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Linux isn't purely GPL; it's GPL with an exception carved out for system calls.

I think that's an important distribution, because the userspace equivalent would be GPL with an exception carved out for dynamic linking (i.e. the LGPL).
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What a tremendous waste of time and resources for taxpayers-- nearly 2 years of litigation and all for nothing. Shame on everyone involved.
> YC went from you must grow up with your cofounder or you’ll fail to we’ll match with random one?

That's at least a pleasingly symmetrical strawman - equally distorted at both ends!
But it doesn't use the actual cost of CO2 emissions.

Nor does it "balance out" emissions by removing CO2 in one place and allowing CO2 emissions in another place. It actually works off schemes that reduce the amount of CO2 emitted compared to a hypothetical.

So, it's like me saying I've made "savings" by not buying a coffee every day, even if I never actually bought coffee in the past.
> This oval (called a separatrix) has the special property that no wind flows through it at all. It acts just like a solid surface. We have already assembled a reasonably accurate simulation of how air flows around an ellipse in some confined space like a wind tunnel!

My understanding of airflow simulation (undergrad-level at best) is that the correct boundary condition is almost without exception the no-slip one: air should be stationary at the surface of each object, not just have zero flow across it.

Am I correct that the calculation mentioned above really only applies to the "dry liquid" scenario where there is no drag and zero viscosity?
M1, for when you want high single threaded processing power on a mobile device, but not so much power that you would remote in to a desktop or use a dedicated GPU.

So in a niche situation that I can't quite think of a purpose, it's useful.

Best in class?
> I don't really care about this one way or another, I'm just interested in the legality of this recording and subsequent release in the first place.

Really odd thing to focus on.
Agreed, I couched my correction with "so far" because it wouldn't surprise me a bit if the OS eventually begins enforcing it, or if it already does and they've been misleading.
Doing the right thing is bad for short term profits. Thus, government regulation in our industries is inevitable. In fact, I would argue that it's the only way to ensure consistent reliability. There's a reason why Facebook is pushing for regulation. They know that it can't be stopped, and in that case they would prefer to be the one's writing the regulations.
This seems like a good fix for CEOs who want people in the office because they enjoy watching the ants scurry about.
Landmark study shows one dose of psilocybin induces new neural connections
OP must be 21 or younger
I’m not saying that they would have defeated the Spanisn in the long-term but conquering and permanently occupying all the native states in Central America would have significantly more expensive for the Spanish. Without the diseases I think it’s not unlikely the Spanish empire in the new world would have more closely resembled British India i.e. a bunch of semi independent states and directly controlled areas with the majority of population still preserving their culture and language. And in general European colonization would of the new world would have been more similar to what happened in the rest of Asia and Africa.
Putting "actual" in quotes. Estimating the cost is insanely difficult.
Man, I wish I had this level of truth-telling skill.

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those episodes aren't on any streaming service nowadays though
> ? Succinctness is *why" you didn't learn multiple interpretations of everything.

Good catch. I think that was the wrong word because I was learning s-transforms in three classes sophomore year: differential calculus, linear systems, and thermodynamics. It was the opposite of succinct because the same concept was being thrown at me in three different classes from three different perspectives.
For those who don’t realize this is SOP in Seven Sisters states too: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-My-Hands-Confessions-Encounters...
Cambridge also
I have no idea how you can conclude that this lobbyist is exaggerating his accomplishments, specially considering his career and what Exxon have been doing since the 70s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...). I guess one could claim that there is nothing "new" into this story, but how can you possibly say that there is nothing controversial regarding being part of a massive decades-long disinformation and anti-environmental campaign?
The standard of "care and effort" in software engineering today begins with observability.

An error-handling branch without a counter on it will not get through code review. That an incident was detected through user reporting and not telemetry/alerting is a deeply embarrassing and career-limiting admission in a postmortem. That logs were insufficiently detailed to reproduce them problem will be a serious and high-priority defect for the team. Something like an entire app without any crash reporting is gross negligence on the part of the Senior VP on whose watch it happened.

I'm not really remarking whether this is good or bad, you're free to think this is a bad move, but from my perspective it is definitely the way the industry moved. Among my colleagues, releasing without a close eye on thorough telemetry is some childish cowboy amateur-hour shit.
Ok? Are they not welcome in TX or in SF?
> As an adult, one of the many lessons we learn is that if you want people to do something you want, you should be friendly, constructive, and positive - not calling out people on bad behaviors.

The majority of "getting someone else to do something" in our society is done with negative "coercion" (for lack of a better term) than positive.

Most people go to work only because a policeman will come to their house and make them homeless at gunpoint if they don't.

The percentage used to be even higher, but excommunication doesn't carry the sting it once did.

Ultimately, the end result of all legislation and regulation of industry is the implied threat of negative consequences, up to and including state-sanctioned violence, for people who violate laws. Calling out bad behaviors is a common and traditional technique for getting new laws passed.

Shame and bad PR is a powerful tool. Last November I shamed Apple into dropping unencrypted OCSP. Perhaps one day I can shame developers into not spying on their users without consent.

Fact: the bad PR of shipping nonconsensual spyware is the only reason there is an opt-out lever at all. If we can amplify that, we can make it being enabled a default.
Space X will be landing the Starship on the Moon and Bozo will still be flying 3-4 people to the stratosphere. Guy should stick to what he is good at, running a sweat shop and trinket delivery. I put more faith in Boeing as I find Blue Origin more of a C player.
All this does is add friction. I've worked on defense programs that were "shared" between contractors and it's massively stifling on top of the security constraints.
DESQview/X was X11R5 not X11R6. I'm not sure anything more complicated than xeyes would work.
The Name of the Rose is a great read, that to me summarises the relationship nicely.
This happens even in files I just created or when doing `code ~./zshrc`.

It's pretty annoying. I'm a developer, I know what I'm doing. I don't need to be asked whether I trust a Python notebook or not.
The context here was rolling your own password manager, not cryptography.
Ignoring wind resistance is the problem. Undoubtedly mass was accounted for, but they got the incorrect answer because wind resistance has a much greater effect on the lighter rider. The extra momentum of the heavier rider easily overcomes the small increase in wind resistance. Anyone who has biked with someone of significantly different body mass will have seen ample evidence that bigger people coast downhill faster.
It's an interesting point: governments have invested untold billions [1,2.3] into internet surveillance of the entire population but these crypto teams elude them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I didn't know that YC would launch this today, but I will continue to post these as a complementary option every month. I will mention YC's Startup School CF mechanism in the description moving forward.
Not to mention that defense program got the nickname Star Wars after Lucas released the movie.
It's not just that TV has more time but, with streaming, TV has a lot more flexibility to choose the right amount of time and the right format. Aside from the odd miniseries, traditional broadcast TV was pretty much limited to 30 minute and 60 minute slots with ads, typically in episodic form although that started to change with VCRs and then, especially, DVRs. Oh, and there was a significant incentive to hit enough episodes for syndication deals.
FWIW, I see a critical difference between OP and my reward hacking examples: OP is an example of how reward-shaping can lead to premature convergence to a local optima, which is indeed one of the biggest risks of doing reward-shaping - it'll slow down reaching the global optima rather than speeding it up, compared to the 'true' reward function of just getting a reward for eating a sheep and leaving speed implicit - but the global optima nevertheless remained what the researchers intended. After (much more) further training, the wolf agent learned to not suicide and became hunting sheep efficiently. So, amusing, and a waste of compute, and a cautionary example of how not to do reward-shaping if you must do it, but not a big problem as these things go.

Reward hacking is dangerous because the global optima turns out to be different from what you wanted, and the smarter and faster and better your agent, the worse it becomes because it gets better and better at reaching the wrong policy. It can't be fixed by minor tweaks like training longer, because that just makes it even more dangerous! That's why reward hacking is a big issue in AI safety: it is a fundamental flaw in the agent, which is easy to make unawares, and which will with dumb or slow agents not manifest itself, but the more powerful the agent, the more likely the flaw is to surface and also the more dangerous the consequences become.
It's unsurprising to me in the same way that the Snowden leaks were unsurprising, but having something concrete to point to to back up my expectations is useful.
I've been working on a startup for years, like the better part of a decade and finding cofounders is like planning where lightning will strike; unless you're already in the right place, it's almost impossible.

I've tried things like cofounderslab, cold messaging through social DMs and working my network but there's such a small cohort of people who (1) find value in working at a startup, (2) are willing to take equity in the beginning without being paid and (3) believe in your idea enough to want to work hard.

I've had to learn how to scale myself into different roles (outside of engineering) to keep going, but it really is an exercise in testing your limits: mentally, physically, emotionally, socially...

I hope this is something that actually works.

edit: Just to give more context, I have had people who I trusted and who initially signed on to help, but they fell out somewhat quickly due to one of the three things I mentioned above. Most people don't understand how much work goes into actually making a startup happen and flame out pretty quickly...alas...
frying pan --> fire.
Please stop attacking other commenters. instead of attacking (the same person, twice!), try to understand what is being said, or ask questions.
I don't think momentum should affect how fast you slide down. The reasons are different.
Amazon’s Crackdown on Chinese Sellers
People have lost their minds, because they don't want to see blackface, even in an ironic context? I wish you wouldn't say those things, because I feel the same way, I really don't want to see it, and I don't find it funny or worth seeing in any context. Please don't assume that everyone likes the same jokes that you do.
> You sound bitter, greedy and envious

That's what corporation would say about an employee wanting to be compensated fairly. Such behaviour in the past sparked communist revolutions, which have not ended pretty for the greedy capitalists.
> How do both parties determine the keys used during a conversation?

They don’t: public key cryptography is not initially used.

The sender generates a random AES-256 key, applies it in CTR mode and uploads the encrypted blob to GCS.

Every receiving device gets a message with the key, the URI, and the SHA-1 of the blob. These messages are encrypted as usual and sent via APNS (<n>-courier.push.apple.com:5223)

> you’d think they would wrap it so at minimum they could tweak the underlying infrastructure without requiring every client to update

Apple does this: two other endpoints are *.blobstore.apple.com and the Chinese Guizhou-Cloud Big Data.

In my logs blobstore is used less than 1% of the time.
I agree fully.

This is totally unacceptable and legitimately dangerous. Dialysis machines are hooked up to this trash right now!

We require enforcement, jail, fines, and civil liability for this gross, aggravated negligence.
Do you have any reading you'd recommend related to this?

I naively thought it would be some kind of Kalman filtering of sorts but from what I gather in your words it doesn't even have to be "that" complicated, right?

edit: found your link to the paper in another post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749619 ), thanks!
> "Natural immunity" to COVID is no different ($) than vaccine immunity

You can't find any studies to back this up, can you?

It'll be hard without clarification at first, because it's not clear what you mean--do you mean "natural immunity" as in somebody who, when encountering the virus for the first time, has an immune system which fights off the infection without any symptoms and low/no transmission to other hosts? If that's what you mean, then no, natural immunity, present in basically everyone sub-40 who's not fat, is far superior to vaccines, because it comes with zero long-term risk and from what everyone can tell has a death rate too small to measure: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

If you're talking about someone who has fought off covid and has naturally-produced antibodies, then you have I presume no citation to say it's "as good as vaccines". Natural immunity in every case it's been studied has been shown to be robust, long-lasting, and superior to vaccines. In fact, the survivors of Sars-Cov-1 from back in 2005 still have robust immunity against sars-cov-2. In fact, some large percentage of the population had t-cell reactivity to sars-cov-2 without ever having contact with the virus: https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563

It's also super-weird to have people like hold the bar as "vaccine-level immunity". The human body is a genius achievement of evolution, and THAT is the bar.

Zero studies have ever shown any way in which vaccine-based immunity is superior.

And now we have all this talk of boosters. LOL!

Don't need no booster for natural immunity. But there sure are some people who want you to have 'em anyway!
It's your job to control your snark, not anyone else's job.
I would use a 90s version of Slackware over DOS. With DOS you have to fight with different DOS Extenders and all the pain associated with that.
Interesting to think a bit about student/teacher ratios (STR).

The up-side is that with a low STR (2:1), the teacher can adapt to the particular strengths and weaknesses of the students, to get the best reinforcement. The /downside/ is that the students will typically also have fewer teachers overall, and are maybe stuck with a bad one. (This is the problem of bad grad school advisors in a nutshell...) In this world, teachers are very expensive, though, so we end up with students competing for access to good teachers, by paying super-high tuitions, dedicating their early childhood to olympic-level basketweaving, etc.

In the medium-STR regime (30:1 or 100:1), we get the worst case: There's no teacher adaptation to individual students, but teachers are still the bottleneck.

The internet has something to say about extremely high STR (1MM:1). In this regime, things flip and any teacher can teach every student: Teachers are no longer scarce, and so have to compete on giving the best instruction. Instruction quality increases as a result. And on the flip side, there's no student competition, which /maybe/ causes student quality to drop.
The NYPD costs $10 billion per year and yet crime is still rampant in NYC. Are we supposed to pretend that spending more money on them is going to fix the problem? If they can’t do the job with billions of dollars in hand, the next $20 billion won’t make it work.

It’s about time we stop wasting taxpayer dollars on a bandaid for crime and start preventing it by alleviating the problems that cause crime- poverty, healthcare, etc.
Limited liability companies are there to protect you.

I've known half a dozen wealth people who had gone bust 2-3 times before being running their current business.

They make hay whilst the sun shines and expect the market to change in the medium term. Triggering a reset.
Thanks for editorializing the title to make it less outrageous.

“Instead it was a secretly recorded Zoom call.” provokes the image that they thought they were at an (in person) job interview, while it was actually a Zoom call. Irritating, because the job interview would also have been on Zoom. They weren’t surprised to find themselves in a Zoom call.
At one point I really took it upon myself to have some idea of what climate change would be. What I found was:

1. The greenhouse effect is very real

2. What that's going to do to ecosystems is largely unknown

Having been made to believe that it was going to cause the next mass extinction event, I found #2 fairly underwhelming. Never-the-less, this isn't a gamble worth messing with.
if they wanted to be paid, would they not release as a product, instead of releasing as open source?

"hey I'm gonna give away my time and effort for free" is not how you get money. it's how you get geek cred or build up a resume or whatever. all fine, of course. do what you want.

if you want to charge for your code, charge for it and stop asking for donations every time I clone or build your stuff.

have a donation button somewhere so people CAN donate, of course. asking is very .. beggy and it drives me nuts, especially when it's from people who make $500k/yr at their day job.
so they can sell people a device and pay for better ad placement to do more of that?
I don't consider "remote IT management" (outsourcing) software to sit at the lowest levels. They're commercial solutions developed solely for commercial purposes.

This isn't some ancient, underfunded open source library, this is people getting what they're actually paying for.
The answer is statistics: what is more likely, that the best explainer of a certain topic is within a group of people you have access to, or that person is somewhere else in the world?

This is very analogous to the problem industrial research groups face trying to answer a certain problem, e.g. ‘how do we ensure that our team is the most likely to solve a particular problem first?’

This is why start up acquisitions are so common even among the best funded tech companies.
I really like the name. It immediately reminded of the side quests in RPG games to get more experience. And this is exactly that. Good job.
You are right, the only thing it comunicates is that there actually is some cost.
https://roadmap.sh/
Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware
Tiktok is known for not allowing political propaganda on their platform.
There are only so many ways to skin a cat and have something that a consumer wants to buy...

On the netflix thing. I feel like the digital platforms are watering down choice and contributing to that feeling. Rental stores always had a broad selection of films across genres / distributors / producers that grew over time, digital platforms only have some content available for a certain time period and then it's gone.
yep it does!
Context: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-G...
So, which systems allow hard links to directories?
Longest running prime time show?
Israel Just Used Fully AI Controlled Drone Swarms in a World First
Not to give Bezos' team all the credit in the world (they're launching the rockets, not Bezos) but rockets are hard. It's literal rocket science =/
If you're using HN Who Is Hiring threads as a source at all, we ask people to link back to the original posts when they do that.

I feel like that's a good and fair practice in general when copying content on the web, but obviously what you do with other sources is between you and them.
The thing about Classic ASP is that it has no in-built protections and the individual developer has to code all defence, which is not great.

Also, how many classic ASP developers are there now , to add new protections for new issues...

And if you look at the linked thread, it doesn't seem like they've done a great job of maintenance...
> At this point, this is not a complete black box, “novel virus.”

Not sure why you insist on being pedantic on word choice here. It obviously isn't a novel virus at this point; but it was in 2019 -- or whenever WIV would have found it.

I'd also bet dollars to donuts you have no experience in virology apart from participating in online forums. Which I don't think is any kind of point against you; but it makes it weird when you come out swinging with "you don’t have the faintest bit of background in what you are talking about."

> I don’t mean to be too harsh on you, the media environment around all this has been so bizarre, how various waves of suppression have ebbed and flowed. But if you’ve known where to look, are an independent thinker, not one who just repeats what the large media bullhorns are trumpeting, and can connect dots for yourself, there’s been discussion, discourse, evidence gathering of the very likely source of this virus since the beginning.

I laughed out loud at this. If this is satire it was really well done.
Having tried to get a project away for 2 months (and failed so far)

It seems like there are a lot of potential CEOs out there with ideas looking for a CTO to do the heavy lifting -- and the VCs are all over them -- met multiple in last few weeks with nothing more than an idea

As an engineer, with a vast piece of prototype tech funded myself up to this point, and no CEO -- because I don't really want a CEO right now, just some additional R&D funding to clean things up to start that commercialising process -- but VCs don't appear to want to hear that

Ex-meme company founder CEOs good, heavy tech R&D without that bad

You have to wonder how much deep tech is out there looking for home right now -- that can't get an investor audience without complying with the narrow criteria VCs are putting in place -- 90%+ won't even talk to you if you've not been personally referred
whatever drives the manufacturer has available

Exactly, that’s a spec :)
> If you're not Catholic christian, then you're Pagan

Pagan is only one category of unbeliever. There are also:

1. Heretics (bad Catholics and all Protestants)

2. Schismatics (the Eastern Orthodox and splinter groups)

3. Infidels (Muslims and anyone else who acknowledges the Abrahamic God but denies Christ)

4. Jews (for having been God's chosen people and having denied the Messiah), see #3

5. Heathens ("spiritual but not religious")

6. Atheists

> if you're not adhering to Catholic Christianity then you are doomed

Strive to enter by the narrow gate.