skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the result is a big relief, I think it's not as decisive as I'm noticing some headlines (and commenters) are claiming.

One of the big open questions is "are APIs copyrightable?" The court skirted that question, and instead focused on whether it was fair use:

> To decide no more than is necessary to resolve this case, the Court assumes for argument’s sake that the copied lines can be copyrighted, and focuses on whether Google’s use of those lines was a “fair use.”

That said, this case does establish a precedent that if your copying of an API is primarily for purposes of matching an interface so that developers can reimplement it, you're in fair use territory:

> Google copied these lines not because of their creativity or beauty but because they would allow programmers to bring their skills to a new smartphone computing environment.

I'll count that as a win, on balance.
There's been talk in the past of having some levels of certification required to be called a software developer/engineer. I'm not convinced this is a bad thing.

To be a pilot, you have to at least jump through a lot of hurdles and formalities, and some of those will make you better. I think the world of corporate software development could use a few fundamental hurdles.
Feyman has some post mortem heat on him under the lens of revisionism. Namely, as it pertains to his treatment of women.

In short, some people think he was sexist at best and an abuser of women at worst.
> only manufacturer who makes phones with both wireless charging and a headphone jack

May be the you should mention "flagship" because there are many android mid-rangers with both headphone jack and wireless charging, but this too is not true because sony's flagship xperia 1 mark 2 still have both headphone jack and wireless charging + sd card support that the others have abandoned.
My last phone was LG V20 which was a beast, but LG went the Motorola Atrix way and decided to fuck the customers and not update the phone, so now I'm happy with my Note 10 Plus receiving an update each month.

Fuck LG and every company that decides to don't give a shit about their loyal customers.
20 TB.

I would definitely recommend going with a VPS over AWS in your case, unless you want to play with AWS-specific tech to build up your resume.
Their spokesperson did not wish to say what policies they claim were violated. They were presented an opportunity to state their side, and chose not to.
It's funny and very paradoxical, because all this is based on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, they even ask professor Dunning about how it's possible that someone think their (low) abilities are overestimated and probably he is suffering of the very definition of Dunning-Kruger Effect:

The Dunning-Kruger effect is nice, but it's not reproducible at best, and probably it's not real [1] [2]

1: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-...

2: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol10/iss1/art4/
> What will be the future differentiator in electric vehicles?

I'm afraid there will be none.

Hull shape, and the battery size is pretty much the only thing existing EVs differ from each other.

Mechanically, they are all very, very simple. Simpler than any IC car.

Compact wishbone suspension is used on pretty much every one of them, since all EVs are city cars, and you want as much space for batteries as possible, and as lower centre of mass as possible

And since all EVs are very heavy, you don't have much innovations in body design either, it just needs to be very strong, and very rigid to securely accommodate the battery pack.

This way the vision of "White Label, off the shelf cars" produced by some Foxconn like maker swallowing the market is very much real.
Sub7 ... that brings back fun memories. Endless humor of making each other win a game of tic-tac-toe to get control of their computer. Melting screens. All in good fun of course. We did not use it maliciously.
The author focuses on the "object of beauty" role of the engagement stone, but I think that the more important role in marital tradition is as a "store of value". It publicly indicates the groom's value for the wife, while also handing her a measure of independence, to assist in exiting a bad marriage. That is, it helps to mark the union as consensual.

While a deed to real estate might serve these purposes better than a gemstone, the gemstone is easier to flaunt. But the details of its luster, etc., are still less important to the longevity of the tradition than its economic value.
Akbar means Big or Bigger, not the Son of God.

Asghar on the other hand means Small or Smaller.

Alam means world/universe so these make sense though.
Feels like this should have 2017 in the title. This is just a light overview of what the Dunning-Kruger effect is (or was claimed to be), Pat sounds extremely fictional and conveniently useful to help describe "the effect" (which - if you search HN you'll find multiple links to a 2010[0] article challenging DKE, even the of-submitted Wikipedia page[1] expresses doubt).

[0]: https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
This made me wonder what gender 'apocalypse' has in French (feminine, it seems - la petit apocalypse),
> inches from the sterilization programmes and such from the early 20th century

How exactly? Given you are criticising your colleagues it's hard to determine how charitable this account is, especially since you give weight to descriptions given while inebriated, assuming that accurately represents their views.
British actors, not European. I know that sounds nationalistic but I don't know any British person who has referred to themselves as European.
It's a lot harder to work with than an HTML template and a CSS file.
Yes. There is no appellate court above the Supreme Court. The only way things could change now is if Congress/President passed a new law, and I don’t think API copyrights are near the top of the list.
https://archive.md/HTm90
Replace all occurrences of 'descriptive' with 'proscriptive'
Google had the option to use the OpenJDK and make Android a GPL-based platform. They did not want to. They could've, and tried to, negotiate a separate license, but simply decided to copy what they wanted instead, relying on their legal team to protect them.
Yeah, I thought it was a kind of strange point to prove that "Pat" is a bad programmer. I think most programmers, if they're being honest, would admit that they would have trouble recalling any kind of specifics about code that they wrote months before.
Here's a vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=cBYFo6fXPvU
The goal is (probably) for the Cesium data platform to be number one 3D geospatial content standard and for the Ion service to the first (and best) provider of Cesium data.

There is also an implicit service where they (Cesium GS Inc) offer consulting and collaboration on curating high-quality private Cesium data sets in parallel to their own, eg: military applications.
Indeed. Came here to say that over several decades the risk of losing a diamond is non-trivial. It's not even a matter of losing the ring; sometimes the ring setting can fail and the stone simply falls out.
From the dissent:

> The Copyright Act expressly protects computer code. It recognizes that a “computer program” is protected by copyright... And it defines “‘computer program’” as “a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.” §101. That definition clearly covers declaring code—sets of statements that indirectly perform computer functions by triggering prewritten implementing code.

Thomas seems confused here. An API (declaring code) is not a computer program. A computer cannot execute declaring code - by definition - because it is missing the implementation.

Declaring code does not "indirectly perform computer functions". Declaring code does not perform anything. It provides a reference, nothing more, for a compiler to match one computer program (the API client) to another (the API implementation).
Wouldn't it be better for Amazon, in the long term to let workers get the best salary/benefits in the industry and even cooperate in their unionization efforts (if the workers want to)? Would it such a big hit to their bottom line?

Or am I just being to too naive?

[Edit: Grammar]
I think you maybe typoed your comment then, it says the jury found for Oracle.
Consider a generative adversarial network for faces. Photos have let's say some unique scars

A successful model could create faces with scars in them. But not the exact scar and face and background that they trained on without additional information. What you are looking for is mutual information between the images not compression

Yes you could use a very well trained GAN for face compression. But a GAN model itself would not be able to reconstruct its training input without being shown the images again
I was under the impression that a dissent has to be written, even if they all agree in the majority opinion/ruling?
First of all, very good news. Second of all, what does this mean for Fuchsia, Dart, and related projects? I always assumed they were a hedge against Google having to pay exorbitant licensing fees to Oracle. Now that the threat has disappeared, will those projects be sunsetted too?
> US is the outlier in the West, all the other developed countries have comparable homicide rates.

How developed is the US really? Here's a non exhaustive list of things I and people in my surroundings think moves the US closer to a developing country like India than a developed country.

Democracy wise: Broken voting system

Technology wise: Still using insecure CC and cash only

Healthcare wise: Insurance companies ripping you off

Infrastructure wise: Fiber optics still uncommon, train system is crap

Social security: Friends and family (hopefully) only

Legal system: Carreers are on the line with big cases, so rather than getting to the truth corruption takes over big cases

Freedom: You're free to carry weapons in town that could wipe out the entire mall. (But the government has nukes and tanks, thank god you can shoot them with an assault rifle now)

Education: Only if your parents planned ahead and can afford it, never ending cycle to keep poor people poor (I know there are grants and exceptions)

Religion: Still a significant percent following the person in the clouds.

I've never been to the US, but these are things "Swedes" (My social circle) commonly joke about when talking about the US, seeing videos, news, articles from your media online.

I do realise i might come off as quite arrogant, but this is the picture the US presents, the list from above could probably quite easily be broken down by exceptions and differences between states, It's only there to reflect back what I/we see.
It's so weird to me that people run out and buy $200 HOTAS controllers for a fun "toy" game like Squadrons or elite dangerous, when something like an Xbox controller is what they're designed for.
Indeed, and that website only uses 2010 CSS features.
I'm in the don't buy a ring club and it has never come up in social situations.

No one cares about your stuff as much as you do.
I've known about this for awhile now but having only lived in countries where absolutely everyone uses a messaging app (particular app differing per country) it still baffles me every single time I hear about it.

How do you handle group chats? Especially with more than a couple of people? Is sending pictures and videos included with your plans too? If not how do you handle those? How about video calling? Sending a file e.g. an Excel file?

Let alone features like easily creating a vote/poll, a calendar event, a banner notification..

I get that most of these features may not be useful to everyone but surely they are to groups of teens and college students, demographics that have shown to often drive growth in communication apps.
Entanglement definitely does not allow FTL communication. IIUC the "wave function collapse" or whatever[0] does happen instantaneously, but you can't get any actual information through it without sending conventional signals as well.

[0] I grow ever more convinced that the Copenhagen interpretation is nonsense, but it's the easiest language to acknowledge the weirdness of spooky action at a distance.
Absolutely true, but FTR there are now lab grown diamonds which change the calculus a bit.
This would be great, my LG V20 is collecting dust in my desk besides my shiny and updated Note 10 Plus. But as LG decided to fuck up their customers, I'm pretty sure they won't care now...
My spouse and I have had similar experiences with people remarking on the stone. Its funny how they think it must be so fancy, being quite large and flawless and shiny. Then when we tell them its actually a moissanite sometimes their opinions rapidly change. People somehow get hung up on the idea of manufactured versus mined stones, or that its a "fake" diamond.
Workplaces for Women 2021: stats from women on employers
This is an overly strong claim for the paper (which is good!) backing it.

If anyone is interested in the reader's digest version of the original paper check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB4B5FYvtdI
Not entirely. Per my understanding, this is a fairly big shift:

"The fair use question is a mixed question of fact and law. Reviewing courts should appropriately defer to the jury’s findings of underlying 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."

Or to put it another way, convincing a jury that something is or isn't fair use is very different than convincing precedent-bound judges, especially with this on the books as the controlling case.

In final impact, it seems like an incredibly good judgement for everyone: you can prove to a jury what was / wasn't copied, and then a judge will apply a standard fair use test over those facts, with a tendency towards allowing transformative use.

Legal protections against copying, room for progress, and (most importantly!) more certainty and standardization in how cases are decided.
It probably more about cam drivers and such stuff that prevents a news OSes from being useful on older devices. Essentially they could make it possible for independent devs to create updates for they phones for quite some time.
What has your experience been with the Laredo service center (that I think gets broken PlayStations shipped to it too)?
This is sad because LG was the one of the last 2 android phone makers with both headphone jack and SD card support in their "flagship" the other being Sony.
> you're going to have lots of 'average' people

Yes, by definition there will always be an average. But "average" for employed s/w devs should differ to national average - you can still expect developers to maintain certain standards, and that higher-ups will perform better (than say, the average s/w grad).
They already have a program that verifies the identity of uploaders called Verified Amateurs, and last year after the NYT published their hit piece and Visa stopped processing payments to them, they removed all amateur videos that weren’t Verified Amateurs, which was most of them.

What’s sad is that you’re having to read this from me, instead of from the original article linked above, that someone who has a college degree in journalism was paid to write.
Simplifying Microservices Debugging with Thundra Sidekick
Thomas's dissent explicitly points this out. Without diving into "are APIs copyrightable?", the majority are skipping what should have been evaluated first before saying if they were fair-use or not.
If someone can get full self driving and patents it, they’ll have the market. Software is where we are seeing most innovation right now. Self parking, 3D surround cameras, accident avoidance, auto lane change, etc.

I think you’re correct that there will be less appeal from a technical performance perspective to buy an individual brand. All EVs have fast enough acceleration (some dangerously so.) So competition there is not going to continue. The new monstrous Hummer from GM has 0-60 times that rival super cars from a few years back.

There’s still some room for competition on handling, but eventually the skateboards will all have very similar suspensions.

So I believe we’re left with aesthetics, material choices, secondary features, and brand appeal. Are your vegan leather air conditioned seats hand stitched? Are your steerable headlights auto dimming with infrared vision?
Is women giving men an engagement ring a new thing?

I got my wife (30 years ago) a ring with two opals and a center sapphire - custom made by a local jeweler. It makes diamond rings look pretty boring.
The money goes into lawyers fees.

Because of the way this decision went, I’m sure Google considers it a worthy investment and Oracle considers it a temporary setback as it pursues other extortion schemes using Sun’s Patents. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a specific division of lawyers dedicated to finding novel ways of extorting wealth using Patents; this would likely just be one of the cases they were working on.

Come to think of it, from Oracles perspective it was definitely worth a shot, to throw a few millions (if that?) with a chance of winning billions.
That person is not a professional pilot. They have 160 hours.

Their description of the handling does not match what many other real pilots say about MSFS2020, and, as others have said, they are wrong about how the model is implemented. Their description of the stall characteristics also does not match my experience of playing the game.
For external files in particular you can use Content Security Policies [1] in the server configuration.

Injecting third-party content then requires editing both your site and the server setup. Of course, you can make the policies more or less strict depending on how much you want to tighten this kind of attack vector.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
It's interesting reading Thomas' dissent. As per typical Thomas appears to be arguing that it's the letter of the law that matters, whereas it's the majority opinion that the motivations and substance of the law are primary.

Hackers and programmers tend to try and read the law like computer code to be "hacked" and exploited based on the letter of the law. So you'd expect us to be more sympathetic to Thomas' view. So this is a great example to smack hackers with when they try and "hack" the law, treating it like code rather than something more human. It's a great example because this is a case where the majority is obviously the "right" decision to any true code hacker.
UPDATE: based on Wikipedia [1], the "API" was likely saved by one of these people (all likely in their mid-20s!):

Emily Barnet, 2020, Yale (2015)

Diana Li Kim, 2020, Yale (2017)

Arjun Ramamurti, 2020, Yale (2018)

Daniel Richardson, 2020, Virginia (2018)

Brittany Jones-Record, 2020, Stanford (2016)

David Scott Louk, 2020, Yale (2015)

Elizabeth B. Deutsch, 2021, Yale (2016)

Joel F. Wacks, 2021, Chicago (2018)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supr...
Why is their attempts at fixing trust meaningless?
"On the other hand, Google’s copying helped Google makea vast amount of money from its Android platform. And enforcement of the Sun Java API copyright might give Oracle a significant share of these funds. It is important, how-ever, to consider why and how Oracle might have become entitled to this money. When a new interface, like an API or a spreadsheet program, first comes on the market, it may attract new users because of its expressive qualities, such as a better visual screen or because of its superior functionality. As time passes, however, it may be valuable for a different reason, namely, because users, including programmers, are just used to it. They have already learned how to work with it. See Lotus Development Corp., 49 F. 3d, at 821 "

Interesting to see SCOTUS citing Lotus v Borland, which was originally deadlocked at 4-4 (although Breyer seems to have voted in favour of Lotus back then). Does this elevate the precedential value of Lotus?
From a quick scan, the majority opinion here seems reasonable. I suspect it is what almost everyone working in programming would have considered the "right" answer.

The dissent is worrying, though. For a pivotal case that would have had a profound adverse effect on the future of software development had it been decided the other way, there seemed to be a disturbing lack of appreciation of the fundamental issues in play, particularly the practical reasons that programmers separate interface and implementation and the implications of this for interoperability.
It’s not left out, it’s just a different topic. We’ve gotta be able to discuss economic history without pulling in everyone’s political hobbyhorses.
The author actually included a section on diamond being a poor store of value. The idea that a man is spending wads of cash on an engagement ring for his wife as "insurance" that she is able to leave and sell the ring seems wrong to me.
That's a good example of the paraphrased quote "don't make software for privacy people, they'll never be happy". They fixed it, yet every other service is doing far worse behavior. Dont hold backblaze on a higher pedestal than amazon unless you only want amazon to exist.

Backblaze is the most affordable and available remote storage/cdn service available, by miles. Go look at a calculator between amazon and backblaze.

The actually give half a care and even partner with various providers so your outgoing bandwidth is free to them.
You also forget that a justice might feel more comfortable with ruling in opposition so that he/she can write the dissent, but if his/her vote was a swing vote, the justice might have second thoughts about that. It's easy to vote in opposition when you know it doesn't matter - and then, hey, you get to write the position for the losing side.
Do Not Rewrite Your Bash Script in Another Programming Language
The incentive structure is bad. However much money you make for organizing unions, I'm positive the company they're attempting to unionize will pay you several times that to give them the list of workers who want to unionize. It's the same problem review sites have; companies that want to game the reviews will pay more than users who want honest reviews.

You'll also have issues with companies paying someone to join the unionization effort to spy on it. That's not insurmountable with proper designs, but it makes it a lot harder to assist with organizing when you have to silo users from one another to prevent espionage.
It wasn't even a hyperlink, it was plain text. Generally you want to source your information, and that one price point came from moissanite.net
Maybe an intrepid journalist could find out...

Perhaps, in doing so, that journalist would discover that Amazon had no real argument for any internal policy being violated at all. Or perhaps they would discover that these employees did, in fact, violate some internal policy, whether or not their firing violated their rights.
I don’t think it moots the point at all.

* Google’s API copying can’t be fair use if they weren’t copyrightable in the first place.

* If you do copy an API because of it’s beauty and not for either interoperability with software or interoperability with developers then it seems that you would run afoul of copyright.
Most of what you read online is, especially about rust.
Yes, reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is one of the things explicitly allowed by laws such as DMCA.