skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HK’s Apple Daily to shut within days
> vindication is very expensive

While true, this is unfortunate, because it means that patent trolls continue to get away with this behavior.

I think society today is insufficiently aggressive and vengeful. The social utility of vengefulness is precisely that it allows for n-tit-for-tat strategies to punish social defectors like patent trolls.
Depending on the industry you are in, it could be an attractive credential. As a hiring manager it’s not what I use to determine proficiency or possibility of success, but lots of our contracts require them.

If you are using it to learn it’s not a bad tool to learn unless you have some pet projects you want to try out on the platform of your choice.

I’ve been working with AWS for the last 6 years and have been certified for the last 5. I learned new things through certification, but my practical experience tells me where the sharp edges are.
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Is that a glottal stop?
Because they don't have a choice. It's not easy and sometimes not even possible to migrate from Windows if you are an average non-technical user. Also, both macOS and Linux have their quirks that may bother you more than telemetry.

I agree the current situation is ridiculous. Technical users use all kinds of WIndows detelemtrizers that sometimes do more damage than benefit. Moreover, MS is deepening the integration with their online services so at some point just using it without them tracking you won't be possible.
Interesting. I happened to be one of those natural born swimmers (not as newborn) as an infant as I could float, move around by wiggling like a fish and close nasal passages instinctively (w/o exhaling) at 8 months. Always perplexed me that some people will hold their nose closed or have to exhale through it while under water.
What could a better Goodreads look like?
Makes sense, thanks for the feedback! That definitely wasn't meant to be passive-aggressive, I think I just tend to say "sorry" too often (I just refrained myself from writing sorry again here).
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I'd say the most important part is knowing the tools and that comes with practice. Here's a good summary [0].

[0] https://cloudonaut.io/5-good-reasons-not-to-get-aws-certifie...
How do you treat the water, without having a container to treat it in? I may have to call you out on this - can you give an example in the wild?
Will we able to earn from this service?
If you notice it, it’s not done correctly (which in games unfortunately seems to be always; presumably because it’s faked with a blur in post-processing). Few people complain about motion blur in movies, where cameras produce it through physics alone. It’s artificially added to CGI scenes so that they don’t stand out and distract the viewer.
And also consider, that UBI would be clawed back via taxes for the majority of the population. And consider that social security is already accounted in the current spending.

The number is feasible for the US, though it would be one of the larger spending programs ever conceived. But not impossible.
I've been through similar situations. The "find a lawyer" comments are less than helpful, since you probably don't know where to begin and most lawyers will happily take your money without necessarily having an expedient path to resolution for a small one-person company. So here's what you do:

Write to each of your competitors, explain the situation and ask for a referral to their lawyers. You'd be surprised how many are more than willing to make a referral against a troll Also search around for any other attorneys who have filed against this troll and contact them as well. They should all be willing to do an initial call for free.

You are trying to find an attorney who has a successful blueprint for dealing with this particular troll, ideally this particular claim. If the attorney is able to leverage their prior work or knowledge, your costs are greatly reduced. Also, if the troll has unsuccessful experience with a particular attorney they may just give up. Good luck!
I do. I don't use the front page, because I prefer to list the items in chronological order. (It would be good to include an option to force such chronological order everywhere, for users who want it, since a few lists currently do not support that)
A browser which doesn't update security features upon install, startup, and on a regular interval, is an unsafe browser. Such an application might be okay for a power-user who understands the risks, but not for a popular browser built for all types of users.

Telemetry is crucial to understanding how your product is used, as well as understanding what works and what doesn't. You cannot have one-on-one conversations with 30M+ users, which is how you learn, develop, and improve.

Brave needed to find privacy-respecting ways to achieve similar "conversational" insights. That's what we've done with Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics (https://www.brave.com/p3a/). P3A doesn't collect any user data, operates on a set of published "questions", and uses vague, range-based "answers". We also split up the requests to avoid developing a "fingerprint" from the answers.
My understanding is that a lot of the Trawnikis were simply trying to stay alive, at least the ones who started as POW's at the time they volunteered for the training. The vast majority of Soviet POW's in Wehrmacht hands were starved to death which is something that doesn't get talked about enough in my opinion - it absolutely shreds any "clean Wehrmacht" revisionist nonsense.
I tend to view collaborators as requiring less explanation in general, did some jump on the opportunity to unleash their inner sadist? Undoubtedly, but I think most were simply trying to survive the task of navigating the conflict between two brutal regimes and I believe their motivations and reasoning were individual and covered a whole spectrum of rationale. The people I think require the most explanation are the highly educated, well off volunteers of organizations like the SS and NKVD. People who had a choice and chose the secret police.
Do you use `git stash`? I don't understand your workflow, do you commit to keep a log of your whole line of thought? As in: with your mistakes or failed designs/approaches being backtracked (overwritten/removed, etc.) and keeping an immutable sequence of your line of reasoning?

For me, commits of work in progress are only done on my development branches before I want to push to a remote to save my work in case of my computer failing (or getting lost/stolen, whatever force majeure), I usually write a "WIP: <what's been worked on>" message that I will squash later on when I have a meaningful commit.
Sometimes COEs are used to punish engineers.
Eg. take a look at so called "moustache" COE (which I was part of).
Sometimes you can!

Checkout:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/theres-only-fou...

From it:

Floating-point math is hard, but testing these functions is trivial, and fast. Just do it.

The functions ceil, floor, and round are particularly easy to test because there are presumed-good CRT (C RunTime) functions that you can check them against. And, you can test every float bit-pattern (all four billion!) in about ninety seconds. It’s actually very easy. Just iterate through all four-billion (technically 2^32) bit patterns, call your test function, call your reference function, and make sure the results match. Properly comparing NaN and zero results takes a bit of care but it’s still not too bad.
India's “black fungus” infections exacerbated by crowded hospitals
Don’t ask for legal advice on the internet, and ignore any advice other than “talk to an attorney”. You’re more likely to be harmed than helped by anything you hear on an open forum.
and then the next line clarifies that only the last part of the whole story was a joke:

> #6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress, headed up by Uber-Chief Bear Bulldog Rick Dalzell.
I second this thought. Everyone hates patent trolls and it's very possible some of these companies might relish another opportunity to force this one to "lose".
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To your point, the same is true for policing. These things become the one funnel where all other problems get directed to (parenting, environment, media, etc), and just thrown into the laps of an institution that can’t make up for years of neglect or misguidance.
Thank you. I have not personally been served, I found out about it via emails from two different patent attorney firms offering their services, with the lawsuit attached as a courtesy. The lawsuit looks legit to me. I live in Tahoe so don't get mail but will check today and also check with my registered agent in Reno.

Can you recommend me a patent attorney? Any idea on how much this could cost?
Searching on here returns some results for people asking about how to find an IP lawyer:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ip+lawyer

Might give you a starting point to see some people that have been suggested in the past
Curious, why is it expensive?

Is it similar to the process of getting the patent itself where most companies pay $$$ for lawyers, but a determined technical (and legally literate) person can do it themselves with not that much effort (like I did)? Or is there some sort of gatekeeping or statutory fees that must be paid?
Basically telling him to do anything else is to request of him to do the policing of anti-social behavior in a broken system that enables it, at huge personal cost.

Some people do. People like that are necessary. But not everybody is willing to take that responsibility and associated burden.
There was a complete lack of education about how taxes, governments, zoning, city planning, or any of that community type stuff in school when I went through it 30 years ago.

I do not see why kids cannot be taught how the system works, including marginal tax rates which is a one day lesson in 5th grade math.
It certainly didn’t help that I mixed the natural with the artificial, but to be specific: American city layouts are terrible with respect to “high quality outdoor space”, so much so that visiting taught me why American culture seems to more often talk about youths hanging out in malls rather than in parks. Even in places like Manhattan — compare the pedestrian density of Central Park to that of Times Square.

American municipalities give me the impression of treating their green spaces (or sun-bleached yellow spaces, as the case may be) a checkbox item, not of actually understanding them and valuing what they can provide. (At least not those I visited; I’d be very surprised if it was universal!)
loved it! open source, browser based and dark mode supported - awesome!
You specifically need a patent/IP lawyer. Someone else mentioned the EFF. You might also try the Software Freedom Law Center. They're specifically focused on open source but they might be able to point you in an appropriate direction.
Thanks for your reply. With python, I can run applications at the command line by calling `python my_app.py`. Is this because the language ships with it's own runtime, whereas JS is just a language and doesn't come packaged with a runtime? Also, I've been reading about Deno. Worth learning over Node?
First challenge on any and all lawsuits is diversity. Since you are the one being sued it better be Nevada, otherwise your lawyer will answer with a diversity challenge saying you don’t do business where it was filed and ask for the case to be moved.

Get ready for so many continuances and discovery requests. Do not delete anything, purposeful deletions can be taken as an admission of guilt.

But I’m clearly not your lawyer or a lawyer just someone who has been sued.

They always want to settle for precedent. Prior art is a harder thing than it should be, but you better find out everyone else they sued and make contact, assuming they aren’t gagged.

Sadly courts don’t slammed down enough people as vexatious litigants, so here we are.
This is an awesome idea.
Can't wait to hear the objections from the purists.
Programs built by different compilers aren't generally binary comparable, e.g. we shouldn't expect empty output from `diff <(gcc run-of-the-mill.c) <(clang run-of-the-mill.c)`

However, the behaviour of programs built by different compilers should be the same. Run-of-the-mill programs could use this as part of a test suite, for example; but diverse double compilation goes a step further:

We build compiler A using several different compilers X, Y, Z; then use those binaries A-built-with-X, A-built-with-Y, A-built-with-Z to compile A. The binaries A-built-with-(A-built-with-X), A-built-with-(A-built-with-Y), A-built-with-(A-built-with-Z) should all be identical. Hence for 'fully countering trusting trust through diverse double-compiling', we must compile compilers https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
What jurisdictions include such restrictions? Just curious, have never heard of this.
To put it in other words, zfs doesn't support rebasing a clone off of a newer snapshot. Otherwise e.g. you could create a clone, snapshot each clone, create two new clones and promote them, and then delete the original snapshot. But what zfs does is re-attach the original snapshot to the promoted clone of the original volume, and it is still the referred base of the other clone.
The best start would probably be both parts of Windows Internals:

https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-architecture-m...

https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-Developer-Refe...

These aren't about programming per se, but if you want to do systems programming it helps to have a detailed understanding of the system. :)

After that, specific reading probably depends on the exact task you want to perform, but MS has good documentation and tutorials in many areas. Writing drivers, for example:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ge...
It would be great if they marked those that need a credit card connected to the account in order to use the free tier.
It's pretty common for someone doing business in the US. Do you have any friends from school who are lawyers? That could be a good start. Or someone else you know who has been involved in litigation. A Google search for IP lawyers in your area couldn't hurt either. You can usually get a little bit of free advice over the phone too.
I am an IP litigator, and I have dealt with patent trolls repeatedly. I have taken these kinds of cases pro bono in the past for small companies (including through the EFF attorney referral list, https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance), and I know that others have as well.

There are definitely low-cost and pro bono (free) options out there for very small businesses. The EFF attorney referral list is a good place to start.

I'm also happy to talk it through with you if you'd like more specific information - my contact information is here: https://shawkeller.com/attorneys/andrew-e-russell/
On money held in bank accounts. Call it a negative interest rate. Apply it to bank accounts above the insurance limit.

Edit: What happens if they invest their money? That's the moment you have won!
This seems like a very good idea. Only if we can scroll through the commit hashes and see the preview of commit with help of fzf or something similar, it will be totally awesome.
WFH revolution could see millions of white collar jobs outsourced
> Here’s my theory: novice and intermediate users would significantly improve their understanding and efficacy with Git if they weren’t afraid of making mistakes.

Here's something that happens when people are encouraged to make more mistakes: they make more mistakes.

The piece where people are encouraged to learn from these mistakes is missing from the author's equation. Without that, this tool becomes a crutch at best, and a disaster waiting to happen at worst.

Can we do better?

*Edit*: Let me answer my own question. We can do better - for example - simply by adding the Git commands this program would run, aside from the human readable explanation. Not sure what people replying to this comment were aiming for, since they clearly did not offer up a single suggestion.

Let me go a bit further and add that self-righteous soapboxes are NOT a good thing, and as it stands none of the replies to this comment were relevant. I was hoping to spark a discussion of what else could be done to improve the experience, but I could have worded my comment better.

On the other hand, you can do better.
Thank you. Looks like custom input is still a little up in the air on Wayland. I guess one benefit is that some solutions will also work for the console (though not for the bootloader, so no "pi" boot options... but i can live with that...).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292868/how-to-custo...

In particular:
https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/tools

https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc

(for remapping caps lock to escape - in the terminal and under Wayland).
Or depending on the industry, your competitors might be happy to see one less competitor.
> Then by definition you are not receiving security updates.

There are certain apps that I will update though, like Element, but I don't even update Firefox because the new engine breaks too many things for me, like extensions and bookmarklets. IE: Last time I checked you could only choose between 12 extensions on the latest Firefox Mobile.
Julia allows you to input Unicode characters via latex names though. I think that's a sweet spot of ease of typing and expressivity of characters.

Honestly I really hate seeing mu_a, delta_k and company all over the place. If we are gonna name our variables like this might as well give us the actual characters
Exposure to “Western”/civilized values? What are you even talking about?

Yes you can learn to be a script kiddy and plan heists without having the pledge of allegiance as part of a balanced breakfast. Books and random websites and stuff!

Not to mention that people from NK or China don’t just explode from logic errors after discovering Facebook.

And yes people have ways of getting around internet blocking stuff for “reasons”. They get exposed to minion memes and come out without being totally radicalized.
Sorry to hear, I just checked out the site in your profile and it looks like a great product.

Consensus seems to be to contact a lawyer, and even if the EFF can't help you directly maybe they can get you in contact with the right kind of lawyer. Hope you find someone who can help you out.
By low-staffed, do you mean that you had to wait long time to get your order? These places are highly automated so they don't need as many staff, sure there's few people working there but usually more than enough for serving the orders that come through in just few minutes.
In defiance of Vatican, US bishops vote to advance Communion document
>> The original person said that 'patents prevented photomosaics'.

I see your point now, although I do not see the original person (@tomcam) explicitly saying 'patents prevented photomosaics'. I only see "Fun to see it commoditized like this." [1]

>> Also matching by root mean squared error is pretty specific. It is possible to match based on other error criteria.

The applicability of the said patent [2] is not limited to use of RMS error. I do not see "root mean square" anywehere in Claim 1 or any independent claim of the patent. That is introduced only in dependent claims like claim 3.

In case you do not already, you may consider reading [3-5] below to understand how coverage of a patent depends on independent and dependent claims.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532662

[2] https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/0267124...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_application#Claims

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_claim

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_claim#Basic_types_and_c...
Seems like an issue on Heroku's end really, maybe some build dependency timeout which is then cached or something. At any rate, I'd either dig in or contact Heroku, I couldn't imagine leaving that lie without knowing the cause.

Often, the root cause of this will bite you hardest when you need it least.
> with UBI even the landlords in the middle of nowhere can demand higher rent

If that was happen it would only encourage people on UBI to buy the cheapest houses or by land to build. Not being bound to a location, they would be able to do so easily.

> All the UBI will do is it will raise the nominal prices of everything [...] inflation eats it all.

Plain false. UBI does not create new money out of nowhere.
DO NOT do this. You probably also should have used a throwaway account and provided a lot less detail on the scenario. If your adversary finds this post (they likely will) your position and options are at a significant disadvantage.
I work with a firm that has IP lawyers, they are mediocre and very expensive. I recommend calling local private practice IP lawyers and briefly describe your situation and ask for a 2 hour consult. Speak with as many as possible and hire the one who seems the most helpful.
> I think society today is insufficiently aggressive and vengeful.

Sure, the society with one of the largest per capita prison populations in the world is insufficiently vengeful.
Also, humans enjoy being near large bodies of water. (oceans, lakes, etc.)
Then wouldn't tax law reform on unrealized cap gains drive the wealthy to buy more houses instead?
I read that book in bed with a pretty bad flu.

It certainly added an extra dimension to be shivering from fever while reading about those poor cold souls.
I haven’t seen the Azure or GCP certs as a strong hiring signal.

The AWS associate certs are similarly low signal, anyone with some skill at multiple choice can pass those.

The AWS professional certs and AWS specialty certs (big data, ml, networking) are all a solid hiring signal, to me. You can’t pass those exams without handson experience. Memorization isn’t enough. The networking cert in particular has a lot of content that most struggle with in the cloud.
Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (2015)
Yes, I understand some people that seem to not be doing much are actually safety people, or taking a normal break, but in the case of Japan it's quite extreme and that's why I pointed it out.
Most Important Generation: Millennials
I think there's something like an inverse relationship between how many jobs are available and how much people need support. The US is actually among the top manufacturers still, but very little of it is still done by humans, so it doesn't create enough jobs. Even the jobs that remain for most people (retail/service) will eventually be automated away. There is plenty of money for UBI if the people who've benefited pay their fair share back into the systems that enabled those lopsided gains.

Some kind of support is needed in this case because none of the gains from all that efficiency are going to people who need money just to survive. It's probably not as important in places where it's still cheaper to hire humans than it is to install a robot in most cases.
I am a bit sceptical about this but maybe I'm being complacent?

"The new report suggests that whilst previous offshoring has been predominantly focussed on blue collar roles like manufacturing, the “mass experiment with remote work” suggests professional, white-collar roles will no longer be “sheltered from the pressures of globalisation.”. Examples of “anywhere jobs” include software programmers, accountants and insurance underwriters."

To anyone who has grown up in a country like the UK, and seen first hand what the collapse of manufacturing did to people and communities, this is a sobering and alarming prediction.