skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s correct. Am a lawyer, not giving legal advice.

A very common term in contracts is what is called a merger clause, and what it says essentially is that the contract forms the entire agreement of the parties, and that any oral representations not contained in the contract are irrelevant and to be completely disregarded. But there are courts that hold that a merger clause is not absolute and has its limits.

Make no mistake, contracts and their waivers are powerful. However, there are lots of court rulings where the courts have held that you can’t say X explicitly and have the contract say Y. In those situations, the courts will often enforce the X promise.

But then you get into a practical issue here. If you were an effected individual, you’re going to have to hire a lawyer to make that argument, and even with $25,000 on the line, that’s probably not a situation where the math works out.
> This is the exact same line Sidney Powell is using in her defense against Dominion: "'No Reasonable Person' Thought Her Election Fraud Claims Were Fact" [0]. Amused but not surprised to see this from her, I am quite aghast to see this from Apple.

The sentence in the filing is true: no reasonable person would see her opinion about an event as a fact. Opinions are not facts. Powell's problem is that her "facts" used to support her opinion are flaming dumpster-fire ridiculous and Loony Toons level crazy. (My opinion, also not a fact, is that she had a really bad filter for technical information, and so ended up filing complete trash in court.)

Apple is also making an opinion claim here: "buy" in an Apple context does not mean "buy" in the colloquial context. I think it's a dumb argument mostly unsupported by facts (don't know how well supported it is by law), but, again, it's their opinion.

Only the judge's opinion really matters, as well as the customer's when she decides not to "buy" this crap from hostile streaming services.
The Key Project
Ask HN: Why is Amazon book information awful?
Amazon is a big company and bookseller, so I'd expect that the information it provides on books to be of high quality. But often it's laughably bad, in a way that an AI algorithm should detect. For example, you see at https://www.amazon.com/Optimization-Techniques-Fortran-Kuester-1973-06-01/dp/B01A64AHLQ

Optimization Techniques With Fortran by J. Kuester (1973-06-01) Paperback – January 1, 1656
by J. Kuester (Author)

The title, obviously, is "Optimization Techniques with Fortran". Fortran is old, but the book was not written in 1656. Unmentioned by Amazon, there is a coauthor, Joe H. Mize, according to Google books.

I guess the answers to my question are that bad information does not hurt sales if it still has the keywords that customers would search, especially for old, obscure books with low sales in any case.
But if I choose to interact with the community, does my choice to present myself, justify any and all abusive actions they may volley at me? Oof coarse not.

The point would ordinarily be a good one, but I think you've misused it.

The Linux kernel community, by your logic, chose to interact with and be open to patches which were not properly vetted.

This framing seems secondary to a seemingly more important point, which is, nobody is fucking perfect.

In LKLM or in UMinn. The light now shines on UMinn, but to me, the feigned horror of LKML at UMinn's transgressions, and the lack of commensurate outrage at the many abusive, toxic and hostile transgressions of the LKML community, presupposes a terrifying "normalization" of abusive behavior within the LKLM community.

By sooch notion, it's safer to interact with the UMinn transgressors, than it is with LKML, who here fail to even once question their own guilt, introspect upon their own created violations of trust and ethics, but heartily condemn the egregious breaches of trust of others.

I'd rather hang with the contrite, or at least hangdog, scallywag, than the quicktongued accusers blind to their own abuses. I'd feel safer there anyhoow.
Tesla admits its Full Self-Driving technology is a Level 2 system
Okay, but what about your personal accounts? Do you just not use them on your phone? Manually key in passwords while looking at them on a PC?
It decreases the amount of boilerplate "how to program in X" text you have to write. Producing text, especially novel text, is expensive in a non-fiction book.
> I expect candidates to identify and learn what's required for the task

And that comes for free in people who spent time on Algorithms and Data Structures.
We get 500 req /sec hitting a non trivial database load.
They show one going from SF to Reno. There is some kind of station at Truckee. I’ve never taken an Amtrack to Reno/Truckee. I would think if they promoted this more, you could have more skiers go the weekend to Truckee/Tahoe/Reno/Mt Rose a lot more to avoid getting stuck on I-80 during storms as well as avoiding 4-hr drives. I’m guessing it sucks.

Also nice would be SJC to Santa Cruz.
Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers (2019)
Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019)
Not nearly to the level of this project, but if you want to dabble with taking long exposures of the sky: Consider the simple "barn door tracker"[0][1][2] to try astrophotography. After all was said and done my sky was too polluted for anything worthwhile, but the simplicity of it still intrigues me, and may be an intermediate step before going all in on the OAT.

[0] https://garyseronik.com/build-a-hinge-tracker-for-astrophoto...

[1] https://www.astropix.com/bgda/sample2/sample2.html

[2] https://sites.google.com/view/emvilza/proyectos/star-tracker...
When things are kinda slow and aimless at work, that's when I really start to do some projects at home again. But to be honest, it all comes and goes.

But yeah, right now I'm both single and in lockdown, and if it was any other way I wouldn't spend a week just programming some sort of custom build/deployment agent.

With kids? One of my colleagues once told me that once you have them, you'll suddenly be out of time you didn't even know you had in the first place.
Have you seen how many parts there are? It would probably take most people with a normal day job a week to print all parts in the evenings and weekend. And that's if they do have a printer.

Add another 20 parts that you need to order from different place, make sure they meet the specifications, pay for shipping for a lot of different packages and that many things must be bought in bulk and not single pieces.

USD 200 is a bargain for this kit. Sure, you might be able to save a couple of dollars if you do the work yourself. But is that worth many hours of work, and the risk of ordering wrong stuff?
Rust undefined behavior can only happen within "unsafe" blocks.

You can read more about what things the programmer has to manually avoid while writing code in "unsafe" code blocks: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...

EDIT: this means that if you stick to safe rust, the type system ensures you cannot have data races (among other things)
Someone needs to make a doge equivalent for this
Great productivity tips for working from home – Sandor Dargo's Blog
Have you experienced European rail?
>Well that basic ethical no-no is going to make it impractical for anyone to do [x]

There's tons of potentially useful research that's impractical because of ethical considerations. Just think of all the incredibly useful medical research that could be done in the absence of ethical constraints!

In the end that's just tough cookies. If you can't do your research ethically then you can't do it. Period.

If you really want to help the Linux kernel, offer your time as a patch reviewer. That would achieve far more than any attempt to deceive and embarrass others with pointless "research". (I say that it's pointless because the results are antecedently obvious – of course you can deceive reviewers if you spend enough time and effort on it.)

In your ethical world, it seems that people who offer their spare time to review kernel patches are "negligent", while people who do nothing but carp from the sidelines are heroes. In my view, the situation is exactly the opposite.
I've been on HN for years and created this account after a two year hiatus. Your account is two years old. What's your point and how does it relate to what I said?
changing color of a button in an Electron app, or moving JSONs back and forth (from backend to frontend)
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Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey
For CD’s it’s legal to make backup copies in the US which are digital and thus don’t degrade.

Many of the oldest recordings still work, and can be played indefinitely with an optical needle. The time value of money means the possible purchase by a small fraction of buyers 20+ years out isn’t worth much at the time of sale. It’s only moving forward in time that makes anyone care about these sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
Most of the reverted commits are fine by inspection and the researched insist there were 3 hypocrite submissions that didn’t get merged.

So the idea is to collectively punish the mostly innocent people who wrote the 190 good commits, spending a huge amount of developer time checking them or losing the fixes to prevent other institutions from doing this?

Does reverting nearly 200 good patches seem out of proportion relative to 3 unmerged hypocrite commits?
Reminds me of Suchman's "Plans and Situated Actions" --- an anthropological study of plans and planning, which also has a lot of implications for AI. Resonances to that famous Eisenhower quote "Plans are nothing, planning is everything"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342380.Plans_and_Situate...
If you find $200 expensive for a piece of astrophotography gear you are in for a shock when you research actual prices!

For example, the EQ6R Pro mount is a very popular and decent goto mount and it will set you back $1600. You will struggle to find any decent mounts for less than $1000.

$200 is EXTREMELY cheap.
Malicious JavaScript can sniff the clipboard.
"Cheat Sheet" prints as a 64 page PDF. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Amtrak is publicly owned. I'd personally love to see it privatized, but you phrased that like you think Amtrak is a private company that receives subsidies. It isn't, it's closer to the USPS model than that.
I would love the inverse as well: Factorio2Verilog. Then I can use Factorio as an IDE.
CEO Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Pandemic-Battered Companies
Artificial Intelligence Device Identifies Objects at the Speed of Light
Lol, then don't work with it if at all it comes out or let alone access SSH either if that is too distracting as well.

The important part is access to options, not just limited to Apple or Android ecosystems.

Here we have devices with no way to develop applications solely using them & publishing them. Heck you can't even format USB drives with iso images from our so called portable computers(phones/tablets), even if our laptops or PCs without CD drives ever need an occasional formatting.

This is more of enabling options to who wants it, not just pandering to one persons distraction free session on one of their devices.
This resonates with me too. Instead of spending 2 weeks shaving off 100ms in a request I’ll spend two weeks shaving off 3-4 days worth of time for a request from the marketing or sales team by figuring out a better process for them to request changes on the management side.
Read the blogpost:

https://www.helm-nagel.com/how-to-score-a-perfect-100-percen...

The code of this post is available on GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/c.helm/multiple-languages-fast-jekyll-exa...

Feel free to add any feedback.
Congress could deregulate passenger rail and allow competition. Amtrak is a government monopoly. There's the chance that passenger rail isn't profitable and that it disappears but I've always thought that would be unlikely
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> Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone from curiosity to punchline to viable investment, making them almost impossible to ignore — for better or worse.

Where were they in the 2018 crash? The ICO mania and the SEC warnings on cryptocurrency scams?

When everyone is jumping in on the bandwagon right NOW, they are actually the late comers in this 'cryptocurrency boom'. At that point, it is time to take profits before a correction eventually happens. Oh wait, you're nearly too late.

Obviously there are now bag-holders in some cryptocurrencies who bought at the all time highs, so they must wait until their investment comes back again or dollar cost average all the way down.

Ignore the hype and this garbage article and properly inform yourself about the risks involved in cryptocurrency investments. This is 2017 all over again but this time, institutions are increasingly owning more BTC than before, which means more manipulation.

You'll probably see a headline that will say: 'NFTs are the new cheap expensive trendy scam for criminals.'
I’ve gotten burned by Cisco in a very similar situation. At this point they basically lean on their largest telecom customers to build their solutions for themz They moved to this model because the Comcasts / AT&Ts / Verizons around the world started looking at contracting with factories to build their own white-label network gear (when you spend $10 billion+ a year on network gear, this starts making sense). Cisco’s pitch is basically “give us all your requirements and we’ll build whatever you want as long as we have the option to sell it in the market”.

Never mind that Cisco is an absolutely terrible partner and the telecoms realized they were getting almost nothing out of the deal, so after a few years the big telecoms all dumped them and went with white label factories in China while working with American companies like Intel and Qualcomm on large component orders to supply the factories. Which left all the small and mid-size telecoms in the lurch for a generational upgrade they were expecting (which is a lot of why Huawei has so much market share in 5G).
Domestic air travel sucks because of lack of competition. This may help it suck less.
The biggest hindrance is the environmental red tape and then the corruption. China has high speed trains from Shanghai to Beijing and that is roughly the distance of Chicago to NYC.
xCloud on the web is here
The odds of this ever happening are probably slightly lower than the odds that China takes over and uses their high-speed rail expertise to get the job done.
Well, that's what the court case is about. I would certainly _like_ for the result of the case to be either Apple (Amazon, et al) stops using the word "Buy" in their apps, or better yet but even more unlikely, for the companies to start providing media as DRM-free downloads.

But like I said: the cynic in me says neither is going to happen.
ITER, much like the SLS, is an industrial development program. Countries will use it to develop their own capabilities.
>where?

3 days ago- 'Challenges Building an Open-Source E Ink Laptop'[1]

> "According to conversations I’ve had, the minimum order quantity(MOQ) required for purchase at one time is between 10,000 to 50,000"

In the comments of the same discussion[1],

> "During the initial prototyping(MNT Reform) this was one of the options we considered, but back then it would have been prohibitively expensive and we decided to focus on an IPS display and to get to ship a viable product as quickly as possible -- with a tiny team."

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26901757
This is actually the one feature where CMake really shines, and big kudos to the CMake team for this: IDE project file generation never breaks when new versions of those IDEs are released (or at least regressions happen extremely rarely and are fixed promptly).

This must be one of the most frustrating and unthankful tasks in the entire domain of programming.
Also see Pea Hix, and his band "Optiganily Yours"

https://optigan.com/
Woah, thanks for sharing this. I can see a connection with the way Feyman stopped trying to go for his objective yet he still achieved it
छोटे कारोबारियों को चुप कराया जा रहा है
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I had this interesting experience back in university. We were doing some simple web service project in pairs, and it consisted of a program and some devops stuff. My partner in that project turned out to have skills that exactly complemented my own - he had trouble with the algorithmic stuff that I thought was trivial, yet he easily stitched all the services together by editing some configuration files before I even understood what any of them were for.
Travis Kalanick's stealth $5B startup CloudKitchens is Uber all over again
Added it, thanks :)
There are taxes on inventory? How does that work?

I thought it was just expensive to tie up a lot of capital on inventory.
> I wish this were true, but it's really not. Not remotely

Again, you're off on a tangent talking about the Github review UI and not git branching strategies. As far as github: meh. I use it every day to manage large PRs on a large project, and it's fine. Gerrit and mailing list processes fix the problems you have, but have their own pain points. Gitlab is worse than all three.

Pick the tools that work for you, adapt to the ones that work for your codevelopers, and don't start fights. Calling someone else's tool garbage helps nothing but your upvote count.
> I'll come up with my own tools. They won't be great, but...

They WILL be great. They'll do exactly what YOU need them to do, and nothing else.

Software at present is a disaster, partly because we're just piling on complexity all the time, thinking only of the benefits and never of the huge downsides ("fighting with tools").
and I'm pretty sure we've had a HN story for a whole bunch of the other applications for STEP sites.
Fucking electricity bill likely did them in.
"Slander Machine"?? You mean like the NYT?
I'm not saying it's not usable in FF nightly, I'm saying there are major blockers for it to go into GA.

As far as I can tell the rendering is currently hacky (i.e. it doesn't follow the spec but achieves the same visual result) and the implementation is supposed to be tied to the `inert` attribute, which isn't currently implemented in FF. This may not matter to most users but if left as-is would result in cross-browser compatibility issues.
Affirm seeks to go beyond buy now pay later with its Returnly acquisition
From your original comment I gathered that they "will pay literally anything" for you to swap the mask in your remaining 100 slots. That sounds to me like regular free market-enabled bullying.

Are you saying it's a different kind of bullying? What makes it different? You original comment really piqued my desire to understand this.
Will probably be a while before that happens, if it happens, but I'll put down your email just in case.

I do have other game designs I'm working on and a different version of the game I'm thinking of that is aimed at a bit more of a casual audience (even putting Twitch streamer friendly things in there), but I do hope to get to a point where there can be some real data on how to play well in the game, and it is basically a board game anyway (I have a physical prototype for the board game version made, but it's never been published).
Yes, I haven't said that you should not learn algorithms. The best way to learn that skill is to learn (some) algorithms; DP is particularly worthwhile to learn because it is pretty hard to invent by one's own. But as an interviewer I would spend more time to check the general ability to adapt than the algorithmic knowledge.
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> I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right?

It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear what the initial comment (or even topic) was. It is then very helpful to be able to glance back up to the initial comment across the now-collapsed first reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, before reading reply #2. Simply navigating to reply #2 doesn't give you that.

> don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?

I mean this page of the HN site: https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It has the currently actively discussed stories, and is a great way to catch up after not reading HN for a day or two. A kind of intermediate step between best ( https://news.ycombinator.com/best ) and the homepage.

[Edit: the 'active' page apparently has an RSS feed here, in case you would be inclined to add it: https://hnrss.org/active ]
Indonesian navy submarine (KRI Nanggala 402) found split into three on sea bed
I've spent a lot of money on iTunes content (Nearing 1,000 purchased movies on AppleTV), and my assumption was the same. As long as Apple/iTunes doesn't go under, and given I don't do anything to violate Apple's terms, I will have access to this content.

I understand I can lose access, I'm not paying for the content in the idea that I own it forever even if Apple goes under or I get terminated, but I have perpetual access to it given the circumstances don't change, and I pay for the convenience of this.

If I had expected to own it forever, I'd probably have bought DVD's, not digital.
You are almost certainly correct. It is not right or fair but it is probably legally defensible.

In the US, without legislation we rely on the contracts we sign. When we sign contracts with trillion dollar companies we don’t get to negotiate.

(I think this issue is related to right to repair, which is continuing to gain steam and might be a good effort to join forces with.)
I am among the people who met him at a conference (CCC 2006 for me) and at the after party. I remember he was super friendly. I'm very sad to hear that news. RIP
17 different ways to concatenate strings in rust, with benchmarks:

https://github.com/hoodie/concatenation_benchmarks-rs