skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aspect of this case that stands out to me is that copyright is claimed in clothing and fashions: "counterfeit retailers that sell knock-off dresses using the plaintiffs' copyrighted images", a claim traditionally well outside copyright, and at best quite grey. Copyright covers works of original authorship but not either ideas or functional aspects of design.

See the strong-IP case from the Copyright Alliance, who can at best muster an "it depends":

There are some mixed messages out there about whether fashion designs are eligible for copyright protection. Some experts would say “no,” others would say “yes,” and they’re both right it depends.

https://copyrightalliance.org/education/qa-headlines/copyrig...

In the US, such protections are still only at the "being considered" stage as best I can tell:

The major amendment, of course, would be the extension of design protection to fashion designs, by amending § 1301(a) to provide that “A fashion design is subject to protection under this chapter” and by amending § 1302(b) to include “an article of apparel” in the definition of “useful articles” subject to protection.

https://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072706.html

As the Copyright office's discussion notes, there are non-expressive protections in the specific case of ship hull designs (also in chip masks). But fashion itself has remained largely a copyright-free zone.

The proposed language did not enter into US law as evideced at Cornell's USC server:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1301

Cloudflare has secured this round without challenging the copyrightability of the alleged infinged works themselves, but probably also has that arrow in their quivver should they need to invoke it. The court's decision here is actually a broader protection for Cloudflare (it would apply against any infringement claim), though it doesn't invalidate the plaintiff's IMO questionable fashion-based copyright claims.
I moved from Chicago, so my definition of bad traffic is fairly skewed. It hasn't been that bad here, but I'm sure some of that is the transition to WFH for a lot of the people who would traditionally have driven into downtown.
Razer Blade 14 2021 vs. M1 MacBook Pro Boot Time
The Mountain View crash where the driver reported that specific location to Tesla on multiple occasions and still let the robocar drive full speed into the jersey barrier on autopilot?
Life is terrible for poor people. Software professionals are living high on the hog in Austin. If you turn off the news and live locally things are far better for the cohort that reads Hackers News.
That's very unclear, since people who got Moderna are getting fewer breakthrough infections that people who got Pfizer, and are being hospitalized less (from studies by the Mayo Clinic and confirmed elsewhere). So you can't look just at side effects, you also need to look at effectiveness. They could inject you with a placebo known to be side effect free.
Ahh interesting, I assumed since a lot of launch sites are over the ocean and east that it was a requirement.
But in practice it's taking out things that appear to be true or at least a viable theory. For instance, the reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop, and the lab leak theory.

So be concerned about people calling Clinton a Gila Monster if that's your most pressing concern. But by censoring it, you will also miss out on contrarian reporting that's actually true.
Ibuprofen also helps.
I wonder if that's intended as a reference to the post-war holdouts

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

"Jungle Jap" would be extremely offensive if used by a non-Japanese person to describe a Japanese person today. Although I wasn't born yet, I think that was almost certainly already true in the 1970s.

There are a lot of cases in which people use disparaging group terms and slurs for themselves either as a joke or as a political statement (which is sometimes called "reclaiming" when done consciously and politically). For example, "nerd" is often disparaging but many of my fellow nerds would regularly call each other that in school, and the web comic SMBC routinely refers to its readers as "nerds" (and I don't think the term would be considered disparaging at all when used within the context of a technology-oriented site or forum). I don't think this is a very clever idea for commercial branding, since other people who are aware of the disparaging use might find the brand awkward or uncomfortable!
If that is true then why don't you or someone start a video sharing site for such advertisers who want to advertise next to such content?
FYI I’ve used this on the Mac it works pretty well: https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
Yea 20 days is great for jr level but if you're with the firm for more than 5 years or above manager level it's kinda low for how many days you'd get (and thus be compensated for if you leave)
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ah not terrible
The plan was hatched when they smoked that joint together. Great state to move to if you want to avoid taxes on capital gains and if you want to build factories doing whatever the heck you want with no worker protections.

If you really think of it - one of the main reasons Musk started in CA was because thats where his client base was to get the homegrown advantages for clientbase, talent and green benefits/cred. Now since his base has moved globally, he is moving to the lowest cost of operations (read: Texas). And to be fair - it would be very difficult to upsize any of his manufacturing capabilities in the bay area. The fact that he even has a major facility there is kind of impressive.
because management usually has no better way to determine how much you're actually contributing than how many hours you put in
Property tax rates are higher on a percentage basis, but property values can be much lower, so you can still come out ahead on the property taxes.

larsiusprime had a good analysis [0] that gets into some of the details.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793851
They look cheap because they're underpriced. At the moment, most houses are closing 15-20% higher than list and a lot of them are offered in all cash deals.

That's slowly changing, but I suspect that's temporary.
The Cult of the Vaccine Neurotic
Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
>Median home price in austin is nearly 600k and in California its 800k,

Compare Austin to somewhere near Freemont or compare TX to CA. Comparing Austin to all of CA is more than a little dishonest since there's a lot of rural nowheres in CA to drag down the average price but the comparison exludes all of Texas's rural nowheres.
This is the solution. It’s important for people to realize this.

Once people realize that those special items are going to waste, then hopefully a positive change can happen, and those items can be used instead of collecting dust and going to waste.
Can't they use a smaller wavelength source? Nothing special about 13nm afaik
What would that number be if only essential water use was considered? i.e. no lawns, no cash crops, etc.
Influx of Californians raises the local housing prices because they can pay a lot more after selling in California. This has happened and continues to happen in metro Denver and Boise.
Michigan has 2.8 million acres of national forest. I'm not sure 64,000 acres counts as much of anything at that rate.

There's a couple National Parks here that are larger than 64,000 acres too.
How do you use it? I’m not familiar with the VT-100 and its uses.
> Walled gardens are bad for consumers. Apple is the definitive walled garden on planet earth.

And yet many people on HN love their iPhones, Kindle Paperwhites, Xboxes, PlayStations, and Switch consoles...

(note: you can actually load PDFs onto your Paperwhite, or onto your iPhone/iPad for that matter)
Austin is where the Hill Country begins. A large swath of it is hardly flat. With that said your main premise is correct. Land as far as the eye can see.
I've been meaning to write up an 'Ask HN' style question around using something similar to combat a common beekeeping pest called the Small Hive Beetle (SHB).

This is a small (5mm) black beetle that comes into beehives, usually around dusk, and causes massive havoc, can easily wipe out colonies quite quickly.

It arrived in Australia about 15 years ago, but is common almost everywhere else in the world now. There's lots of control mechanisms, but they're all incomplete (traps, nematodes in soil around the hive, mesh layers they can be pushed / fall through but bees can't fit through, etc).

A laser unit sitting in front of a hive, perhaps with an extended landing pad, seems like an excellent use case for an approach like yours.

So, if you're bored, and want to save the (beekpeeing) world ... ? : )
Let me fix that title for you:

Investors Got Scammed to Spent Millions on NFTs, They ‘Apes’.
"very capable of evaluating facts and data and responding to data"

Sounds very incorrect. I'm at least very easily mislead, eg. Fusion advocates talking about the energy they put into plasma vs get out of plasma, rather than the energy they put into the system vs take out of the system. I don't know enough to know that they're lying to me about the prospects of ITER producing as much energy as it uses.
I thought Prop 13 no longer applies to current purchases? If you own a house under prop 13 it’s under way low property tax, but if you sell it, it get reassessed at the new current value. Is this not the case? When we purchased our house years ago the taxes weren’t cheap and we had to pay the additional Melli-Roos tax.
check out seattle, we got prices that rock /s
13nm * 2 is 26nm.

Using a smaller wavelength is kind of useless for the optical lithography, as below this photons will make too many secondary electrons which will reduce the effective resolution. This is the reason X-ray lithography went nowhere.

This is why the ultimate limit of 157nm lithography was also not so far away from EUV. Also somewhere in between 25nm-30nm

This is also why some people suggest resurrecting 157nm — getting nearly same half pitch without maintenance, and expensive tooling of EUV.
Politicians are at least theoretically accountable to an electorate, whereas egomaniacal billionaires are accountable to nobody.
The California chart states "Fewer than 5 persons out of 100 will exceed these values".

The article you linked contains charts from the Texas ABC which do not indicate what percentile they measure. The original source [1] is a dead link but it's still available in the Wayback machine [2], where the PDF states "Note: The figures are averages and may vary based on the amount of food in your stomach."

The difference in these charts in no way "implies that at least one source is lying via statistics", just that you are attempting to compare different statistics dealing with something that's going to be quite variable from individual to individual. IMO, the 95th percentile is a better approach, if your intention is to give people a rough intuition for how much might be too much.

[1] http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/publications/brochures/BACCharts...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190903232034/http://www.tabc.s...
That will absolutely work; I'm exactly like that - if I have one (1) of something I will over-cherish it and never use it. If I have two (or more), I will now comfortably use one knowing I have a spare.

Not logical, but I haven't broken the habit yet :)
In 2019, San Francisco housing grew in total by 4,850 units, which was an increase of 81%! over 2018.

By comparison, Austin permitted 8600 multi-family units in 2018 alone. That doesn't include single family detached, which averages another 2800 a year.
Gold would be miserable flooring.

It would dent easily (gold is quite soft), and it's very thermally conductive so it's feel quite cold through your shoes.
As my post was written, I guess I wasn't really qualifying things. I could have worded that a little more precisely.

I was thinking of proprietary platforms such as FB, not open protocols like email.

If we're counting protocols then I suppose we'd have to include the phone networks and MMS and I think those would eclipse email.

Although, I don't think it's useful to compare proprietary closed social networks to open protocols; seems very apples-vs-oranges.
I want an umbrella that uses lasers to vaporize the raindrops that would fall on me.
Nah, I think that's coincidence otherwise the Navy would do better cleanups in their own Superfund sites.
The https://www.tesla.com/contact page should have been updated at the same time as the shareholder meeting announcement as it states the HQ is still in CA.
A little more than an hour. Long enough to pull in a swarm. A 2 litter would last longer but I just get the flavored sparkling water. I open it just to the point I can begin to hear a sound.
Show HN: Demo of Selenium JavaScript end-to-end tests
I would be curious to see an analysis of this. How much of the USA's military budget goes to things that would normally be done by other institutions in a country like Canada?

Canada doesn't have a VA for example. We just have universal health care.

The GDP comparisons alone may be misleading.
>Facebook's network effect was overwhelmed twice, once by instagram and again by whatsapp

This doesn't seem accurate, do you have evidence to back up this claim? Instagram had 30 million users and no revenue upon acquisition. Facebook had over a billion, and billions in revenues.
Maintaining wildlife is part of national defense too, I would argue.
I think the point was that you have enough forward movement for steerage, your tethered float will always be behind you.
everything that goes well in the country contributes to the DoD ability to wage war
Gold surely has value as it’s the most malleable of the metals. Having a gold cooking pot is a vast increase in wealth on a deserted island compared to no cooking pot.
If you put a bit of imagination a lot of random things can have value in an extreme enough situation.
Hey there, I work at FingerprintJS.

We don't believe in third party tracking and only focus on first party anti-fraud use cases. We publicly reveal any methods that we detect as being pure third party tracking privacy violations so that they get patched.
It's "a bit on the nose" that someone complaining about fear-porn uses the same post to push fear-porn about the vaccines.
Even as a conservative, I strongly support the normalization of 4 day work weeks, if for no other reason than to create more competition for domestic lower skill labor (which will over time result in rising wages). A job is the best social program. This will create more jobs while at the same time allowing people to live better lives. 40 hour work weeks have outlived their usefulness long time ago. It's ridiculous that people have to neglect their kids to make someone else rich.
>I have no other plausible explanation.

Take a ton of people with CA urban ideology and plop them down in a random city in TX and "intentionally bad traffic because we expect everyone in the city to give up their cars" seems like a not unforseeable outcome.

Frankly this is why we leave major infrastructure planning up to the states so that the state can wring the best possible outcome out of an entire economic region without getting too bogged down by local politics. Left to their own devices cities would build shit infrastructure because they'd try to exclude the poors and other petty stuff like that.
I know people who have been harassed by CA franchise tax board many years after leaving the state, and had to prove they had left.
There was a study somewhere claiming that it wouldn't. Only a small fraction of mosquito species bite humans, and according to the study, none were particularly important to their ecosystems.
It doesn’t relate to any measurement of feature size. It’s just a frustratingly meaningless marketing term.
mattjaynes linked a video that explains this better than I did and looks like its a better way to do it.
It may be as NIMBY in some ways but the effects haven't kicked in yet (and probably won't given size, competition, and property tax laws). Look at the options available for a family making 80k in these two cities. They aren't even the same magnitude.

https://www.trulia.com/TX/Austin/

https://www.trulia.com/CA/Palo_Alto/

Texas also doesnt have prop 13 so it is unlikely to ever reach the levels of a California city
Okay, use the web. Within a couple of years of its creation it had transformed businesses in all kinds of industries, government, education, recreational activities, etc. By the time it was as old as Bitcoin, the world was completely different and people were walking around with web clients in their pockets; in contrast, the most impact Bitcoin has had outside of its own community seems to be that it can be slightly cheaper than Western Union to send money to another country.
I feel like orwellian is the wrong term. Isn't that geared more towards the thought police and how you feel about the government's politics? Not if you're homeless or not?

I don't think OP meant anything by his post. California's policies are lax. Regardless if you think they're deserving of consideration or not, it's miserable to have a huge homeless population living next to your house. People may pretend its not real but homeless areas tend towards drugs and unsanitary conditions and it's not a great place to raise a family.
Well there's really only two options for a self driving car that has lost situational awareness - (1) keep going at the same speed, or (2) slow down and alert the driver (and possibly stop if the driver doesn't respond).

Choeger was suggesting that (2) was the prudent option. You replied and appeared to be suggesting the first option because slowing down was dangerous. But I contend that (1) is the more dangerous option if situational awareness has been lost.
Oof, listening to rock-on-hull while underwater has to be "interesting". You folks are made of stern stuff.
I first thought it was because of World War II propaganda, but on further reflection I don't think that's right, because (1) the propaganda more often used the slang "Japs", and (2) I think "a Japanese" and "a Chinese" were both common in American English for decades after the end of the war (and the American war propaganda was never directed against the Chinese).

I think I favor the theory that someone else suggested in the comments here that the Japanese and Chinese were the only East Asians that most Americans were aware of in the past, and were subject to a lot of hostility and prejudice (both before and after the war), and that people at some point felt that the singular noun forms had acquired a possible interpretation as slurs because of the memory of this. That matches my understanding of "a Jew", which of course is the perfectly normal and traditional form in English, but which many non-Jews and plenty of Jews have become uncomfortable with as a singular noun.
It’s literally how crypto is designed to work, spread, and gain adoption. Unsecure nodes (criminals) are either caught via the audit trail or forced back into a legit line of work. Either way their corrupt activity finances the secure economy as a kind of UBI (think of greedy gold miners doing nothing but financing the shovel industry)
Not even just the bay area but the whole coast.

Look at prices in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, or out east. They all easily top Austin.

I think it's a good thing. Austin has a budding tech scene. Hopefully the political shitstorm there blows over so people actually want to live there.
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I mean, to be fair, 78725 is effectively the middle of nowhere in Austin. It makes sense if Musk's goal was to choose a fairly undeveloped exurb, but the gigafactory is as close to Manor and Webberville as it is to central Austin.

I know Fremont is suburban, but it's a well incorporated suburb to both SF, Oakland and San Jose. 78725 is on the opposite side of Austin from most of the fancy neighborhoods.
> or for security applications.

Wanna bet where the money comes from?
Prop 13 still applies (though I personally think it inflates home prices in CA above their "true" market value and disincentivizes anyone from selling/moving).

When I bought my home this year, it got re-assessed at my purchase price, yes. But for as long as Prop 13 is the law of the land, no matter how much home prices in CA inflate, my property tax is more or less capped at the price I paid for the house.
I agree with some of the points you've made in this thread but you cannot base a policy on unfounded anecdotes. I don't believe that Google allows any of its bus drivers to drive 10 hours per day, I don't believe it requires them to sit around unpaid every day, and of course, I don't believe this individual cannot find a bus driving job somewhere closer to where he or she lives. There has to be more to this story. To use it, unquestioned, to indict a company (and expanding that to indict the entire industry) is not valid.
> the tooling isn't yet able to differentiate between dependencies which are packaged and deployed with your application vs dependencies which are only used in the build process

You can run

npm audit --production

to audit only the "dependencies" that are what deployed code is using, but not "devDependencies" which are what build and test infrastructure is using.

> That's not a vulnerability, that's a broken build.

True, but at the same time you shouldn't discount the potential issues in the build toolchain as totally harmless. A classical example is a malicious transitive dependency that steals your signing keys. Or triggers long builds, slowly (or rapidly) burning your money that you pay for CI.

The thing is, with every potential vulnerability you should assess whether it actually applies to you. There are countless reasons for which a vulnerability cannot be exploited in your particular situation: you don't even use a feature, you use it with proper safeguards, you don't deploy that code to anywhere that matters, you run it in a sandbox, etc.

But doing so is not that easy when you have hundreds of transitive dependencies and npm audit cries wolf daily. I have this little library with exactly one direct dependency and what do I see?

found 7 vulnerabilities (4 moderate, 3 critical) in 124 scanned packages

This is doable. Now multiply it by 200 and you can't be bothered to review it all and decide whether things apply to you or not.

Extreme positions are to either ignore the advisories entirely (“it’s not an issue until I have a real user with a real complaint”), or treat all of them as immediate priority (“npm audit says we have 7 critical vulnerabilities, those must be real and actual, drop whatever you're doing and fix that NAO”).

A middle ground is some arbitrary policy, like don't sweat it until we have more than N potential vulnerabilities, or someone happened to read their descriptions and thinks they are particularly nasty.

The bad thing here is that the npm audit scale promotes this sort of middle ground position taking without involving actual security people.
I’m pretty sure if I moved out to Sacramento from where I am now (the South Bay) I’d try and take the Capitol Corridor in, if I could find any way to make the timing work. It’s not that I’d expect it to cut down on my commuting time, but I’d definitely want to test whether it could cut down on my commuting stress.

(Granted, these are pre-pandemic thoughts about moving.)