skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that we ask this question leads us to asking, “Who is the best person to answer the question of whether it’s a good idea to file the documents yourself, and if so, how things are likely to go over the next ___ years of litigation?”

And the answer is... A LAWYER EXPERIENCED IN COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION.

That answers your question for me. In cases roughly similar to this, I have begun with a lawyer. Yes, there are two times I recall where they said, “Do it yourself, but watch out for X or Y, and call me back if Z.” That alone justified what I was paying for the first proper, clock is ticking, consultation.

What happens after the first consultation would depend upon the case.

INAL, YMMV, &c.
Big geocities energy with seizure-inducing gifs. I feel like a kid with a modem again.
Doesn't even prove that, many college degrees are easier to pass than high school.
This also for some reason made me realize what my preferred mapping would be....a quick double-tap on left/right for home/end
I would really enjoy staying in touch with people who spend a good number of brain cycles on these topic. What forums or discussion groups would you all recommend?
Threader.app version (much more readable IMO): https://threader.app/thread/1407445604029009923

Direct link to BioRxiv submission: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1
>2. If landlords didn't buy up properties for the purposes of turning around and renting them, the property values would be lower because there wouldn't be as much demand on the market.

Why would there be less demand on the market? What you are saying is that without landlords there is an absence of properties that people want to live in. How else does the land lord increase demand? By buying units that he never intends to rent out? That type of owner is no longer a landlord, merely an investor.

>Then a decent portion of the people you're talking about not being able to afford to live there ... would be able to afford to live there.

They would be able to afford to live there because nobody else wants to live there? What? How is that supposed to be a good thing?

I honestly can't grasp the hate of landlords. It literally makes zero sense. Rent seeking is bad but all land owners engage in it. Landlords have at least some incentive to make scarce land available to as much people as possible. All the other types of owners would rather make as little land available to as few people as possible. That is truly perverse and should be punished with a land value tax (the landlord would have to pay it as well but he doesn't care, as he would still make money off of the improvement of the land, not the land itself).
Resident here. No issues with brownouts. Costa Rica uses different sources of electricity with several producers hence different experiences by different people
Based on this page, Quebec is 99.8% renewable.

I can confirm that we have no brown-outs. Also
- We have a mix of very cold and warm weather, so are consuming lots of energy for heating in winter.
- Hydro-Quebec, state-owned utility has a stellar record for maintenance, coverage and capacity management. It also send money back to the gov to support social programs.
- Even with all that our electriciyy cost for consumers,,entre rpsies, and industrial is one of the lowest in the world.

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commoditie...
An interesting way to test whether it is a victimless crime is to pay prostitutes $100,000 and to see how quickly they return to the profession. One possible theory is that prostitution is a victim of poverty.
Extrapolating from these "studies" to this headline is ridiculous, and the effect sizes were tiny anyway. The hypothesis in the headline and the "warnings" they give (do they even mention global warming in the studies?) are not supported by the phenomenon studied.

Good lord, this is such awful science, it shouldn't be on Hacker News. This website is supposed to be somewhat robust against complete garbage.
Data protection and privacy laws compliance in South Africa
If parent was incorporated and the corporation was sued they cannot defend the corporation without a lawyer. They can defend themselves as individuals without a lawyer if sued individually.

Of course the copyright troll may never have sued. But your lawyer will happily charge an hourly rate to repeatedly write letters saying "If you sue us we will win!"
What an unnecessarily trite comment.

Have you any comment on the actual article or the arguments contained within?
"Shitty quotes won't get you far on HN" - Abraham Lincoln
3. ...except on iOS.
Well, depends on if your consider a slider a check box and a sequence of rows of which one is highlighted a radio button.
> If I understand, "honest" voters in the score-like systems stick to some magically-shared mapping of their own utility to scores on the ballot (totally unreasonable, but let's grant it). Strategic voters, meanwhile, just use the ballots to maximize their own utility.

Yes, this is how the terms are generally used in voting systems literature.
At one point, I got a knock on the door from some city detective because I dialed someone who, I guess, was the victim of some abuse and used *57, the code for initiating a trace and reporting it to an already assigned investigator.

The optimal solution, I mean other than knocking off completely, would have been to use a reverse directory to blacklist all the residential subscribers.
Clojure is hardly what I’d call an “obscure” language. I’ll never understand that insane amount of offense people take from others sharing their personal work built with tools they enjoy/ see fit.

> gets barely any mention here (and when it does, it's for major lang releases and it's typically poopooed hard) and you basically see ZERO threads about the news from within these huge ecosystems.

Sounds like you’re projecting or something. C# tends to get a lot of love and while you’ll probably still find some negative comments about PHP or Java here, there’s always enough people praising them for what they’ve provided.
I think the discourse around prostitution laws sometimes gets confused.

In my view, the main reason for making prostitution legal is to allow victims of trafficking and sex crimes to seek justice against their abusers without themselves being prosecuted. This doesn't mean that prostitution isn't still a negative and that we shouldn't try to eliminate it where possible.

I guess to be specific I think the police trying to expand anti-pimping laws to classify anyone who does business with a prostitute as a pimp are clearly detrimental to the well being of sex workers, but I don't think laws which discourage men from buying sex to begin with are necessarily more harmful than helpful.
A lot of outsourcing practically relies these days on very codified process maintained by software... And that software is usually developed domestically.

It wouldn't take a lot for the domestic software developers to passively sabotage such software via collective action of failure to maintain it and letting the first unexpected heavy dependency crashing bring the whole system down. Even if a lot of company ops are outsourced, having all your site reliability engineers walk off the job sets the company up for any small fire to quickly become a large one.
A lot of people in Costa Rica have generators on standby for blackouts and brown outs.
The honest (and unfortunately short) answer is: No. I don't know.

Maybe it makes sense at least in some instances to repurpose the Z as a plural S, but I suspect it will be somewhat dependent on what comes before it.
Another interesting thread on this finding: https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/1407544773146120196
The statements seem pretty clear. He said he has given away half his shares, which he has. The other half happens to have appreciated a great amount since his last statements. Do you understand how the stock market works? It goes up all the time. Berkshire Hathaway is no exception. Tens of billions were still donated, regardless of his current wealth.
But Google's speech-to-text is the epitome of machine learning.
According to his data, no modems were present. It could be that he classified modems as facsimile, but he doesn't say.
I was being petty, yes.
Elections? Healthcare? (Continuing to push Medicaid expansion onto states that don’t want it?) Child care? Education?
- file size

- earliest committed files

- most recently committed files

- tests / examples folders

If it's a popular library, I also go to github and search for "import <library name>" and go to the code results, and look at a few examples of files from different projects that use that library to see how it can actually be used
Clean room reverse engineering is a valid protection against copyright claims. So as long as whoever drew the plans didn't know about the original they are safe. Even if the builder had a copy of their plans and gave whoever did the drawings leading instructions to get them to draw something similar to the original.
> (Question: Why is Netflix in that group aside from the unfortunate new acronym?)

Because they pay massive salaries, at the same level of the other companies.
Insight Partners Buys the New Stack
Is that something I said? Did I call anyone a nigger, eskimo, blanca, rusek...? Or are you just misrepresenting my argument with a superficially similar one that's easy to refute? (straw man)

It's a completely different thing. I want my right to use neutral, non-offensive terms to describe people as I see them and not have people jump at me for that. It is possible to insult people by using neutral terms, but I think I've done my part and the ball is now on the other side of the court. Managing someone else's emotions is not my responsibility beyond not using words that are intentionally hurtful and untrue.

I could meet someone in a dark alley and that person might take offense that I don't give him my wallet. He might be even more offended if I call him a thief and a mugger. It may be a good idea at the time to give him that wallet, but I'm doing that because of intimidation. I don't want people to intimidate me when I don't deserve it. Just because someone feels offended doesn't necessarily mean they're right.

The purpose of a conversation should be to reach a mutual understanding. We start on two sides and hopefully meet somewhere in the middle... if both parties act in good faith. It's not always possible to achieve with everyone, and it's not always your fault. Sometimes the other person is messed up, for example takes offense very easily or insists that I accept their demands. Sometimes the other person is just unreasonable. As long as they are, I'll just stay clear off them.

I think nowadays Western society is too tolerant of intolerance. I feel we celebrate the right of people to be offended. This enables very thin-skinned and manipulative people. I could live with the thin-skinned, but they're extremely hard to separate from the manipulative.
The key thing, IMO, isn't whether they should use a different one.
The key thing is to pick one that will be taught to all student, so that it becomes a standard.

Good luck to anyone in the HKSAR government trying to propose that though - it would just be politicized like what the author of the article tried.
Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot
There are in fact rules.

Currently for olympic distance running at 400 meters or further, a female must present with a certain maximum level of testosterone. This rule was specifically made to exclude an intersex female-presenting runner who excelled. Due to medical complications, she cannot take medication to surpress her testosterone levels on a long term basis.

So yes, such rules exist.
https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/CR?wind=false&solar=fals... (Electricitymap.org: Costa Rica)

2.36GW of total hydro generating capacity, 595MW of wind, and 1.64GW of geothermal, as well as interconnectors with Panama and Nicaragua to export excess renewables generation (or import when in nation generation isn't meeting consumption).

With CR's favorable geography for hydro, it'd make a lot of sense for central america to more tightly integrate their electrical grid, similar to how Tasmania's hydro capacity in Australia is used as a "big battery" for the rest of the NEM (eastern AUS electrical grid). In the above link I provide, the interconnectors are shown with real time usage data below generator capacity for each country/grid.
Yes we have!
And our costumers too. We develop and sell: https://www.kalipsostudio.com/. It's a RAD tool low-code call it what you want. And we "Sysdev" use Kalipso internally to develop and sell (with local partners) 3 final products.

MSS, DCAPP, SYSLOG (in Portuguese)
https://www.sysdevmss.com/
https://sysdevdcapp.com/
https://www.syslogmobile.com/
MSS has more than 15 years on the market. So it's a lot of people relying their sales on a software that was build with a RAD tool.

Our costumers are manly 3 types: Consulting companies that resell MSS/DCAPP or use Kalipso to create their own solution.
Freelancers that use Kalipso to create their own solutions and bespoke programs to costumers.
And big companies with an IT department that use Kalipso internally.
MSS/DCAPP is manly for Portuguese/Spanish language countries.
Kalipso is used everywhere from Argentina to Vietnam.
And we ha no idea how many apps are out there build because we don't have royalties and we don't collect any data.
I am not sure why remote work would drive demand for tablets.

I prefer desktops and I find the move to laptops in corporations as quite sad and wasteful since they have to be replaced so ofent. Maybe home offices will make desktops more common.
You're probably thinking of The Postman (1997)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/
> then restore the registers and longjmp back to the main game code which had been originally interrupted by the vertical blank interrupt.

So that's really like, half preemptive with the return side really being cooperative style?
yeah but even then it doesn’t change your chromosomes
Education, well suited, several renewable sources. But lots of issues from politics
Good thing nobody does that, isn’t it?
if your manager and customer are criminals, whats are the odds youll be treated well?
rad. we need a 2021 version of geocities
I think Intel would develop extensions and variants on top of RISC-V, and clever techniques for implementing RISC-V, that they would then patent heavily.

This would be terrible for everyone else currently having fun developing RISC-V cores, because they would find the next obvious RISC-V-specific improvements that they think of on their journey would tend to be patented, as Intel got there just before.

After a few of those, the fear would start to discourage people in the open source world from even trying to make big improvements to RISC-V designs - the same way people without funds steer clear of their own x86 and ARM processor designs just to keep safe, even though patents on 20+ year old designs should be all expired by now.
> There's a bunch of things a I disagree with in here.

This is largely how I feel about things like Two Scoops of Django or Effective Python -- I disagree with a lot of the specific advice, but I still learned a ton from them. That might just be the best you can hope for with this genre of writing.

> It's both concrete and high-level.

Thanks! I was trying to really push the idea of having it be almost a business book with code snippets. When I went through college, you could either study business or study software. But these days being good at both is kind of table stakes, so I really feel like technical books should reflect that. But there also isn't a lot of precedent here, so it was a struggle trying to figure out how to actually make it work. The closest pre-existing example is probably something like Clean Code, but the goal of that book (as well as Pragmatic Programmer) is very explicitly to make developers better at programming, rather than making your business more successful. Which is a subtle difference, but it actually leads to both the specific advice and the larger structure of the work being very different.
no oil
The original use case for pipewire was video, it was originally named "PulseVideo". It allows things like using an application running on Wayland as a video source and piping it into Firefox so you can share your screen on Zoom or something similar.
Sure. They're ridiculous. You cannot call the absence of the choice to sideload an application "a choice." By the same token, it makes no sense to call having the choice to sideload an application an example of "eliminating choice."

Apple is very good at spinning their walled garden as a user benefit. In some cases, it is. Here, it isn't.
A long time ago in grad school I had a administrative assistantship in the university's physical plant. My boss (basically the head of IT for the department) and I moved a couple of computers between buildings as they had actively used applications on them (this was before the web) and we couldn't wait for someone from building services come and do it.

The next day I was in his office when we got a nice visit from the Teamsters steward flanked literally by two huge guys glaring at us. The steward told us not to do it again. He did back off when we told him we walked the computers between the buildings - if we would have drove them between buildings he said they would have filed a union grievance.
Interesting, I was always told they work their engineers to the bone and then replace, hence the lower average tenure.
Even aggregate exposure isn't going to be a good metric. You don't keep the muscle mass for long. In fact, one of the big issues that trans women deal with is osteoporosis. I've personally known some trans women who've had to actively had to use supplements to prevent fractures and the like. No amount of exercise will be enough to build up density. The reality is that trans folks are probably on the bottom rung in the majority of cases in physical performance. Those that endure this and even get sports rarely rise above the average.
> Historically, making something legal tends to reduce illicit behaviors like trafficking, abuse, and laundering.

Not always true. Make ivory trading legal, and people will poach elephants to extinction to get more ivory. Legalize the sex trade, and vulnerable women will be trafficked as sex slaves. It's not always feasible to regulate the supply side of a market and keep it clean; sometimes all you can do is shut it down altogether.
Because the alternative is the taxpayer winds up paying for those workers’ healthcare, food and housing (Medicaid, SNAP and Section 8 vouchers).
Yet Nicoya is dry most part of the year
If you are going to leave the tea leaves in the water continuously, you could consider buying some loose leaf tea. Just throw a few grams in the glass and then add boiling water. This style is commonly referred to as "Grandpa style". Since loose leaf tea is less broken up it will become less bitter than leaving a tea bag in.
I like the idea.

I mostly need code examples (with highlights) and diagrams (potentially with animations) in my articles. Is there something planned for that?
I think it strongly depends how narrowly we define "work"

- I will agree that there is significant productivity variation between team members

- On my team, sure, ~20% of people are developers and doing Development work

- But testers, business analysis, system admins, release managers, etc are all still necessary and valuable. It is common but inexcusable hubris or unawareness of business goals and other team's contributions, to think they don't have necessary and productive roles.

- I've been on several dozen projects across at least two dozen companies and cultures, and I don't think I've ever been on one where only 5th of people do all the productive/needed work. Not even remotely close :-/
I've learned to recognize when I am manic so I cut out the coffee and take extra meds. I'm usually balanced out again after a good night's sleep. I can't drink energy drinks without getting manic. My mania is useful for coming up with ideas and getting stuff done. Like Greta Thunburg and her autism, my mania is my superpower. However, I'm scared to death of having suicidal depression again. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
As "rescently" as 2014 I as involved with an old computer, controlling a pre-processing stage for a high volume composite casting factory.
It turned out the computer had a modem and was connected with its own phone line. It also had Norton pcAnyware for remote operation.

The computer had been running since at least 1992. No one remembered ever getting remote support, so I left it disconnected just for good measure. If anyone had actually wanted, I think you could have done a decent amount of damage using that. Especially since no one knew how and what the software on the computer did anymore. :)
would stenography help in taking class notes, where the goal is not to reproduce the material verbatim?

would there be additional cognitive load on the brain trying to find the right set of keys, even as one tries to ingest the materials being taught?
Sure, but are you willing to apply the same test to every other job and outlaw the ones that fail?
This is a really nice overview of some samples of the official narrative and how it might have changed over time.

It could just be a technicality, in that the released language, is accurate to the level of unclassified that they can communicate: maybe Elizondo's assigned duties were classified, and so while the DoD "don't disagree with DIA account" they also can't confirm he had anything other than "no assigned duties", because perhaps that assignment was classified. That's my idea of one possible take.

It's an interesting overview and good to see a couple of different statements all in one place and compared anyway. :p ;) xx
> Unions will never take root in the tech industry because the workers see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed top performers

Lebron James and Tom Brady are union members.
Table of contents (made of links to sections) at the top?
How do you prosecute poverty? Does poverty lose by default and you award the victim damages?
https://archive.is/g0unK
In Europe, 60% of airports are government owned: https://simpleflying.com/how-airports-make-money/ From that page, Heathrow makes half its money from passengers from operating a train line into the city, car rentals, restaurants, retail, parking, VIP lounges.
Is that saying, if you couldn't extract money from a captive audience for how inconvenient the airport is, it wouldn't make enough to cover its own running costs?

Surely, trains need less infrastructure than cars - a road to every building in the country? Government pays for this, of course.

https://greennews.ie/eu-airlines-propped-up-subsidies/ claims that small European airports are not profitable, and are propped up by government subsidies, which RyanAir uses to undercut competitor rates, and they essentially act as a subsidy to RyanAir.

Jet fuel is not taxed in the EU (same link), but diesel train fuel is taxed in the UK ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon_Oil_Duty#Trains ).
It's supposed to say that she's exhibiting typical male level performance, which happens to be substantially above typical female performance at that level. This means she's taking full advantage of a body which developed and trained as male for 35 years to get ahead of women who have to rely "only" on training.

You wouldn't let an adult compete in a junior competition because they feel young at heart. You wouldn't let someone compete while on performance enhancing drugs just because they needed them. You would ban athletes who who are repeatedly caught using steroids because it's well known they provide an unfair advantage even years later. And that absolutely pales in comparison to having a trained male body in a women's weightlifting competition.
So Putin was right, huh?