skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah ok thanks for your response. So if the actual product was realised after leaving the employer (or officially) that's what would be considered the IP, even if the product name was established whilst employed? My plan is to perform all the research around the periphery of my idea and start the actual build (based on several PoCs) when free of my obligation to my employer (i.e. have left).

I agree buying the domain name is little effort whilst it's available. Seeking the services of a domain broker is not so easy if the domain is squatted on by procrastinating.
Watts S. Humphrey, the “Father of Software Quality”
As I noted, it's really Bayh-Dole exclusive licensing that's the problem. Make all exclusively licensed federally financed patents held by academic institutions available to anyone who wants to utilize them via a no-fee license, that's the fix.

Prior to that, if academics wanted to get involved in industry and make some money thereby, the route to take was called consulting, which seems fine with me, as long as conflicts of interest are stated honestly.
Thank you for sharing your source code for Empire!
Yes, and the professors are also part of the government and financial success of a research-based school. Undergraduate students are perhaps only 50% of the school’s priorities.
Thank you 10,000x over. The reporting about this aspect really couldn’t have been any worse and drove too many equally misinformed opinion pieces.

And agree completely with your assessment of prosecutors and press releases - I told my US Attorney that I only wanted to see him on TV after a conviction. Alas, I hate defending prosecutors, but it seems completely unfair to blame her for his death.

As you suggest, my guess was that the sentence was largely going to be driven by the damages. My understanding is that the “victims” had been sufficiently browbeat into being reluctant witnesses and as you suggest, it would have just been cleanup costs.
The Sberbank mobile app in Russia is an order of magnitude better than anything I've used in the US. The other large Russian tech and service company apps are very very good (Ozone, anything Yandex puts out). Even the federal services apps are well executed - you can pay your property taxes and other services by scanning a QR code. Some great tech coming out of that country (accusations of hacking, aside).
He was a super taster. When he stayed with me he insisted on the plainest of food and told me it's because he's a super taster. Although thinking back now, maybe that was just an excuse to cover for something else.
Maybe if the health care system had lots of staff, meaning lots of doctors, not just the trickle that comes from the tiny amount of medical schools, the system wouldn't collapse?

Has America tried addressing COVID that way, increasing the number of doctors?
What kind of insurance policy a super yacht owner would have will cover something like this?
The accused's criminal history comes up more in sentencing than it does in actual criminal cases - in the US system you're being tried on the crime before the court, not anything from your past. There are obvious exceptions - someone who is suspected of murdering their spouse who has prior domestic violence charges is one you see a lot - but in general, that comes up during the sentencing, where the judge has a lot of leeway to tailor the sentence to the circumstances.
I'm not entirely sold.

Application data...

Let's say there's a Great Open Database of microblogging. This is somehow distributed across multiple systems, and sized so that it can handle the load, and provides a query language to make that database useful... Shoot, let's spin up a couple clusters of CouchDB and go from there and build a microblogging platform on top of that?

Does it solve the problem? It's trivial for anyone to spin up their own clone of a CouchDB - just replicate it. You want your own uncenersoable copy - its yours. And yes, there are numerous problems with this that as you pull the thread get to the point of "at some point, you're going to have to trust some central authority"

That might be where you're getting to the "PGP for the modern world" - though I'm going to contend that every solution has a similar problem of getting the average person to treat their keys securely... and that means having one copy and getting ransomeware or having key stealing malware has become much, much more problematic than it is in today's world. I believe that that social / computer literacy problem needs to be solved for the average person before one can reasonably move forward with PGP for the modern world.
God knows, dude, it was your analogy. If you want to argue that 6th grade literacy is a bullshit stat that shouldn't be relevant to college admissions, knock yourself out.
Sorry, but what is exactly the relation to onlyFans? Is the pitch that you can sign up as a content creator and have others pay to see what you’ve been trading? If so, bold to advertise Pelosi or Dorsey as users. Or is it that you can pay to follow trades made by established figures which OnlyTrades tracks and offers the data as a service?

I thought Public was silly enough of an idea and they do this for free. I guess gone are the days of “MySpace for pets” and “Facebook for clowns” and in with “OnlyFans for XYZ” to describe a subscription service.
If you turn on showdead and have a scroll through the second page here you might come to agree with the parent.
Still need to make illigal tricking the server into thinking it's OK. This area of law seems rather difficult to codify perfectly, but it's clear that "view source" shouldn't be a problem, since no trickery is involved. Generally, this should be called Honest but Curious behavior.
> Similar to how JOIN FOREIGN would depend on the structure of the data model, defined by tables, foreign keys, etc.

The point that everyone is making is there are not currently any SQL statements that depend on structural information as defined in the foreign key relationships when calculating the structure of the data. Furthermore, there are already tons of tooling and processes that depend on this fact, that your proposal would break, for a teeny bit of less typing.

Beating a dead horse at this point.
“View source” is nothing like picking a lock. It’s more like opening the hood of a rental car and discovering a book full of trade secrets.
Floppy disks in 2022? Maybe Doc & Marty got lost in Tokyo :)
> I seriously would still like to see statistics before jumping to conclusions either way.

I see what you did there :)
Being prosecuted for data that was sent to you by the server… I hope the judge can figure out the problem with this concept.
I never understood the point of self-hosting ngrok. Isn't its entire value proposition that it lets you borrow a stable public IP to host something with when you don't have one of your own?
Omicron spread all throughout the world via vaccinated people at historical record speed. Vaccination is evidently not a good way to prevent spread right now, mandating vaccines to prevent spread therefore doesn't make sense. If you want to prevent spread you mandate a lockdown or similar, not vaccine. Vaccine might help lessen severity, in which case you need to mandate it for populations at risk. But it doesn't make sense to mandate it to prevent spread, since it doesn't.
Much the same doc pattern here - legal and architectural/engineering drawings and small stuff - could even be drugs - I never looked?. Back in the day you carried pagers and they had a lookup book with a number to get a package at #86 - you look it up = go get -take there, give invoice copy - paid that stuff monthly. Some were get #58, $22 - go to 58 get package and prepaid $22 - take there. We speculated some of these were drugs, but we just carried and asked no questions -esp if a house/apt at each end
I aspire to be riding at 90...if I make it...
You’re assuming that it’s the only rationale for the Covid situation, but whether or not that is true is exactly what we’re discussing :)
> It's not some great infringement on your rights.

The fact that the treatment varies state by state shows that people do consider this to be a right worth retaining, and in high enough populations to hold sway over local Government up to the state level.
Depends on what you mean by manufacture. Print the PCB and assemble it? Probably not that much more given the scale of operations.

Assembling it in the US is however a security risk for anyone not aligned with global US interests.
The bill to fix this relic of a time where people stored emails in noticeably-finite inboxes, the Email Privacy Act, passed the House this session but got knocked out of the bill in the Senate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Privacy_Act
Who are reputable in the space?
A prosecutor choosing to seek a 6-month jail sentence is acceptable. A prosecutor choosing to seek a 50-year jail sentence is also acceptable. A prosecutor who is offering a 6-month jail sentence in exchange for waiving basic human rights, while threatening a 50-year jail sentence if those rights are exercised, has crossed the line into persecution.

It's an analogous situation to blackmail. Suppose Alice has found evidence that Bob robbed a bank. Alice is legally allowed to reveal that evidence to the police, but is under no obligation to do so outside of a subpoena. However, even though both choices are legally permissible, Alice is not allowed to make her choice be conditional on receiving payments from Bob, as that would cross the line into blackmail.

Plea bargains are a form of extortion, and should not be part of the legal system.
How about the built in Firefox password manager? You can (optionally) sync across devices and set it as the password store in iOS (probably Android too).
I reject this.

I’ve given my two kids, now older teens, pretty much free reign to watch what they want and use the Internet as they want.

I was certainly gifted with nice and precocious kids, but still: they both really like watching educational videos. They spend hours every day doing that. The quality and number of these videos is now utterly amazing.

They both have a much greater level of general knowledge than I did at their age. They have a much wider set of interests, a greater awareness of possibilities and opportunities, and correspondingly greater opportunities than I ever did, too.
True. This one hit close to home for me personally, but I can say with confidence that therapy can make things a lot better.

There's a tendency to either coddle a person with these issues, or try to get them to change through tough love. The reality is that neither of these things is helpful - what is really needed is a good therapist.

P.S.: In case someone is reading this and nodding along: you have likely spent years on the roller coaster of trying to prove yourself through pathological self-sufficiency interleaved with breakdowns and "failure to adult". It's OK to seek help. Even pro athletes use coaches and personal trainers if they are stuck in a rut. This is no different. Oh, and you are far from alone in this.
nice rant, I concur.
> It just seems stupid to not offer a sane working environment.

You need to read about the history of corporatism from the mid 19th to the early 20th century. It's absolutely not stupid: it's optimal. The problem is that these two goals (optimal productivity and human rights) will conflict. There's absolutely an economic case to be made for working someone to the bone (and 16-hour workdays and beatings used to be the norm); it is, however, also unethical and morally wrong.
Yes, this is a big issue! Part of the reason why e.g. California and other states have introduced "ban the box" legislation to restrict employers asking about criminal history, when they already have an expungement process, is because of this issue exactly. Most pre-employment background checks are done through vendors like LexisNexis that pull records at the time of the incident and then retain them permanently, so expungement doesn't do anything. The whole private background check and criminal records industry can be surprisingly sketchy, including behavior that looks to reasonable people like extortion, but it's resisted almost any regulation or oversight. Some of this comes from an inherent tension between public records and personal privacy (are the actions of law enforcement a matter of public interest or a matter of personal privacy? the line can be very blurry), but a lot of it is also just because this industry is politically and financially powerful and any action against it tends to look "soft on crime."
Why self-driving cars are a lie
> The target audience is fucking exhausted with the never ending deluge of bullshit we're being faced with.

You're not reading me. That sense of exhaustion is as appropriate as the smugness that it's being used to justify.

> Considering that film is an art form, it "only" being an expression to it's intended audience is just fine. There's no obligation or advertisement to be anything more than that.

This only makes sense as a defense if we can say that it tries to do something, does it, and doesn't do anything else. The problem is that the movie and those reacting most positively to it in public certainly pretend that it's more than it is.

So it's wrong in the measure of a thing that it does what it tries to do at minimum, but it's also wrong in that it doesn't do anything else (what it tries to and nothing more).

What it does do, unintentionally, is showcase (to exhibit without examining—again, unintentionally) what's wrong with the people who are supposed to be on the right side—a lack of self-awareness and sense of culpability while standing opposite the people on the wrong side stupidly chanting, "don't look up". Each group has enough in their reserves to provide enough stupid juice to take down everyone when pooled together.

> No one's walking away from watching it feeling superior.

That's simply not true.
I'd say even invisible ink is taking the analogy too far. It's like the government published a newsletter, printed the PII on the back of the paper, and now wants to prosecute the first person to look at the back of the page.
They paid $200 million to settle claims against them last year. The idea that there is any accounting of budget on this front is ludicrous. NYC is a spending machine. This is nitpicking pennies.
This is saying that someone is hacking if they read text in a pdf which was “redacted” by changing the style of the text to be black text on a black background.
And just like when the same thing that happened off of San Diego and killed a few people... nothing will happen to the negligent crew of the yacht.
Fuck the environment!

At least nobody died this time.
I had a family member go through a major life event that left his OneDrive account unused for about a year. When we needed to access tax documents on it, Microsoft had deleted it. I’m strongly against non-user initiated account deletion.
Initially a lot since the entire supply chain is in China/Taiwan/Korea/Japan. Those glue stickies that hold the batteries? Nitto Japan makes them. Lots of small things like that also needs to be brought on shore. Overtime, it can get to a point where it would be maybe 30% more expensive. That number doesn’t ring well with investors. Only government action (which are puppetted by Apple lobbyists) can solve this problem.
I’m hopeful that a side effect of this pandemic is a new age of vaccine capability.
This line of thinking could be extended to banning junk food, motorcycles, cars, etc.. Where do you draw the line?
Nah, I think the accounts get deleted but no one bothered testing the form. After all, this funnel won't convert into precious $$, so what's the point of maintaining it?

(I removed my account recently and got the same error message, everything seems to be gone now)
As long as it’s not an M1. I tried recently to read some old CDroms that were formatted for OS9. Not a straightforward process to read those old file systems. And, if you have an M1, you then need to have a w OS that runs on the arm chip. Or, you can use qemu to install os9 in full emulation. What a PITA.
That is your.emacs.d, I presume? I am still mostly carrying around a .emacs and not using init.el.

That said, played with this some today and I see that I can get my startup down to about 5 seconds on my old netbook. Not too bad, all told. (This computer is hilariously slow.)
I think it does hold: the cost of learning to use an open source project is not zero. It's the same as not asking the party planner about every detail even when they're perfectly willing to answer.

Gift giving inherently involves trust from the recipient. And there's no transaction, so it's inherently consequentialist.
I was referring to the IP's being shown to users.[1]

So then; Is the bug also responsible for pushing bad data to the users dashboards? If this is really a bug, it's a complicated one. I'd be curious if those IP's are still being shown on the users end.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705957
>May 25, 2021

All those studies should be done again for Omicron as it's significantly different.
The risk of anyone un-vaxxed going to the hospital after catching covid is 0.89% (source: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...) and it is even lower than that if you are vaxxed.

It is incredibly unnecessary and risky to vax children, and probably most adults. The only people that this vax should be recommended to are people in high-risk categorizes.
Authenticator app can also stop working when you migrate to a new phone - a friend got locked out recently after migration. Apparently you need to follow some steps [0]

[0] https://www.alphr.com/transfer-google-authenticator-codes-ne...
So it seems Parsons administration decided this is the hill to die on in 2021.

he had every opportunity to pump the brakes on this investigation but decided doubling down on a journalist had a better payoff, and a more prominent ability to cast him as a white knight protecting the state of Missouri against fiendish hackers.

the 'view source' prosecution strategy is certainly something id hope to keep out of the spotlight as long as possible as its chum in the water for technologists and privacy groups. the EFF could easily eviscerate it in court, as could the FSF and god help you if a cyber security firm takes interest. although most computer privacy laws in the US are written with a fire hose to catch anything remotely pertaining to an integrated circuit, these laws all generally restrict themselves to the domain of interstate commerce, healthcare, and energy.

Parsons fight is against an established journalist using an established and well respected process to report an information security exploit...so its really tough to see if or how a competent prosecution hopes to land any charges outside the governors "Lol do it anyway" edict which, fwiw, feels eerily similar to the malarkey Aaron Schwartz was put through.
Or government can decide to drop fiat.
The Time Machine is pretty relevant here.

"Later in the dark, he is approached menacingly by the Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Exploring one of many "wells" that lead to the Morlocks' dwellings, he discovers the machinery and industry that makes the above-ground paradise of the Eloi possible. He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes have become the brutal light-fearing Morlocks."
End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices
While I am very much opposed to being spied on without a warrant[0], the case where only government bodies can do this is better than the case where anyone can do it.

Of course, the existence of a mechanism to enable this is itself a thing which can be exploited by the exact same criminals I’m most concerned about with data retained by private businesses, so it’s not much of an improvement even though the attack surface is probably smaller.

[0] and indeed this is why I was already looking to leave the UK even before Brexit; the Investigatory Powers Act gives the Welsh Ambulance Service access to anyone’s “internet connection records” without a warrant.
Can you guys list out the browser extensions you are using and/or if you're using LP on mobile?

We need to find a common thread.
Ah yes, the "but Something has to be done" fallacy.

Placing blame arbitrarily, directing anger at the wrong people, and protesting because the mob said to on social media all leads to solutions for the wrong problems.
Heh, you're welcome!

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "converting completely to hooks" and "not being the right move"?

If you mean "sticking with `connect` for Redux usage in components", we _do_ recommend the hooks API as the default - it's a lot easier to learn and use, especially with TypeScript. Yes, that does mean you don't get the "auto-optimization of re-rendering when parents re-render" that `connect` gives you, but you can get the same result by wrapping your own components in `React.memo()` as needed (which is actually what `connect` uses internally.)
My Pandemic Project Failed, but I Learned a Ton About Myself in the Process
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we didn't have a delta-specific boosters yet, what makes you think we will have those for omicron? With insensitives like that, why big pharma even think about doing anything beyond press-releases?
There is similar comment in the thread, suggesting both tables should always be specified.

Not sure what I prefer yet. The idea is the foreign key name is usually the same as the referenced table, so should be an infrequent problem.
What I mean is that people use the ordinal number as the name of the month (as well as the day of the month). If you ask someone their birthday they’ll often say something like “five twenty, nineteen eighty-four.”

This is a potential cause for confusion when writing computer code, because it’s very common for code to refer to items in a collection starting at zero.
The current vaccines do, in fact, reduce transmission. This efficacy drops over time, but it definitely exists.
I only got into Emacs last year or so, but I’ve never used anything but company-mode. I’m also curious if this is what they are talking about or if there’s something else I’m missing.
Frama-C doesn't need to know anything about the target arch. It guarantees no undefined / implementation defined behavior on all architectures. You have to prove your code does not cause overflow/underflow (or accounts for it) if you add two integers or cast a uint32_t to an int32_t, etc. Very tedious, but it can and is being done.

CompCert, the formally verified C compiler, is a separate thing from Frama-C, but currently supports x86, ARM, RISC-V, and PowerPC. (CompCert is actually mostly programmed in OCaml and the Coq/Gallina proof assistant.) CompCert guarantees that a correct ISO C program (no undefined or implementation defined behavior) is translated into an assembler program with the same semantics, i.e. an assembler program that computes the same results as the C source program. So CompCert for each supported architecture needs a formal semantics for any CPU instructions it generates. CompCert is an optimizing compiler and the optimizer accounts for the delay between when an instruction is issued and when the result is ready, accounts for pipelining and all that if that is what you are asking.

But to write verified C programs you don't need to worry about instruction re-ordering happening lower down changing the meaning of your program and all that. That's a deeper layer of the onion, and, as Bjarne Stroustrup said, each time you peel a layer of the onion you cry more.
Personally, I think SQLs verbose syntax is a good thing, and increases clarity/interpretability. It reduces cognitive load to have things explicitly listed out. Not having the table and column names in the query itself makes it much harder to read and understand queries without prior knowledge of the data model.