skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would certainly help to curb the problem. On the flip side of that, a couple of things that have helped to stop it before it gets to that level are to ask the developers to enable "auto-trim whitespace" and to enable the option to show whitespace and/or hidden characters. Most editors can do these things. They go a long way toward stomping out the problem, even if auto-formatters aren't being used.

Highlighting trailing spaces are an option in git diffs too, though the devs who submit them typically don't look at their own diffs after they've pushed them (at least in my experience)
It's perverse that property ownership changes hands when owners die? What you you propose instead? Allow nieces but not grand-nieces to own inherited copyrights? Copyright expires 33 years after death?
Nice article. Reminds me of a similar approach and tool called git-ps - https://github.com/uptech/git-ps .

Write-up:
https://upte.ch/blog/how-we-should-be-using-git/
I don't even buy the "security" argument; MacOS is a highly secure operating system, produced by the same company, which has no forced walled-garden App Store. There certainly are exploits and scams which happen; just like on iOS. The argument sounds great in theory, but in practice, it simply doesn't hold water; security & privacy can (and should) (and does) happen at the OS layer, not application distribution.
If I build a shopping center that gets tons of foot traffic, pay to build the amenities and security, and then charge stores rent, it doesn't suddenly become a monopoly when the tenants feel that the rent is too high.
Alas, a lot of that supposed AZ stockpile traces back to the troubled Emergent Biosolutions facility. I don't think it had FDA certification when it produced them.

Exactly zero of the J&J doses from that facility have been given to Americans. 15M J&J doses were discarded because they were contaminated with AZ ingredients. Tens of millions more are currently in quarantine awaiting other evaluations & may never be used. The facility has halted production & there are some hints it may not restart.

Some of the AZ already sent to Canada was from that plant, made under conditions that that can now only be verified imperfectly in retrospect, based on the kind of incomplete records the company has been in trouble for.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/more-than-half-canadas-...
This guy! ^
As someone that doesn't abhor religion, the following isn't meant as argumentative, but rather curiosity:

> Religion serves a very important role in society and we abandon it at our peril.

What "important role" might that be? I don't see the necessity of religion and don't think there's anything inherent of religions that can't be supplemented by the surrounding culture.
Yeah, but electric cars have so many fewer moving parts that they just don’t need much maintenance at all. As someone who has an EV now, I’m never going back because EVs are just so much better overall.
I dont consider that a good analogy - if a mall closes a cinema because it doesn't like a movie, or a bakery because it baked a cake, there would be legal repercusions for them while apple's developer contract doesn't seem to have lots of legal protections for the seller, or the buyer.

Also, a mall doesn't benefit from dictating these decisions in a direct way the way apple does: apps are selected on the basis of improving the value (and price/desirability) of apple's products, not on the basis of giving user satisfaction/choice (when these two conflict)

A closer analogy would be a gas station made by Ford that is the only station that that Fords can use. Or Tesla's charger network where competing companies could be invited , but be at their whims.

Well, pauli's principle allows up to 2 malls in the same place
The only premade installation media available are flash memory? I want a big box CD case! They lost a potential customer with this one!
Here's Your Shot
It’s more than just “transport,” it’s the environment.

At one point, gas stations were hard to find and the horse/buggy reigned supreme. Gas cars were actually much cleaner then than the alternative. I’m glad we made that transition and I look forward to this new transition which will undoubtedly require at least a little change from just about everyone.
I'm in a similar situation - COVID-19 resulting in an ICU stay, then the vaccine (Oxford-AZ) - and I figured it couldn't hurt (read: was extremely unlikely to cause major side effects) and _may_ confer some slight benefit (similar to mixing vaccines or just renewing my immunity). Vaccine passports were also being mulled around that point, and I assumed it would make that process easier if necessary.

In the end, I did get some side effects, but nothing long term - a hard, hot to the touch, red circle of about 4" diameter formed around the injection site, and I could barely move my arm away from my body without significant pain, both for about a week.
Good thing that they all cross into each other's primary fields so that there's never a monopoly. Google makes phones. Windows is a search company.
First they got rid of the music stores. Then bookstores disappeared. Without them, there is no fun in going to the mall, haven't been to one in ages.
I would expect that in the limit it would follow clean-room design (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design) -- you only have to do enough to prove to a court that you or someone you got to rewrite something according to your spec weren't sufficiently tainted by the original code to rise to copyright infringement (even if the result is bitwise identical due to primarily one obvious way to do it).

The GNU project offers a bit of guidance for what counts as "legally significant changes" to them: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Sign... They use about 15 lines rather than the GP's 10 lines, but point out there could be context where even many lines of repeated change (renaming a symbol) is not legally significant. My opinion is there's no hard line, like always you need to weigh the risk of getting sued (some contributors might even be unreachable or identifiable) against the cost of reimplementing even things legal counsel says are insignificant (at the end of which you still might get sued anyway and have to prove you did clean-room/changes were insignificant/it's fair use/whatever).
Sure chose a bad example... that's Google being forced to drop fees by their competitor.

Those are commissions the stores take not what the developers take. Sure sounds like competition.
Really awesome. I’ve been thinking to start learning audio programming for quite a while now, but never really know where to start beyond just basic DSP. This list can serve as a prompt to pick something up and get practical.
I remember seeing a condo complex on top of a Ralph’s in San Diego: the Ralph’s was 24 hour and it always struck me as being incredibly convenient (the condos had an elevator direct into the store) - who needs a pantry at all when you have a 24hr grocery store literally five seconds away?
The multi-million dollar orgasm cult endorsed by Hollywood
In Korea, there is a special term for buildings like that, translating to basically "residential and commercial complex". Most cases are apartment high-rises with the first few floors dedicated to businesses, which can include restaurants, banks, doctor's offices, and private academies. Some are actually attached to malls. These apartments usually command premium prices due to 1. convenience, and 2. being typically of a higher quality than standard apartments. You can find them in city centers as well as suburbs.
Let me circle back and tighten up.

> All of this is nonsense and reeks of desperate frustration to validate hating something instead of understanding it.

I understand the system plenty, the difference is I look at it objectively, and you're not. You drank the kool-aid and got swept away.

tl;dr:

Cryptocurrencies are poor currencies because they're broadly speaking deflationary. That's not something we want in currencies, as it reduces the velocity of money and leads to a slower economy. They can't react to shocks, they can't react to population changes and hard currency exacerbates economic instability. Currencies only need to hold their value for as long as you possess them, be fungible (cryptos largely are not) and be cheap or free to transact anything else is a non-goal. Crypto prices are backed by Paolo's Bahamian money printer and enthusiasm. They're intrinsically inefficient because decentralization is inefficient. They're actively user-hostile because transactions are irreversible and they're super easy to lose. Not to mention they flail around wildly both up and down. Awful currency.

They're poor assets because Cryptocurrencies are negative sum vehicles. Any wealth generation is purely illusory. For every $1 you put into the system less than $1 can leave because miners extract the delta. This is simply a system to transfer wealth from new market participants to old market participants.

A business generates revenue which is used to repurchase shares, issue dividends or grow the intrinsic value of a business.

They're not actually better at anything than a classical implementation.

The actual issues in the traditional finance system can just as easily be solved within it. ACH is a great example. It's deprecated, on its way to being replaced with RTP, which settles instantly, no blockchain needed. Fedwires settle instantly and a number of US banks offer them free of charge.

If you understood a bit more about traditional finance you'd see your arguments really aren't relevant to people.

In exchange it facilitates money laundering at an unprecedented scale, and unprecedented frauds. It created a new type of crime - ransomware. And those fraud examples? Literally a rounding error on this exit scam right here. Thanks, Crypto!
It's more likely you could turn the empty big box store (sears, circuit city) into a complex within itself. You need windows added, but generally speaking 3 outside walls for people to look out
I realized a bit after writing that that Latin countries and in general around the equator are probably maybe even more so :)

Northern Europe and Eastern Asia. I don’t think I’ve even observed such an interaction (outside of social settings like bars and events) for the past couple of years even before COVID.

Someone mentioned population density but sunlight and latitude seem to affect culture around this even more so.

Sun and light seem to bring out the extrovert side of the populace. To the extent that Scandinavians are extroverts with strangers, it’s generally in spring and summer.
So why are they not municipal

Or should we have water and electric monopolies
macOS is definitely less secure than iOS.
Sbarro seems to have redone itself in the last few years so I’ll renounce my previous hatred but I have an unreasonable affection for Orange Julius, even if I have to sit in a DQ drive thru. It’s unpretentious and undemanding. The Jeffrey Archer novel (ok maybe I should say mindless instead of unpretentious) of drinks.
The Elephant’s Foot
These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of human biology and disease

The goal, the team says, is to make better models for studying biological development, evolution, disease progression and treatments. "As we are unable to conduct certain types of experiments in humans, it is essential that we have better models to more accurately study and understand human biology and disease,"

Interestingly, the review paper suggests that perhaps the creation of human-animal chimeras might help people realize that humans don’t necessarily have any higher moral status than any other creature.

Yeah sorry but fuck off with this. If your explicit goal is to create living organisms for medical research / donor organs that would be unethical to perform in humans, don't turn around and justify it with "maybe our monkeyman will increase people's concern with animal welfare!" If it did then we would turn around and ban your research and/or just do it in humans directly.

Frankly I'd find it a lot more ethical to figure out how to grow a brainless human clone for these purposes than a sentient hu-monkey that can be tortured in a lab.
A "downtown with landscaping" basically. They're great, maybe with the exception of when it's windy + raining.
Author of the OP here. I don't have a GIS background in particular; I do have a decade of experience building web mapping applications, and here's some of the foundational software I use:

http://leafletjs.com
https://shapely.readthedocs.io/
https://github.com/libgeos/geos
https://rasterio.readthedocs.io/
https://gdal.org
http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php
Sure, and Keurig has a monopoly on coffee if you own a Keurig machine and don't buy from Starbucks. While these corporate actions *are* anti-consumer, they do not generally fall in line with the standard definition of a monopoly, which includes looking at the the whole market, not just a sub-section of it. E.g. my local golf course also has a monopoly on golf balls while I'm in their pro-shop.
"You can't relicense something that is Apache 2.0 as AGPL. You need explicit approval of every single contributor" is false.

Anyone can take an existing Apache 2.0 project and change the license to AGPL 3.0. This does not require the approval of any prior contributor. Of course people can continue using versions released under Apache 2.0 under the terms of that license, but even then "approval of every single contributor" is irrelevant. See https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

The situation where you do need the approval of past contributors is when you want to switch between incompatible licenses. For example, if they had previously released it as AGPL 3.0 and wanted to move to Apache 2.0.

(also not a lawyer)
It does when you literally can’t operate your store in another mall.

I also don’t think this analogy scales very well since many stores operate both in and out of closed shopping centers. Including Apple’s stores.
"I see people I know who say, 'Chauvin is innocent', and I'm like, did we watch the same video?" This from the OP video https://youtu.be/0DRHn_Dz_js?t=384

Here is Tucker Carlson claiming the jury only convicted because they were scared to do otherwise. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549435-tucker-carlson-sug...

"This was a trial about whether the media was powerful enough to create a simulation and decide upon a narrative absent any facts." Candice Owens on Tucker Carlson's show https://www.foxnews.com/politics/candace-owens-slams-democra...

How is claiming that Chauvin was framed different from these statements in any material way? They all tacitly assume Chauvin was justified, and explain it in some absurd way. Their narrative gets life from the same callous cruelty that let them watch that video with the motive to figure out a way to blame anyone but the obvious murderer. The summary is: "Yes, Chauvin killed the man, but he was justified. The facts were distorted by those with a political agenda in the media and in the justice system, and they got what they wanted, convicting an innocent man for murder." And that's no different than what I said.
Yes, given the number of articles posted on hacker news that detail apps which circumvent protections on Apple... That's a bold claim
Can we get an updated title mods?
I think smartphones brought a second Eternal September. The Internet used to largely attract the sort of people who by and large weren't ordinary. Hobbyists, artists, people interested in science, generally creative types. There was an expectation that you were participating in something and not just consuming. It used to be that if you wanted to say something, you had to expend some creative energy and build your own web presence. Now the average internet user is idly flicking through an endlessly scrolling feed to avoid a few minutes of boredom. Mindlessly consuming.

Just one of many nerd subcultures appropriated and gentrified by the masses.
In detail? The only detail is amount and company/location. If anything moving to digital receipts would help us track purchases so much better...
Right now it's best suited for mapping applications focused on some part of the world - neighborhood, city, country scale - especially ones that might avoid using a hosted service. Think visualization projects built for clients, newspaper site interactives, etc.
Big discussion of original source a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
Make up a new word and fine them all the same. If you engage in anti consumer practices then I, a consumer, highly endorse anti corporate legislation.
OK, it was Harvard and Dennis Ritchie who didn't submit a bound copy of his thesis to Harvard library because he didn't want to pay the fee, so he didn't receive his PhD.

https://dmrthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AlbertMeyer...
Not directly about this story, but an interesting find:

Use Google to search for "India Coronavirus" or something similar. Check the 'news' items.

In my searches, the top results all have similar political leanings.

Is this still politicized? I can't imagine why, if it is.
Have you ever been to such a proceeding?

It's pretty obvious whom the crowd is there to support.

I am absolutely convinced that this effect resulted in a successful outcome for me.
I think it's just tradition and what people are used to, since buildings with both are actually considered more desirable in Korea, and are often more luxurious apartments than normal.
TFA says: Macs are general purpose computers.

No, they aren't, and they are getting less general all the time. Go to apple.com, and click on the page for any of their MacOS systems. The only use of the word "computer" that you will find is in the literally fine print at the end of a page. Running console applications with recent MacOS versions is getting extremely frustrating, due to security enhancements. It's supposed to be a Unix system, and yet running Python requires more security tweaks. And I had to install Python3, only Python2 was included in the OS. I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that the included version of rsync was ancient. And then there was that whole application signing thing.

No, MacOS is rapidly becoming a closed box, as has occurred with Mac hardware.
I've been wondering about the shelf life of that "loan", and while it's reasonable to surmise it was early batches with a limited life, it doesn't look like that article is specifically describing the US shipment as near-expiration.

But: a bigger problem is that most came from the troubled Emergent Biosolutions plant, never FDA-certified, where all of its J&J production has been held back from US use:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/us/astrazeneca-covid-vacc...
> I feel like the entire world has forgotten what a monopoly is [...] we've completely lost the thread on what a monopoly is.

Perhaps what “a monopoly is” deserves to be redefined from time to time.

I agree with you, legally and based purely on prior case law precedence, maybe it doesn’t count as a monopoly as currently defined by law.

But the legal system is designed to be fluid, to adapt to an evolving society. There are no absolutes in any legal system and everything is up for debate, which is the beauty of the system.
This sounds like a Chinese proverb; there's a whole tradition of pithy groupings of four words.

"Didn't look, too bad" might be a mode of "buyer beware" -- if you are not careful at the market, nyou might come home with trash.
How much of Wikipedia’s annual budget is actually paid for by companies like Google?
seppo!
> It does when you literally can’t operate your store in another mall.

Android exists

> I also don’t think this analogy scales very well since many stores operate both in and out of closed shopping centers. Including Apple’s stores.

How is the scalability of the analogy relevant?
The ID4 is a nice car, and definitely on our radar after our Nissan Leaf lease expires.

If you regularly take long road trips you’re going to be disappointed in the user experience with an EV. But EVs right now are perfect second cars. If the average American family replaced one of their cars with an EV it would drastically reduce emissions without requiring people to totally sacrifice the benefits of gas.
I say, “Amy klobuchar is literally a dumbass.”
Congrats on the conversion...it should be done more, just a thought .... would a portable EV charger be the solution? just a quick google let me find Blink Mobile EV charging station...but maybe there are cheaper/smaller/lighter solutions....or solar panels on your roof?
https://supabase.io/blog/2020/08/05/supabase-auth
and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072051
> The flaws it has are things like the poorly-written patent clause ...

Isn't the AGPL based on the GPLv3? I thought the GPLv3 had a very clear stance on patents.
Does the article list actual issues?
Except if Toyota's business is worth the cost of keeping 2-6 months of product in the warehouse, it isn't really like an "unneeded resource" that the JIT approach would want to avoid. They are being paid (in a sense) to hold those parts, so it is not wasted.
And yet again wrong. Google and Apple have exhibited very little cartel like behaviour at all. If they had there would have been a clear anti trust case by now.

The problem is that everyone seems to have collectively forgot that it's not monopolies in and of themselves that we have to protected against but rather anti trust behaviour.

You could potentially argue that app stores do exhibit anti trust behaviour but in that case one should do so and not throw around words clearly aimed at invoking an emotional response.
You need to be careful as words matter.

Apple and Google are not a cartel by any definition and they do not in anyway coordinate with each other. Either of these are criminal.

Google reducing their margins to better compete with Apple is no different to how every market works.
Many SE research papers include a "threats to validity" section which is more or less what you're describing
It's not uncommon for configurations to be included in a codebase. Anyone new to a project who uses an alternate editor can commit a config with the same settings, too.

One thing we're running into at my current company is that there are pre-commit auto-formatters that are employed that will take care of this for us. It's really convenient. The only drawback is that this process was introduced many years after the codebase was created, so there are still occasional lingering files that will pull in formatting changes once someone changes even a single character. The upside is that this isn't very frequent at this point, and we're kind of expecting them to happen on occasion.

A couple of devs have also been planning on running the entire codebase through the formatter all in one go, which will happen during a lull. I've seen another company do this once, and while the result is nice, it always ends up with someone getting frustrated with having to iron out conflicts in some branch they've been working on. (And of course, another drawback is that it complicates the blame process, but that might not be a huge problem depending on the codebase.)
I don't care or know if it counts as a "monopoly" (I guess I can use Android...), but as a consumer and human being, I would love it if governments compelled big companies to act more in the public interest and less in their own.

In particular, I would love to be able to install 3rd party app stores and software w/o having to resort to jailbreaks or weird certificate hacks.

To me, it seems obvious this would be a net win for society.

(I think you could make the argument that the iPhone is one of the most important creative mediums of our time; from that perspective, it's outrageous that it is censored by an unacountable, prude (& often Kafkaesqe) bureaucracy. Imagine if artists had to get each painting approved by the company that manufactured their oil paints? It's absurd.)
These are the same idiots who applied Jack Welch's BS to non-manufacturing operations.