skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sort of incident happens every day in the Bay Area, but people just yield or pre-emptively make room when they see the other guy is going to do this. This guy has decided not to and so he's got a lot of videos. That's literally it. If you decided to hardball every driver interaction you'd have enough of this content too.
> (One reason we can't have good things in programming languages is that we're still using your father's parser generators.)

I don't think it's the parsing technology that's the problem. It's that designing a good grammar is actually quite difficult. It's like doing UX design, API design, and mathematics all at the same time.
Adding a counterpoint here. I work at Amazon and am very happy. It’s a big company. Team matters. Feel free to AMA if you are considering joining.
The main purpose lightning serves is that it removes a barrier to Apple customers upgrading to the next iPhone. Apple will get to USB-C--probably sooner rather than later; I wouldn't bet against this year--but that's actually a case of getting onto a standard even though there's no real advantage right now for Apple customers and some pain.
> Edit: TIL this exists https://status.fb.com/

Facebook for Business Status

They dont show the status of the rest of their product(s), only the "for Business" offering. Helpful to know the ads are being served up to nobody.
I think one of the solutions may be based on hemp, currently known as hempcrete or hemp concrete - essentially a mix of hemp hurd (the woody essence of the hemp plant), hydraulic lime, and water.

You mix it up and then all you need is just the wooden frame (if you're building load bearing walls), then you wrap it in hempcrete (floors, walls & roof), apply some mud plaster and you're done. No need for 6-10 layers full of plastics & glues.

Thanks to use of lime instead of cement the building even captures CO2, as the walls literally turn into stone over time.

Some hemp buildings are 200+ years old, in some cave in india they've even found 1500 y.o. hempcrete, and you can compost whole building at EOL.

Some other benefits: non-toxic, no off-gassing, no solvents, mold resistance, high vapor permeability, humidity control, durable, sustainable, carbon sequestration, fire and pest resistance, passive self regulation of temperature and humidity, great insulator
Those contributors get paid by GSoC for it right?
> I think it was the opposition to the Parental Rights bill that allowed for the widespread support of removing the special privileges.

Except that it wasn't "removing special privileges" from anyone but Disney:

* What about the special privileges that 1800+ other entities have under Florida's special district laws? Why are they not also being discussed for dissolution?

* Why was the bill introduced, passed with no debate in either house, and signed into law in a 4 day period and in a special session that was not even called for the purpose of debating special districts (it was amended by DeSantis to specifically allow this bill to be passed)?

* Why is the bill structured to force Disney to transition all of the RCID infrastructure and services to Orange and Osceola counties before dissolution on July 1, 2023, but Disney cannot petition for the special district to be re-established until on or after July 1, 2023? That provision means Disney has to transfer all infrastructure/services to the county, petition the government to re-establish the special district, then transition all the infrastructure/services back to the RCID if the petition is granted. All the costs of that mandated, obviously useless double-transition, will be borne by both Disney and the counties taxpayers, and will likely be in 10s-100s of millions of dollars, each.

PS: Yes, the final bill SB-4C dissolves a total of six special districts, mostly to obscure the fact that this was specifically targeting Disney, but none of the other five will suffer even a tiny fraction of the same financial or ongoing business impacts that Disney and Orange and Osceola counties and their taxpayers will.
Heard from friends who lived and worked in South Korea that it was pretty much mandatory for any resume application there. The specific one that comes to mind is nursing. Definitely left me baffled the first time I heard it.
How many of those devices have fixed cables? I bought a few USB-C to Mini-USB/Micro-USB/Micro-USB3/USB-B/Lightning cables and replaced all the cables on my devices.

Now if only my car had a USB-C plug…
Can learning to play a musical instrument help with ADHD?
Many for example Universities invent something patentable that's broadly useful but don't want to start a company to make the thing. You're throwing out the baby with the bathwater in this proposal. It also doesn't solve the entire problem as many companies are practicing entities that also use bullshit patents against other practicing entities.
Is there any significant difference in the compiled binaries that would make it incompatible?
Nope. One is the multiplicative identity and zero is the additive identity. There's no a priori reason why the same number can't be both.
Likewise. I cancelled my order as a result.
In March the stock lost 20% of it value because Apple decided to allow iOS users to stop apps from tracking them.

The "business" relies on people allowing the company to do stuff that if the people were given a conscious choice, they would generally not allow. This number of people that would not agree to let the company surveil them is not only large but it is increasing.
Something similar happened to me after criticizing Youtube's playlist drag speed on an HN comment, then they fixed that. Happy coincidences, right?
Not only is it that high it's growing 37% year-over-year! Really insane to see a business this large growing that quickly. Still very much the early days of cloud infrastructure adoption.
* content not continent. Apparently I am suffering from literary incontinence
This type of thing is increasing on YouTube too and rather than fast forward until I get to the meat of the video, I just stop and move on. I get that they're trying to fluff up a small bit of content into something larger for increased revenue but I've gotten to my breaking point in my willingness to tolerate such games. Hopefully others get to that point too and this type of behavior starts having negative returns.
This is confused. If expenses are higher than revenue then there is no profit in the deal. And then, not making the loan is the bank's best choice.
I don't mean to say anything about conditions generally, just to mention that they have existed in non-Lisp languages on occasion.

> We're very fortunate that programming language design doesn't advance solely by giving people more of what they already use.

Agreed!
> Note I don't use the mobile Reddit app, only the website.

I’m almost certain this is by design. Make the web shitty enough and you’ll get more app users!

“Reddit is better on the app, and we pulled every last trick in the dirty playbook to make it that way” is what the web banner really means
Sounds like mastodon with extra steps
> The value to the company was provided in Illinois, with bits inside of Illinois. The company doesn't value bits inside California that it cannot access. They compensated for bits they can actually access within Illinois.

Your comment confirmed that the value originated in one place, California where the company could not access it, and was transferred to another place, Illinois where the company could access it. The employee was compensated for the transfer of this value. That is interstate commerce, and therefore the jurisdiction of the originating state, California, can apply.

> It may be worth something to someone in California before it's exported, but that transaction never happened. In this case though the actual transaction took place in exchange for a product inside Illinois.

The company in Illinois compensated the employee for their time to generate intellectual property, so the company valued their work and exchanged payment to the employee for exchange of that value. So then the work clearly has value prior to being packaged and sold to the end customer.

> I buy ammunition online from a company in Oklahoma, where all the business and employees of the ammunition company resides. Yet I pay sales tax here in <my state> based on recent court rulings regarding 'internet sales tax' which state the tax is where the transaction took place, not where the company and/or workers physically resides.

The exchange of value and compensation between a company and their employees is governed by employment law. You seem to have conflated the concept of an employee with that of a business or an independent contractor, which are not the same thing, and are not governed by the same laws. When you hire employees across state lines, you are extending your business operations across state lines, and are subject to state jurisdiction. That is the cost-benefit trade-off of hiring outside your state, if you hired employees outside your country, for example in Canada or Mexico, then you would be beholden to inter-national laws governed by treaties.

> The employer is buying IP within their state lines of Illinois.

No, the business is not "purchasing IP within their state lines", the business is employing a person who resides within another state, and therefore the business must abide by the employment laws of the employee's state, as well as the business state of origin. An example of buying IP would be purchasing a legal contract template, or a software license. In the examples I provided sales tax for the state where the purchase originated would apply.

> You may be arguing the 'employee' is actually misclassified and is an illegal exporter who is a business owner in California with an export and bit smuggling business. Go after this 'employee' (bit smuggler), not the person buying bits in Illinois.

I'm unsure if you are trolling or just very confused, but your statement makes no sense and does not fit within the logical framework of United States inter-state commerce law. Employees are not classified as an independent business, they are and extension of a business's operations.
> I'm not trying to say it's right or wrong here, just that it's obvious from all human behavior that seeing what a person looks like is an important part of working with them.

You will see it during the actual interview stage (whether it is done through a videocall or in-person), why would you need it during the resume stage? So you can use a single photo of theirs as a factor when deciding whether to filter out a resume or to proceed further?
I think it's really just a limitation of the formfactor. It's first and foremost a touchscreen-centric device. Sure, you can clip a keyboard onto it to type easier and get a weird not-quite-cursor to interact with it, but at it's core, it will always be a touchscreen device, and as such can't expect users to keep peripherals on them at all times to make it more usable. So the OS will always be targeting the vast majority of its users, who are just poking at a touchscreen.

And touchscreen interfaces need to have all their points of interaction on them, or hidden behind non-obvious gestures which does not make for a very good power-user software interface. And iOS at its core (I know they call it iPadOS now, but let's be real, it's iOS with a half-hearted splitscreen/windowing system on top) is made to be a walled garden. A nice walled garden, sure. But not something for productivity, other than its own very specific scenarios, like digital art where you're only planning on drawing, and not going too far outside of the clean-cut path that it expects to be used in.

So for most people, it's just another screen to watch Netflix and YouTube. And it's pretty expensive for that.
Mice, keyboards and webcams are typically non-negotiable. Audio interfaces are pretty regularly replaceable, but it certainly doesn't improve the compatibility quotient by leaving the ports off it.
Microsoft report unmasks at least six Russian nation-state actors
Not sure, but I would hope the local governments thought of this and protect against it. But they're governments, so who knows.
Taxing revenue? Yikes. Way to kill off a startup hub.
As someone who does research in this area, broadly speaking (behavioral individual differences and genetics), I can't help but wonder how much rater effects are playing a role, or washing out findings. Everything it seems is being studied through the lens of human raters, which presumably would add variance and also might not map onto actual dog behavioral differences very well (on the other hand, if the interest is in human experiences of dog behavior, maybe it is on target).

I've been reading through the paper though and there's a lot there so maybe I just missed something.
You should hear canadian geese in nature, I'd take a drone over those any days. I was just in nature near Yosemite listening to those things squeek for hours while also crapping on everything. Nature isn't always silent...
"Attractive" is a wee bit subjective here, but I can tell you my career took off after I spent a small fortune on my teeth and upgraded my mic and webcam setup to near-studio-grade. If it's a coincidence, it's the most incredible case of coincidental curve-fitting that I've ever personally witnessed. It by no means guarantees you'll get the job, demonstration of competence still matters, but it sure helps break ties.
And yet, the stock goes down. Market expectation is truly unpredictable. FB missed revenue expectation and went up.
Hyperbole begets more hyperbole to combat the earlier hyperbole. Where does it end?
You can substitute Boltzmann pine trees or Boltzmann gold ingots for Boltzmann brains: the idea is that something of high complexity fluctuates into existence from a (vast! vaaaaassssssst!) thermal medium. The crucial point is that a small arbitrarily complex pattern repeated often is a lot more likely than a much larger pattern in which these smaller complex patterns evolve.

In physical cosmology, the Boltzmann brains issue is: how can the sky full of many galaxies (in which solar systems form) instead of many many many more complicated things (automobiles? space probes?) that were not produced by the operation of processes within galaxies? Why isn't the sky full of gazillllions of space probes with nearly zero galaxies? Instead, in practically every direction we look, we see trillions of galaxies, and (at least for now) very few space probes. (That these galaxies may end up being populated with lots and lots of space probes eventually is the point.)

We can coarsen and run into the same problem: why are stars organized in galaxies (and clusters of galaxies) rather than appearing randomly throughout the cosmos? The latter is much much much more likely in fluctuation theory.

You can substitute a sparse cold non-self-interacting and generally non-interacting gas that occasionally condenses briefly into patterns that look like a small snowman, compared to much larger and more complicated patterns (perhaps whole armies of snowmen aligned rank-and-file) if you prefer not to think too hard about intermolecular and similar forces, and want to whittle down some your objections about how thought and memory might work.

> my hypothetical disembodied mind has no reason to assume its own thoughts/memories/etc must be stored somewhere

Which is why I asked you to imagine putting the idea to your friendly disembodied mind in order to get said mind to consider that and reply with its thoughts on the matter. Having been asked, it then has a reason to ponder (admittedly not assume) that its own thoughts/memories/etc must be stored somewhere.
> Perhaps it's time for the law to adjust to the point where the stakes for the troll are high enough to make it less appealing as a business?

No, that's just polishing the brass on the Titanic.

Patents on software just shouldn't exist. At all. We already have established laws where you can't patent maths. An algorithm is just a function. It should be covered by the maths disqualifier.

The fact that a smartphone could could contain and potentially violate literally thousands of patents is a complete anathema to the original intent of the system and it should be a huge red flag to the entire idea of software patents.
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Demonstrably, American south was already pretty ruined by that metric. Lots of people don’t feel safe being in most of those places alone, lots of them feel their voice isnt heard or respected, and there’s rampant discrimination.

But seriously, “demonstrably ruined” is a very one note take and not really useful. People deserve to have their culture respected and it’s totally fine to take it with you. That’s the whole point of American individualism. It wasn’t supposed to be about guns and group think it was supposed to be self determination and the freedom to make your own path. People come to America for freedom, not because they want to conform. When’d we lose that?
Is there any place left on Earth completely untouched by industrial chemicals? Even in remotest countries you have fertilizers, pesticides, mining activity related chemicals, road building chemicals etc.
You don't even have to go that far.

Seattle continues to be dead just about every night of the week, compared to the before times. Head north 15 miles to Lynnwood in the next county over however, and things have continued to remain really vibrant and busy. I'm talking about the difference of a restaurant having a few tables seated, vs being full and having to wait.

Several differences in policy stand out to me: vax passes, antifa, and the homeless.
This is substantially more complicated than finding a collision against the perceptual/“content aware” hash that Apple was planning on using.
What if your artifacts are db-records ?
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Ah yes, the bot accusation comment. Everyone's favorite subcategory of HN musing.
Going to be an uphill battle to convince developers to trust them again
> If you sell a gun to an unstable crazy who shoots up the neighbourhood then some blame lies with you.

Aside from everything else in your argument, this is a really bad point to lean on - in America laws are specifically structured to leave the selling party blameless in all but the most extreme circumstances.

As a more general response:

I also think the thing that makes anti-troll legislation difficult is that making it harder to attack patents, and making it harder to defend patents makes it harder for smaller businesses trying to defend their property from larger businesses. If we start leveraging personal penalties on the attorneys of bad faith suites we need to have confidence that that also won't be turned into a tool to silence legitimate claims from small parties...

If we decided, for instance, to fine every bad faith attorney for 1 million dollars we'd need to make sure that large companies can't use the threat of that fine to strong arm small businesses into compliance.

This is a really complicated question and, at the end of the day, it's why we need to be really careful about maintaining a high quality in our federal judges - bad judges cause extreme harm by making justice inaccessible.
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I'm going to buck the trend and say that candidates with attractive photos are quite possibly actually more competent. When hiring, I consider the content of a resume and not its aesthetics. But the people who go the extra mile to add polish: An attractive, well-formatted resume; being well-dressed for an interview; and even adding polish to a photo - are likely candidates who express the added attention to detail I'm looking for in many roles. (Especially in design-focused roles.) Does it beat years of experience or technical competency? Absolutely not. But much like technical interviews not being a strong signal for a person's competency at a particular role they are still treated as a signal. You can have a polished photo without being an attractive person. So perhaps this study is actually measuring to some extent the perception of a person's professionalism and attention to detail rather than their inherent attractiveness. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Which isn't to say some people may be hired based on actual attractiveness rather than their perceived capabilities, which shouldn't be a factor generally. But if you're going to get indignant about people being hired based on looks then you'd better stop using sites more attractive than craigslist or products more attractive than crocs.
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I have definitely seen:

Phase 1. "Our problem is big, we hire big company" (3000+ employee firm)

Phase 2. Meeting after meeting

Phase 3. Lots of billable hours, more meetings.
Deadline approaching. Where is the product?

Phase 4. Gaslighting

Phase 5. Hire small company (1-400 people) to finish the work big company couldn't.

(Typical) Phase 6. Quietly kill project because if it ever had a business case it has missed its opportunity.

Does this go in the other direction, where a reputable small company starts a big project and is in over its head, only to be saved by one of the big 4 consultancies?
Use Sorbet. It provides a better type system than the go typing system.
For sure. It's still astonishing to me that if you measure by everybody's behavior, actually shipping something good in a timely fashion is often pretty far down the priority list.

And I feel you on process. I got involved in process because I wanted to quickly solve user problems, and then keep on solving user problems. But so much of the process-industrial complex is not focused on that. E.g., the SAFe® process is the effective opposite of what early Agile pioneers were aiming at. Its major function is to give managers and executives a sense of control almost without regard to how achievable that is or what it costs in terms of productivity and lost opportunity.
I'm not missing it so much as I'm ignoring it, I guess.

While this phenomenon is bad for people looking for long-term primary homes, it is nice to be able to afford a vacation home when you couldn't before. Certainly I would prioritize locals over non-locals looking for a second home, but can't we have both? Build more.
And of course you can but usually the money just follows along. And I've not met a single person in my life who works two hours a day on his/her passion. None.

Edit: correction it was two hours per WEEK.
When something like this happens, it should automatically reduce the burden for contesting the other patents owned by the same entity.
Looks like tempeh. Can you eat it?
This discussion comes up regularly.

Here's something that would work, maybe, eventually. It IS simple; it's just not easy. You have to realize that lawyers and politicians don't want to fix problems; they want to make a living off them.

Who wants to lead this effort (and don't say "you" because I'm retired)?

1. Get someone with legal training to write legislation fixing this situation. Personally, I think just declaring software as not patentable subject matter is the core of the solution, but that's to be decided.

2. Get a Congressman to introduce it into the House or Senate. Let's say it becomes "H.R. 666" or some other number.

3. For every Congressional candidate, ask them "Do you support H.R. 666?" Make it clear that your support depends on a Yes answer. That's a language they can understand.

Will this work? Well, it stands a chance. Comments on a thread like this don't have much chance at all of effecting any change.
I lean towards this sentiment - I think the patent and copyright structures limit innovation. The concept that an idea is worth anything without successful implementation is flawed in my opinion.
However, has any research been done on the actual implications of patent and copyright removal? I may be naïve in my thinking.
> "It is heavily inspired by the Microsoft Orleans project."

It's always better to focus on delivering the game rather than trying to make an own engine...
It's against the law.