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I don't understand all the downvotes by idiots.

Yes, I am not a lawyer. Never claimed to be one. I have worked with law in two jurisdictions, incl. US. The fields were:

1. Patent law (I am not a patent lawyer either)

2. Regulatory (speak FDA)

While you can screw up, law is not that difficult. It is even easier in countries with codified law.
I have similar thought on the issue but it is unlikely going to happen. Google are still paying $10B per year just to be the default search engine on Apple. If every Smartphone user has a Facebook account, dropping Apple would equal to dropping 25% of Facebook users, and anywhere between 37.5% to 50% of Ads revenue considering iOS user are worth 1.5x to 2x multiple.

>Does any other company have a way to push back if Apple gets too drunk on their own power in the future? Or is the Apple user satisfaction so high that nothing can make people ditch their iPhones?

Would love to hear it if someone has any idea on this. I have been thinking about this every now and then for more than a few years now. Strategically speaking Apple is still indestructible. It is a rather sad reality within 10 years of Steve Jobs passing away Apple has turned into a monster.
You’re free to withdraw your money from Barclay’s, without needing to tell them anything about what you’re going to do with it, and find your own way to send it to Binance.
Bhob Rainey's Peev attempts to do something like that: https://github.com/mphonic/peev
> Said developer adds telemetry to help make more informed decisions. People lose their collective minds.

Their ability to make decisions doesn't matter. It is does not justify putting spyware into previously trusted software.

Also, nobody believes that excuse for a second. They couldn't care less about "improving" anything but their bottom line. They are merely capitalizing on the trustworthiness of an open source project in an attempt to extract maximum value out of its users.

If they wanted to improve the software, they would have hired somebody with good taste to work on it. People with good taste do not tolerate abusive spyware.

> Can someone fill me in on what this person could have done better?

They could have not collected any "metrics" in the first place. That way, this ridiculous privacy policy would never have been necessary.
Any good alternatives.

It's better to consider the project dead then to argue with them
GitHub Copilot Experiments in Python
I disagree with this article. GitHub Copilot is indeed infringing copyright and not only in a grey zone, but in a very clear black and white fashion that our corporate taskmasters (Microsoft included) have defended as infringement.

The legal debate around copyright infringement has always centered around the rights granted by the owner vs the rights appropriated by the user, with the owner's wants superseding user needs/wants. Any open-source code available on Github is controlled by the copyright notice of the owner granting specific rights to users. Copilot is a commercial product, therefore, Github can only use code that the owners make available for commercial use. Every other instance of code used is a case of copyright infringement, a clear case by Microsoft's own definition of copyright infringement [1][2].

Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code in exchange for access to the platform supersedes the individual copyright notices attached to each repo. This is a fine line to walk and will likely not survive in a court of law. They are betting on deep lawyer pockets to see them through this, but are more likely than not to lose this battle. I suspect we will see how this plays out in the coming months.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/info/Cloud.html

[2] https://github.com/contact/dmca
Is Binance even a currency exchange if they are limited to electronic transfers?
What is considered "wartime stuff"? Because the US has been preparing for, engaging in, or recovering from war for basically the entire history of the country including today as we are currently engaged in the longest war in US history.
> Speaking in February at a webinar on diversity convened by leaders of the American Physical Society, Nord chastised his colleagues for lacking a sense of urgency. “At every place I’ve worked, I’ve witnessed promises unkept and seen racism in their committees,” he said. “Most of my secure, senior colleagues—white men—encourage gradualism, and whitesplain to me that ‘change takes time.’ But whose time are you talking about? What gives you the right to use your clock to decide my freedom? I am not your Negro, and I am done with your toy models of freedom.”
The thing that isn't addressed. Their terms now say that people 13 and under cannot use their product. Yet this tool is taught in schools. They want to collect this data but do not want to follow COPPA laws.
SISAL was a language that parsed to a dataflow intermediate representation (IF1). IF1 would then be compiled to native instructions for either a regular (e.g. Cray) or dataflow architecture processor.

IIRC, function composition with multiple return values is sufficient to transform to IF1's 'function with named ports' representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SISAL
Imagine trillions of joules of energy was going into a process that was securing money for the planet, without its legacy gatekeepers being able to control or dictate their arbitrary rules. A revolutionary peer to peer system that allowed value to be transferred digitally!

Then imagine folks that just fail to see this after 10+ years still think about coal power plants!
They don’t make power supplies like they used to.

At the public library in my town the shells of the usb sockets on some public computers are not well grounded and will give you a gentle shock if you touch them the wrong way.
Oh man it’s starting, we will have to learn Chinese to get access to the whole picture of all the information out there. Some weeks ago I already heard that there are really good VUE.js sources in the Chinese web. This is quite terrifying, it seems like it is only a matter of time until state of the art scientific papers will only be available in Chinese :(
Start working out, excessively, to the point of exhaustion. It will solve your depression and your sleep problems in one go.

I recommend lifting weights, but any physical activity will do. The key is to exhaust yourself...using an elliptical for 30 minutes won’t work.
> I say just advertise it as “feeds”, not “RSS feeds”.

I think that's even worse. For most ordinary people that has a bunch of unintended meanings. "My Facebook has a feed, do you mean subscribing to your site on Facebook? Why do I see a bunch of code when I click the link?"
My optimism and overall mood btw is great.
I think because of being more focused on important things like close people, health.

So im sure next big thing will find me when time will come, but I really don’t care if it’s an app or something totally different.
A good idea and very cleanly implemented.
I imagine that there's a ton of other possible applications that don't require much modification to the code.
Thanks for sharing!
You must be a lawyer. Not.

A country can not declare the passport from another country invalid. In fact, many passports have written "Property of country XYZ" on them.
An interesting application of a now-familiar pattern: get lots of users, spy on them at massive scale, use those data to dominate some other market in a way that, at most, a single digit count of companies in the world could conceivably compete with (because none but they have anything like the data that you do). See also: everything to do with "AI".
Who is that Christiano?
Surely there is a tracer chemical that could work.
Yea it sucks to be forced in any direction, I feel your pain with the complicated-ness of AWS. Alternative to AWS, what sort of alternatives you see emerging? In my research I've found a handful of PaaS/Self-Hosted options (Bubbles, Budibase, Mendix, DronaHQ, etc), why not use them? Then people also ask, why not just use Heroku or DigitalOcean?

Loaded question, but, asking anyways, what's wrong with AWS?

I'm personally attempting to make AWS "easier" and less of a labyrinth with my projects. I'd love to pick your brain if you have a few moments to spare, solo devs like you and me is who I'm trying to cater to.
You end up with people doing things because they want to.

Lots of people do lots of things for reasons other than money and we’re heading towards an economy where living a middle class life doesn’t require everyone to work.

People will run factories and do science and make art without just needing to do it to eat.

Humans before civilization didn’t work anywhere near so hard to survive as people today.

Go look at github and tell me about how money is necessary to get everything done.

We’re not in a post scarcity economy but it’s nearby.
Bezos has to quintuple his net worth, that other guy just needs to triple his (more or less), so I'm going with followers.
What kind of camera is recording 1080p at 200-400Mbps?

For example here https://www.red.com/recording-time if I put in 8K, 60fps and choose the lowest compression ratio, it's still saying it will only use 270Mbps. At 2K the highest bitrate seems to be 41Mbps.
Americans in fact have kept investing in gravitational wave detectors when everyone else didn't because they thought you'd need way more sensitivity to detect anything. This led to the first direct observations of gravitational waves happening with US built detectors, together with the Nobel prize being awarded to three americans.
Your scaling architecture sucks if it depends on that kind of throughput. If you need that you’ve only can kicked your way to more capacity without a real scaling fix.
Community bank near me does it because they had a number of folks who were getting scammed via some scam calls (family member in jail scam, fake IRS scam, obvious scam 'investments' and so on).

They've stopped a handful of scams just by asking the customer what they're doing. For a few of the folks involved the amount of losses would have been devastating financially and certainly emotionally (they're elderly with very limited finances).

I know the usual 'the bank wants to sell you something' lines will come up, but it's not hard to just say no, and the teller there might not be Snidely Whiplash...
I couldn't agree with you more.

In contrast to a lot of folks, I have a dedicated office with a door on the second floor of my (small) home whose purpose is to be a work space. The noise levels are decent. The ergonomics are better than what I have at the office. I have a window that lets in lots of natural light. In every way it's superior to my office work space.

And while I use it on the weekends for personal stuff, during the week it's work only.

When I'm working, the door is typically shut and folks in the house know not to interrupt, which eliminates distractions.

As a result, the separation between work and home life is easy: I shut everything down and leave the room.

When it comes to avoiding mental fatigue and overwork, for me that's just a matter of discipline: I have hard cutoffs for number of hours works, and there are no exceptions.

Ironically, for some of the complaints in this article, things are actually better for me.

I'm far less sedentary as, without the commute, I have far more time to go for walks, go touring on my bike, etc. In fact, I've never felt more connected to nature and my local community since I'm experiencing so much more of the outdoors and the amenities nearby. My wife and I have even started getting into casual birding together.

I'm also less likely to suffer from distractions since I don't have random people coming by to talk to me.

Really, the only thing I can empathize with is the lack of face time and socializing, but if I went back to the office part time (say, 1-2 days a week), I think that'd fill that need.

So, as always, it really depends. The problem with the pandemic, as so many have pointed out, is that it forced people to start working from home, often in far from ideal circumstances. So it's no great surprise that many people found the experience inferior to their corporate workplace.
Just a reminder: you don’t need satoshi to spend your money wherever you want. You can just withdraw it from your bank as cash first.

Just think this freedom has existed for thousands of years without the need to burn up the planet with meaningless computations as a prerequisite.
This is not very accurate. In ancient times, mints frequently adulterated the content of coins, so coins were usually worth more within the kingdom or empire than outside it.

Gold was not the ubiquitous denominator of value: silver was widely used in ancient times. Generally empires needed coins to pay armies so gold and silver mines had strategic value.

In medieval times, this was the story in Christendom, although interestingly the Islamic world was associated with mints that did not adulterate their coins, which therefore kept their value outside the Islamic world and were much sought after in China.

You are right about the recency of passport enforcement.
It's crazy to me how everything that afflicts black people is always the fault of someone else. Black kids not majoring in the sciences? Racist schools - even though these same schools waste tons of resources propping up their garbage ethic studies departments. Bad SAT scores? Tests are racist and fuck Asian kids. Crime ridden neighborhoods? Cops are racist. I'm really tired of the way they are always victims and everyone else are oppressors. Like honestly, when is the last time you read about black people and it wasn't some guilt pushing claptrap? No one gave a shit about the boy who cried wolf and I'm tired of pretending like I live in some Nazi society because some black people want to extort society more. They don't want an equal society, they want a society where they get their privileges too.
You can get complexity from a simple pseudo-random number generator.

Fractals are more interesting than PRNG's to me because they not only result in complexity from simplicity, but because of their self-similarity and beauty.
Why Web Components Suck
Agreed. I think overtime we'll just get more abstracted away from it. GKE Autopilot, for example.

I think you still have to understand the lego block in your hand though, so you can combine it well with the other parts of your system.
Relax, it's a petition. Anyone can sign a petition. The very idea that people think a petition is how to achieve UBI means that it will not be achieved. This is a way of feeding illusions to people who want to live in illusion, of catering to people who think complaining and wishing and imagineering unicorns and money raining down from the sky will bring said unicorns and money to them. And so the petition provides a valuable service of helping people live in their minds. It comforts them. They can pretend UBI is already here, or just over the horizon. It shouldn't upset you at all.
OK, well, I have lived in the UK, Isle of Man, Australia and Germany, all of which restrict private ownership of guns, and don't appear on that list. So I suspect that list is wrong. Can you post the actual link to the source you're quoting?
Pick a number of programming languages and you can scrape a page in 10-20 lines of code in many cases. The barrier to entry is understanding the DOM layout for a particular website, which is subject to change at any moment.

Purely IMO, a more friendly way to go about it to abstract from code and CSS knowledge is to run a UI that highlights elements, lets you select them, select the title, description, link etc and there you go. Same thing but without the knowledge of DOM/XPath/selectors.
Good timing! I'm currently battling memory issues with a project where I'm straightening full resolution panoramas. I often reach close to my machine's limit of 16GB.

I think this might help me immensely. Thank you OP.
Mirror Your Audience: Four Life Lessons from Performance Artist Marina Abramović
You can analyze this from the perspective of Public Choice theory. I think the claim would not quite be that the policy would be unpopular _with the population_ - just that it wouldn’t be in the individual interest of any politician, and therefore, as rational actors, they wouldn’t take the action to enact the policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice#Special_interest...
Yes it's bad. It's horrible actually. Lebanon has become a basket case of a country.

But I think the headline may be exaggerating the direness of the situation. Yes it's bad but I don't think Lebanon is about to go into a famine situation which is what the headline portends to...

Source: people on the ground in Lebanon.
Was the tweet taken down?
Ask HN: Any tips and tricks for a newly created business?
Hi HN,

I've created this throw away account since I have one that includes my name (and I'm currently employed). I've just started a company on Programming/Software Development in Europe (eastern EU) and I'm planning on making it my full time job in the next year or so.

I'm planning on doing Web (React)/iOS/React Native apps/Product development but I'm always open on learning new stuff.

I'm hard working, I know how to do some product development and I have some design-ish skills (little to nothing on design, but I know how an app should look like). I know that this is not enough so I'm asking you, right now:

1. Any good advice for starting a company by yourself? It took me a while to decide to do this so I'm not asking about 1 in a million success stories, but rather things to know when you're starting, how to get clients (most of the clients that I've interacted with since I've been on my current job are always asking to work with me so they're out of discussion).

2. When did you know it was the time to hire someone?

3. Any secrets that you want to share?

Thank you!
It's honestly so distasteful to compare chattel slavery to a crap even hostile workplace. These people are so desperate to be victim numerous uno they have become their own Negro.
Surely that can be fixed with just a well placed numactl command to set node affinity and CPU affinity.

The root article is discussing rewriting code to fit on FPGAs. If NUMA is too complex then... I dunno. The FPGA argument seems dead on arrival.
I didn't see it on the list of devices, but just confirming: does BrainFlow support Biosemi devices?
Re-stating the "brittleness" over and over doesn't add any weight to your argument. Regardless of whether or not the solution is brittle - it is still a viable solution for users who don't care or mind maintaining it. It sounds like you're not the target user and that's ok...
I had very little interest in kids or family for most of my life. I didn’t care much for my own family growing up, so I figured why bother? Better to just be single and focus on my own life.

Post-30 I’ve done an about-face and realized that I do want a family. It’s come from a shift in attitude. Whereas before I thought avoiding unpleasant things was a solution, I now realize that doing things correctly is a better one.
I'd posit it's because most people don't have the upload bandwidth.
PAC is great in some ways because it is one of the best ways of proving things about what you can do with finite samples. But practically the bounds will mostly be too weak for an application, and empirically measured error rates will usually be much better than the PAC bounds.

There are two other good features of a PAC analysis of a problem that often get overlooked:

* you need to precisely define a model for how your data is being generated. This helps you reason about the data source a little better and to quantify your expectations of what you are expecting to see. You can turn this into anomaly detection by identifying highly improbably input data to your model.

* doing a PAC analysis will give you a principled method of ranking different methods for modeling the same data. Without anything else to go on, a ML algorithm with a better PAC bound is probably a better first choice than an algorithm with a weaker or no PAC bound.

All of this provides a better methodology to approaching a new model than the typical one of building random deep learning architectures and then pulling the slot machine arm to see if you hit a jackpot.
It's not quite the same, but third number of Dolby Atmos systems denotes the number of ceiling facing speakers to bounce audio:

https://professional.dolby.com/categories/soundbars/
Dr. Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove asks tech-savvy for help with internet access
During the July 5 Facebook Live event, the World Health Organization's Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove (technical lead of COVID-19 response at the WHO) asks the tech savvy watching to help with internet access. At ~49:15, she makes the point that while the WHO can offer TA and training via the internet, some parts of the world have no access. As this relates to SARS-CoV-2, it's a disaster (my word, not hers) that some parts of the world can't get timely information about outbreaks, treatment, and the like.

The FB Live event: https://fb.watch/v/1UDNG9HBY/
...for now. I'm not usually one to pull the slippery slope argument but they seem to be overstepping quite a bit here.
Yes, everything is working like a charm now. Thank you for the effort and thank you for the update!
Seems like a pretty sound decision, in theory. But in practice, this sort of thing seems to stoke the flames of antiestablishmentarianism. People feel like banks can't be trusted, which means cryptocurrencies gain more popularity (environmental concerns be damned, apparently), which inevitably leads to more shady crypto exchanges, which end up fucking up, which leads to more banks blocking transfers ... and on it goes.
What's the difference? Is an attestation at least better than what USDT provides?
I don't think it's always that easy. Once people are committed to a certain product, quitting or switching to an alternative isn't always simple or even possible. There can even be substantial financial damage involved. Maybe not in a way that the producer can be held legally liable for, but damage nonetheless.

I believe this argument of "users have a freedom to either take it or leave it" has been repeatedly debunked many times over. It just isn't accurately describing reality.
More expensive than the value of the 2nd spend (in terms of expected value)?
Back in my day, if "industry" wanted people with particular skills they hired bright folks and trained them to do those skills.

Now, they just whine about "OMG GRADUATES R NOT READY" in between putting up job postings requiring 5 years of production AWS Infinidash experience.
I’ve discovered this independently and whenever I ask for permission to do something, do so around 2pm.
MoneyGram is quite expensive as well..
Whatever works for you, and I have sincere respect for you Christians (mostly, some are assholes), but at the core, you just have to take a leap of faith in order to accept that philosophy.

I am constitutionally unable to accept a metaphysics that depends on its adherents willfully disregarding anything at all.
Near the end of the article, Steve Blanks is quoted...

Alternatively, Beijing may seek to negotiate with or coerce Taipei (or both) in order to allow China sole access to TSMC and block chip exports to the United States, thereby securing China’s own supply while crippling American industry.

But earlier in the article it's mentioned that the US effectively has a "kill switch" on TSMC (by cutting off key supplies needed to fabricate semiconductors). If this is true, then the scenario presented by Blanks seems unlikely -- or am I missing some detail?