skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, and it's accountable to voters, it isn't some opaque black box (or rather, it shouldn't be). The whole point is that, in a democracy, the press (NYT et al) is responsible for fully reporting on the workings of the government (NLRB). The GP commenter is pointing out that the NYT hasn't adequately done that, and I tend to agree.
Sure, but how do you measure that? How do we figure out how much understanding a human can develop from only ever seeing 2d pictures, without any movement or interaction with a 3d world?

Most ML problems are things humans are quite good at and have a lot of context to draw from.
Ha I wish your point about browsers was correct. Sorry, Safari is (a very distant) number 2.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
In the US, the Supreme Court is the static const readonly final. It's over. There is literally no route of appeal or any way Oracle can keep this case going without a whole new lawsuit. The Supreme Court can elect to make a ruling and then send it back to a smaller court _if they choose_ for final assessment, but they did not do that here, making this ruling definitive.
Maybe socially, but NYT leans right economically.
Because this 40% of tax only applies to what you earn above a certain threshold, at which point you are no longer considered to be a poor person.
Petrifaction
From the dissent: "In the 1990s, Oracle created a programming language called Java..."

Sun Microsystems was acquired in 2010... I guess I should give Thomas the benefit of the doubt that he intended the statement to apply to Oracle's owned IP & not be a historical account of the language's creation and creators, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
I click on that and it's a bunch of stuff in German. I guess asking me to get a subscription?
> The score, composed by Andrei Romanov of the rock band Akvarium

> In the opening song, Romanov sings a rough translation of Tolkien’s description of the origins of the rings of power,

The Soviets had their own Led Zeppelin. Perhaps we weren’t so different after all.
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The problem with sales tax/VAT is they’re regressive - the lower your income the proportionally more you pay.
Page 44 has Thomas’s dissent with Alito concurring. Worth a read as well, even just to see the opposing arguments.
There's also the "cheaper ring" option -- my wife's ring was under $200 for sterling silver and a semi-precious stone, and I assume mine was a similar price (she bought it) for a simple engraved ring in 92.5% sterling silver.

It's simple, not flashy, my wife loves the design, and it's easy to have it adjusted by any jeweler. No need to break the bank for something that's more about symbolism than money.

EDIT: Wife's ring was from Moonkist Designs on Etsy if you're looking for a place to start.
Only to the extent that automation doesn't increase the level / frequency of that distraction.
I have to say I just had this exact situation and conversation come up while visiting family in the south. They all complained about construction workers and not being able to find one that's competent they all think they're the best and they all do very very bad work. That's only in the South they have homes up north and they don't have that problem at all they're constantly trying to get their contractors to travel South to work for them. even people who were born and raised in Florida that were involved in this conversation agreed 100%.
I don't think sending info about filenames and sizes is acceptable, ever. It's a shame as backblaze has been a solid backup choice for a while.

edit: and enabling facebook tracking on customer pages...
The main priblem is that sticking a cache system in front of a database turns it into a homemade distributed database. Often times your use case is simple enough, and your consistency requirements weak enough, that it doesn't cause issues. But these homebrew systems are not made with the rigor and focus of a dedicate distributed database solution and this will eventually bite you, hopefully gently in a way that may make sense to just live with, but sometimes very painfully and that is when you remember that cache invalidation is indeed hard.

It seems that the "correct" solution is building the cache into the database. Allow tying the cached result to the snapshot and inputs that it was generated against and use the regular controls for stale read tolerance to ensure that this cache entry is up-to-date. This even let's you use cache entries within a strongly consistent transaction (although staleness will probably hurt your hit rate)
Another alternative is to simply buy second hand or from an auction.

Personally I see diamonds in a league with works of art. There is definitely value, but it's subjective, generally a lot less then expected and highly illiquid.
Is this a final judgement? Is it over now?
Your comments are interesting in terms of the iOS/Android comparison: both of those are things which just work on iOS without needing to find and configure a separate app. This dynamic shows up constantly in these discussions because HN is full of people who enjoy tinkering as a hobby and have strong opinions about things should work whereas from the perspective of most normal people it’s easier to pay $400 for a noticeably faster iOS device rather than spending time puttering around trying to find the right combination of apps to compensate for an unmotivated device vendor and hoping that you didn’t just install malware in the process.
There's also a response to one of those reasons.

> After Amazon told them that they had violated its external communications policy by speaking publicly about the business, their group organized 400 employees to also speak out, purposely violating the policy to make a point.

So, Amazon fired then for publicly speaking about the business. Their statement saying that it was for violating internal policy seems deliberately misleading, because the internal policy that was broken was to not speak publicly. That Amazon had a policy against speaking publicly is not a point in Amazon's favor.
I think one way is to do some activities where it's easy to see that you are not the best in the room. I lift weights for exercise. I can easily track my progress and improvement, but it's also obvious at a glance that there are others who are lifting more than I can. I then extrapolate that this applies to most everything else I do as well.
Is it possible to add functionality to make the page up/down buttons scroll a full page?
Software, charging networks, brands, and design.
I highly recommend: One Day in the Life of Inav Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_De...
IANAL, but I believe what the US Supreme Court says is final. There isn't any appellate court for the highest court in the land.
I think what you're missing here is the alternative to progressive tax is all income is taxed at or close to the existing highest rates, as that is where by a very large margin most tax is collected. Ultimately this leads to those poorest in society suffering the most.
Out of curiosity, do you have a recommendation of a tool / structure for an automated test to catch that type of injection? This is something I haven’t considered in my own pipeline that I’d like to address.
The type of person who cares about stock Android is probably rare and anyway is just going to buy a Pixel or maybe an iPhone.
Ahh, fair enough. They definitely snippets to be vetted by their security team. I'm sure they've learned from this mistake though, and I'm not sure I would trust anyone else any more than them.
Developer happiness tips for support in Slack
I don't understand why people uses such stupid font style -_-
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Supercar brands have never been about being price-competitive (in some cases, they are even Veblen Goods). Very few people cross-shop Ferraris and Hondas.

I look forward to seeing the new Tesla's Nürburgring-Nordschleife time. The progress that performance EVs are making is impressive.
We just launched it and it's called https://profe.social
"Solving" a problem deeply intwined with bodily autonomy and consent with 'obfuscate it until its no longer your body and face to abdicate you of control' seems like... The wrong approach. If actors/actresses are okay with it then let's go right ahead.
It seems Valkyrie is again the default font, which is great. With it, the site is the most beautiful thing on the whole web, every interval and spacing on it being just right—or at least having been so in the first edition, as I'm not yet seeing what's different now. I'm repeatedly consumed with envy at the author, not so far able to achieve such perfection myself.
I splurged a bit on my wife's rings but absolutely didn't care about mine. I have two $30 tungsten carbide rings from Amazon, one I wear daily and a nicer one for special occasions.
Oracle is making a lot of innovation in openjdk and graalvm. They have much better engineers than if e.g Google had bought sun.
Had the ruling gone in Oracle's favor I can imagine some greedy company trying to procedurally-generate every API and copyright them all similar to this project which tried to copyright all musical melodies:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

In the case of the music project, it was for the protection of the community, but I can imagine such a system being used selfishly for software APIs.
Through the history of the study of history there have been several ways of doing history (ie historiographies). One is Marxist historiography, trying to find the class struggle in everything. Another is whiggish historiography, named after the Whig history of Britain which viewed history as an inevitable progression towards constitutional monarchy, but which more generally refers to seeing history as intentionally leading to the present day.

I don’t really buy either
I think it's giving you a choice between the ad supported version and the premium version (probably required for GDPR consent). The free version can be accessed via the left green button on the interstitial.
Gradle: Managing scope and platform-specific dependencies
Generally, the Supreme Court finds narrowly on a specific point of friction in the case of a lesser court, answers the question, and kicks it back to that court, as a final answer for that very specific thing.

The point in this case was, can Oracle overturn the "phone books cannot be Copyrighted" concept baked into tech law by the IBM v Compaq BIOS case. Seems the Supreme Court finally told Oracle the collection of method signatures from the Java base API are, indeed, a phone book.
Everyone gets mad when there’s a breach or a bug that doesn’t get full disclosure.

When a company provides full disclosure people are shocked and abandon the platform.

Every company has bugs. Everyone eventually gets breached. If a company is honest with what happened, follows up with their users, and fixes it, what more can you ask for?

Should it have happened? No. Did they find the issue? Yes. Did they fix it? Yes. Did they disclose it? Yes. Perfect, thanks.
A jury's findings are final only in determining the facts of the case. The actual legal implications of those facts can still be appealed, reviewed, and modified.
How does this ruling interact with GPL?
Incidentally, this is no longer necessary. Gwern.net used the same trick but we removed it last week (to much rejoicing).

The main reason to auto-add soft hyphens is because, unlike almost all other browsers, desktop Chrome has for decades not supported hyphenation (even though mobile Chrome does!). But they finally shipped support last year, and now market support for hyphenation is around 95%+ according to CanIUse. So you can just drop the soft hyphen pass and rely on normal CSS to specify justification.

This is good because it simplifies HTML creation, makes the HTML noticeably smaller & better compressing, makes it more readable, search/replace more reliable, buggy screen readers no longer pronounce soft hyphens (another real WTF moment for me), doesn't require hacks like the JS copylistener to strip them out...

Anyway long story short, if you've been using the soft hyphen trick, I suggest revisiting the decision now.
> That is still just improvement on what's already available.

This is the entire history of computing.
Free Software was coined by (probably) RMS to highlight how users of such software are getting a number of _freedoms_: namely those to use, modify and share that software onwards (with or without their modifications).

It is in opposition to "restricted" software where you are restricted in all of those. (Copyleft software restrict others from adding more restrictions, which is defensible but some BSD proponents disagree)

Libre is, as many have said, just the Latin word for Free. You'd still have to explain what it means in this context.

"Open Source" has similar problems: many think that it's enough for source code to be available for inspection for software to be called "Open Source", but it is just a another attempt to market a philosophy under a particular name.

These constructs are created to have a special meaning to promote an ideology, and are thus usually capitalized in English. This is nothing uncommon, and attempting to use these—now accepted—phrases to mean something else is bound to cause confusion. So, just like you learn what a "programming language" or "HyperText Transport Protocol" is (yes, one transfers a lot more than just "HyperText" over it), if you are in IT, one should learn what "Free Software" and "Open Source" mean.
Question from a layman: Does "interoperability" as a concept have any legal relevance here? Like focusing on programmer skills seems kind of beside the point, which is really for two pieces of software to be able to interoperate.
True, but it's such a strong precedent in favor of copying API's being "fair use" that it at least partly moots the more general question of "are API's copyrightable in the first place." I think this was a good decision all in all. AIUI, the SCOTUS try to limit the scope of their decisions as much as possible, to avoid over-generalization.
Does anyone have a good estimate of what this case cost Oracle and Google, especially in terms of legal fees, and where that money went ultimately?
it doesn't really make sense to tax long-term capital gains as income, especially under a progressive system. if I hold an asset for ten years and then sell it, a significant part of the nominal gain will be due to inflation (though this is also a problem with the existing cap gain rules). but conceptually, an LTCG is not a sudden windfall, and should not be taxed as such. it is the result of one or more years' appreciation that happens to be realized all at once.
Economically, important competitive factors will be: Access to resources required to build batteries (e.g. mining rights), battery manufacturing capacity, location of manufacturing plants (as regulation on energy footprint is sensitive to the energy mix used in manufacturing and shipping). In terms of business success, making the right decisions on these strategic factors will likely matter just as much as designing appealing products and implementing them well.

Geopolitics will matter: People and their governments will find further regulation appealing also because it can be a tool to drive local employment in manufacturing and related business. If a car manufactured in China, or using batteries manufactured in China, has an inherently worse CO2 footprint for a European consumer (because of the coal-heavy energy mix in China and the energy footprint of shipping to Europe) and this is penalized by regulations, you get factories in Europe as a result. This build-out will take some decades to settle, and there may yet be new tech surprises along the way that change the game.

As for car tech itself becoming a commodity - this has been the case for a long time already, even with ICE technology. Automotive supply chains are famously broad, long and overlapping between OEMs. Bob Lutz (GM, BMW, Chrysler, ...) said in 2015 "There are no bad cars anymore, only bad designs".

There's still tech competition for sure, and it's fun to follow - the Mercedes EQS will outdo the Model S in most respects and raise the bar of what's possible with an EV, heating things up a bit at the top end. Progress continues, egged on by regulations if nothing else, and by consumers seeking the best value for their money. But if you don't sweat the details, the good-enough options are plentiful.
> employees abusing privileged access to mandatory Chrome extensions

Sounds interesting, you don't happen to have a link? (So I can read more)
I looked at rsync.net, but they are 2.5 cents/gb versus backblaze's $0.005/gb or glacier's $0.004/gb per month. I see rsync.net for active use, while b2/glacier are for set-and-forget backups.
I'm being a bit of a smartass here, but in some areas of Upper Austria (part of the Bavarian language area), the MHG long "o" is pronounced as "oi".

https://media04.meinbezirk.at/article/2013/01/14/7/5943487_X...
I think the question about overturning the jury is directly addressed in the linked PDF, whose Syllabus is surprisingly easy to read:

> Re- viewing courts should appropriately defer to the jury’s findings of un- derlying facts, but the ultimate question whether those facts amount to a fair use is a legal question for judges to decide de novo. This approach does not violate the Seventh Amendment’s prohibition on courts reexamining facts tried by a jury, because the ultimate question here is one of law, not fact. The “right of trial by jury” does not include the right to have a jury resolve a fair use defense.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know exactly what this means, other than the SCOTUS saying that it can override the jury decision.
Fair! EVE Online has always fascinated me with how much of a world it is. I tried getting into it a couple of times, but I just don't have time for it.
This issue however, exists in more than just commercial software. Personal example, OSes feel bloated, I switched from BigSur to Mojave in my 2018MBPro and I saw significant improvements in responsiveness with virtually no change in usage behavior. Even software whose supposed features are stability and speed feel bloated, e.g. weird bugs in Unity, photoshop is sluggish without any significant increase in the visible features.
The jury is final on questions of fact. On questions of law the appellate and supreme courts can overrule the trial court.
"Held: Google’s copying of the Java SE API, which included only those
lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program, was a fair
use of that material as a matter of law."

If the un-italicized is the new test, that's probably the most reasonable thing I'm going to read this month. And it's only the 5th.
What does this notation mean: "s/descriptive/proscriptive/g" ?
As both that thread title and the Supreme Court opinion say, the jury found in favour of Google.

They were then overruled by the Federal Court, which has now in turn been overruled by the Supremes.
Humans and Work: Three Practical Tools to Turbo Charge How We Execute Our Work
The concept of double taxation is incredibly important. When you pay income and payroll taxes on your wages, its important to understand what your real tax rate is, and its a lot higher than either individually.

So what's the real tax rate in investments in the U.S? Well it's the corporate tax rate. Plus the investors capital gains or dividend tax rate. Plus the state corporate income tax rate. And the investors state income tax rate.

All these layers of taxation means it's almost impossible for taxes on profits to be less than 40% for an investor, and can reach 60%.

And sales tax isn't part of the double taxation layer, because it's voluntary. You could have spent your net earnings on things that don't have a sales tax, or saved it. And sales tax applies equally to the investor receiving a dividend.
Are there any apps to streamline the unionization of businesses? It would seem quorum discovery is the hardest part of creating a union -- who is ready to join. Being in a union myself, even with some of the political issues that come with it, I very much appreciate what they do for me.
> I never understood why Samsung phones were constantly receiving praise by tech reviewers while LG got crapped on.

> LG always seemed a lot closer to stock Android, and was good at staying out of your way.

> Do people actually like all those Samsung annoyances? Why is Samsung considered the flagship of flagships? Build quality beyond the V30 is basically identical.

Well, knowing them only through my purchases of a Nexus S, Nexus 4, and Nexus 5:

The Nexus S is still around.

The Nexus 4 suffered from battery inflation.

The Nexus 5 suffered from a catastrophic failure that caused me to lose a year's worth of message history.

So all I can say in response to the news "LG is getting out of the mobile phone business" is "good riddance, they should never have been there in the first place".

Which one is "closer to stock Android" is a non-issue if you run stock Android anyway.
+1. It was over a decade ago, but my mom bought an LG „smartphone” back around 2009.

It had a touch screen so bad that you could barely hit proper numbers on the number keyboard.

For me, the reputation of them as a phone manufacturers was gone from then on. How can you sell a product to people that essentially doesn’t work?

Ditto with their laser projector recently - movies stuttering on a $2500 machine, and speakers worse than on my laptop :/

Their TVs are still good though :)
I'm glad for the verdict but this is such bullshit.

Google implemented exactly enough to create the illusion of letting people use their Java talents then dragged their feet with a half broken out-of-date language environment.

And they did all this to save money, not some sort of noble rebellion or clever hack.

> Sun offered a licensing deal of between US$30 and 50 million. Schmidt said Google would have paid for that license, but they were concerned that Sun had also requested some shared control of Android along with the fee.

A pittance for Google but that vague "some control" sounds really bad right? Well fortunately there's a history here and we know from past licensing deals (J++) this control is enforcing interoperability with other Java implementation. And of course Oracle spells that out pretty easily:

> Oracle states that Sun refused because Google’s intention was essentially to fork Java to a Google version of the language, and to prevent it being inter-operable with other versions, an idea which was “anathema” to the “write once run anywhere” basis of the language.

Google got a cheap license and the only stipulation was "don't fuck up the Java ecosystem by having your OS run Java-but-not-really" but that was too much for them and exactly what they ended up doing!

I don't know why people are acting like this is some victory of open source. Maybe a victory for open source, but championed by a greedy corporation that fragmented the Java ecosystem for years.

I wish Oracle could have taken another angle here, they deserved damages from Google for this. Google literally pulled a J++ and got away with it.
This.

Plus, dominance is not indefinite. One car maker will innovate, leading to better quality and/or lower prices, and will ride a wave of outsized market share, until its competitors catch up, and so on.