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It's hard to say. But I've been a fan of Juregen Teller for a while. He wants to break all the "rules" of fashion photography and photography in general.

You're right, if you post these anonymously to IG, no one would bat an eye. But it's published in a prominent fashion magazine, it's taken by the famous Juregen Teller, it features celebrities posing in an unflattering way, they're wearing the latest designer clothes, and it got a ton of negative attention on Twitter and other social media (all attention is good attention).

A typical amateur won't be able to do that (they probably think they can). I consider his style to be real and "amateurish" in a deliberate way. In some ways, I feel he's parodying amateur photos and putting famous celebrities in situations that normal pros don't usually would or can. Here is another site that tries to describe it: https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/juergen-teller-w-magazine/
I'm in no way supportive of China's actions here, and was just commenting on video gaming and addiction in general.
China and heavy-handed intervention: name a more iconic duo.
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I just don't buy the premise. Got it China bad. We're not acting better at home here in the US of A. You may disagree, but at the end of the day, you're walking with the same style of state surveillance in your pocket as any other. We cannot both be the cause of the problem and the solution. "not dictate how citizens should behave under the guise of protection". Do we live on the same planet???!
The thread is a great example of what not to do in the open source community. I don't have much context but the conversation was disappointing to read.
s/has some features disabled/has some features intentionally disabled/
I'm, curious what folks use for pillows while backpacking. I've always just rolled up a pair of pants, maybe with another few bits of clothes, to make a very dense pillow that's the correct height for my neck. With a thin ground pad, I effectively sleep on hard ground with a hard pillow -- just enough padding to not bruise the knobbly bits or crush the cartilage of my ears. I get some of my best sleep like that, but I don't do it at home because romantic partners would never go for that. I feel like a ceramic pillow wouldn't be much of a stretch for me -- does this seem so abnormal for westerners who camp?
>No one thinks that showing the same ad to the same person 100 times is effective.

No one told that to Coca-Cola
Depending on the context you probably still could frame it as a copyright violations.

My guess is that the problems lies in the aspects of the automatic termination of the contract not being valid in France law in exactly that way. I.e. it being "in between" valid and invalid until the court case around the termination is settled and in turn it means there is still a (breached) contract or similar.

If that is the case you might be able to avoid this problem by making sure the contract is properly and explicitly terminated before you start suing, but it also requires the offender to continue using your software after you explicitly terminated the contract. I.e. you couldn't do it in retrospective, and it probably also would be a problem if there is a ongoing curt case for damages due to the breach of contract...
Agreed, the request was very polite and seems totally reasonable. While I don’t think you can call digging up public fillings dox-ing, I don’t see any reason for the developer not to respect the request.
Sorry - do you mean why didn't NZ develop vaccine production facilities? I don't know why you'd think it logical for two hundred odd governments to all be doing entirely independent vaccine research to combat the same disease. Funding a diverse set of approaches and salves is certainly worth it - but there's no reason all that work should necessarily be duplicated within national borders. Lastly - I'd be amazed if no New Zealander ended up contributing to vaccine development in some manner.

NZ has taken an isolationist approach to the virus that seems, to all accounts, to have worked absolutely wonderfully - it's not an approach available to all nations, but they made it work for them.

I live and work in Canada and I didn't leverage any of the factors available to me to jump ahead in the vaccination line - my wife and I have no children and have both been able to work fully remote... so we've similarly isolated ourselves - when my age group came up I registered and was vaccinated but I was happy to see people who have jobs that necessitate in-person interaction prioritized in front of me. It's more efficient for my health for those folks to get the vaccine first - I think NZ found itself in a similar situation, everyone (mostly) wanted to get vaccinated and the voluntary rate so far has been pretty good - it's just that other places need the vaccine more desperately than them.

So long as you ignore America, where a large number of doses have expired due to political resistance - those doses of vaccine will end up going to productive ends, and wouldn't it be nice to stop the disease before we have a new wave spread out from Africa?
That 1%, if they are loud enough, can move overton window for the whole society. Recall how fast vaccine passports moved from a crazy right wing conspiracy theory to an obvious and necessary measure. Last year is full of such examples.
The problem is that nobody wants to pay you intermediate/senior salary for junior ability until you learn their field. More than that, even if you volunteer to take the pay cut, they may be afraid you'll jump ship quickly, or that it's just not worth the risk of doing something unconventional.
Looks like a similar concept to https://github.com/machine/machine.specifications which I used many years ago to try and achieve BDD style unit testing.

One point to note from your introduction was the following statement:
I often find unit tests are hard to read, and especially harder to quickly identify what are the important pieces, or even what the test is testing about

Have you considered pairing with others in your team or using group code reviews to see if there is a style or understanding gap? This may be far more effective than trying to get people to use a novel unit testing framework with little or no real longevity.
Same in Europe, i also believe most of these rants on hn about hiring are describing a unique trend in the united states.
We have SW Architects. Here is what I've seen:

John Smith is a great engineer. He does absolutely amazing work and is able to move up the company ladder. He interacts with many teams, has a lot of influence and so has great impact in the company. Eventually he gets promoted to the Architecture team. Once he reaches there, he can 100% focus on putting his great experience to maximize his influence and solve high-level problems. He even has regular 1:1 meetings with some powerful VPs.

The problem is: since John is now part of the Architecture team, he is not really involved in the front line anymore. There's a chance he doesn't even get to write code anymore, all he does is tell people what and how to code, and sometimes he reviews patches. He has that code assignment that he has been trying to finish for a long time, but the higher-priority Architecture Team work is preventing him from putting that time in. He'll probably have to delegate it to the new employee James Jones.

Over the course of the next few years John Smith starts getting more and more out of touch with reality. His ideas start making less sense, some of his suggestions simply don't work because of how we reworked the entire locking infrastructure last year. He doesn't know how to interact with new CI system so he gets misses some important things. John was recently asked to do a tech review on a certain new feature, but he's not up-to-date with the code since that new mega-feature so he put James Jones to do the actual review for him.

All our devs are criticizing John Smith for only having impossible or obsolete ideas, being a stupid proxy architect that does nothing useful to the company. How the hell can he get away with such a huge salary, given he's so incompetent? Did he have to do sexual favors to someone to reach that position?

But James Jones is such a great engineer, we should put him on the Architecture track since I'm sure he will be able to fulfill some of the gaps we have there! Unfortunately there are too many architects already, so we're going to have to wait someone to retire or quit, since no architects ever get fired, all the VPs love them.
Just ignore. All this dickhead does is spam HN with links to his crappy YouTube videos, day after day. He does so under another username too and rotates between the two.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=owaisinn

I don't know why he hasn't been banned. I've seen people banned on here for much less aggravating behaviour.
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> Is federal registration of my mark required?

> No. In the United States, parties are not required to register their marks to obtain protectable rights. You can establish "common law" rights in a mark based solely on use of the mark in commerce, without a registration.

I have read that the US is also "first use" and not "first to file", eliminating a race to registration.
The problem with a lot of these applications today is that they work with the kind of information you want might want immediate access to from many devices. That means cloud-hosted options have a compelling advantage in convenience, which for many users will inevitably outweigh any security and privacy concerns.

I would love for the FOSS community to come up with a simple, SOHO-friendly server/appliance to act as the central repository for information like messages and calendars and be accessible to all devices on the local network (or via VPN from outside). Then we could have some competition for favourable UIs without every application having to reinvent the wheel for all the back end protocols and formats. Sadly the experience of applications like Thunderbird suggests there isn't currently a critical mass of interest in working that way and most of the market is willing to tolerate the downsides of the cloud applications in exchange for better UIs and more convenience.
The EU has terrible economics baked into their constitution about governments taking on debt too -- fiscal and monetary policy are both constrained.

This should be close enough to chump-change that I am skeptical that's what's going on, but I cannot rule it out either.
I switched to Joplin a while back when Evernote decided to implode itself, and stopped iterating on their product. Now I send auto-donations to Joplin devs via Github Sponsorship. Love it. Syncs to my DropBox and I haven't had any issues.
Yes, He is legendary which is why i reference this page despite it being rarely updated.
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> hereas most “western” vegan foods I see ... seem to just want to emulate meat .

You're looking at the wrong stuff. Most vegans don't eat that stuff its for recent converts and people who don't know how to eat. Most vegans make meals that aren't "we had meat and potatos and substituted fake meat" they're meals meant to be filling and nutritious without meat. They just use other better proteins. Silly example, but a ham sandwich vs a peanut butter sandwich. PB is way better than "ham sub" but still protein filled.
Not knowing much about the great firewall, but taking in context from the article, it seems like they'd only really be able to limit "modern" games, which are always connected.

If you can somehow get your hands on an SNES and FF6 cart, or (more likely) figure out how to get an emulator and ROM to your computer, no one will be the wiser. So, if anything, this will be a boon to older console games.
Sure, but in this case I'm just adding the reference alongside a pretty simple point: Employing sarcasm in hackernews discussions is very seldom valuable and often is not respecting the community guidelines.[0] It was worthwhile to clarify I am not quoting Knowles word for word as contemporary gospel, but the semantics aren't really relevant. Point is, user was downvoted because a "sarcastic couple of sentences" have no intrinsic worth for this discussion, not because of anything conspiratorial.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it's a false assumption to make that there would be devastating, society stopping labor shortages with UBI. I will contend a lot of jobs today are useless (or worse, actually harmful). Many things can definitely be automated as well. I'm sure we can come up with janitorial robots, we just haven't because it's cheaper to exploit people.

The goal of society should be to become post-scarcity. All of our technological progress has led in that direction. We currently just live in a period where the majority of the gains have been captured by very few people and that has allowed them to exploit human labor to enrich themselves vs. building a self-sustainable society. Engineered or not, I think that's the inevitable end game of continuing humanity.
There is indeed a lot of "filler" type production and even the most talented creators are far from always producing unique pieces that touch audiences (let alone endure).

But this misses the point: some creators do occasionally hit the magic sweet spot and invent something that makes the rest worthwhile. Heck, some creators invent new genres.

A DL type algorithm will not produce a new "classic" except by a "thousand monkeys hitting keyboards" type accident... at least not until we dig far deeper into what makes some music stand-out. And an algorithm as conventionally defined is unlikely to ever produce a new musical style.

The true opportunity (as always with algorithms) is the augmentation of creative talent.
Correct, but those marks are limited to the specific areas where you practice business, whereas federal trademarks grant you the mark outside of only the areas where you practice business.
cassidyjames seems to be trying to remove an adjective from the english language permitted for use by others... the proof of their wrongness seems elementary.
> If the vaccines weren't the end game, there is no end game.

Your argument is already flawed. We don't have vaccines available to everyone in the US yet.
> Scroll right to start

I'd rather not.
Lovers in a dangerous spacetime is also a fun couch coop with different roles in a 2D spaceship.

Each of the 4 weapons platforms faces a different direction, so you need to run around to cover everything. And then there are engines and shields and the map and superweapon
> Because after making the purchase, the number of ads for the item INCREASE.

Even if you've actually measured this and it's true (and not frequency illusion), that still doesn't mean they're not doing both.
The constant messages from recruiters is one of the reasons why I deleted my LinkedIn account.
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Thanks for clarifying this. The link is quite interesting.
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"fuckyou@spammer.com"
I think one imbalance in the industry is that software engineers require years of on the job training to be able to independently get things done. In medicine this is also the case which is why doctors have to go through a residency. Junior engineers are kind of like hiring a resident and asking them for medical advice -- it'll work in a pinch but you really want to have at least one doctor in the room when making important decisions. This is also reflected in the salary. If companies understood this and gave juniors much bigger raises (really an annual market adjustment) there would be far less turnover and interview time wasting in the industry.
AD seem to have been able to make the pitch flow quite alright, but dropped the ball on the roll movement. Shame—the ride per se looks exciting just from the vid.
Fcc part 97.101 "General Standards" (d):
"No amateur operator shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communication or signal."

Pitiful we have to encode "the golden rule" of treat others like you'd have them treat you into law, but here we are its in the CFR.

As of 2021 no one has a technological answer to how to avoid various wide band digital technologies from interference against, well, absolutely everything else currently in use, without forcing everyone to operate in a channelized system with massive international coordination problems. The international part is a nightmare, what if, I donno, Bulgaria refuses to channelize? Nothing will work for anyone unless everyone cooperates.

Wideband digital modes do NOT play well with others.

There are channelized bands around 5 mhz (in the usa) and the FCC does relax quite a bit on wide open microwave bands, but people are going to request turning all of 20 meters into one single user digital channel, and to hell with everyone else currently using the band, apparently into infinity. Its an eternal meme.

I guess the best analogy I can come up with, is you can zone land as a public park for people to picnic, but that doesn't mean the land is completely lawless, if you blast your music at 160 dB the police will arrest you for preventing everyone else from enjoying their picnic.

We easily right now have the technological ability to turn the 20M band into a single channel, single user, very high speed digital path at 1500 watts. But that's a terrible idea, given the zillions of current users, local and international, who would be kicked off completely unable to operate.
Fair, but how does that fix the issue for people post-purchase?
There's nothing good about them. They have celebrities and are ostensibly about "fashion", but they don't otherwise have anything to recommend them.
There are far better solutions to that problem than just making it extremely difficult to report anything. Show a pop-up that says "this will send the abuse information to Discord staff" to clarify. Or, add true reporting functionality for mods themselves.
> But there our story ends, because that chapter has not yet been written.

I think it will be harder to unseat Facebook than it was for AOL simply because of size.

At its peak, AOL had around 34 million subscribers. Thus you could easily grow and build by service by appealing to people who had never been on AOL and who we’re not enmeshed in the AOL ecosystem.

Facebook has billions of users. There aren’t enough people in the world who have Internet access to allow someone to build a massive service out of people who have never been on Facebook. Add to that Instagram and WhatsApp and there are not that many people who are on the Internet but not a part of Facebook’s ecosystem.
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> It is a pandemic, so there's that, but there's been similar things in my lifetime that didn't lead to quite so much collapse narrative.

Yet despite all of the rhetoric around the pandemic throughout the entire world, very little has functionally changed politically. While the pandemic most certainly exposed many problems throughout world governments, the fact that no major change (e.g. revolution, energy collapse, etc) has actually happened is a testament to the world's current status quo.

> Maybe things were so good or stable-seeming before that returning to some kind of historical norm with regard to instability factors is bringing things back to a baseline with collapse narrative?

The world was a lot less connected before. Now we see the pain around us instantly through shared photos, Twitter, and the 24 hour news cycle. In the past you could go months without realizing that a major conflict was occurring, especially in less connected parts of the world.
TIL FTP took down AOL. Did a human actually write that? Wow. AOL died because it was a walled garden filled with manure and very few actual plants.
It is not the work of the government to do those things.
Some ideas:

Drone that can clean your gutters while avoiding obstacles like trees and chimneys. This might be very hard, but would be a challenge.

A series of smart heating/AC vents that open/close based on whether people are in the room. Make them solar powered and "sleep" to save power. I think this might be possible without a microcontroller, but maybe easiest with a very energy efficient one.

Window that opens when the outside temperature is closer to your target temp than the inside temp. E.g. if your home is set to cool but it's cooler outside, open the window. Need a rain sensor.

A very large Roomba. Traditional roombas are small, and not super effective as a result. Tolerating a bigger one might be work it. Get one of those battery powered vacuums that work off of power tool battery packs, perhaps.
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I think they removed this but I'm not 100% sure
This misses whole primary subsets of ideologies and doomers, glosses most Libertarian groups which are probably the most paranoid about such events. Seeming to focus too hard at the near non-existant extremes like EcoFash & EcoCommies and really never adjusts back towards a realistic middle which comes in any crisis.
The US similarly allows private underage consumption of alcohol - with more restrictions than in most parts of Europe - with parental consent and oversight. This varies from state to state in how it works and the limits, of course. Most states draw a strong legal distinction between underage drinking parties vs moderate underage consumption outside of a party context.
I think many of them are great and it has little to do with the “quality” being bad.
Getting front page on HN was one of the lucky breaks that helped Beekeeper Studio start growing when we launched.

Thanks to everyone who voted us up back then, really we might not be here without it.

OG Post easily dwarfed the traffic from our tweet to Scott Hanselman, lol.

OG discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23091384
That doesn't mean the copyright ownership disappeared. Those either got acquired/merged into another entity or liquidated in case of bankruptcy.
I've changed jobs ten times since 1992. As it works out, exactly half of them I was recruited into by an internal reference and the other half I found on a job board like Monster or LinkedIn. By far, the two best were relatively large organizations that I applied to cold, and the two absolute worst were actually the ones I was most actively recruited into by former co-workers. I suspect that the problem in both of the latter cases was that they worked so hard to bring me in that they ended up overselling me - I'm good, but I'm also a human who has two kids to look after. On the other hand, if I'm "just" the best candidate from the pile of resumes, expectations seem to be reasonable.
There is a difference. The advanced Scala one may be simpler in concept if the high level concepts/idioms are known and a complete mystery if not. With less expressive languages the complexity is due to the volume rather than nature of code if that makes it any clearer.

Metaprogramming or code generation is similar. You can certainly make smaller, more sophisticated solutions with it. I would consider that has a comprehensibility cost and need some justification for its use, if not merely for academic/learning purposes. Maintainability could go either way depending on the situation and team composition.