skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I do agree with them in requiring proof that 3rd party sellers have a legal right to sell “trademarked” or “branded” products especially for books.

lets say a bookstore goes out of business and I buy their stock and sell it in my own store. Do I need proof that I have legal right to sell those books? First sale doctrine is established law - your discomfort with 'fake' books has nothing to do with anything - no one said anything about counterfeit goods. They're asking them to get some 'proof' they can sell merchandise they bought to sell.
I can't reply direct for some reason, but wanted to comment on...

> But there's a reason there's only a handful of ILEC in Canada

(ILEC for those unaware are Incumbent local exchange carrier, as opposed to CLECs or Competitive local exchange carrier, once local competition was introduced)
Yes, because when the Phone networks were started, it was SUPER expensive to wire them up, so the government gave MONOPOLIES away for REGULATED returns.

So, for the most part, each geographic area had one (or one main) phone company. And a few of those companies merged or were bought out as competition entered the space, leaving less than a handful.

It was felt that balancing access for exclusivity was a good trade, and it probably was. But now, "copper" landline service is strictly regulated, while Internet and Cellular are unregulated. (This is why, despite landline being super cheap to run, it costs MORE then entry cellphone plans per month).
This happens so much in education, and specifically academics. A lot of theoretical explanations without stepping back from theory and going back to reality once in a while to ponder about the implications. I passed a lot of courses by memorizing theoretical concepts without truly understanding it. I feel that's wasteful because I'm not advocating for longer lectures, but rather more effective teaching methods (at least they would be for me). Understanding a concept is very different than proving a theorem.
Seems to work for a factorial function also

Perform a code review of the following module, identifying any bugs:
```
#!/usr/bin/env python3

def factorial(x):
"""This is a recursive function
to find the factorial of an integer"""

if x == 1:
return 1
else:
# recursive call to the function
return (x * factorial(x+1))
```

A: The bug in this code is that the function is attempting to find the factorial of an integer by recursively calling itself with an incremented value. This will cause an infinite loop.

But if you unindent and then also perform the n+1 error it only will see the unindent issue.

Perform a code review of the following module, identifying any bugs:
```
#!/usr/bin/env python3

def factorial(x):
"""This is a recursive function
to find the factorial of an integer"""

if x == 1:
return 1
else:
# recursive call to the function

return (x * factorial(x+1))
```
A: The code will not run because there is a syntax error on line 6. The indentation is incorrect. The return statement should not be indented.
> I think a better explanation is that Musk offered to buy Twitter as a cover for selling billions of dollars' worth of TSLA.

Why waive due diligence then? What’s that saying don’t assume malice when it can be explained by ignorance.
Equal enforcement just is never the way the world works, exceptions are made when its important enough.
I just was about to buy P100 filters on Amazon but all the listings say they are fake. Amazon combines the inventory of all the “same” product together and it lets fakes get through. For me, it’s not worth the risk of getting a faulty filter so I’m just going to Ace. As you said Amazon needs to crack down on these counterfeits.
It's done by the buyer, since it gives them the option to forgo it if they so please.
Similar recollection here. So, obvious question - would it work to standardize on giving the cows some old, seldom-useful-in-human-medicine antibiotic? If yes, that would seem to minimize the resulting harm to human health...
I.know someone who has been doing it for decades. Some houses lose money, but most make money and he always has several in progress. Realtors call him when they see a house that won't sell fast.
Ah gotcha that makes sense and would definitely be nice
Imagine a five-year-old with billions of dollars. He'd build electric cars (aren't they s3xy?), tunnels, trains, rockets, and flamethrowers, all while having playground spats.
If you buy goods from an authorized place and sell them, you do not require any authorization or proof to sell those 'branded' goods, because first sale doctrine means that the original seller has exhausted their legal rights to control the sale and distribution of those items.

So it sort of is what first sale doctrine does. shopify is asking them to produce proof they have authorization to sell something they've already purchased and need no special rights to sell, regardless of whether they're branded or not.
Big fan of Techmoan, if you haven't heard of him I highly recommend checking out his series reviewing vintage hifi.
Arguably the Twitter poll and attendant media circus with Bernie Sanders about taxation was also to provide pretext for a large sale without spooking retail investor confidence.
Converting HDR to SDR with FFmpeg (2018)
This is very cool.

Two uses come to mind:
1. Alternative variable name suggestions. I am writing code, and I try to figure out what to name a variable that about a data frame which is my performance data which takes the maximum of random samples and batch size leaving data size and thread count, and all I can come up with is unbatched_speed or something. I can think of a lot of scenarios where a context sensitive thesaurus / autocomplete would help. If it's obvious to an AI, maybe it'll be obvious to a junior dev?

2. I expect there are a lot of cases where not technical people could understand code, but get intimidated because it looks like code. An AI to say what the code for the business logic that they care about, but using prose.
Thanks also, I get it now. I used to do this manually sometimes in the Netherlands to warm up the ice to make it easier to scrape off. But it involved the spare key to relock it while running and also to set the heat to full blast. We never get minus 40 though and where I live now it doesn't even freeze :)

And as we also have pretty tiny engines here, it takes a long time to heat up this way because first the cooling water needs to get warm which takes ages with the engine running stationary. So I only did this once in a while if it was really needed.

My old Volvo did have an option to open all the windows with the remote though which was great to let the heat out in summer.
Time for SDR inspection?

https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
"In the merger agreement, Twitter promised to do certain things between signing and closing, and it has to do those things, whether or not there would be a material adverse effect from not doing them. So if Musk can prove that Twitter hasn’t complied with its obligations, he can get out of the deal."

From https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-09/elon-s...
they did switch - the issue were sales already made within shopify, and two charges to their account from shopify that shopify did not identify why they were taken such that the small business' bank considered them to be suspicious.
So, this is a bit confusing to me... Why did this company build a boat they could not reasonably get out to sea? Why was a drydock of this size even permitted to operate here?
How to Store Data on Paper
He wants to back out because the size of his wallet has gotten smaller because of the market, twitter’s value is significantly less than when the offer was made, and apparently Twitter is holding back on providing some data. If he proves that last part, Twitter is screwed because there is no doubt it’s going to underscore the bot problem even further and I think their stock is going to dip into the low 20s.
I am indeed being generous :p

I think most people who remember Blade Runner's lush soundscapes would get fooled by a good DM12 patch. Obviously there are some more subtle modulations that would be hard to replicate (and the DCOs vs CS-80 VCOs certainly don't sound as retro), but I think it's "good enough" to satiate most people looking for a complex pad synth. There's always the 99% of a CS-80 synths out there like Deckard's Dream, too.
If you believe your company's stock is overvalued, how can you fault someone for selling the stock? Bill Gates sold TSLA stock that he borrowed. If you truly believe that TSLA is overvalued, then it makes no sense to fault someone for selling it.
Equally important in a not for profit.
Perhaps creators could include an official non-sensationalized title in the video description that we can use on sites like HN.
Simulation shows tsunami 42 feet waves could hit Seattle after major earthquake
I wonder if this is a sign that they need more moderators. Given how much moderation is done by the community, I'm surprised dang needs to work as hard as he seems to.
> ...I thought they "temporarily" suspended it pending an investigation and then never completed the investigation.

that's the theme of this entire thread : rich person has a slap on the wrist announced publicly but then the punishment is never successfully fulfilled.

MS antitrust style.
I clearly referred to personal wealth.
What is ironic?
He also used to and still sometimes does action camera reviews! VU meters and various other interesting oddities!
Very highly recommended.

He usually uploads on Saturdays, at least as far as I've noticed.
Consider getting tested for lyme disease if you haven't already.
Spoiled? Being low tolerant to anything above 23C I find getting into these pressure cookers a very uncomfortable experience. I’m simply refusing to get a taxi when such happy summer driver arrives with windows down in 35C+. I’d better get into an ice cold car rather than that.
He has no credibility, though.
> There are remedies for people who disobey court orders.

There are remedies for people like you and me and most people who disobey court orders.

You can observe time and again that for those who are well connected and have some billions, the concept of law is far more malleable.
>Why did this company build a boat they could not reasonably get out to sea? Why was a drydock of this size even permitted to operate here?

Because that's what the richest man in the world wanted?
The person I mentioned actually meant just digital maps installed on the gps/smartphone. He completely agreed with you on how important it was to have paper maps, but he said most people either didn't see the point, or thought he was recommending them (paper maps and compasses) because he was old.
I know some lower-end dealerships will install remote disable components on vehicles to disable in event of non-payment. This happened to a friend of mine. I don’t know if it goes as far as to report GPS coordinates.
Manufacturers must prove a modification to a car caused the fault in a product to deny an otherwise-covered warranty issue, regardless of who installed it. As for if this device kills the battery or what-have-you, i'm not sure what sort of liability the dealership is taking.
Rightly or wrongly, if I see an Oracle deal that sounds too good to be true, I'm going to assume someone at Oracle has a plan to trap me into a costly arrangement.
Twitter's got billions and fancy lawyers and lobbyists too.
Most metro systems have more in common with each other than with BART. Nearly everything on BART is one off. For instance Muni has a bunch of small radius 90° turns so they need to have articulated cars with relatively narrow front/rear ends. So yeah that's custom, and a relatively minor inconvenience at service/repair time.

Compare that to BART where a power surge damaged thyristors on fifty(!) cars and BART struggled to find replacements. Other metro systems use thyristors, but most other systems run 600–800 VDC. On any other system you could probably source from a variety of vendors or operators. BART runs 1000 VDC and thus needs expensive, unique, hard to find, thyristors.

Anyways for a hot moment back in the 30s rail operators standardized on a train design. It's totally doable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCC_streetcar
A while back I started storing my important files on Dropbox. That at least lets you revert to earlier versions - though I'm not sure how granular it is. I'm sure you can do the same thing with many other cloud-based sites.

As an added check, at key moments in a project I'll just add (or increment) the number at the end of my filename, so I'm now working in a new file and can "revert" back to the earlier version just by changing files.
> "Transparently" has major issues for dealing with bad actors

So I've been told. What I haven't been told is how telling a spammer that they were banned for spamming (instead of the opaque "breaking terms of service") helps them evade detection in the future. They already know they were spamming, and can be 99% sure that's what they were banned for. It's only the innocent that don't know what they did wrong.
Utilizing GPS for the repossession tracking has been a thing since at least 2012 https://youtu.be/npw4G1DOqaI
When I got home I looked under the dash and straight away I could see someone other than Honda had been in here. The first thing I saw was this surface-mounted switch that doesn't belong there.

Does anyone else find it odd that he just bought a car and effectively started using it without going over it thoroughly and familiarising himself with what controls it contains? Then again, my experience has been with far older and simpler vehicles, so perhaps newer ones are so complex that people have given up spending any time to become acquainted with them.
Thank you for leading me to Art of Noise (wow I am so ignorant! :) )
Why is what other people do with their money a problem for you?

I think NFTs are stupid, but I don't think they're "a problem".

People spend lots of money on stuff I find stupid. I would never buy a Gucci handbag, they have about as much value as an NFT. But if someone else wants to, it doesn't hurt me, so, so what?
I believe the parent refers to this [1,2,3] study. Indeed, this was about targeting many (11,923) genes with Perturb-seq (CRISPR screen with single-cell RNA-sequencing readout). There are two human cell lines used in the study (K562 and RPE1). For functional annotation, authors focused on 1,973 targeted genes that had strong transcriptional phenotype after the perturbation. As there's some correlation structure, that's what they studied, annotating clusters of individual perturbations using public databases (like STRING [4]) and literature. Seems like a lot of great work has been done here though stating that we now know all the functions of all the genes might be a bit of a stretch indeed.

[1]: https://news.mit.edu/2022/crispr-based-map-ties-every-human-...
[2]: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00597-9
[3]: https://gwps.wi.mit.edu/
[4]: https://string-db.org/
No, but you may grow to appreciate Java in the process.

I also learned Kotlin to avoid Java which I hated since university. A few years later I now have a much deeper understanding and respect for Java, JVM, and the broader ecosystem.
One thing that wasn't discussed in this post was SOS [1]. While PYPI's definition may not match the SOS criteria for criticality, SOS does state "... even if your project doesn’t meet all the criteria, we still encourage you to apply and provide your own criticality justification."

Doing work to improve the OpenSSF scorecard [2] could result in the author (or others, for that matter) getting paid. It may not map one-to-one with 2FA but it might make it easier to swallow some of the requirements from PYPI. It makes sense for companies like Google to pay maintainers/curators to focus more on security.

[1] https://sos.dev/

[2] https://github.com/ossf/scorecard
Shopify doesn’t want potential fakes, and many customers like myself are sick of them. My discomfort with shady 3rd party sellers has a lot to do with it because I will take my business elsewhere, or eat up customer support hours and ramp up costs related to returns and exchanges.

It’s a free market. There are plenty of other online platforms to choose from that don’t care whether or not they sell fake garbage. You can also create your own online store if needed.

Apt username
It's part of a new public relations & civic service initiative offered by the NSA. If you forget where you parked your car all you have to do is whisper near your phone (Even if it's off!) "Hey, NSA guys, where's my car?"

They'll honk the horn and, if necessary, send a micro drone to your location that you can follow to it if it's too far away to hear the horn or you're hearing impaired.
You can't announce that you are purchasing a public company until after due diligence, and the sale is in its final closing process. There is no "waiver" of due diligence per se, but the initial offer says "I did enough due diligence and I intend to purchase."

Most people would do their due diligence under NDA for a while while negotiating prices before making an announcement, and before lining up funding.
Shot-scraper https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
It’s more complicated than that. Delegating identity to another party also delegates some amount of risk to them.

It allows you to focus on trusting the identity and not worrying as much about someone stealing credentials etc.

Also presumably that other party has a security team constantly monitoring and securing things.
> Maybe this is a good reason a single human being shouldn't be so fucking rich.

if you look at this as a problem with the rich, you're not being creative enough.

Speaking as if we're assuming Musk gets away with this, this is a justice enforcement problem -- when all the mega-rich are gone the justice system that displays this level of corruption will just skim the highest payers available to them; they won't just give up these corrupt practices because there isn't a local billionaire to tap.
If the government damages physical property it is frequently liable for the cost of repairs, but to the extent that a share of Twitter stock represents something that can be damaged, that thing is Twitter itself. If through illegal meddling of some sort the government impaired Twitter’s ability to do business (say, for example, by flagrant targeted refusal to grant work visas), then the company or shareholders could have a cause to sue the government. The government is under no obligation to avoid impacting Twitter’s share price, especially as a side effect of some unrelated fully legitimate exercise of government power like auctioning off seized assets.
that's an awful long winded way say you blame immigrants for problems that have long existed before their arrival
It’s going to be interesting to see if Musk can prove they are holding back data.

I think Twitter does have a danger here. Their <5% bots was always an estimate. You can know, not know, or not want to know. That last part is the danger.
How the flying f*ck did they collect all the data for GPT-3?
I'm not sure why people are surprised about this.

It's all network traffic, and the network was DOWN. (It's not like when we had physical circuits, and if one part wasn't working it could be offlined without affecting the others).

911 traffic would have the highest priority, but without actual traffic flowing it's a ticket to nowhere. I'm guessing the cell towers had power, and likely the call routing software is programmed to drop calls to handle 911 requests, but still had no network to send the calls through.

As a user, I think you can disable your carrier (or, worst comes to worse, pop out your SIM card) to get picked up by another network -- but that isn't most people's thought process in an emergency.

Would be nice to see if this changes the approach at all -- example, If no network -> don't advertise or talk to our phones -> allows them to possibly roam or use other nets
Why would the court force Elon
to buy the company when the remedy in the contract is a one billion payout?
Custom pricing for certain customers is a nightmare on shopify.
I have built several sites and even made custom apps. I have figured out work arounds, but they are less than ideal. Do you have some ideas that I missed?
Oh give me a break. Property of a privately owned company can be directly seized.

I have not done an analysis on exactly which of Musk's private companies are jointly owned, and how the ownership is structured. It's a comment on hn for crying out loud.
One thing I had to learn is how to share my miseries with my friends. (In limited amounts) if you don't share your friends won't feel empowered/comfortable enough to share and you might lose an opportunity to help them.

Important addendum is to to spread the miseries around so that no one friend is overloaded
I was told that this was so that they could craft cirriculums that stretch decades when it could be taught much quicker. Doing so would be deterimental to the labor market in academia.
> This is such an absurd thing [for Matt Levine, a former 3rd Circuit clerk, Yale Law grad, and Wachtell M&A attorney] to say it's hard to find a way to charitably respond.

If your interpretation of the post suggests that a highly qualified attorney is getting the basics of US law absurdly incorrect, you might want to reconsider whether you're understanding the intended meaning.

(Here, Levine is making a specific claim about the remedies that the Delaware chancellory court typically employs, not about the authority of US courts)
Is there a community for those interested in removing factory tracking from newer model cars? A recent discussion here mentioned how prevalent they are in vehicles made in the last decade. (No link, sorry.)
The EPR experiments are ground truth. How we interpret them is our responsibility.

Always omitted from the list of interpretations are those abandoning will-o-th-wisp "free will".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI
Oh come on, I had the most basic request of Windows: keep the laptop on while it's connected to a screen and power and I close the screen. It failed.

Seriously, how is that not working out of the box in 2022? Even macs get this right.

And that's not even getting into the install process and driver downloads, printer configuration, setting up containers, a proper posix shell out of the box, local accounts, and on and on.

Windows is basically good for running Steam and has many more OEM supported hardware options. What other advantages does it even have?
Cars built in the last 15 years usually don't need to be warned up:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a19086/...

But yeah, icy/foggy windows are a pain to clear.

I live in Montreal, and when I had an ICE car, most days, it was fine to just de-icing the windows, then start the motor, and slowly roll out of the alley. Admittedly, most winter days, it's not that cold.

Kind of drives me crazy, the smell and pollution from idling ICE cars :/
Wow, that is big brain as it gets! I'm sure it's possible but it may have to be done on the application layer. Thank you for sharing your workaround
I remember a story about a book author (may have been Tim Ferris) printing book covers, placing them in libraries, and observing how many people picked out the book. That story stuck with me and I extrapolate from it for new products.
Who are these enemies, and why do they oppose him?

I frankly don't see any "enemies." Are the SEC his "enemies?" I don't think so, he goes out of his way to bend securities law. If you go poking a bear and it takes a swipe at you - you're simply a fool, and the bear is not your enemy.
The footnote only applies to the "Chancery jail" bit, not the suggestion that the court may not want to risk a public showdown: "A showdown between Musk and a judge might undermine Delaware corporate law more than letting him weasel out of the deal would." - this sentence is after that footnote.