skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It doesn't really reserve your right to file a patent (because that's basically gone once you publish something in most cases)"

This is also how I thought it works.

" but it doesn't imply a license to patents you do hold when publishing."

So since I do not hold any patents, stating just this, could be enough? That stuff gives you a headache
Like not always making an ASCIIZ string even though it appears to belong to a family of functions that operate on and return ASCIIZ strings.

Returning an object of species A in one case and an object of species B in other cases is just a borderline buggy behavior, let's be real.
The article never said the anti-lockdown movement was far right. It said there a links with the far right. Those have been alleged by intelligence services and also been demonstrated by Queerdenken marching with Neo-Nazis against this cause.

Christopher Street day was expected and did show a lot more discipline wearing masks or keeping distance https://tagesspiegel.de/berlin/csd-berlin-2021-im-blog-65-00...

It's not „Covid doesn't spread when you are protesting for a good cause!“. It's people who support progressive causes are more vaccinated and wear their masks.
India has a vast network of fake news and propaganda channels and right not India fascist/Nazi government is focused on stirring trouble particularly what it perceives to be friend of Pakistan. I am not saying Nazi lightly here, literally the ideology of BJP is based on glorification of Nazis.
This is an excellent summary of the properties of bitcoins' potential as a (new?) form of reserve currency.

One thing i'd like to add is that countries do not like to lose control of the reserve currency status of their currency, if they already have such a currency.

Given the advantages of a digital cryptocurrency, a central bank issued cryptocurrency might actually, by way of fiat, be set as the reserve currency instead of bitcoin.
As a bit of a counterpoint to most other posts:

I started working on a project where the lead developer told me they had no idea what OS their product was designed for, or even "if it needs a server". I spent a few days going through the source code working out "well it turns out they need x". Followed by coming up with a deployment process, and starting an fight to push everyone to use source control.

According to the person running the show, they no longer needed an Enterprise Architect, because I'd completely filled what they expected of that role. This was a large Government project that would usually expect someone in such a role.
> It’s illegal to publish information identifying the accusers it’s not illegal to figure out who the accusers were.

This whole case has supposedly been about protecting the identities of people involved in the Salmond case by preventing "jigsaw identification".

The court document you posted has this:

"Jigsaw identification can occur through the combination of separate pieces of information or details about inter alia the victims, nature and timing of the offences and locations. ...Seemingly innocuous facts published can still pose the risk of jigsaw identification when viewed within the existing matrix of information..."

> Meanwhile the attempt to go out and try and find people who figured out the identity through other means is entirely immaterial to the case. It’s just not relevant because that’s not what the law is about.

Why is it immaterial? They're claiming Murray did something exceptional. But when you ask (via a standard public poll, not "finding people who figured out the identity through other means" as you claim), those who were able to identify the people involved nearly all point to other media, not Murray, as their source.

You can claim that's immaterial and the court has no reason to look at how other reporters revealed identities via jigsaw identification, but I don't think that's very convincing to the general public. And when you take into account Murray's history (as Jonathan Cook does in his article), it looks to many people like he's being singled out and punished for being a thorn in their side for too long.

Not to mention that no one has been jailed for jigsaw identification ever before.
Ah reasons... we've all had to approve horrible kludges to get something delivered.

The truth is you never get completely clean beautiful architecture or code, there are always trade-offs to make along the way.

Most change takes place in individual work streams, which are most concerned with delivering their scope on time and budget. There is typically no budget to consider changes that have wider scope or which might derail delivery. So kludges.

But without the longer term vision and commitment to paying down technical debt it becomes spaghetti as you say, whether you're a developer or an architect.
What's the difference between what you propose and the (PGP) web of trust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Expect it was not done by a ministry but by the judiciary which roles over against revoking a bann by the city administration.
Being ignorant of politics isn’t the same thing as being able to operate in that state.

Imagine your hypothetical team had been (over)working on a game which was all about the “valiant mujahideen freedom fighters in Afghanistan fighting off the Soviet Union” when 9/11 happened?

Or they started working with the likeness of any of Prince Andrew, Rolf Harris, Kevin Spacey, etc. before they became personae-non-grata?

Just because some politics is trivia doesn’t make it all trivia.
An app that can determine if your pet cat is in pain or not
It’d be interesting to add a config that disables the cruft for interactive terminals. I wonder if that could be a pathway towards deprecation.
Eich didn't just vote for Proposition 8. He publicly materially supported it.

Refusing to follow someone isn't ganging up on them. Curtailing their civil rights is.

Eich chose to resign.
Friendly plug: design and run ASCII art animations in the browser and export to animated GIF: https://animasci.com/
https://ryf.fsf.org
I think 800KG is exceedingly rare, and also the upper limit of what a climber can tolerate even if their protection (the camming device) holds. It does happen with massive lead falls, especially when not much rope has been paid out. 1000 KG is likely to cause injury.

And of course, the cams are typically rated from 600KG to 1600KG of force, depending on manufacturer, size, and material. But it's rare for them to experience these loads.

Even with smaller falls though, say 200-300 KG of force, they do occasionally break the rock they're set in, or cause the rock to 'flex', causing it to come out (this is more common with a type of feature called a 'flake', which is a semi-detached piece of rock, rather than a typical crack which is unlikely to move).

Ideally, you have more protection beneath the one you placed. Then if one piece blows, you'll fall a little bit further to the next one, which is hopefully placed in better rock.
It's disappointing to read the many comments here ignorant of the Turkish drone program.

I'm no fan of Erdoğan, but people should be aware that the Turkish military has put signifcant resources into drone based warfare over the last 10 years and is now one of the world leaders.

They are battle tested against peer-level opponents (Russian-backed Syrian government forces in Syria, and Russian backed opponents in Libya).

Further information:

https://www.defenseworld.net/news/27161/Some_23_Russian_Pant...

https://warontherocks.com/2021/06/say-hello-to-turkeys-littl...

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/turkish-drones/
the language isn't inherently event-looped. even in the browser you can use workers.
I wish git had some tree transversal related commands instead of all the crypto commands that nobody understand what they are doing without long tutorials. Got a feeling that this is a case where going down to the metal is better than all the abstractions.
I have that at work with javascript/typescript and eslint.
>>>If the org has poor information management, getting requirements is already a mess, and the SA is already screwed.
From what I've seen (with contracted SAs), SAs are just inventorying and working around the half-finished implementations the previous SAs left behind, ad infinitum.

^This has been my life for the past 5 years. I was the Information Management Officer for a military org with ~25,000 personnel, and our org suffered ~50% turnover in senior leadership EVERY SUMMER. It's been like groundhog day, every day. Operations personnel don't have the domain knowledge of the IT systems and Communications folks don't have the domain knowledge of the Operations, so neither side can put together a coherent, efficient architecture alone. The IMO is supposed to bridge that gap, focusing on documenting the business processes and helping to turn those into requirements, and possessing just enough IT systems knowledge to sanity-check the solutions proposed by the Communications staff. It's even harder to document the business processes when they are a) evolving b) rarely adhered to c) massive in breadth/scope. Sometimes the job entails telling Senior VP/ C-level staff that their proposed solution is dumb and completely unworkable.

Now I'm a contractor "Operations Research & Information Management Analyst" which basically means the same organization is paying me for my domain knowledge and continuity of experience in trying to get some good ideas from the past 18 months actually into production.

Previously I had looked into what might help me bill myself as a Solutions Architect while job-hunting and 90% of the resources I found were just "how to sell people on AWS." -_-
This also came up during JuliaCon there was a suggestion to add module doc strings which would be a good start and consider distributing docs via the packaging ecosystem so they can be made available in VS Code
> It would be easy to organize meeting of all Anglos

You must be surelly joking there. :)
This sounds smart:
“One of the few rules that we plan on starting with is that in meetings if any person is remote then everyone in the meeting is remote.”
Do you mean that she isn't a senator? That is true, but she is undersecretary of state for political affairs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
git restore, where have you been all my life?
> The cover up, the incompetence and the substantially higher death count is fine because cases are now low?

The cover-up that resulted in the government forcing one Minister and her Departmental Secretary to resign? That cover up? The one where the Premier of Victoria wrote several times informing the Secretary to pursue COVID mitigation and was ignored without comment by the secretary? That cover up? The one they had a full and independent inquiry about within a couple of months of the "cover up" beginning? That cover up? Wow, it's a pretty shitty cover up when so many of the players ended up either fired or out of work.

> Interesting argument, have you considered telling the families who had loved ones slain because of government incompetence that they later lied about?

Slain? Oh spare me the "won't someone think of the victims" when you jump directly into another thread to lie about the effectiveness of lockdowns in reducing COVID in the community, heap praise Trump's COVID approach (who is largely responsible for the huge numbers of dead in the US either through refusing to lock down and then whipping his followers into an anti-vaccine fury), and then regurgitate the lies about Hunter Biden and his apparent corruption.
No one noticed for 17 years because none of his students could read or write either. They probably got a better education as a result.
Solarpunk brutalism?
I'm not sure claims that it's "great" are that common, but it's interesting because it's a quite pure microkernel OS, can be extremely light and is commonly used in real-time and safety-critical environments. Personally, having used it a few times, it has some quite nice parts, but its development and support aren't keeping up sadly.
Prior to electricity and lighting, eggs weren't available the same way all the year. Primarily, they were a spring and summer item. This is one of the reasons cakes are special occasion (eggs and work, really) and the reason for eggs for easter and spring celebrations.
He probably dreams of having the confidence of an abel person. Dyslexia is no easy ride. Yes on one dimension he is privileged on another he is not.

I'm not sure he messed up these kids. He may have taught them well without the ability to read or write.

He is no doubt a fraud however. Especially with his collage degree.
The sheer number of judges, bureaucrats, prison administrators, prison guards, medical staff, and dozens of other people who would have come across this boy and his plight over those decades would have been significant.

That none of them would, or could, do anything to ease his suffering even in some small way is disappointing. I hope I could do better in a similar position of authority.
It is related but not the same.

WOT: "The owner of this key is Joe Doe as confirmed by Susi Dusi and Lars Lampert".

What I mean: "The ownder of this key has a popularity of 23 (as can be seen on chain) and a karma of 75 (as calculated from my personal social graph or interests and on chain data)".

Looking at a Bitcoin address you can see that the owner of that address owns at least X bitcoin. But you don't know who he is. This is what I propose for popularity and karma.
Why don't you guys come out and say it like it is, don't chew your words: 'We don't like Turkey because it is a Muslim country and we can't tolerate any kind of agency be given to Muslim, it does not matter how democratic it is.'

Here I said it for you.
knowing AWS and Azure is like insta hire, only reason i studied for AZ-204 certificate just to fill up my resume and the boss paid for it.
3 weeks later I forgot like 75% of the material xD. It was really more a strategic carrier move then a love for cloud knowledge move.
> I can't imagine going through life like he did, how much I would hav missed.

Yeah your granddads story is impressive. I cannot imagine not being able to read and write.

> He was the kind of guy that can take a dollar on Monday and give you back $100 on Friday. He owns, I believe at this point, 8 properties including his own home.

So he owned other peoples homes? Ugh I hate this system. Why is absentee ownership a thing, why is it seen as ‘success‘? Lording over others isn’t ‘success’ in my book. I think it’s inhumane for some to be able to extract a toll from others for such a basic need. Yes the system makes it legal, but ‘landlords’ shouldn’t kid themselves that they are providing value to others.
That's just the price of avoiding tracking. Do the procedure, create the hole-punched document and complain to the printer manufacturer about the result :)
I remember the first story my (baby) economics professor told me:

A local gas station changed gas prices to above a dollar and got a visit from the Sheriff's office. The demand was simple: you can either continue to charge ninety nine cents or you can close the pump. However, due to a chance of public unrest, you may not charge a dollar or more at this time.

What the professor didn't have to say is that in real life local authorities have incredible latitude and we must comply at least while we "work the courts". I think the morale was that free enterprise doesn't exist anywhere in real life and probably for good reason.
Ten days, to be more exact.
There was no need for inverted commas in the GGP post. Intellectual property is precisely a government-granted monopoly under specific rules. Nobody else can make a Call of Duty game: they have a monopoly on the market for Call of Duty games.
How Dangerous is the Delta Variant (B.1.617.2)?
I'm trying to avoid hoarding because of free book swap boxes in the streets. Lots of old or strange books. I actually read Asimov Foundation first volume thanks to this.
I've been boycotting Activision (and thus Blizzard) since way before this, just because they ineptly handled the Guitar Hero brand and managed to kill it off commercially way too quickly. Looks like I dodged one hell of a bullet by doing so. Fuck ActivisionBlizzard
I have a Pi running FTP on the same network for file transfers, works good so far
Turkey’s marine crisis: ‘death knells are ringing for Sea of Marmara’
A year or two ago I was writing some training material on how to keep your software solutions as simple as possible. (In my mind this is the most critical skill in software development that nobody seems to actually teach)

I decided to use project management as an example. It's a known field, it's something most everybody can relate to, it looks like something a lot of coders kick around, and it's commonly way, way overdone. So I started with first principles and went at it.

Ended up with a few dozen lines of code and a text file. That's it. That's all you need to manage projects from a single person on up to a large-scale program. I integrated with Trello and Google sheets in order to provide whatever graphics people wanted, but with the same general amount of complexity you could integrate with a bunch of other stuff.

I remain convinced that the greatest learning experiences I've had in software development over the last decade or so have been these little experiments where I take a commonly over-engineered solution area and poke at it to see just how much complexity is actually required. Every time I do it, it astounds me at the amount of counter-productivity we coders bring to many of the things we create in order to increase productivity. A humbling experience, to say the least.
Owning a property has risk. By renting you are paying to defer risk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27971421
Isn't that also the insight which led to HAMT (and friends) being so fast compared to older persistent datastructures? Turns out for a while now copying more but denser memory has been way cheaper than chasing pointers.

Brian Cantrill also noticed that in his comparison of his C and Rust versions of statemap[0]: Rust had a way, way better cache behaviour than C (96.9 L1 hit rate to 77.9%, and half the L2 misses although the better L1 behaviour also led to >90% less L2 interactions in the first place), and most of that was attributed to using a btreeset instead of an AVL BST.

[0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...
Libraries can start processes too
Or simply not having to download and install app from webpages and have a distribution system that is easier to monitor for suspicious activity like there is for linux distibutions.
Their lockdowns haven't worked because they have not been anywhere near strict enough.

As a Melburnian, looking at Sydney, I can't believe they call that a lockdown. Even right now with 200± cases daily, only 8 LGAs are in lockdown and even they are nowhere as strict as what we experienced in Melbourne. The rest of Sydney can only be described at what we here call Stage 2 restrictions.

We learnt this the hard way in Victoria last year, you need to go early, and you need to go hard. Since then we have managed to stamp out the virus using that strategy everytime it has entered our state. I just don't understand why the NSW government is reluctant to accept lessons from Victoria's experience in 2020.
Good article. I've been using git switch since I started using git CLI a few months ago, but restore is new to me!
Some whales spend $1000 every weekend at the club/bar. They simply have that much money and dont care how they spend it.
and it's a very general problem

distributing improvements after a large mass of old habits are spread around is something to be fixed
The cleverest, wealthy guys, I know, barely finished high school.

I'm talking self made guys, and not guys from wealthy sympathetic families whom fund their kids until something turns a profit. Jonny at Dentek--you don't count, but daddy was a wiz.

If I had a child, buying real-estate, and learning the stock market, would be right up there with the three R's.
here the left doesn't really go beyond fuck Murdoch tbh.
Turkish drones have won three wars:

>Turkey used these drones to eliminate Kurdish resistance within Turkish borders

>Turkey used drones to defeat various groups in Syria that were opposing Turkish influence

>Azerbaijan used Turkish drones to win the war against Armenia

The succesful Turkish drone program is named after a Turkish MIT graduate who played a central role in the development of these drones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk_Bayraktar

Drone wars have come to stay.
This is pedantic but didn't Activision buy Vivendi's game subsidiary completely? I assume Blizzard was the target asset there but I seem to remember that the whole company was purchased.
Being rich, I guess.
The baseline is nature. Society has pushed the effective baseline so low that countless people are absolutely miserable, and we're slowing losing our connection to the natural world, to our detriment
It’s true. Vaporwave died with Saint Pepsi’s first release.
We have approached the era in which all networked devices should be considered as potentially harmful and dealt appropriately.

We're well into that era, but neither the technological protections nor the legal ones have kept up.

Tech laws are still barely on the level of requiring manufacturers of network devices not to use the same default password every time and manufacturers of kitchen appliances to accept some basic "right to repair" provisions. These are steps in the right direction of course but they are small steps at the start of a marathon.

I think a lot of political leaders fail to appreciate the danger here. This has somehow remained true even as tech crime is rocketing. We are seeing more and more headlines about how some aspect of critical infrastructure has been brought down due to some form of technological attack, businesses have lost money due to data losses, people have had their identities stolen after data breaches, etc.

Meanwhile, the tech firms best placed to defend ordinary people and businesses against these kinds of attack are often the ones carrying out the attacks. The fox is guarding the hen house.

Just yesterday, there was a news story in the UK[1] about some home car charging stations being vulnerable to simple attacks. These devices get connected to both home networks and electricity grids. The specific models in question were government-approved too.

I think typical open-by-default networking is fundamentally broken today. It's like software for non-experts that doesn't have the option to install security updates automatically, or a browser or mobile OS that doesn't sandbox web pages or apps individually. Professionals use many tools to lock down organisational networks, audit and manage connected devices, and deal with modern challenges like bring-your-own-device, and they still get hit from time to time. Meanwhile home users are basically expected to install a new Trojan every time they buy a new device. This is not going to end well.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58011014
Good lists. Vaporwave died with Saint Pepsi’s first release.
This is probably as good of explanation as any, but still the real killer was Saint Pepsi.
> after the point on Azerbaijan using Turkish drones recently

1. The article said "Turkey-backed Azerbaijani forces" which they were

2. The fact that they also used Israeli drones doesn't mean that Turkey didn't supply them with drones or that Turkey doesn't have drones, doesn't develop drones, or that Turkey doesn't want to be a player in umanned drones.
The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football
My Homebuilt 200W Laser (2016) [video]