skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Merchantability, fitness, non-infringement, and title are indeed creatures of the UCC. We've got them covered under 2-316(3)(a) by way of "as is", and if courts strain like Alabama, "other language which in common understanding calls the buyer's attention to the exclusion of warranties and makes plain that there is no implied warranty".

That (3)(a) language stands in the UCC as an explicit alternative to (2), which is where the requirements to name "merchantability" and "fitness" live. Even (2) itself provides an out for general language, when it comes to fitness:

> Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it states, for example, that "There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof."

So it's possible to exclude fitness with general language of (2) itself, without even falling back on (3).

The idea that the UCC requires the exact words "merchantability" and "fitness" to disclaim those implied warranties is a myth. Just like the idea that the UCC requires all capital letters to make disclaimers conspicuous. If every disclaimer you've got in your form file, cribbed from different drafters, lists out the implied warranties in all capital type, you tend to gather they have to. Even if you then read 2-316, it's hard not to end up telling yourself "there must be case law out there requiring this". But if you dig up case law, you'll find courts using words like "deluded" for lawyers who think Caps Lock magically satisfies 1-201(10).

Trial court judges tend to rule so as not to be reversed. Parties tend to litigate when judges will rule for their side. If someone gets burned by a bug in free Big Time software, wants compensation, and hires a lawyer to demand for it, they end up in a conversation like the one we're having now.

You cite Grayson---or near to it as you can find in the relevant jurisdiction---and stoke legal nihilism. Those wacky courts could do anything! I cite the UCC, the language, the primacy of intent in contract construction, and the absurdity of construing terms to mean the opposite of what they plainly say. Plus the whole overarching question of whether a free transfer online to a counterparty the publisher may be wholly unaware of counts as a "sale" under the UCC.
Easy to explain: Some MBA who likes games has been given THE spreadsheet for the Humble company. He or she is now moving things around on the spreadsheet as a daily function of their job.
Maybe you're underestimating the difficulty of doing it well.
The immune system upon reacting to EBV or a vaccine should theoretically eliminate EBV on contact so it won't stay in your body?

Are you implying that that a vaccine cannot eliminate EBV?

Additionally, a faulty immune response also means your immune system can't differentiate between EBV and your nerve cells. So theoretically speaking even if there's no EBV in your body having MS means that your body thinks EBV is in your body even if it's not. A vaccine in my mind could still induce this reaction.
Yeah, very nice of them.
Reminds me of “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Every time I hear "liquid sodium" I think "run away!" How in the world would you make that safe even without the nuclear stuff?
Kinda like countries that feel the need to put “democratic” in their name.
Cognitive load theory and its applications for learning
Indeed, this is an important point that I missed. So if I get this right, this isn't about actually AML activity, but a civil claim under something like ToS.

So I looked up the AUP, and indeed: they claim $2,500(!) liquidated damages per violation of the AUP, which is on average a ridiculously high amount. Selling 10 individual bottles of wine without approval will incur $25,000 damages under this scheme.

Given these terms, you have to be absolutely nuts to sign any agreement with Paypal.
Do they use chatbots for support?
Any teaching, training, has to hook with the experience of students. Otherwise, it will lead to cramming, etc; that's what we see in grade-driven teaching.
You are doing a great service by using the client data to solve "mini-problems" of your students.
> The average software developer doesn't even know much math.

Well, I know stupid amounts of math compared to the average developer I've encountered, since I studied math in grad school. Other than basic graph traversal, I only remember one or two times I've gotten to actually use much of it.
It's not a terribly weird thing for a virus to do, but as far as I know (just an interested amateur) coronaviruses can't use this to stay latent.
Sounds like you could co-found a company, which could also be cool but in the other direction.
then it will host 128 virtual minitels to dispatch onto attiny85 oled displays
This isn't FedEx's first rodeo into aircraft defense systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Guardian
The fear was that it was a military-operated plane using the same shape as a civilian plane, which was a real thing the USAF was using at the time. The plane had, completely by accident, flown directly over a missile test in progress. It didn't respond to attempts to contact it because the pilots weren't listening on the right channels, and they didn't notice the warning shots across the nose because it was too dark and cloudy.

When, by complete coincidence, KAL007 climbed to a higher flight level for fuel efficiency moments after the soviet interceptors obtained missile lock, the air defense commanders took that as confirmation that it was a USAF E-4 taking evasive action, not a civilian 747, and ordered the shoot-down.
Other, larger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29938544
Illness - Long Covid
It's LA, they don't care.
Depends on whose respect you value more. The average park goer or the people who work/study at the University.

Also such donations kind of guarantee your kids will get into the university, so some additional perks are there too
Low-probability is not enough to wave away concerns when it comes to planning nuclear power
Person-launched SAMs are known as MANPADS. A number of these missiles have been fired against civilian aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_air-defense_syste...
Plenty of companies are offering 20% more for new hires but aren't willing to bump the pay of their entire workforce by 20% at once, especially since much of the workforce might not be looking. They still may lose their best workers, but they can ramp up to the new budget more gradually.
Case in point (the cross-platform app I've spent 20+ years developing): 500k lines of code. 190k lines of GUI code. So nearly 40% of the codebase is dependent on the GUI toolkit we use. Not only that, but the GUI part of the application is by far the most complex to develop, even though the rest of it is realtime, multithreaded deeply complex programming. The idea that we'd maintain more than one GUI "frontend" is completely absurd.
All that means is that the problem isn't managers but upper management micromanaging IC benefits.
It might depend on company size, individual team etc. Definitely important to find the team which is already remote - see my comment one level up.
So what is better?

Mortgages seem to have some pretty nice features. They help encourage people to invest some of their income into an asset that generally appreciates rather than spend it all. It aligns incentives around upkeep and investment in the neighborhood and community. They offset some of the negatives of inflation.
Remote

I love people, and I love the people I work with.

But 40 hours a week is too much for me to be around other people.
"You sir would’ve thought the Germans right to get rid of those dirty Jews, and you would’ve justified it much the same way you justify yourself now"

I have never had reason to flag anyone before but that statement has to be a quintessential example for why one would do so, in fact I don't think I've ever seen another statement on HN that would justify it more than this.

No, I won't flag this message because I want your post to remain there for others to see how absolutely low you have stooped. You are not only being offensive in the extreme but you are accusing me of views that I have never expressed on HN or anywhere else for that matter.

There is no way that you could ever possibly know what my views on that matter are; therefore, you are being provocative in the extreme. Nevertheless, I am still not going to bite. All I will add is that I do not hold those views and I never have. They are the antithesis of everything that I stand for.

I have stated facts about our governance (and I once studied the subject). If you want to shoot the messenger instead of accepting the facts then that is your prerogative. However, be warned, it will get you nowhere and is likely to bring you a negative reputation that you may later come to regret.
You must take risks with everything. Owning a house, paid off or not, is risky in a multitude of ways.

At least monetary wealth can be diversely invested; so you have some control over it. Most of the risks that come from owning a house are completely out of your hands.
Tutorials do exist for absolute beginners. Seems like the author is implying they rarely exist which is incorrect. "Hello world" is a tutorial/real world example. I learnt the how to code through the "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" by Michael Hartl.

The tutorial market is different than the computer science 101 crowd, so you have tutorials for one, textbooks for the other.

The issue with using tutorials in textbooks is that it's more effective to use 1 great example per chapter, than shoe-horn 1 monolitic project as an example for 13 chapters. And the three CS 101 books I've read do have good examples or interesting problems to solve. If I remember correctly the Harvard 101 book does use cards for objects.

One problem that the Ruby on Rails tutorial has as a CS 101 book is that there is so much boiler-plate stuff needed to have a functioning monolithic example. To do "hello world", need Database -> Code -> Template... when you can do: print("hello world"), then move on to next chapter.

The article is much-ado about nothing.
He lied to immigration on a form saying very clearly that it was a serious offence to lie on that one.
This illustrates why rich people are rich, and have an easier time getting richer. Even if they don't have time or aptitude to learn about this kind of thing, they have family or paid professionals to guide them.
https://archive.is/bjm0W
An economist friend of mine told me that once, so this isn't just a CS quip.
It would have worked with me at 7 but not my sister. I was babysitting a 2 year old by myself by the time I was 10.
Video ads is one, branded sponsorships is another (not sure if this page engages in that). Looks like Facebook also offers subscriptions and a "tip jar"-type feature: https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/lessons/how-make-mon...
You don't need an esoteric license, just use a standard license like MIT>

relevant section from MIT license:

"THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."
You need a District Attorney willing to actively go after these kinds of suspects. In my experience the police don't really do anything about thefts unless they happen to catch the perpetrator in the act. My family had our car stolen from our driveway and they did virtually nothing to try and recover it. In fact, the only reason why we got it back was because the tweaker who stole it managed to park it in a reserved stall on private property and it was towed. The police said they swept the car for evidence, but we found multiple prescription bottles with the suspect's name on it in easy to reach places. The cops obviously missed this and refused to accept it as evidence. We did a LexisNexus search of the name on the bottle and lo-and-behold, multiple priors for armed robbery and auto theft. No charges were ever filed against the person.

So I have virtually no faith in security cameras. They do their jobs, but the DA certainly doesn't.
Archive link from today: https://web.archive.org/web/20220114174712/https://arkmedic....
Maybe that is the case, but they did not flag it, they posted a message with several violent keywords and the post was immediately flagged. It seemed different from normal flagged posts because all of the reply buttons disappeared and as I hit reply on a comment I was in the process of writing, I got the message "You can no longer reply in this post" or something to that effect. I looked at other currently flagged posts and this seemed atypical. You can still reply within the flagged posts comment section. I assumed it was some sort of auto moderation action.
It's easy to have a brazilian sound like she's speaking portuguese from Portugal: just stop pronouncing the vowels. If you're brazilian, try it. It actually works.
isn't not being dependent on fossil fuels the goal? If EVs cause demand destruction for oil then that's good no? The more oil left unburned the better, i thought that was the point all along.

who cares about wildly fluctuating oil prices if your country is no longer dependent on oil.
Most companies still write C++ crappy code, regardless of the advocacy many of us in the community try to make.

In fact, if we focus on traditional enterprise shops they are stuck in what I call the C+ mindset.

Those of us that bother to live in HN, Reddit, attend CppCon, C++Now, C++ on Sea, ACCU in whatever form, are 3lit3. A tiny minority that actually cares about quality.

That is the point.
> I favor iterative approaches that are tightly coupled to customer feedback.

I have the same issue with my current company. My best work has been done without a bunch of layers of management, just give me a user with a problem that needs solving and let us work together on it.
Thanks for the Jan. 6 Memories, Apple Photos App
Low Tech Webring
To rephrase: Compensation has fewer total than the others combined. E.g. people leave more often for non-compensation reasons.

(Added in case you were being mis-interpreted, e.g. the downvotes. I think its an important and insightful point)
I'd be interested in that, ideally not a third party but a custom client that filters everything not from friends and sticks to chronological order.
Hostage negotiation is a game played once between parties. Most of daily life situations are repeated games, in which dynamics are different. I found that the author was biased by their experience in one-off games and their suggestions wouldn’t generalize well into repeated games. Unfortunately, there is no acknowledgement of this until the very end of the book. Still a good read though.
A thing that has contributed to this is that public company executives are required to disclose their compensation. So it becomes really easy for employees to know if they’re being shafted if execs are being given a ton of rewards while their own salary is frozen.
There is a reason most free-software licenses have the following clauses:

"THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."

So just pick one that is compatible with the 3rd party code you used to write your software (mostly pertaining to copyleft licenses like the GPL) - MIT and BSD licenses are generally "fine" - and just publish it. Just because your code is not "clean" or whatever doesn't preclude it from being free.
aum or happn?
Good to know. I just transferred out my PayPal balance.
Not really. Even though you can get excellent quality h.265 encodes, it seems the MP3 generation's hearing is so impaired that compressing the hell out of audio and losing tons of audio quality is too common.

What's the point of a beautiful 2500 kbps h.265 video if they're going to kill the audio quality by squashing it to 128 kbps?
well, ICQ from 1996 did have chat, emojis, inline images, file transfer etc. Voice and video added a little later.
Well, pretty much all the JavaScript stuff is one decade old. All the technologies before that were SSR (the term SSR didn’t even exists).

So you can totally make an application only with server side technologies because it was how we did before and… it just worked. What is interesting is that all the frameworks, due to their age are very mature.

If you are ok with Python, I suggest you to go through the official Django tutorial, it’s pretty long (some hours iirc) but it covers a lot of topics by guiding you through the development of a complete application.

But other frameworks like Rails, Symfony, are also very mature. ASP.NET Core with Blazor is also nice but IMO, harder for a newcomer because it needs a lot of boilerplate.

All those technologies are pretty boring, but in the good way: they allow you to get shit done without thinking a lot about technical issues.
I thought "learning styles" were largely debunked as a myth now?

The linked article describes the structure of a reference book, identifies it as a structure suitable for a reference and those with significant experience, and then decries it as a tutorial for newbies. It seems rather obvious - I wouldn't try learning a new language by reading a dictionary either. It doesn't support the hyperbole in the title. There are many good tutorials for learning to code in different programming languages, sometimes it's hard to pick them out though.

What works for me, and pretty much everybody I've watched try to learn anything, is a simple loop. Conceptual explanations (whether written, verbal, or visual), applying the concepts with exercises / practice / work with examples to follow, digging into the details using a reference, and then broadening to the next set of concepts. Eventually the pattern recognition kicks in and people can see the connections and predict the rest.
Yes, so?

A problem for the AO, yes. But for a country as a whole, this is not a problem, and kicking him out is the better outcome. It shows to the citizens that the restrictions they had to abide by apply to everyone, and that you can't get through just by being famous. That's how it should be. If they say you don't get in without a vaccine, then you don't.

Personally, I don't want this guy in my country either.
Thinkpad is a Lenovo product line.

Previously it was an IBM product line.
RE: 2: I think I agree. There are lots of "CS" programs targeted towards high-school students which I have mixed feelings about. The goal shouldn't be to turn every student that walks through the door into a SWE (there's somewhat of a conflict of interest here considering most programs are sponsored by big tech companies who are desperate for talent – Microsoft does a lot in this space). Instead, I think it should serve a few roles: expose students to new opportunities (learn if you do want to be a SWE); give students the skills to understand that computers and algorithms are not magic (important from a public awareness perspective); and also to teach enough "deep" technical skills to prepare them for a world dominated by software (e.g., learning how to query databases, write small automations, etc.).

But I think most important is that intro courses need to serve as jumping off points (i.e., they should be INTRO courses). Give students a taste and let them decide if they like it and want to take another bite.
Hand picked by Sam Altman. Lol
Intelligent people, trying to form their own opinions, aren't doing so from the random assortment of articles that appear on popular web sites. They're reading the primary literature directly, rather than letting the Web pick and choose the articles that it finds interesting.

The vast majority of people aren't capable of that. They're usually taking secondary or tertiary sources, as collected by their favorite aggregators. That's not informed consent, regardless of the conclusion they come to.

Intelligent people recognize that they're not surveying the primary literature. They instead have to trust some informed source. That source must, among other things, pick things that inform rather than mislead. It can't feature every scrap of data -- you might as well just go to the primary sources.

So what makes me suspicious is people claiming "censorship", because most of the time it means "here is a thing that confirms my biases, and I'll ignore all of the things that contradict my biases even though I'm not as expert as I imagine I am".

If you want the facts, they're out there on the NIH web site. If you want HN to pick and choose facts for you, then you're welcome to, but do not fool yourself into believing that it informs consent.
this sounds perfect for https://www.deso.org/ social network code
Yeah, what's even the point of the NFT at that point? It's like saying "if you buy a Cracker Jack card, we'll give you a box of Cracker Jacks!"

Who's going to buy an NFT that gives comes with a physical product on the secondary market? Unless that business will only sell to NFT holders in perpetuity, which sounds like a poor way to grow a business but hey, lots of things are successful by being exclusive.
A good manager would still make clear that their hands are tied and this is all they can offer at this time. They will have to check with upper mgmt for any further options depending on the response to their current offer.

There are a million legal/safe ways to say that the negotiation is not over just keep pushing.

It could also hint that the manager thought the commenter was one of those social cripples that cannot handle negotiations professionally but it doesn't sound to be the case.
I mean that they've never been at an organization that actually builds reactors or reactor components. Building working machines, at scale, at a price that customers can afford, is hard even if you're not in a heavily regulated industry. I'd also be skeptical of the chances for a pair of people to successfully move from graduate research in solar technology at MIT to commercializing a new solar cell design through their startup.
Serious question: Have they not thought of mounting Mark Rober-style devices on each freight car that releases some combination of {glitter, fart spray, honey, glue, itch powder, pepper spray, ink}?

It might sound funny but I think the sheer discomfort would deter thieves in an instant, and they would be easy to identify for several days.

A device of this sort would be super useful for car thieves as well.
Very much so! Thanks:)
I'm glad you found it understandable! That is a major goal.

As for shareware, there are several use cases where the license makes usage free. Noncommerical use. Small business use.

I think you'll be hard pressed to find any free or open license that provides any guarantee of source availability. It's just expected that the license will be applied to source code. We do see binary releases with MIT, BSD, or Apache slapped on them, here and there.

As for modification and distribution, see the Copyright License section:

> The licensor grants you a copyright license to do everything with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright in it for any purpose allowed by these terms.
I think right now it is vital to double-digit raise your engineers if needed, because hiring is super difficult right now. You not only stand to lose an employee, you stand to lose the profit of having any employee there for months.