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Ive gotten this multiple times. The method of employment != role.

A contractor usually elicits someone doing temp, but in this case we are talking about a FTE that on paper is a contractor. You can ask for every single benefit, provided it is legal.
This is covered in section 6 of the GPL(v3). See the text here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

Note that there are some changes here compared to v2 of the GPL.

IANAL but my understanding/interpretation (simplified) is you have to either:

6a) Ship the binaries in a physical product with a copy of the source code accompanying

6b) Ship the binaries in a physical product along with an offer to provide the source code on request

6c) "occasionally and noncommercially" ship the binaries (not necessarily in a physical product) along with an offer to provide the source code on request

6d) Make the binaries available from somewhere (e.g. a website) which also offers the source code (e.g. GitHub would count)

6e) Ship the binaries via a P2P mechanism if you include a link to where you host the source code

Again, IANAL but if you hosted a GPLv3 binary somewhere without source code, it would technically be a violation of the GPL.

However, since you are the copyright holder in this case, you can ship it however you want - it would just prevent anyone else from then distributing it under the GPL since they wouldn't be able to comply with section 6, since they don't have the source code.
On the Ruby side both Nokogiri and Mechanize should be mentioned...
I mean, some of the US is like that. Other parts of the US, like where I live, have some pretty good public spaces available. I've got a park down the street with soccer fields, baseball and softball fields, a half court basketball setup, a fishing pond, picnic tables at the edge of some woods with grills, multiple playgrounds focusing on different kids ages/sizes/abilities. I can hop on a bus near my home and go to the larger sports complex with fancier fields and more organized teams, or the recreation centers with gymnasiums, board games to check out, tennis courts, waterparks, hobby meetings, etc. I see people using these facilities a good bit, there's usually people walking the trails around the parks, children playing on the playgrounds, people hanging out around the picnic tables, the pool and waterpark facilities get crowded at times. And then I can hop on the train and take it downtown to all the parks and other resources available there. And I live in a suburb!

Lots of people in the US who feel there are no public city services often just don't realize the services their city already provides or are unaware of how to use them. Even in my city which has absolutely wonderful city services, I often find friends and neighbors completely unaware of the things which exist. We have busses running all over my town but I imagine if you asked any random person if they knew any local bus route they would have no idea where to even begin.
I was initially going to say the same thing, but then I reflected on what I saw in the past.

In a very real sense, government required compliance effectively forces banks into a gatekeeper position. And while some BSA enforcers do act in their interest the same any group does ( cops, politicians, IC, doctors ) by extending their reach and influence, others are wary of expanding it beyond current regime ( which is already pretty onerous ).

It does help that banks tend to get very sensitive about some things as they do rely on deposits to survive. In one of the banks I used to work for, teller BSA training included a mention to be sensitive about customers and questions along with a story of a teller, who prodded a little beyond what the customer deemed acceptable and who then proceeded to close the account with 'none of your god damn business'.

What I am saying is that things are only the way they are, because we allow it that way. Cash is still a viable, albeit annoying choice.

And banks have been complacent until now, but the cost of complacency seems to be going up.

All that said, ABA better gets it shit together. Between high compliance burden on banks combined with low to non-existent compliance on fintech startups can quickly amount to real trouble for the banking system in US.
Wow, I really disagree. I'm exactly your target consumer, too. My company maintains several data aggregation platforms that combined are consumers of ~40 third-party web APIs.

First, the premise of the article is that Open API is for generating documentation. Our company has never meaningfully used it for that. We do send around API docs in Open API format, but it's maybe 5% of the value we get from Open API. Mostly we use it as a language-agnostic definition that can generate clients and servers for us.

> goes towards fixing something that does not even have to be there

I take it that (in your article, anyway) you mean API documentation?

I'm never not going to need API documentation because it's not just syntax. It also tells me how the vendor's object model works. It tells me the right order to make API calls, how to know my rate limit, and how to choose permissions for my API keys that are as narrow as possible.

I think your product has several premises:

1. Many APIs (like SMS providers) are interchangeable except for their request/response schemas

2. It's painful to create an abstraction around a specific vendor's API client

3. It's painful to switch from one API that does (roughly) the same thing to another

4. Many companies are switching between API vendors regularly (or they want to)

In my experience 0 out of 4 of these premises are true. Some of the simplest services (like transactional SMS and e-mail) are not interchangeable, and as you get to something more complex (like the Hubspot API I was working on with this morning), then it's not even close. You can't swap out Salesforce for Hubspot, for example. Their products compete, but their models are different, and (most importantly) I already have data in one vendor that I can't just instantly migrate to another one.

Most of the time I'd say it's not even worst the effort, but for people who are afraid they'll have to switch API vendors, it's easy to just wrap it with generic method calls and let the implementation details live in one place.

Need to swap it out? Spend 30-60 min building a new class that implements the same wrapper interface and you're done.

In reality, people just don't switch APIs that much, and the major vendors (like Twilio) just keep supporting the exact same API for many years in order to accommodate those people.

Years ago when we had SOAP and XML and lots of messy authentication, I could see there being a reason to use a registry of API abstractions, but nowadays the heterogeneity of REST APIs is a mild enough inconvenience that it's not the worth the price to "fix" it -- the price being losing first-party support from the API vendor and having yet another layer to have to debug.
What's wrong with being reductionist or using analogies or metaphors?

Analogies are simplified models, all models are wrong, some are really wrong, but some are really useful.

The best professors are using them to explain complex phenomenons in simple terms.

I compressed decades of my history learning into a single tweet here. Most people are unable to be succinct. They're writing 500 pages books about subjects that can be summarized in a tweet.

Please show what's wrong with the way I explaining the evolution of work?
Yes, I should have said “without the additional” side effects of the vaccine, but I assumed everyone would understand that part of it. But you are right that I should have been more specific, because someone else responded saying that I was overlooking the effects of COVID itself. So apparently not everyone did understand that. People in these debates tend to assume that anyone questioning mandates is automatically a COVID denier because the issue has become political. Two things can be true at once: COVID can be dangerous, and the mandates can be flawed.

Of course COVID itself is dangerous. But once you have had it and survived it, the science shows that you have far better immunity than the vaccine delivers. The mandates do not take this into account. That is all I was trying to say.
> No, not really. Spinning the actix-web as the author's reluctance to accept PRs is a gross misrepresentation of the problem faced by the project.

No, not really. The author, a professional at Microsoft, was a hobbyist with rust who (by his confession) wished to explore the limits of performance using various techniques. People made a mountain out of the fact that his project rocketed up to the top of the TechEmpower benchmarks -- as if this obligated him to conform to their flash-mob wishes regarding sanitized code, whereas the project very explicitly made it clear that production use was at one's own risk.

What happened to him was a hit-job by a bunch of entitled bullies. No less than Steve Klabnik acknowleged this ("far, far, far over the line"[0]). The fact that ntex exists today[1] yet the world has somehow not exploded yet demonstrates how overblown the criticisms were.

[0] https://steveklabnik.com/writing/a-sad-day-for-rust

[1] https://github.com/ntex-rs/ntex
Heya, me too. A few times a year, 30-40 minutes. More frequently as I get older. Are you on anything for them?
It’s here because someone posted it, and enough people upvoted it, and not enough flagged it. There is no conspiracy, things just show up on the front page depending on what we collectively want to read.

And it is an interesting article, and I hadn’t read it before, so I upvoted it as well.

The rule of thumb is that de-posting is acceptable after ~1 year.
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For JSON contracts that are of any reasonable level of complexity (many levels of nesting), I prefer to have the same serializer & strong type system on both ends. A common use case here is serializing dynamic business types as JSON in and out of blob columns.

For what its worth, I have had maybe 2 hours total worth of struggles with JSON serialization over the last as many years, and we use it for pretty much everything. The biggest pain point for us is implementation-specific. Refactors of namespaces & dependent assembly names can cause trouble with polymorphic serialization (which can absolutely be secure if used responsibly). The only other pain point experienced is with regard to nullable vs non-nullable fields - again only a problem after a change takes place relative to pre-existing JSON documents.
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I don't think that anyone ever chooses to be an asshole. I think people realise that they've been assholes, or they don't. I agree that people become assholes through things they do by choice, but I don't think anybody does something only an asshole would with the express purpose of being an asshole.

I'm naive, huh?
To be fair, XML wasn't intended as a data exchange format but as simplified SGML subset for use as delivery format on the web. While that largely hasn't happened, XML with XSD (sans rarely used feats) remains a strong exchange format for coarsely-grained inter-party traffic such as payment systems, taxes and other public/private data, etc.

I'm guessing the security deficits you mention are XML entity attacks. Well, SGML has CAPACITY ENTLVL in the SGML declaration to limit expansion depth. And a markup authoring or delivery format without entities/text macros is quite useless, even though HTML, when seen as a stand-alone markup language rather than SGML vocabulary, lacks it.
Is there an issue tracker for this project? Sounds like it might need one along with your advice.
I actually wonder if Bluetooth 5.2 with mass broadcasting features could be a solution. Some 5.2 hearing aids with voice pass through options to keep back ground music down, half the reason the music is so loud is they're old and going deaf anyway. With current tech, bunch of grandmas still need to sync up ipods like a flash mob which isn't going to happen.
Scraping saved untold lives this past spring when large healthcare providers (i.e. Walgreens & CVS) opted to hide their vaccination appointments behind redundant survey questions. This made it more difficult to quickly ascertain when an appointment slot would become available. The elderly were less likely to look more than once a day, delaying vaccines for those that needed it the most.

GoodRX built a scraping system that tapped into all the major providers. Thats what a group of vaccine hunters in my state used to get appointments for folks that had tried but were unable to.
The parent comment above is being downvoted in favor of the top comment - which is a baseless pro-union comment.

It's so strange. Do people really prefer to push an agenda here rather than understand the nuance and truth of what is going on?
This is the first piece I've read by Ron Paul, and I gotta say, I'm not impressed.

Lot's of hyperbole, what if's, is clearly entirely politically motivated [0], and appeals to emotion instead of reason for the whole piece.

Isn't this guy supposed to be one of the big minds of the Libertarian movement?

[0] It's a personal website, I can forgive this one. Still dumb, but it's his business. It's just something to keep in mind while reading.
I think that's the reason for the wildcat strike - the union won't abide by it so a group of pilots who don't want the vaccine are not working to make their point to management. It's all hearsay though.
I think the reason most people in rich countries don't aim for FIRE is that they value positional goods. (For themselves or for their children.) You can't expect to keep up with the Joneses by working less than the Joneses.

It'd be useful to spell out just how this competitive nature is supposed to be transcended, in the author's future. There's a bit of handwaving towards the end about confiscating Bezos and Musk's resources, but not really much more. We've seen that approach in action for over 100 years.
> it may be backfiring

The City was and remains overwhelmingly anti-Brexit [1]. The plan didn't backfire because there was no such plan.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/2980dbd4-ecf6-11e8-8180-9cf212677...
Totally. Hidden topic sentences. Now I just skip preambles.

The Wadsworth Constant for text.
Yep. Sounds like they need noise level regulation and enforcement.

The complaints I have heard have been very careful to separate the exercise, which is fine and good, from the excessive noise level during sleep time, which is not.
The Post is quoting when it uses both phrases. They are reporting what people involved said. One person used the phrase "bro culture" and there was another incident where a manager referred to some female employees as "mean girls".
Loudspeaker early in the morning are an absolute nightmare. It makes lives of every resident living hell. Maybe if it happens next to your house, you'll realize
> the part of my brain that processes visual information would deny the existence of the right half of my vision

YES. I get the scintillating scatoma but also a new thing, that I call "the folded magazine page": it looks as if someone folded out the middle of a magazine page and I have to turn my head left & right rapidly to construct the rest of the image.

My brain is like: nope, not gonna show you the middle strip, just gonna cut-and-paste the left and right thirds together in the middle.
BTW, docs.rs has browsable copies of actual sources of published crates ("Source" link under crates's name in the top nav), e.g. https://docs.rs/crate/libc/0.2.103/source/

And if you actually review crates' sources, record that via https://lib.rs/cargo-crev so that others can benefit, too.
HN readers are wrong to think this will be fixed when the government creates a CBDC or regulates payment providers like a utility.

In addition to the government currently blocking transactions from semi-legal industries that should be legal (cannabis), the government has a history of censoring mail mentioning contraceptives (Comstock Laws) and pressuring banks to cut businesses with legal, undesirable industries (Operation Chokepoint). A few weeks ago, an IRS agent at a service center refused to help me because they didn’t like my clothes. (I was wearing a tank top.) This is inevitable when you create government-backed monopolies.
Just skimmed through but very helpful. Reminds me of Beej’s guide for C!
Yeah it seems more part of the daily routine in China... the elderly wake up, and congregate in the local park for dancing or exercise.

In the US it's kind of "event" based. Like you have a farmer's market once a week for a few months... or a local yoga teacher offers weekly classes in the park to drum up business for their studio.

I've never seen seniors congregating in public spaces in the US like I have in various cities throughout China. The closest I've seen may be "mall walkers" who will show up when malls first open and wander around together... but it pales in comparison. It makes me wonder if we've ruined ourselves with our idea of individualism or something.
Come back to me when you have a mandate for new vaccine with less than a decade safety record required for adults to simply exist in society

The child vaccine requirement analogy is flawed for at-least 3 reasons

1. We have all kinds of things we apply to children we do not to adults. They are children after all. For example kids are banned from smoking, but adults can.

2. It only applies if attend a public school, parents can opt out by sending their child to a religious school, private school, or home school.

3. You assume people that oppose government mandates for COVID support government mandates for children. Many of us do not, I think parents should vaccinate their children, I do not believe it is the role of government to mandate that no more than I believe it is the role of government to mandate the COVID vaccination

That is basically what it is comes down to is do you believe the government is your master, your parent, or king. Or do you believe in personal freedom and autonomy

It clear what choice you have made
I doubt they are really selling a BT jammer, as A2DP is really hard to jam due to the frequency hopping. But I would love to buy one for sure!
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Show HN: Need faster Android development build?
Hoping Bluetooth 5.2 with mass broadcasting features could be a solution. Some 5.2 hearing aids with voice pass through options to keep back ground music down, half the reason the music is so loud is they're old and going deaf anyway. With current tech, bunch of grandmas still need to sync up ipods like a flash mob which isn't going to happen. Add in spatial audio to simulate physical boom box. Apple get on this. As someone with ANC headphones all the time, personally very excited for when communal audio / seemless enviromental broadcast becomes a thing.
Dispensaries are getting wise too. Even though you can't use a credit card anywhere, they have found a way for you to use a debit card. Basically it's just like an ATM withdrawl but they tie it into the checkout flow so to you the customer, its just like you paid with a debit card.
Former Google Exec Frets That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”
cheap headphones for everyone, plus syncing app?
This is nice in theory but I no longer have hope that it'll be effective. Remember that the GDPR is supposed to rid us of any non-consensual data collection and annoying cookie pop-ups, and yet years after it went into effect it's still not being enforced anywhere near enough and companies openly breach it.
> we shouldn’t be okay with censorship of anyone regardless

That is not a balance, that is an absolute position in favour of one side of the coin ... regardless
No, I think this is the wrong translation. "We did something" -- true, the non-control group received treatment. "While it wasn't hugely successful" -- it /was/ hugely successful. "It was definitely a step in the right direction" -- no, the point about significance is that it wasn't /definitely/ a step in the right direction, but it might have been.

Perhaps "we did something, and while we're not certain whether it was what we did or luck that made the difference, it was hugely successful and deserves more research."
> exclusively on Linux since 2.0.

.NET Core 2.0 (August 2017) we assume.
They shouldn't give themselves the faculties to even do that. Mullvad refuses to implement anything that could identify their clients, I guess it was my fault, since I considered Protonnmail to be among them as "one of the best".
I wasn't sure so I looked it up. Apparently it is legal to ride a bicycle on the interstate in my state. Bikes are treated equal to cars and must follow all the same laws. That said I've not seen anyone do it. I do see dirt motorcycles, tractors... In town there was a tractor behind me in the drive-through.
A Neural Network isnt a graph in any case, and isn't based on the brain.

As you said, it's a sequence of transformations.

NB. If it's a graph: write out the edge list (etc.) .

NNs are diagrammed as graphs, but this is highly misleading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7eL2OAnqc8
QE may make "the rich" seem richer in nominal terms, but in reality they are generally poorer. Here is what I mean:

If the house I paid $250,000 for ten years ago is now "worth" $1,000,000 due to asset inflation arising from quantitative easing, I still own the same house. I am not really richer in a real sense as long as I still hold the house. I have $750,000 more nominal dollars in assets, but the dollar is just a unit of accounting. The house has not changed!

If I then try to actually realize some of that nominal dollar gain by selling the house, I will pay about $250,000 "capital gains" tax on $750,000 even though I have not really seen any real-world gain (the house did not change). The government primarily benefits from this tax paid. So maybe I actually get to see $500,000 in nominal gain, after I pay the tax.

But then I can use the post-tax "gain" of $500,000 to buy fun things, like better food or a cool car or a better house? Not really, if the food or car or house has also doubled in price over that interval. In fact, by assumption houses have tripled in price over this interval, and with tax losses I am worse off if I put the money in a new house, because now my $500,000 in gain plus the $250,000 I started with won't even buy as good a house as my old $250,000 house was, which now costs $1,000,000. [Edited to include the $250,000 I started with. The concept is unchanged.]

The same argument applies to increasing stock values. QE inflation makes people seem nominally richer, but in reality capital gains taxes actually make them poorer if they try to utilize these nominal gains.

There are subtleties to this argument and the step-up basis issue is a real thing (which would only prevent the frictional loss of taxation!) but the main point above does not seem to be appreciated.
Analysis: Pandemics usually lead to lower, not higher, inflation
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Do you have a link for that? I'm having a frustratingly difficult time trying to find a concise list of the BRAM rules.
Resubmitting is one thing, but if it is upvoted, it means that at least some people find or interesting or valuable. If some people do, then resubmitting it was useful.
The modular power unit is able to be swapped in and out of the various projects that require it that this team creates. Beyond that I don't know anything about it. There's also a compressed earth block machine and other things that use it. This team has been working on this since approximately 2011? It was started by a former nuclear engineer named Marcin Jakubowski. They're based out of Missouri and they dog-food their tools to build and maintain a small "village" there.

He had a ted talk sometime ago as well: https://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski_open_sourced_blu...