybe 4-5 times a day:

1. Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)

2. news.com.au

3. Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

4. Hacker News (here)

5. Politico (politico.com)

6. Fox News (foxnews.com)
I hope they have strong clauses about the usage of their models in porn. I created the 3D Avatar Store, now closed, back in 2010 with ML-based auto-generation of full body 3D characters. I am also good friends with the author of Poser. Both of us have had porn producers as major users of the technology. I was unable to acquire the financing I needed to take my working system to a wider audience due to potential investors continually desiring to go into porn.
I didn't elaborate on this. But this is what I meant when I pointed out my possible privilege. I don't want to condemn people who use it; and it might indeed be a very good communication tool for many people. I know how WhatsApp has changed my elder relatives' way of communicating and I can't imagine that anything else but Facebook's power to create size effects did this...

But I'm very sure that it doesn't need Facebook to do this right. It could be anything else.
You can, actually, make a circumstance illegal. The vast majority of regulation explicitly make circumstances illegal.

"That ladder just happened to be placed there". "The forklift happened to be parked that way". "The room happened to have too many people in it". "The fire extinguisher happened to be expired and failed to fire" -- all illegal circumstances (in various parts of the US, based on Federal/State/Local regulations)

"They needed to sue, but couldn't get a lawyer" is absolutely a circumstance we could make illegal. Making a circumstance illegal doesn't mean it will never happen, of course, but it does mean there can be immediate repercussions and fixes for it if/when it does.
Covid on Campus: The Pandemic's Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights
I never said functional means you necessarily have to use a function call, and I also understand list comprehensions are semantically functional, but sometimes you do need to use a function call.
Set Up Unity XR Interaction Toolkit for VR Development: Important Points to Note
It's a very, very small amount because every loan will end up in someone else's account, and then be available to create new money at that ratio again, and again, and again....
Wait are you seriously saying that you can’t leave the country?!?
>I feel for the people who are impacted by this but they voted for this time and time again.

Not sure that everyone impacted 'voted for this', or that even the majority had an opportunity to vote on this issue specifically.
Scientists establish freaky two-way communications with lucid dreamers
Here's the thing - FaceBook is not the Internet, but unfortunately a lot of people seem to think it is and don't bother to venture out of it's closed garden. It's the early days of Compuserve and AOL all over again. This article would appear to have been written by someone who clearly falls into that camp.

Honestly, if FaceBook went offline tomorrow, would the world stop, or would millions of people suddenly find themselves with hours of extra time to be productive?

This is a good chance for the country to ween itself off of FaceBook and venture back out into the world.

Hopefully FaceBook holds its ground. It doesn't need the news and we really don't need it for the news, and certainly not for accessing Gov services. Maybe everyone can go back to posting picture of their pets and holidays, but I guess there's no money in that for FaceBook.

Either way I'm disgusted with our nanny-state Government involving itself in what should be a contractual dispute. How about making Google and FaceBook pay appropriate taxes on revenue earned from Australian citizens instead of this bs?
As per other advice, mental illness, best case is to ignore, the world is to big to help everyone online personally.

> JS Stochastic templating utilizing comparison expressions to write to data registers

This has zero meaning? I can't even guess what it might be?

> I lost over $15k in prototyping alone from bullshit rooting to the charge arbitrators.

"charge arbitrators" is not a thing. It's normally verb, noun. Not adjective, noun.

I'd almost go a nasty GPT-2/GPT-3. There's complexity but no links, this is 3 unrelated things - "Multiple Sigover attack vectors utilizing favicon XML injection"
I doubt this is real. The dude is attaching screenshots from his iPhone...
Remember StumbleUpon? It's back baby...well sort of
> how many people contact individuals who are behind Open Source projects just to say "Thank you."

Open-source developers occasionally express dislike of "thank you" messages. They may have written that software mainly to scratch their own itch, and dealing with messages that don't say anything but thanks takes precious time out of their day. Donating money, however, is usually more welcome.
So like many of you I miss StumbleUpon and Mix (the site that replaced it) is just lame. Something popped up on Reddit the other day and so I thought I'd share here too. It's pretty cool and kinda the next best thing I've found so far
Two things that were difficult for me to get used to in UE4.

1) Lots of nested menus. A class has multiple tabs, sometime with nested levels of information about them and it was easy to get lost in regard to where you actually were.

2) It felt hard to "find the code" that actually made stuff happen.

But neither bothers me now. Just bite the bullet and watch a basic make-a-game tutorial and you'll get the gist.
Just to be clear - because it took me a minute to grasp this myself - cost of living is your concern, but not an employer’s. The question they are asking is not “can Johnny pay the mortgage” but “Johnny wants X - can we fill this role for 2/3 X? Can we offshore this role for the savings?”
No its not - why should some one doing a 9 month cover for maternity leave be treated as an employee.

When "self employed" lawyers can work on the same case for years.

Note that ir35 is not uniformly applied - unfortunately its bad employers like Uber et all that fuck it up for professionals like us.
Real human eyes dont move completely in sync and tend to search, focus, squint and dart. What makes these uncanny is that their eyes move in sync
> Usually it's a win win, unless you value keeping control (which can be quite valuable)

My experience is that it's usually overvalued. An external, focused company will usually do a better job than an internal project. It's emotionally hard to give up control, but successful companies tend to focus on a few things, do them really well (areas of competitive advantage), and outsource everything else.

A best-of-breed external solution almost always beats an in-house solution.

I'd just never do something like this with Oracle. Their business model seems to consist of locking companies in, and then milking them.