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Ask HN: Laws on “rebranding” modified products (Android and OHA)
Background:

I'm was originally interested in knowing what it would take to sell a phone under my own brand that runs an Android fork.

From here I discovered a Google-run consortium called Open Handset Alliance[1] which includes members such as Motorola, HTC, and others, essentially restricting members from building competing products while allowing licensing for default applications (like Gmail, Google Maps) exists, and:

> OHA members are contractually forbidden from producing devices that
> are based on competing forks of Android.

Does this mean I cannot manufacture my own phone under my own brand while sourcing parts from anyone under the OHA? Or does this just mean those manufacturers cannot sell phones under that brand while running a competitor fork of Android?

I stumbled upon an example:

A company Fairphone is now selling a phone with an Android-forked called /e/[2], even though it's CPU is sourced by an OHA member (specifically Qualcomm)[3]. I've also learned other companies (including /e/) are selling "refurbished" phones in a similar way.

Which begs the question:

Could I legally buy new iPhone 12s (or other new flagship phones), modify it (by maybe just painting it or diamond studding it) and resell them as my own brand (assuming the end product did not have "Apple branding" and was not advertised as such)?

But really what I'm asking is: If I were to load an entirely new operating system on that hardware, would that also be legal?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance#cite_note-ars-amadeo-6
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone_3
trying to understand what determines which city is aligned with each party? Is it strictly who the mayor is, city council, or both?

Plus the real issue is not percentage that the rate went up but how many people does that actually mean? Going up in Chicago is going to greatly dwarf most other cities and I am not sure they are very large Republican governed cities.

In effect, they are using statistics to attempt to make the issue seem less dire than it really is. The number of deaths is ridiculous so they don't want that number out there.
Of course! It was never as popular as Derrick, but it became so popular in the 90s that in Italy a remake of 8 season was produced.

Also Der Alte (different seasons had different names in Italy) with over 400 episodes.
+1 for LLWN! Fantastic Chrome extension, especially for language learning. They also have one for YouTube.

However, the language options offered beyond those already provided by Netflix are machine translated. This is good enough to follow along or fill in gaps in your knowledge of the officially subtitled language, but is a subpar representation of the program.
> We visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is an impressive research facility, and looks to be run well, with due regard to staff health.

Maybe (although I find that hard to believe) it now is, but we know about a number of concerns raised about that in recent years, and that they conducted gain in function research.

What he saw was what he was allowed to see more than a year after the fact. We know that a lot of evidence was destroyed and tampered with by the government. I wouldn't give this report much weight.
I don't understand how it's an excuse that the current version is new or newer than X-plane? Either this is not actually MSFS but just a new game that sells by using (abusing) a known name or it is MSFS that has roots back to the 80's. If it's the last then it is clearly moving backwards if it has missing features and less realism. The logic that every new release is starting from scratch and isn't comparable to the old version is strange. Even if they throw out all the code and start coding from scratch MSFS is still not some un-comparable game to the last release.

To take it to an extreme: If Adobe started from scratch and released a new shiny Photoshop that looked good but had the features of MS Paint would people see it as moving backwards or "give it time, third parties will re-add missing features"?
Is that calculation really correct? Does it count tax for all the employees? Does it count all specialized tax for things like gas or VAT, for all the things Netflix buys in their operation? What about all the media that Netflix buys and produces? What about all the taxes levied there on salaries and other activities? The article also talks about "income" and not "revenue"...
I recently came across of a similar flaw in the EEG classification experiments. I think most results should be taken with a grain of salt until comprehensively and irrefutably confirmed by independent teams.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26696546
I'm currently using Obsidian Publish to build and publish the knowledge base website underlying the information I send people in my newsletter, which is something I've always wanted to do and never had the time to build. I like that it's similar to GitHub pages in that it's just a bunch of markdown files, but it comes with a really amazing editor and it's pretty much 0 effort to host and update.
Gaming technology recreates 16th-century music in Scottish chapel
> Among the mechanisms Netflix is using to achieve its next-to-nothing tax liability are accelerated depreciation (which appears to have cut the company’s tax expense by $148 million); deductions for stock options for Netflix executives and other employees ($339 million); and research and development tax credits ($113 million).

These are straightforward deductions.
You do realize you're posting in a thread where someone just posted an article saying the number of homicides this year so far in Norway were 0? Last year they had 31.

That's an order of magnitude off from the homicide rate of the US, which you just quoted.

Why are you even using the US' homicide rate and applying it to Norway?
My legit claim to fame, hahaha :)
Some recent projects:

- Frontend only, plain javascript, but a lot of it uses a project-specific custom scripting language. This is a game that consists almost entirely of procedurally generated written content, so I write a language that makes it easy to categorize procedural content bits and make sub-calls to new ones. I have a long way to go on language design still, but it's already better than a json blob.

- HTML frontend with some small plain javascript. Backend is node/express, but most of the heavy lifting is done by a shell call to Coil Snake[1], and which inserts a ton of code in ccscript and 65816 assembly. This is a randomizer for Earthbound (http://pkscramble.com/), so those are super specialized tools for that purpose. But I really like the Coil Snake ecosystem, and it's definitely going to influence my projects going forward (the decision to use a custom scripting language above was influenced by ccscript).

- Plain javascript frontend, vertx backend, postgres database. This is my goto for serious projects. It's fairly boring.

[1]https://github.com/pk-hack/CoilSnake
While on the temperature side, I would agree with you (though ideally you would want something that starts at 0 like Kelvin), this is different on the distance and weigh side.

The strength of the metric system is not on the particular dimension of their definition, but lies in the use of a decimal system. That is what makes it superior to the old imperial system and why the scientific community in the US uses it. Using a single base system for all your numbers, and the same base system as the one used in your numbering systems is the only way you can do complex computations without resorting to many magic numbers.
Imo Reddit ruined their site on purpose as that makes users go to the app instead which adblockers have a hard time blocking ads on (unless you have pi hole setup). They also added a ton of extra wasted space to make users scroll longer and thus stuff more ads in and increase user times.
You do realize you're posting in a thread where someone just posted an article saying the number of homicides this year so far in Norway were 0? Last year they had 31.
This is crazy how economy is tilted in favour of these big corporations. If you are a worker, it is not uncommon to pay over 40% of tax and if you work on your own small business you can pay even more and have very little left to reinvest. Then you have progressive tax that is preventing you from saving much - if you want to save for a deposit to buy a house, spend time on education and getting a better job, you'll get hit by much higher tax and it will take ages to save anything. Such taxes are often sold to the public as taxes on the rich, but rich people can easily afford ways around it.
I'll vote for any party that will reshuffle the tax system, so that big corporations will have to pay tax just as any other business and tax progression will be removed, so that people will have a chance of levelling up.
They should also add a tax on spending money with offshore cards, dividends and so on so that the rich will pay what they are supposed to pay.
I can't compare to other vendors, but just on it's own webOS in my LG TV got only one "half" update (3.0 to 3.5 I think) and is essentially abandoned. E.g. web browser was working with constant warnings right from the start and now it's not working at all. WebOS probably was intended to be fast but on LG hardware it is crawling slow and apps are often crashing (and it a pain in the ass to reopen what you were watching before crash). And that's on a 1000-1500$ device (when new).
Personally I would stay away from LG TVs in future. Maybe others are just as bad, but I see for myself first.
Percent of stock growth without including predicted future growth of that stock it is a useless metric. For the whole year of 2020, stock rose 14%, but the CAPE ratio also climbed significantly, indicating the 14% comes at a cost of expected lower returns/growth going forward. Using standard CAPE adjustments, it tracked right around 6% real growth for the year. Stock owned for 2020 will likely grow slower in future years to make up for 2020. Unless a person immediately cashed out to buy something at the end of the year, which most people who own stock probably won't do.

So yes, while anyone holding S&P500 saw a 14% increase for 2020, they likely should expect a couple lean years (or inflation) such that they actually only netted about 6%.
Then hard forks would never happen, right?
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1992 to be precise! I actually made a minimal SSG based on them: https://portable.fyi/#2020-11-27-this-blog-is-a-single-html-...

Printing this page to PDF outputs the whole website, one post per page.
The law pertains to access, not to hosting.

How last.fm works in it's streaming facility is that it creates a personalized radio station, if one will, based on past listening habits; it actually cannot allow users to select tracks, as that would not conform to radio laws.

It is thus entirely possible that no European music plays, based on past listening habits.
> and research and development tax credits ($113 million).

This is why you fill out your timesheets people!
> You get great insight into the character of the leaders of a company watching how breaches are handled.

No, that is too late. You get even sooner an even greater insight into leaders of a company based on the things they build. Does a hardware company try to force its users to move things to a proprietary cloud for no clear benefit? You know it's a company run by ar*eholes. Nothing more to know.
Do historical population declines bear this out? The Black Death is often credited for an increase in worker wages and a shift to a somewhat freer society with more freedom of movement and urban development. I can just as easily see that global population decline would lead to higher wages, immigration reform, more urbanization, development of automation, less focus on planned obsolescence and more on higher value goods that a wealthier population can now afford.
It would be perfectly fine for corporations to pay comically low taxes--- IF they also had NO ability to fund large-scale lobbying operations and were not allowed to put unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns. That's NOT ever going to happen.

But now is the best time for the tax part to change. The economy has been floated by unprecedented government pay-outs, narrowly avoiding a deep depression that would have crushed even the most cash-flush corporations. If certain people have their way, the working class will foot the bill for this for decades to come. Maybe it's time for those who thrived through this to pay their share just like in the post-WWII era where max tax rates reached 80+% up until the early 60's?
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> Or are people using phones in hurricanes or monsoons or something?

I don't know about those, but we get fairly heavy rainfall every now and then here in Norway. The kind where your underwear gets soaking wet for no other reason than being outside.

I keep my phone in the front pocket of my pants, and after losing two phones to such events I decided that was enough for me.

Now I can check when the bus is due or take that call even if it's raining (heavy or not) and I don't have to think about it.
FS2020 is the first simulator Ive played and on a whim Ive been using an add on pack call "FS Academy VFR/ IFR" to learn IFR. It's ok although the PDF manual needs editing because it throws acronyms at you without defining them so I find myself googling terms like VOR, NDB, OBS, etc.
Thanks for your comment regarding X Plane's better IFR realism I'll be sure to check it out next. I enjoy "programmatic and calculated flying" a lot more than I expected, it's a shame FS2020 doesn't encourage it. I think the Hacker News crowd would enjoy this type of flying if they knew more about it. It also makes me feel a lot safer knowing how meticulously pilots have to plan everything. I dont plan on getting an instrument rating but the basic IFR knowledge made me a lot more confident with regular VFR flying because I feel better calculating descent and turns banks rather than just "eyeballing and feeling" them. I got much better at landing than with the in game tutorials to the point where I want to get a PPL.
They are selective in only direct taxes.
>Shootings are up by an even higher amount than deaths. The implications of that are left for the reader to figure out.

The original post contained no data about shootings, and even if US shootings were also higher my statement could still be true.
Is your concern about the vagueness of the proposed plans or the outrage at tax bills?
The LG G4 (which I had) was also plagued by a similar issue, you could put the logic board into an oven for half an hour and if you were lucky that would resolve the issue. For me, it only helped for 5 minutes or so, then it broke again. The support did not help at all because I had unlocked the bootloader, even though it was an hardware issue (I was in Spain back then).
I don't approve of tax loopholes that large corporates abuse to pay an effective lower rate.

However, as an individual we can't change this. My (extremely cynical) advice is to hitch your wagon to theirs. Get some market exposure to these large companies and make their lobbying efforts work for you. It won't make society any more just, but at least you won't get left behind.
Trouble is the firewall in the Meraki Go Gateway only does 250Mbps - bit crap if you've got gigabit fibre to the house

https://www.meraki-go.com/products/security-gateway/
> In my view comprehension isnt about 'generalization via compressed archetypes' as in ordinary NNs...

How is this helpful?

Be specific.

The point being made is that inductions can be made by a compressed representation of the data.

No one is claiming this is a key insight to AGI; you’re just taking the word “comprehension” and arbitrarily assigning it some personal meaning.

This is why mathematicial descriptions are useful; you’re personal view of what “comprehension” means isn’t relevant here.

The article doesn’t discuss comprehension.

That is something you’ve, as far as I can tell, meaninglessly brought into this discussion.

How are your insights helpful for improving DNNs?

Be specific.
Having a stronger shared culture is the basis to a stronger and more unified Europe, and we've been lacking initiatives to do so. Erasmus worked pretty well for the educated class, but entertainment is the best approach to reach the masses. Netflix is a good start but we need much more than that, regular tv should also be partially european channels.
A synthetic womb would indeed be a game-changing technology.
Musk is also hoping for scientific breakthrough. When the breakthrough is not there, he says it will be there in 2 years.

What he does is nothing new, electric cars or vertically landing rockets, reusable space vehicles are not new but he is the only one who could manage to collect the funding necessary to work on these things again and be the one who is doing it with the current technology(which could end up financially sound this time).

For example, hyperloop is proving to be total BS, no roots in reality. Just look what he promised and what he delivered. The trick to keep party going on, if the party is not over you don't fail. "Hyperloop delivered nothing" is a failure, "Hyperloop delivered something that is nothing that was promised but a car in a concrete tunnel, nice CGI and a model of what it could be" is work in progress.

If you can keep the party going on for long enough, ether the technology will catch up or people will forget the original promise and accept the current delivery. Musk could end up being Tube magnate if he can keep up the funding despite not delivering on the vacuum tube hypersonic travel stuff.
> long time

4 decades is not a long time. It is a minuscule amount of time in the grand scheme of things.
I think it's really pretty, but hard to see. It needs more contrast or variation
ScummVM is testing a thousands of new games from AGS
Why would you do that kind of destructive thing? A dead pixel or two in the right place is equivalent
It’s almost predictable which “hot takes” will get clicks/attention.
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> That probably says more about me than CSS but I'm having a blast.

No, that probably is just how CSS is - a pile of decisions based on obsolete or incorrect assumptions that cannot be allowed to change due to backward compatibility.

To me Tailwind is just a wrapper that's more reasonable for modern webdesign. Just like TypeScript doesn't change how you're still running JS but it's more pleasant to work with.
However, it should also be noted that in order to achieve such a profit, a lot must be invested.
It's absolutely fascinating how much attention "x to PDF" or "PDF to x" draws still. I use and struggle with this on a daily basis, been trying to build my solutions but never really got there. It's still an issue people are willing to pay to solve in the best way possible for their use case.
The Cell Broadband Engine in PlayStation 3 had this kind of message-passing communication between the main PPC core and the SPE cores.
I have stricter no screen policy at my home. But since she is staying with her grand parents now (due to reasons beyond my control) and they are used to watching TV, she ends up watching it too. And its really difficult to avoid ads, you get that in all the channels.
> ... the more you can pay your accounting team ...

I would wager the typical Hacker News reader would be able to explain accelerated depreciation after sixty seconds of reading the instructions for Schedule C. It's not arcane.
Napoleon is kind of a.. controversial character in history.
let's not forget that the late 18th century was a bloody period in european history with massive societal change. It saw the removal of old medieval systems and them being replaced by more modern ideas.
Mikrotik itself had security problems before. Tom Lawrence covered a lot of this on YouTube. I can recommend his channel on the topic.
> The CMake find_program thing was utterly unable to find glslc, even when I placed it in /usr/bin/; I had to hand-edit the build/CMakeCache.txt entry. (^*%^&^$%&% CMake.)

I checked and the CMake code in this project is wrong:

https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/find_program.htm...

it should be

find_program(GLSLC_PATH glslc REQUIRED FATAL_ERROR)

e.g. here it was calling find_program with "glslc" as variable name in which to put a program called ""

I submitted a fix here: https://github.com/cledant/scop_vulkan/pull/1
Yeah... about that. If you've found something already, mind posting a link, because I really can't find a good source.

By the way, I did mean "violent crime" and not homicides/murders.
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We thought he would answer that question in the article!
Netflix paid no dividend right?

And Netflix has not (so far) run a share buy back.

So they're either sitting on the excess cash, or they've spent it making more programs. In either case this is exactly what the current tax code is designed to incentivise. Businesses should invest. That's the whole point of taxing profits not net income...
How much did the Netflix workers make and how much taxes did they pay?
Legitimately the Dark Forest theory (a mystery that shouldn't be spoiled if you want to read the books) explains so much about our universe as to be extremely unsettling. I was out camping while reading his trilogy, and just looking up at the stars made me shiver. Cosmic horror indeed.
Amen. Wise Presidents such as Trump Trump need further elevation from as astute an observation as yours.
After seeing that they did not capture the logs. What is the “proper” way of storing said logs? I guess you need a remote logserver like logstash to store them. But what service does actually send the logs from the server to a central storage.

Looking into Loki, Graphite, etc. But I’m a bit at a loss where to begin.
I really need to re-read Gleick's "Genius".
I have a Samsung phone that used to be their top of the line. I have never updated it because I know the next update disables call recording. I believe any subsequent phone has non-working (probably not in every region) call recording so that is a deal breaker for me.
It seems like they got lobbied by insurance companies who scam people over the phone (they promise options that turn out to be a lie) and you can't really prove it unless you record them. Call recording saved me few times from losing money. You can also record calls with your parents, so you can listen to them forever.
Ah apologies, I thought it was just a "hoho isn't node_modules big" comment. Yeah, its output: 150Mb seems hyperbole, but afaics it's not far off an order of magnitude larger than a normal React app.
Yes, the line between murder and attempted murder can be very thin. The hospitals were overtaxed last year, leading to things like health care worker fatigue which would cause an increase in deaths in all areas they are involved with.
Company generates revenue, offsets costs against that revenue, pays tax on the balance. Yawn.
As long as it doesn't jeopardize public safety, which shoddy self-driving vehicles could, I would not like more cautious leadership. The gains bold leadership makes - say in bringing forward Mars colonization, mass-accessible high-speed satellite internet, and reusable rockets by 30 years - will have recurring benefits that could significantly increase life expectancy and quality of life all over the world.
Mikrotik have not been able to keep up with the latest, or previous to latest wifi standards, seems like it's become too complex
Oh, all the more reason for a more critical review of his legacy, I'm sure it'd be very interesting with a more objective/modern lens.